A K-pop fangirl finally meets her idol bias wrecker, who happens to be her oldest friend from a lifetime ago. Now that they're both all grown up, can an idol and his biggest fan find true love? Raleigh Montgomery, K-pop fangirl and new Seoulite, gets the opportunity to attend a fansign event with her favourite K-pop band of all time, Trickshot. At that point, she's able to reconnect with Min Jaeyong, her oldest best friend, the one who left a hole in her heart when he left their high school to pursue his dreams. Reuniting after so many years feels like the second chance Raleigh has always wanted. There's even a possibility of renewing a friendship that she sorely missed. When that friendship could turn into something more, Raleigh has to wonder if the fact that Jaeyong is instantly recognizable in 30 countries can ruin a relationship that hasn't even begun. Can a fangirl fall in love with her bias and live happily ever after? KEYWORDS: K-pop romance, K-pop idol hero, fangirl romance, fangirl heroine, K-pop love story, second chance romance, best friends to lovers, reuniting love interests, Seoul romance, multicultural romance, trilingual heroine, trilingual hero, Korean words, contemporary new adult romance, new adult romance, after college romance, angst, angsty romance, celebrity romance, super famous K-pop idol and civilian heroine, reunion romance, dating an idol. For fans of Penny Reid, Cassie Mae, Mary Frame, Olivia Dade, Elle Kennedy, Mariana Zapata, Sariah Wilson, Helen Hoang, Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood, and Christina Lauren.

When the man who broke her heart a decade ago becomes a PT’s unruly patient…things are about to get cuffed. Amber Prewitt has a problem. She loves her job, except on the days where she has to meet with Brody Kane, the man who tore her heart to shreds, and help him through a nasty injury. Now that he's back in town for the near future, Amber and Brody have to dodge their matchmaking parents who are already dreaming of grandbabies. The solution? The pair pretend that they have rekindled their relationship to survive the grueling cuffing season and the Prewitt family holidays. Amber quickly realizes the feelings she thought she had extinguished for Brody slowly start coming back to life, even if there's a countdown until their fake relationship comes to an end. Can Amber and Brody give each other a second chance and survive the cuffing season together instead of apart? Cuffing season (n.): the period between October and Valentine's Day where single people tend to look for short-term relationships for colder months of the year before breaking up in time for the spring. Author's Note: This is a sweet romance with mild language, discussions of intimate relationships, and fade-to-black scenes. Keywords: new adult romance, heroine approaching her thirties, messy heroine, not an alpha hero, second chance romance, first love reunion, second chance at first love, hard worker heroine, millennial heroine, eldest daughter heroine vibes, holiday romance, contemporary romance, Canadian romance, niche Canadian references, Cuffing Season, Cuffing Season romance, surviving the holidays by faking a relationship, fake relationship kind of, pretending to like each other but there are a lot of old feelings involved, family shenanigans, Prewitt family disaster, overworked heroine, small friend unit, cousins as best friends, pushy parents, pushy parents over the holidays, holiday season, food as a love language, adult conversations, adult romance, navigating love and friendships in your late twenties, falling in love for the second first time, falling in love for the second time. For fans of Penny Reid, Cassie Mae, Mary Frame, Olivia Dade, Elle Kennedy, Mariana Zapata, Sariah Wilson, Helen Hoang, Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood, and Christina Lauren.

There's something for everyone - A celebrity romance between Ayden Stone and Aria Larsen in Fangirling Over You A pro footballer falls in love with her arch-nemesis who happens to be the greatest player in the world in To All the Footballers I Loved Before A K-pop fangirl reconnects with her oldest friend, who happens to be a K-pop idol superstar in Bias Wrecked A Habs fangirl with a buried past falls in love with a man who's backing a rival team in Pucked Romance (with cameo appearances from characters of my Never Been Series) And a tattoo artist falls for the clean-cut preppy guy in an opposites-attract romance in Never Say Never (with cameo appearances from characters of my Never Been Series) In all of these stories, the fangirl always gets her man.

This volume in the Belief series provides a new and interesting theological interpretation of Genesis through the themes of liberation and the concerns of the poor and marginalized. De La Torre wrestles with Genesis texts, remembering Jacob's wrestling at Peniel (Gen. 32:24-32), and finds that "there are consequences when we truly wrestle with the biblical text, struggling to see the face of God." This commentary provides theological and ethical insights that enables the book of Genesis to speak powerfully today.

A fangirl tattoo artist finds herself falling head over heels for the client she never saw coming… Loud, brash, and tattooed Sophie Kincaid has always been the odd one out with her stylistic choices. She's as far from 'girlfriend-material' as can be, and she has no idea why that upon meeting calm, stoic and beautiful Tommy (aka Russia) Ivanov that she wants to hold that role in his life. It could be the fact that despite his impeccable style he doesn't look at her like she's some party girl only looking for a good time, or maybe because he seems genuinely interested about her work, about her as a person. Maybe it's the fact that Sophie always goes after what she wants, even if she can't have it. When Russia's past comes calling, Sophie has to wonder if the quiet, controlled and image-conscious man will fight to have her in his life. Can Sophie find love with a man who seems to be her total opposite? KEYWORDS: new adult romance, new adult series, new adult romance series, new adult, enemies to lovers, enemies to lovers romance, opposites attract romance, opposites attract, messy heroine, not an alpha hero, contemporary romance, romance series, contemporary romance series, new adult series, funny romance, funny romance books, love story, tattoo artist heroine and preppy hero, first person POV, heroine's perspective, fangirl romance, nerdy romance, artist heroine, tattooed heroine, preppy hero, Russian hero, cute nicknames in Russian, sweet romance, closed door romance, fade to black romance, optional explicit extended dialogue, urban romance, angsty romance, Canadian romance, not college romance, messy heroine in her mid-to-late twenties, angst, heroine never sees him coming, characters walk on from another series, easter eggs, women friendships. For fans of Penny Reid, Cassie Mae, Mary Frame, Olivia Dade, Elle Kennedy, Mariana Zapata, Sariah Wilson, Helen Hoang, Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood, and Christina Lauren.

"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review "Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society—in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving.

This book brings together the latest research in this new and exciting area of visualization, looking at classifying and modelling cognitive biases, together with user studies which reveal their undesirable impact on human judgement, and demonstrating how visual analytic techniques can provide effective support for mitigating key biases. A comprehensive coverage of this very relevant topic is provided though this collection of extended papers from the successful DECISIVe workshop at IEEE VIS, together with an introduction to cognitive biases and an invited chapter from a leading expert in intelligence analysis. Cognitive Biases in Visualizations will be of interest to a wide audience from those studying cognitive biases to visualization designers and practitioners. It offers a choice of research frameworks, help with the design of user studies, and proposals for the effective measurement of biases. The impact of human visualization literacy, competence and human cognition on cognitive biases are also examined, as well as the notion of system-induced biases. The well referenced chapters provide an excellent starting point for gaining an awareness of the detrimental effect that some cognitive biases can have on users’ decision-making. Human behavior is complex and we are only just starting to unravel the processes involved and investigate ways in which the computer can assist, however the final section supports the prospect that visual analytics, in particular, can counter some of the more common cognitive errors, which have been proven to be so costly.

Describes how conservatives in government are using race-baiting to coax the middle class with promises of curbing crime, stopping undocumented immigration and even halting Islamic infiltration into voting for right-wing policies that ultimately hurt them and favor the rich.

A fangirl's heart is caught between the man of her dreams...and the actor who plays him. Aria Larsen compares every guy she's ever met with the fictional character that's stolen her heart. When she gets the opportunity to meet the actor who plays him in real life, she can't help but feel disappointed, especially knowing that Ayden Stone finds part of the fandom…distasteful. Never in her wildest imagination did Aria expect the one and only Ayden Stone to be interested in her, and even though he looks like the man of her dreams, Ayden's nothing at all like the character he plays. When Ayden turns out to be actually interested in her, Aria's at a loss. What is she supposed to do with a living, breathing man with real flaws and real expectations of his own? Especially when he's absolutely nothing like the character she's fallen in love with. Can Aria's fangirl heart take a chance on someone who can actually love her back? KEYWORDS: contemporary romance, new adult romance after college, after college romance, nerdy girl romance, nerdy heroine, fangirl romance, fangirl heroine, fictional boyfriends are not the best boyfriends, TV star romance, celebrity romance, strangers to lovers, a fangirl always gets her man, C.M. Kars, fangirling over you, fangirl of a TV show, Leviathan, comic-con, meet cute at a comic con, celebrity romance between a TV star and a fangirl, easter eggs, references, contemporary new adult romance, actor hero, nerdy heroine. For fans of Penny Raid, Cassie Mae and Amy Daws.