Download or read book Beneath the Perfect World written by Hannah Graham and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alan falls for Catherine, he is forced to face his demons, the wrath of the locals and the law. Can love survive where people are quick to judge but refuse to know?
Download or read book The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida written by Clarissa Goenawan and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village where Miwako spent her final days. While he is away, Fumi receives an unexpected guest at their shared apartment in Tokyo, increasingly fearful that Miwako's death may ruin what is left of her brother's life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful faðcade, unmasking her most painful secrets"--
Download or read book In a Perfect World written by Trish Doller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Download or read book Eclectia vol 1 written by J.P. Goss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclectia: vol. 1 is the first collection of poetry written by Pennsylvania author and poet J.P. Goss. It was written over the course of almost two years. The collection, as a whole, reflects the inner chaos of the adolescent and no definite or constant theme throughout, but this: the Eclectic. Subjects range from loss in love and home to philosophical musings to, ultimately, the triumph over one's inner chaos. It is that victory that one rebuilds the destroyed into the most beautiful object imaginable: Eclectia. The challenge that Goss presents to the reader through his poetry is to replace grief with strength and rubble with structure and make one's inner world a better place. Truly, one will "never [see] storms quite the same."
Download or read book This Perfect World written by Suzanne Bugler and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Laura's perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy - the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, and Mrs Partridge wants Laura's help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past, she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is another even more devastating truth, and the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart. This Perfect World is the debut novel from Suzanne Bulger.
Download or read book Rainbirds written by Clarissa Goenawan and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s violent death. Keiko was stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister’s affairs, failing to understand why she chose to turn her back on the family and Tokyo for this desolate place years ago. But then Ren is offered Keiko’s newly vacant teaching position at a prestigious local cram school and her bizarre former arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s ailing wife. He accepts both, abandoning Tokyo and his crumbling relationship there in order to better understand his sister’s life and what took place the night of her death. As Ren comes to know the eccentric local figures, from the enigmatic politician who’s boarding him to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, captivating young female student, he delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren realizes that Keiko Ishida kept many secrets, even from him.
Download or read book The Perfect World written by Ella M. Scrymsour and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1922 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is another rare fantasy novel of: Origin of the People; the Light; the End of the World; in Space; Adrift in the Solar Regions; Jupiter and the Jovians; Death in Jupiter; Alan the Knight Errant; the Cave of Whispering Madness; the Hall of S.
Download or read book Over and Under the Snow written by Kate Messner and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the snow, the world is hushed and white. But under the snow exists a secret kingdom of squirrels and snow hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many other animals that live through the winter safe and warm, awake and busy, under the snow. Discover the wonder and activity that lies beneath winter s snowy landscape in this magical book.
Download or read book The Immortal Renshai written by Mickey Zucker Reichert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Norse mythology, the third installment of the Renshai saga concludes the tale of three brothers caught in a dangerous magical confrontation, against which humans and elves must band together to preserve their worlds. After a cataclysmic magical confrontation that shakes the very roots of Midgard, elves and humans alike struggle to put the pieces of their lives back together. But with many among them cast out of their own world and stranded in the Outworlds, the chances of rescuing all those "lost" souls seems very slim. While elves can find those of their own race, they cannot track humans in the same way. Perhaps, if the powers of the elves, the human mages of Myrcidë, and the one surviving Kjempemagiska, the sorcerer Kentt, can be combined, they can bring back most of those lost in chaos. Saviar, Subikahn, and Calistin, the three Renshai brothers, must all face their own personal demons, as they attempt to find their destinies in this radically changed world. Even the royal family of Béarn will find everything they value placed at risk. Only if the brothers, their friends, family, allies, and former enemies can find a way to work together will they have any hope of healing Midgard and carving out the path to a better future for all.
Download or read book Rush written by Kevin Lynch and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah and Duncan McKenzie arrive in the 'new country' as Jackie O'Fea brings news of gold discoveries. Leaving his family for the diggings, Duncan seizes his chance for freedom from the slavery of the 19th century working class life, but his dreams are dashed as tragedy strikes. Duncan's close friend Nathan Hall is drowned in a massive flood and Jackie O'Fea, a trusted friend, shows his true colours. The widow Millie Hall is assaulted by O'Fea and with the threat of harm to her baby she is powerless. Murder, hangings, and rough frontier justice will follow.
Download or read book Lucky written by Richard Craig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three violent, seemingly unrelated deaths. A terrified amnesiac. A diabolical terrorist plot to decimate downtown Los Angeles. Aided by a top-secret scientific breakthrough that enables police to extract information from the subconscious mind, detectives frantically attempt to solve the mystery that ties it all together. But the clock is ticking as the lives of thousands of innocent people hang in the balance. A Los Angeles man running his first marathon, desperately trying to escape his past, holds the key that unlocks the puzzle, but will they find the answers in time to save the city? Not for the faint of heart, Lucky? is a kaleidoscopic nightmare where nothing is what it appears to be. An unforgiving examination of the human condition, a primal scream of defiance, Lucky? is a death-defying rollercoaster ride guaranteed to leave the reader breathless.
Download or read book The Silver Branch written by Dayle Carnahan McKinney and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a strange night of falling stars, Aria is called to learn who she is and why. Coerced by a grandmother to leave her desert home in California, Aria embarks on an adventure of discovery. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels, and along the way, comes face to face with those who forged her family. She goes to the Beginning of Things—not the Beginning of Time, but the Beginning of Things, as they exist in Aria’s world. Her beliefs and assumptions are crushed beneath her wandering pilgrim feet as she leaves the modern era behind in search of something she didn’t even know she needed. Escorted and cajoled by kings, outlaws, druids, and damsels, Aria is made aware of truths long hidden. Lost in a land of myth, she is made fully dependent on a long line of grandparents, both kind and diabolical, who ensure her safe passage back to California after sojourns in France, Scotland, England, and Ireland, where the Beginning of Things takes place. People who share Aria’s rare Rh-negative blood populate these ancient lands. These are people who the Watchers watch. “The Silver Branch is an imaginative ride through history written with engaging wit. Aria is an enchanting character that takes us on an exciting journey through many different modes of travel to a magical, satisfying end, which is really the beginning.” —Carla Harrower Landscape Contractor “In the Silver Branch, Aria is called to learn who she is...and why. And on a strange night of falling stars, her journey begins. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels and along the way comes face to face with those who forged her family...and herself. Historical and mythical, Aria’s story will compel readers to want to hear the tales and see the faces etched along the branches of their own family tree.” —Maria Pritchard Author and Retired Educator The story is a journey through intimate glimpses painting a history of cultures subtly told in generational sequences and family tales. It never lets go of being in the present, skeptical while knowing that reality and magic might both exist. The reader is taken along it all, as if told a magical story, which despite historical connections between the mysteries, it really is. The Silver Branch tells a story in changing layers more parallel than mixing, and as far-away magical as the nearness of home. —Jonathan Beck M.D.
Download or read book In a Perfect World written by Pat Hirst and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a perfect world, everyone would be good tempered, listen carefully and would consider the outcome before they spoke. We don’t live in a perfect world and most of us have not received coaching on how to communicate effectively, especially when interactions are difficult or conflicted. Today’s barrage of electronic communication can complicate how we understand each other.Communication is a series of choices focused on what we say, and how we say it. It also includes what we don’t say. In a Perfect World takes you on a journey through the dynamics of effective communication, highlighting interpersonal skills and how to say things in a way that maximizes your chance of having successful interactions. It is full of good examples and wonderful stories.This book will help you:• Assert your own views when speaking with others• Communicate to deepen your relationships• Confront the negative behaviour of others• Manage your emotions and resolve conflict • Choose the right medium to send your message • Explore manners, apologies and letting go of bad situations• Apply ideas to your own situations through checklists and exercises In a Perfect World is designed to help you reflect on your interpersonal skills and key relationships and encourage you to take the time and effort with those relationships that matter. We all have the opportunity during our time on earth to create our best and most perfect life.Want to change things?Start today!
Download or read book Beneath Deception Unbreakable Series written by A.L. Long and published by ALLongbooks Publishing. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story and for Xavier London, he preferred to keep his hidden. As ruthless as he was, he still had morals and those morals included betraying the one man who saved his life. He never thought that meeting one woman could change everything. Tessa Sands never knew the truth about her life, nor did she ever question it. The only life she knew was the one she was taught, disciplined by the man who raised and groomed her to be only his. But, when another man entered her life, she slowly begins to discover that she had been deceived from the start. Can she find true love or will his secrets get in the way? Their love for each other will be tested. Only they can determine if love will win.
Download or read book What Lies Beneath written by Mark Kevesdy and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the untimely death of his father and a move to an unfamiliar city, fourteen-year-old Colin Madix takes a morning swim that ends in disaster. Colin gets turned around at sea. His strength fails him, and suddenly, Colin is drowning. He awakens later, following a near-death experience that alters his belief system and changes his young life. In the darkness of his unconscious, Colin visits another world. On his spiritual adventure, he stumbles upon a lost, ancient tribe, forgotten in the records of human history. Their way of life may save Colin and his grieving mother, but it is more than that—their way of life may potentially alter the fate of the entire United States. In Mark Kevesdy’s What Lies Beneath, young Colin Madix is a beacon of truth. He is a link to America’s salvation. A country that used to be a land of freedom and hope is now lost and wandering. Its only hope is a young man—lost and wandering, as well—but in possession of ancient secrets that could bring America back to her former glory and perhaps, save the Madix family before it’s too late.
Download or read book Flights of Fancy written by Rachel Brown and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl's desires and daydreams told through poetry as she ages.
Download or read book Heal Beneath the Surface written by Crystal Sage and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to: Take the confusion and fear out of named disease by explaining disease in more generic terms. Explain the difference between True healing and disease maintenance. Describe how the cause of disease is ultimately all the same, independent of the individual names (labels) that are given by conventional doctors. Explain why labeling disease is unnecessary, delusive, and even harmful. Help you understand how most disease is not (ultimately) caused by outside forces. Explain how allergies to nutrients contribute to most chronic disease. Describe how all chronic diseases are an accumulation of various toxicities, deficiencies and erroneous programming. Explain how healing is just a matter of erasing (healing) all the many layers of erroneous programming. Inform people of simple healing techniques that reverse allergies and all chronic disease symptoms from the level of causation. Explain the meaning of disease. Help people understand why a diagnosis or the name of their disease should not limit their ability to heal. Expound on the mind-body connection and the importance of healing the emotional (stress) component of disease. Illustrate what you can do to begin taking responsibility for your health, so you can begin your journey of healing today.
