Download or read book Another Sunny Day in Hell written by Jack Bell and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Jack Bells first published book of poetry. These are poems that were selected from the year 1986 to 2011. In this book you will read a wide variety of poems that have been compiled through time and also based on the authors life experiences.
Download or read book The Goodbye Year written by Kaira Rouda and published by Kaira Rouda. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie, a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death, can’t believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane. Gorgeous mom Sarah has just begun to realize that her only daughter, Ashley, has been serving as a stand-in for her traveling husband, and the thought of her daughter leaving for college is cracking the carefully cultivated façade of her life. Will and his wife are fine—as long as he follows the instructions on the family calendar and is sure to keep secret his whole other life with Lauren, the woman he turns to for fun (and who also happens to have a daughter in the senior class). Told from the points of view of both the parents and the kids, The Goodbye Year explores high school peer pressure, what it’s like for young people to face the unknown of life after high school, and how a transition that should be the beginning of a couple’s second act together—empty nesting—might possibly be the end. "Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, always engaging. I devoured it!" ~ Meg Mitchell, author of The Admissions
Download or read book More Than Hate You written by Shayla Black and published by Shelley Bradley LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this Single Dad’s Temporary Fling which turns into a steamy romance full of family drama. I dared her to spend a hot, no-strings night with me. Now I’m determined to keep her forever. I’m Trace Weston—recently reformed bad boy and full-time single father. My life is already complicated, but when my sister-in-law asks me to give her bestie, who just ended her long-term relationship with a cheating jerk, some hot, post-breakup pleasure, I’m game. I never expected to want Masey Garrett with a burning hunger, but she’s shy, sassy, driven, and incredibly kind. Suddenly I’m falling fast…but she’s only mine for a night. What’s a former player to do? Change the rules. Now she’s under my roof day and night. We’re playing house…but I want a real family. Though she loves my newborn son, the skittish beauty keeps her feelings about me a secret. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to win her over, but other than passion, how can I persuade Masey I’m the man for her? Sure, I could drop an L bomb…except that once imploded my heart. But when her past turns her world upside down, can I chance everything and dare Masey to stay with me forever? **More Than Dare You is part of the Reed Family Reckoning Contemporary Romance series, but every book can be read as a standalone. A HOT, romantic story with strong language, sexy times, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after!**
Download or read book The Eastland Water Spirits written by Claude Walker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 24, 1915. Chicagos deadliest day, far worse than the Great Fire. The SS Eastland - a poorly-designed, overcrowded lake steamer - capsized without warning in the heart of downtown Chicago, killing 844 people preparing for a company picnic. The victims - mostly young immigrants who toiled long hours in Western Electrics Hawthorne Works - and the disaster itself were largely forgotten to the mists of time. But on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, a quake strikes below Chicago, a purple flash emanates from a mystery hole in the Chicago River and an inexplicable hazmat event strikes a Chinatown diner. Thus begins Chicagos shocking reintroduction to the horror of July 24, 1915, and a commemoration of the victims. The Eastland Water Spirits is a parable about memories and stories which refuse to disappear. It explores our ancestors impact on each of us, like it or not. It celebrates our connectedness over time and space, using water and spirits to tell the tale.
Download or read book Who Put This Song On written by Morgan Parker and published by Ember. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest." —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X In the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and The Poet X, comes poet Morgan Parker's pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored. Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she's in therapy. She can't count the number of times she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her "weird" outfits, and been told she's not "really" black. Also, she's spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there's that, too. Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat--and it's telling them how to feel, who to vote for, what to believe. Morgan wonders, when can she turn this song off and begin living for herself? Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries, this incredible debut by award-winning poet Morgan Parker will make readers stand up and cheer for a girl brave enough to live life on her own terms--and for themselves. "Morgan Parker put THIS song on--and I hope it never turns off." —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out “A triumphant first impression in the YA space.” —Entertainment Weekly “An incredibly heartfelt, deep story about a girl's coming of age.” —Refinery29
Download or read book Carried Away written by Susan Kiernan-Lewis and published by Susan Kiernan-Lewis. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Stevens is a woman on the eve of her wedding when a frantic phone call from an old college pal sets her on a course that takes her away from the altar and any semblance of life as she knows it. Unfortunately, rescuing her friend means losing herself when Ella stumbles through a time portal in the bazaar of Old Cairo that sends her back in time at the moment just before the greatest archaeological discovery of the age: the opening of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Desperately trying to get back to her own time and her fiancé—a sexy US Marshal who, contrary to popular belief, doesn’t have all the patience in the world—Ella discovers that evil is not limited to any one timeline. With the shocking discovery of what will be the most precious treasure she will ever own, Ella risks her life to protect it while fighting to find her way back to her man.
Download or read book Dining in the Dark written by Bryan Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Powerful Restaurant Critic and His Battle with Severe, Debilitating Depression From the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, Bryan Miller was a household name among restaurant goers in the greater New York City area and beyond as the restaurant critic for the New York Times, as well as the author of numerous books, a public speaker, and a radio and television commentator. Over ten years as a columnist, he dined out more than five thousand times in the United States and abroad, from haute to humble. The Wine Spectator, in a front-page profile, declared Miller “the most powerful restaurant critic in America.” And for much of that time, he wanted to die. Dining in the Dark chronicles Miller’s battle with Bipolar II disorder, also known as depression, which ruined his life, professionally and personally. Depression was directly responsible for his surrendering the New York Times restaurant column and, shortly thereafter, leaving the paper altogether. Everything he had worked for so diligently, rising from cub reporter to big-city columnist in less than a decade, vanished. In the ensuing years, unable to work, he lost his home, his life savings, two wonderful wives, the chance to have a family, and numerous friends and colleagues. He became increasingly reclusive; like many victims of serious depression, he reached the point where he was afraid to answer the phone. Pile on a brain tumor, electroshock therapy, a near-fatal bout with Lyme disease, accidental drug overdoses (he was once carried out of the newsroom on a gurney), and you have a life in shambles. Dining in the Dark tells the story of Miller’s battle, but it also brings hope by sharing his journey to coping with, and finally conquering, his depression. The coping mechanisms he employed in order to get through the day will be of benefit to those in need of a helping hand. Dining in the Dark is philosophical, inspirational, educational, and even humorous at times. And, of course, there are lots of inside-the-New York Times anecdotes, as well as lots of food, wine, travel, and celebrity.
Download or read book When in Rome written by Liam Callanan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . . Meet Claire: fifty-two, desperate to do something new and get a fresh start. Enter the chance to go to Rome: Home to a struggling convent facing a precipitous end, the city beckons Claire, who's long had a complicated relationship with religion, including a “missed connection” with convent life in her teens. Once in Rome, she finds a group of funny, fearless nuns in a gorgeous villa, beautiful runs throughout a color-saturated city, and a chance to reflect. It all leads her to an unexpected question—should she join the convent?—and an answer that startles her as much as it does those closest to her. It also startles Marcus, a once-buzzy actor, devastatingly handsome, who is eternally in love with Claire. Marcus has come and gone from Claire’s life since college but now reappears in Rome just as she’s about to decide what’s next. As Claire searches for her higher calling, she finds the key to her future may lay in her past—and involves an actual key. The nuns swear it unlocks nothing, but on a night when choices and voices swirl, Claire finds a long-hidden lock. A look at faith, in oneself as much as a higher power, and love, romantic and familial, lost and found, this is the thoroughly charming story of one woman who sets out to rewrite her past and future, only to be surprised by the plot twists life plants . . . when in Rome.
Download or read book KELLY written by Darren Worrow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the edgy, gritty and distorted world of KELLY at your own risk; this tale takes NO prisoners. A slant on reality, headlines, gossip and hearsay merge the genres and cross-examines what is socially acceptable. KELLY caricatures the depravities of modern living and finds, with science, a possible way out. With the darkness of ""Blade Runner,"" and the ugliness of ""A Clockwork Orange,"" KELLY will shake your consciousness to its core. Contains adult material of a violent and sexual nature. I bet you wish you could handle this book? Be careful what you wish for......
Download or read book Grave Matters written by Max Allan Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death -- alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's greedy stepfather actually played a hand in Rita Bennett's untimely end. But no one is prepared for the news that CSIs Gil Grissom, Sara Sidle, and Nick Stokes report -- their investigation is inconclusive...because the disinterred deceased is not Rita Bennett. Meanwhile, at the Sunny Day Continuing Care Facility, Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown must investigate the sudden demise of Vivian Elliot -- a patient whose death may be the result of unnatural causes....
Download or read book Gossip Girl 6 written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high stakes melodrama in the world of New York's wealthiest teens. Ages 13+.
Download or read book A Friendly Engagement written by Christine Warner and published by Entangled: Select Contemporary. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's a little engagement between friends? Omar Esterly is married to his job. But when Omar sets his sights on a potential, family-oriented client, his confirmed bachelorhood becomes a problem. Fortunately, his friend and employee, Devi Boss, has the perfect plan... Okay, so it wasn't exactly Devi's plan to become her friend's fake fiancée. Lies aren't her style. However, Omar offers her a big, beautiful raise - enough to track down the missing father she's never known - and Devi reluctantly agrees to the whole engagement hoax... This was supposed to be a no-strings-attached win-win for both Devi and Omar, but when they cross the line between friendship and...well, something more, Devi realizes she's made a huge mistake that just might cost her both job and friend - falling for her fiancé. Each title in the Friends First series can be enjoyed out of order. Book #1 A Friendly Engagement Book #2 A Friendly Arrangement Book #3 A Friendly Flirtation
Download or read book To Light a Fire and Other Short Stories written by Arran Gimba and published by Arran Gimba. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gimba has delivered ten singular and deftly written short stories, each one a gritty, sometimes hilarious, always probing study of how we struggle with every facet of daily life.
Download or read book Nearly Man The Complete Second Series written by Henry Harding and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Altruist, spiritualist, pacifist, communist, philanthropist... Stan Turner thinks he is well on his way to becoming some kind of superman. Unfortunately for him, everyone else still just sees the Nearly Man. This volume contains all six scripts (plus the Christmas and New Year specials) from the second series of the greatest sitcom never seen on TV. Episodes - 1: Look Who's Stalking; 2: Play It Again, Stan; 3: O Brother, There Thou Art!; 4: Training Days; 5: Night Of The Missing Fred; 6: Solitary Stan; Xmas: It's A Glorious Death; New Year: Dead Stan Walking
Download or read book Surviving Custer written by J. R. Gregg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Murphy is a Civil War veteran now serving in the Seventh Calvary. Led by Sergeant Jim Lawton, this squad of troopers from Fort Abraham Lincoln is a mixture of old hands and new recruits. The team includes Corporal Judd, a bigoted Bible-thumper; Sam Streeter, a glory-hungry New Englander; Jake Picard, a tough half-Indian from Chicago; and several others. Dan finds himself drawn to young Sam. Dan has spent years filled with regret due to his inability to save his brother in the tragic battle of Antietam. Now, he hopes to keep Sam alive in spite of the young mans idol worship of General Custer, who claims the Indians wont put up a fight. Following a lengthy march, their battalion attacks Little Bighorn. The Indians do fight back, however, and more than three hundred cavalrymen are forced onto a hill where they must defend themselves against fifteen hundred warriors. Whats more, they have no idea that General Custer is about to march to his death a mere four miles away. This proves to be the first of several confrontations for the Seventh Cavalry, and only time will tell how many of the men will live to share their tales.
Download or read book Wats Wadis and Waterfalls written by Monica Murphy and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence, optimism, and resilience characterize my life’s journey and are the main themes of this book, which is for the over-fifty women out there who are retired or starting a new chapter in their lives. You may think, "It's too hard, "I’m too old", or "How do you teach if you don’t know their language?" First, there is excellent training available, and it has been proven that you can learn your whole life. Secondly, a lot of cultures respect their elders, and thirdly, most countries have a little English due to colonialism and speak a mixture of English and their own language, for example, Chinglish in China. A lot of schools have teaching assistants to help out in the classroom. Come with me and share the sights, sounds and aromas of the different countries and the unique culture and charm of each people group.
Download or read book Country of Red Azaleas written by Domnica Radulescu and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting novel about two women--one Serbian, one Bosnian--whose deep friendship spans decades and continents, war and peace, love and estrangement, in the vein of Elena Ferrante and Julia Alvarez. From the moment Marija walks into Lara's classroom, freshly moved to Serbia from Sarajevo, Lara is enchanted by her vibrant beauty, confidence, and wild energy--and knows that the two are destined to be lifelong friends. Closer than sisters, the girls share everything, from stolen fruit and Hollywood movies as girls to philosophies and even lovers as young women. But when the Bosnian War pits their homelands against each other in a bloodbath, Lara and Marija are forced to separate for the first time: romantic Lara heads to America with her Hollywood-handsome new husband, and fierce Marija returns to her native Sarajevo to combat the war through journalism behind Bosnian lines. In America, Lara seeks fulfillment through work and family, but when news from Marija ceases, the uncertainty torments Lara, driving her on a quest to find her friend. As Lara travels through war-torn Serbia and Bosnia, following clues that may yet lead to the flesh-and-blood Marija, she must also wrestle with truths about her own identity. Told in lush, vivid prose, Country of Red Azaleas is a poignant testament to both the power of friendship and our ability to find meaning and beauty in the face of devastation.
