Download or read book Safe with a SEAL Needing the Bodyguard OASIS Book 2 written by Maura Troy and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone wants her dead, but screw fight or flight. There's only fight or fight harder.The menacing notes left on Maddie Barnes's windshield are nothing she can't handle. Her messy childhood taught her to be her own best defense, so she definitely doesn't need the help of fellow OASIS operative Ian Westlake. While their hot and stormy relationship may be history, he's still the only man she'll ever love, and that's a distraction she doesn't need right now. But as the threats escalate and her turbulent past spills into the present, Maddie realizes that the vengeful killer will mow down everyone she cares about. If she wants Ian to live, she must push him away forever.He'll risk losing her love to keep her alive.Maddie's always been a bit¿cantankerous. But Ian knows it's a self-defense mechanism because, fair or unfair, there's a long list of vindictive people who would love to take her down. She's got a heart of gold, and they've always been stronger together, so he's willing to overlook the icy wall she's building up between them. Especially now that a stalker keeps upping the ante and getting perilously close to the woman Ian's loved since grade school. When he discovers an awful secret that could destroy her, Ian will risk losing Maddie's love to save her life.
Download or read book Safe with a SEAL Needing The Bodyguard written by Maura Troy and published by Autumn Spring Enterprises LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone wants her dead, but for her there’s no fight or flight. There’s only fight or fight harder. OASIS operative Maddie Barnes prefers handling things on her own, and the threatening notes left on her windshield are no different. She certainly doesn’t need the help of her former flame and fellow operative, Ian Westlake. Their hot and sticky relationship is history, but she still cares about him, making him too much of a distracting temptation. As the threats escalate, and Maddie’s turbulent past spills into the present, she realizes that anyone close to her is in harm’s way. Meaning she must give up all hope of a future with Ian in order to save his life. He’ll risk losing her love if it keeps her alive. Fair or unfair, there’s a long list of vengeful people who’ve got it in for Maddie. Whoever is after her keeps upping the ante, getting dangerously close to the woman Ian loves more than anything. He knows she’s capable of taking care of herself, but ever since childhood they’ve always been stronger together, so no way will he let her face this threat alone. And when an awful secret that could bring Maddie to her knees reveals itself, Ian’ll do whatever it takes to keep her alive.
Download or read book Safe with a SEAL Trusting The Bodyguard OASIS Book 1 written by Maura Troy and published by Autumn Spring Enterprises LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he finds her, he will kill her. Jessie Haynes has never relied on anyone until she’s forced on the run by a cunning murderer. Accepting the help of a persistent private investigator isn’t easy, especially when Reeve tries to invade every corner of her privacy. She has no intention of letting him call all the shots, but with a madman stalking her every step, she may have no choice but to reveal the painful secret that has kept her alone for years. She knows her hot-as-hell new bodyguard will do everything he can to keep her alive, but he may be powerless to stop her past from destroying her future He can’t let another woman die. Determined to make up for a mission gone wrong, former Navy SEAL Reeve Buchanan is hot on the trail of the vicious killer who got away. He’s got no time to waste catering to the exacting demands of the luscious red-head reluctantly tolerating his protection. Especially when he’s sure she’s withholding vital information. But as he finds himself falling for Jessie, his need for revenge takes a backseat. With the killer closing in, Reeve must find a way to gain her trust before she becomes the next victim.
Download or read book Safe with a SEAL Taming the Bodyguard written by Maura Troy and published by Autumn Spring Enterprises LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should she trust the man who got her kidnapped? Because he’s her only hope of getting out alive. Erienne Stuart is on a mission, and her plan to seduce a sexy stranger is working out better than she’d hoped. Fitz is hot, charming, and just the right bad boy she was looking for to help tear down her very personal roadblock. But her night of seduction takes a chilling turn when she becomes the pawn of the ruthless enemies who want Fitz dead, and they won’t think twice about killing her to extract their revenge. Much as she now wishes she never laid eyes on Fitz, he’s her only chance for survival. He’d wanted to savor every inch of her body. Now he needs to save her life. OASIS operative and former Navy SEAL Mordecai “Fitz” Fitzjames should have known it wasn’t meant to be with the blonde goddess who’d practically fallen into his lap. The minute Erienne walked into the local biker bar, he’d known she was both out of her depth and out of his league. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t take her for the walk on the wild side she’d come looking for. His plans for a single night of passion are obliterated when the vicious drug lord he’s investigating snatches Erienne, forcing Fitz to become her bodyguard instead of her lover. Knowing it’s his fault she’s in this lethal mess, he will lay down his life to save hers.
Download or read book Children of God written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.
Download or read book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by Jean-Dominique Bauby and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.
Download or read book Open Veins of Latin America written by Eduardo Galeano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.
Download or read book Seven Pillars of Wisdom written by Thomas Edward Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters From The Earth written by Mark Twain and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.
Download or read book Muhammad written by Martin Lings and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings' Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources is unlike any other. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time. Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983.
Download or read book History of the Persian Empire written by A. T. Olmstead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff
Download or read book Lost Enlightenment written by S. Frederick Starr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia—drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America—five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.
Download or read book Elsie Venner written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Time Like the Past written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: The Original Series that reveals long-held secrets about Captain Kirk's past for the first time! STARDATE 6122.5. A diplomatic mission to the planet Yusub erupts in violence when ruthless Orion raiders attempt to disrupt the crucial negotiations by force. Caught in the midst of a tense and dangerous situation, Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise finds an unexpected ally in the form of an enigmatic stranger who calls herself “Annika Seven.” STARDATE 53786.1. Seven of Nine is taking part in an archaeological expedition on an obscure planetoid in the Delta Quadrant when a disastrous turn of events puts Voyager’s away team in jeopardy—and transports Seven across time and space to Yusub, where she comes face-to-face with one of Starfleet’s greatest legends. STARDATE 6122.5. Kirk knows better than most the danger that even a single castaway from the future can pose to the time line, so he and Seven embark on a hazardous quest to return her to her own era. But there are others who crave the knowledge Seven possesses, and they will stop at nothing to obtain it—even if this means seizing control of the Enterprise!
Download or read book Prayers on Fire written by Brian Simmons and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost three thousand years, people have prayed and sung the Psalms. Like those who have gone before us, when we are filled with joy, we will discover fuel in these ancient songs for even higher praises. And when we are going through the valley of deepest darkness, we will find in the Psalms light shining upon us, driving the shadows of doubt away. Prayers on Fire includes 365 prayers inspired by the book of Psalms from the heart-felt Passion Translation. Each day contains an excerpt from the Psalms and then a prayer from the heart, providing an expression of faith and worship for sincere worshipers. Open your heart as you open the pages of this book. Here you will find God as your shelter of strength. “As I’m hidden within your greatness, I discover your eternal purposes. In love and humility I bow before you, my awe-inspiring God. The way you watch over me, infuses me with confidence and courage. You are my source; I draw life from the waters of your love. Walking step by step with you brings me joy unlike I’ve ever known. Your Word illuminates my path, and wherever I go, I flourish. No matter the season, I’m blessed—established firmly in you.” (Inspired by Psalm 1:2)
Download or read book Knight s Shadow written by Sebastien de Castell and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade, Sebastien de Castell returns with volume two of his fast-paced fantasy adventure series, inspired by the swashbuckling action and witty banter of The Three Musketeers. Knight's Shadow continues the series with a thrilling and dark tale of heroism and betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers' corruption. A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.
Download or read book Submergence written by J. M. Ledgard and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning foreign correspondent’s cerebral spy novel-cum-love story exposes humanity’s tenuous hold on a vast and relentless world.
