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.

Download or read book Texas Blues written by Alan B. Govenar and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs—many never before published—Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the most influential artists and their times. From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron “T-Bone” Walker of Dallas, to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins in East Texas, Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas, and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas Blues shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in the Lone Star State.

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Download or read book MANDY MEETS A MILLIONAIRE written by Tracy Sinclair and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupid's Little Helpers FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING Connor Winfield had serious money, serious power—and mind-spinning sensuality. No wonder gorgeous women constantly flung themselves at him. Still, Connor chose travel agent Mandy Richardson to arrange his business meetings in Tangier—then demanded she accompany him every step of the way…. Mandy steeled herself to resist the man and romantic, moonlit Morocco. But nothing prepared her for the miniature matchmaker on the scene. Connor's precocious preteen daughter schemed shamelessly to make Mandy her new mom. But why did the child think proud, penniless Mandy could claim the heart of a hard-hearted millionaire? CUPID'S LITTLE HELPERS… These matchmaking kids come with a happily-ever-after guarantee.

Download or read book LOVER BY DECEPTION written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her lover—until her memory returns? When Anna woke up in hospital, the first person she saw was Ward Hunter. The chemistry between them was so intense, Anna was convinced he must be her lover! Ward found Anna's sensuality hard to resist—but was she the woman who had defrauded his brother? Ward fell for Anna anyway, though when she regained her memory would she feel betrayed…that Ward had become her lover by deception? They wanted to get even. Instead they got…married!

Download or read book Quilt Stories written by Cecilia Macheski and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, poems, and plays explore quilts as expressions of memory, meaning, community, courtship, change, mystery, murder, age, and wisdom

Download or read book All the Things You Are written by Declan Hughes and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband and two daughters disappear, housewife Clare Taylor discovers that her ordinary domestic life has been built on a lie. About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming an actress abandoned, there's no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Clare Taylor has settled. A wild week in Chicago may have shaken things up a bit, but as she turns her key in her Madison, Wisconsin home on the eve of Hallowe'en, she knows that what happened with her ex was nothing more than a distraction, that this is where her life is. Except it's all gone. The furniture gone, the house stripped, her husband Danny, her daughters, all gone; no message; no note, nothing. Outside in the dark, searching for a sign, she steps in one: the eviscerated body of the family dog. By dawn next morning, her supposedly mortgage-free home has been foreclosed against, one of Danny's childhood friends lies dead in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976. A nightmare that reaches its terrifying climax thirty-five years later.

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Download or read book Criminal written by Terra Elan McVoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do for love? Nikki helps her boyfriend commit murder in this “dark, devastating, and realistic portrait of a girl in over her head” (Publishers Weekly). Nikki’s life is far from perfect, but at least she has Dee. Her friends tell her that Dee is no good, but Nikki can’t imagine herself without him. He’s hot, he’s dangerous, he has her initials tattooed over his heart, and she loves him more than anything. There’s nothing Nikki wouldn’t do for Dee. Absolutely nothing. So when Dee pulls Nikki into a crime – a crime that ends in murder – Nikki tells herself that it’s all for true love. Nothing can break them apart. Not the police. Not the arrest that lands Nikki in jail. Not even the investigators who want her to testify against him. But what if Dee had motives that Nikki knew nothing about? Nikki’s love for Dee is supposed to be unconditional…but even true love has a limit. And Nikki just might have reached hers.

Download or read book The Haves and Have Nots written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected for the first time in one volume.How does money--or the lack of it--affect our lives? What happens when the rich meet the poor, when status comes with a price tag, when personal desires do battle with financial concerns? This unique anthology offers a mosaic of answers, with stories by: * Francine Prose * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Jack London * Kate Chopin * Ethan Canin * Gloria Naylor * Sandra Cisneros * O. Henry * Theodore Dreiser * Stephen Crane * Kate Braverman * James T. Farrell * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * and many others.

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Download or read book We Are Forever written by C.M. Martens and published by C. M. Martens. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dee’s power sets her apart from the Soldiers she trains with. Both her similarities and differences have confused the lines of who she is, so even the Rishis remain unsure of what to make of her. A new twist in her adventure comes to light when she's claimed as family. Excited to finally have answers, Dee struggles to adapt to this new information. But then Zibanitu, Hamal's silent patron, decides it’s his role to sort things out. Dee travels to yet another location, this time visiting under lock and key. Is she a guest or a prisoner? Friends and foes are difficult to identify. If she can hold out just a little longer, Dee’s determined she can regain control of her life. Will feelings of family overwrite her need for vengeance, or will she find death is her only option against those who are forever?

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Download or read book Day for Night written by Frederick Reiken and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you look hard enough into the history of anything, you will discover things that seem to be connected but are not." So claims a character in Frederick Reiken's wonderful, surprising novel, which seems in fact to be determined to prove just the opposite. How else to explain the threads that link a middle-aged woman on vacation in Florida with a rock and roll singer visiting her comatose brother in Utah, where he's been transported after a motorcycle injury in Israel, where he works with a man whose long-lost mother, in a retirement community in New Jersey, recognizes him in a televised report about an Israeli-Palestinian skirmish? And that's not the half of it. In Day For Night, critically acclaimed writer Frederick Reiken spins an unlikely and yet utterly convincing story about people lost and found. They are all refugees from their own lives or history's cruelties, and yet they wind up linked to each other in compelling and unpredictable ways that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Download or read book The Ex Prisoner s Dilemma written by Andrea M. Leverentz and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leverentz conducted repeated interviews with forty-nine women as they adjusted to life outside of prison and worked to construct new ideas of themselves as former prisoners and as mothers, daughters, sisters, romantic partners, friends, students, and workers. Listening to these women, along with their family members, friends, and co-workers, Leverentz pieces together the narratives they have created to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. She traces where these narratives came from and how they were shaped by factors such as gender, race, maternal status, age, and experiences in prison, halfway houses, and twelve-step programs—factors that in turn shaped the women’s expectations for themselves, and others’ expectations of them. The women’s stories form a powerful picture of the complex, complicated human experience behind dry statistics and policy statements regarding prisoner reentry into society for women, how the experience is different for men and the influence society plays. With its unique view of how society’s mixed messages play out in ex-prisoners’ lived realities, The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma shows the complexity of these women’s experiences within the broad context of the war on drugs and mass incarceration in America. It offers invaluable lessons for helping such women successfully rejoin society.