Download or read book The Shitshow written by Steve Lowe and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...' There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . . The authors of the bestselling Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series present an hilarious examination of the new age, asking: ~Is Donald Trump a literary character? ~The AI/robot takeover: has it already happened? ~Are the animals ganging up on us too? ~What is an LGBT sandwich? ~Would you like to make it as an influencer? ~Is Brexit Britain like the 1950s, or the 1930s, or, er, the 780s? ~What is 5G? ~What is consciousness? ~Do you need a smart toilet? ~Are you stronger than clickbait? Just get on with it! Whatever 'it' is.

Download or read book 80 Done With Straight Girls written by Mari SanGiovanni and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Marie Santora's search for true love finds her big Italian family still serving the up the fun, Italian style: Loud, lusty, and volatile—overflowing with lots of love and laughter. What's funny about losing everything you love? Plenty, if you're a member of the Santora family. Marie Santora has always suffered from an enormous case of good luck/bad luck when it comes to women, and the past six years have been no exception. When Marie's love life hits the skids—again—her irrepressible sister Lisa begins to wonder if this is the time that her sister's loss is too great for even their eccentric Italian family to heal. To help Marie escape the painful memories, Lisa ditches her gay campground for a family lake house, and Marie vows to be done with straight girls once and for all. But just as the Santora clan descends upon Marie to "help", a surprise house call changes her good luck to bad luck once again, putting Mari's willpower to the ultimate test. The family motto has always been "Either you're IN, or you're OUT!" and this newest family crisis means the Santora's are ALL IN—even though Marie wants them out!

Download or read book The Big 100 written by William J. Kole and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist William J. Kole, reluctant but newly minted member of AARP, explores the looming era of super-aging—incredibly longer lifespans overall, and eight times more centenarians by the year 2050—through the lens of past, present, and future life at ages 50, 65, 80, and on to 100-plus. What happens to all of us when 65 is merely a life half-lived? By 2050, the world’s centenarian population—those aged 100 or more—will increase eightfold. Half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to reach the same heights. It’s going to upend everything we thought we knew about health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Whether we’re 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all. The Big 100 confronts readers with both the brightness and potential bleakness of a fate few of us thought possible. Journalist William Kole guides us on this journey into our future, an optimistic but sometimes fraught exploration of super-aging as the grandson of a centenarian. Along the way, there are expert sources, like Dr. Jane Goodall, longevity expert Dr. Thomas Perls, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and even 101-year-old influencer and fashionista Iris Apfel; along with surprises, including the truth about those so-called “Blue Zones” everyone thinks are centenarian factories. (Spoiler alert: They’re not.) And there’s the troubling truth that those reaching extreme longevity tend to be overwhelmingly white, a product of what experts deem the “weathering theory”: the idea that the health of African Americans begins to deteriorate in early adulthood as a physical consequence of socio-economic disadvantages. How long can we live? How long should we live? And what happens when 65 is merely a life half-lived? The Big 100 explores the most pressing questions of our super-aging future, and offers a glimpse of a reality that awaits us, our children, and our grandchildren.

Download or read book Angie Gregory written by Lois Breedlove and published by L.J. Breedlove. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the complete trilogy of Angie Gregory's story, titles included are: What She Wrote, What She Wrote Next, and All Kinds of Love. Sometimes You Get a Second Chance Angie Gregory teaches multiple sections of Writing 101 to freshmen. Semester after semester. Year after year. It isn't the life she'd dreamed she would have. What got her through all the grading, the lack of money, and the sheer loneliness, is girls' night out on Fridays with her friends. Then the man who had broken her heart staggered into the bar, and back into her life. He needed her. His sons needed her. Did she have the courage to say yes? And was saying yes, even the right thing to do? This a complete trilogy featuring Angie Gregory in the romantic suspense series set in a small college town in Idaho. Four women friends have each other's backs, no matter what life throws at them. In this slow-burn, contemporary western romance series, each woman gets her HEAs, but oh, the convoluted path love can take to get there! (Be prepared for language, triggers, and politics.)

Download or read book Stuff I ll Tell You To Do That I Won t Do Myself written by Cara Ward and published by Cara Ward. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part self-help book, part memoir … with a twist. Cara takes you through the events that have shaped her life – from an iatrogenic condition which left her housebound and compulsions that made her feel mentally isolated, to her struggles to communicate after trauma and her battle with anxiety. It includes some observations on life and the lessons she has learned from pain – but whether she takes her own advice is another story ... This book covers: ~ Anxiety ~ Disordered eating ~ The destructive nature of fear ~ Comparison in the age of social media ~ Identity ~ A new take on shyness ~ Dating ~ Growing up with red hair ~ Transformation ~ Panicking ~ Chronic skin conditions ~ Trichotillomania and dermatillomania ~ An (OVER) organised mind … and much more. It is broken up into two parts, with the first part written in late 2019, and the second during the summer of 2020, and how the events of that year affected one thirty-something woman trying to navigate it all. She is not an expert on life – she is a mess.

Download or read book The Arrogant Billionaire written by Samantha Skye and published by Samantha Skye. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thing I need in my life is another suit. Especially the tall, dark, arrogant kind. Single mom life is hard enough without worrying where my next paycheck is coming from. Which is why I don't hesitate to step out of my comfy teacher shoes and into lawyer heels to help my school when the rich city billionaires try to buy our land. I just didn't expect to go head to head with Billionaire Benjamin Rothschild. The complete opposite of me in his designer clothes and expensive cars, Ben is the billionaire every woman is trying to catch. But when a persistent ex becomes a problem, he puts a ring on my finger instead. Our engagement is as fake as my smile, but I am determined to protect my students and their haven. I didn't crawl through the depths of despair to lose it all again. The school is all we have got and it is up to me to save it. Even if that means I dance a little too close to the devil. The Arrogant Billionaire is book two in the Baltimore Boys Series and is an opposites attract, enemies to lovers, fake engagement romance story that will have you hot under the collar and keep you on the edge of your seat. The Charming Billionaire - Book One The Arrogant Billionaire - Book Two The Damaged Billionaire - Book Three The Secret Billionaire - Book Four "Once again Samantha Skye has written a awesome and emotional charged romance that can't help pulling at your heart strings and giving you the feels! I adored this couple so very much! And the cover guy fit perfect with the writers character." - Kat "This book takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions and I cried so many times but still couldn’t put this book down and the storyline pulled you in right from the first page and got you totally hooked and had you turning the pages to see what would happen next along with the twists and turns that had you on the edge of your seat wondering what the outcome would be for them all. " - Jean "This book! Samantha Skye has a penchant for creating characters you absolutely fall in love with and truly want to give all the stars in the universe to." - Stephanie Keywords: billionaire, age gap, dads best friend, bodyguard, mafia, alpha hero, protector, ceo, office, alpha strong heroine, soul mates, instalove, romance novel, sexy book, sexy romance book, steamy romance novel, mature heroine romance, alpha hero reads, instant love, romantic suspense, office romance, holiday romance, opposites attract, friends to lovers, alpha hero, alphahole, alpha hole, adventure romance, action romance series, spicy romance, forbidden lovers, billionaire romance, five star romance, hot reads, possessive heroes, dominant heroes, family saga, political romance, page-turner romance, author romance, writer, danger, romantic love story, passionate romance, sexy villains, mafia, bad boy romance, dark romance, romance, billionaire, bad boy, love books, love stories, new adult, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after, bestseller, bestselling author, fake engagement,

Download or read book Hunted Promises Cider Falls Shifters Book Four written by R. E. Butler and published by R. E. Butler. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyena-warlock hybrid Trace met his truemate in a beautiful Hunter, but she doesn’t want anything to do with him. He wasn't sure he'd ever get a truemate being a hybrid, but now that he knows where she is and that she doesn’t want him? It’s hell on earth. Shifter Hunter Jewel thought the hardest thing she’d ever done was walk away from her truemate Trace for her job and her family. But after the Federal Shifter Alliance discovered she helped a hybrid female on the run, she’s lost everything. Left with no other choice, she returns to Cider Falls, where she must face Trace and explain why she walked away from their bond. Can Trace and Jewel find common ground despite their rocky start? Or will the danger lurking in the shadows of Cider Falls be the end of everything?

Download or read book Tales of the Elements Phoenix and the Jackal written by D.R. de la Fosse and published by D.R. de la Fosse. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do with a second chance at life? For the common man this question can only spark their imagination, but for Darryl this has become his new reality. After a fatal accident his latent powers, which resided in the deepest parts of his soul, are awoken. This event puts him on the radar of a special community where each person possesses powers based on the elements. Darryl is allowed to become a part of this community on one condition: He has to become a student at the biggest university the society can offer him. Here he learns how to deal with the new danger threatening the world: The return of the Egyptian Gods. This is not the only threat however, as Darryl and his new friends will soon discover. Will Darryl be able to stop what's coming?

Download or read book Tower of Horn and Blood written by Thomas K. Carpenter and published by Black Moon Books. This book was released on with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for the Hundred Halls begins now. Trapped in the city as a horde of demons invade, our team of mages have one last chance to save the world. With the city in chaos, and friends and family in peril, difficult choices multiply at every turn. The mages of the Order of Merlin and their allies must be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the demonic invasion before their overwhelming advance puts an end to their world.

Download or read book The Heathens written by Ace Atkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run. Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah County Sheriff and take down a corrupt system, Quinn Colson was a kid who got into trouble--a lot of it. So when juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd insists that she doesn’t know who killed her mother—an unreliable addict who has disappeared—Quinn’s inclined to believe her. But no one else does--not the town, not the sheriff in a neighboring county, not her mother’s older boyfriend, and certainly not Quinn’s friend and former deputy, U.S. Marshal Lillie Virgil. The Byrd family has always been trouble, and sixteen-year-old TJ is known for petty theft, fighting, and general hellraising. She’s also no fool, and when she senses she’s about to take the fall for her mother’s murder, TJ, her boyfriend, her best friend, and her nine-year-old brother go on the run. As Lillie Virgil tracks the kids across a trail of burglaries, stolen cars and even a kidnapping, intent on bringing TJ to justice, Quinn sets out to find the truth back in Tibbehah. Someone has gone to a lot of violent trouble to make TJ and her friends the logical target of the investigation. It’s easy, and who cares about a bunch of lawless kids? As the bloody evidence against TJ piles up, Quinn knows someone truly evil is at work here--and that puts TJ and her friends in more danger than they can imagine.

Download or read book Nurturing Britney written by Becca Jameson and published by Becca Jameson Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britney I’m a stripper by night while I live plain and under the radar by day. A gal has to do whatever’s necessary to make ends meet. My boss has maintained a hands-off policy for me, but now I know why. I’ve been sold. My innocent looks. My petite frame. My virginity. I’m a commodity. I’m on the run. I’m used to living a tough life. I’ve done it since I was born. When Davis takes me in, he offers protection, solace, relief. He offers a chance to experience the things I missed out on. He offers to be my Daddy Dom. I’m his little now. I’ve never been happier. But my boss is looking for me. He’ll stop at nothing to find me. Even if I could escape that fact, how long can I find comfort in being Daddy’s little girl? Davis I left the military and moved to Seattle to join my buddies at Black Blade Protection. I left behind my little. We were growing apart. We wanted different things. I spend my days and nights protecting people. Providing security. I’m not prepared to be knocked on my ass by a sprite of a woman who can’t meet my gaze. She’s the entire package—cute and sexy with big blue eyes and hair down to her butt. She needs my help, but it’s impossible to ignore her tendencies as a little. She’s vulnerable and alone. Nightmares yank her out of her sleep. She’s also precious and gracious and has me wrapped around her finger. I should keep my hands to myself. She doesn’t know about my world. The choice is ultimately hers, but first I have to destroy her buyer and end the threat to her life.

Download or read book There Goes the Neighborhood written by Jade Adia and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raised fist against the destructive forces of gentrification and a love letter to communities of color everywhere, Jade Adia's unforgettable debut tells the darkly hilarious story of three best friends willing to do whatever it takes to stay together. The gang is fake, but the fear is real. Rhea's neighborhood is fading away—the mom-and-pop shops of her childhood forced out to make space for an artisanal kombucha brewery here, a hot yoga studio there. And everywhere, the feeling that this place is no longer meant for her. Because while their little corner of South L.A. isn't perfect, to Rhea and her two best friends, it's something even more important—it's home. And it's worth protecting. But as more white people flock to their latest edgy, urban paradise for its cheap rent and sparkling new Whole Foods, more of Rhea's friends and family are pushed out. Until Rhea decides it's time to push back. Armed with their cellphones and a bag of firecrackers, the friends manipulate social media to create the illusion of gang violence in their neighborhood. All Rhea wanted to do was protect her community. Her friends. Herself. No one was supposed to get hurt. No one was supposed to die. But is anyone ever really safe when you're fighting power with fear?

Download or read book Cottonwood Flowing written by M. Marie Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis' debut novel, Cottonwood Flowing, is the coming of age story of Eva Kelly, who at the tender age of 17 watched with anguish as her brothers were sent to fight in World War II. Back home in New Ulm, Minn., Eva found herself living not far from the camp where some 200 enemy prisoners of war were being held, and one of them had been sent to work on her family farm. Some 60 years later, Eva's granddaughter, Claire Beaudine, learns of forbidden love through a series of letters found in an old trunk. At the same time, Claire finds herself caught up in a dangerous affair of her own. Interwoven between Eva's journals and Claire's memories are the stories of young men sent off to war, the loved ones they left behind, and the secrets that have been locked away for six decades. When Eva is hospitalized, Detective Chris Bruening finds himself investigating the case, and the people in her life, including Eva's beautiful and haunted niece, Lyneah Hamilton. Does Lyneah's involvement with a drifter, Hank Beaudine make her an accomplice? As he gets closer to the truth, past and present collide, and the Cottonwood River gives up her secrets.

Download or read book I m Your Emotional Support Animal written by Adam Carolla and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller! Three-time New York Times bestseller Adam Carolla is back to take on social media, social justice warriors, and a society gone to s**t. As seen on Fox News's Fox & Friends! “As the revolution reaches its final, most humorless stage, there’s no better, braver, or more insightful observer than Adam Carolla. You may feel despondent about what’s happening right now. This book will remind you that you should also be amused.”—Tucker Carlson In I’m Your Emotional Support Animal, Adam Carolla examines how our culture went careening off a cliff. We used to have one that created real warriors who fought world wars. Now it spawns social justice warriors who fight Twitter wars. He takes on those who are traumatized by Trump and “emotional support animal” owners who proclaim their victimhood at every airport. He stands up for the collateral damage of the #MeToo movement and for freedom of speech on “safe space” filled college campuses. Examining the calculated commercials churned out by Madison Avenue, like the ones about cars “made with love,” Carolla rants on ads designed to either bum us out or make us think the corporation is run by Mr. Rogers. Turning to social media, Adam takes down the “hashtag heroes” who signal their virtue daily from atop Twitter mountain. And in the era of the Roomba, performances by dead celebrity holograms, and meals-on-demand delivery services, he looks down the road at our not-so-bright future as a species. “Adam and I agree on absolutely nothing but he’s a sharp, smart, funny guy to disagree with. And there’s a human heart under all the gruffness, snark, and melted cheese.”—Patton Oswalt Frank, funny, and utterly unapologetic, this is not a book for those who need a trigger warning, but is THE book for everyone who wants to hit the snooze bar on the “woke” culture.

Download or read book Whiteland written by Rosie Cranie-Higgs and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “takes readers down a terror-filled rabbit hole in the Swiss Alps. This powerful series launch will haunt readers well after they’re done reading.” —Publishers Weekly “Winter time. In the woods. Swiss folklore. Female lead. Revenge! …there is plenty to capture your interest. I genuinely shivered…” —Scream Magazine Blending Scandinavian folklore with dark fairy tales, this creepy and atmospheric debut novel by Rosie Cranie-Higgs will take you on a psychological joyride into a terror-filled realm known only as Whiteland. ‘You’re only going to get burned.’ ‘By what?’ ‘Monsters,’ she calls into the night. ‘And girls who go looking for them.’ In a lonely Swiss mountain village, Kira’s holiday is interrupted when her sister Romy ventures into the woods. It’s winter, it’s eerie, and there’s something out there. When Romy returns, she’s different, and shouldn’t have survived the elements. Even though she isn’t acting normal, all their parents care about is that she’s still alive. Seeking answers, Kira starts to pry. Exploring the otherworldly forest, she stumbles upon a folkloric world called Whiteland. But secrets like to be kept. If Kira runs away, she’ll be safe. If she doesn’t, her family might not survive. In the end, there’s no mercy in revenge.

Download or read book Dark Space written by Rob Hart and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling and acclaimed authors Rob Hart and Alex Segura join forces on Dark Space, a sweeping sci-fi spy thriller that blends the epic scope and character-driven spark of Star Trek with the intrigue of John le Carré’s Smiley novels. If life were fair, ace pilot Jose Carriles should have ended up a desk jockey like his former friend Corin Timony, back on the lunar colony of New Destiny. Instead, he’s the pilot of the Mosaic—a massive ship taking the Interstellar Union’s first-ever mission to outside our solar system. Timony should have been the best spy at the Bazaar, the lunar colony’s international intelligence arm. Instead, she’s been demoted to admin duties like monitoring long-range communications. She has no one to blame but herself—and maybe Carriles. But when the Mosaic experiences a series of strange malfunctions and Carriles is forced to take a wild gamble to save the ship, he begins to suspect the reasons behind the exploratory mission weren’t exactly on the up-and-up. At the same time, Timony’s old instincts kick in as she realizes the distress call she received from the Mosaic has been wiped without a trace. As people start to end up dead and loyalties are tested, Timony and Carriles find themselves entangled in a star-spanning conspiracy that drags them through the darkest corners of their government—and their own personal failures—and face-to-face with a reckoning that could destroy humanity as we know it.

Download or read book Cruel Marriage written by K.A. Linde and published by K.A. Linde Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexy stand alone arranged marriage romance from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde... I signed on the dotted line. A marriage contract to seal my union with the devil. I thought I knew what I was doing. His money and name were mine for the taking. But Camden Percy always gets exactly what he wants. And what he wants is me—my body, my obedience, my surrender. He wants to break me. But I’m Katherine Van Pelt. I’ll never break. I’ll never beg. I’ll never give in. Except I promised him one more thing—a baby. A Percy heir. There’s no way out of this one. Either I comply or lose everything. Do I risk the husband I’m just learning to love or will I finally breakdown in this cruel marriage?