Download or read book The Hand He Dealt written by Tanith Davenport and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody can beat Astra Scott in playing the hand she's dealt. Astra Scott likes to live life to the full. A sorority girl and Gaming Management student, she spends her days studying and practising guitar, and her nights partying or working at the Fountain Casino, where she has an internship as part of her final semester. The only blot on her landscape is Ash Drake, her best friend Sasha's boyfriend. Arrogant, physical and blond, Ash has never forgiven Astra for her rejection months earlier and enjoys annoying her at every turn. But when Astra's boyfriend Harry reveals a shocking secret, Astra responds in the only way she can think of: by finding a way to take on a more attractive, masculine role in the relationship. Her experimentation with sex toys finds a surprising outlet in Sasha, but when Ash discovers their secret and wants to get involved, Astra finds herself torn between dislike and desire...and as their undercover relationship grows, Astra finds herself falling in love, a path she feels can only end in heartbreak. For Ash may be the only man whose own fantasies are a match for hers, but can she knowingly steal his affections from her best friend?
Download or read book The Hand You re Dealt written by Paul Volponi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Huck Porter's dad suddenly dies, it feels like nothing will ever make sense again. Huck's "best friend" thinks that Huck should just get over it, the girl he likes won't give him the time of day, and his mom now works all hours at a roadside diner to make ends meet. The only thing that still makes sense for Huck is the game his dad taught him, the game they spent hours playing together: Texas hold'em. Worse than all of that, though, is Huck's math teacher, Mr. Abbott -- a hungry card shark with an ego to match his appetite. He now wears the local poker tournament's first prize, a silver watch that Huck's dad wore proudly for three years. So Huck hatches a plan to knock Abbott off his throne and win back the watch. Only, bluffing his way into the tournament will mean lying to everyone Huck knows. But as Huck gets deeper in the tournament and starts to lose himself in the cards, he begins to wonder who he'll be when the last hand is played. Raw and gritty, Paul Volponi's novel about grief, family, and poker is an adrenaline rush that starts with a bang and doesn't let up until the final page is turned. A coming-of-age story set at a card table, The Hand You're Dealt will leave readers wondering what they would risk in a game.
Download or read book The Hand You re Dealt written by Paul Volponi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he is in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.
Download or read book The Middle Finger Project written by Ash Ambirge and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh, funny, and fearless, The Middle Finger Project is a point-by-point primer on how to get unstuck, slay imposter syndrome, trust in your own worth and ability, and become a strong, capable, wonderful, weird, brilliant, ballsy, unfuckwithable YOU. "Don't worry, this isn't a book about God, nor is it a book about Ryan Gosling (second in command). But it is a book about authority and becoming your own." --Ash Ambirge After a string of dead-end jobs and a death in the family, Ash Ambirge was down to her last $26 and sleeping in a Kmart parking lot when she faced the truth: No one was coming to her rescue. It was up to her to appoint herself. That night led to what eventually became a six-figure freelance career as a sought-after marketing and copywriting consultant, all while sipping coffee from her front porch in Costa Rica. She then launched The Middle Finger Project, a blog and online course hub, which has provided tens of thousands of young "women who disobey" with the tools and mindset to give everyone else's expectations the finger and get on your own path to happiness, wealth, independence, and adventure. In her first book, Ash draws on her unconventional personal story to offer a fun, bracing, and occasionally potty-mouthed manifesto for the transformative power of radical self-reliance. Employing the signature wit and wordsmithing she's used to build an avid following, she offers paradigm-shifting advice along the lines of: • The best feeling in the world is knowing who you are and what you're capable of doing. • Life circumstances are not life sentences. If a Scranton girl who grew up in a trailer park can make it, so can you. • What you believe about yourself will either murder your chances or save your life. So why not believe something good? • You don't need a high-ranking job title to be authorized to contribute. You just need to contribute. • Be your own authority. Authority only works as long as you trust that someone smarter than you is making the rules. • The way you become a force is by being the most radically real version of yourself that you can be. • You only have 12 fucks a day to give, so use them wisely.
Download or read book Playing the Hand You re Dealt written by Trice Hickman and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can't wait to see what Trice Hickman does next!" --Mary Monroe "Trice Hickman is an amazing writer and storyteller!" --Kimberla Lawson Roby Everyone in Emily Eloise Snow's Atlanta, Georgia, hometown knows her as a sweet young woman who always does what's right. But when Emily's beloved mother dies, her quiet life is shaken to its core, leaving her devastated--and ready for a fresh start. Encouraged by her bolder, wilder best friend, Samantha, Emily moves to Washington, D.C. Samantha is sure D.C. will bring Emily her heart's desire. But that's exactly what Emily is afraid of. . . Since she was eighteen, Emily has fought a fierce longing even Samantha doesn't know about--a love for a man that would break just about every rule she was taught to follow. Now, each step closer to D.C. is a step closer to him--and a sizzling, forbidden passion that could destroy not just her life as she knows it, but the image of the woman, and the friend, everyone believes her to be. . . "Another wonderful, emotionally-charged page-turner by Trice Hickman." –Urban Reviews "Will keep you guessing straight through to the explosive ending." –Victoria Christopher Murray "Unforgettable characters and a page-turning storyline."--Lutishia Lovely
Download or read book The Hand That s Dealt written by Rosalind Coats and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bad Hand Has Been Dealt written by Harvey Hughes and published by HarveyJovonnaLLC. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Harvey Hughes I am from Dallas TX. At the age of 13 I was taking away from society because of not following the rules. Meaning I wanted to commit crimes. Those crimes sent me away for twenty years. Read my book A Bad Hand Has Been Dealt. Walk with me behind those prison walls. Have A Bless Day Everyone. Stay Tune For The Next Series. A Bad Hand Has Been Dealt. By me Harvey Hughes.
Download or read book The Hand Dealt written by Victoria Belue and published by Victoria Belue. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She had accomplished everything... ...and now she wanted more. Could she control reincarnation? The luxury fashion empire she created was world-class. Vesta had come a long way from the poverty-ridden life that tried to keep her down. It all seemed too easy. Was she meant for more? The Tarot cards hold a secret for her. Vesta's life changed that night at the lecture. She believed him. Reincarnation was real and she knew this would be the ultimate quest. How could she return as herself? He was a British rock legend. He was also the Fool of the tarot. Liam knew the truth about Vesta but had been sworn to keep it. What he knows will change Vesta's life forever. The quest begins. You'll love this urban fantasy, because Victoria Belue has created a premise as unique as the world she built around it. Get reading now.
Download or read book The enquirer s oracle or What to do and how to do it written by Enquirer and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hand I Was Dealt written by Rajindra Narinesingh and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the pages of this book you are sure to take a journey of love, hate, adventure and social taboo Franchesca never imagined that her life would get anymore challenging then it had been; after experiencing the turbulent life of a she-male club entertainer. Up until now her life was a series of survival adventures. The very last thing she ever expected was that she would leave the familiar world of her South Beach home to journey into what would be the challenge of her life.
Download or read book The Hand You re Dealt written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hand You’re Dealt" is the first of a series of free eBook preview chapters from John Sides and Lynn Vavreck’s groundbreaking Fall 2013 book, The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election. These eBook chapters are scheduled to be released between August and December 2012. What are the odds that Barack Obama will be reelected in November, despite a weak economy? Many answers to this question are backed by little more than speculation and spin. But what does current and historical data--and political science--suggest? In this chapter, political analysts John Sides and Lynn Vavreck show that Obama is surprisingly popular given the state of the economy, and they offer several explanations--including Obama's likability and the fact that more people blame George W. Bush for the country's economic problems than blame Obama. But Sides and Vavreck also show that the mixed economic picture and the events of Obama's first term make it likely that the election will be close. These are just some of the points that Sides and Vavreck make in this incisive chapter as they gauge the most important factors in the political and economic landscape going into the election campaign--and what they portend for Obama's (and Mitt Romney's) chances. This book represents an unprecedented effort to use a "Moneyball" approach to tell the story of what promises to be a dramatic election campaign, drawing on large quantities of data about the economy, public opinion, news coverage, and political advertising to determine the factors that really make a difference. At the same time, Sides and Vavreck will be visiting the campaign trail to find out what matters most to both of the campaigns and to voters. The result promises to be the only book about the election that combines on-the-ground reporting, social science, and quantitative data in order to look beyond the anecdote, folklore, and conventional wisdom that too often pass for analysis of presidential elections. To find out more, download this chapter and begin reading the authors' special introduction to this and the other free chapters that will follow as the election campaign unfolds. The Gamble is scheduled to be published as a complete print and ebook in September 2013.
Download or read book Overcome the Hand That s Dealt written by Monique Mealue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brenda Martin is an attractive teenage girl that has tragedy enters her young life when both her mother and father are killed ill-fatedly in a fiery inferno that erupts in the familys lovely suburban home while she is safely spending the night with her two best friends. The distraught teenager moves out of San Diego to care for her grandmother along with fixing up the old house where she is living in a small coastal town. Having the inner sensation of worth for being there for her elderly relative inspires the young woman to choose a medical occupation to help others with various physical problems that numerous people of all different ages have in their lives. While studying to become an EMT at a local University, she finds romance with a handsome young Trevor Barton who impresses her how smart he is in his academic achievement. Many challenges come into Brendas Martin lives as she strives to be a very worthy emergency medical technician her home town of San Diego.
Download or read book Playing the Hand We Are Dealt written by Michael Jackson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as beyond its utility of making meaning. It is a way of recovering agency in the face of overwhelming experiences. In juxtaposing factuality and fiction, the author makes a case for a radically empirical approach to human experience.
Download or read book Playing with the Hand I Was Dealt written by Nikki Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki Jenkins's novel imagines the life of a woman who experiences the best and worst of everyone around her—and tries to redeem every relationship she has, no matter how crazy and convoluted they become. Natalie Kelley's world is in danger of falling apart, and she is the only one who can keep that from happening. Her husband, Anderson—who has an undeniable history of adultery—is once again preoccupied with something other than work. And that's not all. Natalie has to deal with her own spoiled mother, drug-addicted sister, man-crazy best friend, and her own children who are too young to take care of themselves. Natalie goes through three days of her life, desperately clinging to the only life she knows and supporting everyone who relies on her, all at once. Her husband's actions verge on the edge of abusive, and it is only a matter of time before Natalie discovers what has been drawing him further away from their love—and the results will shock everyone. Her struggles are contrasted with flashbacks that help make sense of the present, showing her relationships as they had been, and as they might yet become again. Through it all, Natalie strives to be available for everyone, but is even her indomitable spirit up to the task? Playing With the Hand I Was Dealt is an insightful debut about a woman's attempts to redefine "normal" in a life gone mad.
Download or read book The Hour Before Dawn written by Bhabendra Nath Saikia and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘She had given her husband four children, had bared her body and soul to him... why did he want to remarry? Today, what made him dress in a new silk kurta, become a bridegroom once again, and leave on elephant-back to take another woman as his wife?’ When Menoka’s dissolute husband Mohikanto takes a second wife she is devastated by the heedless manner in which he squanders her unquestioning loyalty. But after the initial anguish she finds new strength – in her womanhood when she embraces a tender but illicit relationship with a village outcast; in her role as a fiercely protective mother, and, eventually, in a compassionate humanity towards her frail and battered co-wife and needy stepchildren. The story also poignantly explores Menoka’s troubled but ultimately redemptive relationship with Indro, her firstborn son, who is unwittingly exposed to a bewildering world of adult complexities and feels compelled to leave the village.
Download or read book Current Encyclopedia written by Samuel Fallows and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Once Upon a Christmas written by Clare Revell and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As settlement for her father's debts, Caitlyn Hosier is forced into a marriage with the village recluse—a man no one has seen all the years he's lived in the manor house. A man surrounded by rumors. A man with a vicious temper. A man said to be a monster. A man who hates Christmas.Hayden Shade hides his scars behind a mask, but the past never ceases to haunt him. A new life and a new start seem too much to hope for. Does he even deserve one? Surely not with a woman so wholly beautiful as Caitlyn. He longs to build a life-long relationship, but he daren't allow her to see the real him until he knows for sure she loves him.Desperate to find happiness with the man she's fated to marry, Caitlyn determines to uncover the real Hayden Shade. There must be something good behind the mask. But what if there's nothing more to him than the monster she could never love?
