Download or read book The Story of Her Holding an Orange written by Milos Bogetic and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was 17 years old and living in Europe, a strange woman started following me. She would find me everywhere. And all she wanted me to do was take her orange. I moved to America a year after the first incident. Ten years later, she found me again. This is the story of her, the woman holding the orange. --from the back of the book.
Download or read book The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything written by Linda Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-09-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A clever reworking of a classic story. The little old lady’s fearless attitude and her clever solution as to what to do with the lively shoes, pants, shirt and pumpkin head that are chasing her will enchant young audiences. With brilliantly colored, detailed folk art illustrations. A great purchase.’ —SLJ. Children's Choices for 1987 (IRA/CBC) Notable 1986 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children's Books of 1986 (Library of Congress) 1988 Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania Reading Association)
Download or read book Keeper of Reign written by Emma Right and published by Keeper of Reign. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen year old Jules Blaze, heir of a Keeper, suspects his family hides a forgotten secret. It's bad enough that his people, the Elfies of Reign, triggered a curse which reduced the entire inhabitants to a mere inch centuries ago. All because of one Keeper who failed his purpose. Even the King's Books, penned with the Majesty's own blood, did not help ward off this anathema. Now, Gehzurolle, the evil lord, and his armies of Scorpents, seem bent on destroying Jules and his family. Why? Gehzurolle's agents hunt for Jules as he journeys into enemy land to find the truth. Truth that could save him and his family, and possibly even reverse the age-long curse. Provided Jules doesn't get himself killed first.
Download or read book Fight Girl written by Tony Clark and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jessie Strick visits a small Ohio city she is tracking a Cleveland mob boss in order to kill him. Frustrated with her search she attacks the tyrant Mayor who is a Mafia cohort and cripples him. Arrested for attempted murder she hires a reluctant alcoholic lawyer. They instantly bond to fight city hall. It's election year and Jessie thinks if she challenges the mayor the mob boss will have to show up. Her campaign gathers support when the Mayor thugs are killed and Jessie gets credit. On election day there is short lived jubilation as Jessie wins then is shot and by a rogue FBI planted killer. Peggy thinks the mayor ordered it and gets a gun and kills him. Earlier Jessie confessed to Peggy that she killed the mobster for revenge. She also robbed him for a million cash that was intended for the mayor and gave it to Peggy. Peggy flees to Costa Rica. In a few months she learns Jessie's killer was a hit man for a Mexican cartel and that she with held info that could have saved Jessie's life. She now has a choice... enjoy the money and shut up... or go home and confront the FBI lies and go to prison. She decides she is duty bound to protect her client even if she is dead. She goes home.
Download or read book The Lady of the Lake written by Michael Clary and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic battle between centuries-old enemies comes to the ultimate climax in the final volume of this post-apocalyptic Arthurian saga. King Arthur didn’t ask to be reborn in the modern world. When the powerful witch Morgana returned to wreak her havoc, he was forced to play the reluctant hero. Now, as Morgana returns even stronger than before, Arthur is ready for battle. But is he ready to face the consequences of a victory? Is he prepared to face his only son a final time? Will Gwen be enough to tip the scales in a magical battle between Merlin and Morgana? Facing danger and uncertainty at every turn, Arthur must prepare Camelot for the battle that will decide the fate of the world.
Download or read book Me So Pretty 2 written by Chris P. Flesh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretty discovers that Freekin and Lilly are becoming a couple, and heads roll. (Eyeballs, too. All seven of them.) Suffice to say, Pretty not happy. What’s a monster to do? First, get a makeover. Then make Freekin jealous. And when that doesn’t work? Set out to lure Freekin by solving the mystery of the Mystery Meat completely on her own. But what poor Pretty doesn’t realize is that what she’s about to uncover could prove more threatening to her quest than all of Lilly’s beauty and feminine charms combined.
Download or read book The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House written by Mary Chase and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Swanson is the scourge of the neighborhood. At age nine, she already has a reputation as a hard slapper, a loud laugher, a liar, and a stay-after-schooler. The other kids call her Stinky. So sometimes when Maureen passes the crumbling (and haunted?) Messerman mansion, she imagines that she is Maureen Messerman–rich, privileged, and powerful. Then she finds a way into the forbidden, boarded-up house. In the hall are portraits of seven young women wearing elaborate gowns and haughty expressions. Maureen has something scathing to say to each one, but then she notices that the figures seem to have shifted in their frames. So she reaches out her finger to touch the paint–just to make sure–and touches . . . silk! These seven daughters of privilege are colder and meaner than Maureen ever thought to be. They are wicked, wicked ladies, and Maureen has something they want. . . .
Download or read book Such a Pretty Girl written by T. Greenwood and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From critically acclaimed author T. Greenwood comes an emotional new novel born of the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, the often flickering line between woman and girl, and the precarious nature of innocence. Living peacefully in Vermont, Ryan Flannigan is shocked when a text from her oldest friend alerts her to a devastating news item. A controversial photo of her as a pre-teen has been found in the possession of a wealthy investor recently revealed as a pedophile and a sex trafficker—with an inscription to him from Ryan’s mother on the back. Memories crowd in, providing their own distinctive pictures of her mother Fiona, an aspiring actress, and their move to the West Village in 1976. Amid the city’s gritty kaleidoscope of wealth and poverty, high art, and sleazy strip clubs, Ryan is discovered and thrust into the spotlight as a promising young actress with a woman’s face and a child’s body. Suddenly, the safety and comfort Ryan longs for is replaced by auditions, paparazzi, and the hungry eyes of men of all ages. Forced to reexamine her childhood, Ryan begins to untangle her young fears and her mother’s ambitions, and the role each played in the fraught blackout summer of 1977. Even with her movie career long behind her, Ryan and Fiona are suddenly the object of uncomfortable speculation—and Fiona demands Ryan’s support. To put the past to rest, Ryan will need to face the painful truth of their relationship, and the night when everything changed. “Rarely has a writer rendered such highly charged topics . . . to so wrenching, yet so beautifully understated, an effect . . .” —The Los Angeles Times “Rich with vivid details . . . [and] beautifully crafted characters . . . Stayed with me long after turning the last page.” —Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time
Download or read book My Beautiful Lady written by Mian Ju and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demon King Du Chunfeng, who had returned to the country to investigate his father's death, jumped off the plane and was saved by the mafia lord. He experienced a different life from the softhearted hearts of the battlefield ... Beautiful ladies, teachers, police officers, air stewardesses ... They came one after another!
Download or read book The Difference Difference Makes written by Deborah L. Rhode and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in leadership positions in law, politics, and business?and what can be done to improve the situation? These are the questions this provocative book meets head-on.
Download or read book The Invincible Little Lady Volume 2 written by Chatsufusa and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Regalia’s motto is to live a plain, uneventful life, but no matter what she does, she can’t seem to help drawing the attention of everyone at the academy. Desperate to find a quiet place to spend her free time, she tries to stake out a room in the old campus building...but it’s haunted?! Or so the rumors say—but even if the scuttlebutt’s nothing more than a phantom of the students’ imaginations, the faculty is forbidding anyone from going inside until they can get to the bottom of it. Can Mary unveil the truth behind the specter haunting her plans? Or does she only have a ghost of a chance of enjoying the quiet life she seeks?
Download or read book The Lady Of Esterbrooke written by Ann W. Phillips and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady of Esterbrooke is a novel about a young couple and their journey through life. It begins with her life on Esterbrooke Plantation where she meets the love of her life and takes them through old age. They grow in their faith and love as the years go by, and they learn to cherish each other. They raise their children to respect their faith and to love animals. Marla and Lance are our main characters. He and his family are from Spain, and they own the plantation. Marla’s dad is the caretaker of the plantation. This story carries them through the courtship, the children, and into old age together. Their faith and the fact that they put Christ first in their marriage keeps them strong. They love the horses, cats, and donkeys that are on the plantation. And they love watching their children share their values as they grow into adulthood.
Download or read book Someone Is Watching written by Joy Fielding and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pulse-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Lisa Gardner and Mary Higgins Clark with a sly nod toward Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Rear Window, Someone Is Watching boasts the extraordinary edge-of-your-seat storytelling of bestselling author Joy Fielding at the height of her powers. As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When she’s assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers, only that she needs to gather evidence. Then she is blindsided—attacked and nearly killed. Now the firm grip Bailey once had on her life is shaken. Her nightmares merge into her waking hours and she’s unable to venture beyond her front door without panicking. A veritable prisoner in her own home, Bailey is uncertain whom she can trust. But old habits die hard, and soon Bailey finds a new use for her idle binoculars: casually observing from her window neighboring buildings and other people’s lives. This seemingly harmless diversion becomes a guilty pleasure when Bailey fixates on the handsome guy across the street—until she realizes that he is also watching her. Suddenly she must confront the terrifying possibility that he may be the man who shattered her life. Though crippled by fear, Bailey knows she can’t ignore her suspicions and risk leaving a predator at large. With the police making no headway in solving her case, she’s determined to overcome her terror and reclaim the power she lost by unmasking her attacker and taking him down herself. But it’s a harrowing battle that threatens to wreck Bailey’s credibility, compromise an investigation, and maybe even claim her sanity. Praise for Someone Is Watching “Someone Is Watching gripped me from the first to the very last page. Bailey Carpenter is a heroine who’s both victim and warrior woman, a fascinating sleuth who will linger with you long after you’ve finished this thrilling read.”—Tess Gerritsen “Joy Fielding has long been a go-to author for me. She never fails to deliver an edge-of-your-seat read, and with her patented blend of complex characters and escalating suspense she is in top form here. I highly recommend Someone Is Watching.”—Karen Robards “Joy Fielding pens a spiraling tale of paranoia and suspense, as sultry as a Miami night. Readers will find a heroine to root for, scold, and ultimately adore in Bailey Carpenter. Though comparisons to Rear Window will inevitably arise, Fielding has created something even more remarkable: a modern-day Gaslight in which both cat and mouse are real, flawed, and eminently relatable.”—Jenny Milchman “Someone Is Watching is a gripping, fast-paced psychological thriller reminiscent of Rear Window and the works of Lisa Gardner. . . . Not geared to the faint of heart, Fielding’s story of one woman’s search for justice, understanding, and internal peace is nothing short of arresting.”—Booklist (starred review) “This engrossing standalone from bestseller Fielding makes you care about Bailey Carpenter. . . . The characters pulsate with life, and there are a few shocks in store—for Bailey and the reader—before the denouement. And the presence of Jade, Claire’s outspoken teen daughter, blows everyone else off the page.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A pageturning ride with a likable protagonist.”—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Search and Rescue written by Kitti Bernetti and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gig Briggs is the Search and Rescue Officer you can rely on to save anybody from disaster. What he cannot do is save himself – harbouring a secret that has destroyed his ability to have a fulfilling relationship with a woman. When he reluctantly walks into the consulting room of renowned sex therapist Desree Cain, he doesn’t believe she can help. However, Desree has secrets of her own, ones that are swiftly coming back to haunt her. She hasn’t told Gig why she had to run away from the city to hide in his New England community. Can Desree get through to this hero’s damaged heart, and can he save her from the twisted individual hunting her down?
Download or read book The Lizard Ladies written by CK Mattson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carla Carson, librarian at a small town college, gets caught up in mayhem and murder. When the pace of academic life is interrupted by the presence of a mysterious stranger, Carla and her friends are determined to figure out why he is here. Carla’s niece Calysa has started a band. The appearance of the sister of one Carla’s niece’s band mates starts a series of events that culminate in murder. At the heart the murder is a young girl being hunted by someone evil. Despite her need for protection the girl seems unable or unwilling to be truthful. Carla and her friends have to decide whether to help this girl after it becomes apparent that they can’t trust anyone, not even the police. With grace and humor they manage to investigate the crime but will it cost them everything?
Download or read book Hartwell Women Series written by Judith Keim and published by Wild Quail Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marissa Cole discovers a family she never knew she had and befriends her cousins Allison and Samantha Hartwell. With scenes stretching from Upstate New York to the coast of Maine to Boston’s gritty neighborhoods and California’s wine country in The Talking Tree, Sweet Talk, Straight Talk and Baby Talk, these three, strong women encounter and overcome challenges and find love and fulfillment along the way. The books have received critical acclaim for their sensitive treatment of the issues each woman faces and how she resolves her problems to create a better world for her family.
Download or read book First Ladies of Disco written by James Arena and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of these women tell their stories, explaining how they view their music, careers, connection to gay audiences, and their places in dance music history. Interviewed artists include: The Andrea True Connection; Claudja Barry; Pattie Brooks; Miquel Brown; Linda Clifford; Carol Douglas; Yvonne Elliman; Rochelle Fleming (First Choice); Gloria Gaynor; Debbie Jacobs-Rock; Madleen Kane; Evelyn "Champagne" King; Audrey Landers; Suzi Lane; Cynthia Manley (Boys Town Gang); Kelly Marie; Maxine Nightingale; Scherrie Payne; Wardell Piper; The Ritchie Family, 1975-1978: Gwendolyn Wesley, Cassandra Wooten and Cheryl Mason-Dorman; The Ritchie Family, 1978-1982: Theodosia "Dodie" Draher; Barbara Roy (Ecstasy Passion & Pain); Pamala Stanley; Evelyn Thomas; Jeanie Tracy; Anita Ward; Martha Wash; Carol Williams; Jessica Williams and Norma Jean Wright.
