Download or read book Thirty Six and a Half Motives written by Denise Grover Swank and published by DGS. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller! The final book in the Rose Gardner Mystery series. Rose Gardner should be celebrating the arrest of her fiercest enemy, J.R. Simmons. But problems are like weeds—pluck one and five more spring up. Rose’s boyfriend is on the verge of leaving her for good, her best friend, Neely Kate, is grappling with marriage problems, and her sister has a devastating secret. To make matters worse, she discovers J.R. Simmons has not been neutralized. His network of allies and henchman extends further than she suspected, and J.R.’s so intent on revenge, his lackeys might just destroy Fenton County to get it for him. But the girl who once spent her days alone and afraid is now a strong, independent woman with a network of her own, including Neely Kate, Skeeter Malcolm—the reigning king of the Fenton County underworld—and other loyal friends on both sides of the law. Racing against time, they must dig up J.R.'s empire by the roots, unmasking his allies and unearthing his secrets, both the behind-the-scenes manipulation he’s been orchestrating in Fenton County for decades and the dark stains of his personal life. If Rose succeeds, she tells herself the quiet and peaceful life she once dreamed of will be at the end of the tunnel. But her quest to destroy J.R. will require her to explore the person she has become, what she wants, and what that means for her future.

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Download or read book Carter Finally Gets It written by Brent Crawford and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-03-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Will Carter, but feel free to call him Carter. (Yes, he knows it's a lazy nickname, but he didn't have much say in the matter.) Here are five things you should know about him: 1. He has a stuttering problem, particularly around boobs and belly buttons. 2. He battles Attention Deficit Disorder every minute of every day unless he gets distracted. 3. He's a virgin, mostly because he's no good at talking to girls (see number 1). 4. He's about to start high school. 5. He's totally not ready. Join Carter for his freshman year, where he'll search for sex, love, and acceptance anywhere he can find it. In the process, he'll almost kill a trombone player, face off with his greatest nemesis, suffer a lot of blood loss, narrowly escape death, run from the cops (not once, but twice), get caught up in a messy love triangle, meet his match in the form of a curvy drill teamer, and surprise the hell out of everyone, including himself.

Download or read book Mother of Pearl written by Angela Savage and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous and courageous story about the hopes and dreams we all have for our lives and relationships, and the often fraught and unexpected ways they may be realised. Angela Savage draws us masterfully into the lives of Anna, an aid worker trying to settle back into life in Australia after more than a decade in Southeast Asia; Meg, Anna’s sister, who holds out hope for a child despite seven fruitless years of IVF; Meg's husband Nate, and Mukda, a single mother in provincial Thailand who wants to do the right thing by her son and parents. The women and their families' lives become intimately intertwined in the unsettling and extraordinary process of trying to bring a child into the world across borders of class, culture and nationality. Rich in characterisation and feeling, Mother of Pearl, and the timely issues it raises, will generate discussion amongst readers everywhere. ‘This is a story of family and motherhood, and also a story of culture and exploitation that asks us to think through the costs of our insatiable desire in the West to have everything. What I find remarkable about this novel is how it refuses easy and lazy judgement, how it takes seriously questions of loss, longing, and our human need to connect with each other.’ — Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap

Download or read book The Art of Joy written by Goliarda Sapienza and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn't until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza's remarkable book is available in English, in a brilliant translation by Anne Milano Appel and with an illuminating introduction by Angelo Pellegrino. The Art of Joy centers on Modesta, a Sicilian woman born on January 1, 1900, whose strength and character are an affront to conventional morality. Impoverished as a child, Modesta believes she is destined for a better life. She is able, through grace and intelligence, to secure marriage to an aristocrat—without compromising her own deeply felt values. Friend, mother, lover—Modesta revels in upsetting the rules of her fascist, patriarchal society. This is the history of the twentieth century, transfigured by the perspective of one extraordinary woman. Sapienza, an intriguing figure in her own right—her father homeschooled her so she wouldn't be exposed to fascist influences—was a respected actress and writer who drew on her own struggles to craft this powerful epic. A fictionalized memoir, a book of romance and adventure, a feminist text, a bildungsroman—this novel is ultimately undefinable but deeply necessary; its genius will leave readers breathless.

Download or read book This Will All Be Over Soon written by Cecily Strong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin—and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her—amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods upstate. Here, trying to make sense of Owen’s death and the upended world, she spent much of the ensuing months writing. The result is This Will All Be Over Soon—a raw, unflinching memoir about loss, love, laughter, and hope. Befitting the time-warped year of 2020, the diary-like approach deftly weaves together the present and the past. Strong chronicles the challenges of beginning a relationship during the pandemic and the fear when her new boyfriend contracts COVID. She describes the pain of losing her friend and longtime Saturday Night Live staff member Hal Willner to the virus. She reflects on formative events from her life, including how her high school expulsion led to her pursuing a career in theater and, years later, landing at SNL. Yet the heart of the book is Owen. Strong offers a poignant account of her cousin’s life, both before and after his diagnosis. Inspired by his unshakable positivity and the valuable lessons he taught her, she has written a book that—as indicated by its title—serves as a moving reminder: whatever challenges life might throw one’s way, they will be over soon. And so will life. So make sure to appreciate every day and don’t take a second of it for granted.

Download or read book Thursday s Child written by Clare Revell and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thursday's Child chases the whole... Broken...with bits missing. That's how Niamh, senior prosecutor for the CPS, feels when she wakes in hospital severely injured with no knowledge what's happened—for the past ten years. A tall man in a firefighters uniform claims he's her husband. While he's everything she's ever dreamed of, she doesn't know him. And if he was so important why can't she remember? Was there something so terrible in her marriage that her mind has suppressed it? First on the scene at a horrific accident, Jared Harkin is devastated to find his wife amongst the injured. He's already lost a child, can he live through this? Niamh survives the crash, but awakens with no memories of their life together. Determined to help her remember the past and their love, he sets about wooing her all over again. But are some things best forgotten? As Niamh struggles to remember, the investigation into the accident reveals foul play. Did her recent caseload have anything to do with the attempt on her life? Or was it someone closer to her? As bit and pieces of memory return, the attacker strikes again. Can she piece together the whole of her past before it's too late?

Download or read book The Food Chain written by Nicky Silver and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Amanda, an anorexic poet of some pretensions, has been married for three weeks, but her husband, Ford, has been missing for two. She calls a crisis hot line and reaches Bea, a volunteer. Bea's answer to Amanda's problems is to diminish t

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Download or read book Turnabout written by Laury A. Egan and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of 1964. Four teenage lives intertwine as each searches for love, identity, and a passage through painful family conflicts, social isolation, and the confusion of sexual orientation. During a sailing class, four teenagers meet. Jessie Schaffer is fourteen, an intelligent and solitary girl, who dreams of becoming a writer. When she sees nineteen-year-old Lindsay Ames, the instructor, standing on a dock, sunlight illuminating her blond hair and blue eyes, Jessie falls in love but is too afraid of her feelings and what they mean. In an attempt to reassure herself she is “normal,” Jessie becomes involved with two boys in the class: Kenny Crenshaw, also fourteen, a darkly handsome and flirtatious guy, and Calvin Brayburn, a year younger, who will be in their freshman class because he’s academically brilliant. On the first day of sailing, Cal is smitten with Jessie, though he is hindered by shyness. As the romantic relationships take unexpected twists, Jessie, Lindsay, Calvin, and Kenny relate their individual stories, their hopes, fears, and longings, all the while being buffeted by intense pressures. Set in coastal New Jersey, the plot roams from its beautiful rivers to lush scenes in St. Thomas and Vietnam’s jungles during the war.

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Download or read book Bon Appetempt written by Amelia Morris and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Amelia Morris saw a towering, beautiful chocolate cake in Bon Appétit and took the recipe home to recreate it for a Christmas day brunch she was hosting, it resulted in a terrible (but tasty) mess that had to be served in an oversize bowl. It was also a revelation. Both delicious and damaged, it seemed a physical metaphor for the many curious and unexpected situations she's found herself in throughout her life, from her brief career as a six-year-old wrestler to her Brady Bunch-style family (minus the housekeeper and the familial harmony) to her ill-fated twenty-something job at the School of Rock in Los Angeles. As a way to bring order to chaos and in search of a more meaningful lifestyle, she finds herself more and more at home in the kitchen, where she begins to learn that even if the results of her culinary efforts fall well short of the standard set by glossy food magazines, they can still bring satisfaction (and sustenance) to her and her family and friends. Full of hilarious observations about food, family, unemployment, romance, and the extremes of modern L.A., and featuring recipes as basic as Toasted Cheerios and as advanced as gâteau de crêpes, Bon Appétit is sure to resonate with anyone who has tried and failed, and been all the better for it.

Download or read book The Quirky Casebook written by James J. Cudney and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three cozy mystery novels by James J. Cudney, Janie Owens & Debbie De Louise, now available in one volume! Academic Curveball: After returning home for his father’s retirement from Braxton College, Kellan Ayrwick finds a dead body in Diamond Hall’s stairwell. Unfortunately, Kellan has a connection to the victim, and so do several members of his family. It seems like someone is playing games on campus, but none of the facts add up. With the help of his eccentric nana, Kellan tries to stay out of the sheriff’s way. And if that wasn't enough already, his own past comes spiraling back to change his life forever. Haircut and Highlights: Determined to find her friend Rose, Abby - the owner of Goldilocks Hair Salon - becomes an amateur sleuth. Her relationship with Jack, a Daytona Beach Police Sergeant, is blossoming, and in the wings is also the handsome neighbor and fireman Mark. The first book in the Daytona Beach Mysteries series, 'Haircut and Highlights' is a mystery involving love of humanity, coming of age and romance. Sea Scope: Sarah Collins needs an escape and returns to her childhood home in South Carolina, where her family operated an inn. She hasn’t been back to Sea Scope for years; not since she and her brother Glen discovered a body by the nearby lighthouse. After Sarah returns to the inn, she has to deal with long-buried memories and strange text messages. Something is not right in Sea Scope. As the past and present collide, can she figure out what's going on in her childhood home?

Download or read book Haircut and Highlights written by Janie Owens and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby, the owner of Goldilocks Hair Salon, is shocked when she finds blood at the entrance of her salon. She has a soft spot for a homeless woman named Rose, who she wants to rehabilitate. But Abby fears the blood found at her salon may belong to Rose, since the woman slept there and now has disappeared. Determined to find Rose, Abby becomes an amateur sleuth, but is discouraged by Jack, a Daytona Beach Police Sergeant. While their relationship blossoms, in the wings is the handsome neighbor and fireman Mark, who has a knack for being present whenever Abby gets into trouble. Relationships become complicated when a young employee becomes pregnant and one hairdresser doesn't view Rose quite the same as Abby. Despite intrigue, danger and being stalked, Abby maintains her bright outlook and wisdom. Readers will enjoy the times when some characters from the author's 50-Plus Condo series visit the salon. The first book in the Daytona Beach Mysteries series, 'Haircut and Highlights' is a mystery involving love of humanity, coming of age and romance, with a touch of faith.

Download or read book Daytona Beach Mysteries Books 1 3 written by Janie Owens and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books in 'Daytona Beach Mysteries', a series of cozy mystery novels by Janie Owens, now available in one volume! Haircut and Highlights: After homeless Rose disappears, Abby - the owner of Goldilocks Hair Salon - gets on the case. During the investigation, Abby's relationship blossoms with Jack, a Daytona Beach Police Sergeant. In the wings is also handsome neighbor and fireman Mark, who has a knack for being there whenever Abby gets into trouble. Despite intrigue and danger, Abby maintains her bright outlook and wisdom. But can she crack the case? The Palmetto Diaries: After Mrs. York is found murdered, Ivy discovers several diaries in her new house, which expose secrets in the old woman's past. Meanwhile, the ladies at the salon welcome a nail tech named Poppy. Complicating Abby's life further is ex-boyfriend Jack. Now a lieutenant police department, his investigation into Mrs. York's murder makes life uncomfortable for Abby. But after Jack begins displaying a gentler side uncharacteristic of his former self, Abby will need to determine whether he really has changed, or is it just an act? Write of Passing: Holly Donnelly loves writing obituaries, even though it comes with one oddity: each spirit pays her a visit, manifesting in unique ways. One spirit in particular has another reason to visit, and Holly is on a mission to solve the mystery of who the ghost is. While enduring her drama queen mother's antics and dealing with her own commitment issues, Holly's precious Chihuahua is an ever-present comforter and moral support. Can Holly figure out why the ghost is visiting the apartment 66 years after her death?

Download or read book Cold Spots written by David M. Riley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Octavia and Frank bought the old colonial house in New Hampshire, they knew they buying a piece of history. Th ey didn't know they were buying something so sinister, so depraved, and so eternal. When Octavia talked outloud to herself in the house, that was okay, but when the house talked back, something should have triggered in her brain, that something was very, very wrong. But that was just the beginning. Th ere is a thin line between sanity and madness, and if the decision is left in the hands of the affl icted, what is real, and what isn't, becomes a hazy distinction. Octavia slips deeper and deeper, dangling on the thin thread of reality and fantasy. Day by day, she is taken in by the true prescence in the house. The couples once peaceful and loving relationship takes on many bizzare and terrifying twists and turns while living in the house. Soon, things are very much out of control, as Octavia becomes fi xated by the true enemy, the great deceiver. It knows no limits, will stop at nothing, using every depraved and perverse manner, to have an everlasting hold on Octavia.