Download or read book AfterZoe written by Amanda Hickie and published by Amanda Hickie. This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe’s not completely happy with the way her life has turned out but she’s even less impressed with her death. She finds herself in a place of perpetual contentment and bureaucratic rules, designed for maximum serenity, administered by the pragmatic Angela. Most of the population enjoy their eternity with the aid of an elixir which ensures they forget their loved ones, but Zoe doesn’t want to forget. She joins an underground resistance group and starts to explore the might-have-beens with an old lover. Zoe’s instance on her right to absolute memory becomes more complex when her husband shows up.Zoe finds herself wrestling with whether she could be herself without her memories, whether her right to make the wrong choice trumps the happiness of the whole society and what it would take to be happy for eternity.

Download or read book Springtime at Wildacre written by Lucy Daniels and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is in the air in the little village of Welford . . . Mandy Hope is on cloud nine. Hope Meadows, the animal rescue and rehabilitation centre she founded, is going really well. And she's growing ever closer to handsome villager Jimmy Marsh. What's more, James Hunter, her best friend, is slowly learning to re-embrace life after facing tragedy. But when an unexpected crisis causes Mandy to lose confidence in her veterinary skills, it's a huge blow. If she can't learn to forgive herself, then her relationship with Jimmy, and the future of Hope Meadows, may be in danger. It'll take friendship, love, community spirit - and one elephant with very bad teeth - to remind Mandy and her fellow villagers that springtime in Yorkshire really is the most glorious time of the year. Hope Meadows is based on the globally bestselling Animal Ark series. Perfect for fans of The Wildflowers by Harriet Evans, Sunshine at the Comfort Food Cafe by Debbie Johnson, Katie Fforde and Cathy Bramley. The next book in the Hope Meadows series, Snowflakes over Moon Cottage, is available for pre-order now! ************* Praise for the Hope Meadows series 'Incredibly lovely' - Rachel's Random Reads 'A stunning, emotional, beautiful tale of friendship and love' Books of All Kinds 'Just the right amount of nostalgia... wonderful and very poignant' - The World is a Book Blog 'Heartwarming and endearing... a gorgeous story filled with hope, joy, sweetness and light combined with the honesty of real life' - Amazon 'Full of friendship, community spirit and some heart-breaking moments that will leave you wanting to stay curled up on the sofa until it is complete' - Amazon 'Will leave you feeling cosy and uplifted' - Goodreads 'An adorable read [with] a real sense of village community' Bookworms and Shutterbugs 'Full of charm' Amazon

Download or read book Kaplan GMAT Verbal Foundations written by Kaplan Test Prep and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the staff of Kaplan Test Prep.

Download or read book The Wrong Mother written by Sophie Hannah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling, compulsively readable novel of psychological suspense from the author of Little Face and The Carrier Sally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she never thought she'd hear again: Mark Bretherick. It's a name she shouldn't recognize. Last year, a work trip Sally had planned was canceled at the last minute. Desperate for a break from juggling her job and a young family, Sally didn't tell her husband that the trip had fallen through. Instead, she treated herself to a secret vacation in a remote hotel. While she was there, Sally met a man—Mark Bretherick. All the details are the same: where he lives, his job, his wife Geraldine and daughter Lucy. Except that the photograph on the news is of a man Sally has never seen before. And Geraldine and Lucy Bretherick are both dead... With the international bestseller Little Face, Sophie Hannah established herself as a striking new voice in psychological suspense. The Wrong Mother, a riveting exploration of a mother's unspeakable betrayal, confirms her reputation as a master of the form.

Download or read book The Frontman written by Lawrence Parlier and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerry Vance is a legend, a leather-lunged, Grammy-nominated, heavy metal madman. When he dies under mysterious circumstances at the start of his latest European tour, his fans are crushed. To the outside world it looks like just another rock-n-roll tragedy, another talented musician done in by excess. But there is much more at play than his family and friends realize. As they try to come to terms with their loss, a mysterious woman from Kerry’s past comes to them and tells them that his death was no accident. And if things are to be set right, they’ll have to be willing to put everything on the line.

Download or read book How to Spend Someone Else s Money written by Patricia Ilich and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever found a fortune or something of great value that is not yours? Lucky you? If the owner is unknown to you, what do you do? Nancy finds such an unclaimed fortune and wrestles with the notion of telling someone, or keeping silent. In this peculiar situation, Nancy knows her husband would not approve of her keeping the money and so keeps him in ignorance whilst she works out what to do with it. Her husband dies never knowing that his wife has a fortune hidden in the house. Can Nancy find a way of laundering the money and banking it legitimately? Along the way, Nancy meets a friend who is having a problem with a baby and somehow Nancy feels an inexplicable psychic connection to this child, especially when she realises the child was born on the same day and at the same time that her husband passed away. As the child grows Nancy takes over financing his education and puts him through university and then on to medical school where he becomes a prominent physician.

Download or read book Storm Wrath written by Brandy L Rivers and published by Brandy L Rivers. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gilder written by Kathryn Kay and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the exquisite backdrop of Florence, Italy, The Gilder is a compelling and beautifully wrought novel of secrets, friendship, betrayal, and the simple choices that change us forever. . . In Marina Nesmith's skilled hands, even the most tarnished picture frame or objet d'art can be made perfect once again. Her life, too, seems flawless, at least on the surface. But more and more, Marina is conscious of what she lacks--someone to share her joys and sorrows with, confidence in the decisions she's made, and the courage to tell her teenage daughter, Zoe, the truth about her father. Then Marina is invited to return to Florence, where she lived years before while learning her trade as a gilder. In those heady days, she wandered the city's picturesque streets, marveling at the masterpieces in the Duomo and the Pitti Palace. In the church of Santa Croce, she met Thomas, an American photographer who, along with his wife Sarah, introduced Marina to a thrilling, bohemian world of art and beauty. Through them, she also learned about love, lies, and the way one mistake can multiply into many. Now, as her past and present collide, Marina will finally have to move beyond the intricate veneer she's crafted around herself, and find the life that she--and Zoe--have been looking for. Following college, Kathryn Kay spent five years living in Florence, Italy, where she studied restoration and gilding. Kathryn is the founder of the Nantucket Writers Studio, which offers writing workshops for women. She has three adult children, and lives on Nantucket Island with her husband, Robert. Advance praise for Kathryn Kay and The Gilder "After reading Kathryn Kay's lovely debut, I had the best kind of cry. What a beautiful, emotional novel. I loved the way she writes about love, necessary secrets, and the dark unknowability of another person, no matter how close. She writes so well about the vulnerability of strong women, the complexity of long friendship, the ways mothers and daughters protect each other, and sweet, tender forgiveness." --Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author "Kathryn Kay's The Gilder, beautifully set in the romantic city of Florence, reminds us that love, like great art, is always complex. Kay leads her talented artist and loving mother Marina through a courageous quest as labyrinthine as an ancient Italian street. With persistence and passion, Marina discovers that relationships can be repaired, making what is truly golden shine forth." --Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author "The Gilder engages the reader from the very first line. Amid sensuous details of life and art in Florence, Kathryn Kay tells a compelling story of seduction and betrayal which ultimately transforms into a story of love and redemption." –Holly Chamberlin, author of Summer Friends "In my book on the writing life I talk about taking risks and digging deep to find your voice. I tell my students if they dig for gold they will find gold. I have just finished Kathryn Kay's debut novel, The Gilder, and, boy, has she hit the mother lode. Her riveting story of friendship, love, betrayal and forgiveness kept me up way beyond my bedtime. Kathryn writes beautifully about difficult things, the things that tear people apart, and she does it with such honesty and tenderness that, clearly, her words come straight from the heart." --Nancy Aronie, author of Writing From The Heart

Download or read book Dyeing Up Loose Ends written by Maggie Sefton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly Flynn has been enjoying motherhood and avoiding murder, but when a friend's life is cut short, she enlists the Lambspun knitters to catch a heartless killer in the last Knitting Mystery novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Only Skein Deep. Kelly is happily busy with her son, Jack, now a rambunctious four-year-old preschooler. Jack keeps his mom on her toes and drinking all the coffee she can handle at Pete's Porch Café. Kelly's friendly waitress Julie is hoping to become an accountant. She makes sure she keeps Kelly caffeinated and up-to-date on her career progress. Kelly splits her free time between Pete's and Lambspun, where her fellow knitters love hearing all about Jack's latest exploits. They've also been taking a trip down memory lane, reminiscing about crimes that Kelly had a hand in solving over the years. But the Lambspun crew is horrified when a very present-day murder occurs in their midst--and Julie is the victim. With her sleuthing instincts on full alert, Kelly starts asking questions. The well-liked waitress may have had enemies no one knew about, or she could have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kelly and her friends at Lambspun soon learn that the answers are knottier and more shocking than they ever dreamed...

Download or read book Sharp Grammar written by Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features: A 10-question quiz in every chapter to show readers where they need the most help. Information on grammar, sentence structure, style, usage, punctuation, and mechanics. A variety of practice exercises with detailed answer explanations for every topic. A recognition and recall chapter test that includes material from the entire chapter to once again reinforce what the reader has learned on a large scale. Detailed answer explanations follow the chapter test. Chapter summaries for easy review.

Download or read book The Blue Ring Assassin written by Keith K. Millheim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Waringi-Quinn is unique--half Australian aborigine and half Irish Australian, a PhD expert in venomous sea life, and she assassinates bad people. But her dual life is turned upside down when she meets the last living kadaitcha (aborigine mystic) man and his totem a ten-meter salt water crocodile called the Great One. Upon returning from a field trip Dr. Zoe Waringi-Quinn learns her father had been killed by a hit and run drunk driver who is a Australian Senator. He is exonerated by the courts for lack of physical evidence, but not by Zoe. She sends the Senator to an excruciating death. But Zoe isn’t done. She decides the justice system is broken and resolves to keep removing bad people. Homicide Detective Saul Alpert, who is on her trail, offers her the opportunity to join a mysterious assassination organization that removes people for money. Otherwise he will see her behind bars. To make things worse she finds herself whisked away by an aborigine mystic, Bill Gidgiwarra, to a remote part of Western Australia where he introduces her to a frightful giant ten-meter salt water crocodile. Is it a dream or is it real? Zoe feels like she’s fallen down the rabbit hole and has become Zoe-in-Wonderland. The story expands to her surreal world of assassination and her being able to dream travel, which could either help her or kill her.

Download or read book Others of Seattle written by Brandy L Rivers and published by Brandy L Rivers. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heart Tantrums written by Aisha Sarwari and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to be able to survive, Aisha Sarwari was told, love and devoted acts of service will always light the way. These however, become the very reason of her complete unravelling. In this large and messy voice of a memoir, Heart Tantrums artfully describes the scatter of catastrophic losses-the loss of her father in early adolescence; leaving behind her family home in East Africa; and trying to fit into a completely different culture in Lahore after marriage. In 2017, when Aisha first held her husband Yasser Latif Hamdani's brain MRI against the light, she began to also lose the man she loved to a personality-altering brain tumour. Oscillating between being a good woman and a bad woman, Aisha has been adamant that the hard knocks of life would not define her. But even self-respect comes at a high price. The internal life of mental health chaos is like the very disease itself-degenerative. The book rejects the idea that love and domestic servitude saves the day. Pakistan, she never thought, could become like living in a state of self-exile for the couple that married for country-Aisha Sarwari, a proud Pakistani feminist and career professional, and Yasser Latif Hamdani, a human rights lawyer turned internationally acclaimed biographer of Pakistan's founding father, M.A. Jinnah. Often, they both failed to play for the team, but their fight for belonging was sometimes punctuated by the warmth of parenting and the joy of extraordinary friendships. This book is a prayer on a page, with this immigrant girl finding her way in the dark through a raw and magnificently well-told story of grief, hybrid identity, immigration woes, systemic family oppression, caregiver fatigue and, of course, what every good literature tries hard to hack-the terror of oblivion.

Download or read book The Kitchen Marriage written by Gina Welborn and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A good mail-order bride story . . . full of danger, mystery, faith, and delicious cooking” from the authors of The Telegraph Proposal (Hallie Reads). A bright future awaits the women of courage and faith who boldly chase their dreams across the wide-open Montana Territory, prepared to embrace adventure and forge their own destinies . . . When French immigrant Zoe de Fleur is forced out of her position as household cook for a high society New Yorker, the pretty and talented chef seizes an unexpected chance to head west for a new beginning. She pursues what she thinks is a prestigious job in the frontier’s “finest kitchen,” but instead finds herself in a matchmaker’s agency . . . Isaak Gunderson is one of Helena, Montana’s most eligible bachelors, but he’s too focused on running for mayor and his family’s business to think about a wife and family. His twin brother, Jakob, is supposed to be too busy as well, yet sends for a mail-order bride anyway. Isaak doesn’t want to fuel an ongoing rivalry with his twin, but this tempting newcomer can’t be ignored. If only she’d come to Helena a different way and loving her wasn’t a betrayal . . . “A delightful summer read . . . [Fleur] is a character not just of her time but of our time also.”—Historical Novel Society

Download or read book Girl Unknown written by Karen Perry and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor's marriage and family begin to unravel when one of his students tells him that he might be her father.

Download or read book Island written by Johanna Skibsrud and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists comes the story of a revolution on an imaginary island. "Reading Island is a searing, vertiginous experience. Hailing Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to interrogate our current moment in history, Skibsrud has created an uncanny and uncomfortable representation of power deeply corrupted. The text feels both historic and futuristic; it is discomfiting and necessary. Don’t look away." - Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy On an imaginary island, one whose socio-economic divide runs deep, an insurrection is brewing. Over the course of a day, the lives of two women--one a rebel, one a diplomat--will be forever changed. Lota is a restless islander who works at a fish factory but is looking for a larger life. When she meets charismatic leader Kurtz, her life comes into sharp focus. Together, Kurtz's group of misfits plot to overthrow the island's occupying power. They plan to charge the embassy. They plan to capture Ø Com's outer station--the gateway to the entire empire's wireless operations. History does not--Kurtz urges her soldiers--have to repeat itself. As the past and future converge on this one day, a new world order is within reach. They cannot fail. Rachel is an anxious diplomat who is counting down the final hours of her service on the island. Her family has fled to the capital after escalating racial tensions have put her daughter's safety in jeopardy. She is eager to follow despite the fissures that are starting to show in her marriage. But when she arrives at the embassy and hears gunshots ringing through the corridors, she knows this is no ordinary day. As the hours lengthen and Rachel is held captive, she begins to wonder if she'll ever see her loved ones again and what her complicity has meant as the sinister operations of her government start to surface. Part fantasy, part parable, Island deftly explores essential questions of history and responsibility. It asks us to consider our legacies of cultural imperialism and the hidden costs of our wireless world. Urgent, illuminating, and thought-provoking, it asks us how we can imagine a future that does not run along the exact same lines as the past.

Download or read book Telling an American Horror Story written by Cameron Williams Crawford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling an American Horror Story collects essays from new and established critics looking at the many ways the horror anthology series intersects with and comments on contemporary American social, political and popular culture. Divided into three sections, the chapters apply a cultural criticism framework to examine how the first eight seasons of AHS engage with American history, our contemporary ideologies and social policies. Part I explores the historical context and the uniquely-American folklore that AHS evokes, from the Southern Gothic themes of Coven to connections between Apocalypseand anxieties of modern American youth. Part II contains interpretations of place and setting that mark the various seasons of the anthology. Finally, Part III examines how the series confronts notions of individual and social identity, like the portrayals of destructive leadership in Cult and lesbian representation in Asylum and Hotel.