Download or read book Just a Girl in La written by Laura Mullally and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A year ago, I would’ve never guessed things would be this way. Afterall, I was just a girl in LA.” Ellie’s life isn’t exactly going as planned. Stuck in a dead-end job, at least she has her adoring boyfriend Finn to support her ... or does she? With her world quickly falling apart, good friend Pete convinces her to tag along on the trip of a lifetime to sunny California. A chance encounter in LA lands Ellie a job offer she can’t refuse, but who is the mystery employer she’ll be working for? And why all the secrecy? Ellie’s life is about to get a lot more interesting, and there’s only one shadow she needs to step out of—her own. Just a Girl in LA is an uplifting, funny read for hopeless romantics and a reminder that you should never give up on happiness. It can be found in the most unexpected of places.
Download or read book Love in a Boat written by Carla Prince and published by Carla Prince. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mediterranean Romance novel ... Books to make you feel good! Kate has no experience with men. She’s better with boats. Old boats. Flynn’s just bought a yacht. A luxury yacht. And he would never get involved with an inexperienced girl. But the summer sun is intoxicating, and Kate’s dog is showing a disturbing liking for luxury. Love in a Boat is the first book in the Mediterranean Romance trilogy, feel-good modern romances. The series: Love in a Boat Love in a Cala Love in a Cave Useful Keywords: Beach sun sand coast sea island swimming relax Rich luxury yacht harbor independent successful International mallorca majorca spain italy EU UK Vacation tourist travel lazy idyllic sunshine Humor upbeat happy ever after banter feel good Dreamy caring kind tender irresistible perfect Pet stray dog cat horse donkey animal lover save
Download or read book The Last Boat Home written by Rachel Sweasey and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of love, loss and second chances, The Last Boat Home will captivate readers of Fiona Valpy, Lorna Cook and Hazel Gaynor. 1940: When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations. 1996: Decades later, Felicity is just holding herself together after the sudden loss of her husband. Needing escape, she travels to a small seaside town in the South of France and is surprised to find a piece of home in the window of a small shop. How did a jug from her home-town’s pottery find its way to the Cote d’Azur? Seeking answers, she opens the door to the shop, and on the possibility of finding happiness after all hope seemed lost... Boldwood Books are proud to support the RNLI and have pledged to donate to the RNLI based on sales of The Last Boat Home to support the work they do saving lives at sea. Readers are loving Rachel Sweasey's captivating debut: 'I was swept up by this beautiful story of love, loss and the courage of so many during WW2' – Helen Parusel ‘I loved this dual time-line read. Set in the start of WW2 and present day it deals with loss and war and finding love when you don't expect to ever love again. This was a great book and I highly recommend this one.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Loved this book. I got totally immersed in the characters and their lives, loves and loss. The mix of fact and fiction and the two different time lines worked very well.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘A brutally honest account of how both men and women coped with the changes in their lives. This author writes so authentically about grieving that at times I simply had to stop reading. Anyone who has lost someone will immediately identify with the visceral pain felt by the characters. The settings were gorgeous and the descriptions of French food made me long to go back.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Loved it, sadness and joy, ups and downs. Hope there will be a sequel!’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Fantastic read, was enjoyable – even cried at one part I felt I was inside the book.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Download or read book LOVE WOMEN PART 1 written by Tram Doan and published by TRAM DOAN. This book was released on with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jiang family has two beauties, The eldest daughter, the eldest daughter, is as charming as a lover, the second daughter, the second daughter, is as beautiful as a fairy. Her biological mother died early, her eldest brother died in battle, the eight-word Taoist said she was a lonely star, and from a young age was sent to the village to be treated coldly by everyone. After returning to the government. She was always moved by her stepmother who loved her like her own child. The kind-hearted sister, like a fairy, did not pay attention to the curse and truly treated her well.
Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1941-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times! From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
Download or read book Rodrigo written by Robert S. Tapia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodrigo Pardav is just eight when his father immigrates from Mexico to the United States in search of a better life for his family. Although his father writes and sends money often, it is never enough to satisfy the basic needs of the family. Finally, five years later, Rodrigos father is able to bring his family to Chicago where he hopes they will all immerse in their adoptive culture. However, Rodrigo is not as willing to assimilate to the American way of life as his father had hoped. Rodrigo, feeling confused and isolated living in the United States, finds refuge in his identity and heritage as he embarks on a coming-of-age journey through adolescence during the turbulent 1960s. When he turns eighteen and registers for the draft, heated and intense arguments erupt between his parents about Rodrigos military duty. His parents send him back to Mexico City just as the Vietnam conflict begins. Three years later as the war rages on, Rodrigo realizes that his impulsive younger brother is about to turn eighteen. Knowing that his brother will likely register for the draft and choose to fight in Vietnam rather than flee the country causes Rodrigo to reflect on his own character and ultimately face a difficult decision. In this fascinating tale based on true events, a young Mexican man attempts to acclimate to a new way of life and somehow survive the American dream during 1960s America.
Download or read book The Summer Guest written by Justin Cronin and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. “A work of art . . . a great American novel.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him. From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people: Jordan Patterson, the haunted young man who will guide Harry on his last voyage out; the camp’s owner Joe Crosby, a Vietnam draft evader who has spent a lifetime “trying to learn what it means to be brave”; Joe’s wife, Lucy, the woman Harry has loved for three decades; and Joe and Lucy’s daughter Kate—the spirited young woman who holds the key to the last unopened door to the past. As their stories unfold, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itself—a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape. Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous talent. It is a book to treasure.
Download or read book Far from the Land written by Thomas J. Rice and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting of Far From the Land is rural Ireland in the 1950s. Thomas Rice has written a memoir about a way of life that no longer exists: no running water, no toilets, no electricity, and little access to education, jobs or basic health care. Early on the story plunges into a culture haunted by recent memories of famines and still showing some of the scars from The Great Hunger of the 1840s. Writing about father-son relationships, the author recalls the night his absentee IRA father returns from England for the first time in ten years. Known as The Voice because of his tenors talent, the impact of his first song, Thomas Moores haunting tribute to the sweetheart of his martyred friend, Robert Emmet, was beautiful. The poem was titled, She is Far From the Land. No one in the kitchen that night ever forgot it. It was the perfect song, sung by the perfect voice, at the perfect time. Far From the Land has the benefit of five decades of retrospection as the author brings each of his characters to life with startling honesty, without nostalgia or clich. Readers will come away with a renewed respect for rural Irish culture and her people.
Download or read book The Musical as Drama written by H. Scott McMillin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera. Until recently, the musical has been considered either an "integrated" form of theater or an inferior sibling of opera. McMillin demonstrates that neither of these views is accurate, and that the musical holds true to the disjunctive and irreverent forms of popular entertainment from which it arose a century ago. Critics and composers have long held the musical to the standards applied to opera, asserting that each piece should work together to create a seamless drama. But McMillin argues that the musical is a different form of theater, requiring the suspension of the plot for song. The musical's success lies not in the smoothness of unity, but in the crackle of difference. While disparate, the dancing, music, dialogue, and songs combine to explore different aspects of the action and the characters. Discussing composers and writers such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, The Musical as Drama describes the continuity of this distinctively American dramatic genre, from the shows of the 1920s and 1930s to the musicals of today.
Download or read book Pearl Jam Twenty written by Pearl Jam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pearl Jam Twenty is the definitive story of an unconventional band that established itself as ?the greatest American rock band ever? --
Download or read book Big Bluff written by Jeff Holtmeier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dad takes an unplanned detour during a family vacation to Winnipeg. He is lured by the Canadian lakes he fished as a young boy with his stepfather Cal and Uncle Joe. The rediscovery renews a dogged pursuit of the rare and elusive, freshwater monster -- the muskie. With single-minded fixation, three generations of Hawkins men (and an assortment of neighborhood kids) escape from civilization to focus annual fishing adventures on capturing a world-record muskie. Motivated by the enthusiasm of his young sons Z and Buck, Hawkins embarks on fishing expeditions to Big Bluff, the special lake of his youth. Grandpa Cal is invited to join the party and remains the grumpy skeptic based on past fishing experiences: "You knuckleheads couldn’t land a big one if it jumped in your pants." But for Hawkins and eldest son Z, no storm is too fierce, no forest too mosquito infested, and no boat motor too undependable to derail their dream. Comical predicaments and sometimes dangerous circumstances pepper the long hours and special moments the men share fishing on the intricate system of beautiful lakes that connect to Big Bluff. Early morning trips to the camp outhouse and greasy, dirty-dish-producing breakfasts prepared by Grandpa Cal fuel many extended days on the sacred water. Beyond fantastic speculations of giant fish and murderers, descriptions of fishing reel the reader into the ebb and flow of each day’s adventures. Roscoe, the boisterous, quirky camp owner, and muskie mentor Jasper, are just two of the colorful characters who inhabit the wilderness setting where the Hawkins men establish their tradition. Through a dense haze of evening mosquitoes and whisky breath, Roscoe tantalizes the boys with tales of "ji-uhnd" muskies as big as his "laig." Roscoe reveals treasured “secrid” directions to a hidden muskie promise land that will require navigating cluttered creeks, pushing heavy boats over multiple beaver dams, and a boatless portage through the forest. Years pass and normal life ensnares each of the men. Hawkins sees his fragile marriage with wife Abbey erode, watches his boys grow into men, and witnesses the unforgiving aging process claim vitality from his mother, Cal, and Uncle Joe. A strong desire to fully understand the people closest to him gives rise to a personal philosophy for Hawkins that probes and questions normally accepted "truths." Respect grows for his strong-willed mother, and Hawkins learns to cherish every occasion spent with Cal, Uncle Joe, and the boys. His marriage eventually ends and forces a difficult transition to a new life away from Z and Buck. But Hawkins gratefully learns that setbacks are not permanent. He discovers love for a spirited woman who often challenges his "simple-minded" male values. Can she accept the baffling worldview of this family of fanatical fishing nuts?
Download or read book Vanished written by Eden Darry and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came the storm, and then the blinding white light that made everyone in town disappear. Everyone except Ellery, Loveday, Rocky the dog, and Claude, Loveday’s big ginger cat. The light brought something else, too, something that isn’t human. Plagued by prophetic dreams that signal the end of the world, Ellery and Loveday set out across the country to save a girl they’ve never met who just might be humanity’s last hope. Rosemary Decker, leader of the Children of the Ark, wants the girl too. Except she wants her dead. Rosemary’s seen the end of the world coming and has been preparing for years. She’s going to make a new world in her own image, and nothing’s going to stand in her way. Another storm is coming and not everyone will survive it.
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Download or read book Dance of the Dead written by Christie Golden and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped on island and surrounded by undead creatures, a dancer must call upon unlikely allies in order to save her soul Larissa Snowmane is a dancer aboard a magical riverboat. For years, the craft has traveled in Ravenloft, unopposed by the sinister beings that rule over the Dark Domains. When the boat arrives at the zombie-plagued island of Souragne, however, the crew finds itself dancing to chilling music indeed. After discovering the captain’s sinister secret, Larissa must rely upon the creatures of the swamp—and her mastery of the magical Dance of the Dead—to save her own soul.
Download or read book Adrift written by Paul Griffin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other. Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their Hamptons mansion, Matt and John find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. The newfound friends head out into the Atlantic after midnight in a stolen boat. None of them come back whole, and not all of them come back.Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard an antique ship that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel weakens, things go horribly wrong. Adrift at sea for days, who will have what it takes to survive?
Download or read book Fake Innocence written by Alessandra Cesana and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model Verónica Dreick, ready to hand valuable information for a lot of money, disappears without being able to go through with her mission. Events transpire in the Principality of Monaco, where her friend Marian Fynch and her family are awaiting her for a pleasant holiday. However, after a few hours of restlessness over the disappearance of the girl, Veronica called from Florence, giving signs of life. Vincent Fynch, Marian's brother, is travelling to the beautiful Italian city to try to win over the beautiful model. At the same time, he desires to overcome the strong attraction he feels for sexy designer Cat Preston, who maintains a loving relationship with architect, and father of the boy, Phil Fynch. But what secret is Veronica hiding? Could it be related to the mysterious disappearance of photographer Alessio Rosso? His brother, Greg Rosso, will try to find out the truth in the hope of finding Alessio alive. The main suspect is famous model, Belinda Star, who maintained a tumultuous relationship with the photographer. But is she really to blame?