Download or read book My Wife Jodie written by V. A. Rudys and published by Blinkenlight. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Page had it all: a respectable job, loving friends, and a beautiful apartment - the envy of all his friends. He was madly in love with his wife, Jodie - until he discovered the price she demanded for engineering his perfect life.

Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Jodie written by Jim D. Rollins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being falsely accused of killing a man, sixteen-year-old Jodie Brown hightails it out of town and ends up on a moored houseboat in postCivil War Florida. Sheriff Pennyfellow and his posse try to chase him down, but Jodie makes for the riverand the adventure of a lifetime! He nearly freezes to death during an ice storm, but the Rollinses, a kind, elderly couple, save his life. The three embark down the river in search of buried treasure, and when they find a pirates chest of gold and jewels, Jodies fortunes take an unbelievable turn. He decides to stay on the river and see where it takes him, good or bad, and bids a hearty goodbye to the Rollinses. Jodie soon befriends two young twin boys, saves a village from an unscrupulous carpetbagger, meets a pretty banker in Tallahassee, and sets off on the Ocala Trail. During it all, Jodie tries to figure out a past he cant remember and embrace a future hes none too sure about. But Sheriff Pennyfellow is about to gum up the works. Will Jodie be able to talk his way out of this mess or is his future behind bars? A rollicking western with a tough-as-nails hero, The Life and Adventures of Jodie is action-packed and full of surprises!

Download or read book Jupiter Reports Stories and Excerpts written by X.F. Pine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jupiter is an anthology of reports and fables from X.F. Pine that operate like a mixed tape. The first part concerns abysses and shelters of a few kinds, an old Maine storyteller, a man locked in a room with secrets, a gambling martial artist, an adaptive actresses, inside a famous comedy show, and cards dealt out to one's memories. The second part is about enemy tree houses, family curses, an alcoholic letter writer, visitations with spook fathers, women acting like cats, the end of the world, retirement swindles, confessions about killing a man who controls luck, the endless battle against resistance, ancient bar crawls, and personal spirals that lead to dust and bones.

Download or read book Floating Staircase written by Ronald Malfi and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz—at their best . . . A mature horror yarn” from the award-winning author of Bone White (New York Journal of Books). Horror writer Travis Glasgow and his wife, Jodie, have bought their first house in Westlake, Maryland, just steps from Travis’s older brother’s home. Travis is buoyed by the thought of renewing his relationship with his estranged sibling and overcoming the darkness from his past. But the house has other plans for him. Travis is soon awakened by noises in the night and finds watery footprints in the basement that lead him to the nearby lake, which has a strange staircase emerging from its depths. When Travis discovers that a former occupant of his house—a ten-year-old boy—drowned in the lake, he draws connections to his own childhood tragedy. As his brother and wife warn him to leave well enough alone, Travis is pulled into a dark obsession, following the house’s secrets to the floating staircase—and into the depths of madness . . . “It would not be an overstatement to say that Floating Staircase is a modern classic ranking among some of the best supernatural affairs ever committed to print. . . . The story and setting sizzle to life through Malfi’s unparalleled literary talent.” —Dreadful Tales “Malfi gives a few deft twists to the traditional haunted house theme with eerie, unpredictable, and exciting results.” —Publishers Weekly “Profoundly moving, terrifying and life-affirming, this is a glorious example of what the genre of horror fiction can accomplish in the right hands.” —Horror Novel Reviews

Download or read book Lessons from a Disabled Caregiver written by William G. Reed and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive, untreatable nerve and muscle diseases transformed the author's life from having been a college athlete to needing a wheelchair and special equipment for day-to-day activities. While dealing with his own conditions, he was faced with the unique challenge of being the sole caregiver for his wife who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. He has written this experience-based book to help people with life-altering medical conditions and those dealing with challenging caregiving responsibilities. Comprehensive in scope, it covers topics including grief, finances, safety and end-of-life planning. This is a resource book containing many references aimed at helping the reader overcome their challenges, maintain their independence and have happy, fulfilling lives.

Download or read book Three Brides for Three Brothers written by Elizabeth Waite and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John, Rick and Derrick Underwood are the most handsome trio of brothers in town and it takes three exceptional women to convince them to settle down. For Jodie, marrying John seemed exciting and romantic at the time but the reality of life is proving too much. Jodie loves her husband but she doesn't know how much more she can take of his dishonest ways. Rick's marriage to Laraine is filled with love and adventure; their life is blissful - until one day it delivers a cruel blow. Everything begins to unravel and Laraine isn't sure she's strong enough to survive. Dee is smitten with her husband, Derrick. He does all he can to provide for her so when he's sent away to sea, she knows she will be all right. But suddenly she stops hearing from Derrick - where is he? From the 1950s all the way through to the 1980s, Three Brides For Three Brothers is a nostalgic story of love and loyalty during the most testing of times.

Download or read book Beggar Other Comedians written by Martin Kari and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all live in a glasshouse of our own, knowing very little about the other glasshouses around us. Let’s therefore get out of our glasshouses for a change and learn more about life in other professions and recognize that we are all more or less comedians. The comedies here, ten very different real-life situations, do not only take this into account but also invite us to look at life with a smile because those who smile live happier and longer.

Download or read book JODIE S MAIL ORDER MAN written by Julianna Morris and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAIL-ORDER MIX-UP From the moment she stepped off the plane and into Donovan Masters's arms, Jodie Richards knew this man whose touch set her soul on fire was the perfect husband for her. But she quickly discovered Donovan wasn't the man she'd come to wed in a mail-order marriage—but her out-of-town fiance's brother! Donovan should have resisted Jodie's welcoming embrace, but he was only a man. Swept into a dream he found strangely compelling, this confirmed bachelor found himself torn between his duty to his irresponsible brother—and his heart's desire!

Download or read book Near Dark written by Kevin Lee Swaim and published by Picadillo Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Vampire Magician’s attempt to free Lucifer in Chicago, the Ancients are on their way to Thermopolis, Wyoming, to hold the Vampire Sheriff accountable. During the battle of Chicago, the demon Legion escaped from Hell and is determined to open Hell's Gates. Sam Harlan and Callie Calahane will have to call upon every friend and ally if they want to get out of Thermopolis alive.

Download or read book Blood Men written by Paul Cleave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Hunter has it all--a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future? and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country's most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward's father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he's going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood? - from the publisher.

Download or read book The Paul Cleave Collection 1 written by Paul Cleave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics and writers are raving about Paul Cleave’s outstanding, internationally bestselling crime thrillers. Now experience three of them in this ebook-only collection. Blood Men, winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel of 2011: Edward Hunter has it all—a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future… and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country’s most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward’s father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he’s going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn’t seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood? Collecting Cooper, a Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2011: People are disappearing in Christchurch. Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesn’t make it to work one day. Emma Green, one of his students, doesn’t make it home. When ex-cop Theodore Tate is released from a four-month prison stint, he’s asked by Green’s father to help find Emma. After all, Tate was in jail for nearly killing her in a DUI accident the year before, so he owes him. Big time. What neither of them knows is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs. Now he has acquired the ultimate collector’s item—an actual killer. Meanwhile, clues keep pulling Tate back to Grover Hills, the mental institution that closed down three years ago. Very bad things happened there. Those who managed to survive would prefer keeping their memories buried. Tate has no choice but to unearth Grover Hills’ dark past if there is any chance of finding Emma Green and Cooper Riley alive. The Laughterhouse: Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene—ten-year-old Jessica found dead in "the Laughterhouse," an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the S painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years later, a new killer arrives in Christchurch, and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica’s murder case, one of whom is the unfortunate Dr. Stanton, a man with three young girls. If Tate is going to help them, he has to find the connection between the killer, the Laughterhouse, and the city’s suddenly growing murder rate. And he needs to figure it out fast, because Stanton and his daughters have been kidnapped, and the doctor is being forced to make an impossible decision: which one of his daughters is to die first. "An intense adrenalin rush from start to finish." —S.J. Watson "A bloody noir thriller, one often descending into a violent abyss reminiscent of Thomas Harris, creator of Hannibal Lecter." —Kirkus Reviews "A wonderful book.... The final effect is that tingling in the neck hairs that tells us an artist is at work." ­—Booklist, starred review

Download or read book And My Wife Jodi written by Patrick Ruth and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Italian Duke s Wife written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I will pay you one million pounds to become my wife for one year. The marriage will not be consummated..." Italian aristocrat Lorenzo, Duce di Montesavro, needs to marry, and English tourist Jodie Oliver seems the ideal candidate for this convenient arrangement--her vulnerability is especially appealing to Lorenzo. But when he unleashes a desire Jodie never knew she possessed, Lorenzo is soon regretting his no-consummation rule....

Download or read book In the Place of Justice written by Wilbert Rideau and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph. After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. He spent several years on death row at Angola before his sentence was commuted to life, where, as editor of the prison newsmagazine The Angolite, he undertook a mission to expose and reform Louisiana's iniquitous justice system from the inside. Vivid, incisive, and compassionate, this is a detailed account of prison life and a man who accepted responsibility for his actions and worked to redeem himself. It is a story about not giving up; finding love in unexpected places; the power of kindness; and the ability to do good, no matter where you are.

Download or read book Spring in the Valley written by Charlotte Douglas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Versus South… Police officer Brynn Sawyer is all but married to Pleasant Valley, her picture-perfect Southern hometown. And even if she were in the mood for romance, smooth New York lawyer Rand Benedict is the opposite of everything Brynn wants in a man. So why can't she stop thinking about him and his little boy, Jared? Rand can't deny the electric chemistry that burns between him and the beautiful Brynn. But Rand's real motivation for his arrival in Pleasant Valley isn't pleasant at alL.and the discovery of his secret just might tear apart a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love.

Download or read book Satisfying Thirsts Cleansing Souls written by R. H. Coder and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satisfying Thirsts, Cleansing Souls is a narrative of the lives of Joyce and Bob Coder as they guided Wellspring of Life Ministry through eight years of living in Haiti. You will soar to the mountaintops of spiritual victories as they fight through battles with voodoo and see the Lord help them overcome it, and you will dive into the depths of valleys of defeat as their efforts seemingly meet with failures. But throughout, you will see God's hand guiding and orchestrating through drilling wells for potable water, to hosting revivals on the enemy's doorstep, to cleansing an entire village of voodoo. Ride along with them as they encounter the hardships and dangers of living in Haiti--near-death experiences and fighting through tropical diseases like malaria and dengue fever--as well as spiritual miracles that are unexplainable, God's provision and protection, ordained meetings, and partnerships, and two individuals in their fifties who simply answered God's call to serve the lost! It's all here, and the excitement will keep you reading until you can see yourself in these roles. This journey will prove to you that all that is necessary to serve God on the foreign field is a desire to be obedient to God!

Download or read book Sisters of Crescent Valley written by Claudia Eggert Harrier and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters Kristen and Jodie Peterson were close when they were young, but now they’re adults who have long since gone their separate ways. The lure of a promising career in the world of fashion has taken Kristen to New York City, while Jodie remains close to home in Crescent Valley, going to college and marrying Jason Igland. But each of them faces a series of setbacks. Kristen’s New York dreams come crashing down, and she has returned to Crescent Valley to start over. And Jodie’s life turns upside down when Jason is in a terrible accident. As the sisters struggle with the challenges of life, they discover more about themselves and the changes that are coming. Are the concepts of hope, grace, restoration, and contentment beyond their grasp? Can the sisters of Crescent Valley find themselves and each other again? Uplifting and heartwarming, this novel tells the story of two sisters on different paths with a distant relationship as they reconnect amid difficulties, thanks to faith and love.