Download or read book Runaway Amish Girl written by Emma Gingerich and published by Progressive Rising Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disagreeing with the beliefs of Amish traditions and upbringing, the pressure became too much for her to bear. Forced to make a personal decision, Emma found the courage to leave the only life she had ever known. She had no idea the emotional turmoil she'd inflict on her family and friends.
Download or read book Escape Girl written by Michelle Dayton and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can’t divorce yourself from love… Emily Saturn’s world is spinning out of control. An intellectual property lawyer, she’s gone rogue from her firm, dealing with a major lawsuit against a predatory software company’s CEO pro bono. When she isn’t looking for elusive evidence she can use—legally, of course—she’s trying to avoid her soon-to-be ex-husband, Bobby March. After their whirlwind courtship and wedding, Bobby can’t pinpoint what went wrong between them. He’s been working for months on his new career and personal growth, determined to be the man his wife deserves. Desperate to get her attention, Bobby invites Emily to a series of individually designed virtual escape rooms, each one a moment from their love story. Hopefully, the sexy, romantic trip down memory lane will rekindle their intense connection—and clue him in as to how to fix this. Emily has never been able to resist a puzzle. Or, frankly, Bobby. The more she interacts with her husband online, the more she wants to see him again in person. Which is beyond stupid because Emily knows he’s wrong for her. Right?
Download or read book Meet Kaya written by Janet Beeler Shaw and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Perce Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. American Girls Collection/Kaya #1.
Download or read book The Girl with Seven Names A North Korean Defector s Story written by Hyeonseo Lee and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.
Download or read book Escape Under the Forever Sky written by Eve Yohalen and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador's residence. All Lucy can do is read about the exotic and exciting world that lies beyond the compound walls and imagine what it would be like to be a part of it. That is, until one day Lucy decides she has had enough and she and a friend sneak off for some fun. But to their horror, Lucy gets kidnapped! With only herself to rely upon, Lucy must use her knowledge of African animals, inventiveness, will, and courage to escape, and in the process embarks on an adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Includes bonus material! - Book Club Discussion Guide
Download or read book Perfect Escape written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon & Schuster Children's. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another all-new Nancy Drew adventure - she's got a new look, a new car, some new friends, and loads of new cases to crack!
Download or read book The Great Escape Wolf Girl 2 written by Anh Do and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I held onto the bars of the truck and howled to my dogs as they fell further and further behind. Sunrise, Brutus, Zip, Nosey and Tiny all ran as hard as they could, but there was no way they could keep up... After four years alone in the wild, Gwen is overjoyed to see another person. But when she is thrown into the back of a van and stolen away to a prison camp, things don't look good. How will her pack find her? Where is her human family? Will the other kids in the camp be friends or enemies? Luckily, Eagle is fast, the dogs are brave, and bars and fences are no match for the one and only Wolf Girl!
Download or read book Tank Girl written by Alan C. Martin and published by Titan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Escape finds Tank Girl and her team stranded on the outskirts of a city they have just destroyed, as an immense and vengeful army approaches. Will they escape? Who will survive? Who knows! You won't believe your brains when you read it.
Download or read book Escape from the Killing Fields written by Nancy Kay Moyer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape from the Killing Fields tells the true story of Ly Lorn, a young Cambodian woman caught up in the genocide that took place in the 1970s. The lone Christian in her Buddhist family, Ly Lorn's love of God illuminated her walk through that horrible valley of death that was Cambodia.
Download or read book Running Out of Time written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Download or read book East End Alice A Victorian Girls Escape From Sin written by Barry G. and published by BM Goodwin. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East End of London, Victorian London 1884. The crowded tenements, the poor standard of living, the diseases, the crime and the vice are all inhabitants of this darkest of places, yet people here are not insular nor vying to be better than their neighbour’s. This is an environment where everyone looks out for one another, where despite poverty, friendship is watchword and this is the world in which twelve-year-old Alice Kettle sweeps her street crossing, keeping it clear for people to cross the road without the detritus of Victorian traffic fouling their person. A job she does to earn pennies to help support her mother’s family through these hard times. Alice however is an unsuspecting target for that most foul of purveyors of human flesh, the purchasers of young girls who take them from their homes and then force them to work in the high class brothels which are mostly frequented by the moneyed classes. Charlie Atkin has Alice in his sights and he sets his devious plans into action in order to make a pretty penny from the appropriation of Alice, this despite the efforts of the Social Sisters movement to change the laws on the current age of consent and prostitution in general.A book that follows Alice through the trials that await her as her life is suddenly turned on her head. Will she escape her fate?
Download or read book Escape written by James Patterson and published by Century. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brilliantly twisty' Publisher's Weekly 'The plot twists will give you whiplash' Washington Post 'The mystery is authentic, the lead-up genuinely suspenseful' Kirkus ____________________________ FIVE VICTIMS. ONE KILLER. When five teenage girls are abducted, Chicago PD Detective Billy Harney leads the investigation to find them. Harney and his partner, Carla, follow a lead to a remote house, only to find themselves caught in a deadly trap. A huge explosion rips through the building, killing Carla and allowing the kidnapper to escape. With the loss of his partner fuelling him, Harney strengthens his resolve to find her killer - and to make sure the body count ends there. ____________________________ Readers are loving Escape 'Loads of twists' 'Couldn't put it down' 'A great and gripping story' 'Keeps you reading until the very end' ____________________________ Praise for The Black Book series 'A total page-turner that will keep you guessing from start to terrifying finish' Karin Slaughter 'Deeply rooted characters, a touch of humour, and a climax nobody can see coming - it's vintage Patterson' Brad Taylor
Download or read book Escape Together s Ultimate Girls Getaway Guidebook written by Thenera Bailey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide will help you through all the steps in planning a great trip regardless of the destination. Inside you will find tools, examples and resources to help you design great travel with any group of friends or family members. If you are looking for the best resource for your next girls-only getaway, then this book will provide you with unique tools and insight. Much of the information can also be used when planning any group getaway not just a getaway with the girls. Perfect to help you plan large family trips, couple getaways and any trip with two or more people.
Download or read book The Girl in the White Van written by April Henry and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teen is snatched outside her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape—and rescue another kidnapped victim—in The Girl in the White Van, a chilling YA mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry. When Savannah disappears soon after arguing with her mom’s boyfriend, everyone assumes she's run away. The truth is much worse. She’s been kidnapped by a man in a white van who locks her in an old trailer home, far from prying eyes. And worse yet, Savannah’s not alone: ten months earlier, Jenny met the same fate and nearly died trying to escape. Now as the two girls wonder if he will hold them captive forever or kill them, they must join forces to break out—even if it means they die trying. Christy Ottaviano Books
Download or read book Too Young to Escape written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. They have escaped the new communist regime that has taken over Ho Chi Minh City for freedom in the West. Four-year-old Van is too young--and her grandmother is too old--for such a dangerous journey by boat, so the two have been left behind. Once settled in North America, her parents will eventually be able to sponsor them, and Van and her grandmother will fly away to safety. But in the meantime, Van is forced to work hard to satisfy her aunt and uncle, who treat her like an unwelcome servant. And at school she must learn that calling attention to herself is a mistake, especially when the bully who has been tormenting her turns out to be the son of a military policeman. Van Ho's true story strikes at the heart and will resonate with so many families affected by war, where so many children are forced to live under or escape from repressive regimes.
Download or read book Woman Don t Try To Escape written by Mei Nanbushengshou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, he and she met in an elaborate car accident. At that time, she was an orphan who had just lost her parents. At that time, he was a little Young Cute Boy that she had rescued from the carriage. The two youths experienced a life and death experience together.She was willing to be ravaged for him. He would rather give up his life for her. At that time, they all thought that they would forever be together.However, Fate had once again played a joke on them. When she woke up again, she was told he was dead. And the next time he woke up, he was told that she had betrayed him.From then on, their hearts were separated by millions of li. In his heart, there was only hatred. Yet, she had always been living in the shadows from ten years ago.Ten years later, she got drunk every night. He is very powerful. If the two men and women, who had also experienced countless years, were to meet again, what kind of sparks would they be able to create?
Download or read book East German Girl written by Sigrid Jackson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War memories do not have an age requirement. They force you to mature and give you no choice but to cope with the realities of the world. In this memoir, author Sigrid Jackson tells what it was like being a child of war in East Germany before and after World War II. In East German Girl, Jackson describes what it was like to live through the bombing raids, food shortages, diphtheria, communism, and being forced to leave her home with her mother and brother to be relocated to a rural farm. Using personal anecdotes to illustrate how God has worked in her life, Jackson demonstrates the courage that was necessary to escape East Germany to freedom in the west when she was just twelve years old. From an alcoholic, absentee father to an unsuspecting future husband, life continuously threw her curveballs, but East German Girl narrates an inspirational story of war, communism, family betrayal, and finally resilience.
