Download or read book Everything Fades Away written by Zane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ebook original short story from the New York Times bestselling Queen of Erotica about what explodes when a man and woman—both suffering marital problems with their respective partners—coincidentally find themselves involved in a steamy love affair with each other despite the peril that looms at home. Amanda is bored with life. She spends hours a day on Facebook, her parents act like they are too ancient to enjoy life any longer, and her military husband, Ralph, is deployed to Afghanistan. Gideon is not totally content at home either. His wife, Nina, is a lifetime overachiever and a workaholic. She has moved her mother into their home so she can have a live-in sitter, and Gideon has fallen to the bottom of her priority list. On Black Friday 2012, both Amanda and Gideon end up at a Best Buy to take advantage of the massive price cuts. When the store opens its door at midnight, the potential customers rush the glass doors and end up in a brawl. Built-up excitement turns into mass pandemonium as the police show up in riot gear. Tear gas containers are being tossed around like lollipops and strangers are beating on each other like a heavyweight fight at the MGM Grand in Vegas. Amanda and Gideon both end up in the skywalk overlooking the madness and, even though they are complete strangers to each other, the adrenaline rush overwhelms them and they discover quick ecstasy among the chaos. After putting their clothes back on, followed by making formal introductions, they embark on a sexual journey together that re-ignites the flames in their souls. Both are forced to make choices that they never thought would have to be made; marriages are placed at risk; heartbreak is inevitable. What starts out merely as casual sex becomes much more than mere physical attraction and their lives begin to unravel. No matter how incredible something wrong can make one feel, eventually, Everything Fades Away.
Download or read book Love Sucks written by Emma Dray and published by Emma Dray. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is great, I really do believe it. It's just when it sucks, it sucks really, really badly and it can feel like your whole world is falling apart.
Download or read book All the Lost Places written by Amanda Dykes and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When all of Venice is unmasked, one man's identity remains a mystery . . . 1807 When a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the quiet canals of Venice, a guild of artisans takes him in and raises him as a son, skilled in each of their trades. Although the boy, Sebastien Trovato, has wrestled with questions of his origins, it isn't until a woman washes ashore on his lagoon island that answers begin to emerge. In hunting down his story, Sebastien must make a choice that could alter not just his own future, but also that of the beloved floating city. 1904 Daniel Goodman is given a fresh start in life as the century turns. Hoping to redeem a past laden with regrets, he is sent on an assignment from California to Venice to procure and translate a rare book. There, he discovers a city of colliding hope and decay, much like his own life, and a mystery wrapped in the pages of that filigree-covered volume. With the help of Vittoria, a bookshop keeper, Daniel finds himself in a web of shadows, secrets, and discoveries carefully kept within the stones and canals of the ancient city . . . and in the mystery of the man whose story the book does not finish: Sebastien Trovato. "Introspective, surprising, and achingly beautiful."--Booklist starred review "Dykes's pen is fused with magic and poetry. Every word's a gentle wave building into the splendor that is All the Lost Places, where struggles for identity and a place to belong find hope between the pages of a timeless story."--J'NELL CIESIELSKI, bestselling author of The Socialite "Luscious writing, authentic characters, and an ending that satisfies to the core of the spirit, this novel is another winner from Amanda Dykes."--HEIDI CHIAVAROLI, Carol Award-winning author of Freedom's Ring and Hope Beyond the Waves
Download or read book Dominus written by Steven Saylor and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his international bestsellers Roma and Empire, Steven Saylor's Dominus continues his saga of the greatest, most storied empire in history from the eternal city at the very center of it all. A.D. 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Universal peace—the Pax Roma—reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Marcus Aurelius, as much a philosopher as he is an emperor, oversees a golden age in the city of Rome. The ancient Pinarius family and their workshop of artisans embellish the richest and greatest city on earth with gilded statues and towering marble monuments. Art and reason flourish. But history does not stand still. The years to come bring wars, plagues, fires, and famines. The best emperors in history are succeeded by some of the worst. Barbarians descend in endless waves, eventually appearing before the gates of Rome itself. The military seizes power and sells the throne to the highest bidder. Chaos engulfs the empire. Through it all, the Pinarius family endures, thanks in no small part to the protective powers of the fascinum, a talisman older than Rome itself, a mystical heirloom handed down through countless generations. But an even greater upheaval is yet to come. On the fringes of society, troublesome cultists disseminate dangerous and seditious ideas. They insist that everyone in the world should worship only one god, their god. They call themselves Christians. Some emperors deal with the Christians with toleration, others with bloody persecution. Then one emperor does the unthinkable. He becomes a Christian himself. His name is Constantine, and the revolution he sets in motion will change the world forever. Spanning 160 years and seven generations, teeming with some of ancient Rome’s most vivid figures, Saylor's epic brings to vivid life some of the most tumultuous and consequential chapters of human history, events which reverberate still.
Download or read book Walking written by Thomas Bernhard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Mukunda m l stotram written by Vishwananda Paramahamsa and published by Bhakti Marga Publications. This book was released on 2021-12-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mukunda-mālā-stotram is one of Vaiṣṇavism's most beloved devotional prayers, composed by King Kulaśekhara. As the seventh of the twelve Alvars, the mystic bhakti saints of South India, he played a pivotal role in the revival of bhakti and served as an inspiration for Sri Rāmānujācārya's Sri Sampradaya. This prayer is a celebration of śaraṇāgati, perfect surrender to the Lord, and reminds us to strive for unceasing remembrance of the Lord at all times and places. King Kulaśekhara speaks of the misery of the soul trapped in this world, with its many trials and tribulations, all the while reminding us all that the Supreme Lord, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, is the only means of liberation from this otherwise endless predicament. It asks Mukunda, the Lord as the granter of liberation, to give the self-proclaimed unworthy author freedom from the cycle of birth and death. Accompanied by the enlightening commentaries of Paramahamsa Vishwananda, this is unquestionably a must-read for all aspiring Vaiṣṇavas. Paramahamsa Vishwananda is a God-realised spiritual Master whose commentaries on scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, the Srimad Bhagavatam and many more have touched the hearts of thousands, inspiring them to a life of devotion and service to God and humanity.
Download or read book Oblomov written by Ivan Goncharov and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination—indeed, given to any excuse to remain horizontal—Oblomov is hardly the stuff of heroes. Yet, he is impossible not to admire. He is forgiven for his weakness and beloved for his shining soul. Ivan Goncharov’s masterpiece is not just ingenious social satire, but also a sharp criticism of nineteenth-century Russian society. Translator Marian Schwartz breathes new life into Goncharov’s voice in this first translation from the generally recognized definitive edition of the Russian original, and the first as well to attempt to replicate in English Goncharov’s wry humor and all-embracing humanity, chosen by Slate as one of the Best Books of 2008.
Download or read book Out of Control written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going along with the crowd can have shattering consequences Why does everyone always want you to make so many choices? Pizza or burgers, swimming or a movie, one friend or another, yes or no. For Rollo Wingate, who’s always been the biggest guy in school, sometimes it’s easier to relax and let someone else take the lead. After all, when he and his two best friends get together, they’re always on the same page—which is probably why he goes along with it when the other boys target Valerie Michon at school. Every time they see her, bad things just . . . happen. At first it’s just a taunt here, a tiny insult there. But things keeps escalating, and finally, the situation turns into something much worse. Rollo knows that a line has been crossed, and he struggles to make sense of how things could have gone so wrong so quickly. Maybe for the first time, he’s going to have to figure it out for himself.
Download or read book White Horse written by Alex Adams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has ended, but her journey has just begun. Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are defined not by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places.
Download or read book The Sword and the trowel ed by C H Spurgeon written by London metrop. tabernacle and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memories written by Katarina Nikolic and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book “Memories” is a collection of poems, written throughout various periods of my life. In it I talk about my thoughts and feelings, that I hope many can relate to. The main message I hope to deliver is that even when everything around you seems to crumble and fall apart there is always a light of hope that will shine through if only you can see it. I would like to say special thanks to my mother and grandmother, who kept believing in me; to my good friend Victoria Woodward, who helped me translate some of the poems and who was the first reader of my book; and a very special thank you to a person who helped me through a very difficult time in my life and helped me see that sometimes writing is all you need, Irina Milosevic. Without each of you I would not have begun my book, I would not have translated it, and most importantly I would not have believed I could finish it. I can only hope that my poems can bring the reader solace and comfort they brought to me.
Download or read book Cinema and Classical Texts written by Martin M. Winkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.
Download or read book Indestructible written by Emma L. Adams and published by Emma L. Adams. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years ago, the fiends invaded, with a devastating explosion that split the world in half. Even now, energy blasts strike without warning, destroying everything in their paths. The fiends hunt anyone unlucky enough to escape. My name is Leah. An energy blast killed my group. It should have killed me, too. Instead, I woke up alone in the wilderness, stalked by the fiends. Until a latent fighting power awakens in my blood, and I discover I'm more than human. Swept into the world of the Pyros -- flame-conjuring warriors born to kill the fiends -- I learn to unlock the fire buried inside me. But I swiftly learn my allies aren't what they seem. The literal skeletons buried underneath their base are my first clue. The darkness stirring in my blood, showing me memories that don't belong to me, is another. And the man whose memories I see hides dangerous secrets behind his eyes. If I don't uncover the truth about why the world ended the first time, my new safe haven might go up in smoke… Keywords: young adult dystopian trilogy, coming of age, YA post-apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction, coming of age fantasy, complete series, Young adult fantasy, contemporary fantasy, teen fantasy, teen dystopian fiction
Download or read book Glory Fades Away written by Jerry Lansche and published by Taylor Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the World's Series prior to the twentieth century, offering an account of the games, the players, and the times
Download or read book A CONCISE COSMOS written by Suhaib Bashir and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise cosmos " being the first book to be authored on this pattern wherein the life lessons are titled, then started with a quotation and concluded with a quotation. This book aims to bring a new sophistication to the world of literature and poetry because it is the first book that has life lessons that too drew from the carvings on the soul, poems that catch the fancy and hook one’s attention and force him to ponder, and when the reader competes the book he is gifted with a lifelong tribute i.e. some oracles, some emotions that got their words and now exist as quotations and they are all from suhaib Bashir. This book is the first book ever authored by suhaib Bashir, the exclusive pattern caters to its essence. The very much book is hoped to be continued by suhaib Bashir, this is the first ever volume of this book and there's still more to go on. This book talks about all the things that one faces in life, how to overcome them, what to do, in the crux this book is another life for the reader which makes reader owe a thank you to the author because of its perfection. This book sheds light on many breath taking experience, utmost despair and puts forth the bewildering dilemma of life and describes it so well that the reader feels that this book is another life where he suffered, learned and now it's the time to change. This book gives hope and courage to those who are struggling in the dark, a self to the selfless, a hope to the hopeless, a path to the one who's lost and a bounty of oracles to one who is just a mere reader. After reading the very much book the reader becomes so confident even though if he had been a looser before but he gets so ambitious that he not only claims to conquer the rose he had been yearning of but he'll whisper to the rose that I am not only attracted by your eloquence, elegance, abundance, optic scent but I am hungry to conquer your majesty, show me your thorns and I'll show your hands willing to bleed. Suhaib Bashir
Download or read book Second Hand Lies written by Krissi Lyn Mazon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another glimpse into the life of poet, Krissi Lyn Mazon. This collection details events the occured both during previous publications and works as new as April 2012. It regains the dark edge of 'Lies Told to Liquintine', losing some of the happier jots like those in 'Melt'. There's also the bonus of sequel poems such as 'Ovation (Recaptured). People who have enjoyed Mazon's past works are enjoying this new installment.
