Download or read book Spoons written by Ev Bishop and published by Winding Path Books . This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can shattered love ever be restored? There’s an extreme heat wave at River’s Sigh B & B, but things have never been colder between Noelle Archer and her husband Cade. Dragged there for a reunion with Cade’s screwed up family, Noelle is confused, resentful—and considering divorce. Noelle never would’ve predicted she’d be trapped in a loveless marriage, but Cade’s more distant and aloof than ever, plus she’s sure he had an affair. What other choice does she have? Husbands who cheat don’t become faithful, and wives who put up with it become bitter and lonely. She won’t have that for herself, and she won’t model that for her children. Cade has always clung tightly to Noelle, his beloved daughters, and their life together. He’s not good at expressing himself, but he’s been confident, even cocky, that if he’s strong enough, works hard enough, provides well enough, Noelle will know how he feels. But now one moment of stupidity that wasn’t what it appeared has wrecked everything. He wants her to believe in him the way his parents and brothers never have, with no explanations necessary—but maybe that’s unfair. He’ll swallow his pride. He’ll find the words. He’ll do anything to fix their relationship. But what if it’s too late? Fans of heartwarming small-town contemporary romance, sister stories, second chances, and furry dog friends, will fall in love with River’s Sigh B & B and never want to leave!

Download or read book Did I Seriously Just Get Reincarnated as My Gag Character Volume 2 written by Kanade Otonashi and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After saving Free Market City from an army of monsters and a confused fire dragon, Nacht and Aisha are living the high life! Now famous heroes, they’ve become the talk of the town and have nobles waiting on them hand and foot. The kingdom’s second princess herself is even requesting a meeting with them—no doubt to discuss the war rumored to be brewing with the neighboring kingdom of Estoll. But Nacht has zero interest in being drawn into human politics. She’d much rather track down Aisha’s missing mother, the elf Floria. Maybe she can help Aisha find closure by finding the woman who abandoned her long ago.

Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers written by Mustapha Matura and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.

Download or read book Something Old written by Ev Bishop and published by Winding Path Books . This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you find the strength to start again? Madeline’s world caves in when her husband, daughter, and sister are ripped away in one fell swoop. Trapped in a limbo of grief and loneliness, she realizes that to survive, she needs to fight her way back to some kind of life. She throws her belongings into storage, sells her house, and heads to a new-to-her small town. There she invests every dime she has to open what had been her and her daughter’s shared dream: an upscale secondhand, consignment, and upcycling store. It has to work, or else—No. She can’t think about that. It has to work. The birth of Madeline’s heart-healing Second Chance Shop is not without pain. And the clock is ticking on whether the shop can support her. Still, she is floored to find things she’d lost hope of ever experiencing again: laughter, dear friends—including a fat, slightly cantankerous cat and a distinguished old yellow lab—and surprising moments of joy. She even has a second chance for love. If she’s brave enough—and if she can come to terms with her loss, shed her guilt, and fully embrace living. If you enjoy emotionally compelling stories about family relationships, women’s friendships, romance for women over forty, and the pets who bring us so much joy, you’re going to love USA Today bestselling author Ev Bishop’s The Second Chance Shop, a brand-new small-town contemporary romance series about overcoming heartbreak, starting over later in life, and finding home again. . . .

Download or read book A Pot of Soup written by Mairo Muhammad Mudi and published by Exceller Books. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating narrative spanning across pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras, we delve into the lives of two remarkable women from different backgrounds and generations. Their story is a tapestry of love and pain, tradition and civilization. We witness the plight of a woman deeply devoted to her husband and family but entangled in conflicts with her in-laws, eventually reaching a breaking point. She embarks on a journey abroad, seeking solace and a fresh start. Fate intervenes when she encounters a mysterious woman, perhaps bound for the same destination, driven by a quest to reunite with her son in England. Their intertwined paths ignite a saga of hope and helplessness, revealing the indomitable spirit of these resilient women.

Download or read book Hero De Jure written by Suzan Harden and published by Angry Sheep Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After six months of relative quiet, the legal team of Winters & Franklin find themselves defending America’s greatest superhero after a tragedy in San Francisco results in a horrible death toll. Are Harri and Aisha representing the worst mass murderer in U.S. history? Or is Ultramegaperson the pawn in someone else’s game? The Law Offices of Winters & Franklin, where the only thing more dangerous than a superhero is his attorney.

Download or read book Reading Circles Novels and Adult Reading Development written by Sam Duncan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers, and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading.

Download or read book Petrodor written by Joel Shepherd and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the quartet A Trial of Blood & Steel picks up the story of the brave and independent heroine, Sasha, now living in the port city of Petrodor. Away from the hills of her Lenayin homeland, Sasha is making a new life in the dark alleys and wealthy houses of Petrodor. An influential trading centre, Petrodor holds the key to preventing the coming war between Lenayin and the mighty Bacosh. Together with her old mentor Kessligh, Sasha attempts to navigate the political intrigues of the port city and find a way to stop the war. It is the serrin, the beautiful but dangerous people from beyond the Bacosh, who will be the pivotal point in this struggle. How much can Sasha trust her old serrin friend Errollyn? And how much can she trust herself?

Download or read book Written in the Stars written by Aisha Saeed and published by Nancy Paulsen Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Naila's vacation to visit relatives in Pakistan turns into a nightmare when she discovers her parents want to force her to marry a man she's never met"--

Download or read book The Catch written by Ev Bishop and published by Winding Path Books . This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is finding "home" simply finding love? Aisha Bailey has been deeply afraid of change ever since she was a pregnant teenager mourning the loss of her mother. This newly recognized truth clashes with how she’s always seen herself: fiercely independent, spontaneous and willing to take risks, an entrepreneur bent on doing something important and creating a financially secure, permanent home for her and her daughter. If she’s none of those things, who is she? If she’s happy living and working at River’s Sigh B & B for the long haul, does that make her weak? But if she only pushes herself to change in order to avoid seeming weak, isn’t that worse? Her whole future is up in the air and it’s driving her crazy. Then she meets Jase, the big, gentle, crazy-sexy new groundkeeper. Suddenly, her regular routines and homebody life are even more satisfying and pleasurable than usual, and she catches herself dreaming of a life partner and more children. It’s . . . terrifying. Talk about things with the power to hurt you—and to derail your plan to make plans! Plus, she has enough people to worry about, thank you very much. Drifter Jase Scott is homeless and always has been. It was a constant source of pain as a kid and doesn’t hurt less with age. Thankfully, he has construction skills and knows how to work hard. He’s not broke and he can take care of himself and his responsibilities. When he and his foster brother Colton hire on for a couple months’ labor at River’s Sigh B & B, Colton is bored, but Jase finds himself in the kind of home, amidst the type of family, he’s always longed for. And best of all, there’s Aisha, a woman like no-one he’s ever known. He’s not deluded. Guys like him don’t end up at places like River’s Sigh B & B permanently, no matter how hard they work. And someone like Aisha could never truly belong with the likes of him—something she’ll be the first to say if she ever finds out the secret he’s keeping. Choosing to love is choosing to embrace change and risk pain. That's always the catch, isn't it? Fans of heartwarming small-town contemporary romance, mother daughter stories, second chances, friends to lovers, coming of age stories, and furry dog friends will fall in love with River’s Sigh B & B and never want to leave!

Download or read book The Bird King written by G. Willow Wilson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . . Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn’t leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As the two traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate. “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology “A triumph . . . one of the best fantasy writers working today.” —BookPage “A treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy

Download or read book Around the World in 366 Tales January Journeys written by Steve Wilson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she finds a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is a little disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. Her journeys this month take her to south-western Europe, North Africa and the extreme north of the North American landmasses.

Download or read book Secret Beast Club The Mer People of Crystal Pier written by Robin Birch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the club, find the magic! The third book in the brilliant Secret Beast Club series - brimming with adventure, friendship and an amazing array of magical creatures! A must-read for fans of Beast Quest and Bad Mermaids. Aisha and Jayden and the rest of the Secret Beast Club are back and ready for a whole new adventure! A mysterious necklace has been found in Liverpool by Ocean Jones, the owner of a local sightseeing company. She claims the necklace belongs to a real mer-person, promoting her boat tours with promise of a real sighting. The Secret Beast Club know that a mer-person's necklace holds powerful magic and wouldn't be carelessly lost . . . Feeling sure that Ocean isn't telling the whole truth, the Secret Beast Club vow to investigate. But this is their most dangerous mission yet - the sea is treacherous and mer-people have a natural mistrust of humans - will the Secret Beast Club save the day, and protect the mer-peoples' hidden home, before they too succumb to power of mer-magic? 'Magical, inclusive and exciting' The Bookseller on The Secret Beast Club series

Download or read book Little Victim written by Harry Keeble and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Baby Xwe learned how super-tough cop Harry Keeble and his colleagues in Hackney's Child Protection Unit rescued dozens of kids, faced lynch mobs and undertook the impossible job of interviewing paedophiles. Now, in Little Victim, Harry takes us through an extraordinary year in the life of the unit, as the team investigates some of the worst cases of child abuse they've ever encountered.These include a middle-class mother who shook her baby to death, the children kept in a cage, the rape of a three-year-old boy and an innocent grandfather falsely accused of paedophila. Little Victim provides a unique insight into the complex issue of child abuse in the UK. Continuing his battle to bring Britain's child abusers to justice, Harry is pushed right to the edge as he confronts horrors past and present.

Download or read book Spectrum Reading Workbook Grade 8 written by Spectrum and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong reading skills are the basis of school success, and Spectrum Reading for grade 8 will help children triumph over language arts and beyond. This standards-based workbook uses engaging text to support understanding knowledge integration, key ideas, story structure, and details. --Spectrum Reading will help your child improve their reading habits and strengthen their ability to understand and analyze text. This best-selling series is a favorite of parents and teachers because it is carefully designed to be both effective and engagingÑthe perfect building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Download or read book Not God Enough written by J.D. Greear and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor and author J. D. Greear reveals that the secret to a robust, passionate faith isn't getting all the right answers about God, but seeing God as the awesome, glorious, and infinite presence that He is. We like God small. We prefer a God who is safe, domesticated, who thinks like we think, likes what we like, and whom we can manage, predict, and control. A small God is convenient. Practical. Manageable. For us, thinking of God as so infinitely greater and wiser than we are and who would cause us to tremble in his presence is a leftover relic from an oppressive, archaic view of religion. But what if this small version of God we've created is holding us back from the greatest experience of our lives--from genuine, confident, world-transforming faith? In Not God Enough, J.D. reveals how to discover a God who: is big enough to handle your questions, doubts, and fears is not silent is worthy of worship wants to take you from boring to bold in your faith has a purpose and mission for you on earth is pursuing you right now The truth: God is big. Bigger than big. Bigger than all the words we use to say big. Only a God of infinite power, wisdom, and majesty can answer our deepest questions and meet our deepest longings. God is not just a slightly better, slightly smarter version of you. God is infinite and glorious, and an encounter with Him won't just change the way you think about your faith. It'll change your entire life.

Download or read book Instigating Profligacy written by E. Barbuto and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-something Aviva moved to Cairo shortly after graduating from college with a degree in elementary education. She became a teacher not because she cared passionately about educating the young, but for the traveling opportunities the career provided. Aviva's best friend, Aisha, has visited her mother's family in Cairo on several occasions. When she's twenty-four, she decides to move to Egypt to live with them for a year or two. But there are problems from the beginning. When Aviva's roommate abandons her, the two friends become roommates, setting them up for some unforgettable exploits. Aviva and Aisha's worldly adventures range from hilarious to traumatic, taking them from Egypt to its neighbors and even farther east. Together, they suffer from culture shock that is worse the second year than the first. It comes from realizing that they've been desensitized to things that once stunned or saddened them-and causes them to question their own sanity. They get into and out of trouble, both at work and on vacation; learn new languages; and make friends and enemies along the way. One important lesson is reiterated everywhere they go-if they don't try to apply American logic, everything makes more sense! Instigating Profligacy: Aviva and Aisha's Adventures in the World is based on author E. G. Barbuto's experiences living, working, and vacationing in the Middle East and Asia.