Download or read book The Private Lives of Trees written by Alejandro Zambra and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.

Download or read book Alejandro s Sexy Secret written by Amy Ruttan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… If only that were true! Surgeon Kiri Bhardwaj never expected to see sexy exotic dancer Alejandro Valentino again after their fantasy life-changing night together. But now they're face-to-face, and he's a specialist in her pediatric department! Working with Kiri proves to Alejandro that they haven't finished what they started all those years ago. But to claim what he's lost he'll have to lay his heart on the line and prove to Kiri their chemistry is for keeps!

Download or read book Try Me written by Parker Blue and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This part-demon teen vampire fighter and her faithful terrier hellhound are once again patrolling the dark city streets of San Antonio, Texas. Val's hunky human partner, Detective Dan Sullivan, is giving her the cold shoulder since she beheaded his vampire ex-fiancée. Vamp leader Alejandro is struggling to keep the peace between vamps, demons, and humans. The mucho powerful Encyclopedia Magicka has been stolen, someone in the Demon Underground is poisoning vamps, and Val's inner lust demon, Lola, is getting very restless since Val's now partnered with sexy Shade, the shadow demon with the blond good looks of an angel. The second book in Parker Blue's Demon Underground urban fantasy series plunges readers deeper into a heady world of passion, friendship, intrigue, and mystery.

Download or read book Flamed written by Alexandra J and published by Alexandra J. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge is a dish worth having. So, Ángel sets out to gratify his new client’s palate. However, his target, Alejandro Ruiz— the untouchable Cuban magnate— has more than just fast cars. Ángel finds himself wanting more. A job well done will simply not do. An amateur chef, determined to make ends meet in Jamaica, Ms. Murdoch, finds herself working for the devil’s grandchild, Alejandro Ruiz. His obsession, his command, his passion, all takes the promise of true love from the pages of an old novel and brings it to life. Leading into a love unquenchable like a million flames, Alejandro declares his lesson learned. He is ready to pursue a life with the cheeky chef. But, then a mysterious enemy strikes! With the shadows of his past coming out to play , their fire prevail or be snuffed out by the darkness?

Download or read book The Trilogy written by Diane Freeman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will take you on a journey of revelation like no other, involving the deliverance of many well-known individuals who were stranded in darkness due to their lack of knowledge of who they were, their life choices, and their delinquencies in choosing this day whom they would serve. They discovered too late that it matters what choices you make while living and that it is the difference between life everlasting and eternal separation from God. The good news is what happened when they met the author of this book and were delivered from evil. Please tell me your name, I asked one day as a soul attached to my energy field, looking for guidance home. I heard a name that was familiar to me and to many, many others in the world. His name was Ronald Reagan. I asked Ronald Reagan why it was that he was coming to me, for I thought him to be a man of faith. He simply told me that, sadly, he did not know God as I did and he did not serve God as I did while he was the president of the United States. To Ronald, this was a mistake, and he was apologetic about this lack of leadership in the nation that was called by its name because it was so named by the choice of the true commander-in-chief, Alejandro. Yes, Alejandro, for this is the name that is above every other name under heaven and on earth, and it has been lost to the multitudes due to endless times under captivity of His people where they were not allowed to call upon His name and they did forget His name days without number. It is His will that I, for the first time in eons, bring to the surface for enlightenment of His people once again his beloved name. There is no other name above His name, and He cherishes the sound of it. If you wish to verify His name, as I did, I recommend devotion to Him in the form of fasting, for I did fast forty days faithfully without food, only consuming water, for the sole purpose of discovering His hidden name. For the biblical record is clear that His name was forgotten by His people and the scholars over the years, and the people were not allowed access to their scriptures while in captivity, nor were they allowed to sing the songs of their praise to their God as is recorded in the psalms.

Download or read book Push Start to Auto Start written by Anu Kushwaha and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us often feel empty at heart even after achieving success, or we are confused about where life is taking us. This book reveals the reason behind the feeling of emptiness and why we feel that we are pushing our life instead of living life. PSTAS will also provide you solutions to come out of the vicious cycle of events and inspire you to start your journey from an unfulfilled life to a happy and fulfilled life by helping you to: • Identify the basic mistakes of daily life which lead us nowhere. • Understand the basic foundation of a fulfilled life. • Discover the reasons why we feel trapped in our life and provide solutions to come out of it. • Take control of your life in your own hands. • Balance money, health and relationships without feeling empty at heart. • Direct your energies towards a higher purpose.

Download or read book Life on the Malec n written by Jon M. Wolseth and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the Malecón is a narrative ethnography of the lives of street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the non-governmental organizations that provide social services for them. Writing from the perspective of an anthropologist working as a street educator with a child welfare organization, Jon M. Wolseth follows the intersecting lives of children, the institutions they come into contact with, and the relationships they have with each other, their families, and organization workers. Often socioeconomic conditions push these children to move from their homes to the streets, but sometimes they themselves may choose the allure of the perceived freedoms and opportunities that street life has to offer. What they find, instead, is violence, disease, and exploitation—the daily reality through which they learn to maneuver and survive. Wolseth describes the stresses, rewards, and failures of the organizations and educators who devote their resources to working with this population. The portrait of Santo Domingo’s street children and youth population that emerges is of a diverse community with variations that may be partly related to skin color, gender, and class. The conditions for these youth are changing as the economy of the Dominican Republic changes. Although the children at the core of this book live and sleep on avenues and plazas and in abandoned city buildings, they are not necessarily glue- and solvent-sniffing beggars or petty thieves on the margins of society. Instead, they hold a key position in the service sector of an economy centered on tourism. Life on the Malecón offers a window into the complex relationships children and youth construct in the course of mapping out their social environment. Using a child-centered approach, Wolseth focuses on the social lives of the children by relating the stories that they themselves tell as well as the activities he observes.

Download or read book The Town of Babylon written by Alejandro Varela and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing *Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he’d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.

Download or read book Kiss Me written by Jamie Craig and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a freelance photographer, Mal Donnelly is a complete professional, and doesn’t bat a lash at any assignment. Even the special St. Patrick’s Day photo-shoot on the set of a gay pornographic film. But just the sight of the film’s star, Alejandro Marroquin, is enough to turn him into a tongue-tied fool. When Alejandro asks him to dinner, Mal knows it truly is his lucky day. Alejandro doesn’t date. With his career, it is difficult to have any sort of real relationship. But Mal, the soft-spoken, talented photographer, had captivated Alejandro from the moment they met six months prior to the St. Patrick’s Day shoot. Still covered in green paint from the photo-shoot, he gathers up his courage and asks Mal to dinner. Alejandro can only hope that their mutual desire will overcome the obstacle of his career. After all, it isn’t easy being with the hottest porn star in town ...

Download or read book Immigrant America written by Alejandro Portes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the entire text with new information and added a vivid array of new vignettes and illustrations. Recognized for its superb portrayal of immigration and immigrant lives in the United States, this book probes the dynamics of immigrant politics, examining questions of identity and loyalty among newcomers, and explores the psychological consequences of varying modes of migration and acculturation. The authors look at patterns of settlement in urban America, discuss the problems of English-language acquisition and bilingual education, explain how immigrants incorporate themselves into the American economy, and examine the trajectories of their children from adolescence to early adulthood. With a vital new chapter on religion—and fresh analyses of topics ranging from patterns of incarceration to the mobility of the second generation and the unintended consequences of public policies—this updated edition is indispensable for framing and informing issues that promise to be even more hotly and urgently contested as the subject moves to the center of national debate..

Download or read book Farther Away written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

Download or read book Safe and Sorry written by Gustavo Bondoni and published by Creators Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were given the option, would you choose security or adventure? Would you choose to belong, or would you choose to stand out? Safe and Sorry features a cast of characters wrestling with the meaning of safety in a world that trends toward chaos. Estelle starts her story at the bottom of society with nothing to lose. As she works her way steadily up, she discovers she is now afraid to take risks, terrified that she’ll lose what she has worked so hard for. As she moves from city to city, enduring brief stints of homelessness along the way, she begins to question the merit of a stable life. In the meantime, the world goes on around her. Bondoni takes the reader from a seaside village in Syria to the rural plains of Argentina to the humble streets of Ohio. An ancient language dies with an old woman; a young zealot questions his family’s rigid beliefs; an Australian physician succumbs to her violent instincts. The lives of doctors, businessmen, terrorists, and serial killers are seamlessly and expertly intertwined as they coexist in the periphery of Estelle’s life — all struggling to strike the right balance between familiarity and freedom.

Download or read book It s Not a Shoot It s Just a Rib written by and published by Soul Monkey Publications. This book was released on with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Ordinary Fortune written by Judy Duarte and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today–Bestselling Author: He hired her to pour wine on an impulse—and now he’s becoming intoxicated . . . As vice president of Mendoza Winery, Miami transplant Carlo Mendoza knows most of the famous Fortunes. So when sultry Schuyler Fortunado saunters into the tasting room, claiming a connection to the Texas family, naturally he’s suspicious. Which doesn’t stop him from hiring her—or desiring her! The divorced restaurateur has vowed to keep his heart off the menu, but this feisty—and possibly faux—Fortune might just change his mind. What he doesn’t know is that she’s got an agenda of her own . . .

Download or read book Die Softly written by Christopher Pike and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb just wanted to photograph the cheerleaders in the school showers, but then he realizes he may also have photographed a murder.

Download or read book Ways of Going Home written by Alejandro Zambra and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl. In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathized—to what degree, the author isn't sure—with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life—which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonist—expose the raw suture of fiction and reality. Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late—the generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.

Download or read book Alejandro s Prey written by Nikita Slater and published by Nikita Slater Writing Services Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark mafia antihero romance novella by International Bestselling Author, Nikita Slater. The rules are simple. Don't talk to the men, don't communicate with the outside, stay loyal to the family. Gina tries to follow the rules, but every time she turns around there's a new rule! It's only a matter of time until she breaks one and becomes… Alejandro's Prey. He's an enforcer, second-in-command to one of South America's leading crime lord's. Rules are his life. He gave her one year - one year to adjust to him and his rules. But his sweet little mouse broke the rules and now she's his. Only someone else wants her, too… Alejandro's Prey is a mafia romance novella. Though this book is part of The Queens series and takes place one year after Scarred Queen, it can be read as standalone. Guaranteed HEA, NO cheating, NO cliffhanger. Keywords: possessive alpha male, dark romance, jealous possessive, gothic romance, seductive romance, alpha hero, novella, antihero romance, antihero dark romance, Bolivia, obsessive hero, assassin, tango, passionate lovers, sexually romantic books, part of a series, family, romantic suspense, capture fantasy, standalone, thriller, crime, mafia romance, enforcer, bodyguard, happily ever after, love books, love stories, contemporary mafia romance, mobster, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, dark mafia romance, billionaire romance, possessive alpha romance, bestselling series, bad boy, age gap, no cheating, stalker, protective, steamy, dominance submission, caged, marriage, captive romance, mob boss