Download or read book It s Not Fair written by Melanie Dale and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey, you. Are you debating whether to destroy something with your bare hands or curl up on the couch for a decade or two? This book will solve all of your problems. (Sheesh, that's aiming a bit high.) This book is a cup of hot coffee, a ginormous bar of chocolate, or the magical fairy that comes over and does your dishes while you lie in the fetal position clutching a fluffy pillow. Sometimes when life falls apart the only acceptable response is hysterical laughter. When things get so far gone, so spectacularly a world away from any plans you made or dreams you dreamed, you feel it bubbling up inside of you and you scream, "It's not fair!" And it isn't. Fair is an illusion, and life is weird. This book will help you laugh at life's absurd backhands. This book is an empathetic groan of our collective unfairnesses. You might want to throw it across the room, and you might want to hug it like your new best friend. This book is about us sitting down together in our shared mess, taking a deep breath, gripping hands, looking the hard stuff in its beady little eyeballs, and bahahahaaing at it. Life's not fair, but we can learn to love this life we didn't choose.

Download or read book It s a Melanie Thing You Wouldn t Understand Melanie Notebook for Writing Notebook Cute written by Notebook for Melanie Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a Melanie Thing You Wouldn't Understand, Melanie Notebook for writing Notebook Cute Notebook Birthday Gift is a 120 pages Simple and elegant Notebook on a Matte-finish cover, birthday gifts for women, birthday gifts for men, Perfect gift for anyone who's Name Is Melanie Lovers Diary, It's A Melanie Thing, You Wouldn't Understand, Ideal Gift Idea for friend, sister, brother, gradparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens who love Melanie , Great for taking notes in class, journal writing and essays, Perfect gift for parents, gradparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens as a Birthday gift. 120 pages Size 6 x 9 (15.24 x 22.86 cm)- the ideal size for all purposes, fitting perfectly into your bag White-color paper Soft, glossy cover Matte Finish Cover for an elegant look and feel Looking for Notebook Gift for Melanie ? Are you looking for a gift for your friend, parents or relatives ? Then you need to buy this Cute It's a Melanie Thing You Wouldn't Understand, Melanie Notebook for writing Notebook Cute gift Journal for your brother, sister, Auntie

Download or read book The Loner written by Patricia A. Gray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abusive childhood has forged Nathan Kirkland into the man he has become-a hard-working, strong-minded, self-made millionaire. Add to that his extraordinary good looks, and he appears to have it all. There's just one problem: to blunt the pain of his past, Nathan has walled himself into isolation, both emotional and physical. Social interactions unnerve this intentional loner, and Nathan is convinced that the only way to avoid hurt is to be the one doing the hurting. While many around him fall for his chameleon-like personalities, there are some who know the destruction of which Nathan is capable and are determined to bring it to light. Threatened, Nathan becomes merciless in his quest for revenge and frantic in his struggle to maintain the facade of his life. But when confronted with an unattainable woman, Nathan can no longer hide behind his pretense of perfection, and his long-sequestered vulnerability unfolds. His all-too-flawless world turns upside down, opening emotions Nathan thought he'd buried long ago and leading to chilling consequences. The Loner is a tightly woven tale of a man who is not what he seems to be and a fascinating probe into the psyche of a person who discovers the inevitable price of fleeing the past.

Download or read book The Likely World written by Melanie Conroy-Goldman and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[T]hemes of motherhood, love, and addiction collide in heartbreaking and dangerous ways” in this provocative and fascinating debut novel (Publishers Weekly). After twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user’s short-term memory, Mellie’s mind is a messy collection of fragments. Now a single mother, she has decided to get clean with the help of a tough-minded sponsor. She desperately clings to her fragile sobriety, but on the evening of her twenty-ninth day sober, a stranger pulls into Mellie’s driveway—and her heart surges. To protect her new life and her two-year-old daughter, Mellie must now piece together the shards of her traumatic past. Shifting between 1988 and 2010, Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s debut novel is “bizarre and beautiful, equal parts brainy lit and gut-bucket pulp” (Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior).

Download or read book Falling Suns written by J. A. Corrigan and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An outstanding first novel, dark, disturbing and unputdownable' 5* review 'Absolutely compelling' 5* review 'Completely engrossing and I couldn't wait to get back to read another page' 5* review 'Deserves more than 5 stars' 5* review 'Had me completely hooked from start to finish' 5* review Ex-DI Rachel Dune's small son is missing. Then his body is discovered. Her cousin Michael is found guilty of his murder and incarcerated in a secure psychiatric unit. Four years later, now divorced and back in the police force, Rachel discovers that Michael is being released to a less secure step-down unit, with his freedom a likely eventuality. Unable to cope with this, she decides upon revenge, assuming a new identity to hunt him down and kill him. However, as she closes in on her target, her friend Jonathan, a journalist, uncovers some unnerving information about her mother and others in her family and begins to suspect that Rachel's perception of the truth might not be as accurate as she thinks. And she might be about to murder the wrong man... A dark and gripping psychological thriller for fans of Belinda Bauer, Mark Edwards, Clare Mackintosh.

Download or read book Low Income Students Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa written by Melanie Walker and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores learning outcomes for low-income rural and township youth at five South African universities. The book is framed as a contribution to southern and Africa-centred scholarship, adapting Amartya Sen's capability approach and a framework of key concepts: capabilities, functionings, context, conversion factors, poverty and agency to investigate opportunities and obstacles to achieved student outcomes. This approach allows a reimagining of 'inclusive learning outcomes' to encompass the multi-dimensional value of a university education and a plurality of valued cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds whose experiences are strongly shaped by hardship. Based on capability theorising and student voices, the book proposes for policy and practice a set of contextual higher education capability domains and corresponding functionings orientated to more justice and more equality for each person to have the opportunities to be and to do what they have reason to value. The book concludes that sufficient material resources are necessary to get into university and flourish while there; the benefits of a university education should be rich and multi-dimensional so that they can result in functionings in all areas of life as well as work and future study; the inequalities and exclusion of the labour market and pathways to further study must be addressed by wider economic and social policies for 'inclusive learning outcomes' to be meaningful; and that universities ought to be doing more to enable black working-class students to participate and succeed. Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa makes an original contribution to capabilitarian scholarship: conceptually in theorising a South-based multi-dimensional student well-being higher education matrix and a rich reconceptualisation of learning outcomes, as well as empirically by conducting rigorous, longitudinal in-depth mixed-methods research on students' lives and experiences in higher education in South Africa. The audience for the book includes higher education researchers, international capabilitarian scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.

Download or read book A Change of Climate written by Hilary Mantel and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.

Download or read book Nothing Week written by Pete Hancock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nothing Week' is the other week following pay-week when those with something left in their pockets contribute to the well-being of others whose meagre income has been largely absorbed by 'book-up' or gambling. Set in the remote South Australian township of Oodnadatta on the edge of the Simpson Desert, this enriching narrative offers a bridge into Aboriginal culture following the ups and downs which typify life in that unique community. A number of contemporary social and political issues are discussed in the context of a fictional five-week slice of time from the third week of May through to June.

Download or read book AT THE CROSSROAD written by Olfet Agrama and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT THE CROSSROAD the decisions we take at every crossroad in our lives shape our destiny. Egypt, after the Second World War, was torn between the East and West. Occupied by the British and ruled by a corrupt King, it was inevitable that by 1952 the country would be convulsed by a military revolution. We follow four young people born during the occupation and learn how their lives and loves intertwine with the political events of their country. Nadia lives a western lifestyle, but suffers the intellectual and physical repressions imposed upon her by a conservative Moslem father. Melanie, whose mother is British, enjoys the semblance of a free and emancipated life in a world that never completely accepts her. Sammy, brought up in England, is still a product of the Middle East. He succeeds in escaping from the political restrictions of the military regime, but cannot escape his macho culture. Hassan is the victim of his ideals. His belief in the revolution is shattered when he perceives the corruption of the new government and when the Egyptian Army is defeated in the Suez Canal War. Through the adventure, romance, joy, and tragedy of our four protagonists, we get a glimpse of life in the Middle East in the fifties and sixties.

Download or read book The Sheik s Convenient Bride written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox Books LLC (www.ElizabethLennox.com). This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only reason Kylie had come back to the palace was to prove to everyone that she was over Tarek. Her girlish infatuation was a thing of the past. So how did she end up dining with the sheik? And why was her body still vibrating when he kissed her? Why couldn’t she simply put her infatuation in the past where it belonged? Tarek took one look at the fascinating beauty and knew that Kylie was the woman he was going to have for his wife. He didn’t want to marry, but the terms of the peace treaty were absolute. So if he had to do it, why not do it with the lovely, feisty and sexy woman that he couldn’t get out of his mind?

Download or read book All Your Tomorrows written by J. Nathan and published by J. Nathan. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora was getting along just fine as a college student and part-time medium when Kyler walks into her life. He's stuck between two worlds and doesn't know why. He needs Nora's help to uncover the truth but what they discover is far more complicated. His past holds secrets and conceals lies—ones he's better off not remembering. The more time they spend together, the more their connection grows, and it becomes clear they've come into each other's lives for a reason. Nora no longer wants Kyler to cross over, but she knows she's there to help him move on—not fall for him. A relationship between the two of them could never work anyway. He's going to disappear from this world forever, and she's going to be left to pick up the pieces of a broken heart. But, for the first time in her life, Nora no longer views her ability as a gift. She views it as a curse with a quickly approaching end date.

Download or read book Rewind written by Adam Moon and published by Gealach Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m writing this journal from a jail cell in an alternate dimension, awaiting execution by an advanced race of humans from another universe. I know it sounds absurd, but not nearly as farfetched as the sequence of events that led me here. I suppose I deserve my fate. Time travel’s messy, and there can be severe consequences for the universe you’re traveling in if you screw things up. That’s the gist of why I’m here. My name is Jack and I’m a thirty-four year old high school history teacher from another Earth that hasn’t yet discovered time travel on its own. A time tourist ruined my universe and it was my job to reverse the damage. Nothing went according to plan. We should have known we couldn't change things. Keywords: time travel, dimensional travel, time paradox, time tourist, dystopian, alternate timeline, alternate history

Download or read book Crystal Falls written by Annemie Byleveld and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payton has always been taunted by dreams so vivid and real that it haunted her waking days. Going in search for a place she belonged was the step she feared the most. But it turned out to be the easiest one of all. Her father was a werewolf, her mother a witch turned vampire. Before she knew it, she got involved in a world filled with magical, supernatural beings. Her journey toward the truth became even darker, filled with blood-filled rivers, hidden spells, and love so strong it consumed her. Caleb might be another vampire, but he was also the one who loved her from the moment he saw her as a tiny baby. When death is the only way to keep on living, Paytons choice became a war worth fighting for. Immortality seemed to be a sweet victory.

Download or read book Just Lucky Friends and Enemies Book 1 written by Fred Waiss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accident cost Ron Russell all use of his left arm. Some people allow their disability to define them. Others use it to push themselves to their limits. Ron did both. He entered college eight years later his devotion to physical fitness and martial arts prepared him to handle himself well in a fight. a freshman he acquired his first girlfriend, but their friendship ""with benefits" would go no farther and he gave her his blessing to pursue an old flame that had returned to her life. Then he meets Audrey. The two fall very much in love, but a year later, Audrey is brutally murdered, and Audrey is not the first victim. The police can gather no evidence, and there may be corruption on the force. Finally, Ron and Audrey's family decide that something must be done. Plans go awry; Ron barely survives the encounter; but justice is served. Then the story (with the accompanying frame story) skips ahead about twenty years, when Ron discovers something almost unbelievable.

Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Albert Samson Mysteries Volume One written by Michael Z. Lewin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of thrilling cases for the Indianapolis private eye from the “fast, funny, and brilliant” three-time Edgar Award finalist (Wall Street Journal). Michael Lewin “has brains and style”—and so does his Indy gumshoe, Albert Samson, so relaxed he doesn’t even carry a gun. In these three mysteries collected in one volume, Samson uses his wits to solve some very seedy crimes (Los Angeles Times). Ask the Right Question: Private investigator Albert Samson gets a shake-up with his new client: sixteen-year-old Eloise Crystal is desperate to find her biological father. What the detective unearths is the kind of dirt that makes people do desperate things. Thrust into a moneyed clan of old secrets and killer deceptions, Samson discovers that the first lie may be Eloise’s. The Way We Die Now: When Vietnam veteran Ralph Tomanek is charged with manslaughter, Samson believes there’s more to the story. But why was a man with a history of PTSD hired as an armed guard in the first place? The answer is a dizzying case of blackmail that lands Samson on the wrong end of the gun. The Enemies Within: Samson’s new client is Bennett Willson, a struggling writer looking for justice. It’s a pretty glitzy case for the cheapest detective in Indianapolis: Strong-arm a big-time Broadway producer who allegedly stole Willson’s play. Unfortunately, Willson proves to be as pure as the Indianapolis slush. What he wants is revenge. For Samson, finding out why could mean the final curtain call. The recipient of a Mystery Masters Award, a Raymond Chandler Society Award, and a Maltese Falcon Society Award, Michael Lewin, “writes with style and sensibility and wit . . . He can frighten the reader, too” (Ross Macdonald).

Download or read book St Nicholas written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: