Download or read book Devil s Entourage written by Zeena Becks and published by Independent. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zeena Becks's masterpiece will leave you speechless, swooning, breathless, tearful, heartbroken, incredibly excited, happy, thrilled, hopeful. And always thirsty for more." - Goodreads Reviewer This "emotionally captivating story" (Amazon reviewer) will take you on a journey of friendship, love, mental health and heartbreak. Best Friends who've loved and lost reconnect after two years of silence. Nate Fox is the face of the British rock band Devil's Entourage. Writing one heart-melting hit after the other, he could have every girl he wants. But his heart only belongs to her. Jay. His best friend, the girl he couldn't help falling in love with. The girl who disappeared without a word of goodbye... What happens when they meet again after two years of silence? When Nate has to realise that she had to go through times harder than he ever imagined. Times that left the girl once known as the Devil's Daughter nothing but a shadow of herself. **If you're into rich alphah*les dominating their women, this book may not be your cup of tea. If you like your heroes flawed but sweet, caring and full of love, however, Nate Fox might just be your bookboyfriend-type-of-guy. This is a medium-heat open door romance series.** Content warning: This series contains strong subject matter that may not be suitable for, or enjoyed by all readers, including scenes that may depict, mention or discuss: rape, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, depression, anxiety, blood, death, homelessness, parental loss, child disease, pregnancy, abortion, birth trauma, strong language, and explicit sex.

Download or read book Devil s Salvation written by Zeena Becks and published by Zeena Becks. This book was released on 2023-08-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe Nate was right this whole time. Maybe nothing would change if he announced our relationship, only the number of people hating me. Maybe my need to officially be his girlfriend is caused by something entirely different than the wish to have everyone know he's mine. Maybe it's my last desperate attempt to save something that was broken long ago. "I don't want to talk. Not about us, not about the weather, not at all. What I want is for you to leave me alone," I tell him as I enter the lounge area on the upper deck. "Jay, please! We have to talk about this! You can't seriously expect me to leave like this, we have to talk this out, we have to find a solution!" He's feeling helpless, I hear it in his voice. But what I'm feeling is emptiness. Exhaustion. And not the slightest bit of interest in hearing any more meaningless promises. "I can’t, Nate, I'm so fucking tired of this." Sighing, I finally turn around to him. "You say you love me, right? Then please, if you really love me, go. Leave me alone, I'm begging you!" The devastation in his eyes takes my breath away, it tells me he can sense it too. Maybe this is how it all ends. Our love. Our friendship. Us. Six months have passed since Jay and Nate reunited. Six months of getting to know each other again, to fall in love again, well protected by the comfort of being home. But tour break is over now, it's time for Nate to get back on the road. Back to his life as the lead singer of the British rock band Devil's Entourage. Music, concerts, and the most beautiful places of Europe await them, but so do fangirls, rumours, and the watchful eyes of the public. Will their love still flourish when it's faced with jealousy and misunderstandings? And will Jay be strong enough to handle living a life in public?

Download or read book Devil s Sexy Candy written by Zeena Becks and published by Zeena Becks. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life as the guitarist of a world-famous rock band has its perks. Plenty of money. Plenty of attention. And plenty of women. Usually, it also means plenty of work, just as Mickey Collins loves it. The less time spent all by himself, the better. Until destiny takes him to Lucy Stewart. She's smart, she's beautiful... and she's the first woman to ever make him fight for her attention. Getting her out of his head is impossible. Falling for her is inevitable. But being with her seems impossible. Not as long as she's still hung up on someone else. Ever since she was twelve years old, Lucy Stewart dreamed about being a nurse. Taking care of those in need, bringing a smile onto the faces of everyone around, there hadn't been a greater joy for her. Until a tragic loss left her with nothing but guilt, grief and red wine to fill the lonely hours at home. But her whole life is set to change when one of her patients presents her with tickets for the London show of her favourite British rock band. Devil's Entourage. It could have been the best day of Lucy's life. If it wasn't for the brief encounter with the band's guitarist resulting in a blooming friendship, torn feelings and too much sexual tension for a woman who is determined to never love again. Will Mickey succeed in leaving his playboy past behind to find true love? And what happens when Lucy has to realise that the man she had sworn to love until her very last breath may not have been as good for her as she had once believed? Devil's Sexy Candy is book 5 in the Devil's Series, a series following the mates of British rock band Devil's Entourage. The first four books of the series do not have to be read in order to understand and enjoy Mickey and Lucy's story!

Download or read book Devil s Entourage written by Zeena Becks and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is like July, she is the heat of the summer, the scent of the most beautiful flower, the taste of the sweetest fruit, refreshing like a bath in the ocean, full of life and happiness. She is my sun.That's what I thought about when I told the tattoo artist to write these words on my heart. For everyone else, these are just some cryptic words they don't understand. To me, they mean only one thing. 'The truly beautiful part of life starts with July.' With Jay.It was my first tattoo, but I guess it's true what people always say, tattoos are addictive! I may not have gotten more than this one yet, but there is no doubt others will follow in the future. A future I only hope I won't have to spend alone.But she was at our concert tonight. She is alive and she's still here, in Manchester, in the same city I am currently in. And will be for another fifteen hours before the plane takes me back to London. That means I have fifteen hours to find her.The Devil's Series, a story about ultimate love and friendship set in the world of music. Music is what brought Jay and Nate together when they first met, when they were just two kids mesmerised by each other, still oblivious to their undeniable bond. Falling in love was inevitable. Confessing love was tough. Keeping love was challenged. While Nate's Band, Devil's Entourage, climbed the ladder of success, Jay faced times harder than she had ever imagined. Times that left the girl once known as the 'Devil's Daughter' a broken shadow of herself. Their journey of overcoming mistakes of the past and the present was set to start. This series is about Jay and Nate. It tells us the story of how they fought for love through the challenges of life games, temptations and mental health in a crazy world of musicians followed by media, gossip and fame. Two years have passed since Nate Fox, the frontman of the upcoming band Devil's Entourage last saw Jay. His best friend. The girl he just couldn't help falling in love with. The one who disappeared with no goodbye, no warning, no trace.What happens when he sees her again after two years of silence? When he finds out that this silence may have been the only thing that kept her from getting lost in darkness for good.**Contains strong language, explicit sex and two chapters with possibly triggering scenes of violence**

Download or read book World Without End written by Marvin Leibstone and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Without End is a different approach toward finding ones way to an understanding of Gods likely overarching intention and expectations, plus hopes for a creation that includes humankind. Its an easy read; an unencumbered take on religion connecting to ancient and modern philosophy, psychology, sociology, and history; and an attempt at fusion of theories for an outlook regarding how we humans can continue to arrive at the best possible governance for endurance of the planet and of ourselvesexpanding democracy.

Download or read book ISIS Beyond the Spectacle written by Mehdi Semati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ISIS? A quasi-state? A terrorist group? A movement? An ideology? As ISIS has transformed and mutated, gained and lost territory, horrified the world and been its punch line, media have been central to understanding it. The changing, yet constant, relationship between ISIS and the media, as well as its adversaries’ dependency on media to make sense of ISIS, is central to this book. More than just the images of mutilated bodies that garnered ISIS its initial infamy, the book considers an ISIS media world that includes infographics, administrative reports, and various depictions of a post-racial utopia in which justice is swift and candy is bought and sold with its own currency. The book reveals that the efforts of ISIS and its adversaries to communicate and make sense of this world share modes of visual, aesthetic, and journalistic practice and expression. The short tumultuous history of ISIS does not allow for a single approach to understanding its relation to media. Thus, the book’s contributions are to be read as contrapuntal analyses that productively connect and disconnect, providing a much-needed complex account of the ISIS-media relationship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Download or read book Mikhail and Margarita written by Julie Lekstrom Himes and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year: “[A] brilliant novel of love, betrayal and censorship . . . Deeply suspenseful” (Margot Livesey, New York Times–bestselling author of Mercury). It is 1933 in Russia and Mikhail Bulgakov’s enviable literary career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of Stalin’s secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the state. To make matters worse, Bulgakov has fallen in love with the dangerously outspoken Margarita. Facing imminent arrest, infatuated with Margarita, he is inspired to write his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a satirical novel that is scathingly critical of power and the powerful. Ranging from lively readings in the homes of Moscow’s elite to a Siberian gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country with a towering literary tradition confronting a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. Margarita is a strong, idealistic woman fiercely loved by two very different men, both of whom will struggle in their attempts to shield her from the machinations of a regime hungry for human sacrifice in a time of systematic deception. Mikhail and Margarita, winner of the Center for Fiction’s 2017 First Novel Prize, is “an atmospheric, gripping, authoritative and deeply suspenseful narrative that utterly transports the reader” (Margot Livesey). “A book about authoritarian crackdown on speech and satire that is sadly timely.” —Flavorwire

Download or read book Heresy and the English Reformation written by Georgi Vasilev and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe was a hotbed of revolt against religious dogma. Particularly offensive to the established church were the views of the Cathars, whose dualist beliefs Rome condemned as heretical. Through a variety of literary works, this book explores the dualist religious movement which developed as a culture of the masses and took place in Europe between the 12th and 17th centuries. It examines the strong parallels between the Bogomils and Cathars and the religious practices of the British Lollards, extrapolating Lollardy's spread from eastern to western Europe. Providing numerous text comparisons, the work focuses on a number of authors including John Wycliffe, William Tynsdale, William Langland and John Milton, whose works exhibit the dualist philosophy.

Download or read book Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief written by Catharina Raudvere and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to questions as to how rural people envisaged good and evil, illness and health, and cause and effect. At closer reading, narratives about the mara character involve existential themes, as well as comments on gender and social hierarchy. This monograph analyses how this female creature was conceived of in oral literature and everyday ritual practice in pre-industrial Scandinavia, and what role she played in a larger pattern of belief in witchcraft and magic.

Download or read book STRIP written by Zeena Becks and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this slowburn Contemporary Romance, a stand-offish stripper from the Reeperbahn (German red light milieu) has to overcome her fears of getting hurt to find true love. Ally is determined to live her life alone. Business student by day and stripper by night, the only goal she pursues is making enough money to live a luxurious life without ever having to depend on anyone else. Her life plan is set, but everything changes when a sexy businessman approaches her on the Reeperbahn at night. He wants her. For his sister's poledance studio. As the two are forced to spend more and more time together, they both have to face the traumas of their past and growing feelings of the present. Will they be able to let old fears and hurt go for a better future? For love?

Download or read book Against the Darkness written by Graham A. Cole and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians live as though they are effectively alone in the world. However, there is another realm of intelligent life that plays a role in the world—angelic beings. This book explores the doctrine of angels and demons, answering key questions about their nature and the implications for Christians' beliefs and behavior, helping readers see their place in the larger biblical plotline that includes supernatural beings. An understanding of the reality of angels and demons encourages believers to be vigilant in the light of spiritual warfare and to be confident in Christ's victory on the cross.

Download or read book The Translator in the Text written by Rachel May and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.

Download or read book Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province 1669 1672 written by Göran Malmstedt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of the defendants and of the various accusations from neighbours and the court. The following parts analyse the perceptions of reality found in the statements made in court by witnesses and the accused. The topics addressed include the relationship between dreams and reality, belief in shape-shifting, the power of words, emotions, and magically charged matters, as well as perceptions of God and the Devil. The beliefs that surfaced during the trials were part of a general mentality that characterised people’s perception of the world, both before and after the trials. As the records from the prolonged cross-examinations of the accused are unusually detailed, the defendant’s statements, together with accusations, testimonies, and the courts’ questions, provides a unique insight into premodern worldviews.

Download or read book Perceforest written by and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs", it is the subject ofrapidly increasing attention and research. The author of Perceforest draws on Alexander romances, Roman histories and medieval travel writing (not to mention oral tradition, as he gives, for example, the distinctly racy first written version of the Sleeping Beauty story), to create a remarkable prehistory of King Arthur's Britain. It begins with the arrival in Britain of Alexander the Great. His follower Perceforest, the first of Arthur's Greek ancestors, is made king of the island and finds it infested by the "evil clan" of Darnant the Enchanter. Magic plays a dominant part in the adventures which follow, as Perceforest ousts Darnant's clan despite their supernaturalpowers. He founds the knightly order of the "Franc Palais", an ideal of chivalric civilisation prefiguring the Round Table of Arthur and indeed that of Edward III. But that civilisation is, the author shows, all too fragile. The vast imaginative scope of Perceforest is matched by its variety of tone, ranging from tales of love and enchantment to bawdy comedy, from glamorous tournaments to unvarnished descriptions of the havoc wrought by war.And the author's surprising view of pagan gods and the coming of Christianity is as fascinating as the prominence he gives to women and his understanding of how the world of chivalry should work. Because of its enormous length - it runs to over a million words - Nigel Bryant has provided a version which gives a complete account of every episode, linking extensive passages of translation, to make a manageable and highly readable version (including the previously unpublished Books Five and Six), of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Nigel Bryant has worked as a producer for BBC Radio 3 and as head of drama at Marlborough College. This is his fourth majortranslation of medieval Arthurian romance.

Download or read book The Day Hope and History Rhymed in East Timor written by Pat Walsh and published by Kepustakaan populer gramedia. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, in a remote corner of the world, something almost miraculous happened. After 500 years of colonialism, the political stars finally aligned and the people of Timor-Leste, written off as losers in the face of irreversible odds, successfully voted for freedom. Twenty years on, Pat Walsh remembers the day like it was yesterday. In this colourful collection of stories about Timor-Leste, he also draws on his many years living in Dili to recall with wry affection the city’s traffic, roosters and a motley array of characters. The latter range from a Norwegian bishop to a cockfight promoter, an Australian called Dagg, a honey seller, a cat with only six lives, a girl called Menahaha, and two intellectual giants whose contributions to their human rights are largely unknown in Timor-Leste. Believing that the past is a friend to lean on, not an enemy, he also takes the opportunity to remind the Indonesian military of their failings. But, in the same vein, he also laments the futile loss of Indonesian lives, the damage to Indonesia’s dignity, and the subversion of the rules-based international order that marked the 24 year occupation. Written with touches of humour, The Day Hope and History Rhymed in East Timor is a personal, insightful, and sometimes whimsical, set of narratives that fills a gap between the academic and the trivial on this endearing, but improbable, new nation.

Download or read book Friends and Five Seasons written by Madhukant Acharya and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupen, Dinkar, and Ajit passed out from an English medium school in 1921 and recalled their outstanding teachers Charles Benedict, Colonel Irwin Manley, Julie Thomas, Gyan Shastri, Suman Sahay and others. Standing on the threshold of adulthood, they joined college and did what they always wanted to do — they revolted against the British flag and dumped it into the Ganges as a non-violent act of defiance. As a result, they were pitted against Principal Andrews who was determined to teach them a lesson that would make an example out of the three; but they were ably defended by Professor Saran who believed in using his brains to secure a pardon for his students. In such a tense atmosphere, Radha comes into Rupen’s life and so does Julie, who defends Ajit. Meanwhile, Dinkar fearlessly faces the authorities. Sensing the popular mood in the country, the three friends undertake a journey of discovery of India and start writing articles supported by a former newspaper editor. Despite huge odds, they cruise into their careers. Rupen joins a small newspaper group rejecting a lucrative offer from a leading paper. Ajit takes up the practice of law. Dinkar joins the King's service. In this situation, they make a pact that not too far into the future their careers will merge in the city of their school days and that they will share a common destiny. But how this would happen, none of them knew…

Download or read book The Irish Rebel written by Peter L. Crawley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Irish village of Castlewarren in the 1850s to Lanesboro, Minnesota, The Irish Rebel follows the life of Edward Ruth. A story of survival, love, war, and life fashioned around a historical framework, this fictionalized account portrays the hardships of Ireland and provides a glimpse of the American Civil War through the eyes of an immigrant. Based on writings from his great-great-grandfather's journey, author Peter L. Crawley has portrayed Ruth's struggle to extricate himself from the bogs of starvation and cultural ambivalence to make a name for himself as a dentist in his new country, while he tries to prove himself worthy for the hand of one Irish maiden. The journey takes him from Ireland during "The Times of Troubles," with England's insensitive colonial policies, to the American Civil War and Morgan's Raiders, led by the infamous John Hunt Morgan. The Irish Rebel tells the tale of the striking similarity between the American Civil War and England's disgraceful disavowal of Irish Home Rule. This novel provides a vivid account of that historical period as portrayed by one who has Gaelic blood in him as well as a sentimental dose of unflappable Irish wit.