Download or read book Valentine s Day Blues written by J.P. Bowie and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF GAY ROMANCE, J.P. BOWIE From the A Little Bit Cupid collection What does it take for Valentine's-Day-hating Bryan Colby to discover that he really loves it? Meeting Officer Ben Collins, of course. Bryan Colby doesn't like Valentine's Day. Despite being told by his close friends that he's silly to fester over something that happened five years ago, he just can't get excited as yet another Valentine's Day approaches. Bryan, a rising star at the local real estate office, prefers to work instead, but is assaulted while showing a vacant property. In the ambulance, he meets Officer Ben Collins and Bryan wastes no time in letting Ben know he finds him attractive and would like to get better acquainted with him, in every possible way. At first wary of Bryan's flirty, come-hither attitude, Ben eventually warms to Bryan's charm, and agrees to meet him for a coffee. But circumstances outside their control change that date to a much more sensual meeting. After all, it is Valentine's Day week, and romance is most definitely in the air...
Download or read book Good Night Little Blue Truck written by Alice Schertle and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Bestseller Beep Beep Beep It's time for sleep. Say goodnight with Little Blue Truck and friends A storm is brewing and Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are hurrying home for bed. But who can sleep with all that racket? It's not long before other friends show up seeking safety from the storm. Thunder and lightning sure can be scary, but it's easy to be brave together. When the clouds roll on and the sky is clear, it's all aboard for a bedtime ride Beep Beep Shhh . . .
Download or read book Little Blue Truck written by Alice Schertle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small blue truck finds his way out of a jam, with a little help from his friends.
Download or read book Blue s Valentine s Day written by Deborah Reber and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue shows her love for her special friends on Valentine's Day and Steve's friends send him valentines.
Download or read book DeVilliers County Blues written by John W. Cassell and published by Inkwater Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the very beginning of Valentine's Day, 1972. Valentine's Day had been a disaster for me the last two years... I guess all of that was nothing compared to the blood-soaked minutes just past. I felt nauseated, but there was too much to do. Our window of opportunity was shorter than even the pessimistic thirty minutes we had previously estimated. It was down to the speed we were capable of going right this minute. Toby and Consuelo had no doubt turned in the alarm. I made a mental note to reload my shotgun at the first opportunity."Like the odds, Dex?""Shit, man... I was just goin' fishin' when these bastards decided to turn me into a savage once again. They get what they deserve, but they'll never take me alive."I reached out in the dark and patted him on the shoulder. He had said it all.
Download or read book Fairy Tale Blues written by Tina Welling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Crybaby Ranch, who ?writes with insight, humor, and complete control? (Tim Sandlin). On the night of her twenty-sixth wedding anniversary, AnnieLaurie McFall does the unthinkable. Without a word to her husband Jess, she walks out on their celebration dinner and catches a flight to Florida. It?s time for a sabbatical from marriage?and some serious soul-searching. So she sets herself up in the small coastal town of Hibiscus and creates the perfect six-month retreat to reimagine a storybook ending that could actually come true with Jess still her prince. What she discovers along the way is far more surprising, outrageous, and just plain fun than she ever expects.
Download or read book The Love Con written by Seressia Glass and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LibraryReads Pick! One of... Popsugar's Best New Romances Bustle and Bookish's Most Anticipated Books of December Library Journal's Best Romances of 2021 He’s cosplaying as her boyfriend but their feelings for each other are real in this romantic comedy from Seressia Glass. Sometimes Kenya Davenport believes she was switched at the hospital—how else could a lover of anime, gaming, and cosplay come from STEM parents? Still, Kenya dreams of being able to turn her creative hobby into a career. She finally has a chance to make it big when she joins the reality show competition Cosplay or No Way. There's just one catch: the challenge for the final round is all about iconic pairs, and the judges want the contestants' significant others to participate. Unfortunately, Kenya is as single as can be at the moment. Luckily her best friend, Cameron Lassiter, agrees to be her fake boyfriend for the show. Roleplaying a couple in love will force them to explore what they're hiding under the mask of friendship. Can Kenya and Cam fake it until she makes it, or will she be real about her feelings, knowing it could cost her the best friend she’s ever had?
Download or read book Spot s Valentine written by Eric Hill and published by Warne. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shaped board book tells a story about Spot working on a very special valentine surprise for his mother. Full color.
Download or read book Fort Benning Blues written by Mark Busby and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby takes us on a journey through an era of hippies, the shootings at Kent State University, integration, and Woodstock. Fort Benning Blues tells the story of Vietnam from this side of the ocean. Drafted in 1969, Jeff Adams faces a war he doesn't understand. While trying to delay the inevitable tour of duty in Vietnam, Adams attends Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia, desperately hoping Nixon will achieve “peace with honor” before he graduates. The Army's job is to weed out the “duds,” “turkeys,” and “dummies” in an effort to keep not only the officers but also the men under their command alive in the rice paddies of Vietnam. It doesn't take long for the stress to create casualties. Lieutenant Rancek, Adams' training officer at OCS, is ready to cut candidates from the program for any perceived weakness. He does this, not for the Army, but because he wants only the best “. . . leading the platoon on my right” when he goes to Vietnam. Hugh Budwell, one of Adams' roommates, brings the laid-back spirit of California with him to Fort Benning. Tired of practicing estate law, he joins the Army to relieve the boredom he feels pervades his life. About Officer Candidate School, Budwell states, “If I wanted to go through it without any trouble, I'd be wondering about myself.” Candidate Patrick “Sheriff” Garrett, a black southerner, spends a night with Adams in the low-crawl pit after they both raise Rancek's ire. Expecting racism when he joined the Army, Garrett copes better than most with the rigors of Officer Candidate School. Busby uses song lyrics, newspaper headlines, and the jargon of the era to bring the sixties and seventies alive again. Henry Kissinger is described as “Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove” and Lieutenant William “Rusty” Calley as “Howdy Doody in uniform.” Of My Lai, Busby says, “At Fort Benning everybody took those actions as a matter of course.” As America continues to try to comprehend the effects of one of the most transforming eras in our history, Fort Benning Blues adds another perspective to the meaning of being a Vietnam veteran.
Download or read book Blue Chicago written by David Grazian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The club is run-down and dimly lit. Onstage, a black singer croons and weeps of heartbreak, fighting back the tears. Wisps of smoke curl through the beam of a single spotlight illuminating the performer. For any music lover, that image captures the essence of an authentic experience of the blues. In Blue Chicago, David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences. Drawing on countless nights in dozens of blues clubs throughout Chicago, Grazian shows how this quest for authenticity has transformed the very shape of the blues experience. He explores the ways in which professional and amateur musicians, club owners, and city boosters define authenticity and dish it out to tourists and bar regulars. He also tracks the changing relations between race and the blues over the past several decades, including the increased frustrations of black musicians forced to slog through the same set of overplayed blues standards for mainly white audiences night after night. In the end, Grazian finds that authenticity lies in the eye of the beholder: a nocturnal fantasy to some, an essential way of life to others, and a frustrating burden to the rest. From B.L.U.E.S. and the Checkerboard Lounge to the Chicago Blues Festival itself, Grazian's gritty and often sobering tour in Blue Chicago shows us not what the blues is all about, but why we care so much about that question.
Download or read book THE CONSPIRACY KID written by E.P.ROSE and published by Table Thirteen Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You don't have to be kiddish, but it helps." A sonnet is penned and, lo, The Conspiracy Kid Fan Club is born. Read this sonnet and membership of the Fan Club is automatic and irreversible. In three parts - Fan Club, Hamburger and String - it is a literary soap, which chronicles the lives, loves, tragedies and triumphs of the earliest Conspiracy Kid Fan Club members: Edwin Mars (poet), Joe Claude (billionaire), Walter Cornelius (werewolf), Ewan Hoozarmi (artist), Muriel Cohen (chef) and a further motley assortment of various precarious humans. Another cheerfully ramshackle tale from the author of Beyond the Valley of Sex and Shopping.
Download or read book Boot Camp Blues written by Megan Sparks and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie's roller derby coach will be selecting the best girls for an all-star team, and Annie wants to be one of those chosen, but she is also dealing with a lot of distractions--like her break-up with Tyler and a surprise revelation from one of her teammates.
Download or read book Alone with You in the Ether written by Olivie Blake and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision. To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse. For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability--until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?
Download or read book DISSECTING THE BLUES written by T. E. Vera and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissecting the Blues is the character study of a wealthy bachelor and talented musician whose involvement with an emotionally complicated woman changes the trajectory of his life. After suffering a devastating loss and several personal setbacks, his once charmed existence descends into a perilous state that threatens his emotional, physical, and financial well-being. Good intentioned--albeit self-serving friends suspect she's behind the plot to upend his lifestyle but these events were set into motion long before his birth. However she holds the key to his salvation although it comes at the risk of revealing his family's most selfish and shameful secret.
Download or read book Mo Meta Blues written by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader, DJ, composer, and tireless Tweeter. He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dave Chappelle to...you ever seen Prince roller-skate?!? But Mo' Meta Blues isn't just a memoir. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a post-modern black man saddled with some post-modern blues. It's a book that questions what a book like Mo' Meta Bluesreally is. It's the side wind of a one-of-a-kind mind. It's a rare gift that gives as well as takes. It's a record that keeps going around and around.
Download or read book Living Blues written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picasso Blues written by Lee Lamothe and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are assigned to a task force investigating a series of mysterious murders that seem to be racially motivated. More than a whodunit detective story, Picasso Blues is a gripping tale of missed opportunites and hidden desires set amid rampant cynicism, fear, and deadly danger.
