Download or read book letters to the void and other creatures written by Alexa Cherniak and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "letters to the void and other creatures" is a short collection of poetry that goes through four stages - falling, loving, hurting, and rebirth.

Download or read book Half Baked written by Alexa Stevenson and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Alexa Stevenson had spent most of her life preparing for the wrong disasters. When her daughter is born 15 weeks early, she is plunged into the strange half-light of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, where she learns the Zen of medical uncertainty and makes the surprising discovery that a worst-case scenario may just be the best thing that's ever happened to her. The absurdities of the medical system, grappling with mortality, and coming into one's own are all explored in this wryly heartfelt memoir. From the indignities of infertility treatments to managing bedrest and parenting a preemie (how does one wrangle an oxygen tank while changing a diaper?), Alexa recounts her rocky road to motherhood with a uniquely sharp, funny, yet poignant voice.

Download or read book Letters from Home written by Cary Dufour and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents of adult children around the world will laugh and cry as they share in this Marine Corp Mom's journey through USMC Boot Camp.

Download or read book Beautiful Secret Baby written by Alexa Davis and published by Ownit Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axel is an adrenaline junkie with a strong craving for anything fast—fast bikes, fast cars, fast living. His reputation as an all-around bad boy is as notorious as his reputation in the street-racing game. Then he meets Savannah: sexy, savvy and the only woman Axel has ever met who is capable of beating him in a race. The two go head-to-head and tensions—and passions—flare. When Axel just barely beats Savannah in a race, he knows he has met his match. . .in more ways than one. Savannah is the woman of his dreams. That is, until she disappears without a trace. Axel spends the next few years trying to erase the painful memories of Savannah, and kill his secret dreams of what they could have built together if only she had stayed. But when Savannah returns six years later, she's not alone. Standing beside her is a little boy who bears a startling resemblance to Axel. . . .

Download or read book Saving the Dream written by Vanessa D. Gilmore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving the dream is a fiction novel which tells the story of a young woman and her decision to have her baby or give it up for adoption. The book alternately explores the life that her son lived with his birth mother and the life he might have lived with his adoptive mother. Ultimately, it asks readers to consider how each mothers dream impacts her life, the life of her son and the lives of other people he meets on his life journey.

Download or read book The Greek s Secret Heir written by Rebecca Winters and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The billionaire is back… …for good?Alexa has never forgotten her first love, Nico Angelis. A mix-up tore their relationship apart… and Alexa felt like she had no choice but to keep their child a secret. Now Nico is back. He can’t believe he’s a father. While Alexa is thrilled that he wants to be a part of their daughter’s life…is she ready to be part of his? From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories. Secrets of a Billionaire Book 1: The Greek’s Secret Heir

Download or read book Brothel written by Alexa Albert and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began as a public-health project by a Harvard medical student evolved into an intimate, ambitious, six-year study of the brothel ecosystem and a book that puts an unforgettable face on America’s maligned and caricatured subculture. “A fascinating glimpse into a hidden lifestyle.... It's an instantly gratifying page-turner.... It emerges as a personality-filled memoir about an unforgettable group of women." —Seattle Weekly Not a single legal prostitute in Nevada had contracted HIV since testing began in 1986. Why? Harvard medical student Alexa Albert traveled to Nevada in search of answers. Gaining unprecedented access to the infamous and notoriously secretive Mustang Ranch, Albert reveals a fascinatingly insular world where the women share their experiences with unexpected candor. There’s Dinah, Mustang’s oldest prostitute, who turned her first trick years ago at age fifty-one. And Savannah, a woman who views her work as a “healing” social service for needy men. Nevada’s legal brothels are an incredibly rich environment for examining some of this nation’s thorniest social issues. From problems of class and race to the meaning of family, honor, and justice—all are found within this complex and singular microcosm. And in a country where prejudice is a dirty word—but not as dirty as hooker—these social issues are compounded and deepened by the stifling stigma that has always plagued the profession. But in the end, all of Mustang’s working girls are just women trying to earn their way to happiness. Brothel is a landmark work that probes beyond the veil of desire and fantasy in which the sex trade shrouds itself—and uncovers the naked humanity at its core.

Download or read book Seal Secret Baby written by Alexa Davis and published by Ownit Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 years ago, Liam left to join the SEALs. At the time, he and Alyssa were madly in love; he even had the ring bought. But when her brother was killed overseas, she could no longer stomach the idea of Liam fighting for his country. She went crazy, trying to convince him to find a way to get out of the service. Knowing that he couldn't, and knowing it would kill her for him to serve his country, he broke up with her. However, he left a piece of himself behind: Holly, their daughter. Alyssa could have told him, should have told him, but kept the news of Holly to herself for twelve years. It is only when Liam returns to their hometown that she reveals the truth. Holly, elated to have both parents in her life, begins plotting on how to get them back together. But it won't be easy.

Download or read book Mezzaluna written by Michele Leggott and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mezzaluna gathers work from Michele Leggott's nine books of poetry. As reviewer David Eggleton writes: "Leggott shows us that the ordinary is full of marvels which... stitched, flow together into sequences and episodes that in turn form an ongoing serial, or bricolage: a single poem, then, rejecting exactness, literalism, naturalism in favor of resonance, currents, patterns of ebb and flow." In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush textured soundscapes. Her poetry covers a wide range of topics rich in details of her New Zealand life, full of history and family, lights and mirrors, the real and the surreal. She focuses on appearance and disappearance as modes of memory, familial until we lose sight of that horizon line and must settle instead for a series of intersecting arcs. Leggott writes with tenderness and courage about the paradoxes of losing her sight and remaking the world in words.

Download or read book Republics of Letters written by Peter Kirkpatrick and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republics of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia is the first book to explore the notion of literary community or literary sociability in relation to Australian literature. It brings together twenty-four scholars from a range of disciplines - literature, history, cultural and women's studies, creative writing and digital humanities - to address some of the key questions about Australian literary communities: how they form, how they change and develop, and how they operate within wider social and cultural contexts, both within Australia and internationally.

Download or read book Now See Hear written by Ian Wedde and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now See Hear! has been assembled around the central rubric of translation, and essays address translations between art, language, advertising, television, graphic design, comics, video, film, history, art-history, signs and symbols, landscape and architecture, within the context of the current conditions of the market place.

Download or read book Mr Make Believe written by Beezy Marsh and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of a stay-at-home mother’s misadventures is “a fun read that ‘imperfect mums’ everywhere will adore” (The Sun). While her husband Matt’s career takes off, Marnie Martin is left with the task of pairing socks and locating Lego. His late nights at the office are turning into late nights who knows where else, and they haven’t had a proper conversation in weeks, sex in months, or a full night’s sleep in years. Marnie’s journalism career has morphed into writing a food column. But even that turns into disaster when Marnie gets distracted by a daydream about her movie-star crush, Maddox Wolfe—which leads to a missed deadline and a case of food poisoning. There’s only one option left for Marnie: blogging. As the anonymous “Mrs Make Believe,” Marnie starts spilling secrets and becomes the voice of messed-up mothers everywhere. But she never could have imagined that her celebrity daydream would walk off the screen and into her reality, turning her already muddled world totally on its head . . . This “compulsively readable and entertaining” novel (Daily Mail) is “a funny, sexy, clever book which brilliantly reflects the chaos of motherhood and marriage” (Alison McGarragh-Murphy, editor of The Motherload). “Funny . . . fabulously fresh and achingly honest . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage

Download or read book Kensington Chronicles 4 in 1 written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lori Wick’s Bestselling Kensington Chronicles Series Is Now Available in One eBook Collection! The four books in the classic series Kensington Chronicles (more than 400,000 copies sold) have now been gathered together into an ebook bundle for the first time ever! The Kensington Chronicles 4-in-1 ebook-only exclusive is sure to please Lori Wick's longtime fans as well as new readers longing for stories of love and adventure set in the romantic Victorian era. Enjoy these four full-length novels: The Hawk and the Jewel Wings of the Morning Who Brings Forth the Wind The Knight and the Dove Set in the 1800s, each of these stories tells of a young woman discovering adventure, family, and love. Sunny Gallagher, long believed lost at sea as a toddler, is now headed home to England with Brandon “Hawk” Hawkesbury after years in an Arabian palace. Victoria “Smokey” Simmons takes over command of her late father’s ship, and soon finds her dreams of a hearth and home in jeopardy from enemies without and doubts within. Stacy Richardson loves her husband the Duke of Cambridge, but he sends her away in a misplaced fit of jealousy—not realizing she carries his heir. And in the Tudor era, the king commands Bracken of Hawkesbury to marry, and high-spirited Megan is chosen as his bride. Yet Bracken cannot seem to voice his feelings for his captivating betrothed until it is almost too late. In every story readers are carried away on a tender journey of love, in which painful events become lasting blessings in Father God's care.

Download or read book Speed of Life written by Carol Weston and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award winning author Carol Weston comes an uplifting, heartfelt tale of bravery and strength in the face of loss and grief, perfect for tweens, teens and adults alike. "I will eagerly place it on my daughter's bookshelf, so that she, like Sofia, can find her own resilience and voice in our painful, joyful, speeding world."—New York Times Sofia lost her mother eight months ago, and her friends were 100% there for her. Now it's a new year and they're ready for Sofia to move on. But being a motherless daughter is hard to get used to, especially when you're only fourteen. Problem is, Sofia can't bounce back, can't recharge like a cellphone. She decides to write Dear Kate, an advice columnist for Fifteen Magazine, and is surprised to receive a fast reply. Soon the two are exchanging emails, and Sofia opens up and spills all, including a few worries that are totally embarrassing. Turns out even advice columnists don't have all the answers, and one day Sofia learns a secret that flips her world upside down. 2018 Best Fiction for Young Adults - American Library Association A 2018 Best Children's Book of the Year - Bank Street College of Education 2017 Best Fiction for Older Readers - Chicago Public Library 2019–2020 Young Hoosier Book Award Longlist Four STARRED Reviews Read the first page from Speed of Life: WARNING: This is kind of a sad story. At least at first. So if you don't like sad stories, maybe you shouldn't read this. I mean, I'd understand if you put it down and watched cat videos instead. I like cat videos too. Then again, this book is already in your hands. It starts and ends on January 1, and I was thinking of calling it The Year My Whole Life Changed. Or Life, Death, and Kisses. Or maybe even The Year I Grew Up. For me, being fourteen was hard. Really hard. Childhood was a piece of cake. Being a kid in New York City and spending summers in Spain, that was all pretty perfect, looking back. But being fourteen was like climbing a mountain in the rain. In flip-flops. I hoped I'd wind up in a different place, but I kept tripping and slipping and falling and wishing it weren't way too late to turn around. This book does have funny parts. And I learned two giant facts: Number one: everything can change in an instant—for worse, sure, but also for better. Number two: sometimes, if you just keep climbing, you get an amazing view. You see what's behind you and what's ahead of you and—the big surprise—what's inside you.

Download or read book Letters from Lockdown written by and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable collection of 'Covid Chronicles' -- stories from lockdown sent in from listeners to BBC Radio 4 -- making a deeply moving people's history of the pandemic. On 23 March 2020, as the deadly virus spread around the world, the UK went into lockdown. In the following weeks and months, it became clear that in many ways we were all in this together, but the illness and the long period of isolation would hit people in entirely different ways. When BBC Radio 4's PM Programme launched the 'Covid Chronicles' series, listeners from across the country - and beyond - began sending in their lockdown stories to be aired on the show. The results are astonishing: moving, profound, funny, powerful and an invaluable record of our collective experiences. Ranging from the everyday (the thrill of booking a food delivery) to the momentous (a wedding on Zoom), we hear about birth and death, loneliness and loss, community and kindness, as well as remarkable stories from those working in the NHS on the front line. This book is a collection of some of these Chronicles, written in the midst of one of the most unexpected and intense moments in our history. Together they give us an unforgettable portrait of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times, with all the humour and tragedy and uncertainty we've been through. 'It's inspiring that so many people have shared their stories - some everyday, some life-changing, but all very human. This is a wonderful collection of experiences, to record and remember this devastating year' Christie Watson, bestselling author of The Language of Kindness

Download or read book A Love I Can Trust written by Sanya Hudson-Payne and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexa, Emily, and Roxanne are three different women who share one thing in common: they all distrust love. As a child, Alexa witnesses the brutal murder of her mother by her alcoholic father, and then suffers incest and rape, perpetuated by her uncle and strangers. Maturing with an impenetrable shell, Alexa becomes the CEO and founder of a multi-million dollar company where she treats everyone with disdain, and seeks gratification through sexually demeaning encounters with men. Alexa's assistant, Emily, vows to focus on her career and avoid love at all costs, since her parents instilled in her that the sole purpose of love is to marry for money. Alexa's personal stylist, Roxanne, fights her own battle with trust and love, manifested through poor relationships because of her father's abandonment. As the three women travel down the path of their own destinies, combating issues of trust, a murder plot is revealed. Who wants one of the women dead? Follow the intriguing drama, set against a backdrop of passion, jealously, adoration, and betrayal in A Love I Can Trust. Sanya Hudson-Payne lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is an educator in the NYC public school system. She also freelances for various online magazines and speaks at empowerment seminars along the East Coast. http: //SBPRA.com/SanyaHudson-Payne

Download or read book The Baby Name Wizard 2019 Revised 4th Edition written by Laura Wattenberg and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised and updated version of the classic baby name guide, featuring updated trends, facts, ideas, and thousands of enchanting names! Your baby’s perfect name is out there. This book will help you find it. The right baby name will speak to your heart, give your child a great start in life—and maybe even satisfy your relatives. But there’s no shortage of names to choose from, and you can’t expect to just stumble upon a name like that in an A-to-Z dictionary. Enter the revised and updated fourth edition of The Baby Name Wizard. This ultimate baby-name guide uses groundbreaking research and computer-generated models to create a visual image for each name, examine its usage and popularity over the last one hundred years, and suggest other specific and promising name ideas. Each unique “name snapshot” includes a rundown of style categories the name belongs to, nickname options, variants, pronunciations, prominent examples, and names with a similar style and feeling. This new edition also contains expanded sections on popular names and style lists. A perfect, up-to-date guide to the modern world of names, The Baby Name Wizard will delight you from the first name you look up and keep you enchanted through your journey to finding the just-right name for your baby.