Download or read book Stalker Sarah Trophy Tommy s Crazy Country Summer written by Sarah Esterly and published by Sarah Esterly. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the f**ked up feel-good book you never knew you needed... The story begins in 2020, when middle-aged Sarah learns of Tommy's untimely passing and is overwhelmed by forgotten memories of the summer they spent together three decades earlier. Consumed with regret that they never had closure, Sarah decides to write departed Tommy a letter she can never send. Sarah relives their hilarious summer as teens in the Ozarks, shares intimate details of her f**ked up life and inspiring comeback story, then has a remarkable mental breakthrough! It's a tragic account of living with mental illness, addiction and repressed trauma. But also a beautiful tale of the transcendent power of enduring friendship. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may laugh and cry! You might even pee a little. But you won't be able to stop reading until you reach the heartwarming conclusion. Inspired by real events.

Download or read book Barney s Version written by Mordecai Richler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .

Download or read book The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Download or read book The Glass Ceiling written by H J Perry and published by H J Perry. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris is a rising star in the world of art. His sculptures may look like junk, but each piece sells for the price of a modest English home. A famous artist, a fabulous baker, and a caring BFF to the men in his life. Why can’t he find a special man who appreciates all his attributes? Frank is so much more than a tattooed hunky construction worker with a quirky smile. When he first met the artist Frank had just been dumped after ten years in a one-sided relationship. He was devastated. Still in shock over the breakup, when the right man entered his life at the wrong time Frank couldn’t cope with the issues it brought up for him. Cruel fate brought the men together at the wrong time. Both men held on to secrets to protect themselves. Revealing the truth when they meet again threatens their second chance. This full-length novel of 67,000 words contains creative, sensitive men engaging in sizzling hot passion. Plus lots of feel-good moments and a happy ending. The story includes: A gay romance between an artist and a construction worker. A bisexual character in a same-sex romantic relationship. A gay HIV+ character in romance. Undetectable = Untransmittable, U=U. And the entire series includes the theme of Coming Out as gay or bisexual in a macho workplace. This book can be read as a standalone. It contains a great deal of Connor and Lee plus other characters from the rest of the series so you will enjoy all those cameos and references to other events if you have read: * Our Secret Wedding * Tread the Boards * A Secret Boyfriend

Download or read book Sky High Scaffolders A Gay Romance Collection written by H J Perry and published by H J Perry. This book was released on with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Sky High Scaffolders collection: stories of British working class red hot gay romance in the macho construction world. 5 couples who fall in love. These stories include: * Friends to lovers * Opposites attract * Workplace romance * Secret forbidden romance * First gay love * Coming out * Bisexual men who start dating men for the first time * Low angst and high heat * Steamy feel-good gay romance Book 1 is Our Secret Wedding which contains a romantic proposal, elopement to Gretna Green for a secret wedding, and a whole lot of man-on-man love action. Impulsive and passionate risk-taker Connor makes a life-changing chance discovery about a member of his construction team. The man is gay, but no one at work knows. The macho scaffolding crew isn't known for gay-friendliness. Connor is set to take over the family business, Sky High Scaffolds, with his siblings. But he might be ruled out as possible CEO, because even though he's almost thirty, he's still single. When will he grow up? At twenty-nine years of age, hunky scaffolder Lee is looking for love and commitment. He's not about to hook up with any straight guy having a gay experimental phase—especially not his boss at work. Lee fears rejection if and when Connor wakes up and realizes he's not bisexual and not into guys. Connor fears losing the love of his life if he can't prove he's serious and win Lee's heart. All stories in the series take place at overlapping times.

Download or read book Queer and Catholic written by Amie Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one’s own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith – especially when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community? Queer and Catholic offers a source of comfort to members of these communities, focusing on not only practicing Catholics, but also the entire experience of growing up Catholic. This unique book discusses Catholicism beyond its religiosity and considers its implications as a culture of origin. This widely varied and entertaining book pulls together a comprehensive collection of essays, stories, and poetry that together represent an honest and engaging reflection of being a queer person within the Catholic experience.

Download or read book In Solitary With Me written by Terry Putnam and published by Terry Putnam. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Putnam not only served his country in the United States Army for 10 years but he also served the communities in which he lived as a firefighter and police officer for over 20 years. In 2015 after being debt for years he stole from the police evidence room. You can call it a midlife crisis or just plain desperation but he made a poor decision. Some men commit crimes and other wall street types jump from windows but he stole. Terry was subsequently arrested in January 2016 and sentenced to 12 years in prison even though he never had been in trouble a day in his life. While in prison he spent over 10 months in solitary confinement where he lost not only his health but his sanity as well. You will be with him as he chronicles his time in solitary. This book is not a recollection of his time or his time in solitary but was actually written during the time he was isolated from all human contact. There were no windows to look out,no bars to see through, but instead a solid metal door with a flap only opened to give him food. A florescent light glared in his eyes 24/7 causing such agony it can only be described by him in this book. Mr. Putnam is not looking for fame or fortune. He doesn't want your sympathy. He simply wants to share his writings to put a spot light on the inhumanity of the justice system.

Download or read book Season of Guilt written by Browning Douglas Browning and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Season of Guilt is a story about hot days and no rain, an increasingly frustrating case of murder, and the transformation of a woman with a fresh sense of herself and her possibilities into a woman who dares to realize those possibilities. Drought, a case of murder, and the yearnings of the flesh, those three interweaving. And in the end, the concluding of each in the satisfaction of a shared denouement. It should be noted that this book follows Design of Darkness and Crystal Palace in a sequence that features many of the same characters, in particular private investigators Merrill "Hock" Hocken and Deirdre Cash.

Download or read book Betting The House written by Tim Ross and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn's divided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher's day seemed certain. Seven weeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead of the 100-seat victory she'd been hoping for, May had lost her majority, leaving Parliament hung and her premiership hanging by a thread. Labour MPs, meanwhile, could scarcely believe their luck. Far from delivering the wipe-out that most predicted, Corbyn's popular, anti-austerity agenda won the party 30 seats, cementing his position as leader and denying May the right to govern alone. This timely and indispensable book gets to the bottom of why the Tories failed, and how Corbyn's Labour overcame impossible odds to emerge closer to power than at any election since the era of Tony Blair. Who was to blame for the Tories' mistakes? How could so many politicians and pollsters fail to see what was coming? And what was the secret of Corbyn's apparently unstoppable rise? Through new interviews and candid private accounts from key players, political journalists Tim Ross and Tom McTague set out to answer these questions and more, piecing together the inside story of this most dramatic and important of elections.

Download or read book The Last Wife written by J A Baker and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping thriller from best-selling author J.A. Baker! Welcome to Winters End... Winters End should have been the perfect place for me and my husband Neil to start again. To leave the terrible secrets and guilt of our past far behind us. But from the moment we arrived in the small, isolated community, it becomes clear to me that we are not welcome here. That someone wants us to leave... I’m certain that everyone knows our secrets – knows who we really are. But how can that be? Perhaps it’s my mind playing tricks on me. Just like before. I know Neil thinks I'm paranoid. My thoughts spiralling. Again. If only I had someone else to talk to. Another woman to confide in. And that’s when I realise something far more terrifying. I am the only wife at Winters End...and I could be the last... Don't miss the brand-new thriller by J.A. Baker! Perfect for fans of Sue Watson, Valerie Keogh and K.L. Slater. What people are saying about J.A. Baker... 'Superbly written with a cast of crazy characters who will make you look differently at your co-workers from now on.’ Bestselling author Valerie Keogh 'Fast-paced, riveting thriller. Gripped until the last page!' Bestselling author Diana Wilkinson 'A twisty, creepy story expertly told. Perfect for reading on dark winter evenings...with the doors double-locked and bolted. Highly recommended!' Bestselling author Amanda James

Download or read book Holdout written by Jaqueline Snowe and published by Heart Eyes Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonah Daniels has enough to do during hockey season without spending time interviewing a roommate to help share expenses. So when some dude answers J.D.’s ad and agrees to his terms, he puts a key under the mat and leaves for practice. What he doesn’t expect is that his new roommate is not a dude at all, but an overtalkative, energetic hottie. What’s worse? She’s the younger sister of his friend on the team, and she’s sworn him to secrecy. Ryann Reiner needs a place to live, stat. After an incident at the dorms that almost tanked her scholarship, Ryann wants a boring roommate who’ll leave her alone. J.D. almost fits the bill. He lives and breathes hockey, just like her brother, and he wouldn’t know a joke unless it checked him against the boards. He’s also gorgeous. And broody. And he looks fine on laundry day, in too little clothing. Soon, late night study sessions turn into dangerous flirting. And then a kiss turns into more. But they’re determined to keep things in the feelings-free zone. Until lines blur and tensions rise when Ryann’s brother learns the truth. And both their hearts are skating on thin ice...

Download or read book Of Talons and Teeth written by Niall Griffiths and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Wales, a mining village, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born. Sion, a metalworker, strikes up an illicit relationship with Katherine, the wife of the mineowner's personal dogsbody. And so begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and negation of that very thing. A mix of political anger, historical excavation, Celtic mysticism, praise of the human impulse to love and rage at avarice and exploitation, Of Talons and Teeth seeks to explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the only god worth worshipping.

Download or read book Chaos in the Ashes written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the crime-free Tri-State on the rubble of post-apocalypse America, Ben Raines and his Rebel team are threatened by anarchists and malcontents who threaten the new America with civil war. Original.

Download or read book The Pain Eater A Sadie Reed Story written by LaShane Arnett and published by Arnett Publications . This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PAIN EATER: A Sadie Reed Story GRIPPING. STYLISTIC. UNIQUE. This gripping coming into power story centers around the life and circumstances of Sadie Reed, a mixed girl living in the California desert. The sudden death of her mom changed the course of her life. It strained her relationship with her dad who, after her mom's death, became hostage to his grief. While searching for ways to reconnect with him, Sadie finds she has a very unique gift, something she suspects her mom always knew. Shortly after her twenty first birthday Sadie experiences an undeniable vision and realizes she can see the future. She tells her best friend Adrian, who decides to tests her skills and she finds not only can she see the future but she can see the past as well. She then embarks on a journey of self discovery that sends her spiraling down an emotional rabbit hole. And when she has a vision of a woman being brutally murdered--someone who has powers like her, Sadie learns true evil does exist, and her destiny has just begun. THE PAIN EATER uniquely touches on the lasting pain associated with loss, the power within true love, and the strength of family. A PARANORMAL THRILLER FOR THE MISFITS, THE GIFTED, THE BRASS UNIQUENESS OF CREATION.

Download or read book A Second Chance On Snow Ridge written by L. E. Wilson and published by Everblood Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it wasn’t for a cow named Mistletoe, they never would’ve met, and this never would’ve happened. Riko Silvano came barreling back into Addison’s life the same way he’d left it, with zero warning and shrouded in secrets. But it didn’t matter. She didn’t need him. She had a good life in the small town where they’d grown up. A life that Riko f-ing Silvano had wanted no part of. He’d broken her heart, and it had never quite mended back together. But now he was back, looking way better in his thirties than he ever had in high school… Twenty years ago, Riko couldn’t get out of this suffocating town fast enough. But not for the reasons people think. He’d left to protect her—Addison Conley. The girl who’d had his poor heart squeezed tight in her fist since the first time he’d seen her, and he’d sworn he’d never come back. See, he was a shifter. And Addison, well, she wasn’t. Back in his younger days, he’d happily rebelled against the pack laws that said they couldn’t be together, but now that he was older and wiser… Yeah, nope. He still couldn’t stay away from her. No matter how hard he tried. But it’ll take a lot more than the magic of the holiday season—and an old cow—to convince Addison to give Riko a second chance to win back his first, and only, love. It’ll take a damn miracle.

Download or read book Square Go written by Gary McNair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is a normal-ish kid in a normal-ish town. He spends his days daydreaming and hanging out with his weird wee pal Stevie Nimmo. But when Max is called for his first Square Go, a fight by the school gates, it’s his own demons he must wrestle with first. Featuring an original soundtrack by members of Frightened Rabbit, this unmissable collaboration between Fringe First winning writers Kieran Hurley (Heads Up) and Gary McNair (A Gambler’s Guide to Dying) is a raucous and hilarious new play about playground violence, myths of masculinity and the decision to step up or run.

Download or read book Deadly Fate written by Angela Marsons and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman’s bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood. Her words silenced forever… Late one evening, as the final church bell rings out, Sandra Deakin’s cold and lifeless body is found in the overgrown graveyard with multiple stab wounds. When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene, the violence of the attack convinces her that this murder was deeply personal. What could have caused such hate? As the team dig into Sandra’s life, they discover she believed she could communicate with the dead. Was that why she was targeted? The last people to see her alive were a group of women who had a session with her the night before she was killed, and as Kim and her team pay them a visit, they soon learn each of the women is lying about why they wanted Sandra’s help… Kim realises she must dig deep and open her mind to every avenue if she’s going to stand a chance at solving this case. And when she learns that Sandra was banned from the church grounds and had been receiving death threats too, she’s ever more certain that Sandra’s gifts are at the heart of everything. But just when she thinks she’s found a lead, the broken body of a nineteen-year-old boy is found outside a call centre – a single slash across his mouth just like Sandra’s. Kim knows they are now racing against time to understand what triggered these attacks, and to stop a twisted killer. But they might be too late. Just as Kim sits down at a local psychic show she discovers something that makes her blood run cold. Both Sandra and the call centre were named in an article about frauds. And this show stars the next name on the list. She looks around the audience with a feeling of utter dread, certain the killer is among them… Totally addictive with a final twist that will leave you shouting out loud, you’ll want to inhale Deadly Fate in one sitting. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Val McDermid and Robert Dugoni will love the new crime thriller from the number one multi-million-copy bestselling author Angela Marsons. Can be read as a standalone. Read what everyone is saying about the Detective Kim Stone series: ‘Wowsers! I’m once again blown away!… captivating… seriously wonderful… Fabulous… I can’t wait for the next Kim Stone novel!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Absolutely fantastic!!! If anything, it’s better than fantastic!!… Kim Stone is the best detective going, Angela Marsons is the best crime writer around! What more can I say! Fab, fab, fab!’ Stardust Book Reviews, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Amazing… someone might call me to say the roof has fallen down, I would tell them I would deal with that detail later on, after I finished my utterly captivating book… I loved this… 5 stars.’ B for Book Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Oh my giddy aunt!!… outstanding… totally and utterly enthralled throughout the whole book!… there were times whilst reading this book that I had to remember to breathe… 5 huge sparkly stars!!’ The Fiction Café, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘THIS is my most favourite of all time!!!… totally flawless. As always 5* just isn’t enough. If you haven’t yet read this full series SHAME ON YOU!’ @bookreviewercakemaker, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow!! Honestly, every time I read a book in this series I think it can't get better than the last incredible one, and every time I am proven wrong! Incredible pace as always, amazing storyline and character arcs and a heartracing cliff hanger. What more can you want?!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Incredible, can’t put it down, have to read, don’t start before dinner time as the kids won’t get fed, book… Fabulous… Highly recommended.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Marsons has done it again!… grabs the reader from page one and doesn’t let go till you turn that final page… outstanding.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Omg talk about a rollercoaster read, wow this book kept me on the edge of my seat throughout… I had trouble putting this down!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Angela Marsons’ books seriously need to come with a warning… because believe me, as soon as you turn that first page, you have no escape, Marsons’ tentacles reach out, wind themselves around you and suck you right in… She ends with a bang as usual, it gave me all the feels – a rush of warmth but also the cold fingers of fear running down my spine – I need book 19 like yesterday!… you would be crazy to miss it!’ Chapter in my Life, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A cracker of a book that readers will devour. Smart, gripping and packed with enthralling characters, this darkly addictive tale will reel you in from the get-go… keeps you hooked from the first page until the last… brilliant… outstanding… I would highly, highly recommend.’ The Book Review Café, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘You know you’re reading an absolute belter of a book when you wake up at 5am and your first thought is “I need to finish this book”… A fabulous five-star read.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Grabs the reader’s attention from the very first page and the tension increases page after page… And the conclusion! Waiting for book nineteen will be brutal!’ Robin Loves Reading, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Brilliant series… brilliant ending… brilliant author.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐