Download or read book Hiding Behind The Couch written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Circle.Nine friends from high school.Nine friends for life. They had been in their final years of school when it happened. There was a party. Shaunna didn't know who he was; she could only vaguely remember where she'd been and what she'd been up to, and tried to let the memory slip away with the hangover. Four weeks later, she was certain that night was going to be with her forever. Josh Sandison has spent his lifetime trying to keep his friends together, never forgiving himself for being the one to push George away. Now in their thirties, they reunite in a bid to help Shaunna's daughter establish her father's identity. But there are secrets and lies that have been lived too long, with the power to destroy friendships for good. * * * * * Season One in the Hiding Behind The Couch series. There are two prequels—Beginnings and Ruminations—which can be read at any point during the series. The story continues in No Time Like The Present (Season Two).
Download or read book Hiding Out written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If any adult was going to get the chicken pox, it would be Sean Tierney. That alone would be bad enough, but his illness means friend and colleague, Josh Sandison-Morley, has to step in and face his fears: guest-speaking at a university in Norwich. As Josh gathers his husband and his foster daughter for the trip, he is unaware that their world is about to collide with that of another makeshift family: Noah and Matty's. Matty is agonising over his impending dance show. Sure, talent scouts will be in the audience, but there's an even bigger problem. Noah - Matty's on-again, off-again boyfriend - has promised to be there, too. And Matty's dance? It has a secret meaning he's not sure he's ready to reveal to Noah. Can Josh and Matty face their fears and perform for their respective crowds? More importantly, will the Sandison-Morleys' influence be enough to get the young men to express their feelings to each other before it's too late? This novella continues the stories of Josh and George from the Hiding Behind the Couch Series and Matty and Noah from the Checking Him Out Series.
Download or read book Hiding Behind the Couch Novellas Short Stories written by Debbie McGowan and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the first ten novellas and short stories in Hiding Behind The Couch: a multi-part series centring a group of nine friends that takes place over the course of many years. While storylines are intermingling, the focus of the story and the point of view frequently change. It is best thought of as a literary soap opera, with seasons and special episodes: some are 'character specials', some are 'festive specials'. As the series is ongoing, and some instalments are written retrospectively, there may later be other short instalments that fall within the time period covered by this collection. Note: if you are reading the series in order, there are spoilers in some (possibly all) of the novellas/short stories.
Download or read book No Time Like The Present written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes a murder mystery is the least of life's challenges... This sequel to Hiding Behind The Couch finds Josh and The Circle fighting to prove the innocence of one James Brown, a well-liked and respected MD of a pizza restaurant chain. But his past is far from helpful in freeing him of suspicion, and Eleanor is all set to call it a day. It's the perfect time to make new friends, make amends...and solve a murder case. * * * * * "...a beautiful tapestry which is a story encompassing so many lives and their interconnections." "I wanted more just so I could find out what the future held for my newfound 'friends'." "All I can hope is for the possibility that Debbie McGowan might like to make this into a trilogy, or even a series that I can keep indulging in for either the rest of my own or the characters' lives!!" NOTE: contains Hiding Behind The Couch plot spoilers - it is therefore recommended that these novels are read in order. * * * * * No Time Like The Present is season two in the Hiding Behind The Couch series. The story follows chronologically from Hiding Behind The Couch (Season One) and continues in The Harder They Fall (Season Three).
Download or read book Beginnings written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey back to childhood, where the buds of friendship blossom; take a peek into the lives of the primary schoolchildren who would become...The Circle. A prequel to the Hiding Behind The Couch books. As the title suggests, this short story focuses on the early school days, long before the birth of the full 'Circle' - a series of sectors, if you will. Contains no real spoilers, so can be read independently of the rest of the series and in any order. "A very sweet short story of blossoming friendships and childhood traumas." "...a wonderful, engaging story that made me feel good inside.... Highly recommended for readers who love richly written characters and clever dialogue." * * * * * WARNING: this story deals with themes of child sexual abuse, sudden infant death, and parents' marriage breakdown due to infidelity. All issues are written about sensitively and in a way that is intended to be accessible for children aged ten and above.
Download or read book Herman s Hiding Places written by Karen Emigh and published by Future Horizons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman's adventures will help your child discover the difficult concept of prepositions such as up, in, under, and behind by using colorful illustrations.
Download or read book Hiding in Sunshine written by John Stuart and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quiet, affluent life of the Brinkley family is shattered when they are forced to go into hiding. On the run for eleven years, the family is never far from the threat of a foreign cyber-criminal enterprise trying to reach them.
Download or read book Puppet guy and greenwolfguy written by Francisco j Ramirez and published by Francisco Ramirez. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You won't regret buying this book. Greenwolfguy is lonely and has no friends. Nobody likes him. He has no family and nothing to live for. He was kicked out of his orphanage because he was too old. All he wants is a friend someone that he could trust, someone who won't leave him. Someone that would be there at his side 24/7. Greenwolfguy thinks of a plan and builds a robot named puppet guy. The two of them become best friends. Greenwolfguy finally has something to live for. But what he and puppet guy don't realize is that friendship can't last forever. Search up puppet guy and greenwolfguy on Amazon. If you are really looking for something different to read then I recommend this book. You can also purchase the book on Amazon and see the other Puppet guy and Greenwolfguy books!
Download or read book A Can of Peas written by Traci DePree and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together the strong threads of family and friends in a pattern of grace, forgiveness, and kindness, A Can of Peas invites readers into a place where every day brings a new story and neighbors are more than just people who live down the road. Sometimes funny and often poignant, these vignettes will draw both men and women into the reassuring rhythms of life as it ought to be–and as it still is in the heart of America. After the death of his grandfather, Peter Morgan and his new bride, Mae, face a life-changing decision: should they embrace the career-chasing ambitions of their family and friends in St. Paul or accept the absurd challenge of saving the family farm in the Minnesota countryside? Enticed by the romance of a simple, quiet life, the Morgans set out to follow in the footsteps of Peter’s grandparents. Soon, Peter is farming around the clock, barely one step ahead of failure as Mae struggles to find her place in Peter’s life and in the community. Will the strain of saving the farm tear their marriage apart? Was it a mistake to dream?
Download or read book Masculinities in the Criminological Field written by Dr Ingrid Lander and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades criminological research has changed from a gender-blind discipline which equated crime with men and thus ignored questions about gender, to an approach that studied gender by showing statistical differences between men and women, and then finally to a more inclusive and elaborate gender-theoretical approach to crime and crime control. However, despite this development, research on gender - and in particular research on gendered norms and the construction and enactment of masculinities - within the criminological field has been unable to keep up with developments in gender research. Since 1990, only a few anthologies with a gender-theoretical orientation focusing on masculinities within the criminological research field have been published. Many of the theoretical developments in gender research still have difficulties in reaching into mainstream criminology, partly because such developments are often published in feminist and/or gender theoretical journals. This volume both problematizes and renders visible conceptions and norms regarding male behaviour and masculinities and shows how these affect the criminological field through providing a theoretically sound and clear gender perspective to this field of research. With sections based around the following three themes: negotiations of masculinity in institutional settings, vulnerable masculinities and risk-taking and masculinities, this volume will be of interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, social work and gender studies, as well as policy-makers, and law enforcement professionals.
Download or read book Black Art and Aesthetics written by Michael Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell Painter, Mickaella Perina, Kevin Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Claudia Schmuckli, Evie Shockley, Paul C. Taylor, Kara Walker, Simone White, and Mabel O. Wilson. The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by engaging intersectionally with class, queer sexuality, female embodiment, dance vocabularies, coloniality, Afrodiasporic music, Black post-soul art, Afropessimism, and more. Black aesthetics thus restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms of sensation and imagination in art, culture, design, everyday life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience, identity, and resistance. Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists, activists, theorists, and others who critique racial inequities, create new forms of interiority and relationality, uncover affective histories, and develop strategies for social justice.
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development written by Usha Goswami and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and language Provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development Spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence Includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development and current theoretical perspectives
Download or read book Our Phantom Voyage written by Patricia Macko and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Phantom Voyage By: Patricia Macko Based on a true story, this fascinating book presents dual and alternating story lines that share the lives of those in charge at the county jail: the correction officers who endure the swing shifts, confinement, and the risk of exposing themselves to a dangerous population of criminals, mentally deranged characters, and notorious inmates who are locked up and angry with the world. Our Phantom Voyage explores the characters with a personalized look at their friendships and working relationships. A much-needed vacation that was planned for four of them results in a disastrous experience that will keep you turning pages until the very end. This book has universal appeal to those who love adventure, romance, and good versus evil scenarios. The story has been greatly embellished and not all scenarios included are true. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Download or read book Beware of Dog written by Melissa Crawley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, the only way we meet "dangerous" dogs is through news reports about vicious attacks, and films and TV shows that feature out-of-control versions of man's best friend. But there's more to the Bad Dog's story than sensational headlines and movie beasts. A deeper look at these representations reveals a villain much closer to home. This book takes the reader on a rich journey through depictions of violent dogs in popular media. It explores how press accounts and screen stories transform canines into bloodthirsty hunters, rabies-infested strays, ferocious fighters, rogue law enforcement partners and diabolical pets, all adding up to a frightening picture of our usually beloved companions. But, when media tells the dangerous dog's story, it is often with a deep connection to the person on the other end of the leash.
Download or read book Metamorphosis A Collection of Stories written by Propertius Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, 26 stories chronicle deep metamorphosis, where by a lesson, a journey, discoveries, the confluence of ideas, an accident or some other more esoteric circumstances, we become more attuned to the connections - and distances - between the inner and outer worlds than perhaps we were at the beginning. We grow wings, take flight, and start all over again.
Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Amy Wallace and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a quiet town with a thriving Mennonite community, police officer Ashley Walters finds her threadbare faith and way of life challenged by the Plain people whose simple dress and welcoming manner open her eyes to a God she left behind. Peace eludes Ashley until she realizes the answers she seeks aren't found in starting over but in returning to the simple truth that it's God who overcomes the world, not her. Written for women who desire action-packed suspense, romance, and an escape into the peaceful world of the Mennonites, Hiding in Plain Sight delves into the painful struggle to fit in and the search for peace that so often eludes our fast-paced lives.
Download or read book The Complete Works of O Henry written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
