Download or read book The Summer Place written by Jennifer Weiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another “fun, feisty” (The Washington Post) novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market. But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah’s twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is—questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah’s husband, Eli, who’s been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by the challenges of the quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been. When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same. From “the undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, “this first-rate page-turner” (Publishers Weekly) is Jennifer Weiner’s love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.
Download or read book Joseph Based on King Tut the Musical written by Tedi Tuttle and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A carefully woven story of some of history's most illustrious icons intermingle in an array of human complexities. A telling that encompasses a pantheon of emotions in palaces, on boats, and in the desert--entertaining and audacious. Well-worn puzzle pieces of famous faces sifted through the ever-shifting sands of Africa lie drenched in life celebrations and adventure along the Nile as a who is who in Egypt. Music of the reeds whispers sweet melodies and drums pound out a willful heartbeat of love, animosity, and betrayal.
Download or read book Home Field Advantage written by Dahlia Adler and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage, a sweet and funny f/f romance from the author of Cool for the Summer, a cheerleader and the school's newest quarterback are playing to win, but might lose their hearts in the process. Amber McCloud’s dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it’s an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose. The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the changes to their traditions, and the fact that Robbie’s been not only replaced but outshined by a QB who wears a sports bra has more than a few Atherton Alligators in a rage. Amber tries for some semblance of unity, but it quickly becomes clear that she's only got a future on the squad and with her friends if she helps them take Jack down. Just one problem: Amber and Jack are falling for each other, and if Amber can't stand up for Jack and figure out how to get everyone to fall in line, her dream may come at the cost of her heart. Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage is a sparkling romance about fighting for what - or who - you truly want.
Download or read book Stonewiser written by Dora Machado and published by Mermaid Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stones and the secrets they hold protect the Goodlands from the corruption of rot; only stonewisers are able to divine the stones' stories. When Sariah, the most gifted stonewiser of her generation, discovers her world has been based on lies, she forms an unlikely alliance with Kael, a rebel leader, and begins a quest for the truth--no matter how devastating it may be.
Download or read book The Book of Bright Ideas written by Sandra Kring and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, poignant novel of family, friendship, and a summer that will change lives forever.-- book cover.
Download or read book Starstruck written by Sariah Wilson and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You've done better." With one uncharacteristically sassy tweet to her longtime celebrity crush, Zoe Miller's life turns upside down. Ultrahot A-lister Chase Covington doesn't just respond to Zoe's tweet, he does the unthinkable: he messages Zoe directly. Now she must decide between walking away or meeting her crush in person. Chase knows better than to trust anyone from the Internet, but Zoe's saucy challenge has totally caught his interest--and her girl-next-door personality is keeping it. He's been burned enough to know he needs to keep his heart close. But his feelings for Zoe might be a lot more than just an online flirtation. He just has to convince her... When the press gets wind of Zoe and Chase's secret relationship, their romance turns into tabloid headlines. Will they be able to hold on to their Hollywood love story?
Download or read book B U G Big Ugly Guy written by Jane Yolen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sammy Greenberg would rather talk back to The Boyz--a gang of bullies at his school--and get his head stuck in the toilet than constantly be afraid. But when his friend Skink gets beaten up so badly that he has to go to the hospital, Sammy thinks he may be in over his head. He decides to build a golem--a mythical protector from Jewish folklore, made of clay and animated by the ineffable name of God. But this monster doesn't just protect him and Skink from The Boyz, he is also a great drummer for their rock-jazz-klezmer fusion band! But golems come with warnings. They will protect you until they don't.
Download or read book Libriomancer written by Jim C. Hines and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of a secret society founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. As such, he is gifted with the magical ability to reach into books and draw forth objects. But when Gutenberg vanishes without a trace, Isaac finds himself pitted against everything from vampires to a sinister, nameless foe who is bent on revealing magic to the world at large... and at any cost.
Download or read book Wicked After Midnight written by Delilah S. Dawson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contortionist and a rakish brigand navigate the cabarets of Paris to rescue a girl taken by slavers in the third steampunk-tinged romance of the Blud series. An electrifying paranormal romance . . . with a twist! Only rebellious Demi Ward could be bored with her life as a contortionist in Criminy Stain’s magical traveling circus. But being a cabaret star in the City of Light is dangerous . . . especially for an audacious Bludman. After Demi’s best friend, Cherie, is brutally kidnapped en route to Paris by a roving band of masked slavers, passionate highwayman Vale Hildebrand shows up to save the day. With his help, Demi rises to the top of the cabaret scene as part of her plot to find Cherie—but what she really discovers is a taste for Vale’s kisses. Meanwhile, wealthy suitors vie for a night of her charms, crowding the glittering club where Demi commands the stage with a host of colorful daimons. She is soon seduced by a smoldering portrait artist whose ties to a secret society could be the break she and Vale need on their hunt. But—unlike the Paris that Demi read about in college on Earth—the Paris of Sang is full of depraved pleasures and deadly surprises. . . .
Download or read book The Serpent s Shadow written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of adult fairy tale retellings full of magic, romance, humor, and suspense—from a Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy! A richly reimagined Snow White uncovers the secrets of her family’s magical history in an alternate Edwardian London . . . As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, Maya Witherspoon graduated from the University of Delhi as a Doctor of Medicine by the age of 22. But the science of medicine was not Maya’s only heritage. For Maya’s aristocratic mother, Surya, was a sorceress—a former priestess of the mystical magics fueled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods. Though Maya felt the stirring of magic in her blood, her mother had repeatedly refused to train her. Yet it was Maya’s father’s death shortly thereafter that confirmed her darkest suspicions. For her father was killed by the bite of a krait, a tiny venomous snake, and in the last hours of her mother’s life, Surya had warned Maya to beware “the serpent’s shadow.” Maya knew she must flee the land of her birth or face the same fate as her parents. In self-imposed exile in Edwardian London, Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power that had murdered her parents. She knew in her heart that even a vast ocean couldn’t protect her from “the serpent’s shadow” that had so terrified her mother. Her only hope was to find a way to master her own magic: the magic of her father’s blood. But who would teach her? And could she learn enough to save her life by the time her relentless pursuers caught up with their prey?
Download or read book Pizza My Heart A Wish Novel written by Rhiannon Richardson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slice-of-life rom-com about pizza and first crushes that readers will gobble up! Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that same rude -- and, okay, cute -- boy shows up at her school, Maya's convinced nothing can go right. But she may be in for some surprises. Could good friends, secret crushes, and creative pizza toppings turn Maya's new home into her own slice of heaven?
Download or read book Wrecked by Love written by Sariah Denzin and published by Faithful Love Press. This book was released on 2024-02-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s a gossip who’s revealed everyone’s secrets… …he’s an ex-spy who’ll kill to keep his hidden. Nicki A weekend at a luxury Lodge was meant to be the perfect place to hide from Blueskin Bay’s inaugural Valentine’s Day festival. This year it’s a triple decker of disappointment. Not only will I be spending a landmark birthday alone on Valentine’s Weekend, but someone has been threatening me. They call all hours of the night, send me icky things in the mail, and tell me they’re going to spill all my sordid secrets. My brilliant plan? Tell my grandmother I want to treat myself to a weekend away then start a process of elimination to figure out who it might be. Then Maddox Reid shows up at the Lodge and demands I leave before I even check in! I must be crazy to believe anything Blueskin Bay’s most wanted says. But it’s hard to argue with six feet of magnetism, and seductive promises. Especially difficult to protest when he lets you cry on his shoulder and agrees to help you. And it’s absolutely impossible to when you find yourself making out with him on Valentine’s Day… Maddox It’s Murphy’s Law that Nicki Davis showed up on my island. I’m already saddled with an amateur on this op. It’s no surprise the biggest mouth in the Bay with the least amount of discretion checked in for a weekend stay too. All my carefully laid plans will fall apart if she picks up the phone and tells anyone she’s seen me. So, I do what I have to; I remove her ability to contact anyone, and I tell her what she needs to hear. But keeping her close proves harder than I envisaged. She’s got a serious problem and it’s escalating quickly. Now she’s an added complication to an already dangerous situation. Worse, she’s a temptation that’s adding color in my grey and orderly world. I start making promises I can’t afford to. At the worst possible time, when I’m at my weakest, I let my guard slip and thoughtlessly kiss her. I thought I could handle anything. But nothing in my resume could have prepared me for falling in love. * * This small-town enemies to lovers family romance sits right smack bang on the line between steamy and sweet, features an ex-CIA officer hero reluctantly falling for a talkative heroine, is dipped in intrigue and suspense is laced with action, all blended with a large scoop of humor and a dash of faith. Wrecked by Love contains Pg-13 level language, sizzling tension, a love triangle, assassins, undercover ops, perilous situations and M-rated violence. If you'd prefer a small-town romance with no twists and turns Wrecked by Love may not be to your liking. Keywords: Spy-Civilian Romance, Fake Romance, Undercover Romance, Forced Proximity, Blizzard, Snowed in together, Winter in Maine, Valentine's Day Romance, CIA romance, Secret Identity Romance, Love Triangle Romance, Enemies to Lovers Romance
Download or read book The Giving Tree written by Shel Silverstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Download or read book Reunited by Love written by Sariah Denzin and published by Faithful Love Press. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their secret love could unite Blueskin Bay… …or it could tear their families apart. May For thirty-two years, there’s been an invisible line down the middle of Blueskin Bay. Reids on one side and Cohens on the other. And I’m one of the reasons it’s there. But worse than the conflict… …is living with the lie I told the boy who said he’d love me forever. Now Mason Reid is back celebrating the birth of his great-niece. And he has questions I’m terrified to answer. I knew this day would come. And I can’t avoid him forever. He deserves to know the truth. But revealing my secret won’t just break his heart… …it’ll destroy both our families. Along with his reputation. ~ Mason I was an eighteen-year-old kid when I lost May. Her parents said she was marrying a better man... How could I stay to watch that happen? Like a coward, I ran. Joined the army, married, had a son, and tried to build a life. But I never stopped loving May. And I never should have left her in the hands of a bully. I should have fought harder. Now she needs my help. She’s alone and afraid. And this time, I’m not giving up without a fight. Even if it means finishing what my son started… I’ll do whatever it takes to win her back. ~ Reunited by Love will be the sixth and final full-length novel in the Blueskin Bay Romance Series. If Wrecked by Love left you looking for answers to Maddox Reid's past, and you want more of the Reid family, this is the book that will tie up all the loose ends! Reunited by Love is a later-in-life, lost first love story filled with tragedy, deceit, heartbreak, suspense, intrigue, and thirty years of mutual regret. Keywords: Later in Life Romance, Army Vet Romance, Lost Love, Romantic Suspense, Love Child Romance, Secret Baby Romance, Teenage Romance, Nineties Romance, Nostalgia Romance, Small Town Romance, Second Marriage Romance Similar Authors: Jemi Fraser, Olivia Sands, PJ Fiala, Suzanne Cass, Carla Neggers, Kait Nolan, Lea Coll
Download or read book Second First Impressions written by Sally Thorne and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Second First Impressions is the warmest, coziest, sweetest book of the year, an absolutely perfect blend of humor and heart. I want to live inside Sally Thorne’s brain.” —Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling of Beach Read From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game, soon to be a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, and 99 Percent Mine comes the clever, funny, and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant to two old women—under the watchful eye of a beautiful retirement home manager. Dazzle (n): Brightness that blinds someone temporarily. Position Vacant: Two ancient old women residing at Providence Retirement Villa seek male assistant for casual exploitation and good-natured humiliation. Duties include boutique shopping, fast-food fetching, and sincerely rendered flattery. Good looks a bonus—but we aren’t picky. An advertisement has been placed (again!) by the wealthy and eccentric Parloni Sisters. The salary is generous and the employers are 90 years old, so how hard could the job be? Well, none have lasted longer than a week. Most boys leave in tears. Ruthie Midona will work in Providence’s front office, and be at the Parloni’s beck and call, forever. That’s sort of her life plan. If Ruthie can run the place in her almost-retired bosses’ absence, with no hijinks/hiccups, she has a shot at becoming the new manager. She might also be able to defend her safe little world from Prescott Development, the new buyer of the prime site. Maybe after all that, she can find a cute guy to date. All she needs to do is stay serious—and that’s what she does best. Until, one day, someone dazzling blows into town. Teddy Prescott devotes his life to sleeping, tattooing, and avoiding seriousness. When Teddy needs a place to crash, he makes a deal with his developer dad. Teddy can stay in one of Providence’s on-site maintenance cottages—right next door to an unimpressed Ruthie—but only if he works there and starts to grow up. Ruthie knows how this sweetly selfish rich boy can earn his keep—and be out of her hair in under a week. After all, there is a position vacant…
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
