Download or read book The Dark Side of Carmel written by Wendell Vanderbilt Fountain and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmel, California is an idyllic setting that is very familiar to visitors and residents of that beautiful state; however, there is an underbelly of this place that is the dark side of the community. This book, from a fictional perspective, addresses matters of unspeakable crimes that have taken root, without the knowledge of the local residents and visitors. The former Chief of Police of Phoenix, Lennie Mason, and his friend, Walter Stolz, the Chief of Police of Carmel have led an initiative to eradicate a drug, sex, and human trafficking ring in their city. Lennie, at the behest of Chief Walt Stolz, agreed to assume the temporary role of Special Investigator and Deputy to the Chief of Police of Carmel. In that role, Lennie Mason experienced many unsuspected incidents of suspense and intrigue. Many of the rich and famous, such as Doris Day and Clint Eastwood, to mention only a couple of stars, lived and/or worked in this beautiful hamlet.

Download or read book Prancing Lavender Bunnies and Other Stuff from the Darkside of Independent Cinema written by Paul Turner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreverent stories about running an alternative, locally owned, independent movie theater in a small Oregon town; appreciations of fiercely loyal patrons; and rants about the peculiar business of dealing with movie studios. Paul also writes about his earlier experiences running movie theaters, some of which are now gone forever, and his forays into the American West, as seen from the seat of his motorcycle. Movies and motorcycles, twin passions for Paul, provide a never-ending supply of inspiration for Paul's creativity.

Download or read book Come to the Dark Side We Have Coffee written by Comlen Darkemo and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Notebook, Very Beautiful Gift for Black Notebook lovers. ✓ This Is Perfect Notebook/Journal gift for any occasion: Christmas Gifts Halloween Gifts Veterans Day Gifts Thanksgiving Gifts Birthday Gifts Mother's Day Gifts Mindful Gifts ✓ Features and details: "6x9" Inch Awesome Design Cute Cover

Download or read book The Dark Side written by Danielle Steel and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness. When Zoe falls in love and has her own child, she is determined to be a perfect mother as well. But before long, old scars long dormant begin to pull Zoe to the edge of an abyss too terrifying to contemplate

Download or read book Lighting the Dark Side written by William R. Potter and published by William R. Potter. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIGHTING THE DARK SIDE won the ALLBOOKS REVIEW EDITOR´S CHOICE AWARD 2009 for short story collections. A short story collection featuring three novellas and three shorter works, LIGHTING THE DARK SIDE covers a wide range of fiction genres including, action, thriller, mystery/detective, suspense, and even romance. Join regular people who find themselves caught up in extraordinary situations. Some are simply down on their luck; while others struggle for survival. Each is locked into circumstances rendered more complex by their own weaknesses. Only when the shortcomings are recognized can they overcome these limitations and succeed. This collection of Six Modern Tales is designed to exercise your emotions, capture your imagination, and challenge you to think in new directions. Shop these on-line stores Click here for AMAZON.com Barnes&Noble.com BORDERS.com The Stories Bent, Not Broken. The opening novella is about an obsessive compulsive man who falls in love. Dee-Dee challenges Dwayne to experience life instead of hiding from it. Nevertheless, Dwayne's disorder puts a severe strain on the relationship. Jealousy, low self-esteem, anxiety, and an increasing sense of violence engulf him until he pushes his new love away and falls into old habits of avoidance. Will he overcome this dilemma for love? Or will his problems continue to impede his happiness? In the Gray. A seemingly mundane phone call between a grown son and his mother uncovers the reality of one man's life. Michael Conner has estranged himself from his entire family. He has no time for his corrupt politician brother, his racist, abusive father, and his mother who seems to be more concerned with his marital status than the ugliness in her own home. Prominent Couple Slain. Detective Jack Staal spent twelve years working in the Major Crime Section of the Vancouver Police Department. There he saw the worst of humanity, violent murders, gang warfare, sex crimes, and the ravages of illicit drugs. Homicide investigation was once his mission in life; now with his confidence damaged, he struggles each day to face the brutality. The story finds Staal only weeks after transferring to the Police Service of a small country town called Hanson, where a detective is more likely to investigate a canoe thief than a killer. When a former mayoral candidate and his wife are found DOA in an apparent murder-suicide, Staal is thrown back onto the homicide beat. May 18, 2010. Is May 18, 2010 the end of the world? Trevor Woodward isn't sure; he just wants to go home to his girlfriend, Kelly-Anne, and ignore the growing pandemonium over the approach of an earth-grazing comet called Ivan. Will the rock strike earth and destroy all life? Or is the entire thing a hoax to cover up an atomic bombing in the Persian Gulf? Experiencing increasing episodes of déjà-vu, Trevor begins to suspect that the eventful day is repeating; and with each pass, he gets another chance to repair mistakes with Kelly-Anne and his dying father. Blessing or Curse? Who wouldn't enjoy winning the big one? Brad Stewart isn't certain that becoming an instant millionaire is all h

Download or read book Doggone Mess written by R.J. Blain and published by Pen & Page Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single, female lycanthrope: check. Bills to pay: check. A bounty for the hottest single lycanthrope on the block: check. As the sole holdout of the corporate buyout of her apartment building, Joyce Gray is determined to transform her stubborn pride into a masterpiece in order to stay off the streets. Dipping her hands into the dark world of bounty hunting would give her the funds needed to find a new home, somewhere safe from the wolf who’d infected her with the lycanthropy virus. On the surface, the job is simple. For a period of three days, she must keep Wayne Barnes from returning to the New York City area. The owner of the corporation determined to reduce her apartment complex to rubble has a reputation of being straitlaced and playing for keeps. Worse, her virus is ready to roll over to have her belly rubbed and enjoy some positive and intimate attention. But with twenty thousand on the table and a chance to get ahead for once in her life, she’s prepared to get her hands dirty no matter the cost. What she doesn’t know will change her life and plunge her into the murky depths of the black market, where secrets are worth more than money, life is cheap, and anything can be purchased for a price.

Download or read book Good Graces written by Courtney Milnestein and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes your perfect forever home slightly less than perfect and a lot less than forever? Having the ghost of a young boy haunt its halls, perhaps? After considerable scrimping and saving, John and Terry have finally put down their first mortgage payment for their new home in St John’s Wood in leafy North London. This, John believes, is their reward, their payment for all the long, hard years of enduring shoddy flats and sketchy landlords; this is what they deserve. Yet during the renovations of their kitchen, when a mystery shoe is found in an old fireplace and a lonesome ghost begins to make an appearance, they find their relationship tested not just by the haunting, but by the strange ghostbuster who arrives on their doorstep unannounced. John frets and worries, but will they be able to put the matter to rest once more and for all? Will the spirit of their dead visitor find a way to move on, or will the dream of actually owning property in North London become a nightmare?

Download or read book Discovering Public Relations written by Karen Freberg and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering Public Relations introduces students to the field of PR in a practical, applied, and hands-on way that prepares them for the modern workplace. Author Karen Freberg highlights modern and contemporary PR practices, emphasizing social media, digital communication, and creative innovation. Understanding that creativity alone can’t create success, Freberg shows students how to choose and implement evidence-based practices to guide their strategic campaigns. The Second Edition transforms students into successful PR professionals by giving them the tools to think creatively, innovate effectively, and deploy research-backed tactics for successful campaigns. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your Sage representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It’s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

Download or read book Dark Side of Tomorrow written by Sky Love and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dee is heading back to Chicago to reunite with her birth family after meeting them for the first time two weeks ago. She had come down with PI Tim, who had found her parents and went down with her to meet them after having been kidnapped some 33 years ago. The man that had kidnapped Dee was now in prison and the women she thought was her adopted mother has now committed suicide. In the apartment they lived in above the bakery they owned Dee found $150,000. Tim tells her not to deposit it in a bank. So here is Dee traveling with all this money and her cousin she had just found snooping in her things. After all the deceit and deceptions this past year Dee doesn’t know who you trust and who you don’t.

Download or read book The Dark Side of the Cross written by James S. Parker and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced mystery surrounding ancient artifacts, long forgotten manuscripts and a malignant evil lurking in the shadows, MacBridan finds himself up against an enemy more ruthless, more deadly than he has ever faced before. The body count and the suspense continue to rise the closer he gets, all in a place where no one is who they appear to be.

Download or read book The Dark Side A Werewolf Shifter Urban Fantasy written by M.J. Scott and published by emscott enterprises. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a walk on the Wild Side. A dark and sexy werewolf shifter urban fantasy trilogy from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott. Monsters used to be just her day job. Now they’re her life. Reluctant werewolf Ashley Keenan thought she’d faced her demons when she brought down McCallister Tate, the vampire who killed her family. She’s building a future with her werewolf fiancé, FBI Agent Daniel Gibson, but not everything is smooth sailing. For one thing, she still owes a debt to the dangerous vampire who controls Seattle. And, for another, she knows that Tate didn’t work alone…and his allies might not be done with her. Then a vicious attack leaves her best friend infected with an aggressive new strain of vampirism and Ash and Dan are sucked into the desperate fight to save her and to stop a plague of vampires overrunning humanity. A plague manufactured by the man who was helping Tate. When Dr. Smith and his vampire allies decide that Ashley’s family secrets might hold the key to making their new vampires unstoppable—and that the only way to get to those secrets is through Ash herself—the fight turns deadly. To save herself, her friends, and maybe even the world, Ash has to embrace her werewolf abilities, call on some dangerous allies, and take a walk on the dark side… The Dark Side is the second book in the complete Wild Side trilogy. This series has werewolves, vampires, cat shifters, strong language, some dark places, sexy times and an ongoing relationship that gets to a HEA…perfect for fans of strong heroines, protective heroes and second chance romances…enjoy the ride! Author's note: For tropes and CW, please check the author's website.

Download or read book The Dark Side written by Anthony O'Neill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping sci-fi noir for fans of The Martian and Quentin Tarantino, when an anarchic android begins wreaking havoc on a moon-based penal colony and bodies start turning up, an exiled detective must decide who he can trust in a city of criminals. Never bang your head against a wall. Bang someone else’s. Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass and mecca for war criminals, murderers, and curious tourists alike. You can’t find better drugs, cheaper plastic surgery, or a more ominous travel advisory anywhere in the universe. But trouble is brewing in Brass’s black-market heaven. When an exiled cop comes to enact law and order in this wild new frontier, he finds himself the lead investigator in a series of high-profile murders that puts him toe to toe with the city’s charismatic founder and his equally ambitious daughter. Meanwhile, 2000 km away a memory-wiped android, Leonardo Black rampages across the lunar surface. Programmed with only the notorious “Brass Code”—a compendium of corporate laws that would make Ayn Rand blush—he journeys across the dark side of the moon with only one goal in mind: find Purgatory and conquer it.

Download or read book The Dark Side of Technological Innovation written by Bing Ran and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change in a global context from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioral, and policy issues. Papers selected in this volume have four prominent themes: the wide spread interests and the global application of the technological innovation; the practicality of the research on technological innovation implementation to foster success and financial growth; the socio-technical challenges behind innovation and creativity that might outweigh the benefits; and the new principles/practices/perspectives on our understanding of the technological innovation. Contributed by prominent scholars and practitioners from around the world in innovation, management and policy area, this book will become a very useful read for anyone who is interested in learning the most contemporary perspectives on the subject.

Download or read book The Secret Book Scone Society written by Ellery Adams and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the mystery series from the New York Times-bestselling author: “Anyone who loves novels that revolve around books will savor this tasty treat.”—Library Journal (starred review) A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—all to be found within the pages of the right book… Strangers flock to Miracle Springs hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That’s Nora’s special talent—prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person’s deepest pain. So when a visiting businessman reaches out for guidance, Nora knows exactly how to help. But before he can keep their appointment, he’s found dead on the train tracks. Stunned, Nora forms the Secret, Book, and Scone Society, a group of damaged souls yearning to earn redemption by helping others. To join, members must divulge their darkest secret—the terrible truth that brought each of them to Miracle Springs in the first place. Now, determined to uncover the truth behind the businessman’s demise, the women meet in Nora’s cozy bookstore. And as they untangle a web of corruption, they also discover their own courage, purpose, and a sisterhood that will carry them through every challenge—proving it’s never too late to turn the page and start over… “Adams kicks off a new series featuring strong women, a touch of romance and mysticism, and both the cunning present-day mystery and the slowly revealed secrets of the intriguing heroines’ pasts.”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Least Resistance written by and published by Mark Lewis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication written by Brian H. Spitzberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication examines the multifunctional ways in which seemingly productive communication can be destructive—and vice versa—and explores the many ways in which dysfunctional interpersonal communication operates across a variety of personal relationship contexts. This second edition of Brian Spitzberg and William Cupach’s classic volume presents new chapters and topics, along with updates of several chapters in the earlier edition, all in the context of surveying the scholarly landscape for new and important avenues of investigation. Offering much new content, this volume features internationally renowned scholars addressing such compelling topics as uncertainty and secrecy in relationships; the role of negotiating self in cyberspace; criticism and complaints; teasing and bullying; infidelity and relational transgressions; revenge; and adolescent physical aggression toward parents. The chapters are organized thematically and offer a range of perspectives from both junior scholars and seasoned academics. By posing questions at the micro and macro levels, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication draws closer to a perspective in which the darker sides and brighter sides of human experience are better integrated in theory and research. Appropriate for scholars, practitioners, and students in communication, social psychology, sociology, counseling, conflict, personal relationships, and related areas, this book is also useful as a text in graduate courses on interpersonal communication, ethics, and other special topics.

Download or read book A Dark Side to the Moon written by AJ DeLaura and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Waller, Tailfeather’s brilliant secret agent, travels to India on an assignment that may have global consequences. Could his interference in this Asian country’s space program upset the stability of world power? His fiancé’s recent ownership of one of the world’s richest companies may be at the center of the controversy he needs to resolve. Waller’s success could put her life in danger in this bizarre case as he uncovers a dark side to the moon. Tom and Esme return in this international thriller, coming face to face with a menacing shadow from their past. A Dark Side to The Moon draws us into a whirlwind adventure from the bright streets of America’s New England cities to the shadowy alleys of India’s infamous Mumbai slums leaving us contemplating the future of the planet and our own freedoms.