Download or read book This Close to Okay written by Leesa Cross-Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This Close to Okay hits the ground running. Cross-Smith writes tenderly about the trial and error of intimacy and draws you in with enormous warmth and control' - Raven Leilani, author of LUSTER On a rainy October night, therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man standing at the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and convinces him to join her for a cup of coffee. Eventually, he agrees to come back to her house, where he finally shares his name: Emmett. Over the course of the emotionally charged weekend that follows, Tallie makes it her mission to provide a safe space for Emmett. But he isn't the only one who needs healing-and they both are harbouring secrets... As they inch closer to the truth of what brought Emmett to the bridge-and the hard truths Tallie has been grappling with since her marriage ended-could their connection lead to love? This Close to Okay is an uplifting story about chance encounters, and hope found in the most unlikely moments, from a consummate author of emotionally-wrought romance. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Awards Book of the Month December Pick Good Housekeeping Book Club February Pick Marie Claire Book Club March Pick

Download or read book Two Two Lily White Boys written by Geoffrey Clark and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] classic story of male adolescence and homophobia . . . this short, richly packed novel may well be [Clark’s] masterpiece.” —DeWitt Henry, author of Falling Two, Two, Lily-White Boys follows the fortunes of two fourteen-year-old Scouts from Ermine Falls—Larry Carstairs, the narrator, and Andy Dellums, Larry’s schoolmate and friend—over the course of six days at Camp Greavy, a Boy Scout camp not far from Traverse City, Michigan. The story’s catalyst and Andy’s tormentor is Russell “Curly” Norrys, a worldly, charismatic seventeen-year-old, a homophobe who suspects that Andy is a homosexual. Mercurial, protean, possibly sociopathic, Curly engineers conflicts that accelerate as the days wear on, eventually culminating in tragedy. Passive-aggressive Larry, moved to action at last, must choose between self-preservation and justice. “In this rite of passage story set at a Boy Scout summer camp, Clark’s protagonist, Larry Carstairs, meets up with Curly Norrys, a curious blend of humor, intellectual acumen, nihilism, and sheer malevolence. Clark makes us feel, full strength, Larry’s struggle with the nature of ambiguity. Clark’s fiction here, as elsewhere, is a compelling mix of straight realism and black humor.” —Jack Smith, author of If Winter Comes “Geoffrey Clark’s Two, Two, Lily-White Boys soberly pierces the Scout Camp Greavey’s character-building scrim of perseverance, steadfastness, and patriotism to reveal what disquiets the minds and hearts of those about to enter the straits of manhood . . . One emerges from this evocative work recalling that daunting passage in past time when we ceased to reason like a child and put childish ways behind us.” —Dennis Must, author of Banjo Grease

Download or read book Introduction to Curling Strategy written by Gabrielle Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Curling Strategy is the first comprehensive book on modern curling strategy. It uses an intuitive approach (and lots of pictures) to make curling strategy easy to understand, even for people who are totally new to the sport. It works through classic scenarios that commonly occur at all levels of curling. And, it shows advanced curlers how to pick tactics based on goals and "intent," rather than play shot-to-shot.

Download or read book Code Blue written by KatLyn and published by Intaglio Publications. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrown headlong into one of the most puzzling murder investigations in the Burgh's history, Logan McGregor finds that politics, corruption, money and greed aren't the only barriers she must break through in order to find the truth. Not only does she have to solve the crime, she also has to keep Madison Cavanaugh, one of Pittsburgh's most notable Orthopedic surgeon's from becoming the next victim. Can Logan and Madison survive long enough to find the killer or will they become one more name on the Strip District Killer's growing list of victims? Logan McGregor, A tough Pittsburgh cop, lives only for her job since losing the love of her life in an inexcusable way. Politics, money and greed are not the only barriers she must break through in order to find the truth. Madison Cavanaugh, A self-proclaimed perfectionist with a penchant for the finery that life has to offer. By day she works as one of Mercy Hospitals best Orthopedic Surgeons, and by night, she walks the streets helping the downtrodden and unwanted citizens of the city. In the blink of an eye, her world is thrown into a vortex as a murderer stalks The Strip District.

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Download or read book Curly Saves Grandma s House written by Adam Hill and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curly and the Fent are off to the beach for another adventure! Curly and his naughty friend the Fent are visiting Grandma Rose by the ocean. They soon discover that Mr Smythe will do ANYTHING to get Grandma's house - even if it means tearing up Grandma Rose's garden, having secret meetings with the mayor and sending a shark after Curly and Pook. That's not all. It turns out that Fents have bigger, meaner cousins . . . the Grents. Can Curly avoid the Grent and produce the evidence that will save Grandma's house?

Download or read book Vanessa s Book of Quotes written by Inspiring Vanessa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational book will give you the hope,the faith,the courage to take action in your dreams and that anything is possible.This is a very flick of inspiration that you can take on the go!

Download or read book Play to Win written by Jodie Slaughter and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jodie Slaughter's latest rom-com, Play to Win, is a sizzling romance where a winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start but instead becomes a second chance at love. Miriam Butler’s life is going nowhere in the slowest, most excruciating way possible. Stuck in the same barely-paying job she’s had since she was sixteen and spending every night sleeping in the spare twin bed in her mother’s house, her existence might be hilarious if it wasn’t so bleak. One trip to her favorite corner store upends everything when she finds herself the winner of a Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot. Unfortunately, not even life-altering roses come without their painful thorns. Hers just so happen to be in the form of an estranged husband who has the right to claim his share of her money. It’s been eight years since Leo Vaughn has had a conversation with his wife. When she calls out of the blue, practically begging him to come back to Greenbelt, the last thing he expects her to tell him when he gets there is that she’s come into a whole heap of money. She offers him a life-changing proposition of his own. Take a lump sum, finally sign the divorce papers, and be done with her for good. Only, a forever without her is the last thing Leo wants. So he gives a proposition of his own. One that won’t cost her nearly as many millions, but will buy him the time to do the one thing he’s been hungry to do since he left -- win her back.

Download or read book Living Full written by Danielle Sherman-Lazar and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on “a passionate, heartbreaking to humorous road from rock bottom to recovery” (Robert Tuchman, author of Young Guns). Imagine waking in a hospital bed to find your frail, pale arm punctured by an IV transferring fluids and nutrients into your weak, stiff body. What happened? You’re an adult, age twenty-six, and you just had a seizure precipitated by your chronic, secretive, decades-long struggle with unacknowledged eating disorders. You have no friends and no normal young-adult experiences. Living Full is written by Danielle Sherman-Lazar, a woman who passed through the eating disorder crucible to recovery, sharing the most intimate and shameful details of her mental illness. Living Full is Danielle’s story. Eating disorders in young adults are hardly talked about, but are pervasive. Eating disorders are kept hidden out of shame. A groundbreaking 2012 study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders found that about thirteen percent of women over age fifty exhibit eating disorder symptoms. Living Full chronicles the author’s step-by-step descent into the full-blown eating disorder nightmare and her path to recovery. Recovery comes from the Maudsley Approach, a regimen of supervised controlled eating or refeeding by out-patient helpers that eventually can result in recovery. Benefits of reading Living Full: See how to confront your eating disorder demon Learn from someone who won her eating disorder battle Discover a new and beautiful life

Download or read book Lifers written by Jeff Somers and published by Jeff Somers. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three twentysomething guys who transitioned from collegiate underachieving to corporate bottom feeding sketch out a plan to make a grab for some dignity. They will rob the publishing house that employs their only stable member and insults him on a daily basis. Being the bright, perceptive fellows they are, they all quickly realize it isn't about the money. For Phil "Dub" Dublen, it's a pissed off statement against a dull, meaningless job. For self-styled poet Trim, it's a chance to actually be as outrageous and anarchic as he needs to be. For Trim's roommate Dan, it seems to be something he does for the same reason he does everything: to vent some anger, having nothing to do. By the time their master plan is all said and done, nothing has been solved, nothing is better, and nothing, really, has changed. And in the slightly fractured wisdom of the larcenous trio, this surprises none of them.

Download or read book Bloodbourne written by Sasha Pruett and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being at the top of the food chain doesn't cross your mind... until you're on the menu. Calynn Moore was going about her life, minding her own business when a stranger came knocking. She thought she was doing a good thing; a kindness by returning a lost pet to a tearful little girl, but she couldn't have been more wrong. Now she's a hostage to a family of other-worldly, homicidal, monsters that are fattening her up for their own version of a Thanksgiving dinner. With no hope of rescue or escape she's determined to go down fighting, but a single act of defiance opens a door to freedom. The catch? She has to trust one of the creatures holding her prisoner with her life. As time goes by and secret plans are put into play Calynn gets more than she bargained for as secrets are revealed and her life becomes more and more tied to the very monsters she's desperate to escape from. Now she's playing a deadly game of manipulation with the enemy waiting for the moment when one of them calls her bluff and catches her in the act, but will she lose her self in the process? Or will the one person she trusts to save her be her own destruction? Will she actually escape or be trapped in a world she never knew existed for the rest of her life? Is this the bad-luck of the draw or was it fate that brought her onto the doorstep of her doom?

Download or read book Digging to Indochina written by Connie Biewald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Ivy MacKenzie is consumed by bitterness over the tragic death of her Vietnam veteran father. Desperate to break free of a family that doesn't understand her and a small town that suffocates her, Ivy runs away with Gil Thompson-a stranger who shows her a passion she's never known and a violent danger she never saw coming. Ivy's younger brother Bryan has a tender heart, conflicting memories, and a fierce loyalty to his family. Their disengaged, high-strung mother Carol parents as best she knows how while coping with her own lingering heartbreak and entering into a new relationship. Though their voices and struggles are their own, each of the MacKenzies grapples with loss and disappointment and yearns for love and belonging. Together, they come of age and come to terms with the ways that memories and dreams can blur reality; they learn what it means to embrace family, flaws and all; and they discover how digging to Indochina can help them find their way home. "Biewald's writing probes and sifts the buried storage vaults of family relationships with an archaeologist's precision."-Lois Lowry, creator of the popular Anastasia Krupnik series and two-time recipient of the Newbery Medal for her books The Giver and Number the Stars "An always interesting, authentic story about the next generation, the children of Vietnam veterans-children who dig, not to China, but to Indochina. A good solid read." -Grace Paley, author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day

Download or read book Cemetery Street written by John Zunski and published by John Zunski. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cat Running written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn award-winning, thoughtful, and moving glimpse into life during the Depression/divDIV Cat is the fastest kid at her school—and with Play Day is coming up soon, she will be able to show off her speed to everybody. Unfortunately, her old-fashioned father forbids her to wear pants, even while playing sports. So Cat refuses to race, and Zane, an Okie boy whose family works on a nearby farm, wins. Cat is furious that Zane is so fast, and angry that he was able to beat all the sixth-grade boys, even in his bare feet./divDIV /divDIVThough Cat hates Zane at the start, soon the two become friends. They are the school’s best runners, after all. But while Cat’s family is doing well, Zane’s family has lost everything in the Depression. All Cat can offer Zane’s family is sympathy and friendship . . . until Zane’s sister gets pneumonia and Cat and Zane are forced into a race for the little girl’s life./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder./div

Download or read book Harlequin Kimani Romance January 2015 Box Set written by Kayla Perrin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African-American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full-length books for one great price! FLAMES OF PASSION (Love on Fire) Kayla Perrin When Nya Lowe sees her deceitful ex at a party, she does something totally out of character and puts the moves on sexy firefighter Tyler Johansen. As they stoke the flames of a dangerous desire, can they trust each other enough to turn their romance into a forever love? SEASON FOR LOVE (Kimani Hotties: Forever My Lady) Velvet Carter A business trip to Italy with designer Dash Migilio is the kind of getaway that fashion tycoon Lark Randolph really needs. As they explore Italy's beautiful countryside, will the sinfully seductive younger millionaire awaken a passion that tempts Lark to cross the line from business into pleasure? ALL OF ME Sheryl Lister Declaring a "dating hiatus" is easy decision for teacher Karen Morris as she unwinds solo on a luxurious Caribbean cruise, but businessman Damian Bradshaw is determined to change her mind. As they ignite an insatiable need that neither can deny, will the promise of a bright future be enough to rehabilitate their reluctant hearts? FOREVER MY BABY (The Dugrandpres of Charleston) Jacquelin Thomas A nurse shockingly reveals that Garland Warner's daughter was switched at birth with former flame Ryker Dugrandpre's baby. The solution is as obvious as it is crazy—can Garland and Ryker live together and raise the girls as sisters, in order to finally build their future and family with each other?

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Download or read book Chasing The Sun written by Carrie Elks and published by Carrie Elks. This book was released on with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whirlwind is coming to Angel Sands… Take a vacation from taking vacations. That's Lydia Paxton’s plan when she arrives in Angel Sands to celebrate her baby niece’s christening. Organizing trips of a lifetime for her exclusive New York clientele has taken its toll. Now she just wants to kick back, relax, and spend time with her family. But, as her sister tells her, Lydia always leaves devastation in her wake. This time, the devastation goes by the name of Jackson Lewis. As soon as he sets eyes on her, Jackson knows Lydia’s trouble with a capital T. The problem is, the attraction between them is off the scale. It’s a good thing Jackson swore off relationships years ago. He’s certain he has it all under control. Until this confirmed workaholic finds himself the foster father of a stray dog, and playing hooky from work thanks to Lydia’s influence. And at night, she’s curled up next to him in his bed. Now the clock is ticking. They have twelve days together and then she’ll be gone. All they have to do is NOT fall in love with each other. Chasing The Sun is the seventh book in the Angel Sands series, set in a small beach town on the California coast. If you like a heartwarming read that's low on angst and big on feels, this stand-alone romance is for you.