Download or read book Maggie s Sauna written by Paul E. Furdon and published by Paul Furdon. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: book description: Mort Kessler, a retired businessman with medical problems, joins a local health club and meets and inner circle of zany characters. The often hilarious interaction of his newly-found friends and some unforgettable trips and experiences restore Kessler's sense of humor and consequently his physical and emotional well-being.
Download or read book Wild Girls written by Mary Stewart Atwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep meets Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, this daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original debut is part coming-of-age story and part supernatural tale about teenage girls learning their own strength. Daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original, Wild Girls is an exhilarating debut—part coming-of-age story and part supernatural tale about girls learning their own strength. Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachian town of Swan River: that she’ll be a frustrated townie forever or that she’ll turn into one of the mysterious and terrifying wild girls, killers who start fires and menace the community. Struggling to better her chances of escaping, Kate attends the posh Swan River Academy and finds herself divided between her hometown—and its dark history—and the realm of privilege and achievement at the Academy. Explosive friendships with Mason, a boy from the wrong side of town, and Willow, a wealthy and popular queen bee from school, are slowly pulling her apart. Kate must decide who she is and where she belongs before she wakes up with cinders at her fingertips. Mary Stewart Atwell has written a novel that is at once funny and wise and stunningly inventive. Her wild girls are strange and fascinating creatures—a brilliant twist on the anger teenage girls can feel at their powerlessness—and a promise of the great things to come from this young writer.
Download or read book Hello My Name is written by Arthur Marx and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maggie s Plan written by Rebecca Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's wonderful - she's just kind of destroying my life. Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However, she meets John (Ethan Hawke), an attractive, older university professor, caught in an unhappy marriage, and they start a relationship. Maggie's rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife, the domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard (Julianne Moore). The film moves forward three years and the couple have married and settled down with a daughter together. Everything has gone according to Maggie's plan, so why isn't she happy? And what sort of meddlesome scheme will she concoct next? Maggie's Plan, based on an unpublished novel by Karen Rinaldi, is both an affectionate send-up of highbrow academic culture and a treatise on modern self-realization. Rebecca Miller exhibits her characteristic sensitivity to female experience, but with a playfulness given freer rein than ever before in her work. The film was premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2015 and received its official US premiere in May 2016.
Download or read book Damage Control written by Frank Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lou, a renegade cop, stands on a deserted winter beach trying to summon the courage to bash his own head in with a rock as a way of covering up a murder. Cheryl, a bartender, fends off a request that she kill her best friend's husband. Bernard, a young college graduate, struggles to overcome the guilt of having caused somebody's death. These are the wounded and the confused, the maladjusted and the malevolent. These are just some of the people in "Damage Control," a collection of short stories by Frank Diamond, a columnist with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. These stories focus on the rough edges of human connectedness, as characters struggle to make the best of troubled circumstances that they helped to create.
Download or read book Erotic Faith written by Robert M. Polhemus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this profoundly original and far-reaching study, Robert M. Polhemus shows how novels have helped to make erotic love a matter of faith in modern life. Erotic faith, Polhemus argues, is an emotional conviction—ultimately religious in nature—that meaning, value, hope, and even the possibility of transcendence can be found in love. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Polhemus shows the reciprocity of love as subject, the novel as form, and faith as motive in important works by Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett. Throughout, Polhemus relates the novelists' representation of love to that of such artists as Botticelli, Vermeer, Claude Lorrain, Redon, and Klimt. Juxtaposing their paintings with nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts both reveals the ways in which novels develop and individualize common erotic and religious themes and illustrates how the novel has influenced our perception of all art.
Download or read book Maggie Ryan Volume One written by Joan Klengler and published by Joan Leslie Klengler. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Ryan is a saga of two families united by one woman. On the shores of Green Bay, an inlet of Lake Michigan, Maggie Kelly comes of age in the neighborhood of Menekaunee, considered by some to be the wrong side of town, beloved daughter of an Irish bar owner.At 15, she becomes the lover of Michael Kelly, son of a wealthy family. Their life and future happiness seems assured, until the arrival of Michael's brother Dan. Dan falls disastrously in love with Maggie, and determined to have her, sets about to get what he wants.Dan will have Maggie, for awhile at least. But times change and Maggie changes with them, testing the limits of her freedom.At the end of Volume One, Maggie appears trapped by circumstance, but her life will take an unexpected turn in Volume Two, when she meets the man who she will love above all else, a man for whom she is willing to sacrifice everything.
Download or read book City Lives written by Patricia Scanlan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re back and stronger than ever! Pre-order CITY GIRLS FOREVER, the new Patricia Scanlan novel, out Spring 2025. *** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** Devlin, Caroline and Maggie. Women in their prime. They have it all. Careers. Success. Marriage. They are the envy of their peers. But at what price? Just when Devlin has everything she has ever dreamed of, a callous betrayal shows her that there's no room for friendship and loyalty in business. Can she be as tough as she needs to be in a world of deceit and double-dealing, where honesty and integrity are rare commodities? Caroline, fed up being a victim, is no longer shy, unsure and needy. She's about to take a step that will change her life. Then tragedy strikes, and her plans change completely. But as one door closes...another opens. And Maggie, alone, unsupported and unhappy in her marriage, has to make a choice that will put her children's needs before her own. Has she the strength to do what she has to do? City Lives is the story of three women who have one great certainty in their lives. Their friendship. The enduring bonds of loyalty and love will carry them through the worst of times and the best of times. Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan. Number 1 bestselling author Patricia Scanlan is set to capture the hearts and enchant the minds of a whole new generation of readers who will fall in love with her sublime storytelling. A trailblazing women’s fiction author, all of her novels have been #1 international bestsellers, most recently With All My Love, A Time for Friends, Orange Blossom Days and A Family Reunion. She writes multi-generational family dramas with compassion and authenticity, and a hint of comforting escapism. ‘If you love Maeve Binchy, you MUST try Patricia Scanlan' Woman & Home 'Utterly magical and wonderful... warmth and compassion shine through' MARIAN KEYES 'Like being enfolded in a hug from the great writer herself: warm, comforting and full of love' CATHY KELLY 'There can be little doubt that Patricia Scanlan is the prolific queen of contemporary Irish popular fiction' Sunday Times 'There is a heartbreaking authenticity in her observations' Irish Times 'The ultimate comfort read' Glamour ‘If you love Maeve Binchy, you will love Patricia Scanlan’ Mirror
Download or read book Clint written by Patrick McGilligan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a Hollywood legend peels back the mystery surrounding Clint Eastwood to reveal a rebel with a clear vision of human existence.
Download or read book Leo written by V. Vaughn and published by Sugarloaf Press. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good things didn’t happen to Gracie. Her thirty years of life hadn’t been easy caring for everyone around her, and she was used to putting her own needs last. That’s why when she meets Leo, the hot new employee at Sugar Mountain, she doesn’t dare to believe he’s interested in her. But he’s relentless in his pursuit of Gracie, and she lets herself fall for him when he tells her they’re forever. What she doesn’t know is what forever with Leo means. Leo is a fierce werebear warrior used to completing dangerous missions. Being tasked with convincing his human true mate to love him forever was going to be easy. Persuading her to become a werebear, something she didn’t know existed, might not be. He had to tread carefully with the information because he knew telling Gracie at the wrong time could send her running. What he doesn’t know is that the greatest threat to his forever love is Gracie’s mother.
Download or read book Legacy written by Suzanne Methot and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others’ stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.
Download or read book Love Lost Love Found written by Beverly Rushin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins with a winter storm sweeping across a summer resort town in New Jersey. Maggie, a recent widow, is alone with her grief in a rented cottage on the shore. As the wind howls and blusters around her little red house, she opens her door to a stranger whose car has broken down on a nearby road. He explains that he saw her single light burning on the deserted shore and appeals to her for help and shelter from the storm. Maggie and Walt quickly become friends . Their advanced age and wisdom afford them the luxury of knowing that life is short so they indulge each day to its fullest. Their friendship is symbolized by this single light that brought them together and rescued each of them from a life filled by loneliness and despair. Maggie learns that Walt is not a widower, but unlike herself has a wife, Mary, who has been hospitalized with Alzheimer's disease and a fatal heart condition for more than a year. Walt is despondent over his conflicting emotions. His love for Mary is strong, but she has been unresponsive for years because of her illness. Walt feels he needs to go on with his life but feels guilty for doing so.
Download or read book Is This for Real written by Annie Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on my journey so far. It begins with an adventurous lad and a caring nurse who end up conceiving a baby girl born out of tragedy. This story follows the childhood and teenage years of Amber Brown and highlights the complexities of trauma, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Drawing you into the mind of, at first, a very troubled and confused little girl to a young lady who is determined to find true love, inner peace and whether her memories are real. She needs to find someone who believes her. To answer her heart’s yearning to know, “Is this for Real?” There is a very fine line between truth and fiction. With its many twists and turns, this story will compel you into the world of trauma and also some light-hearted adventures of a teenager escaping into the world of fantasy to escape her reality.
Download or read book Hard Road To Heaven written by Mark Henry and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling a still-wild age on a fast-changing frontier, a blazing new voice in Western fiction unleashes the drama of four men who once fought together, and now must join forces one last time to defeat one of their own. Original.
Download or read book Surfacing written by Nora Raleigh Baskin and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie is only a sophomore in high school, but somehow she can draw out people's deepest truths whether they want to share them or not.
Download or read book Maggie s Boy written by Beryl Kingston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alison marries Rigby Toan she cannot believe her luck. Rigg is the perfect husband – loving, ambitious and attractive – and everybody envies them their happiness. But when the recession takes hold Rigg's facade is stripped away and his flashy car and sharp suits prove to be bought by expensive lies. As debts spiral out of control and their home is repossessed, Alison is forced to open her eyes to the world and to the sort of man her husband really is. From his position as a private investigator, Morgan watches as Alison trudges the weary path of poverty and despair. But even he underestimates the inspirational strengths of her determination to eventually win through. Maggie's Boy, first published in 1994, is a heartwarming story of the determination and love that can conquer a change of fortune and terrible hardship.
Download or read book A Mother for His Child written by Lilian Darcy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started as one night of passion—but since Will Braggett has become a partner inMaggie Lawless' medical practice, it has turned into a steamy affair! Will, though, is a single dad: his priority is his little boy, Daniel. Will isn't ready tofind a new mother for his son—but Maggie is soon not satisfied being just his mistress.She insists they can only have a future if Will lets her get to know his child, too. Can Maggie convince Will?
