Download or read book The Velvet Box written by Tracy Grandlinger and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Velvet Box is a fascinating portrait of what it is like for Sophie Gordon, a young girl struggling to cope with life while passionately desiring to become an accomplished artist. Her backstage life is filled with competition, jealousies, and disappointments, as well as many colorful backstage characters. All this puts her through a gauntlet of turmoil. Sophies personal life is as dramatic and full of adventure as her professional life. She has two delightful but complicated romances, one with her fellow actor Ian Lennox and the other with Richard Neville, her theatrical impresario. Richard has been fascinated with Sophie from the first time he met her. She also has attracted the attention of several royal personages throughout her story. All this while she is trying to reconnect with her father, who has come back into her life after a nine-year absence. These trials and tribulations help Sophie to maneuver into the adult world.
Download or read book The Velvet Box written by Cecile Houghton Stury and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Velvet Box in the Attic written by Laura Gower Jackson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica stared at her father in disbelief as she said to herself, No Dad, she was not mistaken. You would not believe me if I told you it was Asa. You would not believe me if I told you I wrote about Asa and that he really exists. He came for Larry. I know he did. You knew about Susie all the time, didnt you, Asa? And thats why, on the mountain, you said children instead of child. I will tell Nick and he will believe me, but you wouldnt believe me, Dad. You are such a realist. You would never believe me.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Velvet Box written by Margaret Scherf and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four young people try to solve the puzzle of a strange inheritance left by an old woman.
Download or read book The Velvet Box written by Caroline Friday and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical southern drama, sorrow and tragedy are overcome by humor, faith, and forgiveness. Eleven-year-old Nellie Cox longs to be free from the torment of her abusive uncle Ettie, but in 1920s North Carolina, secret sins are to be buried away in shame, never to be mentioned. With nowhere to go and no one to help, Nellie must depend on her own resourcefulness to survive. When her mother returns home from years spent in a mental hospital, Nellie believes her prayers for escape have been answered. She hatches one elaborate plan after another to marry her beautiful mama off to the handsome Dr. Walker, who Nellie is sure will whisk them away to a new life in Raleigh. But as each attempt fails, Nellie loses hope, until she finally learns to rely on a power greater than anything she has ever known.
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Download or read book Two Brothers Their Mother and the Green Eyed Monster written by Craig Clovis and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spellbinding Psychological Thriller with many Shocking Twists. A tale of greed, deception, sibling rivalry, parental abuse and estrangement. Harrowing story of what happens when a loving son wants to provide comfort and care for his ailing mother suffering with dementia in her last years. Met with only animosity, jealousy and betrayal from his siblings, who are more interested in control than compassion. He perseveres through roadblock after roadblock__often going up against unscrupulous, attorneys, judges, and caregivers. The jealous brother used skeptical ways to obtain the power of attorney for their mother even during her attempts to remove him as sole power of attorney. He then uses this position and the authority it gave ‘him as ‘power for revenge’ against his brother. The jealous brother becomes “The Green Eyed Monster.” Shakespeare created this name for jealousy in his play, Othello to dramatize jealousy and it’s powerful and dangerous ability to destroy. Joined by their sister as he becomes more callous, relentless, contemptible and cruel towards their brother by wrongful use of his authority, ignoring the effect their actions were having on their 91-year-old mother in the final stage of dementia. She started to become more withdrawn, confused and broken-hearted. A lawsuit was filed against the jealous brother in an attempt to stop his cruelty. Book Review 1: "Craig Clovis has woven a fascinating tale of greed, deception, sibling rivalry and parental abuse. Told in a clear, straightforward manner, this is a harrowing story of what happens when a loving son wants to provide comfort and care for his ailing mother in her last declining years. Met with only animosity, jealousy and betrayal from his siblings (who are more interested in control than compassion) he preserves through roadblock after roadblock – often going up against unscrupulous attorneys, local judges and law enforcement officers. The writer understands that the end of life should be a dignified, peacefu transition and chronicles his efforts to make it just that for his mother. This first-time novelist deftly captures the complete and exhausting frustration of the trials of this phase of life, all made worse while battling family members who should be helping instead of hindering the process. This is a must read for every parent as a cautionary lesson on the consequences that can be created by their decisions as to who handles their affairs. It should also encourage every child to sit down with their parents and discuss their affairs in detail before these matters are turned over to others who may not have their best interests in mind. As heartbreaking as it is to follow the mental decline of a beloved parent, it’s heartwarming to read about a son who was there to fight for his mother, through thick and thin, until her last breath." -- Robert Wasinger Paris, France Marketing Executive, Writer, Actor, Retired Book Review 2: “This is more than a story of a family estrangement and two brothers’ disputes. It’s a story about the power and beauty of a son’s love for his mother; an ageless story anyone coming to terms with the aging of a parent will want to read. While it touched my heart, it also gave me plenty of reasons to be grateful to be an only child!” -- Keith Garton-Red Chair Press
Download or read book Marriage of Rich Seductive Ex Wife written by Man Zhushahua and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ye Tian Yu, who had waited bitterly for half a year, finally returned! However, he had already forgotten about the childhood sweetheart. She was going to get engaged and get married! Where did Ye Tian Yu go to her, Yang Jin? She was the true wife! "Or perhaps, my ex-wife?!" Let go of me, ex-husband. You and I are already divorced! " Yang Jin glared at the man that tightly gripped her wrist. Divorce?! Isn't it just the right time to remarry?! " The man said indifferently. However, the determination in his eyes was shocking. The woman took out a gun. "Are you sure you can take me?!" Her watery eyes were cold and full of pride, full of threat. The man didn't care that he had to put his chest close to the woman's ear. He spoke in an ambiguous manner and spoke with confidence, "Are you sure you can kill ..."
Download or read book Beyond the Whitecaps written by Jane Moxley and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Money is not the root to all evil, no. It’s the love of money that is deep-rooted in an unsuspecting, tormented soul. Beth Harrison, the heroine in Beyond the Whitecaps, is very old and is dying. Her entire life had been clouded with sad desire, tragic wealth, and contaminated fame. In and out of consciousness, Beth drifts back to when tragedy, greed, and murder took hold of her family, the wealthiest family in the world. While vacationing in England, a horrific accident took the lives of a Harrison grandchild and a daughter-in-law. Being the wealthiest family in the world, and having strangulated ties to the royal family, the accident would change the course of world history, and it would sadly chase the Harrisons forever. Greed and social concepts of royal blood, blueblood, and the ill-bred come together in unwarranted sex, violent sex, and painfully needed sex, with homosexuality more welcomed than the natural state of lubrication. The love of money sharing the love of power is much more than beyond evil; it’s beyond the whitecaps. About the Author Retired schoolteacher Abelina P. Kraus and her daughter, Jane Moxley, a quality assurance specialist for Becton Dickinson, are co-authors of Beyond the Whitecaps. The mother-daughter team shares a love for writing. Beyond the Whitecaps, their third book, took a little over ten years to write. Krausville, a children’s book, and Mausoleum, a thriller, are their first two published books. Sadly, Abelina passed in 2016, leaving behind nine children.
Download or read book Their Wildest Dreams written by Peter Abrahams and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.”—Stephen King “Mackie dreaded the mail.” From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let go, the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful characters who linger in your mind. Characters like Mackie Larkin, a suburban mother desperate for money, who finds she can earn it as a stripper; Kevin Larkin, her ex-husband whose get-rich-quick schemes left her with a mountain of debt, and who now dreams up an even better one; Lianne, their beautiful, impulsive teenage daughter, for whom almost anything, even bank robbery, is possible; Jimmy Marz, the wrangler she loves, who gets a dangerous onetime offer that could take him to the life he’s always wanted; Buck Samsonov, the charismatic strip-club owner building a southwestern empire in the lawless style of a 19th-century robber baron; Clay Krupsha, a twenty-first-century captain of detectives in a border town where no crime is what it seems; and Nicholas Loeb, a struggling mystery writer whose encounter with an unstable muse entangles him in a web of true crime more mysterious than anything he imagined. Utterly original, multilayered, and marked by the gripping suspense, sharp wit, and fascinating psychological insights for which Peter Abrahams has been acclaimed, here is a major work—a riveting story of modern-day desperadoes living their wildest dreams.
Download or read book The First Principles of Dreaming written by Beth Goobie and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School. Mary-Eve's mother, famed prophetess at the Waiting for the Rapture End Times Tabernacle, regularly has visions, foams at the mouth, and falls down rigid. Her father, a popular deacon, hides his abuse behind a Sunday morning facade. Mary-Eve herself appears to be a dutiful teenager, her entire life regulated by the prescriptive rules of their church. Inside, she's biding her time and waiting for emancipation from her family's strictures and secrets. That day comes when Mary-Eve befriends Dee Eccles, an eighteen-year-old pagan goddess from the other side of everything. Dee instantly re-christens Mary-Eve with the name Jezebel, Jez for short, and begins her initiation into the women's mysteries of makeup, tight jeans, and otherworldly glory. But Jez quickly learns that Dee has her own secrets, and that demons are not confined to the Waiting for the Rapture End Times Tabernacle.
Download or read book The Velvet Ring Box written by Robin E. Springer-Roach and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red Headed Pilgrim written by Kevin Maloney and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * “Most Anticipated Books of 2023” — LitHub * "Page One" feature at Poets & Writers * "12 Must-Read Books of January 2023" — Chicago Review of Books * "Must-Read Paperbacks to Kick Off 2023" — Book Riot * "30 Indie Books to Look Out for in 2023" —Independent Book Review Provocative, poignant, and resoundingly hilarious, The Red-Headed Pilgrim is the tragicomic tale of an anxious red-head and his sordid pursuit of enlightenment and pleasure (not necessarily in that order). On a sunny day in a business park near Portland, Oregon, 42-year-old web developer Kevin Maloney is in the throes of an existential crisis that finds him shoeless in a field of Queen Anne’s lace, reflecting on the tumultuous events that brought him to this moment. Growing up in the suburbs, young Kevin suffered “a psychological break that ripped me from my humdrum existence” mainlining high fructose corn syrup and episodes of The Golden Girls. Thus begins a journey of hard-earned insights and sexual awakening that takes Kevin from angst-ridden Beaverton to the beaches of San Diego, a frontier-themed roadside attraction in Helena, Montana, and a hermetic shack on an organic lettuce farm. Everything changes when Kevin falls in love with Wendy. After a chance tarot reading lands them on the frigid coast of Maine, their lives are unsettled by the birth of their daughter, Zoë, whose sudden presence is oftentimes terrifying, frequently disturbing, and yet—miraculously—always wondrous. The Red-Headed Pilgrim is an irresistible novel of misadventure and new beginnings, of wanderlust and bad decisions, of parenthood and divorce, and of the heartfelt truths we unearth when we least expect it. READ AN EXCERPT: "Hansel & Gretel" excerpted from The Red-Headed Pilgrim, on Fence.
Download or read book A Knight for Victory written by F. A. R. and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After graduating from NYU, Victory Sinclair had her life all planned out. Well, at least the career part, that is. She has been accepted into one of New York’s leading advertising and media agency and will be joining the agency as a personal assistant to the CEO. Little did she know, a strange twist of fate is about to change the course of her future. An unfortunate accident with Arthur Knight resulted in serious consequences that would alter both their futures. What will Victory do? Would she succumb to pressure or would she follow what her heart tells her to?
Download or read book Where Love Goes written by Joyce Maynard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.
Download or read book The Raleigh Harmon Novels written by Sibella Giorello and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sibella Giorello's four Raleigh Harmon novels are now available in one collection! The Rivers Run Dry Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is good at her job as a forensic geologist, but not as good at bureau politics. As one of the few females on the team, she finds herself in a strange land when she's transferred from Richmond to drought-stricken Seattle. When a hiker suddenly goes missing and a ransom note arrives, Raleigh vows to find the missing college girl and leave no stone unturned. The Clouds Roll Away Closing her assignment with the FBI's Seattle office, Raleigh Harmon returns to her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, expecting a warm welcome. Instead she finds herself investigating an ugly cross burning at a celebrity's mansion and standing in the crosshairs of her boss at the Bureau. And the deeper Raleigh digs into the case, the murkier the water becomes. The Mountains Bow Down Everything's going to work out. Time away always makes things better . . . That's what FBI Special Agent Raleigh Harmon believes as she boards a cruise to Alaska. A land of mountains and gems and minerals, the Last Frontier is a dream destination for this forensic geologist who's hoping to leave behind a hectic work schedule and an engagement drained of romance, but like the scenery that surrounds the cruise ship, Raleigh discovers a mystery so daunting that even the mountains might bow down before it. The Stars Shine Bright After the FBI suspends her for bending its rules, Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is looking for a chance to redeem her career. Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, Raleigh takes on a double life to find out who’s fixing the races. But when horses start dying and then her own life is threatened, Raleigh realizes something bigger—and more sinister—is ruining Emerald Meadows.
Download or read book KIDNAPPED TIMES TWO written by Aubrey Dreier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arana is a 14 year old girl who finds out she was kidnapped as a baby. along with the help of her friend Zach will she find where she belongs.
