Download or read book Everybody Shrugged written by Walt Pilcher and published by Fantastic Books Publishing. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve encountered Walt Pilcher before, you’ll know to buckle up for a hair-raising ride. Everybody Shrugged is his Walt’s first novel with Fantastic Books Publishing. Hold tight to your car, French fries, beer, cigarettes, fluoride toothpaste, sexy underwear, bacon, butter, coffee, and anything else that tastes good, feels good, or is fun to do because here comes Congress to ban it. Professor Gardy Lavager leads the government’s campaign to outlaw popular products deemed harmful to your health, and the military is stripped of guns because war is hazardous too. But Major Tony Farina of the Army’s clandestine MADCOM force sets out to serve his own nefarious ends by subverting Lavager’s research in the name of national security while shadowy foreign interests prepare to leverage the imminent chaos. The ensuing Harmful Substance Race spells the difference between peace and global bedlam as Gardy Lavager fears for his life from enemies at home and abroad.

Download or read book Outofshapeworthlessloser written by Gracie Gold and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “piercing account” (The Wall Street Journal) of surviving as a young woman in a society that rewards appearances more than anything and demands perfection at all costs—especially if you’re an Olympic figure skater. “A riveting memoir, which details her experience with an eating disorder, depression and her high-stakes career.”—People (Best Books to Read in February 2024) When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America’s sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America’s most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly being written up everywhere from The New Yorker to Teen Vogue to People and baking cookies with Taylor Swift. But little did the public know what Gold was facing when the cameras were off, driven by the self-destructive voice inside that she calls “outofshapeworthlessloser.” In 2017, she entered treatment for what was publicly announced as an eating disorder and anxiety treatment but was, in reality, suicidal ideation. While Gold’s public star was rising, her private life was falling apart: Cracks within her family were widening, her bulimia was getting worse, and she became a survivor of sexual assault. The pressure of training for years with demanding coaches and growing up in a household that accepted nothing less than gold had finally taken its toll. Now Gold reveals the exclusive and harrowing story of her struggles in and out of the pressure-packed world of elite figure skating: the battles with her family, her coaches, the powers-that-be at her federation, and her deteriorating mental health. Outofshapeworthlessloser is not only a forceful reckoning from a world-class athlete but also an intimate memoir, told with unflinching honesty and stirring defiance.

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Download or read book written by Joe Conzo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Conzo and David A. Perez luminously recreate the life of widely acclaimed Afro-Cuban and jazz musician Tito Puente in the biography "Mambo Diablo - My Journey with Tito Puente." The authors chronicle the life of the popular and combative New York Puerto Rican multi talented musician and entertainer who climbed from his obscure and poor environment in East Harlem (El Barrio), New York to international fame and recognition. Countless stories have been written about Tito Puente's percussive musical abilities, but rarely has the talent, intuition, mishaps and controversies been presented in a vivid and personal biography. Joe Conzo was Tito's close friend, confidant and chronicler for nearly 40 years - no one was closer to Tito or knew him better, not even his family. Joe tells the story of a man and his music the way it has never been told. David A. Perez sets down Joe's personal recollections and fits them into the context of the social milieu and revolving world. Hundreds of articles have been written about Puente, and three books Powell, Josephine. Tito Puente - When The Drums are Dreaming, Authorhouse, 2007 (Information re: Tito is based on her conversations with Tito Puente. The book is self-published and chronicles many of his activities on the West Coast. There are many inconsistencies, mis-quotes, and errors of fact.) Loza, Steven. Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music, University of Illinois Press, 1999 (A technical work that is based on interviews with people who knew Tito. The life of Puente is glanced over; the musicians he worked with are almost overlooked. Joe Conzo is among those interviewed.)Payne, Jim. Tito Puente - The King of Latin Music, Hudson Music, 2000. (Is presented as an overview of Tito Puente's music and includes a DVD with footage of Tito discussing his 50-year career. Joe Conzo provided much of the information for this endeavor.) record some of his achievements. None of them touch on the personal life of the man, expose his weaknesses, reveal his intensity for perfection, and describe the musical brilliance in such a delicate and personal way. Joe and David reveal the inner Tito Puente through his music, his musical associations and present a man that is more than a flamboyant percussionist. Tito played piano - and he played it well. Tito played the saxophone and often sat in the sax section of his orchestra. Tito played the vibes and had an incomparable style that was exciting, romantic and jazzy. He composed about 500 tunes, probably more. And, yet in the realm of American jazz historians, writers and critics ignore, brush over and avoid the importance of Tito's music and his contributions. A prime example of this is Ken Burn's television documentary about jazz - he virtually ignores Afro-Cuban music, Afro-Cuban jazz. Joe and David reveal Tito's rightful place in the history of music and give an unbiased, on-the-mark portrait of Puente's complexities like no book before it. Author and journalist Pete Hamill sets the stage for the journey in the preface.

Download or read book The Return written by Reginald D. Groff Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Werewolf? Do you think you're living in some Hollywood film? No, they and vampires and the other movie creatures are fairy tales, ways of explaining the unexplainable. Don't you understand? Our queen summoned the Dark One to save you: Satan himself. Do you think the most powerful evil that has ever existed would want to change you or anyone else into some kind of wolf, bat, or other animal as some kind of pitiful joke? No, you are a gateway. In order to save you, Milema has destroyed you, and there is nothing you can do to change it. She made a pact between you and the devil. The evil one gave you eternal youth and life. In exchange, a demon from hell becomes a living, breathing thing in your body for three days each month. That's what your nightmares have been. Hell calling you to let its messenger enter you, to give an evil spirit form and substance. The one thing that God has denied Lucifer."

Download or read book Vince Book 2 written by Heather West and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 2 of the Fury Riders MC trilogy. Book 3 is available everywhere now! I'll risk my life and my club to make her mine. She's the last light in a dark world. And they're trying to snuff her out. But if they want her, they'll have to come take her… Over my dead body. VINCE I crave vengeance for my fallen men, slaughtered by a rival MC. I'm on the warpath, hungry for blood. That's when I save Erica from a fate worse than death. She's all curves and dark hair, a delicious morsel that I want to consume. To protect her, I keep her close. I tell myself it's only for her safety. Until my enemies come for Erica's blood. She saw something she shouldn't… And they'll stop at nothing to keep her mouth sealed shut. Now, with her life on the line, I crave only to make Erica my woman. I'll risk everything for her. ERIKA He rescues me. Vince—my bad boy, my savior, my Fury Rider. Brutal, arrogant, dominating, Vince makes my body heat and my heart pound. He's out for vengeance, violence pulsing through him. I shouldn't want him touching me. But the moment he takes me to his bed, I can't say no. His hands and his mouth make me scream as he brings me to peak after peak. I shouldn't trust him. I shouldn't obey him. And most of all, I shouldn't fall in love with him. But I just can't stop.

Download or read book Half a Rogue written by Harold MacGrath and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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Download or read book Across the Wire written by Luis Urrea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and "official translator" of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana. His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey "across the wire" into the United States. More than just an expose, Across the Wire is a tribute to the tenacity of a people who have learned to survive against the most impossible odds, and returns to these forgotten people their pride and their identity.

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Download or read book Anything Else But Love written by Ankita Chadha and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I loved you even before I knew it, The scent of your skin still lingers on my senses, I can see that we are blinded by our natural magnetism towards each other, We are dancing to each others' tunes, rhythmic beats, And still you say that between us there can be 'Anything else but love!' Shewali Singh is a simple, sweet and appealing girl who cares for family and its values. She has just moved to Bangalore to head a project. Always engaged in work, somewhere she has imagined a list of qualities her guy should have. But as her fate would have it, she bumps into a guy who works in the same office as hers. And not only that, he's a flirt, a prankster, who calls himself the Avi Malhotra, who not only misfits the list, but also manages to get a rise out of the generally very easy going Shewali. What follows is, daily fights, gradual friendship, sudden likeness, and then–? All the rules of the artist's sketch of their better half are thus broken. But, what rules do you follow when you start falling in love? Will the phrase “Opposites attract†hold true for them?

Download or read book Rustic Riddles written by mansell williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Hampshire in England is the setting for several murders in the week prior to the public auction of a seventeenth century cottage. Chief Inspector Alec Wood of the Hampshire CID is convinced that the deaths and the auction are linked. A former colleague, now a private investigator, plus Londons Metropolitan CID, team up with him.

Download or read book Rachel of the Sword written by Linda Carnahan and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel of the Sword by Linda Carnahan Rachel Alice Grayson suddenly wakes up in a different world. Zagrith the daemon witch takes her from the safety of her home in America to Carrines, a mystical place of magic, aelfs, faeries, dwarves, humans, and half-aelfs but she soon finds that the land is constantly threatened by daemons, crazed mutants and monsters. In order to earn her way back home, Zagrith demands she fulfills a mission: she must bring a rusty enchanted sword to the dark mage, a rogue, who is destined to be the Protector of the Universe and if she is successful will defeat the hungry Gothfyl. She prepares to meet Michael, the dark mage, who has been devoid of emotion since he was a small child. When Rachel arrives, his emotions suddenly return and he blames her for all of his troubles. Rachel must earn his trust to make him believe that he is the rightful one to use the sword or the prophecy regarding the mage will never come true. But a problem arises-the sword is found to be tainted with daemon magic; it is no longer pure. Now, she not only has to deal with Michael's unpredictable behavior, she also has to contend with the people believing that she is a daemon witch that has cast a spell upon Michael to destroy him. As she rides with Michael and his Black Company to solve the mystery of the sword, Carrines' peace is threatened by the Gothfyl's minions as it tries to stop them. Should they prevent it from breaking through the barrier between its universe and theirs, it will be denied the sweet tasty energy it hungers for. And as the mages study the life sword and the prophecy, it becomes clear that Rachel's roll in saving their world is more than just giving the sword to Michael. She must get Michael to see the great part his nemesis the daemon lords will play in his destiny. Together they must persuade the races of Carrines to set aside their prejudices to defeat the forces of the Gothfyl. About the Author Linda Carnahan is a retired detention officer of Gila County Sheriff's Office. She is a very active member of the community having been a founding member and first vice chair of the Bullion Plaza Museum and Cultural Center. She is currently working on her second and third cookbook to help fund the museum. Proud of her Celtic heritage, she created the Arizona Cornish Society, put out a Cornish newsletter, and participated in Celtic games in both Tucson and Mesa.

Download or read book Secret Weapon written by Elise Noble and published by Undercover Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Director of Special Projects for a global security firm, Emmy Black is well acquainted with trouble, but she didn’t expect to run into a proverbial nightmare in small-town Oregon. The place is just hills and trees, right? But a quest to help an injured woman soon leaves Emmy fighting for not only her own survival but the lives of many others too. When Nine came to Baldwin’s Shore, the former member of a Russian hit squad had two goals: to hide and to heal. But someone else has the same idea, and the consequences threaten to upend Nine’s carefully crafted existence. With the appearance of old friends and enemies as well as a madman intent on provoking a war and—most disturbingly—an unfamiliar feeling that might be love, Nine is left with one burning question: can an assassin ever truly retire? Secret Weapon is a romantic suspense crossover between Blackwood Security and Baldwin's Shore. Keywords: Kick-ass heroines, Vigilante justice, Strong women, Special forces, Private investigator, Women sleuth, Assassin, Security, Humor, Humour, Romantic suspense, Romantic thriller, Small town, Second chance

Download or read book NightShade Forensic FBI Files Vol 3 Books 8 10 Investigative Supernatural Mysteries written by A.J. Scudiere and published by Griffyn Ink. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huge savings off the individual book costThese nail-biters from author AJ Scudiere will have you on the edge of your seat. Vol 3 - Books 8, 9, and 10 Dead Tide - Book 8 When a former mermaid turns up dead, Eleri and Donovan are stuck with a case they never wanted, but can’t shake… Eleri should have been recused. That’s her friend on the autopsy table. But her Special Agent in Charge won’t let her off the case, making her wonder if there’s more to Westerfield’s demands than meets the eye. He won’t let Donovan out of the case either. The Lobomau are more organized and further-reaching than anyone thought, and Donovan now has a personal connection in the form of the man calling him “brother.” The team is stuck on a research vessel with a killer hot on their trail… but Eleri’s skills are glitchy at best, and Donovan is terrified of the water. Can they keep the remaining crew members—and themselves—alive or betrayal come from where they least expect it? Sabotage - Book 9 FBI Agent Christina Pines is missing… Christina Pines could make anyone see or think anything she chose. Though it was a talent she’d had her whole life, it hadn’t been enough to save her last partner. Now, it was barely helping her track escaped convict, Dr. Murray Marks. When she learned that Walter Reed was on her tail, Christina knew that meant her Special Agent in Charge Westerfield had sent a cleanup crew to bring her in. She’s chasing a trail that threatens to go cold despite her stunning talents. Armed with her unique ability and a fierce determination to win, she realizes her best asset is that she’s willing to die to bring Marks to justice. But when the attacks start coming, the team learns that Marks might not be the biggest threat to the wolves… Vanishing Point - Book 10 A witch who can’t trust her power. A wolf who can’t trust his nose. A serial killer who can vanish into the air. What should have been a straightforward case is turning into anything but. Someone is dumping bodies in the Florida Everglades after torturing the victims. There’s no posed positioning, or even an attempt to hide their handiwork, making a profile nearly impossible to develop. The locals know more than they do, and Eleri and Donovan can’t even link the victims. When they start suspecting they are being followed, they reach out to other NightShade agents, only to discover the others have the same growing concerns they do. Why are some agents getting sent back to the Atlas Project while others are in the wind? Still, the case in front of them needs to be solved, even if there’s another wolf around. How can they stop the murders when all the clues disappear into the vanishing point? This killer will drive them into the riskiest gamble of all. “She’s in the top five of my best writers list. I have a list of King, Grisham, Koontz…you know, those guys. They are the authors who you know will deliver.” – The Lit Critic “This is a five-star series. Loved it!! Can’t wait for the next one, please!!” These are the eighth, ninth, and tenth books in the NightShade Forensic FBI Files series by USA Today bestselling author A.J. Scudiere. These books can each be read as a standalone, but readers who love paranormal investigations and FBI thrillers will want to read the entire series!

Download or read book Clockers written by Richard Price and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crack-dealers known as "Clockers" are at the bottom of the drug-dealing ladder, and they must commit murder to rise higher.