Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

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Download or read book Family Shame written by Timmy Fielding and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Shame is a tragic true story of an 11yr old boy looking for love in all the wrong places. Timmy finds himself in a dark lonely horrific world of child pornography. While trying to survive physical and mental abuse he suffers by his mother Linda, who is constantly looking for ways to punish Timmy. Linda who was also abused as a child drinks and does drugs and is crazy with anger, and her youngest son is clearly in her way. Timmy’s father works out of town and is hardly at home and when he is, he wants nothing to do with his son Timmy. When not being beaten at home, he is being tortured and forced to perform sexual acts on other boys and men and coerced into appearing in pornographic movies for a group of men who serve as his surrogate parents. The group of men shower Timmy with affection and gifts. However, the older Timmy gets the harder it becomes to control him, and the men revert to intimidation fear and black mail to keep control over Timmy. Bill is a high-power lawyer and the leader within the group of men who has taken Timmy under his wing and winning the favor of Timmy’s parents. Bill showers Timmy with affection and gifts; he becomes the male role model Timmy’s needs and hunger for. Even so, Timmy is misguided and thinks sex means love, and money tells him how well he is, Making him the perfect victim. When Timmy is found out by his father, he becomes the big family secret. Family Shame tells of a scary and lonely world of abuse and pornography and the effects these environments had on him as a child and an adult.

Download or read book Entangled Dreams written by Carmen DeSousa and published by Written Musings. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alexandra was a child, she thought she was a princess in a fairy-tale life... She didn't know she was one tragedy away from reality. Now twenty-two, disaster strikes again and she's determined to change her path. Unfortunately, one night of indiscretion propels her into a situation that may cost Alexandra her life. It'll all come down to two men, one decision, and a final encounter that will change her life forever. Although Entangled Dreams is part of The Southern Collection, it is a stand-alone story that can be read on its own. This is a cliffhanger-free zone here, friends!

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Download or read book Arcadia The Complete Collection 10th Anniversary Edition A YA Fantasy Series written by Al Stone and published by Centrinian Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNTOLD PROPHECY, A BROKEN COVENANT AND A FALLEN ANGEL AS AN ALLY. WILL CHARLIE SURVIVE? Arcadia, 10th Anniversary Edition is a complete collection, featuring three full-length novels in a single volume for the first time. A young-adult fantasy series full of magic, mythology and adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Lord of the Rings. Talisman Of El They have always been here ... watching in silence. Now both worlds are about to collide. Charlie Blake has always known he was different. He hears what others don't. He sees what others can't. In his quest for the truth, he discovers he is the physical embodiment of a powerful ruler and finds himself locked in an ancient battle between good and evil that threatens the life of every being on Earth. Blackout Hold your breath. It's contagious. Saving mankind becomes near impossible when Charlie's visions start to invade his reality. He can no longer identify what's real. When he starts exhibiting symptoms of a deadly disease, he faces a race against time to find a cure, but shocking revelations makes him question where his true allegiance lies. Ground Zero Mankind's only hope is not human. Approach with caution. 26,000 years ago, a supernatural apocalypse almost wiped out civilisation. Now that time has come again and no one is destined to survive. Charlie Blake is determined to stop the apocalypse, but fate might not have the same agenda. Is Charlie destined to save the world or destroy it?

Download or read book Fruit written by Brian Francis and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Peter Paddington is overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When his nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his secret desires, Peter finds himself cornered in a world that seems to have no tolerance for difference. Peter's only solace is "The Bedtime Movies" - perfect-world fantasies that lull him to sleep every night. But when the lines between Peter's fantasies and his reality begin to blur, his hilarious adventures in overeating, family dysfunction, and the terrifying world of sexual awakening really begin.

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Download or read book Ground Zero written by Al Stone and published by Centrinian Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT HAPPENS EVERY 26,000 YEARS. Only a few ever survive. This time … No one will. That is unless Charlie Blake can locate all four diamonds to restore the Talisman of El and receive his calling from the remaining three elements before the Annus Magnus strikes. With both Arcadia and the mortal world in a state of unrest, his life quickly spirals out of control as it seems everyone has put a bounty on his head. Maybe even his closest allies. Not knowing who to trust, Charlie starts to dig up the past. When new revelations arise, he begins to question whether the Legion of Light really is what it claims to be and whether he’s been fighting for the wrong side all along. The line between good and evil is no longer as clear-cut as it used to be, especially when it appears Charlie’s destiny could very well be to destroy everything he loves. Hero or villain? Charlie isn’t so sure anymore.

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Download or read book Do You Want to Know a Secret written by Claudia Carroll and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do YOU believe in the Laws of Attraction? Light-hearted, funny and thoroughly entertaining... Vicky Harper is still hopelessly single and having to face up to the unpalatable fact that the last time she had a relationship with that highly elusive species, the decent single man, was well before Phantom of the Opera hit Broadway. So, having discovered an ancient book which says you can have anything you want from the Universe... and that all you need do is ask, she decides to give it a whirl. Turns out all she has to do is focus on thinking her wildest fantasies into reality. Kind of like Pollyanna, except with a Magic 8 Ball, a mortgage and a lot of vodka. So, along with her two beyond-fabulous best friends, Vicky decides to put 'The Law of Attraction' into action. Trouble is, 'The Law of Attraction' doesn't come with an instruction manual and Vicky soon realizes that you have to be very, very careful what you wish for...

Download or read book Thursday s Bride written by Patricia Johns and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a proper young Amish widow struggling to begin again, encountering her reckless first love will test her forgiveness, resolve—and heart . . . Overwhelmed by grief and tending twin baby daughters, Rosmanda Lapp is without options. She still blames her brother-in-law, Levi, for her husband’s accidental death—but she and her aging in-laws need him to keep their farm going. Yet as Levi takes on his responsibilities with a new determination and steadiness, she can’t help but regret that she chose his serious-minded brother over him. For Levi is still very much the passionate man she loved—and Rosmanda now has even more reasons to keep him at arm's length . . . Levi can’t blame Rosmanda for staying clear of him. He has mistakes to make up for and must finally do right by his parents. Still, he never got over his brother stealing Rosmanda away. And he can’t deny the feelings that even now tempt them back to each other. And when a mistake from her past threatens her reputation, Levi will do whatever it takes to help her—and trust that faith and courage will at last help them claim a future together . . .

Download or read book Dying by Degrees written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Rivers finds that her struggles with her course take a back seat when she's caught up in a deadly web of corruption and murder. Sophie Rivers is struggling with her course at the University of the West Midlands, her fellow student Jago Calvin is harassing her and she's missing the love-of-her-life, Mike Lowden. Sophie confides in the excellent lecturer Carla Pentowski about her problems. But there's something strange about Carla's past – or lack of it. Sophie soon has a number of questions. Why are some of the South-East Asian students she is helping behaving oddly? Why are Malay girls dying on her old friend, Superintendent Chris Groom's patch? What's behind Carla disappearance, and who has hacked into the university's records? Sophie's determined to find answers, but finds herself risking her life in her search for the truth.

Download or read book Clear Lake written by Nan Fink Gefen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Lev, a Chicago psychotherapist, is balancing a heavy workload, two demanding kids, and an unhappy second marriage—so when she learns that her father, Charlie, is in trouble, it’s just one more worry to deal with. Charlie’s moved into a grand home in the Bay Area with his new wife, Vicky, and Rebecca’s convinced that her new stepmother is physically abusing her father—but Rebecca and Charlie have grown apart, and he rejects her offers of help. Years after marrying Vicky, Charlie dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Rebecca strongly suspects that his wife is implicated. Feeling guilty that she didn’t better protect her father, she returns to the Bay Area to investigate, vowing to find out what really happened. After finding herself frustrated at every turn in the Bay Area, Rebecca flees to Clear Lake, the scene of some of her happiest childhood memories. She collapses there, unable to go further, and finally confronts the emotional chaos that has been building within her. There at Clear Lake, she reaches a place of peace and resolution within herself—and it gives her the strength to both end her failed marriage and make the final push to discover the startling truth about her father.