Download or read book Darling Nikki written by E. V. Adams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millionaire Duncan Johnson has always found it hard to trust his wife, Nikki, since she abandoned her first husband to be with him. Nikki's life is turned upside down when her son, Rayshad, reveals that Chance molested him for years. She's bent on revenge and stages an encounter to lure Chance in. Chance is just as sceptical when his once spiteful ex-wife comes back into the picture, remarried, claiming she's still in love with him. He is right to be wary when Nikki pulls a gun on him. But can she get away with the perfect murder with Duncan hot on her trail?

Download or read book Fade Into You written by Nikki Darling and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A glorious illumination of the dark corners of teen trouble, Fade Into You tangles Chicano cultural inheritance, nascent punk self-discovery, and kid truth in a stoned haze." —Jessica Hopper, author of Night Moves In the glorious wasteland of 1990s Los Angeles, Nikki Darling alternates between cutting class and getting high, falling into drugs, crushes, and counterculture to figure out how she fits into the world. Running increasingly wild with other angst-ridden outcasts, she pushes herself to the edge only to find herself trapped in the cyclical violence of growing up female. Written in dreamy, subterranean prose, this debut novel captures the reckless defiance and fragility of girlhood.

Download or read book Darling Nikki written by Evelyn Reyes and published by Llumina Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". hard to put down. Author, Evelyn Reyes, does a fantastic job of keeping you interested and wanting more." - Daniela Dragos Sabau "Takes you on a wild romance that will keep you guessing at every turn. I cannot wait to see what else we get from Evelyn Reyes in the future!" - Lorilee Travis A journey of challenging romance begins when small-town, aspiring fashion designer Nikki falls head-over-heels for the outrageously handsome, successful real-estate mogul Adam Canter. Is Nikki really ready to give up her lifelong dream to please her new man? And will she ever be able to tame this well-known womanizer? Will their love sustain the web of suspicion, lies, greed and temptation? Or will Nikki get caught up in the glamorous life when she meets retired athlete Wolf, who seems to be everything she's looking for in Adam? And then there is Jake, her best friend's brother, who has always secretly loved her. Will he ever let her know how he feels? Will she end up listening to her heart and ignore the truth? Evelyn Reyes has been passionate about writing since she was a little girl, reading her own original stories to her little sister, Lexi. In high school, she worked for the newspaper and wrote theater plays. Following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather-a well-respected journalist and publisher in her native Germany-her passion inspired her to write to a wider audience. With Darling Nikki, she starts her trilogy of love and betrayal.

Download or read book Brain Based Early Learning Activities written by Nikki Darling-Kuria and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty brain-based activities to promote cognitive and emotional development in young children.

Download or read book The Argonauts written by Maggie Nelson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and "family." An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

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Download or read book Elsewhere California written by Dana Johnson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award–winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7–Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith. When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass–walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery's first gallery show, proving her mother's adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual–narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.

Download or read book Prince written by Matt Thorne and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest, most updated book on Prince available today—now updated with information about the afterlife of his work following his untimely death. Famously reticent and perennially controversial, Prince was one of the few music superstars who remained, largely, an enigma—even up to his premature death on April 21, 2016. A fixture of the pop canon, Prince is widely held to be the greatest musician of his generation and will undoubtedly remain an inspiring and singular talent. This revised and updated second edition of this meticulously researched biography is the most comprehensive work on Prince yet published. Unlike other Prince books, this one eschews speculation into the artist's highly guarded private life and instead focuses deep and sustained attention exactly where it should be: on his work. Acclaimed British novelist and critic Matt Thorne draws on years of research and dozens of interviews with Prince's intimate associates (many of whom have never spoken on record before) to examine every phase of the musician's 35-year career, including nearly every song—released and unreleased—that Prince has recorded. Originally released in the UK in 2012, this revised and updated second US edition of Prince includes updated content regarding work released and made available after the artist’s death.. This astonishingly rich, almost encyclopedic biography is a must-have for any serious fan of Prince.

Download or read book Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions written by Duane Tudahl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring insights on even more groundbreaking recording sessions, rehearsals, and sound checks, the expanded edition of Duane Tudahl's award-winning book pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince’s rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet. His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the doors of the recording studio as well as his days on tour. With unprecedented access to the musicians, singers, and studio engineers who knew Prince best, including members of the Revolution and the Time, Duane Tudahl weaves an intimate saga of an eccentric genius and the people and events who helped shape the groundbreaking music he created. From Sunset Sound Studios’ daily recording logs and the Warner Bros. vault of information, Tudahl uncovers hidden truths about the origins of songs such as “Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry,” and “Raspberry Beret” and also reveals never-before-published details about Prince’s unreleased outtakes. This definitive chronicle of Prince’s creative brilliance during 1983 and 1984 provides a new experience of the Purple Rain album as an integral part of Prince’s life and the lives of those closest to him.

Download or read book Prince and Purple Rain written by Andrea Swensson and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Prince and Purple Rain, acclaimed Prince authority Andrea Swensson takes a deep dive into the late artist’s most iconic album with a beautiful, slipcased gift book.

Download or read book Darling written by Pamela Waldron and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boken är en självbiografi baserad på Pamela och hennes liv. Boken utspelar sig i bland annat i Los Angeles 1988. Ett liv i droger, lyx, glamour och dess baksida. Min väg tillbaka till mitt familjeliv kantat av sorg och elände. Men också mycket galenskap och roligheter.

Download or read book Listen to Movie Musicals written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to Movie Musicals! provides an overview of musical theater on film for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicals featured in movies. Listen to Movie Musicals! includes an overview of musical theatre and movie musicals in the United States. The 50 movies chosen for critical analysis include many of the best-known film musicals of the past and present; however, the list also includes several important movie musicals that were popular successes that are not necessarily on the "best-of" lists in other books. This volume also includes a greater focus on the actual music of movie musicals than do most other books, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers. Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 important essays on must-hear movie musicals of approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of movie musicals on popular culture and the legacy of movie musicals further explain the impact of both the movies and their songs.

Download or read book Listen to Pop written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to Pop! discusses the evolution of pop music in America from the 1950s to the present, diving into its impact on American culture, particularly through its association with television, and its enduring legacy. Listen to Pop!: Exploring a Musical Genre provides readers with an overview and a history of the pop music genre. The bulk of the book is devoted to analysis of 50 must-hear musical examples, which include artists, songs, and albums. Additionally, the book contains chapters that analyze the impact of pop music on American popular culture and the legacy of pop music, including how the music is used today in film and television soundtracks and in television commercials. The book deals with all of the various subgenres of pop music from the 1950s to the present. The selection of material discussed reflects the artists, songs, and albums topping the pop music charts of the period, and while the volume examines these items individually, it also discusses how our definition of pop music has evolved over the decades. This combination of detailed examination of specific songs, albums, and artists and discussion of background, legacy, and impact distinguishes it from other books on the subject and make it a vital reference and interesting read for all readers and music aficionados.

Download or read book Theology and Prince written by Jonathan H. Harwell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince was a spiritual and musical enigma who sought to transcend race and gender through his words, music, and fashion. Raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist and later going door-to-door as a Jehovah’s Witness, he expressed his faith overtly and allegorically, erotically and poetically. Theology and Prince is an edited collection on theology and the life, music, and films of Prince Rogers Nelson. Written for academics yet accessible for the layperson, this book explores Prince’s ideas of the afterlife; race and social justice activism; eroticism; veganism; spiritual alter egos (with a deep dive into the dark character of “Spooky Electric”); a queer listening of the Purple Rain album; the theology of the Graffiti Bridge film (featuring interviews with co-star Ingrid Chavez and other collaborators), and a story from Texas of a Christian worship service designed around Prince’s music in the wake of his passing. Those interested in theology and popular culture; scholars of social justice, racial identity, LGBTQ+ studies, and gender studies; as well as Prince “fams” will find new ways of viewing Prince’s old and new works.

Download or read book Deception in Cairo The Nikki Sinclair Spy Thriller Series written by Jaye Rothman and published by Jaye Rothman. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you enjoy lesbian thrillers, you'll love reading the Cold War spy novels featuring MI6 agent Nikki Sinclair. 1976, Spring. Cairo, Egypt Nikki and her fake husband are undercover in Cairo and need to discover why a valued asset has stopped providing intel. Nikki struggles with her emotions when she meets the stunningly beautiful and older Countess Nadasdy. One question plagues Nikki. Is the Countess a KGB spy?

Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revengers' Comedies A hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of ethics. New York Times Things We Do for Love Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year Award One of his best, his most shockingly and uproariously funny: a cruel and hilarious masterpiece of tragic comedy and comic tragedy. Sunday Times House & Garden The triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . . . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become the background. It is a superb Ayckbourn joke that a comedy about non-communication should depend on the sharpest communication skills. Sunday Times

Download or read book Galaxy Trotters written by Marie C. Lukic and published by Marie Lukic. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galaxy Trotters is a humorous science fiction fantasy quest about two inquisitive children who adventure in a space craft to a number of bedazzling planets. They learn about space travel, greening planets, deception and betrayal. It all begins one evening. Nikki and Peter are doing homework when they are disturbed by a crash. They investigate to find Sowelu - a flying piglet and member of the Astro Piglet Guild - has landed in their yard in a distressed state. The children help her and in return Sowelu grants them their wish and tries to take them to Mars in her galaxy hopper space craft to find her lost pig love, Romeo. The galaxy hopper travels in Superquicktime and the children use their intergalactic-gosmos- antimatterdivetmakers to enter wormholes and visit antimatter planets. They also encounter Archie Kinestra's finest inventions, his hybrid flying pigs. The galaxy hopper develops mechanical problems and the children are sucked into a wormhole where they meet the evil traitor, Dr Carr Bunkel.