Download or read book Beyond the Surface a Twisted College Romance Story written by J. R. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryce is the star of her soccer team. She eats, breathes, and lives soccer. After her boyfriend Adrian unceremoniously dumps her before a match, though, she spirals into a deep depression, which is made worse by the fact that her parents seem to prefer him to her.After just a few months, she finds out Adrian and his new girlfriend are engaged to be married. This floors her -- until she meets Leo, her roommate's goofy but sweet brother. He becomes her confidant and friend, and they have a great rapport. But Adrian, it seems, hasn't entirely taken himself out of the picture... Filled with deception and intrigue, B, My Name is Bryce is a steamy, sexy romance for all those who have ever found themselves torn between two loves.
Download or read book Beyond The Surface A Twisted College Romance Story written by J.R. Simmons and published by MM Books. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryce is the star of her soccer team. She eats, breathes, and lives soccer. After her boyfriend Adrian unceremoniously dumps her before a match, though, she spirals into a deep depression, which is made worse by the fact that her parents seem to prefer him to her. After just a few months, she finds out Adrian and his new girlfriend are engaged to be married. This floors her -- until she meets Leo, her roommate’s goofy but sweet brother. He becomes her confidant and friend, and they have a great rapport. But Adrian, it seems, hasn’t entirely taken himself out of the picture… Filled with deception and intrigue, B, My Name is Bryce is a steamy, sexy romance for all those who have ever found themselves torn between two loves.
Download or read book Beneath The Surface A Twisted College Romance Story written by J.R. Simmons and published by MM Books. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice is a go-getter. She was one of the best students at her high school, and now that she’s in college, she is working her hardest to continue her drive to succeed by finishing school early. But when her boyfriend Takeo, who goes to another school, dumps her, Alice’s world starts falling apart. That’s when she meets Thomas Powers, a renowned professor, and researcher. He offers Alice an internship with his research group -- and he also seems to really like her, in a more-than-friends way. At first, everything seems great -- she can even tolerate her frisbee-obsessed, bro-ish new boss, James. But a chance encounter one night changes everything -- and reveals just who Alice can really count on.
Download or read book Inside The Surface A Twisted College Romance Story written by J.R. Simmons and published by MM Books. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine “Cat” Palazzolo hasn’t really had a lot of experience with guys -- okay, any experience with guys. After being brought up in a strict Catholic household and parochial schools, she is ready to spread her wings in college. She is finally ready to lose, as her best friend Jordy calls it, her V Card. After clubbing one night with Jordy, Cat meets the perfect guy -- Manny, a waiter at the club they went to. The trouble is, Manny’s got a past and a troubled family -- one that hits surprisingly close to home for Cat. Now, this college student has found herself in the midst of a family with all kinds of issues, as well as a scary, dark world inhabited by drug dealers and prostitutes. When Manny finds himself on the wrong side of the law, it’s up to Cat, Jordy, and their friends Alice and Bryce to clear his name -- and for Cat to finally learn what intimate love is all about.
Download or read book Verity written by Colleen Hoover and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Download or read book Addicted written by Elle Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Claimed comes the second enticingly erotic novel set in a world on the brink of chaos. Lennox used to live in a paradise on earth with his best friend Jamie, in a place where visitors came and went, allowing their desires to run free. But everything changes when a deadly attack forces them to take up with Connor Mackenzie’s band of Outlaws. Lennox knows Jamie is hung up on someone else, but he’s always believed he’s the man for her—and won’t let her go without a fight. Even though Jamie is well aware that Lennox is one hot specimen of a man, she refuses to let sex ruin the most important relationship in her life. But when the object of her interest spurns her, she indulges in a little pleasure-filled revenge with her very magnetic, very willing best friend. One thrilling night with Lennox is enough to awaken Jamie’s unexpected desires for him. And now that she’s had a taste, she’s not sure she can ever give him up...
Download or read book Twisted written by Miranda Leek and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to amusement park rides once they are put into storage or destroyed? They are magically transported to a place known as Amusement Park Between, a park that coexists within any other and is only accessible by those who are of its blood. There are no limits and no humans. The only residents are the rides. However, they are much different from our kind. Amusement Park Betweens rides are alive, having both the characteristics of man and beast. Amusement Park Between was once merry and joyous, but for the past several years, it has spiraled into turmoil. An evil tyrant known as Ironwheel has taken control, casting a dark shadow over Amusement Park Between, his evil intentions endangering both their world and our own. The rides only hope is the key to their prophecy: the red will defeat the black. That particular key is the only ride that was created differently: Railrunner, the red roller coaster. This is his story.
Download or read book Mrs Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Download or read book The Shadow out of Time written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, "The Shadow Out of Time" is the tale of a professor of political economics that is thrown into a mind-shattering journey through time and space, while his body is held hostage by an alien mind. Horrified and panic-stricken by the implications of his experiences, he hopes against all reason and evidence that he has merely lost his mind.
Download or read book Perfect Chemistry written by Simone Elkeles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epic love story like no other . . . First in the gripping PERFECT CHEMISTRY series, this is the next addictive read for fans of Anna Todd's AFTER series, and Caroline Kepnes's YOU. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. Forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, Brittany finds herself having to protect everything she's worked so hard for – her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend and, most importantly, the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But the closer Alex and Brittany get to each other the more they realise that sometimes appearances can be deceptive and that you have to look beneath the surface to discover the truth. 'Compelling and addictive… I've still got that "wow" feeling you get after reading a great book' Wondrousreads.com 'Perfect Chemistry is a novel to obsess about. It is a book that you should drop everything for...the most romantic love story that I have ever read.' Thebookette.com 'Captures that rush of feelings associated with first love' Thebookbag.com 'Elkeles pens plenty of tasteful, hot scenes…that keep the pages turning. The author definitely knows how to write romance.' Kirkus Review
Download or read book The Things We Cannot Say written by Kelly Rimmer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See! From the bestselling author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s urgent search for answers to a family mystery that uncovers truths about herself that she never expected. “Fans of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls will adore The Things We Cannot Say.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief. Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced…and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it. Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light! For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for Before I Let You Go Truths I Never Told You The Warsaw Orphan The German Wife
Download or read book Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice Penguin Specials written by Nam Le and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed. Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le's multi-award-winning collection The Boat. 'A tight and densely emotional journey that sucked me in and contained as much power as the lengthy title.' Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog
Download or read book Beneath the Stars written by Emily McIntire and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AlinaI was eleven when I met Chase Adams. I loved him before I knew what lovin' was.I pulled, he pushed.I gave, he took.I loved... I lost.Now he's back. All grown up and sexy as sin.But things changed while he was gone.So, he can show those dimples and flex those muscles all he wants.It won't change a thing.Chase Adams is nothin' but a lost memory. I'll do everything I can to keep him that way.ChaseGrowing up, there were only two women I ever loved.Neither one of them ever really loved me back.Until her. Alina. My Goldi.She was everything that's good. I was the bad.She was the brightest goddamn star. I was the black hole shredding her to pieces.I loved her wrong, losing her to my demons.But now I'm back. A better man.I'll do everything I can to make her remember us, even if all she wants is to forget.
Download or read book The Giving Tree written by Shel Silverstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Download or read book Last Night in Twisted River written by John Irving and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
Download or read book Beneath the Stands written by Emily McIntire and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BeccaI hated before I loved.I loved and then I lost.And the only man I've ever wanted is the one out of reach.Temptation is the Devil's candy, but I lost my faith in God years ago.He's forbidden.Off-limits.My biggest secret.One I'm determined to take to my grave.I've learned to live in the ghost of his memory. Craving his touch, but relieved he never comes home.Until one day, he does. And everything comes crashing down.After all, nothing secret stays hidden for long.EliI lost before I left.I left and then I loved.And the only woman I've ever seen is the one that I resent.There's a thin line between love and hate, but I stopped playing in-bounds years ago.She's forbidden.Off-limits.My sister's best friend.The one who blazes like the sun.I've learned to live in the shade.Forgetting the heat and embracing the cold.Until finally, I'm home. And everything goes up in flames.After all, she's the one who lights my fire, and I always chase the match.
