Download or read book Generous Lies written by Robin Patchen and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had no idea it was so bad.Former FBI agent Garrison Kopp suspected his teenage son was in trouble, but a midnight summons to the ER reveals the drug problem is more serious than he thought. Desperate to get his son away from negative influences, he asks a beautiful and kind new friend who owns rental properties for a place to stay. She'll help, as long as she doesn't have to risk anything.Vacation homeowner Samantha Messenger is happy to provide Garrison and his son a lake cabin where they can regroup. She helps him search for a good rehab facility and tries not to hope for more than friendship. After what she's been through, more isn't an option, no matter what her heart wants.Big trouble comes in tiny packages. Sparks fly between them as Sam and Garrison work together to help the resistant teen. But that becomes the least of their problems when a package planted in Garrison's car lures enemies to the idyllic cabin on the lake. With their lives-and love-on the line, can they protect all they hold dear?

Download or read book Convenient Lies written by Robin Patchen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Of course, no matter where in the world she was, she could never have stayed hidden, not as long as he was willing to kill innocent people until he found her. The question was, had he stopped killing people, or was she next on his list?”--Robin Patchen, award winning author of Finding Amanda and Twisted Lies. About CONVENIENT LIES:She married her enemy…When investigative journalist Reagan McAdams discovers her new husband is part of an international crime family, she flees Paris with their newborn and returns to her childhood home in New Hampshire, where she’ll gather her inheritance before she disappears forever. She’ll do whatever it takes to protect her son from his criminal father. He never quit loving her. Brady Thomas discovers Rae is back and in trouble, and he’s going to protect her and her son, whether she wants his help or not. The death toll rises.But when Rae’s husband starts killing people to smoke her out, she has to decide what—and who—she’ll have to sacrifice to save her son.Romantic Contemporary Christian Mystery & Suspense

Download or read book Generous Justice written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.

Download or read book Innocent Lies written by Robin Patchen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kelsey huddled in the corner, tried to make herself invisible. Outside, she heard a muffled voice, a shout, and the pounding of footsteps across the porch. Then, the unmistakable jingle of keys. The lock turned. The door opened. And her last chance for escape melted like snow." --Robin Patchen, award winning author of Finding Amanda and Convenient Lies. About Innocent Lies: A lost little boy steals his heart. When Eric finds eight-year-old Daniel alone in the woods, he has no idea where the boy came from or how he's survived the wintery New Hampshire weather. He figures once he hands the boy off to child services, his part in Daniel's drama will be over. He couldn't be more wrong. She'll do anything to keep her son safe. Kelsey sneaks into Nutfield with a goal and a secret, but when she's arrested and sees Eric, her first and only love, all her plans to expose her enemy fall apart. The past catches up with them. Together, Eric and Kelsey fight to protect Daniel, an innocent child caught in a dangerous game. Can Eric help Kelsey bring down her enemies without risking his heart...again? Will Kelsey have to walk away from the only man she's ever loved...again?

Download or read book Twisted Lies written by Robin Patchen and published by Jdo Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She married her enemy¿ When investigative journalist Reagan McAdams discovers her new husband is part of an international crime family, she flees Paris with their newborn and returns to her childhood home in New Hampshire to gather enough money to disappear forever. She'll do whatever it takes to protect her son from his criminal father.He never quit loving her. Rae's first love, Brady Thomas, discovers she's home and in trouble. She won't tell him what's going on, but he's a detective. He'll figure it out. He's going to protect her and her son, whether she wants his help or not. Her enemy nears.Rae would love nothing more than to fall into Brady's arms, to allow him to protect her and her son, but getting involved with him will only put Brady on harm's way. When Rae's husband closes in, she has to decide what-and whom-she'll sacrifice to save her son.

Download or read book The Truth and Other Lies written by Sascha Arango and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A literary crime thriller with “a clever plot that always surprises, told with dark humor and dry wit” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice), this brilliant debut follows a famous author whose wife—the brains behind his success—meets an untimely death, leaving him to deal with the consequences. Henry Hayden seems like someone you might admire, or even come to think of as a friend. A famous bestselling author. A loving and devoted husband. A generous and considerate neighbor. But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a secret, his methods more so. Only he and his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that made him famous. When his hidden-in-plain-sight mistress becomes pregnant, it seems his carefully conceived façade is about to crumble. And on a rain-soaked night at the edge of a dangerous cliff, his permanent solution becomes his most terrible mistake. Now not only are the police after Henry but his past—which he has painstakingly kept hidden—threatens to catch up with him as well. Henry is an ingenious man, and he works out an ingenious plan, weaving lies, truths, and half-truths into a story that might help him survive. Still, the noose tightens. Smart, sardonic, and compulsively readable, this is the story of a man whose cunning allows him to evade the consequences of his every action, even when he’s standing on the edge of the abyss.

Download or read book 5 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing written by C S Lakin and published by Ubiquitous Press. This book was released on 2015-11-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't fall victim to the 12 fatal flaws of fiction writing Fiction writers often struggle to improve their craft And the biggest challenge comes from the inability to see what isn't working. The prose feels off. The scene isn't gelling. The dialogue sounds stilted or clunky. But they don't know why or how to fix it. This book lays it all out 5 Editors Tackle the Twelve Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing demonstrates the deadly dozen pitfalls on the road to a strong story, along with revisions that show writers exactly how to avoid novel failure. No other writing craft book offers such detailed instruction in how to spot and remedy the major flaws of fiction writing. What makes this book an important addition to a writer's bookshelf? More than 60 Before and After passages showcase each of the twelve fatal flaws, which are then picked apart and examined to help writers spot these flaws in their own writing and fix them. Five editors with extensive background in both editing fiction and writing novels bring a wealth of insights, examples, and solutions to these flaws, using various genre styles and POVs. Each chapter ends with a checklist to help writers seek and destroy these fatal flaws in their manuscript, followed by bonus Before and After passages to help them test what they've learned. This in-depth guide to self-editing is an invaluable resource for any writer of any genre. It shows, not just tells, how to write better fiction. Using it, you'll be armed with the tools and skills you need to conquer the twelve fatal flaws of fiction writing. Here are some of the 12 fatal flaws: Overwriting-the most egregious and common flaw in fiction writing.Nothin' Happenin'-Too many stories take too long to get going. Learn what it means to start in medias res.Weak Construction-It sneaks in at the level of words and sentences, and rears up in up in the form of passive voice, ing verbs, and misplaced modifiers.Too Much Backstory-the bane of many manuscripts. Backstory has its place, but too often it serves as an info dump and bogs down pacing.POV Violations-Head hopping, characters knowing things they can't know, and foreshadowing are just some of the many POV violations explored.Telling instead of Showing-Writers have heard this admonition, but there's a lot to understanding how and when to show instead of tell.Lack of Pacing and Tension-Many factors affect pacing and tension: clunky passages, mundane dialogue, unimportant information, and so much more.Flawed Dialogue Construction-Writers need to learn to balance speech and narrative tags and avoid "on the nose" speech."Underwriting"-just as fatal as overwriting. Too often scenes are lacking the necessary actions, descriptions, and details needed to bring them to life.Description Deficiencies and Excesses-Learning how to balance description is challenging, and writers need to choose wisely just what to describe and in what way. Don't be left in the dark. Learn what causes these flaws and apply the fixes in your own stories. No one need suffer novel failure. You don't have to be brilliant or talented to write strong fiction. You just need to be forewarned and forearmed to be able to tackle these culprits. And this book will give you all the weapons and knowledge you need. "This book should be on every writer's bookshelf." -Cheryl Kaye Tardif, international best-selling author

Download or read book The One Year Bible written by Eugene H. Peterson and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 1231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The One Year Bible--discover one year Bible reading made simple and achievable! Millions of people have benefited from reading through God's entire Word by using The One Year Bible. Now available in The Message translation! This bestselling reading Bible divides the text into 365 sections, so you can read through the entire Bible in one unforgettable year--in as little as 15 minutes a day. Convenience No other "through the Bible" plan presents the entire Bible in such a user-friendly format. Start any day of the year! The Message Translation The Message is a reading Bible that uses contemporary language translated from the original Greek and Hebrew Scriptures by scholar, pastor, author, and poet Eugene Peterson. Thoroughly reviewed and approved by twenty biblical scholars, The Message combines the authority of God's Word with the cadence and energy of conversational English. Unique Design Each 15-minute daily reading includes a portion from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. This arrangement of Scripture provides a fresh approach to each day's reading while providing a clearer understanding of the Bible's larger message. Attractive Layout The One Year Bible has a simple and attractive layout that makes it easy to use. It is also adaptable to two- and three-year reading plans, also designed for daily Bible reading. Variety of Applications Ideal for personal devotions and instructional reading or family Bible reading with children of all ages. Take the first step. Begin the easy-to-read The One Year Bible The Message from cover to cover and see how God's Word comes alive in your life.

Download or read book Generous Ecclesiology written by Julie Gittoes and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generous Ecclesiology seeks to present a positive theological response to the issues raised by Mission-Shaped Church and For the Parish. The former reminds us that the church is to engage in creative and imaginative ways with our missionary calling. The latter affirms the place of inherited patterns and structures which cannot simply be discarded.

Download or read book Lies My Teacher Told Me written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Download or read book Generous Thinking written by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditating on how and why we teach the humanities, Generous Thinking is an audacious book that privileges the ability to empathize and build rather than simply tear apart.

Download or read book Big Little Lies written by Liane Moriarty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Here One Moment and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP—AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON MAX® A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.

Download or read book Love Lies Beneath written by Ellen Hopkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she's a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself. Enter Cavin Lattimore. He's handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet and their relationship blossoms into something Tara had never imagined possible. But then she begins to notice some strange things: a van parked outside her home at odd times, a break-in, threatening text messages and emails"--Amazon.com.

Download or read book Would I Lie to You written by Judi Ketteler and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it mean to commit to unconditional honesty and what impact might that have on our lives? Inspired by her popular New York Times article, "How Honesty Could Make You Happier," award-winning journalist Judi Ketteler takes a deep dive into the hard truths about honesty, from the personal to the political... We're incensed by politicians who lie and corporations that cheat, but when it comes to our own honesty choices, we often barely notice. So, what happens when we do notice? Judi Ketteler thought of herself as an honest person. And yet, she knew it wasn't the whole story... How often was Judi engaging in the same dishonest behavior she was condemning in others? To answer that question, she started her "Honesty Journal," and set out to confront her perennial fear of speaking the truth in a range of situations--including with friends, her kids, and even inside her complicated marriage. The result is a timely consideration of the joys and pains of truth in a world that seems committed to lying.

Download or read book Big Lies in a Small Town written by Diane Chamberlain and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman’s quest to find the truth... “A novel about arts and secrets...grippingly told...pulls readers toward a shocking conclusion.”—People magazine, Best New Books North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to be free, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and in great need of work, she accepts. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder. What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies? “Chamberlain, a master storyteller, keeps readers hooked, with a story line that leavens history and social commentary with romance and mystery.”—Lexington Dispatch

Download or read book The Sublime Heights of Generous Passions written by Ernst Delma and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fate impregnated of unspoken prophecies, a phenomenal tour de force - to properly speak - a tour de force commanding a favorable manipulation of the things of life has brought together what nature has created to live in harmony and that all egocentric human conventions tend to shamelessly set apart through racial pretexts and irrelevant schemes. On a propitious stage - laid by Providence, supreme architect, unforeseeable genie of organization, as by enchantment, as by an imperious necessity, as if nature wanted to impose its supreme will in the intimacy of human affairs - are joined two destinies dressed for the conquest, the mastery and the triumph of life's noblest sentiments. In an exceptional situation arranged by a circumstance of the most unaccustomed came to life one of the most striking episodes of life sagacious occurrences promoter of those sentiments that are said to be too beautiful to be true. Two human entities joined wisdom, patience and stubbornness to ensure the triumph of the most powerful because the truest and the purest sentiments of life. Gustave Brun - a man of color from humble social and economic background - has become the archetype of intellectual success, possessor of solid almost autodidactic Academic formation. Having walked his way with small but firm steps up to the zone where elitist intellectualism finds its more explicit definition, he silently nourished a male desire to succeed instilled in him by the harsh existence he has survived. A huge, quiet, logic and understandable ambition -"a vaulting ambition which overleaps itself," would say William Shakespeare - stayed the beacon that has led every single one of his short but constant strides in the long but fruitful crusade for the fulfillment of his manly aspirations. Holder of undeniable credentials, he transcended to deserve a Professorial chair of Cultural Anthropology in one of the most prestigious establishments of Education on earth, as it occurs Princeton University. Yet, he still felt short on his success, which he acknowledged, unfinished until he would have the opportunity to add to his intellectual accomplishment what he would eventually consider as the most important acquisition of his lifetime: love, true love, the one that crowns all human longings. Her Assistant secretly hung his heart high on the frontispiece of love, and - as he is going to admit it later - since day one, since his hungry eyes, thirsty of romantic complicity were posed on her adorable silhouette. Celine Lakadus, young female Caucasian, bearer of a proverbial sweetness in the neighborhood of culture, innate sweetness inside-outly expressed and inherited from the Latin background of her Romanian father, heiress of a colossal otherwise extravagant fortune and possessor of what can ensure high life standards in uppercase characters. At the paroxysm of her womanly dreams, armed with a solid cultural formation, her quest for happiness came to an unexpected height when fate has placed on her way at the right time the unexpected and the inevitable. Her who felt before like abandoned on the endless boulevard of ecstasy - by fault of her own demanding character when it comes to sentimental questions - as a flower condemned to wither at the next dry season suddenly learned to dream. Gustave Brun, her former mentor, stole her heart. She has learned - aided by her natural perspicacity to weigh details and to discover the truth of all things. During the course of several months of frank camaraderie although limited to intellectual exchange of ideas, she has arrived to the self-persuasion plateau and assessed him as being the man she's been expecting for so long. Why, would ask the stupefied, petrified spectator? "Reasons of the heart that reason ignores", she would argue. For both, it's the renaissance of life in its entire splendor. A life that appeared for both senseless in its essence where any materialistic accomplishment that it is eco

Download or read book Genuine Lies written by Nora Roberts and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves scandal, celebrity secrets, and murder into an explosive novel of Hollywood almost too wicked not to be true: the story of a legendary actress who knows too much—and the woman she’s chosen to reveal it all. . . . Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer’s career. Last of the movie goddesses, she has two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers, both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood’s richest and most powerful worried. Julia Summers never dreamed of being chosen to tell Eve’s story. But even if it means transplanting herself and her ten-year-old son from their quiet life in Connecticut to the withering limelight of Beverly Hills, it’s an opportunity too great to pass up. But Julia never imagined how far someone would go to keep Eve Benedict’s book from being published . . . until she discovers just how dark Eve’s secrets are. And the one man Julia hopes she can trust—Eve’s stepson, Paul Winthrop—may have the most to gain if his stepmother’s story is never told . . . and if Julia’s life ends before she can write a word of the truth. “Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star’s tittilating tales and the love story that develops.”—USA Today