The Glamour.com columnist and MTV reality star presents a series of essays chronicling her offbeat misadventures of searching for love and fame in New York City, efforts that involved impromptu meetings with ex-boyfriends, spilled spinach dip and a bacon theft. Original.

exit the groom... Child psychologist Gwen Traynor has learned the hard way that "perfect" men aren't always what they seem. After being dumped the night before her wedding, she's understandably wary of diving back into the dating pool. But when she meets Alex Coughlin, she's convinced her luck is changing. He's smart, handsome, funny -- an ideal rebound guy. She doesn't intend to fall in love with him, but scintillating dates and mind-blowing physical chemistry have a way of winning a girl over. enter the ex... Just as things are heating up with Alex, Gwen meets her newest patient -- a precocious preschooler whose chaotic soap opera-actress of a mother, Harmony, sounds an awful lot like one of Alex's crazy ex-girlfriends. Mostly because she is one of Alex's crazy ex-girlfriends. Unfortunately for Gwen, Harmony has a secret that plunges them all into a real-life daytime drama, complete with sex, lies, and Vegas elopements. With Harmony determined to reunite with Alex and Gwen's ex-fiancé begging for a second chance, only one thing is certain: New loves and old flames are an explosive combination.

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The suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life - despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her friends - is what's made her a compelling character. After a lifetime of losses, Maggie finds, in the second half, her longtime off and on lover, Ray Dominguez. Much like John Updike in his four Rabbitnovels, Jaime Hernandez has been following his longtime character Maggie around for several decades, all of which has seemed to be building towards this book in particular.

With two men vying for her affection, Abbie's heart is torn between the two. One has always been there for her, no matter what. The other left when she needed him the most. Now that her true love is back in town, Abbie's carefully crafted world is about to shatter around her. Dylan Parker had it all. A loving family, a beautiful girlfriend, and a family business to take over. But life in the small town of Cedar Lake was not what he dreamed of. He wanted to see the world and build a life of his own. When his dad dies, Dylan is forced to face the life he didn't know he could have had.

She's his best friend, and the woman he never stopped loving... To this day, Isaac McKnight still has no idea why the perfectly-imperfect-woman-for-him put an end to their relationship out of the blue. He made sure they stayed friends though. But now, it's a year later and he and Xoey are steadily getting sucked deeper into buddy-zone galaxy, with its dangerous proximity to watch-me-settle-down-with-someone-else abyss. That is...until one drunken confession changes everything. He's the world's greatest ex, and the man she can't risk losing... For Xoey Montenegro, history has taught her that sometimes, it's Prince Charming who does the vanishing. So, as far as tequila-fueled plans for her still-unrecovered love life go, a match-finding formula analyzing the exes responsible for her most epic 'ohs' seems brilliant. The only problem with her genius man-quation, however, is the one ex she never truly got over. Her best friend Isaac. "Every time I pick up one of Violet's stories, I know I'll be in for a heartfelt, emotional, and FUN read. Her heroes are just so swoony and sweet. And sexy!" -- #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lauren Blakely THE CACTUS CREEK SERIES Love, Chocolate, and Beer [Luke & Dani] Love, Diamonds, and Spades [Rylan & Quinn] Love, Tussles, and Takedowns [Hudson & Lia] Love, Exes, and Ohs [Isaac & Xoey] All the Cactus Creek novels are standalone novels with feel good HEAs. Enjoy! :)

Updated to include three new chapters on transformers, natural language understanding (NLU) with explainable AI, and dabbling with popular LLMs from Hugging Face and OpenAI Key Features Leverage ready-to-use recipes with the latest LLMs, including Mistral, Llama, and OpenAI models Use LLM-powered agents for custom tasks and real-world interactions Gain practical, in-depth knowledge of transformers and their role in implementing various NLP tasks with open-source and advanced LLMs Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionHarness the power of Natural Language Processing to overcome real-world text analysis challenges with this recipe-based roadmap written by two seasoned NLP experts with vast experience transforming various industries with their NLP prowess. You’ll be able to make the most of the latest NLP advancements, including large language models (LLMs), and leverage their capabilities through Hugging Face transformers. Through a series of hands-on recipes, you’ll master essential techniques such as extracting entities and visualizing text data. The authors will expertly guide you through building pipelines for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and question-answering using popular libraries like spaCy, Gensim, and NLTK. You’ll also learn to implement RAG pipelines to draw out precise answers from a text corpus using LLMs. This second edition expands your skillset with new chapters on cutting-edge LLMs like GPT-4, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Explainable AI (XAI)—fostering trust and transparency in your NLP models. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the skills to apply advanced text processing techniques, use pre-trained transformer models, build custom NLP pipelines to extract valuable insights from text data to drive informed decision-making.What you will learn Understand fundamental NLP concepts along with their applications using examples in Python Classify text quickly and accurately with rule-based and supervised methods Train NER models and perform sentiment analysis to identify entities and emotions in text Explore topic modeling and text visualization to reveal themes and relationships within text Leverage Hugging Face and OpenAI LLMs to perform advanced NLP tasks Use question-answering techniques to handle both open and closed domains Apply XAI techniques to better understand your model predictions Who this book is for This updated edition of the Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and developers with a background in Python. Whether you’re looking to learn NLP techniques, extract valuable insights from textual data, or create foundational applications, this book will equip you with basic to intermediate skills. No prior NLP knowledge is necessary to get started. All you need is familiarity with basic programming principles. For seasoned developers, the updated sections offer the latest on transformers, explainable AI, and Generative AI with LLMs.

Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, the male gaze, and female masculinity, this book puts forward provocative readings of little explored texts and offers new insights into the contemporary representation of lesbians.

Enjoy this steamy workplace, older woman/younger man standalone romcom by romantic comedy author Gia Stevens... Mistake the young, hot guy for a stripper? Sure did. Have a one-night stand with him? Heck yes. Find out he’s my new boss? Ah, crap… The first time I saw Van, with his charismatic smile and stunning good looks, I enthusiastically shoved dollar bills into his waistband. The second time, he walked into my bakery introducing himself as the new owner. He knows nothing about baking and desperately wants to sell the business. If he does, I’ll lose my dream job. Somehow, I have to persuade him to keep the shop running. But so far, there’s only one thing he seems enticed by… me. Sure, the attraction igniting between us is hotter than a chocolate flambé. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s never a good idea to mix business and pleasure. He’s younger than me, and if things between us sour it could cost me my livelihood. Even so, he’s a delicious temptation I’m finding impossible to resist… Flirting with the Stranger is the third book in the Harbor Highlands series. It's a reverse age gap, strangers to lovers, workplace romantic comedy with a hero who has a real sweet tooth for something besides cupcakes. Be prepared to laugh-out-loud one minute and swoon the next in this steamy standalone romantic comedy. Each book in the Harbor Highlands Series is set in the same world, and delivers a guaranteed happily ever after. Harbor Highlands Series: 1. Flirting with the Playboy 2. Flirting with the Enemy 3. Flirting with the Stranger 4. Flirting with the Bad Boy 5. Flirting with the Scrooge

The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia provides 360 brief biographies of African American film and television acPER010000tresses from the silent era to 2009. It includes entries on well-known and nearly forgotten actresses, running the gamut from Academy Award and NAACP Image Award winners to B-film and blaxpoitation era stars. Each entry has a complete filmography of the actress's film, TV, music video or short film credits. The work also features more than 170 photographs, some of them rare images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.