Download or read book The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done written by Sandra Newman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother, Eddie, inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles. But something else is happening. Through Chrysalis's reunion with her brother, she begins to discover her adoptive father's secret past, causing her own identity to unravel. As Chrysalis lays down the facts of her life, she gambles her identity against the contradictions, half-truths, and fables of her past, leading her ultimately to question what it is we can truly know and whether it is fate or chance that dictates our lives.

Download or read book Book Reports written by Robert Christgau and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.

Download or read book Family Wanted written by Sara Holloway and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 2005 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of candid, often moving narratives, essays, and memoirs by adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees answers questions about what it means to be a parent and a family, the search for origins, love, and belonging, in pieces by A. M. Homes, Bernard Cornwell, Tama Janowitz, Martin Rowson, Jonathan Rendall, Paula Fox, and many others. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Download or read book Eros the Bittersweet written by Anne Carson and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.

Download or read book Granta 145 written by Sigrid Rausing and published by Granta. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts - the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine. André Aciman remembers Rome Ahmet Altan on his life sentence Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating Maggie O'Farrell on damaging her 'sacred' joint Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore PLUS NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni

Download or read book My Mate s Curse written by Alex McAnders and published by McAnders Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘He slipped his hand between my legs. I froze. I was throbbing. What would happen if he touched it?’ Imagine if you asked your wolf shifter best friend to pretend to be your fiancé and one night while sharing a bed, your naked body reacted to his touch. ______ I’m not a wolf shifter but all of my friends are. The only thing magical about me is the chemistry I had with the hot football player from our university who asked to marry me. We dated for two weeks before he popped the question... and then broke my heart a week later. After that d-bag ripped my heart out, it was my wolf shifter best friend, Titus, who came to the rescue. I needed someone to pretend to be my fiancé at a family event and asked him. You ever share a bed with a wolf shifter? When he’s sleeping half naked next to you, it’s impossible not to think about him using your virginal body to break your headboard. But he’s my best friend and means everything to me. I couldn’t ruin things with him. Besides, he’s in the middle of a fight for the life of his pack. The last thing he needs to worry about is the suspicious circumstances behind my ex-fiancé’s actions and how they relate to a supernatural legacy I didn’t know my family has. It’s enough to make me think there was more to my grandmother’s death than anyone is telling me. Maybe if I help Titus defeat the fae that’s suppressing his pack, he could help me figure out why people have died over my family’s land. And if his chiseled wolf shifter body finds itself wrapped around mine in the meantime, maybe I’ll get everything I ever wanted. The question is, how do I do it without again breaking my heart?

Download or read book His Cursed Mate MM Wolf Shifter Romance written by Alex McAnders and published by McAnders Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘He slipped his hand between my legs. I froze. I was throbbing. What would happen if he touched it?’ _____ The best thing about wolf shifters is how hot they are… wait, I meant how loyal. I would never see Titus, my wolf shifter best friend as hot, no matter how tight his end is. When I agree to marry a guy I have only known for two weeks and the whole thing implodes, it’s Titus who pretends to be my gay fiancé so I can save face with my family. But could us sharing a bed night after night on a trip home change things between my straight best friend and me? What about discovering my family’s secret? Or is it a curse? Maybe there’s a reason I’m drawn to shifters, and why my ex won’t leave me alone. Can my wolfie best friend protect me from all of this? I’ll sleep pressed against his rippling half-naked body as many times as it takes to find out. ‘His Cursed Mate’ is a steamy MM wolf shifter romance with crackling tension, humor, and enough spicy sizzle to leave you satisfied at its HEA ending.' Note: This book is a part of the author's 'Love is Love Collection', meaning that it is available as a spicy romance in 'My Best Friend', a wholesome romance in 'I Don’t Date My Best Friend', a steamy wolf shifter romance in ‘My Mate’s Curse’, a Male/Male romance in 'Best Friend Trouble', and a Male/Male wolf shifter romance in ‘His Cursed Mate.’

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Download or read book The Heavens written by Sandra Newman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This electrifying novel of love, creativity and madness moves between Elizabethan England and 21st-century New York.” —The Guardian A New York Times Notable Book of the Year New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kate—and they begin to fall in love. Kate lives with her head in the clouds, so at first Ben isn’t that concerned when she tells him about the recurring dream she’s had since childhood. In the dream, she’s transported to the past, where she lives a second life as Emilia, the mistress of a nobleman in Elizabethan England. But for Kate, the dream becomes increasingly real, to the point where it threatens to overwhelm her life. And soon she’s waking from it to find the world changed—pictures on her wall she doesn’t recognize, new buildings in the neighborhood that have sprung up overnight. As Kate tries to make sense of what’s happening, Ben worries the woman he’s fallen in love with is losing her grip on reality. Both intoxicating and thought-provoking, The Heavens is a powerful reminder of the consequences of our actions, a poignant testament to how the people we love are destined to change, and a masterful exploration of the power of dreams. “Heady and elegant.” —The New York Times Book Review “A complex, unmissable work from a writer who deserves wide acclaim.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Download or read book The Men written by Sandra Newman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mindbending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where. After the Disappearance, Jane forces herself to enter a world she barely recognizes, one where women must create new ways of living while coping with devastating grief. As people come together to rebuild depopulated industries and distribute scarce resources, Jane focuses on reuniting with an old college girlfriend, Evangelyne Moreau, leader of the Commensalist Party of America, a rising political force in this new world. Meanwhile, strange video footage called “The Men” is being broadcast online showing images of the vanished men marching through barren, otherworldly landscapes. Is this just a hoax, or could it hold the key to the Disappearance? From the author of The Heavens, The Men is a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias and impossible sacrifices that interrogates the dream of a perfect society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of the community.

Download or read book Reading Adoption written by Marianne Novy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature--the child raised by other parents

Download or read book Four Classic American Novels written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes—adventure, war, sex, and morality—through compelling narratives. An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor—the heroes of these novels have become a part of popular culture. This indispensable volume includes… The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Billy Budd by Herman Melville With an Introduction by Sandra Newman

Download or read book Healing Ever After written by Kristie Addair Guard and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years into a marriage with her high school sweetheart, author Kristie Addair Guard admitted the “happily ever after” just wasn’t, and it didn’t show any signs of getting there. However hard she tried, the lies she’d been given in childhood held a tight grip. She remained enthralled to those fears—being unwanted, unloved, abandoned, and unimportant. In a last-ditch effort, she walked away in search of healing and happiness on her own, but instead she met Jesus, the one who would deliver her from those fears. She learned that God is always at work in hearts. Through his word, through therapists, through time, and always through his loving, tender, kind presence, he brought Kristie first to her own healing, and then to a marriage that wasn’t what she dreamed of, but one that was exactly the best for her. Healing Ever After shares her story, a story of heartbreak, of healing, and of redemption. It’s a story of Jesus making beauty from ashes—his favorite kind of artistry, and available to you, too, wherever you are.

Download or read book The Matchmaker s Match written by Nicole Flockton and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could the best man be her best option? The last person Meredith Turner expects to see at her best friend’s wedding rehearsal dinner is the guy she had a one night stand with. What’s worse, Lincoln Forrest is the best man and as maid of honor, her partner. To add insult to injury, she has to leave the rehearsal dinner early, and Lincoln is the one to help her with a deeply personal problem. The aftermath of that night brings big changes for them both. Lincoln Forrest has helped his best friend meet the woman of his dreams, but recently he’s made a series of bad decisions, the biggest being leaving his career with the Army. Now the former K-9 handler is looking for a new career and trying to get his life back on track. Helping Meredith in her time of need connects her to him more than he expected. On a mission to right the wrong he created, Linc will do whatever is needed. But when the attraction that first drew them together flares to life again, will the obstacles between them be too much to overcome? Or has the matchmaker met his match?

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Download or read book Pushing the Envelope written by Jt Storm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has changed over the past centuries. The war on terror and the hopes to change nations to democratic policies is an uphill and dangerous battle.

Download or read book Let s Get Together written by Maureen Reil and published by Maureen Reil. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jodi Spears is fast approaching her thirtieth birthday, but it is not a date that she is looking forward to anymore. Since her world was turned upside down and rocked to its very core when her husband decided to jump off a cliff instead of staying with her to deal with the crippling debts that he had gotten himself into, that were unbeknownst to her at the time. She lost everything as a result, when the business went bankrupt and this included her home so she now lives in her car in-between house-sitting jobs and uses her wages to pay what she can off the money still owed. The latest abode where her boss at the agency sends her to, is on a cliff top which unfortunately for Jodi is very similar to the one which had claimed the life of her late husband. As her drinking increases, so does her growing attraction for a hunky guy that she met called Reece and at last things are starting to look up as Jodi sees a light at the end of the dark tunnel she has been trapped in for nine, long hard months. However, it is never going to be that easy for Jodi seeing as she suddenly gets a blast from the past walking right back into her life and nothing will ever be the same again.