Download or read book Amber Porch Light written by Gina Ferrara and published by CW Books. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Gina Ferrara's AMBER PORCH LIGHT Light occupy equal spheres of beauty and danger. Each holds its share of compressed energy, woven with images and lyricism, examining both the ordinary and the extraordinary, revealing what is possible when luminosity arrives in bursts. "AMBER PORCH LIGHT is a masterful balancing act. Here is a book of poems filled with unguent in the form of oranges and kiwis, papayas and gingers, lighthouses and the lumpy white meat of crabs, all counter-weighted with death by drowning and death marches, house-eating termites and threatened barrier islands, black rain and oil-soaked birds. In this collection Gina Ferrara has all the instincts of an Emily Dickinson and a Wallace Stevens. Her deft harnessing of the release rendered by the yoking of death and beauty make the poems in AMBER PORCH LIGHT read like illuminated testimony."- Darrell Bourque "Everything in these poems is aglow: not only the amber porch light, but comets, 'tarnished moonlight, ' 'milky morning light, ' meteor showers, Orion's belt, 'mint blue runway lights, ' fluorescent hospital lights, kerosene lanterns, citronella candles, white star jasmine, polished brass, and lighthouse beams. Each poem is a small and luminous feast of sensory detail. What really shines through the collection, though, is the poet's love of people and place-that place being her native New Orleans."-Julie Kane

Download or read book Amber s Destiny written by Eliza Hart and published by Eliza B. Hart. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Amber Raine? Amber herself doesn't know, but someone does... When Amber finds herself in the sleepy village of Canten on the Well with no memory of who she is or how she got there, she believes her biggest challenge will be to uncover her lost past. But, when an act of heroism draws the attention of two rival companies, uncovering her memories becomes the least of her worries as she begins to discover that her new life is anything but ordinary. She is left with a choice and as she embarks on her new job she uncovers many surprising truths, not only about herself, but also about her colleagues and their rivals. As the task of protecting her clients leads to new and unexpected revelations, she is drawn to the inevitable conclusion; In order to understand her past, she must embrace her destiny. Amazon.co.uk Kindle Reviews "5/5 Stars - Utterly Spellbinding" "5/5 Stars - A real page turner" "5/5 Stars - Gripping, excellent read, couldn't put down!"

Download or read book Late Bloomer written by Melissa Pritchard and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prudence True Parker teaches a course called Advanced Personal Journey at a community college in Arizona, but her own personal journey is not really advancing. She’s divorced, debt-ridden, and starting to feel desperate, when she meets Digby Deeds (alias Mildred Crowley), the author of the wildly successful Savage Passion romance series, at her local library. When the dying Deeds offers Prudence the final forty plots of his popular series, her financial needs trump her literary aspirations, and she accepts. To her astonishment, her own life soon begins to outpace Passion’s fevered tales, and she finds herself in the midst of a plot involving psychics, a sexy young Comanche lover, Native American activists, medicine men, and even a few wolves. Quick-witted and laugh-out-loud funny, Late Bloomer follows Prue on her madcap journey, as she finds her real life surpassing the wildest flights of her imagination.

Download or read book The Unseen Essential written by James P. Gills and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Nastasis had it all - a large home, a luxury car, a successful career, and all the trappings of affluence - until he received divorce papers and a restraining order from his wife. In his latest Creation House release, The Unseen Essential, noted author and medical doctor James Gills takes readers inside the life of Michael Nastasis and illustrates how the character's newfound faith redeems him and his family.

Download or read book The City in American Literature and Culture written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. Engaging the history of urban promise and struggle as represented in literature, film, and visual arts, and drawing on work in the social sciences, The City in American Literature and Culture examines the large and local forces that shape urban space and city life and the street-level activity that remakes culture and identities as it contests injustice and separation. The first two sections examine a range of city spaces and lives; the final section brings the city into conversation with Marxist geography, critical race studies, trauma theory, slow/systemic violence, security theory, posthumanism, and critical regionalism, with a coda on city literature and democracy.

Download or read book Fortunate Sum written by M. Ullrich and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Carter earned her spot as one of New York’s top financial advisors by following the rules and reaching her every goal. The same applies to Catherine’s personal life. Her next self-imposed deadline is looming, and all that’s left to do is to meet the perfect man. At her friend’s urging, skeptical Catherine meets with a psychic who tells her to look for the color blue, and that’s when life spirals from her control. Prospective client, quirky Imogene Harris, is reluctant to hire anyone to help with her inheritance, but when she sees what’s being offered, she has a change of heart. Catherine denies her attraction to Imogene. Imogene is falling for the woman behind the numbers. Not even a rocky start, secret past, or misinterpreted predictions can stop the women from being drawn to one another. Together they learn that perhaps blue isn’t the color of sadness after all…

Download or read book White American Youth written by Christian Picciolini and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation. The story begins when Picciolini found himself stumbling through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music. There, he was recruited by a notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Picciolini took over the man's role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group. Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he'd caused. "Simultaneously horrifying and redemptive" (AlterNet), White American Youth examines how radicalism and racism can conquer a person's way of life and how we can work together to stop those ideologies from tearing our world apart. *An earlier edition of this book was published as Romantic Violence

Download or read book Dare The Devil Romantic Comedy written by Elaine Raco Chase and published by Elaine Raco Chase. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save a horse - Ride this devil of a cowboy! Welcome to Glacier Country! Luthor Devlin and his ranch hands were out tracking 20th century rustlers when they thought they stepped into a time warp! There on the jagged cliffs was a woolly mammoth, a sabre-toothed tiger and her! A tawny, near-naked savage. She was a primal fantasy come true - that left him stunned. She was wild, irresistible and he was the man to tame her. Or was he? She dared the devil every day - why not Luthor Devlin!

Download or read book The 13th Tribe written by Robert Liparulo and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortal vigilantes from the time of Moses have planned the unthinkable. But how can you stop what you can't see?

Download or read book Louisiana in Words written by Joshua Clark and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Louisiana in Words is a Book of Hours for a place that's more like a religion than a state." -Josh Russell, author of Yellow Jack "Here we are, Louisianians all, somewhere in this book, but after that sense of self-recognition comes a desire to go to every place in this book, see it, know it like the writer does, experience our home state's every corner." -New Orleans Times-Picayune Taste, smell, hear, and see Louisiana in this collection of one-minute experiences taking place over a twenty-four-hour period across the Pelican State. One hundred twenty Louisiana-born or current resident contributors of all ages, backgrounds, and perspectives have offered their grateful, graceful, and grave visions of the state, a place as evocative as the essays within this gathering of voices. The ultimate insider's look, the book provides an unparalleled feel for hitherto hidden worlds inside the state. Together these minutes provide a mosaic of the landscape, heritage, speech, and traditions of Louisiana, a place so often romanticized, demonized, adored, pitied, and patronized. Contributors were asked to write one page or less about one minute, anytime, anywhere, in Louisiana. Writers selected include award-winning writers such as John Biguenet, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Bev Marshall, David Madden, Lee Meitzen Grue, and Fredrick Barton as well as novice writers of all ages. Passages cast Louisiana's diverse peoples as backdrop against the action that transpires within the minute. Authors and their stories' settings reflect the entire state, from the northeast corner near Lake Providence to Lake Charles in the southeast; from Monroe along the Ouachita River and Shreveport in the northwest to Lafayette, the heart of Cajun country; from the south-centrally located Alexandria on the Red River to the southernmost port of New Orleans.

Download or read book Wildcat Summer written by Lynda Ward and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her husband’s scandalous death, Marian struggled to run the small Oklahoma oil company they had built together, but when petroleum rustlers threatened the welfare of her and her teenage daughter, Marian was forced to ask for help from a young troubleshooter. Donovan warned that tracking thieves was dangerous, but Marian would risk anything to protect the business. But could she protect her heart? Contemporary Romance by Lynda Ward; originally published by Harlequn SuperRomance

Download or read book Laddie s Grave written by Peter L. Gregory and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked God, "Where are you when I need you?" Peter Gregory saw his wife die on the operating table, was lost in a blizzard and accidently fired a shotgun at his mother when he was a boy. Have you ever cried out and asked God, "Why does it have to be so hard?" A new dynamic author, Peter Gregory has been through it all and in his first book "Laddie's Grave", wants to share some realities of pursing the truth and "The God who hides Himself." Isaiah 45:15 Is it possible to know the creator of the universe in a world that, for the most part, denies His very existence? Laddie's Grave... was written for everyone who has been discouraged or is disillusioned and wondering what it takes to be successful in their walk with Christ. Laddie's Grave is a good read for those who find it a struggle to see Christ in everyday life and find their temptations an insurmountable obstacle. Jesus said, "Take Heart! I have overcome the world!" If we will seek God with all our heart and surrender our lives to Him, He is able to take even our biggest failures and make sense of them. Do you want to discover what it takes to find yourself empowered and be more than an overcomer in this life? Could it be that God has been pursuing you all your life? Sure to be a Best Seller, Laddie's Grave is a must read for anyone willing to step out in faith and seek God in their everyday experience. About the Author: Peter Gregory attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Asbury University in Wilmore Kentucky.

Download or read book The Spirit of the Place written by Samuel Shem and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

Download or read book Only You Sierra written by Robin Jones Gunn and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only You, Sierra Sierra was nervous about the future. She had always been the bold, free-spirited type. But then, her whole foundation of home and family had never before been rocked. Sierra Jensen settled back into her seat and gazed through the train window at the English countryside. So much was on her mind, and her heart was flooded with emotions. She hoped the friendship she had made with Katie and Christy the past week during the Europe mission trip would last forever. She dreaded the flight back to the States, knowing that everything would be completely different when she returned home. While in England, Sierra's family had moved to a different state. She hated the thought of going to a new high school in the middle of her junior year, where everybody already had their cliques and boyfriends. The prospect of another dateless year made her heart sink. She wondered if she'd ever find love, and then in a London airport, she met Paul. Her heart, which had sunk so low, leapt! But of course, it was just a chance meeting...wasn't it? She would never see him again...would she?

Download or read book Seeds of Vengeance written by Sylvia Nobel and published by Nite Owl Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporter Kendall O'Dell is dragged into a frightening world of secrets and intrigue after the remains of a prominent judge are discovered at a secluded Arizona ranch. As she narrows down the possible suspects, Kendall finds her life--and her engagement to be married--in jeopardy. Torn between withdrawing from the case for her own safety and following a shocking secret in the hopes of solving the murder, Kendall becomes enmeshed in a case that grows more frightening every day.

Download or read book Cross the Viaduct written by Krystyna Rodriguez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Milwaukee, it's the 60's, and this segregated city is about to blow. Jozef Miszewski, a union organizer, has always taught his family to fight for justice but he has no idea his daughter Lila is getting mixed up with Father Groppi and those rabble-rousers from St. Boniface who are planning to march across town to Kosciusko Park. It's Milwaukee, it's the 60s and parents can't rely on internet searches, cell phones or emails to keep tabs on their kids. Secrets are easily hidden and the Miszewski kids are pros, especially the youngest, Kazia, who learns how to cover her tracks when she crosses the viaduct.

Download or read book Kenora Reinvented written by Hyacinthe M. Miller and published by Write in Plain Sight Press. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumped for a younger woman. Fired for insubordination. Drowning in the money pit that's her lakefront fixer-upper. When an eleventh-hour interview lands her a job as a private investigator, Kenora Tedesco is sure it’s the end of her troubles. But instead of a snazzy wardrobe and movie-inspired intrigue, danger threatens to derail her new life. She gets trapped in a storage locker by a lovesick embezzler, caught up in international fraud, and declared dead by a drugstore pharmacist. Rookie blunders put a promising second-chance romance with Jake Barclay, a retired cop—and her new boss—at risk. Is Kenora ready to admit defeat and settle for good enough? No. This time, she's going to fight for what she wants. And win.