Download or read book The Whipping Boyfriend written by Edward Reed and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-something divorcée Dora Ashworth does not feel like a cougar and is not even sure she wants to. Truth be known, the only cubs she has room for in her life are the five who call her mama—until fate leads her to rescue a man down on his luck. After she invites Jean Claude to put his handyman skills to work to help her around her house, Dora soon discovers that he is more than just a nice guy with a troubled soul: he is someone she can trust. As Dora continues to muddle her way through the challenging middle-aged dating scene peppered with men with whom she has no chemistry, she has no idea that Jean Claude is harboring a dark secret that will change everything for both of them. The Whipping Boyfriend is a story of love, hope, and renewal as a divorced single mother attempts to move past a broken heart with help from an unlikely stranger. Edward Reed resides in North Carolina. The Whipping Boyfriend is his debut novel.

Download or read book The Sound of Heartbeats written by Edward Reed and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savannah Smith is back in the little beach town of Port Island to finalize her divorce, sell her grandmother's beach house and say goodbye to childhood memories. She's not in Port Island to fall in love. She and Nicholas Jackson, the boy next door, did that long ago when they were kids. They weren't supposed to. "Jacksons and Smiths don't mix, never have, never will," Savannah's grandmother Grace told her. "Stay away from that girl," Nicholas' grandfather Henry warned. Grace Smith, widow, stayed on her side of the azaleas and her neighbor Henry Jackson, widower, stayed on his side. Now, Savannah is a school teacher and Nicholas a handyman, something neither dreamed all those summers ago when they would slip away from their grandparents to be together. It's all still here and waiting for Savannah and Nicholas, the moonlit beach, the mimosa tree, and something they can only find with each other, the sound of heartbeats. War, a terrible accident, and years of pain find their way into the sunshine as Savannah and Nicholas unravel the mystery of why those who kept them apart as children are now bringing them together. "A life was lost, a life was saved, love was lost and love found." A beautiful story of life and love, that will make you stop and listen to the sound of heartbeats.

Download or read book One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies written by Sonya Sones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Download or read book The Man Who Holds the Whip written by Shoshanna Evers and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Grace discovers her gorgeous ex-boyfriend Ian broke her heart three years ago so he could pursue a career as a Dom on a BDSM internet porn site, she never expected to be intrigued...and aroused. Ian looks damn good holding that whip. But can a girl who's always considered herself "vanilla" fire up her kinky side for love? To find out, she's going to audition for a chance to play Ian's sexual submissive-and maybe find her way back into his heart. The Man Who Holds the Whip is a 28,000 word MaleDom BDSM erotic romance novella from bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers.

Download or read book Last Night in Montreal written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets. "Last Night in Montreal" is a story of love, amnesia, the depths and limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession.

Download or read book The Dating Playbook written by Farrah Rochon and published by Forever. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a personal trainer agrees to fake date her client, all rules are out the window in this "fun, heartfelt, and totally relatable" romantic comedy named one of the best of the year by USA Today, NPR, and Entertainment Weekly (Abby Jimenez, NYT bestselling author of Life's Too Short). When it comes to personal training, Taylor Powell kicks serious butt. Unfortunately, her bills are piling up, rent is due, and the money situation is dire. Taylor needs more than the support of her new best friends, Samiah and London. She needs a miracle. And Jamar Dixon might just be it. The oh-so-fine former footballer wants back into the NFL, and he wants Taylor to train him. There's just one catch—no one can know what they're doing. But when they're accidentally outed as a couple, Taylor's game plan is turned completely upside down. Is Jamar just playing to win . . . or is he playing for keeps? USA Today Best Rom-Coms of 2021 NPR Best Romances of 2021 Kirkus Best Romances of the Year Vulture Best Romances of 2021 SheReads Best of the Year nominee – Romance

Download or read book A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend written by Felicity Huffman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most dating books are written for women -- what a mistake that is. Women know how to date . . . It's men who need the help! At last: a blithe, bold, and bawdy guide to building a better boyfriend At some point, every guy -- player, geek, mama's boy, "regular Joe" -- meets a woman who makes him want to be a boyfriend. A good boyfriend. Problem is, unless he's had some first-rate training (by a previous girlfriend, a sister, a mom), he probably doesn't even know what that means. Felicity Huffman and Patricia Wolff come to the rescue with a rollicking -- and whip-smart -- handbook to navigating the minefield of male-female relationships. Directed at men (though of course it's women who'll buy it, then leave it at their boyfriend's place -- accidentally on purpose), A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend lays out the many steps involved in becoming a good boyfriend, while still maintaining guy-dignity. It covers issues like: Who decides when you become a boyfriend (answer: She does.) How to look like you're listening, even when you're not (If you're busted, just say "You're so pretty, I'm distracted.") Ten things never to say on the first date (#4: "I just did that to freak you out.") Finding the middle ground between too cool (think third grade) and too eager (think surprise visits) Why becoming a good boyfriend is a lot like training for the A team Filled with humor, ribaldry, common sense, and assorted outdoor skills, A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend is the next dating guide to dominate the bestseller lists.

Download or read book Right Here Right Now written by Lynden Harris and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: “All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that's love.” Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living with poverty, hunger, and violence to mental illness and police misconduct to coming to terms with their executions, these men outline their struggle to maintain their connection to society and sustain the humanity that incarceration and its daily insults attempt to extinguish. By offering their hopes, dreams, aspirations, fears, failures, and wounds, the men challenge us to reconsider whether our current justice system offers actual justice or simply perpetuates the social injustices that obscure our shared humanity.

Download or read book Rent a Boyfriend written by Gloria Chao and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets The Farewell in this incisive romantic comedy about a college student who hires a fake boyfriend to appease her traditional Taiwanese parents, to disastrous results, from the acclaimed author of American Panda. Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn’t met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your ’Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan’s passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your ’Rents employee to keep a roof over his head. Luckily, learning protocols like “Type C parents prefer quiet, kind, zero-PDA gestures” comes naturally to him. When Chloe rents Drew, the mission is simple: convince her parents fake Drew is worthy of their approval so they’ll stop pressuring her to accept a proposal from Hongbo, the wealthiest (and slimiest) young bachelor in their tight-knit Asian American community. But when Chloe starts to fall for the real Drew—who, unlike his fake persona, is definitely not ’rent-worthy—her carefully curated life begins to unravel. Can she figure out what she wants before she loses everything?

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Download or read book The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood written by Bhob Stewart and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Wallace Wood? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man behind Marvel’s Daredevil?The Life and Legend is an incisive look back at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic figures of cartooning. Edited over the course of thirty years by former Wood assistant Bhob Stewart, The Life and Legend is a biographical portrait, generously illustrated with Wood’s gorgeous art as well as little-seen personal photos and childhood ephemera. Also: remembrances by Wood’s friends, colleagues, assistants, and loved ones. This collective biographical and critical portrait explores the humorous spirit, dark detours, and psychological twists of a gifted maverick in American pop culture.

Download or read book The Oxygen Man written by Steve Yarbrough and published by Lawson Library Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and gritty first novel, Steve Yarbrough takes us into the deep-South world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish-farm ponds and does all the dirty work his wealthy boss requires. He silently shares the family home with his sister Daze, who is nearly blinded by bitterness, obsessed with her mother's reputation as a loose, lustful woman. Since his angry teenage years as a scholarship student at a posh, segregated school, Ned's life has been marred by a violence that erupts loudly and quickly disappears, leaving him filled with secrets and regret. When one last hope for deliverance emerges, however, both brother and sister are forced to come to terms with their heritage.

Download or read book 100 Boyfriends written by Brontez Purnell and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and Pink News' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. "This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "I loved this book—raunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way." —Roxane Gay An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure—from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama—Purnell’s characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it—or perhaps because of it—they shine. Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.

Download or read book The Bible in Motion written by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.

Download or read book My Boyfriend Marks Trees written by Eve Langlais and published by Eve Langlais. This book was released on 2024-11-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For her, I’ll wear a leash. Ares never planned on settling down, not with his secret. How can he explain why he turns furry on the full moon and likes to mark his territory? But he changes his mind when he meets Charlotte and her daughter at an outdoor market. It’s Christmas time, and this single mom is just making ends meet however she is less than impressed when a handsome stranger tracks her down to share some holiday cheer. A good thing this tenacious wolf isn’t easily deterred. Ares sets out to win the heart of the woman who makes him want to howl. Only, she’s not interested in a relationship. Turns out Charlotte has her own secrets, and when her past comes hunting and threatening, Ares will do anything to keep them safe. But when the snowflakes settle, will Charlotte be able to accept a man with wolfish charm?

Download or read book My Immortal Boyfriend written by Qian MoChengShang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was not even born a month ago, yet I was possessed by a bat demon, which caused me to lose my soul and dissipate the sun. My life should not have ended like this. I was saved by a person called Tang Yu, and from then on, I embarked on an unimaginably strange and twisted journey with him ...

Download or read book It Takes One written by Kate Kessler and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deliciously twisted . . . Kate Kessler's positively riveting It Takes One boasts a knockout concept and a thoroughly unique and exciting protagonist, a savvy criminal psychologist with murderous skeletons in her own closet." -- Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. Less than 24 hours later, her best friend is murdered. Now, Audrey is both the prime suspect and the only person who can solve the case. . . It Takes One is the opening to a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers. For more from Kate Kessler, check out: The Audrey Harte novelsIt Takes OneTwo Can PlayThree Strikes Four of a KindZero Hour (novella) Dead Ringer