Download or read book Beautiful Carnage written by Caroline Peckham and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, mafia standalone from Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti His family killed my brother, so I stole his bride... I was there to murder her father, but then I saw her walking down the aisle. She's been my secret obsession for too long. The sinfully beautiful Calabresi princess. Sloan was the perfect payment for their crimes. Now she's mine. Mine to claim. Mine to possess. Mine to destroy. Her fiancé is still hunting for us, but his bride might not be so innocent by the time he tracks her down. I'm lining her family up like dominoes. And she'll be the first to fall. Unless I fall prey to temptation and decide to keep her for myself.

Download or read book Carnage 2 written by Lesley Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When your world, your life and all of your hopes and dreams for the future are ripped out from under you, how do you go on? Death without dying is not only the most painful kind of death, it's also the most painful kind of life and I don't know if I'm strong enough to live it. I spend my lonely days and nights trying to make sense of what my life has become. Do I have the strength to move forward into the light, or should I just let the darkness take me? I'm Georgia Rae Layton McCarthy and this is the story of me, just me. You're no longer a part of an us, it's just me. Alone. By myself.

Download or read book Faith Hope and Carnage written by Nick Cave and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Seán O’Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years. From a place of considered reflection, Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.

Download or read book Still Life written by Sarah Winman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK* *A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK* “[A] winsome, large-hearted novel ... [Still Life] pulses from the page.” —Entertainment Weekly Set between World War II and the 1980s, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted story of strangers brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Tin Man and When God Was a Rabbit. In the wine-cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allies advance and bombs fall around them, two people meet and share an extraordinary evening: Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier from London's East End; Evelyn Skinner is a worldly older art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to rescue paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses's mind that night, one that will shape the trajectory of his life—and the lives of those who love him—for the next four decades. Moving from war-ravaged Tuscany to the boozy confines of The Stoat and Parrot pub in London and the piazzas of post-war Florence, Still Life is both sweeping and intimate, mischievous and deeply felt. It is a novel about beauty, love and fate, about the things that make life worth living, and the things we're prepared to die for.

Download or read book New World written by David Jesus Vignolli and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European discovery of the Americas forever changed the world as cultures collided with violent consequences. New World weaves the stories of three characters from unique backgrounds—a Native Indian seeking revenge against those who invaded her land, an African musician fighting for freedom against those who enslaved him, and a Portuguese sailor in search of redemption. These three unlikely heroes, connected by fate, will work together to free the New World from the darkness of the old. Written and illustrated by David Jesus Vignolli (A Girl in the Himalayas), New World intertwines the cultures of his personal heritage to explore the European discovery of the Americas with a vibrant blend of fantasy and history.

Download or read book Creeping Shadow written by Caroline Peckham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man waits in Vale, a world void of humanity. A mother vanishes, her disappearance concealed by the police. A girl collapses, black magic invading her blood. And a boy linked to them all must fight to save his family. Earth is just one of seven worlds. Gateways divide the realms and those who pass through must earn keys, participating in challenges that will separate the fearful from the brave, the weak from the strong, and the witless from the cunning. Sixteen year old Oliver Knight knows nothing of the other worlds or his family's dark past. But when his adopted sister succumbs to a deadly curse the truth is revealed and he is plunged into an unknown land in a desperate bid to save her. However, a sinister enemy is on the rise and the danger they face at every turn throws those around them under suspicion. In order to survive, Oliver must figure out who to trust, who to believe and, ultimately, who to fear...

Download or read book A Beautiful Place to Die written by Malla Nunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriter Nunn draws on her true-life experience growing up in Africa to create this darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. Detective Emmanuel Cooper is caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make for dangerous times.

Download or read book Carnage 2 written by Lesley Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When your world, your life and all of your hopes and dreams for the future are ripped out from under you, how do you go on? Death without dying is not only the most painful kind of death, it's also the most painful kind of life and I don't know if I'm strong enough to live it. I spend my lonely days and nights trying to make sense of what my li.

Download or read book American Carnage written by Tim Alberta and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times' Top Books of 2019 Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump. The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence. American Carnage is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party’s identity in the post-Bush era. The factions that emerged—one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell—engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control. With the GOP’s internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party—and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period—can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting spending increases? How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a party survive? Loaded with exclusive reporting and based off hundreds of interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many others—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we’ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era.

Download or read book Perennial written by Kelly Forsythe and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of 1999’s Columbine shooting preoccupy Forsythe in these poems, refracting her vision to encompass killer, victim, and herself as a girl, suddenly aware of the precarity of her own life and the porousness of her body to others’ gaze, demands, violence. Deeply researched and even more deeply felt, Perennial inhabits landscapes of emerging adulthood and explosive cruelty—the hills of Pittsburgh and the sere grass of Colorado; the spines of books in a high school library that has become a killing ground; the tenderness of children as they grow up and grow hard, becoming acquainted with dread, grief, and loss.

Download or read book Christmas Carnage written by Lila Grey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa's suit isn't the only thing that will be red this Christmas season.. -Natalia- Being a dancer in the New York Ballet might be prestigious, but it doesn't guarantee financial stability. Not only am I responsible for myself, but I'm trying to pay off my parents' debt. And I need their money now. Thankfully, a fellow dancer tips me off to a money-making opportunity of mass proportions. The only downfall is it's a Gentlemen's club- owned by Thomas De Santi, New York's richest and most notorious mobster. Money talks, though. At least until I catch Thomas' eye and get a lot more than I bargained for. Christmas is supposed to be a time of good cheer, but a Mob Christmas also comes with love, lust, secrets, blood, and murder- and now, I can't tell who I am anymore or where I'm even trying to go. -Thomas- Running the New York mob-scene gives me an abundance of things- especially women. That's why I rarely fool around with the same one twice. I certainly don't waste my time with innocent women traipsing through the elites of the city, either. Until Natalia dances at my club to make money. She's dedicated to two things- her parents and the ballet company... and doesn't want anything to do with me. Lucky for her, I'm a man of many talents, and I always get what I want... which is her. Just when I think I'm making progress with the strong-headed little siren, my enemies infiltrate the theater and put my woman directly in the line of fire. Now, they've forced my hand, and I have no choice but to bring Natalia to my home. It's the only way to keep her safe. I don't care how much money her parents owe; they'll have to take my life before they get another shot at her, and believe me- I can make Krampus look like a cake-walk this holiday season if they want.

Download or read book War is Beautiful The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict written by David Shields and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.

Download or read book Hawk written by Daphne Loveling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM AMAZON BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAPHNE LOVELING: HAWK I lost everything years ago. My brother. My family. Everything that ever meant anything to me. Now the Lords of Carnage are my life. Anything I need, the club provides. Anything else is unimportant. At least, that's what I tell myself until I meet Samantha Jennings. She stirs something inside me I haven't felt for years. Back when I had hope. Back when I thought life would give you what you asked for if you wanted it bad enough. Wanting is dangerous. I've learned that lesson. But when I look in those deep brown eyes, I want Samantha. I want to possess every inch of her body -- to hear her call my name when she loses herself in pleasure. If I was smart, I'd push her the hell away. Do anything to make her hate me. But I know I won't. I'll never stop until I have her. Even if it destroys us both. SAMANTHA I first saw Hawk McCullough from behind the safety of a camera lens. I try to be invisible when I'm working to capture a moment in a photo. But the way Hawk's eyes locked onto mine, like the lens wasn't even there -- I was exposed. They burned into me. Possessing me. Claiming me as his. I can tell from the look in his eyes he's damaged. Ruthless. A predator. I should run far away from him. But I know it's too late. I'm already his prey. HAWK is a scorching-hot, completely stand-alone romance. It's also the second book in the new Lords of Carnage MC series. HAWK has NO cheating, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed HEA!

Download or read book The Beauty of Horror 2 Ghouliana s Creepatorium Coloring Book written by Alan Robert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get that red crayon ready! Rock-star-turned-comics-creator Alan Robert has created a follow-up to his smash-hit, horror-themed adult coloring book! The color-crazed carnage continues! Follow everyone's favorite undead girl, Ghouliana, as she mischievously attempts to trick budding colorists into unleashing a deadly spell. Try and find the ingredients she's sprinkled throughout Robert's intricate pen and ink illustrations before it's too late!

Download or read book Finding Zen written by Heather Ashley and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding a rock legend on the verge of being kidnapped wasn't on my list of typical Monday night activities. But it happened. And when it did? Sparks flew.Too bad I didn't realize who he was.If I hadn't been so afraid of the world, I might have known what was in store for me. When Zen flashed me his panty-melting smile, I was a goner.My life as I knew it was over whether I wanted it to be or not.But I wasn't ready for what was coming. I didn't think I was strong enough to handle it.Zen Taylor could be the death of me if I wasn't careful.Literally.But I knew I'd never be able to resist. And I didn't want to.For the first time, I was living my life for me, and even if it meant the end, I knew it'd be worth it.

Download or read book Rage written by Ker Dukey and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabe "The Raging Beast" Cohen. Death. Blood. Pain.In all wars, there are casualties. I just didn't think they would be ours. The memory, guilt of everything that's gone down over the last few months, has rooted itself deep inside me, tearing open old wounds.I've spent my life in a constant state between agony and rage since I lost my wife.And now, I'm seeing her ghost everywhere I look.But what if she isn't a ghost? What if it was all a lie?I've been lost to the darkness before, and my brothers pulled me out. I don't think there's an out this time. I'm becoming the darkness. To seek out the truth, I must first uncover the lie.Death leaves an echo. Blood. A scent.Pain. Pain has left an insatiable RAGE.This is book #2 in KER DUKEY'S Royal Bastard MC Series. (Part of the Royal Bastard MC World.) A dark, delicious, thrill ride, sure to have you turning the pages, desperate to see how it all ends.

Download or read book Forget Me Not Bombshell written by Caroline Peckham and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: