Download or read book Tempting Tatum Paperback written by Kaylee Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when your whole life crashes and burns? How do you get through the flames? Tatum Thompson is living the dream. Her life is perfect; with a loving boyfriend, loving parents and a soon to be college graduate how can life get better? Life is good until it isn't. When tragedy strikes Tatum runs to Josh only to find him in a compromising position with someone else. Turning away from the only life she knew, Tatum is forced to alter her life plan. Blaise Richards is a tattoo artist who moonlights as a volunteer fire fighter. Lies and deception leave his broken heart closed until the beautiful green eyed girl casts her spell over him. She's making him feel things he's never felt. Making him want things he thought he would never want. Tatum wants Mr. just for tonight. Blaise wants Tatum to be his forever. Can Mr. Just for tonight convince Tatum that she's the one? How long can Tatum resist Blaise's determination to make her his?
Download or read book Saving Tatum written by Micalea Smeltzer and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude Brooks is bad news. He's the kind of guy that leaves behind a string of broken hearts and Tatum O' Connor is not about to be one of those girls, despite all of Jude's advances. They have a past, and Tatum's determined to make sure they don't have a future. Unfortunately for her, "no" isn't a word in Jude's vocabulary. The more she backs away, the more he pushes. Tatum's hiding a pain that no one sees and holding on to a hurt that may never heal. Letting Jude into her heart could shatter her completely-and what if she opens up to Jude and he can't handle her baggage? Love is never easy-especially when the person you're falling for is the person you blame for the worst event in your life.
Download or read book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria written by Beverly Daniel Tatum and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares examples and current research that support the author's recommendations for straight talk about racial identity, identifying practices that contribute to self-segregation in childhood groups
Download or read book A Paper Life written by Tatum O'Neal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real Hollywood-style tell-all, this is the extremely candid and highly explosive autobiography of one of the movie industry's most talented and troubled young stars. At age ten, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history for her performance in the film classic Paper Moon. As the sidekick to her father, the flamboyant star and man-about-town Ryan O'Neal, she became a fixture at the most glamorous Hollywood parties and counted celebrities ranging from Cher to Stanley Kubrick among her childhood friends. Yet behind the glittering façade of Tatum's life lay heartbreak: abandonment, abuse, neglect, and drug addiction. She reveals the most intimate secrets of her dysfunctional relationships with her father, Ryan O'Neal, and stepmother, Farrah Fawcett, as well as her alcoholic mother, Joanna Moore, and ex-husband, tennis pro John McEnroe. After the collapse of her marriage and with no real family to turn to, Tatum succumbed to the demons of her past that would nearly kill her. Now she has emerged clean and sober, rediscovering herself as an actress, mother, and wonderfully vibrant woman in what she considers the prime of her life.
Download or read book Tex t Mex written by William Anthony Nericcio and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marvels! Rompecabezas! And cartoons that bite into the mind appear throughout this long-awaited book that promises to reshape and refocus how we see Mexicans in the Americas and how we are taught and seduced to mis/understand our human potentials for solidarity. This is the closest Latin@ studies has come to a revolutionary vision of how American culture works through its image machines, a vision that cuts through to the roots of the U.S. propaganda archive on Mexican, Tex-Mex, Latino, Chicano/a humanity. Nericcio exposes, deciphers, historicizes, and 'cuts-up' the postcards, movies, captions, poems, and adverts that plaster dehumanization (he calls them 'miscegenated semantic oddities') through our brains. For him, understanding the sweet and sour hallucinations is not enough. He wants the flashing waters of our critical education to become instruments of restoration. In this book, Walter Benjamin meets Italo Calvino and they morph into Nericcio. Orale! -Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University A rogues' gallery of Mexican bandits, bombshells, lotharios, and thieves saturates American popular culture. Remember Speedy Gonzalez? “Mexican Spitfire” Lupe Vélez? The Frito Bandito? Familiar and reassuring-at least to Anglos-these Mexican stereotypes are not a people but a text, a carefully woven, articulated, and consumer-ready commodity. In this original, provocative, and highly entertaining book, William Anthony Nericcio deconstructs Tex[t]-Mexicans in films, television, advertising, comic books, toys, literature, and even critical theory, revealing them to be less flesh-and-blood than “seductive hallucinations,” less reality than consumer products, a kind of “digital crack.” Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vélez, and Frida Kahlo, as well as Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil and the comic artistry of Gilbert Hernandez. He playfully yet devastatingly discloses how American cultural creators have invented and used these and other Tex[t]-Mexicans since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, thereby exposing the stereotypes, agendas, phobias, and intellectual deceits that drive American popular culture. This sophisticated, innovative history of celebrity Latina/o mannequins in the American marketplace takes a quantum leap toward a constructive and deconstructive next-generation figuration/adoration of Latinos in America.
Download or read book Tatum written by James Roosevelt Tatum and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Love Affair with the Game written by Frank Tatum and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NCAA national champion in golf and respected president of the United States Golf Association now provides thoughts, reminiscences, and views on the game.
Download or read book Kings of Quarantine written by Caroline Peckham and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruel. Heartless. Quarantined.The ruthless boys of Everlake Prep never saw lockdown coming.But the virus isn't their number one enemy.I am. And as if being confined to a boarding school for the elite wasn't bad enough, now I'm stuck in isolation with the boys who hate me most too. Saint, Kyan and Blake. The Night Keepers. Or so they call themselves. They've embodied the Native American legend which lives in this valley, taking on the role of the monsters who lurk in the forest. And though they act like beasts, they may also be the most tempting creatures I've ever seen. With the virus escalating and my dad's name splashed through the news, my entire world is falling apart. What he did has cast a dark shadow over me. And the Night Keepers want to make me pay for his crimes. Then things went from bad to worse when I touched the sacred rock. A rock which supposedly holds a curse to bind me as the Night Keepers' slave. And as crazy as it sounds, I decided to play along. Because there are things about me they don't know. Things my dad has hidden from me for years. All I can be sure of is that I have to find a way to escape this school. But until then, those savage boys are making my life a living hell. As the virus sweeps through the country and the world twists into something ugly and unknown, the kings of this school become true monarchs. Even the teachers bow to them now. And I'm kinda glad about that 'stay six feet away from one another' rule, because without it, I know they'd rip me apart. At least there's a silver lining. I'm cosying up to Coach Monroe. My hot as hell, brooding P.E. teacher who has a vendetta of his own against the Night Keepers. And with his help, I may succeed at doing more than escaping the clutches of these heartless fiends. I might even destroy them along the way. My father taught me how to be strong. How to prepare for the end of the world. So this isn't going to be the end of my world, mark my words. But if I'm able to use my mind and body to bring these assholes to their knees, it might just be the end of theirs. This is a high school bully romance series where the main character will end up with more than one love interest. It may have triggers for some as it has off the charts angst, dark love-hate themes, scenes of intense bullying and some violence (not aimed towards the main character) and is not for the faint of heart. Prepare to enrol at Everlake Prep. Bring your hand sanitiser, face masks and toilet paper to barter with, but don't expect to hold onto them for long. Because it's time to go into quarantine with the Night Keepers. And everything you own now belongs to them.
Download or read book Saving Tatum written by Micalea Smeltzer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even tough girls need saving. Jude Brooks is bad news. He's the kind of guy that leaves behind a string of broken hearts and Tatum O'Connor is not about to be one of those girls, despite all of Jude's advances. They have a past, and Tatum's determined to make sure they don't have a future. Unfortunately for her, "no" isn't a word in Jude's vocabulary. The more she backs away, the more he pushes. But what if he pushes too far? Tatum's hiding a pain that no one sees and holding on to a hurt that may never heal. Letting Jude into her heart could shatter her completely-and what if she opens up to Jude and he can't handle her baggage? Love is never easy-especially when the person you're falling for is the person you blame for the worst event in your life. Love, heartache, and despair. That's the name of the game when you're Saving Tatum. Other books available in the Trace + Olivia Series Finding Olivia Chasing Olivia Tempting Rowan *this book can be read as a standalone*
Download or read book Avoiding Temptation written by Rachel Van Dyken and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hit on her first. Realized she was my best friend Finn's little sister second. And got a bloody nose third - compliments of Finn after he watched me nearly score with the new underclassman. After all I did have a reputation on campus, word on the street was that a girl could orgasm within one minute just watching me eat Lucky Charms. You can't make this stuff up - even though it was at least four minutes and included outside circumstances. Ahem, I digress. Point is, not only did I earn the attention of the worst sort of girl for me - my best friend's only sibling - but now she's out to seduce me. Me! One of the most famous Pleasure Ponies of them all! I can't shower - she follows me to the bathroom. Literally. I can't sleep - Lucky me, she lives in the same dorm. And I can't focus on anything except for her taunting eyes every single time something goes her way. I want her, but I don't want her to know I want her, and I definitely don't want to die before graduation, which is looking more and more likely considering we can't keep our hands off each other. Something's gotta give, and I have an inkling I should probably start writing my eulogy now because that something is probably going to be me.
Download or read book Tempting Rowan written by Micalea Smeltzer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm drowning in the numbness. It's pulling me under and I can't see the surface. It's easier to pretend I can't feel. And the longer you pretend, the easier it is to believe. But he wants to save me. Only he can't. I have to save myself...and I don't know if I want to.Rowan Sinclair's life has been anything but easy. With an alcoholic mother and a sleazy stepfather, it's been her responsibility to raise her younger siblings. At twenty-one she's chained to a life she doesn't want, but sees no other alternative. After all, what would happen to her brother and sister if she were to leave?Trenton Wentworth sees the pain behind Rowan's eyes. He wants nothing more than to make it disappear. To hold her. To love her. Except Rowan keeps everyone at a safe distance. But if there's anyone that can break down the walls she's built around herself, it's Trent. So she avoids him at all costs. But Trent isn't one to be easily evaded. He's stubborn and determined. He'll save this girl even if it costs him everything.Love, lies, and deception.That's the name of the game when you're Tempting Rowan.Note: This is book three in the Trace + Olivia series but follows new characters. You do not need to read the first two books in the series to read this one.Finding Olivia (Book One)Chasing Olivia (Book Two)Saving Tatum (Book Four)This is a standalone.
Download or read book Degradation written by Stylo Fantôme and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen year old Tatum O'Shea is a naive, shy, little rich girl. Twenty-three year old Jameson Kane is smart, seductive, and richer. They come together for one night, one explosion, one mistake, and Tate is hurled into space – no family, no money, and no Jameson.Seven years later, life is going pretty good for Tate, when she runs into Jameson again. This time, she thinks she's ready for him. She doesn't have a naive bone left in her body, and she can't even remember what shy feels like. Jameson has evolved into Satan – sharp teeth, sharper claws, and a tongue that can cut her in half. It all sounds like fun to a girl like Tate, and she is ready to play, determined to prove that she isn't the same girl he conquered once before. A series of games start, each one more devious than the last.But the devil likes to play dirty, and she learns that playing for souls is playing for keeps. The lines between games and reality, heaven and hell, get blurry. Can she beat Jameson at his own game before someone gets hurt? Or will he leave her soulless, making him the winner, once and for all?WARNING: contains a wannabe B-rate porn star, an impersonal personal assistant, and the F-word, A LOT. Also graphic sexual situations and sadomasochistic themes
Download or read book Growing Older Thinking Younger written by Keith A. Haemmelmann and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Boomers are maturing, more Boomer than baby, and this generation redefines what it means to age gracefully. Growing Older, Thinking Younger Ministry to Boomers helps church leaders to define this generation within the life of their church community. Discover what successful ministry with aging members of your congregation looks like. Clergy will learn how the church can reach out to this large segment and adapt to their needs as they move into retirement. Haemmelmann reveals to readers what boomers look like, what is important to them and how church fits into their everyday lives. He illustrates for readers how to propel your ministries with older adults forward as they enter their golden years.
Download or read book White Awake written by Daniel Hill and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be white, but that doesn't mean you have no culture. Charting his own journey toward understanding his white identity, Daniel Hill shows us the seven stages we encounter on the path to cultural awakening. This timely book will give you a new perspective on being white and also empower you to be an agent of reconciliation in our increasingly diverse and divided world.
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Download or read book Demons in the USA written by Michael E. Heyes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination. The book begins by tracing the conservative Christian encounter with Spiritualism in the nineteenth century and the mode of thinking about the demonic which developed. As Spiritualism’s core principles reappeared in the New Age, Christian interlocutors once more drew on this "anti-Spiritualist" paradigm to condemn the movement. This condemnation is absorbed by and amplified through the film The Exorcist. The author considers how the success of the film disseminates the anti-Spiritualist paradigm in surprising ways, entangling it with entertainment, science, and politics such that it influences psychology, the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, and the contemporary QAnon movement. This entanglement points to the broader argument of the work: While we may wish to think of a film as "entertainment" (and thus, having no bearing on "reality") or demonic material as "religious" (and thus exempt from categories like "politics" or "science"), the truth is that categories are not so easily separated. The author contends that the need to enforce the boundaries of such categories (and the failure to do so) is a hallmark of the intellectual construct of modernity, and that those who believe in demons in the contemporary United States are surprisingly modern in their views. The book grounds the importance of media to the twentieth-and twenty-first- century religious experience, arguing that the United States of today would not be possible without The Exorcist and its products. Demons in the USA will be of particular interest to scholars dealing with religion in America, those with a focus on religion and film, or those involved with contemporary demonology.
Download or read book Flash Flood written by Susan Slater and published by Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thriller with lots of southwestern atmosphere and a puzzler of a plot that’s calculated to keep a reader guessing through the last chapter.” –Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author Chicago insurance investigator Dan Mahoney is sent to the prosperous Double Horseshoe Ranch in southern New Mexico to investigate the deaths of several prized—and well-insured—cattle. The stakes are high, and Dan hasn’t counted on witnessing a murder or falling in love. But it’s the flash flood that changes everything, sweeping away a vintage Cadillac and its occupants in a torrent of raging water. Dan stays on at the ranch to continue his investigation, but suddenly, dead people aren’t really—and the list of suspects becomes completely convoluted in this mystery filled with twists and turns. Praise for Susan Slater’s Flash Flood: “Dan Mahoney is an appealingly resilient character, a welcome addition to the roster of sleuths that make the Southwest a hotbed of current mystery fiction.” —Publishers Weekly “Flash Flood is just what it sounds like—a fresh, surprising, adrenaline-rush whitewater ride. It’s also funny. Susan Slater can flat-out write.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel “There’ll be much, much more, with whispers of everything from alien experiments to voodoo, before Slater closes out this lively, surprising case, first of a series.” – Kirkus Reviews
