Download or read book His Secret Family An Absolutely Gripping and Emotional Pageturner written by Ali Mercer and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a beautiful day for a wedding. White roses scent the air and the summer sunlight streams in. A spoon chimes against a champagne flute and the room falls silent. And there he is - my husband - getting to his feet to propose a toast. He's still handsome. His new wife is next to him, gazing upwards, oblivious. I'm not supposed to be here. All these years in the same town and I had no idea until I saw his name on the seating plan. He lived with me, once. Loved me. Small-town memories are long, but the people in this room don't want to remember. They say the healing is in letting go, but after what he did, he needs to know we haven't gone away just because he's shut his eyes. So I take Daisy by the hand and step forward from the shadows. He notices us and his eyes widen. The champagne glass falls from his hand and smashes. Then he sags forward, making a terrible sound - a sort of strangled scream... A powerfully emotional novel with a dark secret at its heart. This family drama will keep you hooked until the very last page. Perfect for fans of The Silent Wife, Kate Hewitt and Jodi Picoult. What readers are saying about His Secret Family 'Absolutely fantastic, had me gripped!!! Loved it! Can't wait for more from this author. Storyline was great, characters were easy to connect with.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'Wow, this novel packed a lot more "feels" that I expected!... A quick read for me because I HAD to see how this emotional read would end... There was great character development... twists and turns that took me by surprise! I am looking forward to reading more from Ali Mercer in the future!' Steph and Chris's Book Review 'A book that grabs you on the first page and doesn't let go. It is well written and full of emotions. This is a "Must Read"!' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'Absolutely brilliant and had me gripped from cover to cover! I found the writing style to be very captivating and the characters to be immaculately developed... Would highly recommend!' NetGalley Reviewer 'Compelling. Heart-breaking. The character development was superb. It was an emotional read... an evocative story that left its imprint. I highly recommend this book.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars 'Ali Mercer writes with heart and soul... well written, true-to-life... Each character is lovingly developed and all-so-human. Secrets abound and the reader won't know them all until the end. A definite for your TBR list!' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'This is a powerful family domestic drama filled with emotion and secrets. The story is well developed with lovable "real" characters that you find yourself very invested in. A captivating story that kept me hooked until the end.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars
Download or read book The Secret Family written by David Bodanis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary photography and fascinating text observe what goes on in our minds and bodies through a day of ordinary activities. Full color throughout.
Download or read book A Family Secret My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell written by Maureen Wood and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me... it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ultimate betrayal.’
Download or read book The Secrets of Happy Families written by Bruce Feiler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Secrets of Happy Families, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military. Don't worry about family dinner. Let your kids pick their punishments. Ditch the sex talk. Cancel date night. These are just a few of the surprising innovations in this bold first-of-its-kind playbook for today's families. Bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler found himself squeezed between caring for aging parents and raising his children. So he set out on a three-year journey to find the smartest solutions and the most cutting-edge research about families. Instead of the usual family "experts," he sought out the most creative minds—from Silicon Valley to the set of Modern Family, from the country's top negotiators to the Green Berets—and asked them what team-building exercises and problem-solving techniques they use with their families. Feiler then tested these ideas with his wife and kids. The result is a fun, original look at how families can draw closer together, complete with 200 never-before-seen best practices. Feiler's life-changing discoveries include a radical plan to reshape your family in twenty minutes a week, Warren Buffett's guide for setting an allowance, and the Harvard handbook for resolving conflict. The Secrets of Happy Families is a timely, counterintuitive book that answers the questions countless parents are asking: How do we manage the chaos of our lives? How do we teach our kids values? How do we make our family happier? Written in a charming, accessible style, The Secrets of Happy Families is smart, funny, and fresh, and will forever change how your family lives every day.
Download or read book Roles written by Jonathan England and published by Silver Torch Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roles. They define our rights, obligations, responsibilities, beliefs, and even who we are. How well do we each understand our respective roles? How do we teach our children about proper roles? How would the problems children and parents face change if they better understood roles? Aren't parents - whether aggressive, passive or assertive - always defining roles anyway? How do roles affect business relationships? Why do we see the roles in today's world wrapped around so much confusion and debate when it's impossible to escape roles? This book makes roles easier to understand, and it shows how to strengthen roles and empower ourselves and those we live and work with to reach our full potential.
Download or read book A Family Secret written by Eric Heuvel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Life of Families written by Evan Imber-Black and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when personal revelations are posted on the Internet or sensationalized on afternoon talk shows, we risk losing touch with how important secrets are--how they are used and abused, their power to harm and heal. In this important work, Evan Imber-Black explores the nature of secrets, helping us understand: The distinction between healthy privacy and toxic secrecy What to tell--and not to tell--young children How to safely confront a family "zone of silence" Why adolescents need to have some secrets--and where to draw the line The effect of "official" secrets, like sealed adoption records and medical testing What to consider before revealing an important secret And much more Filled with moving first-person stories, The Secret Life of Families provides perspective on some of today's most sensitive personal and social issues. Giving voice to our deepest fears and to our power to overcome them, this is a book that will be talked about for years to come.
Download or read book The Spy s Secret Family Mills Boon Intrigue Top Secret Deliveries Book 4 written by Cindy Dees and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nobody’s messing with my baby.” When Nick wakes up in a hospital room with a case of amnesia – and a beautiful woman at his bedside, he can only remember being held captive for five gruelling years. Surely he wouldn’t forget someone as easy on the eyes as Laura. But Laura assures him that she and their son are very real.
Download or read book Secret Family written by Aiden Bates and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PETERYou know that saying: the bigger they are, the harder they fall? It can refer to love too, not just kicking giant jerks in the balls for getting too handsy.I've had crushes, but I've only fallen in love once. It was huge and all-consuming. It was also the biggest mistake of my life.My Mr. Right turned out to be Mr. Mob Boss. I lost everything to my childish fantasies of Prince Charming the day I testified against him and was shuffled off into witness protection, never to see anyone I knew again.So. Yeah. I don't 'do' love anymore.And then along comes my new client, Keegan Cunningham. He's not just Mr. Right, he's Mr. Perfect as far as I can tell. And I can tell a lot about a person's flaws. His just...aren't there.He's an alpha without being an asshole. Rich but not a snob. Eccentric without being off-putting, and when he smiles at me...ugh, it's the worst. Nobody can be this perfect. I thought they could once, and it was just the perfect trap. I'm not falling for it twice, not when I finally have a life worth losing again.So why the hell can't I stop falling for him?KEEGANMy appearances are meant to be deceiving. When you're used to everyone having an agenda, the best defense is a good illusion. Be nothing like they expect. Like you truly are.It's a good defense. It's protected me. Gotten me everything I want in life.Except love.I have no one to blame for my own loneliness. I'm the architect of my own fortress of lies and misdirection. But then Pete DiAngelis strolls past every defense I have like it's not even there. My answers to his questions are genuine. My compliments are real. The way my heart sings when he laughs....my god, I'm like a twelve year old schoolgirl.But I have responsibilities, as my parents' heir and an officer in the Hellion Club. I can't afford to put one omega before all that.But when his own secrets put him in very real jeopardy, I can't afford not to.How can I have anything else to lose, when he is the only real thing in my life?This 50,000 word tale from The Hellion Club series proves you can't run from your past forever, but you can find a sizzling hot alpha to face it alongside you and get that HEA. Along with all the sex you should not be reading unless you're eighteen and up!
Download or read book Her Family Secret written by Melissa Wiesner and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Family written by Michael Campbell and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic scientist Charlie Warrens dreams had come true: she had met and married David Stone, an American detective who adored her. She had found a life in America as the district medical examiner in the small New York town of Compton. She and her husband were now travelling to Great Britain, where Charlie would receive a knighthood and other honors. Everything was wonderful ... or so it seemed.
Download or read book The Secret Family Court Fact or Fiction written by Clifford Bellamy and published by Bath Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For approaching two decades, family courts have been accused of making life changing decisions about children and who they live with made in secret, away from the scrutiny of the public gaze. Recognising the force of these accusations, senior family courts judges have, over that time, implemented a raft of rule changes, pilot projects and judicial guidance aimed at making the family justice more accountable and transparent. But has any progress been made? Are there still suspicions that family judges make irrevocable, unaccountable decisions in private hearings? And if so, are those suspicions justified and what can be done to dispel them? In this important and timely new book, Clifford Bellamy, a recently retired family judge who has been at the sharp end of family justice during all these changes, attempts to answer those questions and more. He has spoken to leading journalists, judges and academic researchers to find out what the obstacles to open reporting are – be they legal, economic or cultural - and interweaves their insights with informed analysis on how the laws regulating family court reporting operate. Along the way he provides a comprehensive review of the raft of initiatives he has seen come and go, summarises the position now and uses this experience to suggest how this fundamental aspect of our justice system could adapt in the face of this criticism. Every professional working in the family justice system – lawyers, social workers, court staff and judges - as well as those who job it is to report on legal affairs, should read this informative, nuanced exposition of what open justice means and why it matters so much to those whose lives are upended by the family justice system.
Download or read book Dorsa s Secret Family written by Pattimari Sheets-Cacciolfi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorsa's life goes through twists and turns while she is trying to figure out who her real family is, and whether her identical twin is against her or for her. She is left on the streets with only one thousand dollars in her hand to make it last. With a scholarship she earned, going to college in Oakland was her only object - where she limits herself to one meal a day to survive, wearing rags and clothes too small, she makes it through college. After graduating, her life makes drastic changes when she goes to work for Mason and Mason Investments where she discovers who her family is and what they've done to her life. A crime family sends her over the edge, does she make it back and does she survive?
Download or read book The Secret Life of Families written by Evan Imber-Black and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family therapist explains the necessity of privacy and offers guidance to parents about what to tell and what not to tell young children.
Download or read book Best Kept Secret Family Tree 3 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four girls. Four generations. One family. The third installment of the exquisite new series from Ann M. Martin follows Francie, Dana's daughter, to Princeton, NJ, in the 1980s.
Download or read book The Spy s Secret Family written by Cindy Dees and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nick Cass wakes up in a hospital room with a case of amnesia--and a beautiful woman at his bedside. He only remembers that he was held captive for five grueling years. Surely he wouldn't forget someone as easy on the eyes as Laura Delaney. But Laura assures him that she and their son are very real. ... When Nick's past catches up to him and their son is kidnapped, he and Laura must rescue their child"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Secret Family written by Arlene Fairley Marshall and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most seven year olds, Rene Gaithers primary concern is playing games and watching cartoons. Her mother, father, grandmother and siblings are the center of her world. She is the lovingly spoiled youngest child and her world is perfect. But when Yo Mama jokes start a school yard fight, awareness sinks in that there is something wrong with her treasured family. The truth is eventually revealed. Through her teenage years and into adulthood, Rene struggles with a sense of inadequacy and shame of being an illegitimate daughter in a Secret Family. Renes dream is to have a real family. Despite using her parents examples of want not to do, her relationships fail. Even her steadfast friendship with Kenny Sherman turns sour when they take things to the next level. Rene is left devastated by Kennys unimaginable betrayal. Does true love really exist? If so, is she worthy enough to receive it or will the sins of her mother destroy any chance of happiness? Secret Family is based in part on the authors life.
