Discover the Rainbow Central Sapphic Romance Series! When Life Gives You Oranges is a light-hearted rivals to lovers contemporary romance featuring women who love women and a happy ever after. There’s one thing Lisa loves more than anything and that’s fruit. As owner of a small juice business, she attends a yearly food festival to share her passion with the world. But this time, she’s not the only fruit fanatic on the block and the competition is about to get fierce. Who knew juice could be so exciting? Reading suggestion: If you’re easily influenced by descriptions of food, put some (orange) juice in the fridge before you start this story! **** When Life Gives You Oranges is a F/F contemporary romance connected to the Rainbow Central series but can be read entirely on its own.

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too—with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.

The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine

Reading the Gospel stories of Jesus is for many of you not unlike watching a 3D movie without wearing 3D glasses. You can make out a few details and get a vague sense of what's going on, but the whole screen is fairly distorted and if you stare too long, your head starts to hurt. This book seeks to change that.

A book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again! Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do—through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity—and slightly beyond. Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension invites us to re-learn much of what we missed in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.

Discover the Rainbow Central Sapphic Romance Series! Please Be My Love is a best friends to lovers contemporary romance featuring women who love women and a happy ever after! When everyone is talking about boys, Jo can't stop thinking about girls. It wouldn't be so bad if she could share her new discovery with her best friend, but how can she tell Ellie that she likes... Ellie? - A sweet lesbian romance about first loves and discovering yourself. Please Be My Love is part of the Rainbow Central series but can be read on its own. The story is set in Europe where the legal drinking age is 18.

Discover the Rainbow Central Sapphic Romance Series! Love Is For Later is a friends-with-benefits to lovers contemporary romance featuring women who love women and a happy ever after. Casual is the new black. No strings attached, that's the way Nix likes her life. Determined not to fall for anyone she sleeps with, casual is just her thing. Better than having her heart ripped to pieces again. Harper is looking for a fresh start and a new city means just that. New friends, new school, and maybe a chance at love? The thin line between friendship and more blurs when Nix and Harper dance around each other in an LGBT club with everything to lose and love to gain. But is it ever that simple? — Not Today is a lesbian friends-with-benefits to lovers romance and can be read as a stand-alone. It's the collection of the previous serial parts (Not Monday, Not Tuesday, ...) but is completed in this book.

A unique culinary adventure through Italian history The Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy's cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to Italy's shores to the persistent role of unique crops such as bergamot (and its place in the perfume and cosmetics industries) and the vital role played by Calabria's unique Diamante citrons in the Jewish celebration of Sukkoth, author Helena Attlee brings the fascinating history and its gustatory delights to life. Whether the Battle of Oranges in Ivrea, the gardens of Tuscany, or the story of the Mafia and Sicily's citrus groves, Attlee transports readers on a journey unlike any other.

Three women form a bond at a Georgia rehab clinic in this beautiful novel of friendship, self-discovery, and reckoning with the past. Terrible things happen to good people. And good people do things they regret. After all, everyone has flaws. Julia has checked in to a rehab facility deep in rural Georgia that promises to help her find herself. Other women have done the same, all of them recognizing that they can no longer continue down the path they’re on. As Gwen, Cate, and Julia come to understand more about themselves and their destructive behaviors, they forge firm friendships in the toughest of circumstances. But in order to continue to heal, they must learn to confide in one another and unburden themselves. In the company of friends, they rebuild and recover, beginning to confront their pasts. But when some disturbing truths are revealed, it threatens to derail the progress they’ve made. Does Julia have another shot at life, and perhaps even at love? Can she come to believe she deserves it and allow herself to be happy? Sometimes, the best therapy finds you when you least expect it. This is a beautiful story of female friendship, self-discovery, and love in all its forms. It’s perfect for fans of Amanda Prowse, Colleen Hoover, and Faith Hogan. “Killoren’s characters are marvelous, strong, and authentic.” —Readers’ Favorite

Join the women of Rainbow Central in these three contemporary sapphic romances full of heart, romance, and happy endings. The Rainbow Central Volume 1 Collection includes: - Please Be My Love: When everyone is talking about boys, Jo can't stop thinking about girls. It wouldn't be so bad if she could share her new discovery with her best friend, but how can she tell Ellie that she likes... Ellie? - Love For The Holidays: With the approaching holidays and Ivy's ever-nosy family about her love life, a misunderstanding about her new roommate, Frances, gives her the perfect idea to avoid the yearly disappointment from her parents. A fake girlfriend. - When Life Gives You Oranges: There’s one thing Lisa loves more than anything and that’s fruit. As owner of a small juice business, she attends a yearly food festival to share her passion with the world. But this time, she’s not the only fruit fanatic on the block and the competition is about to get fierce. Who knew juice could be so exciting?