Download or read book Allison s Awakening written by Simone Brookins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allison Crenshaw comes from one of the wealthiest families in the Tampa Bay Area. She made the choice to become a prosecutor rather than practicing at her family's law firm like her siblings. As a prosecutor for the State Attorney's office, she prides herself on sending the guilty to prison. However, she encounters 16-year-old Darius who she's forced to charge as an adult. As Allison evaluates this decision, she takes a journey that changes her life forever.

Download or read book Alison s Awakening written by Carol Delmornay and published by Carol Delmornay. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaxon Connors---CEO of Sublime Elegance Modelling Agency.He is, without a doubt, Hotness Personified.And he's my boss.I'm Alison Walker---mousey-girl-next-door type---or if you believe my ex-boyfriend, Blake Thompson---Ugly Duckling. I'm certainly not model material. Or that's what I thought. My career as Jaxon Connors' PA changed to seductive lingerie model within the first half an hour of my first day on the job.Intimate poses with my devastatingly handsome boss have me coming apart at the seams. But Jaxon Connors has a secret. One I discovered after a night of suffering instigated by my boyfriend Blake---and his two disgusting mates. He has a dungeon in his house. It's terrifyingly beautiful and utterly fascinating---and is also a lifestyle I know absolutely nothing about. Jaxon allowed me in when my curiosity needed sating---and administered an erotic spanking that set me on fire. When Jaxon departs for a business trip, he leaves an interesting proposition on my desk---a Consensual Slavery Contract. I have one week to decide---do I sign it? Or do I decline? It's tempting---and terrifying.I have to give Jaxon my answer at the end of the week---on our first dinner date...but an ex-model, Montana---who I'm sure has more than just a working relationship with Jaxon---makes waves on the day of our date. Jaxon leaves a package on my desk---everything I require for dinner with him is in the box. After what I endured under Blake's hand, do I take the risk? Am I even ready to seriously think about accepting?Jesus Christ--what the hell am I going to do?Alison's Awakening is the sequel and should be read following Reluctant Substitute

Download or read book Tenderness written by Alison MacLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful, moving, brilliant . . . an utterly captivating read, and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do." --Elizabeth Gilbert For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it will be censored. He publishes it privately, loses his copies to customs, and dies bereft. Booker Prize-longlisted author Alison MacLeod brilliantly recreates the novel's origins and boldly imagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer. In MacLeod's telling, Jackie-in her last days before becoming first lady-learns that publishers are trying to bring D.H. Lawrence's long-censored novel to American and British readers in its full form. The U.S. government has responded by targeting the postal service for distributing obscene material. Enjoying what anonymity she has left, determined to honor a novel she loves, Jackie attends the hearing incognito. But there she is quickly recognized, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes note of her interest and her outrage. Through the story of Lawrence's writing of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the historic obscenity trial that sought to suppress it in the United Kingdom, and the men and women who fought for its worldwide publication, Alison MacLeod captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century from war and censorship to sensuality and freedom. Exquisite, evocative, and grounded in history, Tenderness is a testament to the transformative power of fiction.

Download or read book Awakening Islam written by Stéphane Lacroix and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or “Islamic Awakening,” an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the “Sahwa Insurrection” failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign. Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today’s movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood.

Download or read book Raw Desire Alison s Awakening More Desire Oklahoma 6 written by Leah Brooke and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Menage Everlasting: Contemporary Menage a Trois Romance, MFM, HEA] Married to Dillon Tanner and Ryder Hayes, Alison found a love and happiness she'd never expected to find. But found she couldn't completely trust. Her unplanned pregnancy brought all of the insecurities from her past relationship back to the surface with a vengeance and she found herself watching and waiting for her husbands to realize they no longer wanted her. Dillon and Ryder were delighted to find out Alison carried their child, and struggled to give her the reassurance she needed. As her body swelled with their child, they found themselves even more enthralled with her and adjusting mentally for the responsibility of a growing family. When a threat from the past reappeared, the sense of protectiveness sharply intensified, overriding everything else. She and the child she carried belonged to them--and they would do whatever it took to keep them. Leah Brooke is a Siren-exclusive author.

Download or read book Obsessed written by Allison Britz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder—and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side—in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning. Allison believed that she must do something to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality. It started with avoiding sidewalk cracks and quickly grew to counting steps as loudly as possible. Over the following weeks, her brain listed more dangers and fixes. She had to avoid hair dryers, calculators, cell phones, computers, anything green, bananas, oatmeal, and most of her own clothing. Unable to act “normal,” the once-popular Allison became an outcast. Her parents questioned her behavior, leading to explosive fights. When notebook paper, pencils, and most schoolbooks were declared dangerous to her health, her GPA imploded, along with her plans for the future. Finally, she allowed herself to ask for help and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This brave memoir tracks Allison’s descent and ultimately hopeful climb out of the depths.

Download or read book The Awakening of Marcianna written by Isabelle Markus and published by Labyrinth Moon Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate found me in the suburbs . . . Juggling life as a wife, mother, and pediatrician was hard enough. Discovering I might be a supernatural creature awakening to protect the destiny of humankind is a whole new level of stress. Strange occurrences suddenly turn my suburban existence upside down. A mysterious stranger shows up wherever I go. Unusual lights appear in the night sky. Abilities I never thought possible emerge. How it’s all connected, I don’t know. But I have to figure it out fast. As the strength within me grows, something evil lurks in the shadows . . . eager to use me as a tool to further its own plans. While ancient enemies plot against me, my only chance of salvation is to rely on strangers from my forgotten past. Will our efforts be enough to fend off the rising darkness? Or will the call of destiny cost me everything I hold dear?

Download or read book Mudras for Awakening the Five Elements written by Alison Denicola and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mudras are hand gestures commonly used in yoga and meditation practices to direct the energy and expand consciousness. This vibrantly colored deck presents 33 mudras and 7 chakra cards that were selected for their benefits in promoting health and healing. Each card includes instructions for the pose, an explanation of specific benefits, and an affirmation to help focus your intentions.

Download or read book American Awakening written by Joshua Mitchell and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affliction is identity politics, which seeks to transform America by turning politics into a religious venue of sacrificial offering. For now, the sacrificial scapegoat is the white, heterosexual, man. After he is humiliated and purged, who will be the object of cathartic rage? White women? Black men? Identity politics is the anti-egalitarian spiritual eugenics of our age. It demands that pure and innocent groups ascend, and the stained transgressor groups be purged. The second affliction is that citizens oscillate back and forth, in bipolar fashion, at one moment feeling invincible on their social media platforms and, the next, feeling impotent to face the everyday problems of life without the guidance of experts and global managers. Third, Americans are afflicted by a disease that cannot quite be named, characterized by an addictive hope that they can find cheap shortcuts that bypass the difficult labors of everyday life. Instead of real friendship, we seek social media “friends.” Instead of meals at home, we order “fast food.” Instead of real shopping, we “shop” online. Instead of counting on our families and neighbors to address our problems, we look to the state to take care of us. In its many forms, this disease promises release from our labors, yet impoverishes us all. American Awakening chronicles all of these problems, yet gives us hope for the future.

Download or read book Schooling the Wife in Sodomy written by Anonymous and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is this a private party?" a voice asked, and Kelly jerked back in surprise, a long trail of drool connecting her mouth to the lips she had just been sucking. Roger, Alison's husband, slouched in the doorway, leaning against the frame, smiling as he watched the two women in the tub. Kelly still regarded herself as pretty shy and demure, and it was embarrassing as hell to be caught naked by her friend's husband, especially with her face freshly smeared with lipstick and her big, breasts cuddled in Alison's possessive hands. Alison, on the other hand, didn't seem at all fazed, and somehow Kelly wasn't exactly surprised. "What are you doing home?" she asked. "I thought you worked for a living." "I had to come out this way for an appointment," Roger said nonchalantly, stepping into the bathroom, "and I thought I'd stop by and knock off a quick one to get me through the rest of the day. But it looks like that's what you just finished doing." He sat down on the john. "So, Kelly," he added, "I didn't know you were into girl-on-girl." Kelly blushed scarlet. She couldn't think of anything to say. At least Roger wasn't outraged at what he'd found. "Darling," Alison said, "we need to know something. Have you been filling Ken's head with ideas about nasties like sodomy? He seems to have had some distinct urges recently that poor Kelly didn't feel up to handling, and of course she had to come talk it over with "Auntie" Alison. I told her you're the prime suspect for planting the idea. True?" When her husband makes a particularly lewd suggestion on how to improve their sex-life, Kelly is not just taken aback, she is positively disgusted. For how can anyone think using that smallest of apertures for anything but its intended purpose? So turning to her long-time friend and confidant, Kelly asks Alison whether it is all as loathsome as she believes, after all, maybe she's just not that experienced in all the forbidden ways of the flesh. With the help of Roger, Alison's husband, it is not long before Kelly is engaging in the most lascivious of three-way practices, allowing them both to train her into a submissive and wanton nympho. And from here, how can she ever go back to her normal mundane love-making thereafter? Featuring all manner of libidinous deed and device, with FFM ruttings, bar-room multi-men sessions atop pool tables - no aperture spared, and written in a deliciously uncompromising prose that leaves very little to the imagination, Kelly is about to get schooled in a very physical way.

Download or read book Awakening written by Robin Wasserman and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.D. knows she is in danger and she can not shake the dark visions in her dreams. AC 44736 and 44744.

Download or read book More Desire Oklahoma written by Leah Brooke and published by Siren Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning back Jesse: Married to two incredible men, Jesse Erickson felt her world was perfect, until she walks through the door of her home one day and has her world turned upside down. Clay and Rio Erickson hate keeping secrets from Jesse, but didn't have a choice. They certainly hadn't expected their wife to assume the worst and run. Determined to show her the power of their love won't be easy, but they know just how to get their wife's undivided attention. Adoring Kelly: Kelly Royal has learned the pleasure of submitting under her husband's gentle, but firm, hand, but when she almost dies during their baby's delivery, Blade's interest in dominating her seems to be gone forever. He empties their playroom, vowing to never dominate her again. Kelly, though, has other plans, and takes matters into her own hands.

Download or read book Zoologies written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautifully written essays” on animals, “the real and mythological, the ordinary and the exotic, the wild and the domesticated” (Publishers Weekly). Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world—both as physical beings and spiritual symbols—and not returning. In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming examines what the disappearance of animals means for human imagination and existence. Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that both leads us to destroy and leads us toward peace? As human animals, how does art both define us as a species and how does it emerge primarily from our relationship with other species? The reader emerges with a transformed sense of how the living world around us has defined and continues to define us in a powerful way. “Beautifully written essays on animal and human behavior and biology . . . highly recommended for lovers of words and nature.” —Publishers Weekly “Human beings live in an age in which industrialization and mass extinction are facts of life. But as Deming suggests in this collection, the more people denude the planet of animals, the more diminished they become in spirit . . . Eloquent, sensitive and astute.” —Kirkus Reviews “Serpentine intellect and wry humor.” —Booklist

Download or read book Mudras for Awakening the Energy Body written by Alison Denicola and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mudras are hand gestures commonly used in yoga and meditation practices to direct the energy and expand consciousness. This vibrantly colored deck presents 33 mudras and 7 chakra cards that were selected for their benefits in promoting health and healing. Each card includes instructions for the pose, an explanation of specific benefits, and an affirmation to help focus your intentions.

Download or read book Two or Three Things I Know for Sure written by Dorothy Allison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse. As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.

Download or read book Name All the Animals written by Alison Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Smith chronicles her family's struggle to overcome the death of her older brother, Roy, and discusses how every aspect of her life was impacted by the loss of her brother.

Download or read book Pretty Is As Pretty Does written by Alison Clement and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Fooshee lives a charmed life--a local beauty queen who snared farmer Bob and became his beautiful young bride. But when sexy Billy Lee lopes into town, Lucy embarks on a scandalous affair, triggering a series of events which force the town to reveal its bigotry--and compels Lucy to confront the true meaning of happiness, sexuality, and freedom.