Download or read book Bounce written by Becca Seymour and published by Rainbow Tree Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standoffish Aiden is content keeping people at a distance and ensuring his boundaries are impenetrable. There’s safety in not opening up, but there’s also a loneliness he doesn’t realise exists until he meets Riley, a new member of the LGBTQIA+ adventure group Outback Boys. Fascinated by the new guy, Aiden is quick to discover his flirtation skills are rusty and his sweet-talking is cringeworthy. But sweet and clumsy Riley doesn’t seem to mind so much. Even though Riley doesn’t quite know how to handle Aiden’s intensity, he’s willing to step out of his comfort zone and see how their tentative friendship unravels. Between a surf lesson that resembles a kangaroo on acid and paddle boarding that is trickier than walking a tightrope, Aiden and Riley discover love may be a possibility after all. Happiness relies on honesty and openness, though. And with both men holding on tightly to past struggles, their future together is at risk. Can the two Aussies bounce back and heal themselves and each other, or are some wounds too raw to recover from? Outback Boys is a sweet and sexy M/M romance series complete with bruised butts, rope burn, and overworked muscles… all in the pursuit of adventure, of course! Trigger Warning: Contains themes (discussions) of mental illness and suicide.
Download or read book Elin s Island written by Cynthia L. Copeland and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Elin can't imagine living anywhere but the island off the coast of Maine where her father is lightkeeper, until the night in 1941 when she awakes to the sound of German torpedoes while her parents are on the mainland.
Download or read book When Mr Dog Bites written by Brian Conaghan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015 Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon's Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey. . . Dylan Mint has Tourette's. Being sixteen is hard enough, but Dylan's life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in – the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed... But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he's going to die next March. So he grants himself three parting wishes or 'Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It'. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing – and no-one – is quite as he had previously supposed.
Download or read book God and the Outhouse written by Kimberly Ivetta Melton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories are like a reflection in a mirror, recalls the little girl growing up in the 1960’s, where she sees, and now knows how the ‘Hand of God’ saved her time and time again, from experiences near death, and fears that started with an old outhouse on the farm. Her life finds love and her rebellious ways take her on a dangerous journey-leaving behind a broken Mother/Daughter relationship, only the Lord can piece back together, and arrange the miraculous moments that will bring you to laughter and tears.
Download or read book Accomplice written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexie Malton has a secret. Her ex-boyfriend is a heroin addict living on the street, and only she knows that she's the one who put him there. Guilt makes her give into his demands for money, but when he finally seeks treatment, Lexie finds herself drawn back to him, never guessing what a dark and deadly path she has chosen.
Download or read book Halo Boy written by M. Garzon and published by Petal Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you fix things when you’re failing at every part of your life? Don’t ask me. I did okay in high school. I had friends, dated, even made decent grades thanks to my brainy twin sister. But now high school’s over. It’s time to be a man... if only I knew how. I couldn’t live by my stepfather’s rules, so I flew the coop and landed at my genetic father’s, in Spain. A whole new country for me to screw up in. So of course, I did. After I’d burned through a second family, there was nowhere left for me to go. Maybe I was destined to wander the earth—me, the homebody. Seriously, world. The joke’s over. Halo Boy is the long-awaited spinoff to the Blaze of Glory trilogy.
Download or read book Combating Human Trafficking written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind Enemy Lines written by Terry O'Farrell and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal account of Terry O'Farrell's career as an SAS soldier vividly captures not only the military actions of his time in Vietnam, but the human aspects of surviving the intense selection process and training to dealing with the ever-present fear of combat. The horrors of long tense stretches on patrol in the jungle and being caught by surprise by the enemy are recounted. Also included are colorful tales of experiences off the battlefied--the larrakin pranks during training and the friendships that form between soldiers.
Download or read book Place Settings in Time One Woman s Legacy written by Barbara McCranie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir follows Barbara McCranie's journey from her rural homestead, where the large kitchen was the center of her universe, to the present day, where the world was her playground. En route, she set her table in a barnyard and onboard a boat floating at the foot of the Statue of Liberty.
Download or read book Shadow Scale written by Rachel Hartman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hotly anticipated sequel to The New York Times bestseller Seraphina! A dragon war comes to Goredd in the much-anticipated sequel to the Governor General's Award-nominated novel Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. As Seraphina Dombegh travels the Southlands in search of the other half-dragons to help in the war effort, the dragon general Comonot and his Loyalists fight against the upstart Old Guard with the fate of Goredd and the other human countries hanging in the balance.
Download or read book Happiness It s Up to You written by Sabine Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness written by Paula Poundstone and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.” —Lily Tomlin “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice “Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?” In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights—the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, “Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.”
Download or read book Amor Fati written by G.B. Korten and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the web: (About the book) What happens when one does not heed clues to follow their Fate? How does Fate reveal itself to anyone? In a span of hundred years, multi- generational characters narrate moving, sad, tragic and life-changing snippets of their lives revealing Fates work and power. Set in the Philippines, USA and Europe, it addresses universal issues: family, love, marriage, adulthood, parenting, war and survival while reflecting Filipino culture. Learning to heed Fate, readers might find answers to many of lifes mysteries and puzzling questions to become more tolerant and less defiant citizens of the world.
Download or read book We the People written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1950 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Running with Champions written by Lisa Frederic and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring book about dedication, the love of dogs, and the physical endurance and mental toughness needed to run the Iditarod sled dog race -- from a female perspective. Lisa Frederic didn't set out to run the Iditarod. She just fell in love with the event and wanted to help. She ended up working as a volunteer for the Trail Committee at various checkpoints. Then she helped Iditarod champion Jeff King train his puppies. She had never mushed before. She was a rookie, but a rookie with heart and drive. She started out with short races and eventually raced the 1,049 miles from Anchorage to Nome in the Iditarod. Her story speaks to everyone who has ever followed a dream and found that the dream realized is even bigger than the imagined one.
Download or read book MY DETERMINED SPIRIT written by Christy Tran with Patti Dobbe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I met Christy Tran, whom I know as Victoria, in 2001, when she became my hairdresser, after I had moved from Austin, Texas, to Amarillo, Texas. Over the years we visited while she worked to make me presentable to rest of the world. During our talks she slowly began sharing the details of her life in Vietnam during the infamous war years. I became fascinated with her story. Some of her experiences seemed unbelievable; however, the fervor with which she spoke told me it was all true. She lived a life that only a few people could truly understand. She endured the horrors of war and bears witness to the terrible things that human beings can do to one another. Yet her story is also one of survival. Not only did she survive the war, she survived the torturous escape from her homeland as one of the "boat people" of the 1970s. Her story does not end as refugee but it is one of victory and finding a new country to call her own. I was intrigued and amazed at my friend's determination and courage in face of fear, devastation, isolation, and hopelessness. She has taught me that the problems I face in day to day life can be overcome with faith and fortitude. This is Christy's story, as she told it to me over the course of three years - as she has lived it over the course of 53 years.
Download or read book The Outspoken Elephant in the Room written by John P.F. Christian and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a troubled family! Patricia Wakes is like the black sheep. Not only is she overweight but she struggles with mental health issues as well. Her sister gets the majority of attention from her family! Not to mention she is also much more attractive than Patricia. Being bullied at school doesn’t even describe the half of it! It being the emotional turmoil and anguish the protagonist/ narrator goes through throughout this fictional drama! The ordeals that Patricia has to go through by the hands of bullies; or what I would like to call them troubled demons is proof enough that anyone can survive and thrive through just about anything.
