Download or read book Glass Beach written by Jill Marie Landis and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even paradise demands a price for love and happiness . . . Widowed Elizabeth Bennett believes her troubles are over. Her loveless marriage is at an end. The death of her husband leaves her free to raise their daughter, Hadley, alone on her beautiful Hawaiian ranch . . . until the handsome Spence Laamea, her husband's heir and illegitimate son from a liaison with a native woman, arrives. Spence takes the estate--and Elizabeth's fate--under his control. Despite her distrust and against a backdrop of disapproval among the island's strict nineteenth-century white society, passions erupt between them. Elizabeth and Spence struggle to build a life for themselves and her daughter. When a deadly hurricane bears down on the island, it tests the bonds of love and loyalty they've tried to deny. A seven-time Romance Writers of America finalist for the RITA Award in both the historical and contemporary categories, Jill Marie Landis has also penned five inspirational historical romances and is now writing The Tiki Goddess Mysteries (set on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, where she lives with her husband, actor Steve Landis). Her next mystery novel is TOO HOT FOUR HULA. Her books are not only known for their intense emotion, but for characters you'll remember long after you turn the last page. Visit her at jillmarielandis.com.
Download or read book Gemfire written by Robin Lee Hatcher and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gem McBride was hardly more than a child when Chase Dupre won her in a lucky hand of poker. Left behind at his sprawling ranch, Gem dreamed of the day when Chase would claim her for his own. But Chase doesn't realize that an innocent girl could become a fiery beauty in his absence, and he returns with another woman at his side.
Download or read book Emerging Risks written by Catherine Raimbault and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For boards and executives, high-quality and transparent information is critical to allow effective decision-making. Emerging risks are increasingly challenging issues, both in terms of threats and growth opportunities; not least since the science pertaining to these risks tends to be contested. Emerging Risks: A Strategic Management Guide restores the constructive dialogue between the business professional and the expert/scientist community, essential if companies are to anticipate, plan ahead and exploit leading-edge ideas. It provides insights into some of the major emerging risks of the 21st century and then guides organizations on how to approach and manage those risks proactively in the wake of new regulation, governance and enterprise-wide risk management. The topics covered include: nanotechnologies, covering the industrial revolution of the 21st Century; new information and communication technologies (NICT), discussing the infrastructure of the future; electromagnetic fields (EMF) and their debated health impact; chemical substances/REACH, a regulation with major economic and environmental stakes and an example of emerging risk management; biological risk and its on-going need for international surveillance; supply chain, a top management priority; and country risk, for which security and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are growing issues. The authors assess and propose a process for managing emerging risks and the strategies that need to be put in place, drawing on examples of best practice.
Download or read book The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection written by Daniel Clowes and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd's adventures swing and bop like a tiki orgy hosted by little green hipsters from outer space. 'With untrendy straight lines, Zip-a-tone shades, and sketchy backgrounds, Clowes's LLLL art recalls '50s advertising illos, or architectural drafts seen through a mild hallucinogenic scrim.'- The Village Voice
Download or read book Vargamae Volume 1 of the Truth and Jus written by A.H. TAMMSAARE and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andres, an Estonian peasant, purchases a smallholding in a marshy part of the country, which the novel is named after. He takes his young wife, and an incident with their cow sets the tone for a life of struggle in which the family grows and gradually lifts itself out of extreme poverty. They don't only have to strive against the elements, but also against their neighbor Pearu, a wily and ruthless man. This Tolstoyan epic amongst the peasantry and the restless city (in volumes 2 - 4) tells the story of how Tsarist Estonia developed into the First Republic through the experiences of a family, and in particular the partly autobiographical character of Indrek, who leaves the land to get an education at the end of this volume. This monumental work by Estonia's greatest writer is a European classic which has for too long been neglected in the English-speaking world.
Download or read book The Body Lovers written by Mickey Spillane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1967-09-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teasing, transparent nighties were so shredded they barely covered the bodies of the murdered beauties. The blonde wore black. The redhead, green. And now someone was combing the city for the same number in white. Two strange slayings and a very frightened model set Mike Hammer on a chase through the world of high fashion and UN cocktail parties to Village bars and sleazy hotels. Snarling Hammer hits pay dirt when he dives underground to a secret sex cult, and busts open a group of degenerate, but highly eminent kick-killers. “A breathless mystery of violence, death and the macabre machinations of international operation.”—Savannah News “A blockbuster finish. Spillane has applied his Midas touch to another thriller.”—Florida Times-Union “Mike Hammer at his best.”—Charlotte Observer
Download or read book Last Chance written by Jill Marie Landis and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of After All and Until Tomorrow comes a story set on Independence Day, 1894, as the widow Rachel McKenna decides, "I will not wear black tomorrow" and a local gunslinger asks her to dance.
Download or read book Somewhere Home written by Nada Awar Jarrar and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable novel tells the story of three women, each of them far from where they came, all of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home. This book was published by Heinemann in 2004. It has been out of print since 2005.
Download or read book Portrait of a Jew written by Albert Memmi and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, Albert Memmi paints a portrait of himself as a secular Jew. The book has been compared to Rousseau’s Confessionsbecause of its meticulous self-examination. Written only 15 years after the end of the Nazi occupation and just over a decade after the establishment of the State of Israel,Portrait of a Jew is a snapshot in time as well as a work of psychology and sociology. It both questions prevailing myths about the Jews of his time and describes the reality Memmi sees. Its sequel is The Liberation of the Jew. Portrait of a Jew and The Liberation of the Jew “form a whole: the beginning and the outcome of a passionate quest. The first offers a diagnosis, the second a remedy. [...] Both are written with moving sincerity [...] As a personal document, Memmi’s introspective study is valuable. Thought-provoking and disturbing in the best sense of the word, it allows us to look into the tormented mind and soul of a distinguished Jewish writer who aspires to live honestly while belonging simultaneously to two worlds. His doubts and affirmations carry the weight of testimony.” — Elie Wiesel, The New York Times “Portrait of a Jew and The Liberation of the Jew [are] filled with a Jewish existentialism marked by quest for identity and self-affirmation far more psychological and sociological than traditionally religious.” — Richard Locke, The New York Times “A bitter, plangent autobiography written in dark colors and minor chords. It is purgative and painful reading, for it angers, outrages, and reduces the reader to lonely verbal combats. But when the din and dust has died away, the questions and statements are still there asserting themselves.” — Henrietta Buckmaster, The Christian Science Monitor
Download or read book All Men Are Liars written by Alberto Manguel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment. In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.
Download or read book The Barbarian written by Judith E. French and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Alexandria, Princess Roxanne must place her faith in destiny when she awakens to a life she cannot remember. The only thing she can be sure of is the mysterious man at her side who seduces her with his sensual mastery. Original.
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes in Orbit written by Michael D. Resnick and published by M J F Books. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation.
Download or read book Just Once written by Jill Marie Landis and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refined Jemma O'Hurley rejects the Creole aristocrat her father has arranged for her to marry in favor of rugged Hunter Boone.
Download or read book Wheel of Fate written by Kate Sedley and published by Severn House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fifteenth-century London, the child-king is not the only one under threat - 1483. Amidst the chaos following the death of King Edward IV, Roger the Chapman is called to London to investigate a threat to the Godslove family. In the past year, there have been two deaths and a mysterious poisoning. Roger dismisses their worries at first but, when another member of the family disappears, he stumbles across a shocking secret that threatens to destroy the entire Godslove family . . .
Download or read book The Dead Stay Dumb written by James Hadley Chase and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forever Rose written by Robin Lee Hatcher and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced into a shotgun wedding with a handsome stranger, a lovely young woman loses her heart to her new husband.
Download or read book The viniyoga of yoga written by T. K. V. Desikachar and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: