Download or read book Carla written by A.M. Pascarella and published by Bay Road Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second part of a two part story. The first book is The Reporter. Usually the desert is where problems are buried. This time it's where the solution is dug up.

Download or read book Mennonite Valley Girl written by Carla Funk and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In luminous prose that effortlessly portrays the intimate and familiar pangs of growing up, Funk captivates from the get-go, and the ’80s nostalgia will hit the spot for those who came of age amid skyscraper bangs, acid-washed jeans, and the ubiquity of teen heartthrob Kirk Cameron. These small-town stories are big on charm.” —Publishers Weekly A funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman’s quest for independence in an isolated Mennonite community. Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley—a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands—she knows her destiny is to marry, have babies, and join the church ladies’ sewing circle. But she feels an increasing urge to push the limits of her religion and the small town that cannot contain her desires for much longer. Teenage (Mennonite) angst at its finest: Carla questions the patriarchal norms of Mennonite society and yearns to break free. She’ll start by lighting her driveway on fire …. A family story: the perfect gift for mothers, daughters, sisters, and fathers and sons. Pitch-perfect 1980s nostalgia: remember Jordache jeans? For readers of Miriam Toews: heart wrenching and humorous descriptions of Mennonite life. At once a coming-of-age story, a contemplation on meaning, morality, and destiny, and a hilarious time capsule of 1980s adolescence, Mennonite Valley Girl offers the best kind of escapist reading for anyone who loves small towns, or who was lucky enough to grow up in one.

Download or read book Blue Bel Air written by Brett Laidlaw and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sensual, dazzling language that ranges from lyrical heights to low comedy, Blue Bel Air leaps from the halls of science to urban blight, from fine dining to rummage sales, from thoughts of mass murder at a family picnic to a bacchanal on the shores of Lake Superior, from metaphysics to the dark cave of unreason and the insoluble ties of blood. Omnia vincit amor: Love conquers all. Does it? Omnia amans amens, this much seems sure: All lovers are demented. Sylvia Stenmark is a brilliant, troubled young woman whose accomplishments cannot compensate for a splintered family past and present. She works in the catacombs of a university laboratory complex, friend and executioner to radioactive mice. Bryce Fraser is a reporter who doesn't believe in facts. His past is haunted by the suicide of his father ("a full professor, a poet of small renown") seven years earlier. Carla, a cook, is Bryce's friend and Sylvia's high school classmate. When Sylvia unexpectedly resurfaces in Carla's life, and at the same time enters Bryce's life in a very different way, the forces of coincidence and fascination draw them together into a shifting triangle which will try the powers of friendship, loyalty, and love. On his first, odd date with Sylvia, Bryce comes away with Sylvia's grandmother's car, a 1962 Bel Air, and his fate becomes enmeshed for a time in the car's vintage machinery and in his own embrace of coincidence and the intuitive life that he strives to lead. The Blue Bel Air is a vehicle in many senses, a vehicle that Bryce can't quite seem to steer. Blue Bel Air is a novel that illuminates character with precision, humor, and brilliance. It ponders motive while refusing easy psychology, temperingrationality with the mysterious workings of what Bryce calls "the secret desire". It encompasses a richly textured world of love and betrayal, reason and imagination, heartbreak and joy.

Download or read book Death and Other Dances written by Carla Harvey and published by Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn Franklin is an awkward, biracial girl growing up in a suburb of Detroit. Already disconnected from her peers at an early age because of her background, she becomes even more withdrawn when her young parents divorce. Ever changing but stubbornly tenacious, she survives the cards she's been dealt by playing them against the odds. Hurt her and she will not hesitate to "kill you off," making it easier to walk away. Transplanting herself from her factory-driven hometown to the alluring City of Angels, she has but one goal: to find herself. Struggling to make solid connections with those around her, Autumn swallows her reservations and pushes limits to the extreme as she transitions between two drastic career changes: from the bowels of the adult entertainment industry to her rebirth as a mortician. There amongst the dead, she learns what it is to live, love, and to allow others inside, finally landing in her most comfortable place of all: her own skin.

Download or read book Fever Dream written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Download or read book Social Occupational Therapy written by Roseli Esquerdo Lopes and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground yourself in the social issues surrounding occupational therapy practice with Social Occupational Therapy: Theoretical and Practical Designs. Written by Roseli Esquerdo Lopes and Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, this groundbreaking text offers a global view of the role of occupational therapy and the potential contributions of occupational therapists to their societies — specifically in social services and with populations in situations of social vulnerability. Theoretical and practical chapters examine both occupational therapy and social challenges, and the text's emphasis on human rights and social issues reflects the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists. It's the unique perspective needed to tackle the social aspects of occupational therapy and respond to social field issues, including education, culture, justice, welfare, and work, as well as health. - Worldview of social occupational therapy reinforces the importance of the field and underscores the growing practice and theoretical field for global occupational therapy. - In-depth analysis of social issues is incorporated throughout the text along with a detailed analysis of the potential contributions of occupational therapists to their societies. - Focus on the social role of occupational therapy highlights the role of occupational therapy as a social profession and prepares readers to respond to social issues. - Theoretical and practical chapters talk about occupational therapy and social challenges. - Emphasis on human rights and social issues reflects the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists.

Download or read book The Sky Is Red written by Guiseppe Berto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1971 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I first read The Sky Is Red, it reminded me vividly of my own impressions of post-war Italy when I arrived in Naples as a boy from New York in late 1945. I remember the ugly, bombed-out city, the widespread hunger, misery and despair. I witnessed political opportunism, widespread fraud, and violent crime. Even as a boy I understood the heartrending spectacle of otherwise honorable people forced to debase themselves in questionable and sordid activities in order to survive. I remember the gangs of urchins and adolescents roaming the streets, and the conversations of adults of various political stripes who were trying to figure out the best way to restore Italy as a functioning country. Giuseppe Berto published his novel in Italy in 1947. It depicts in graphic terms the country’s pervasive physical, psychological and moral devastation through the experiences of a group of adolescents struggling to grow up amid the ruins of a brutal war. Berto is careful not to identify the venue of his story, which could easily be any of the many towns and cities in Italy that had been ravaged. His narrative thus becomes a universal cry of despair and disillusion that quickly struck a responsive chord among the Italian reading public in the wake of World War II. Berto wrote his book in the United States in the final years of the war when he was a prisoner of war in Texas. Before his capture, Berto had served for several years in the Italian Army, and was certainly familiar with all the ugliness of war. I suspect that his manuscript reflects observations both during that time and when he got back home. The Sky Is Red focuses more on the lingering effects of war than on war’s direct violence. It is a powerful literary achievement and became a paradigm classic of post-war Italian literature. Christopher David Costanzo Henniker, N.H. November 24, 2019

Download or read book Journey to the Son written by Carla Carlisle and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the Son chronicles Carla A. Carlisle's eight-year battle with the system to protect the child of her heart from enduring trauma caused by his birth mother, who herself suffers from prolonged physical, emotional and mental abuse. Join Carlisle on her eight year journey to save her son. Her motto is "it shouldn't take a miracle to save a child, so let's be a part of the solution to move forward."

Download or read book The Future Is Female Volume Two The 1970s More Classic Science Fiction Storie s by Women written by Lisa Yaszek and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go back to The Future Is Female in this all new collection of wildly entertaining stories by the trailblazing feminist writers who transformed American science fiction in the 1970s In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the “baboon patriarchy”—Ursula Le Guin’s words—that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek offers a time machine back to the decade when far-sighted rebels changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future. Here are twenty-three wild, witty, and wonderful classics that dramatize the liberating energies of the 1970s: Sonya Dorman, “Bitching It” (1971) Kate Wilhelm, “The Funeral” (1972) Joanna Russ, “When It Changed” (1972) NEBULA AWARD Miriam Allen deFord, “A Way Out”(1973) Vonda N. McIntyre, “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” (1973) NEBULA James Tiptree, Jr., “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973) HUGO AWARD Kathleen Sky, “Lament of the Keeku Bird” (1973) Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Day Before the Revolution” (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD Eleanor Arnason, “The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons” (1974) Kathleen M. Sidney, “The Anthropologist” (1975) Marta Randall, “A Scarab in the City of Time” (1975) Elinor Busby, “A Time to Kill” (1977) Raccoona Sheldon, “The Screwfly Solution” (1977) NEBULA AWARD Pamela Sargent, “If Ever I Should Leave You” (1974) Joan D. Vinge, “View from a Height” (1978) M. Lucie Chin, “The Best Is Yet to Be” (1978) Lisa Tuttle, “Wives” (1979) Connie Willis, “Daisy, In the Sun” (1979)

Download or read book The Biograph Girl written by William J. Mann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author William J. Mann blends fact and fiction in this unconventional novel about the nature of celebrity The Biograph Girl is Florence Lawrence, who gets her first big break in vaudeville as a tiny tot who can whistle like a man. By 1910 she’s a legendary movie star, pursued by thousands of rabid fans. Just a few short decades later, she’s all but forgotten, reduced to walk-ons at MGM. In 1938 she kills herself by ingesting a lethal dose of ant paste. Fast-forward fifty-nine years. A 107-year-old woman named Flo Bridgewood is discovered in a Catholic nursing home in Buffalo. Could the feisty chain smoker with the red satin bow in her hair be America’s former sweetheart? Florence Lawrence is dead . . . isn’t she? And if not, then whose body is in her grave? That’s what journalist Richard Sheehan wants to find out as he and his identical twin brother, Ben, a documentary filmmaker, decide to cash in on a decades-old mystery. Sharing the stage is Flo herself, whose story is the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. A provocative melding of fact and fiction, The Biograph Girl is about what it means to be a celebrity—then and now.

Download or read book Serpent Loop written by Lynn Lipinski and published by Majestic Content Los Angeles. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five stars. An intricately woven crime drama thriller with a lot of heart"—Readers' Favorite "Rising mystery author Lynn Lipinski keeps it real in the second book of her Zane Clearwater Mysteries series."—Pacific Book Review "...First-rate fiction..." —IndieReader "...gripping and well-paced..."—Kirkus Reviews A new beginning emerges from chaotic destruction. Witnessing a murder at the carnival he works for was a painful reminder of Zane Clearwater's dark past. He had hoped all that was behind him, but one look at the fear on his sister Lettie's face and he's right back in the thick of it. Even if means jeopardizing his dream of becoming a police officer, he's desperate to protect her at all cost. Unfortunately, that may be harder than anticipated. Zane knew Lettie was a whiz with a computer, yet he had no idea she was putting some of those skills to work on the dark web in questionable schemes that have landed her in serious trouble. Zane has a slew of questions. As do the police... and the FBI. When Lettie takes off for California, Zane embarks on a journey of discovery if their unbreakable bond has its limits. Can he keep the promise he made to himself and protect Lettie? Or is this one mess she will have to face on her own? "Readers will be hooked on the brother-sister team and assorted shady characters." -Kirkus Review SERPENT LOOP is the sequel to Lipinski's first book, BLOODLINES.

Download or read book The Art of Silliness written by Carla Sonheim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to play? Whether you think of yourself as an artist, a doodler, a dreamer, or none of the above, this book will jump-start your creativity. Popular art instructor Carla Sonheim offers fun, engaging ideas on every page, from drawing upside down to imagining new worlds (down to their silly hats and strange animal species). All you need is a pencil or pen and your imagination.

Download or read book Again Dangerous Visions written by Harlan Ellison and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre. Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous Visions—the middle installment in a planned three anthology series—includes award-winning stories from incomparable writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Piers Anthony, Dean Koontz, and James Tiptree, among many others. Unprecedented and electrifying, Again, Dangerous Visions cemented Harlan Ellison’s legacy as the ultimate sci-fi anthologist.

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Download or read book Paradise written by Vladimir Imakaev and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first great mysteries of civilization is the story of the creation of the world in the Bible. The Tree of Life planted in the Garden of Eden may be more than just a myth. And if so, the country that possesses it could harness the power of eternity and be the undefeated champion of the world. To this end, a small group that includes some of the best scientists of the age start an expedition to Iraq in search of the Forbidden Garden. But will they ever return? The path that leads to the entrance to paradise has been called The Valley of the Shadow of Death, and not without reason. It is said to be guarded by a host of demons under the command of the ancient Egyptian priest Siptelah, who sold his own soul in exchange for his power. Mystery of the Past is the first book of the exciting trilogy, Paradise. Already a bestseller in Russia, it has fascinated hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now released for the first time in English, Christians and non-Christians can enjoy the thrilling opening of this powerful series.

Download or read book Retribution written by Michael Grant and published by Michael Grant. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Neal Devlin is not only the best sharpshooter in the NYPD, he’s also skilled at shooting off his mouth. This time it gets him bounced off an elite SWAT team and into cop Siberia—the Traffic Division. Rather than face a slow death there, he takes a job as a security chief for Taggert Industries, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in a Manhattan skyscraper. “How hard can it be?” he wonders. This hard: In less than two weeks Devlin will discover that a killer is targeting the company’s CEO and that the building is accessible to entry and sabotage at a hundred critical points. With the help of a feisty and tough-talking female computer specialist and an ex-con, Devlin scrambles to secure the building’s severely vulnerable security system. And in less than three weeks, after a series of mysterious “accidental” deaths of certain employees, the killer will be revealed as a world-class assassin, expert at penetrating the most sophisticated security system. A highly sensitive deal-in-the-works prevents Devlin from going to the police, though all his instincts scream for him to do so. With time running out and bodies piling up, Devlin finds himself trapped at the summit of the skyscraper pitting his skills against a well-armed madman with nothing left to lose. Retribution features a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at high-tech surveillance and executive protection; an affecting portrait of a hard-edged loner, Neal Devlin, who believes he has just one more chance to get it right; and a frightening bathyscaph descent into a modern corporation where “acceptable causalities” has secured a foothold. At once an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller and a parable of cost/benefit accounting taken to its extreme, this is a page-turning fiction at its best.

Download or read book Finding You written by Carla Neggers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Harbor Island delivers nonstop suspense and pulse-pounding romance in this thrilling mystery that “proves once and for all that opposites not only attract, they sizzle” (Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times bestselling author). Vermont newspaper editor Cozie Hawthorne is astounded by the money she makes when her essay collection becomes a bestseller. But she has no plans to let the success go to her head. She’s more than content to keep her rusted Jeep and live in an old house that seems to attract more bats than men. Daniel Foxworth, renegade son of the Texas oil Foxworths, specializes in putting out chemical fires. At least he did until someone sabotaged his helicopter and almost killed him. The prime suspect is Cozie’s brother and evidence is piling up as fast as the attraction is growing between Daniel and Cozie. When she finds out that the sexy Texan is out to prove her brother’s guilt, Cozie is determined to find out who’s really after Daniel. But as danger mounts, Daniel faces an even greater challenge: winning Cozie’s trust...before someone ends up dead.