Download or read book How to Be Brave written by Daisy May Johnson and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy May Johnson's How to Be Brave is a delightfully zany yet heartwarming middle-grade novel about a young girl who bands together with her boarding school friends to find her missing mother. Calla North and her mother Elizabeth live a quiet but happy life together. Elizabeth happens to be the world's leading expert on ducks—but unfortunately, being an expert on ducks doesn't always pay the bills (no pun intended). When Elizabeth is offered a well-paid research trip to the Amazon, it's an opportunity too good to miss. But while her mother’s off exploring, Calla winds up at boarding school. No adventures are likely to find her there—or so she thinks. Then Calla receives the terrible news that her mother's plane has gone missing. Can Calla, her friends, and a motley crew of nuns defeat an evil new headmistress and find Elizabeth before it’s too late?

Download or read book Masquerade written by Lauren Thornhill and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy wants you, Christy, but he doesnt need you. I need you! Had those words been spoken by anyone other than Jack, Christine Sanford wouldve written it off as a bad joke and wouldve never allowed them to affect her so dramatically. He was her first love andtruth be toldher only love. But he had proven himself untrustworthy when she discovered that he had cheated on her. Regardless of his claims of innocence, she couldnt bring herself to trust him again. He meant what he said. Jack Jordan could never have foreseen falling in love with his childhood friend Christine. But even less could he imagine that they would break up two years later when evidence of his infidelity was brought to lightdespite the fact that he never cheated on her. Jack is forced to defend his name and love against the clever Troy Nolan, whom he is convinced is behind the deceit. But the deception runs much deeper than Troy, and Jack must unveil the truth in the midst of the lies that surround them.

Download or read book Dark Promises written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers challenge destiny and risk their lives in this Carpathian novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling “queen of paranormal romance.”* Gabrielle has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing the Carpathian warrior she loves nearly lose his life when it isn’t even his fight. All she wants is to be away from the Carpathian Mountains, far from vampires and the shadows cast by the crumbling monastery that hides so many terrible secrets. But she isn’t the only one in search of answers in the corners of the unknown... Trixie Joanes has come to the Carpathian Mountains in search of her wayward granddaughter, fearing that she has been lured there by something unspeakable. Instead, Trixie has stumbled onto the path of a desperate man and woman on the run. And they’re all fated for the lair of a mysterious ancient with revenge in his soul and the undying power to make bad dreams come true. *J.R. Ward, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Post Office Girl written by Stefan Zweig and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well." 2009 PEN Translation Prize Finalist The logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism.Christine toils in a provincial post office in post–World War I Austria, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from Christine’s rich American aunt inviting her to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Christine is immediately swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed: nothing is impossible. But then, abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose. Christine returns to the post office, where yes, nothing will ever be the same. Christine meets Ferdinand, a bitter war veteran and disappointed architect, who works construction jobs when he can get them. They are drawn to each other, even as they are crushed by a sense of deprivation, of anger and shame. Work, politics, love, sex: everything is impossible for them. Life is meaningless, unless, through one desperate and decisive act, they can secretly remake their world from within. Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig’s haunting and hard-as-nails novel, completed during the 1930s, as he was driven by the Nazis into exile, but left unpublished at the time of his death. The Post-Office Girl, available here for the first time in English, transforms our image of a modern master’s achievement.

Download or read book Alien Charm written by Judith Thain and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl, kidnapped from her planet, is left stranded on Earth. She manages to survive, then tries to blend in with earthpeople and still remain anonymous, for earthpeople hate aliens. After her true identity is discovered she goes from one adventure to another as she flees her pursuers, people who want to capture her for their own selfish reasons and those who want to save the world from extra-terrestrials. The U.S. government becomes involved in the pursuit. Leading the chase is Major John Andrews, who believes in alien abductions. The abductors have tormented him for years. She soon realizes that the only person who can help her is her worst enemy, Major Andrews. He suspects that she is the only person who can save him. Her goal is to go home, not save the world from their own foolishness, and certainly, not to fall in love.

Download or read book WILD WEST WIFE written by Susan Mallery and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to 1800s Whitehorn, Montana, in this fan favorite from New York Timesbestselling author Susan Mallery. All Haley Winthrop wants is a chance at building a home and family. So, aftercorresponding with a wealthy rancher, Lucas Stone, she finds herself in a stagecoach boundfor Montana, where she will become Lucas's wife. But before she even arrives her coach isheld up by a bandit. And he doesn't want money; he wants Haley. He has some disturbingthings to tell her about her future husband… Jesse Kincaid is only interested in one thing: to take revenge on the man who had hisfather killed. So he lies in wait and kidnaps the man's fiancée from her passingstagecoach. But he didn't count on the bride-to-be, Haley, being so beautiful, sobeguiling. Can he convince her that she's about to marry the wrong man before it's toolate?

Download or read book Everybody s Secret written by Dion Clayton Calthrop and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Girl written by Edwin Perley and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a 12-year-old hermaphrodite is forced to change from life as a boy to life as a girl, she and her family move to another state to conceal the secret. She is faced with personal embarrassment, the trauma of "corrective surgery" and the uncertainty of who and what she is supposed to be.To add to the pain, the girl struggles to relate to and be accepted by those who do not know her secret ... and the relatives who do. And her heart is later put on the line when she develops a strange romance with a boy who had been a best friend when she had still been living as a male.The New Girl is a tale that will have you on an emotional rollercoaster as you laugh, cry ? and truly get to know the person searching for an identity.

Download or read book This Brilliant Darkness written by Red Tash and published by Flying Birdbath Books. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brooding monster. A quirky professor. A small Indiana town with a soul of its own. Imagine if the writers of Northern Exposure sat down with Stephen King and decided to craft a dark fantasy thriller starring absent-minded academians, everyday goofballs, and a dark fantasy creature for good measure. Pondering big picture questions like "Why am I here?" and "Does Love Conquer All?" has never been so fun. That's THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS, the top-rated dark fantasy debut novel by the author of TROLL OR DERBY, Red Tash. Nothing is as it seems to be, and no one behaves in ways characters are "supposed" to act. How will it end? It's anyone's guess, in a book that keeps you turning pages, racing to find out what will happen next. Christine Grace finds her predictable scholarly life comforting, if a bit boring. Her live-in boyfriend presses her for marriage, but she's too philosophically inclined to take an interest. So, really, why does she suddenly start imagining things in the window's reflection? Is time truly starting and stopping all around her, or is she inexplicably cracking up? Greachin is an age-old being so tortured by his own karmic cycle that he no longer knows how to connect, except to identify potential threats through the cosmic ripples of space. When he zeroes in on Christine Grace, he experiences second thoughts for the first time in millenia. Will he go through with his grisly plan of murder and destruction? And what of these other characters--an aging physicist of ill-repute, a stubborn monk who takes his vow of silence too far, and a time-shifting star visible only from Bloomington? What a tangled web we weave, when monsters practice to deceive. Dive into This Brilliant Darkness, and follow the journeys of these characters, from Britain to the Heartland, from January's snowfall to Halloween's costumed festivities. THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS is a smart, karmic mystery populated by lovable brainy characters. Climb on, strap in, and hold tight. Readers are saying: "This is a fast-paced, exciting book that keeps you guessing until the very end. With an eclectic cast of characters, time travel and a karmic mystery, how can you go wrong?" ~Zombie Bedtime Stories author Thea Gregory "By midnight, I had not put the book down, and had no intention of putting it down. At 12:15am, my fourteen-year-old son stumbled out to get a drink of water. "You're still up?" he asked. "Go to bed." I looked up from my Nook, smiled, and said, "Not on your life, dude. Not until this ends." ~Librarian Amy Marshall "The way the author weaves fantasy, humor, science fiction, and mystery is, for lack of a better word, brilliant. I read the entire thing with admiration/envy, taking notes and thinking 'THIS is how you write a novel.' Remember when Scream blew the horror world away by actually using technology in a realistic way? Well here's blogging and online forums and long distance cyber friendships, honestly depicting the way we live in the 21st century." ~Poet Christina Grey AN OFFICIAL JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB MUST READ "The atmosphere of this book, so hard to simply label horror or paranormal...how about simply...A GREAT READ, is the true star. Ms. Tash so finely weaves a path of intrigue, terror, humor and suspense, that the reader is taken with each character, so very finely drawn. THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS is that rare book that one truly does not want to end!! When it does...next question is 'What else by Red Tash can I get my hands on? QUICK!!!'"~ Rick Friedman

Download or read book Living Witness written by Jane Haddam and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a 91-year-old woman, known for sparking controversy in her small town, is attacked, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is called in to consult on the case and finds himself matching wits with dueling Darwinists, devout Christians, and one dangerous criminal.

Download or read book The Things You Would Have Said written by Jackie Hooper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of extraordinary letters expressing the joys, sorrows, and surprises of ordinary lives. We've all missed the chance to say something important. Friends fall out of touch, loved ones pass away, or sometimes the courage required is simply lacking -- and thank-yous, regrets, feelings, and secrets are left unshared. In 2009, Jackie Hooper came up with a way to help people recapture a moment that had once passed them by -- she began asking them to write letters. Based on the popular blog The Things You Would Have Said, this extraordinary collection of letters brings together the moving, surprising, and inspiring stories of ordinary people. By turns heartwarming, funny, sad, and wise, the letters showcase a remarkable range of voices and subjects. From the indignant young boy urging his bully to become "a better man," to the woman apologizing to the girl she picked on in high school, to a man thanking the woman who protected his family from Nazis, the letters bring together an outpouring of emotion that is as compelling as it is cathartic.

Download or read book Plays for Today By Women written by Gillian Plowman and published by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays for Today by Women A wide-ranging collection of plays by women dealing with contemporary subjects such as sexual abuse, recession, war, poverty and the complexity of modern women’s lives. Many roles for women and girls provided. Suitable for study or for performance or as part of courses in Women’s Studies or Feminist Theatre Studies. All the plays have been produced and performed in the UK to acclaim and are written by commissioned playwrights. “The expanse of subjects this short collection covers shows that women are not just writing about the kitchen sink, the claim so often levelled. This collection (provides) a snapshot of an exciting time for female writers” @17percent The Plays For A Button by Rachel Barnett: comic two hander about two friends and the lengths one will go to, to remain best friends. Yours Abundantly, From Zimbabwe by Gillian Plowman: a middle-aged woman decides to leave her comfy life in the UK and work in a school in Zimbabwe. Welcome To Ramallah by Sonja Linden and Adah Kay: two Jewish sisters are forced to confront the reality of what their forefathers have done to the Palestinians. From The Mouths Of Mothers by Amanda Stuart Fisher: a verbatim drama detailing the distressing stories of mothers who learned that their child has been abused. The Awkward Squad by Karen Young: a three-generational drama involving Northern women who are trying to live and work in recessionary Britain. Sweet Cider by Emteaz Hussain: In a rundown park, two teenage runaways Tazeem and Nosheen hang out, chatting to the boys and an old bag lady, trying to reconcile being British with their Pakistani cultural traditions. About the editors Cheryl Robson is an award-winning playwright and publisher who founded Aurora Metro Books over 20 years ago to develop and publish new writers in drama and fiction. She also established The Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 to promote emerging women novelists. Previously, she worked for the BBC, ran a theatre company and taught in higher education. Rebecca Gillieron is an editor and musician with various releases on independent labels in the US and UK. Keen to raise the profile of women and the arts, she has worked in publishing for fifteen years moving from Virgin and Penguin Books into independent publishing via The Womens Press, Marion Boyars and now Aurora Metro Books.

Download or read book Loving Christine written by Lorhainne Eckhart and published by Lorhainne Eckhart. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very special Christmas Romance from the bestselling author of The Outsider Series and The Friessens.

Download or read book Some Like it Cold written by Elle McNicoll and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big-hearted small-town romance from bestselling, award-winning author Elle McNicoll, Some Like it Cold is perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Rainbow Rowell and Gilmore Girls. After a long absence, 18-year-old Jasper is finally heading home for the holidays - and she's keeping secrets. Arthur, a budding filmmaker, is turning the town of Lake Pristine into a small town story worthy of the big screen. His plans are disrupted by the arrival of the town's golden girl - the antagonist of his school days; a girl he's never forgotten. Jasper Montgomery is back in Lake Pristine for one reason: to say goodbye. But before long small-town tensions start to rise, and a certain brooding film buff starts to look like a very big reason to stay . . . The perfect story to get lost in, Some Like it Cold centers Jasper as an autistic heroine in a big-hearted small-town romance that will melt your heart.

Download or read book Dark Road Home written by Anna Carlisle and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer after she graduated from high school, Gin Sullivan's little sister Lily went missing. Her family fell apart, not to mention her relationship with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Now, almost twenty years later, Gin is living in Chicago and working as a medical examiner when she gets the call: a body's been found in the woods outside her small hometown. It could be her sister. After all these years, it's time for Gin to go home and face the demons she tried to leave behind. Confronting your past is never easy, but for Gin it also means confronting Jake, who was the prime suspect in Lily's disappearance. To find an answer to the question of what happened to her sister that fateful summer, Gin makes the difficult decision to use her talents as a medical examiner to help the police investigation. But as Gin gets deeper into the case, she uncovers a shocking truth that could change everything--if it doesn't destroy what's left of her and her family first. Buried secrets come to light in Dark Road Home, Anna Carlisle's sharp and simmering debut mystery.

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.