Download or read book TUESDAY S KNIGHT written by Julie Kistler and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mommy doesn't know a great catch when she sees one! Tim like to play with me and tells Mommy she's beautiful. He's gallant, just like in romantic stories. But Mommy just wants to get rid of him. What is she afraid of? Tuesday Kally Malone used to have her life firmly in control. But now Tim's obsidian eyes and quick kisses in the kitchen made her all jittery—and if she were honest, made her feel alive. And her daughter, Tuesday, seven going on thirty, had a mission: to make Tim part of their family—as the daddy. But Kally didn't know if she was ready for a husband!

Download or read book Ruby Tuesday written by Mike Harrison and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Startlingly original, these hilariously offbeat storylines blend vivid characters with bleakly comical plots that are both human and uncanny. Each memorable character?including the elderly who take to the streets at night for illegal and cathartic electric scooter racing, a copy editor who suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry, and Mayor McCheese who visits a sexually repressed British couple in the early 1970s and touches their lives forever?contributes to the collection's unique voice.

Download or read book Family Healing written by Salvador Minuchin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of people’s lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. Unfortunately, the source of people’s greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of family dynamics against the background of his own odyssey from an extended Argentinian Jewish family to his innovative treatment of troubled families. Through the stories of families who have sought his help, the reader is taken inside the consulting room to see how families struggle with self-defeating patterns of behavior. Through his confrontational style of therapy, Dr Minuchin demonstrates the strict but unseen rules that trap family members in stifling roles, and illuminates methods for helping families untangle systems of disharmony. In Dr Minuchin’s therapy there are no villains and no victims, only people trying to deal with various problems at each stage of the family life cycle. Minuchin understands the family as a system of interconnected lives, not as a “dysfunctional” group. Each story of a therapeutic encounter brings a new understanding of familiar dilemmas and classic mistakes, and recounts Dr Minuchin’s creative solutions.

Download or read book Dispossessed written by Désirée Zamorano and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuel Galvan is separated from his parents and sister during the mass expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the 1930s. He grows from a small, lost and confused boy into a wandering and angry teenager pushed out of high school and into the dockyards. Later as a loyal, passionate husband he is a man searching for a life of value and dignity despite his losses. Set against the backdrop of (Mexican) American history in Los Angeles, forced deportations, the demolition of Chavez Ravine, sterilization of Latinas, student protests and rising political consciousness, this story spans his life, from 6 to 60, and his search for his missing family, the missing pieces of his life.

Download or read book Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 9 16 written by Ace Finlay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oracle (February 22-24,2015), Morning Glory (February 25-28, 2015), Hellbound (March 1-2, 2015), Choices (March 2-8 2015), Excellence (March 3-13,2015), Robin Jack (March 5-10, 2015), Finale (March 8-12,2015), The RedTower (March 12-16, 2015)

Download or read book Gabby Care written by B.A. Coots and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gabby Rendons co-worker and self-proclaimed boss accuses Gabby of embezzlement, she is forced to resign her position as glorified clerk at a church affiliated after-school program or face felony charges. Gabby wants nothing more than her safe, if dull, job and life back (secrets and all) after her identity is stolen, her only asset mortgaged, her reputation among her peers ruined, and her favorite tuberous begonia brutalized by a thug searching her things for a jump drive that can prove her innocence if only she can unlock it. An eccentric elderly church matron employs and eventually befriends Gabby. In the process, the matron wrecks Gabbys car, gives her terrible love-life advice regarding the aptly named Leroy Moody and assists Gabby in amateur sleuthing that lands Gabby in jail and accused of murdering her former co-worker.

Download or read book The Cairo Affair written by Olen Steinhauer and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist... Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when he hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved, calling to ask why her husband has been assassinated. Omar Halawi has worked in Egyptian intelligence for years, and he knows how to play the game. Foreign agents pass him occasional information, he returns the favor, and everyone's happy. But the murder of a diplomat in Hungary has ripples all the way to Cairo, and Omar must follow the fall-out wherever it leads. American analyst Jibril Aziz knows more about Stumbler, a covert operation rejected by the CIA, than anyone. So when it appears someone else has obtained a copy of the blueprints, Jibril alone knows the danger it represents. As these players converge in Cairo in the New York Times bestseller, The Cairo Affair, Olen Steinhauer's masterful manipulations slowly unveil a portrait of a marriage, a jigsaw puzzle of loyalty and betrayal, against a dangerous world of political games where allegiances are never clear and outcomes are never guaranteed.

Download or read book Big Lou written by Craig Hamrick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Edmonds was well known for his TV soap opera roles as Dark Shadows Roger Collins and, All My Children's Langley Wallingford, but his career was not limited to these characters. Working with such performers as Charlton Heston, Kaye Ballard, Joan Bennett, and Carol Burnett, he was a pioneer actor on live television in the 1950s and played numerous critically acclaimed roles on and off Broadway and on TV for five decades. Throughout his life, the gay actor battled-and conquered-depression, alcoholism, and cancer. Author Craig Hamrick chronicles the life and career of this remarkable man in the revealing biography, Big Lou: The Life and Career of Actor Louis Edmonds. "Craig Hamrick is a wonderful, gifted young writer with a heart-breaking story to tell. Big Lou is an insightful look at the theater world, crafted with warmth, humor and just the right dash of cynicism."-- Craig Lucas

Download or read book John Vachon s America written by John Vachon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-12-12 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance—from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a stirring and elegant record of this extraordinary photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank. Vachon nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a writer, and the intimate and revealing letters he wrote from the field to his wife back home reflect vividly on American conditions, on movies and jazz, on landscape, and on his job fulfilling the directives from Washington to capture the heart of America. Together, these letters and photographs, along with journal entries and other writings by Vachon, constitute a multifaceted biography of this remarkable photographer and a unique look at the years he captured in such unforgettable images.

Download or read book Whenever He Saw a Marching Band written by Michael A. Clarke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever He Saw A Marching Band is a love story about Kevin and Lou Ann, a boy and girl who meet in high school and fall in love. In college they drift apart and Kevin marries someone else. Years later, following his wife’s death, Kevin receives a letter from Lou Ann, herself a widow. He visits her and they soon realize that their love has been given a second chance. After an old-fashioned courtship they marry. Both men and women, especially the mature reader, will enjoy this romance-filled story of both youthful and adult love.

Download or read book Toy Dance Party written by Emily Jenkins and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A bit like the great movie Toy Story and a bit like the wonderful Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. This is a great family book.” —The Washington Post on Toys Go Out, the companion to Toy Dance Party Here is the second book in the highly acclaimed Toys trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go Out and Toys Come Home and chronicles the unforgettable adventures of three brave and loving toys. Lumphy, Stingray, and Plastic are back! And this time the three extraordinary friends find that their little girl has left for winter vacation and taken a box of dominoes, a stegosaurus puzzle, and two Barbie dolls—but not them. Could she have forgotten them? As the girl starts to grow up, the three best friends must join together to brave a blizzard, save the toy mice from the vacuum, and make sure that they’ll always have the little girl’s love. (And they still have time to throw an all-out dance party with the washing machine!) "Poignant and compelling, this sequel sparkles." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred

Download or read book Code Triage written by Candace Calvert and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Leigh Stathos likes her ER shifts fast, furious, and adrenaline-infused—“Treat ’em and street ’em”—with no emotional complications. Life’s taught her a soul-rending lesson: nothing lasts forever, including marriage. And the clock is ticking toward the end of hers. Then an unwelcome confrontation with “the other woman” begins a whole new set of lessons. San Francisco police officer Nick Stathos never gives up, whether protecting his patrol neighborhood, holding fast to faith—or trying to save his marriage. Seven days is all he has to reach Leigh’s heart. But when a desperate act of violence slams Golden Gate Mercy Hospital into lockdown, it starts a chain of events that will change lives forever.

Download or read book Family Secrets written by David Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Perkins mother dies of cancer when hes fifteen, leaving him and his father and big brother not just grieving but at a loss as to how to go on; she was central to the family, and now theyre paralyzed. But while Jim struggles to get up the energy to go back to school, and Dad begins secretly hitting the bottle, brother Frank wrestles with another problem, one that soon overshadows even Moms death: the mysterious and violent history of Woodsen Lake. Named for a pioneer trapper, the lake has been in Momsfamily for a hundred years, a source of pride but also of obligation, as each generation is sworn to keeping it at all costs. When Dad sells it to pay for Moms futile cancer treatments, she is furious and, from her deathbed, makes her oldest son, Frank, promise to get it back. Against his will, he agrees but how? The businessman its sold to, Mr. Bunsen, plans to develop it, to line its ancient shores with luxury apartments and condominiums. He has no appreciation for the lakes history or its importance to Jims family, only its profit potential. He has a daughter, though, a wild pretty girl named Gina, and Frank sets out to woo her in hopes the old man will make the lake a wedding gift to them. When that doesnt work, he decides the only way he can get it is if Gina inherits it. Of course, thats not possible while her father is alive. In his desperate state of mind, haunted by his dying mothers pleas, Frank hatches a plan: standing on one side of the lake, aiming across at the Bunsens backyard, hell shoot Mr. Bunsen as he sits in his lawn chair reading the Saturday morning newspaper. He tells only one other person what hes going to do: his little brother. Not sure whether to believe it or not, and afraid to tell anybody in any case, Jim finds himself the only one with a chance of stopping the murder. But while hes trying to keep this awful secret, and also keepit from coming true, Jim is finding out more than he ever wanted to know about the lake, mainly from Grandma, who is obligated to pass the story on to someone in the next generation. In fact, she passeson more than just information and lore: she also hints at her growingsuspicions that the familys relationship to the lake may not be asclean and pure and blissful as it seems. She wants to tell Jim what shes thinking, but he doesnt want to hear it. At the same time, though, Jim hears about the lake from another source: the daughter of the only Indian man in town, bothdescendants of the tribe that was chased away after a fire that burnedup Abe Woodsen in his cabin those many years ago. She has heard a story from her own father, who heard it from his: she blames Jims family for her peoples plight and hints that Abe Woodsen wasntkilled by Indians after all. At first Jim is annoyed, even angry: he doesnt want to know anything about that damned stupid lake that has caused his family so much heartache. Gradually, though, he begins to think that the answer to stopping Frank may lie infinding out the truth about how his family came to own Woodsen Lake and why its such an obsession with them. What he learns is what gives this novel its name.

Download or read book Love on the Brain written by Connie Lee and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping from their abusive alcoholic father and from abject poverty, young Jeff and Amy Hadley set off on a daring journey to change their fortunes, aided and abetted by their beloved mother Rose and the young children. Jeff and Amy made their way to the town of Evans, putting all their hopes on a piece of newspaper job ad Amy found. Finding new jobs, the pair of siblings is looking at a bright future and a promising new life. Their vow to rescue their mother and the children from suffering is coming true. In the new town, Jeff and Amy have found a wonderful home, good friends, and for Amy, a new love blooming with handsome David Owens.

Download or read book A Temporary Courtship written by Jenna Mindel and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inconvenient Attraction Before leaving for a coveted two-year musical residency, cellist Bree Anderson is taking one month for a relaxing lakefront vacation. But she's thrown off track by the instant attraction she feels for one of the resort's instructors. The last thing local Darren Zelinsky needs is a privileged summer resident like the fiancée who jilted him. Bree's no threat to his heart…until he uncovers the vulnerable woman beneath the pristine exterior. And soon Bree is in danger of falling for the rugged outdoorsman. The clock on her stay is ticking and Bree's facing an impossible choice—between a lifelong dream and a lifetime love.

Download or read book The Crawdaddy Book written by Paul Williams and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 17-year-old Paul Williams began publishing Crawdaddy! magazine in 1966, just as the American counterculture was poised to explode, the world was only beginning to take rock music as seriously as the intelligencia took folk and jazz. Preceding both Rolling Stone and Creem, Crawdaddy! has gone down in history as the pioneer of rock journalism, and was the training ground for many rock writers who would later become stars in their own right. Now, Paul Williams has gathered the best of Crawdaddy! into a revealing anthology that captures a fascinating historical moment when Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Grateful Dead and Buffalo Springfield were unknown and as yet unheard, and inspired writers were struggling to find the language with which to describe this new, vital music. Peter Guralnick, Ralph Gleason, Richard Farina, Jon Landau, Samuel R. Delany and Richard Meltzer are just a few of the later-day luminaries who cut their teeth writing for Crawdaddy! and who are showcased in this stunning collection. Featuring essays and notes by Williams and over 25 photos, The Crawdaddy! Book is a must for anyone who loves the spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. Paul Williams is the author of more than 25 books, of which the best-known are Outlaw Blues, Das Energi and Bob Dylan, Performing Artist, the acclaimed three-part series. He is a world-renowned scholar and leading authority on the works of musicians Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson and Neil Young, and science fiction writers Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeon. His most recent book is The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (A "Top 40" List) (Forge/St. Martins, 2000). Williams currently lives in San Diego, California.

Download or read book Baker s Dozen written by Joshua Matthew Moorhead and published by Tickling Keys, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fresh Voices series was inspired by a writing contest of the same name that identified high school writers interested in composing book-length works for young adults. Working with a professional editor, the young authors spent the summer learning about the book industry and meeting journalists while writing their individual books, both fiction and nonfiction. The four titles in this series represent the first four winners of the contest. A high school student's search for identity unfolds in the backdrop of the chaos and tragedy of 9/11 in this honest and heartfelt novel by a recent high school graduate. Love, faith, animosity, and friendship struggle for balance as protagonist Justin Baker works through the 13 seminal d9ays of his senior year. Already ensconced in a sometimes-bewildering life of high school intrigue, nocturnal pranks, and chance encounters with Vanilla Ice, the tragedy of 2001 informs Justin's rite of passage into adulthood, inspiring him to discover himself and the purpose of society. Written as a series of journal entries, teenagers will be moved by the intimacy of the language and the unique vividness of 9/11 as it is experienced though the eyes of a 17-year-old.