Download or read book Life Just Got Real written by Sadie Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old A.J. Smith, who was born and raised in backwoods Tennessee, attends school with Kate Kelly, a fashionable girl on a reality show, and the two Christian girls eventually become friends, even as the show's producers try and cause conflict.

Download or read book Foster written by Claire Keegan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.

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Download or read book Shadowshaper Legacy The Shadowshaper Cypher Book 3 written by Daniel José Older and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher trilogy! A house dividedSierra and the shadowshapers have been split apart. Juan, Anthony, and Izzy are in jail, anxiously waiting to find out what will become of them. Back in Brooklyn, the other shadowshapers have been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, catching strangely shaped figures stalking them, and fending off random spirits. A war is brewing among the houses, and the very magic of the shadowshapers is at stake.The fate of the worldsSierra is determined to protect her own in the coming conflict, even if that means keeping secrets from them. But a deal with Death by one of Sierra's ancestors has far-reaching consequences in the battles of the present, and as old fates tangle with new powers, Sierra will have to harness the Deck of Worlds and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future and everyone she loves. Only doing so will mean following the magic to places the shadowshapers have never gone before . . . and may never return from.New York Times bestselling author Daniel Jose Older spins a masterful conclusion to his evocative and captivating Shadowshaper Cypher series in a finale of searing rebellion, the power of fate, and a magic unlike anything you've ever imagined.

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Download or read book Wolf Under Fire written by Paige Tyler and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler delivers intense action and sizzling romance in a brand-new paranormal romantic suspense series, perfect for anyone looking for: an alpha wolf hero hungry for a challenge an agent under fire with something to prove a team of shifters who will stop at nothing to protect each other and a race across the globe that'll leave you breathless Supernatural creatures are no longer keeping their existence secret from humans, causing panic around the globe. To investigate, monitor, and—when necessary—take down dangerous supernatural offenders, an international task force was established: The Special Threat Assessment Team. For the cases no one else can solve, they send in the Special Threat Assessment Team. STAT agent Jestina Ridley is in London with her team investigating a suspicious kidnapping. Over her radio, Jes hears her teammates being savagely attacked. She runs to help, but she's too late. The only survivor, Jes calls for backup and gets former Navy SEAL and alpha werewolf Jake Huang and his new pack. Convinced that the creature who butchered her teammates was a werewolf, Jes doesn't trust them. But if they're going to uncover the facts and make it back home alive, she'll need Jake's help. And with everything on the line, Jes will have to accept the way of the wolf, or lose the partner she never expected to find...

Download or read book Saving Her Shadow written by Lutishia Lovely and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When 18-year-old Raina is given an ultimatum--her family or her first love--she chooses the latter, leaves the rigid cult community she's grown up in, and finds herself shunned, ex-communicated. Not seeing her parents is tolerable, but her heart breaks at the thought of not seeing her baby sister. While Raina embraces her new life, she can't shake her concern about Abby, especially when an illness worsens and her parents refuse to seek medical help. Raina is determined to save her sister, drawing on her new family and support system"--

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Download or read book The Sting of Love written by Khardine Gray and published by Bliss Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moment she walked into my club, I knew I had to have her. Her beauty captured me, her body enticed me. Everything about her was tempting. So tempting I had to have more than one night with her. But our paths should never have crossed. I can paint the picture however I want but the truth is I’m a dangerous man. A gangster. I work for a powerful man who rules the underworld with a ruthless hand. Assigned to look after the empire in Italy, my focus should never have been on her. A woman I couldn’t have. I broke my rules by getting involved. Then I slipped up. My enemies saw her as my weakness. A dagger they could stab through my already wounded heart. The lamb to the slaughter they want to kill to teach me a lesson. When they try, I’m forced to kidnap her to keep her safe. I lock her away in my house on the island where no one can find her. It’s too dangerous for her to be with me, but more dangerous to be without me. War is brewing on my hands. She’s right to call me a monster. I am. But I can’t allow her to die for being with me. **This is book five in the Gangsters and Dolls series but it can be read as a complete standalone. It is a full-length novel that contains NO-CLIFFHANGERS, and has a HEA. It is a HOT Mafia romance and contains subject matter not suitable for all readers. **

Download or read book It Was Always You written by Erika Kelly and published by EK Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s the bad boy quarterback, one scandal away from being traded. She’s the squeaky-clean pop star with a morality clause hanging around her neck. And they can’t keep their hands off each other. Cassian Ellis fell in love with Gigi Cavanaugh when he was a kid. But he couldn’t have her, because her dad--his mentor — promised to take him all the way to the pros. The price: stay away from his daughter. But Gigi was embedded in his soul — there was no distancing himself from her. And, senior year in high school, in a moment of desperation when he couldn’t take all the want and love and lust, he ended things in the worst way possible. Now, nine years later, he’s forced to do charity work to clean up his party boy image. And guess who’s working right alongside him? Gigi can't believe her bad luck. She's on the same charity tour as Cassian Ellis. And, with the press recording their every move, she has to pretend to like the man who tore out her heart and stomped all over it. But Cassian's determined to win her back. Only, someone’s leaking photographs, and headlines about the bad boy quarterback corrupting the squeaky-clean pop star could sink both their dreams. Can their love overcome all the world has put between them?

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Download or read book Montana Wishes written by Amy Vastine and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught between friendship and falling in love… Amanda Harrison’s life is changing way too fast. Discovering that she’s really one of the Montana Blackwells was hard enough. Now Blake Collins—her best friend and the guy Amanda’s secretly in love with—is engaged to someone else. But Montana cowboy country has a way of claiming its own. And being a Blackwell means Amanda must learn how to fight for herself…and for the love she deserves. USA TODAY Bestselling Author