Download or read book Crimechurch written by Michael Botur and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the safe suburbs of Christchurch isn't dangerous enough for Marty. He needs excitement, and goes looking for it in punk, protest, politics and crackpipes. Marty soon finds Mona, a teenage runaway living in a flophouse of skinheads and goths. The two live for drugs and dodgy deals, but they are minnows compared to savage siblings Jade and Shayna. Meanwhile, war has broken out among the bikers Marty and Mona depend on for their daily fix. Fuelling the fight is 'King Kong' Chong, a thug determined to be Number One in the 0h-3. Swimming between the sharks is Winston, Marty's baby brother, who has big plans. When Winston gets in over his head, it's up to Marty to try and pull him out of a neo-Nazi nightmare before their family becomes a target. “Breathtaking, relentless, unapologetic... It's a wild, wild, wild ride.” - Australia & NZ Crime Fiction Reviews

Download or read book Lesson Plans written by Suzanne Greenberg and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Journal Editor’s Pick Reader’s Digest “Great Books from Small Presses That Are Worth Your Time” “Witty and insightful.” —Reader’s Digest “Readers who enjoyed Tom Perrotta’s Little Children will want to try Suzanne Greenberg’s Lesson Plans, an entertaining, funny, and thoughtful debut novel about three California homeschooling families.” —Library Journal Editor’s Pick citation Lesson Plans chronicles the lives of three California families who choose to homeschool for different, deeply personal reasons. Patterson is a straight-laced insurance adjuster who has recently discovered both surfing and God and convinces his wife to homeschool their rambunctious twins. David is a liberal stay-at-home dad who feels stuck in suburbia and throws his energy into homeschoolong his three “ducklings.” Wedding photographer Keith has just separated from Beth, a full-time mom struggling to manage her own private chaos. And there’s Jennifer, Keith and Beth’s precocious daughter, who copes with severe allergies and doesn’t understand why she’s not attending school and seeing friends like she used to. Will homeschooling provide balance and harmony for these families? Or will it bring unforeseen challenges and stress? In this captivating and funny debut novel, Suzanne Greenberg takes a serious look at the choices parents profess to make on behalf of their children, as well as the unpredictable ways in which new relationships can change our lives. Suzanne Greenberg is the author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories, which was selected for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Rick Moody and was a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist. She is also the co-author of two novels for children and a guide to creative writing. Lesson Plans is her first novel for adults. A New Jersey native, Greenberg lives with her husband and three children in California and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.

Download or read book A Sucker for You written by Marlene Perez and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire-witch hybrid Tansy Mariotti has exactly one goal: to stop her mother’s Vegas wedding. It’s not because she hates weddings. It’s not because the groom is her boyfriend’s dad (although yuck). It’s not even because Vegas weddings are cliché as hell. It’s because her mom is an evil incarnate vamp known as The Executioner. Nothing good can come of someone marrying a person named The Executioner. Nothing. With the help of her werewolf boyfriend, her bestie, her granny’s no-crave-blood tonic, and her favorite stake—a drumstick—Tansy is Vegas-bound and ready to raise hell, all while hoping her witch side can keep her fangs at bay. Only suddenly, her witch side is fading...fast. Tansy's running out of time to stop her mom and save herself—before what happens in Vegas stakes in Vegas. The Afterlife series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 The Afterlife of the Party Book #2 I'm with the Banned Book #3 A Sucker for You

Download or read book A Sorcerer s Tale written by Samantha Fryer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, fast-moving story of adventure, danger, friendship and love in a magical land buried in the mists of time. Only teenage sorcerer Casy and her friends can save the land of Zehara from their evil nemesis, the warlord dragon Sermach.

Download or read book Lucas written by D. B. Reynolds and published by ImaJinn Books. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The badlands of South Dakota . . . haunting landscapes, legendary outlaws, and . . . vampires? Lucas Donlon, Vampire Lord, is one of the most powerful vampires in North America and beyond. Charming and irreverent to his friends and lovers, he enjoys everything about his life as a vampire. But when a neighboring lord makes the mistake of declaring war, he quickly discovers that Lucas is every bit as lethal as he is charming. Kathryn Hunter doesn't care about powerful vampires or their wars. Her baby brother is missing, and she will do anything to find him, even if it means going against both her FBI bosses and the local vampire lord. But Lucas Donlon has other plans for the lovely FBI agent who's landed on his doorstep. Waging war against their enemies and each other, Lucas and Kathryn will risk everything to keep the most deadly vampire war in hundreds of years from engulfing every vampire and human in North America.

Download or read book The Witches of Creaky Cranky Castle written by Victoria Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trina is selected by Milliewart and Bellawhistle as one of the lucky children to enter their competition - the first prize is the chance to help the witches mend their roof. Victoria Whitehead has also written The Chimney Witches, Chimney Witch Chase and Chimney Witch Christmas.

Download or read book Yellow Rider and Other Fantasy Poems written by Steve Eng and published by Gothic Pr. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book House of Fiction written by Phyllis Richardson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors’ personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature. We encounter Jane Austen drinking ‘too much wine’ in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf’s love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder’s return to Brideshead. Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.

Download or read book The Invasion written by Brett McBean and published by Sinister Grin Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be a quiet end to a long day: five close-knit family and friends settling in for some much-needed sleep after coming together for an early Christmas party. Instead, it’s the beginning of a shocking night of brutality when six intruders break into the sprawling residence of Debra Hillsboro, a middle-aged romance novelist with a fierce devotion to her loved ones and a strong kinship with her home of almost thirty years. Armed with smartphones and a modern brand of madness, the intruders – an internet-age cult disconnected from humanity and addicted to causing fear and mayhem – have come to the secluded property for one purpose: to terrorize, and ultimately kill, everyone inside all while filming their heinous crimes. Outnumbered and cut off from the outside world, the terrified occupants find themselves trapped in a fight for survival as a once place of safety is turned into a deadly maze of darkened rooms and forbidding hallways. On this sweltering summer night, they must somehow find a way to escape before the cult turns the beloved home into a house for the dead.

Download or read book Buried Alive written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This holiday was going to be Truly Terribly Adventurous! Tim can't wait to go on holiday - especially as he gets to bring his friend Biscuits along! But their trip unexpectedly becomes truly, terribly adventurous when an encounter with two local bully-boys threatens to disrupt the fun. The hilarious, wonderfully enjoyable sequel to Cliffhanger! from bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson.

Download or read book And Then And Then What Else written by Daniel Handler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir from the beloved author behind the multimillion-copy bestselling A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS ‘One of our most dazzling literary conjurers.’ MICHAEL CHABON Known to most as Lemony Snicket, the tormented narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler spends his days writing – for children and adults; film and television; and, occasionally, the accordion. Mainly, he writes about horrible things: orphans, abusive uncles, poison, murder, arson, bad grammar… A love letter to the consoling and terrifying power of books, And Then? And Then? What Else? traces Handler’s life through morbid poetry collections, eccentric acting troupes, hazy midnight taxi rides, second-hand bookstores and psychiatric units. Traversing his personal canon from his first encounter with Baudelaire to Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bishop and The Pet Shop Boys, Handler offers a witty, poignant exploration of reading, writing and why we tell stories. 'Daniel Handler’s series did something other books would not: took children seriously… [A Series of Unfortunate Events] taught me that my own thoughts could be trusted, that my impulses to read and make things were not unusual, to find joy and sanctuary where there was none.’ GUARDIAN

Download or read book A Kingdom of Iron Wine written by Candace Osmond and published by Guardian Publishing. This book was released on 1901 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Adult Fantasy Romance, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Holly Black, and Jennifer L. Armentrout. Get the sexy, addictive, and heart-pounding first book in The Ironworld Series by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Candace Osmond. She’s half Fae with sunlight in her veins, he’s a vampire with a soul. It’s a match made in magical hell...but Avery can’t seem to stay away. Avery Quinn’s worst nightmares come true when the taunting shadows of her mind become real, and an entire mythical world reveals itself to her. Ironworld. Fae, Shapeshifters, Vampires, Witches…all pitting themselves against one another in a formidable quest for power. With her new circle of friends–a misfit crew of mythical beings–they work together to bring down an illegal black-market ring of shapeshifters selling Fae blood to vampires. But the further Avery sinks into this mythical domain and discovers secrets of her own past; the more she realizes…she’s not human at all. She’s not even Fae. With each secret she uncovers, Avery grows closer to darkness. Because, while her mortal heart may belong to the vampire she loves, her immortal soul was long promised to a Dark Fairy Lord… And he’s coming to collect. If you love A Court of Thorns & Roses, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Mortal Instruments, then say hello to your new favorite Fantasy Romance Book Series! Dive in with A Kingdom of Iron & Wine and get lost in this addictive, page-turner book today! Books in The Ironworld Series: A Kingdom of Iron & Wine A Court of Blood & Bone A Throne of Love & Magic A Realm of Claws & Wings A Heart of Burning Embers

Download or read book Staying Well With Guided Imagery written by Belleruth Naparstek and published by Grand Central Life & Style. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the techniques of imagery, total body wellness can be achieved without prescriptive medicine. With this comprehensive, user-friendly primer, readers will learn just what guided sensory imagery is and how to create powerful images in the mind that direct the body to heal--both emotionally and physically.

Download or read book Narrative written by Marcello Giovanelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does storytelling differ in poetry, novels, adverts and spoken conversations? What narrative devices do writers such as Margaret Atwood, Christopher Marlowe and Raymond Carver employ? Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, Narrative explores texts from a range of genres, mediums and periods, written for different audiences and purposes. Narrative is an introduction to the ways we use language to tell stories. It includes examples such as hard news stories, children's narratives and messages on social media. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, this book guides you through major modern issues and concepts--back cover.

Download or read book The Ghosts of Creepy Castle written by Keith Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop-up illustrations depict a guided tour through the chilling dungeons, spooky towers, and creepy rooms of a haunted castle. Movable flaps and tab reveal the hideous inmates and the grisly fate in store for the unsuspecting tourists.

Download or read book Tom and the Dark Knight written by Tony Bradman and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Princess Ellie discovers a secret treasure map, she and her friends, Kate and Prince John, set out to follow the clues. After a few disappointments they almost give up, but when Kate's foal, Angel, becomes trapped in the woods, they accidentally discover the final piece of the puzzle they desperately needed.

Download or read book The Secret of the Hidden Castle written by Emerson M. Ligor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eliza, her parents, and her twin sister Daphne travel to France with their newly widowed cousin, her daughter, and her fiancé to solve the mystery of a murder and treasure hidden in an old castle, which no one has set foot in for almost a hundred and fifty years, danger threatens. Can they solve the puzzling case and allow cousin Allie to marry in safety?