Download or read book Invitation to a Bonfire written by Adrienne Celt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Oprah.com, and MSN.com as one of the best books to read this summer! The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose books Zoya has privately obsessed over for years--her luck seems to have taken a turn for the better. But she soon discovers that Leo is not the solution to her loneliness: he's committed to his art and bound by the sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera. As the reader unravels the mystery of Zoya, Lev, and Vera's fate, Zoya is faced with mounting pressure to figure out who she is and what kind of life she wants to build. Grappling with class distinctions, national allegiance, and ethical fidelity--not to mention the powerful magnetism of sex--Invitation to a Bonfire investigates how one's identity is formed, irrevocably, through a series of momentary decisions, including how to survive, who to love, and whether to pay the complicated price of happiness.

Download or read book Anna and the Gardener s Gift written by Sarah Alita Wark and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna and her mother have lived and worked all Anna's life for the royal Romanov family. When her mother dies suddenly she is hidden by her friends to avoid homelessness. Several chance encounters with the princess make her more careful but what will become of her as winter approaches? Trying to make adult decisions is difficult when you are twelve, but she is assured that prayer will help her find God's plan. Will He tell her in time what she should do?

Download or read book Flip the Silver Switch written by Jackie Yeager and published by Amberjack Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimson Five are headed to the Piedmont Global Championships in Quebec, where they'll compete against the best inventor teams in the world. Kia and her New York teammates are excited to share a new amazing invention — but they're blind-sided with another task to solve, with just two weeks to do it! As the team struggles with a lack of creativity, rumors leave The Crimson Five questioning everything about each other. Kia knows she and her team must come together like never before in order to win a coveted spot on the Swirl and Spark Creativity Tour, but tragedy threatens to derail all that they've built. The Crimson Five are together again. Because sometimes it takes a whole team to help you see things clearly.

Download or read book The Myth of Perpetual Summer written by Susan Crandall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees. Tallulah James’s parents’ volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family’s reputation and raising her younger twin siblings onto her youthful shoulders. If not for the emotional constants of her older brother, Griff, and her old guard Southern grandmother, she would be lost. When betrayal and death arrive hand in hand, she takes to the road, headed to what turns out to be the not-so-promised land of Southern California. The dysfunction of her childhood still echoes throughout her scattered family, sending her brother on a disastrous path and drawing her home again. There she uncovers the secrets and lies that set her family on the road to destruction.

Download or read book Take Back Charge written by Liang Chen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sword of Dao Seeking swept across the entire place. With a flip of his hand, he turned it into the sky and covered it with his hand. The Heart of Dao could hold the nine heavens and ten earth. With a single thought, life and death would be snatched away. Lust! Desire to defy the heavens! Anger to break through the heavens! The Lover of Love, the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, oppressing all Golden Immortals!

Download or read book Pensions Tensions and Homicide written by Tricia L. Sanders and published by Tricia L Sanders. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former friend, a runaway mother, and a dead body threaten to spoil a middle-aged woman’s plan for a low-key family Thanksgiving. Cece Cavanaugh’s latest job recommendation comes from a former friend—a woman who turned her back when Cece needed her friendship most. Cleaning a flooded school is a big job, and Cece needs money for Thanksgiving dinner. But when she finds herself ankle-deep in mud, checking the pulse of her friend’s ex-husband, the job takes an unexpected turn and ensures the arrival of hunky Detective Case Alder. With her divorce from her trust-fund husband just days away, Cece is determined to keep her emotions in check. That’s hard when tensions are high, and Alder is determined to keep Cece out of harm’s way. As Cece cleans the school, she learns more about the suspects, teachers and staff present the day of the murder. As she gathers evidence, the killer closes in on his next target. To compound her problems, Cece’s elderly mother arrives in Wickford—baggage in hand, and still Cece isn’t ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Despite a threatening note, a series of false leads, and wrangling her runaway mother, Cece narrows down the suspects, but will the killer seal her fate before Cece can solve the case?

Download or read book Invitation to the Game written by Monica Hughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.

Download or read book End of the World House written by Adrienne Celt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma’s Severance in this “brilliant” (PopSugar) and “exhilarating” (The Millions) comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them. Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. When Bertie’s attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next best thing: a trip to Paris that will hopefully distract the duo from their upcoming separation. The vacation is also a sort of last hurrah, coming during the ceasefire in a series of escalating world conflicts. One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day that keeps repeating itself, Bertie and Kate are eventually separated, and Bertie is faced with a mystery that threatens to derail everything. In order to make her way back to Kate, Bertie has to figure out how much control she has over her future—and her past—and how to survive in an apocalypse when the world keeps refusing to end.

Download or read book The American Archivist written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."

Download or read book Made for These Times written by Justin Zoradi and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fearful, uncertain times, how can we find significance in something greater than ourselves? Award-winning social entrepreneur Justin Zoradi was once haunted by this question as a young person daunted by the world's needs, yet wanting to make a difference. But when some friends from across the world invited him to join them, Justin said yes - and felt a small spark ignite within. That spark led to the founding of These Numbers Have Faces, a social enterprise investing in the next generation of African leaders. Made For These Times is a field guide to help you find your own spark as you remember who you were made to be. Through 26 power-packed microchapters, you will learn how to bolster ambition with character, dig deep to find your grit, and rise up to the challenges of today. Along the way, Justin weaves together compelling narrative, historical anecdotes, practical tips, and a six-part road map to equip you to join God in the work he is already doing. The result is a hope-filled blueprint for fighting back against fear and building a life of purpose. A life of significance isn't about what you are doing, it's about who you are becoming. In these trying times, God is calling you to be brave. Made For These Times is a rallying declaration that we cannot rely on the heroes of the past to engage the challenges of today. It's your turn – let this book be the spark you’ve been waiting for.

Download or read book The Gospel Invitation written by O. S. Hawkins and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide in the art and instruction of issuing Christ's invitation to the lost. Historic denominations are dying. Church memberships and baptisms plummet with every passing year. Pastors and church leaders are concerned about their churches plateauing. Why? One of the major reasons is because congregations aren't being publicly called to faith in Christ. A growing number of evangelical pastors have opted for non-confrontational approaches to calling people to faith in Jesus. Some seminaries have removed evangelism classes from their curriculum and pastors aren't being taught how to give an effective, God honoring public invitation, void of manipulation. Authors O.S. Hawkins and Matt Queen are asking church leaders to reconsider and rediscover the effectiveness of asking people to publicly decide to follow Christ. O.S. Hawkins is a respected pastor who has led thousands to faith in Christ in both church and public settings. Matt Queen is a trusted and gifted professor of evangelism who has consulted multitudes of pastors in personal and congregational evangelism. Together, they wrote The Gospel Invitation to assist others in successfully issuing a public appeal to receive Christ. The Gospel Invitation covers: A brief history of public gospel invitations The biblical justification for gospel invitations Practical and proven instructions for incorporating invitations into sermons Best practices The Gospel Invitation will equip pastors, seminary students, and anyone who evangelizes with the confidence to share the gospel and help more people come to Christ.

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Download or read book Wrecked for God written by Dianne Leman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a Christian home dictated by legalism and religious ideals, Dianne Leman set out to find something more than the fear of not being enough or doing enough to earn God's favor. In her search, she found that Jesus was bigger, better, and more beautiful than she had ever dared to dream--and it wrecked her for good. In her faith-altering book, Leman guides believers out of Christian lives of doing into union with the Lord Jesus Christ that provides rest, freedom, delight, and grace that is not exhausting but exhilarating. This non-striving guide will help you · lose your religion and strengthen your faith · pray in power · offer mercy to the "messy" people · and much more Break the shackles of religion, and embrace the fruitful, fulfilling life with Jesus that you never thought possible.

Download or read book No Ordinary Love written by Ann Christopher and published by Blue Iris Press. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baptiste written by Ann Christopher and published by Blue Iris Press. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants a husband and kids. A billionaire international player? Absolutely not… Don't miss Baptiste and Samira's scorching hot duology--now together in one volume! NO ORDINARY LOVE Samira Palmer isn’t dating anymore. Not after last time. And especially not bad boys. Her career is the only relationship she wants to be in these days, and they’re damn good together. Even if she can’t bring her job to the costume ball as a date. She didn’t expect fate to literally run into her in the form of a handsome, green-eyed Frenchman. Jean-Baptiste is not just handsome--he’s a sex god. And not just rich--he’s a billionaire. So of course he isn’t just a bad boy. He’s also an emotionally unavailable player. Opposites always attract… and the sparks flying between them could set the whole town aflame. But how can they hope for a happy ending when neither is ready to let the other in? BEYOND ORDINARY LOVE A billionaire international player and a feisty small-town career woman? It'll never work... Jean-Baptiste Mercier is guilty as charged: an international player. His feisty, gorgeous new co-worker has him nailed. In more ways than one. No one needs to know about them. Particularly since he isn’t sure quite what “they” are. He’s ready to explore a shared future, but Samira’s walls are still up. They may be unofficially official, but she’s no closer to letting him in. The fiery chemistry between them burns hotter than ever before, but how can he convince her that he’s done with his playboy ways? This smooth-talking French billionaire may have finally met his match. One-night stands aren’t supposed to lead to happily-ever-after. But anything is possible if you fight for it… and Baptiste never backs down from a fight....

Download or read book Invitation to Valhalla written by Mike Whicker and published by Walkure. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amateur HAM radio operator intercepts a garbled shortwave transmission that indicates the Gestapo's top henchman is coming to America to kill Erika Lehmann, the Nazis' top spy.

Download or read book Flavors of the Fire Mastering the Art of Campfire Cooking written by Daniel Lehtola and published by Daniel Lehtola. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive cooking book (167 pages) is packed with everything you need to know about campfire cooking, from mastering the fundamentals to creating mouthwatering one-pot wonders, grilling delights, cast iron classics, foil packet creations, and delectable campfire desserts. Flavors of the Fire also provides invaluable tips and techniques for maximizing flavor, adapting recipes to different dietary preferences, achieving perfect grill marks, and even brewing the perfect cup of coffee over an open fire. With 40 tips for repurposing camping supplies, creative improvisation with limited ingredients, and insights on responsible outdoor cooking, you'll be well-equipped to conquer any campfire cooking challenge. This cookbook brings you 85 mouthwatering recipes designed to elevate your camping experience. Whether you're a seasoned camper or a novice outdoor cook, this book has everything you need to master the art of campfire cooking. • One-Pot Wonders: 17 Recipes • Grilling Delights: 28 Recipes • Cast Iron Cooking: 5 Recipes • Foil Packet Creations: 12 Recipes • Sweet and Savory Campfire Desserts: 9 Recipes • Hot Beverages and Cocktails: 14 Recipes Get ready to make memories and share delicious moments with friends and family around the campfire. Happy cooking!