Download or read book The Sicilians written by Joe Giarratano and published by Joe Giarratano. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sicilians is crime fiction -- a bracing take on a mafia saga, with a fresh and innovative storyline, and a cracker of a climax. Book one outlines the adventures of a group of Sicilians in the Western Sicilian village-towns of the Belice Valley -- some are members of the Cosa Nostra brotherhood and others are ordinary people whose lives are controlled by them. Each has their own power struggles and agendas. Book two has all the ingredients of a best seller. It can be read stand alone and is where the book shines. It finds the key characters in transit to Sydney, Australia where the action culminates, with the addition of dirty cops, stand-over men and new murderers.

Download or read book Da Joka written by T. Fulton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As we continue to peek into Nick’s b.k.a. “Da Joka’s” life and what a life it is. We see how much she’s grown and what she’s grown into. Or really what she’s into now. She thought she was grown in the last one. So, you know in this one you can’t tell her nothin. But you’ll see or should I say read, and then you’ll really understand why there’s no one like, “Da Joka”"

Download or read book In and out of My Bed written by Vivian Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, witty, entertaining, and a reality check, this book deals with everything from abuse, divorce, interracial relationships, and promiscuity. Beautiful Valerie is breaking the family tradition by being the first to file for a divorce. She was miserable in her marriage and couldn’t see herself in a loveless marriage. Jasmine is absolutely breathtaking you would never know she’s in an abusive relationship. Her boyfriend beats her but never touches her face. Lynne misses her deceased mother so much she sleeps around to pacify the pain. Cassandra is a single mother of one. She decided to date a man of a different race. She’s paranoid that everyone is staring at them when they’re out and is passing judgment. Mario is a sweet male friend, but a controlling boyfriend. He only dates women who are dependent on him and are very passive. He wants to be their everything, but once they step out of line, he takes everything away from them. He treats them like kids. Positive, career-oriented, aggressive women take on the dating scene. The men outnumber the women seven to one, so these women are having a ball. They know what they want, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

Download or read book Clean Start at Forty Seven written by Nora Phoenix and published by Nora Phoenix. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m done hiding who I am. Pretending to be straight, to be the loving, devoted husband and successful ER doctor everyone wanted me to be has been exhausting. I numbed the pain any way I could, and in the end, it cost me everything. My job, my marriage, the relationship with my grown kids. But now I’m in recovery, and for the first time, I’m living my true life as an out gay man. I need to get my act together, to get healthy again. Benoni is my new personal trainer…twenty years my junior. He makes my mouth water and certain other body parts react. Oh, and he’s also my son’s best friend. I’m forty-seven years old. It’s time for a clean start. But where does Benoni fit in? Clean Start at Forty-Seven is part one of a duology, an emotional MM romance with an age gap, first time gay, loads of hurt/comfort, and the beginnings of a beautiful Daddy/boy relationship. It contains themes of opioid addiction and religious homophobia. Please check the trigger warnings in the front of the book.

Download or read book Alisa s Afternoon Delight written by Andi Leia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alisa Wells-Williams worked hard to have it all. But at what price? Her hot caramel brown eyed cheating husband runs the cheating game in the ground until she meets Trey, who comes along and gives her the true spice of life she‘s been missing. But is he what he seems? Let’s find out as Alisa’s world changes before her very velvety brown eyes!

Download or read book Almost Graceland written by Steve Carlson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Johnston thought his life was disgustingly normal. At forty-two, he had lived in Memphis all his life. His ex-wife had saved him from paying alimony by marrying her divorce lawyer, he enjoyed his work at the lumberyard, and he had a girlfriend who, everyone had to admit, was a peach. He did suffer one recurring nuisance; from as far back as he could remember, strangers would come up to him asking, “Do you know you look a lot like Elvis?” One day a man at a bar notices the similarity. It turns out the man actually works for Elvis Presley, and soon Ray gets two unfriendly phone calls, supposedly from the King himself. Later comes a third, one that makes Ray dizzy. He has been invited to dinner at Graceland! In an hour! Why? Ray can’t believe it---even when the limousine arrives to take him to the famed residence. What follows is a meeting of two men who have almost nothing in common except their looks, their age, and the city they were born and grew up in. One is a working man who is trying to deal with what life has given him. The other is the most well-known and worshipped singer who has ever lived. Steve Carlson delivers an enchanting debut novel that explores the power of loss and redemption in a moving portrait of Elvis at the end of his life.

Download or read book Taiyaku written by Chuck Hastings and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Taiyaku’ is a 1990s tragicomic crosscultural love story, set in northern California ́s Silicon Valley electronics industry. Its theme is how that stressful high-tech environment affects relationships between men and women. Its plot revolves around the Japanese folk-wisdom notion of a person ́s ‘critical year’ or ‘taiyaku-doshi,’ a cultural construct which is somewhere in between a numerological superstition and the American idea of ‘midlife crisis.’ Taiyaku is literally translated as ‘big bad luck’; ‘doshi’ means ‘year.’ A man’s critical year is believed to occur at age forty-two; a woman’s, at age thirty-three. Oregon small-town boy Ray Wenzinger and Japanese immigrant Kanako Matsumori Slemmons, coworkers at Cortexx Semiconductor, go through taiyaku-doshi together. Their birthdays are almost exactly nine years apart; Ray turns forty-two one week before Kanako turns thirty-three. At the outset, Ray is a manufacturing engineer, and Kanako is the Inside Sales Manager. Each is in a failing marriage to someone else. Ray’s religious-fanatic wife Gretchen throws him out; Kanako’s abusive husband Clint moves back to his home state of Texas without her, to take a high-level job. Divorce proceedings follow in both situations. Ray and Kanako fall in love, start a passionate affair, treat each other badly, quarrel bitterly, and break up. Then they each have their lives shattered, by personal and business events related to their stormy relationship. Ray keeps on pursuing Kanako at work. She complains to Cortexx Human Resources that he is sexually harassing her. He is laid off in a 40% RIF during a sales downturn. She loses custody of her beloved daughter. Both have affairs with other people. In despair over her troubled life, Kanako nearly commits seppuku. Then she is injured during an ill-conceived and dangerous security drill. She sues Cortexx and its founder/CEO, Dr. Jerry Cornelius. Ray has several desperate months. At first he’s out of work; soon he takes on a low-paid commission-sales job. But then he lands a very good job back in the semiconductor industry, at a startup company founded by a former Cortexx v-p. Kanako wrecks her sports car up in the Sierras, and is hospitalized not far from Sacramento. Well-intentioned friends try to bring Ray and Kanako back together. He visits her in the hospital, and both are overcome with emotion. They confess their love for each other, and make peace. He impulsively proposes, and she impulsively accepts. Subsequently, Ray saves Kanako ́s life when Jerry Cornelius, now fired as Cortexx Chief Executive Officer because of the security-drill fiasco, tries to kill her. She moves in with Ray. As taiyaku-doshi ends for them, Ray and Kanako are starting out on a new and better life, together as equal partners. #

Download or read book Forty Seven Duology The Collection written by Nora Phoenix and published by Nora Phoenix. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m done hiding who I am. At forty-seven years old, I’m finally free to live my authentic life as a gay man. I’m in recovery from my addiction, and it’s time for a clean start. The question is where Benoni, my personal trainer, fits in? He’s hot and perfectly bossy, but also twenty years my junior…and my son’s best friend. As needy as I am, Benoni loves it, and we somehow fit. But when our dynamic changes and Benoni wants to be my Daddy, everything I’ve ever believed about myself is shaken. With the age gap between us, how can we ever make this work? This box set contains the Forty-Seven Duology, an emotional daddy kink duology (Clean Start at Forty-Seven and New Daddy at Forty-Seven) with a younger Daddy and an older boy, plus first time gay, loads of hurt/comfort, and best friend’s father. Also included in this box set is a bonus novella featuring secondary characters from the duology called Perfect Daddy at Fifty-One. Please mind the trigger warnings, listed at the beginning of each book.

Download or read book Kasher in the Rye written by Moshe Kasher and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The finest, most moving and powerful memoir I have ever read.”—MAYIM BIALIK Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he had already been in psychoanlysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture. But Kasher in the Rye is not an "eye opener" to the horrors of addiction. It's a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all. When he was a young boy, Kasher's mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast. Well it was more like an abduction. Only not officially. She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland , California. That's where the real fun begins, in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools. He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash, which he chewed through and ran away. Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny, Kasher's first literary endeavor finds humor in even the most horrifying situations.

Download or read book Well Below Heaven written by Idyllwild Eliot and published by Cur Dog Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen year old Kelly is in a spartan boarding school in northern Idaho, sent away for drugs—as planned. Her little brother Sammy is left home in Missouri, getting ready for high school. He is quirky, quick, writes dark poetry and longs to play football. He’s also got a nose for trouble, and Kelly has left a truckload. And it’s sordid and dangerous. Her sadistic ex is involved, so is one twisted teacher, and so is the object of Sammy’s crush. Kelly warns him away, to no avail. He’s in too deep, and the repercussions could shock the town, and cost him his life.

Download or read book Gabriel s Fire written by Luis Gabriel Aguilera and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aguilera's memoir of growing up on the South Side of Chicago is not just an account of race relations and street life in the inner city, but is also a poignant and compelling story of one man's formative years. 4 halftones.

Download or read book Fire Power By Kirkman Samnee 3 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things just keep getting worse for Owen, as it becomes clear that he cannot protect his family from his past. Whether he likes it or not, he's going to have to face who he is, what he's done and who he's meant to be...before it's too late!

Download or read book Just Out of Reach A Neighbors to Lovers Standalone Romance written by Xavier Neal and published by Xavier Neal. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From best-selling author Xavier Neal comes a slow-burn romance that's full of the unexpected... They say all the best things in life are free. I say all the best things in life are easy. That is until easy gets me put on house arrest where I'm stuck with an estranged aunt, a needy cat, and drinking lemonade instead of tequila. Easy suddenly becomes hard. I basically have to sweat to get paid. I finally realize that great cheesecake doesn't magically materialize. And I have to deal with a law-appointed babysitter constantly showing up to c-block my chance of proving to the drop-dead gorgeous neighbor - who I want screaming my name every night - that I'm more than just the crime I committed. All the best things in life may be easy, but I'm slowly learning that all the greatest require real work. Real effort. And most importantly, real sacrifice.

Download or read book Welcome to Tatum written by G. J. Sim and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to ... a prairie love story. Nothing much happens in Tatum, Saskatchewan. But when crop circles are discovered on Kurt Scholl’s debt-ridden farm, things change fast, especially when newspaper reporter Denise York arrives to investigate. Bent on proving the circles a hoax—and Kurt a fraud—Denise soon finds herself stuck in town, forced to write endless articles for an alien-enthralled public. As more circles appear and Tatum’s eccentric residents flirt with international fame and hilarity, two questions need to be answered. Who—or what—made the circles? And, will Denise and Kurt ever get past trying to hate one another long enough to realize they have much more in common than a quirky town and some strange, unexplained holes in a field of wheat? Mystery, fun, romance ... and maybe even some aliens. Welcome to Tatum!

Download or read book The Next Best Thing written by Little Shirly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know what the day is going to bring and what you might get into during the course of it. But what I do know is that in life, you should expect the unexpected. That way, the shock of whatever happens won’t kill you. My name is Simone McKnight, and this is my story of confusion.

Download or read book Escape Prisons of the Mind written by Kaziah May Hancock and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape Prisons of the Mind By: Kaziah May Hancock Let me take you by the hand to walk with me down a dark, rocky road as I go thru the school of hard knocks, where only the strong survive. Of course I use colorful language, who wouldn't? Hell, polygamy itself is a kick in the gut. The powerful story that follows is that of an unscrupulous man using religious compulsion in the extreme, to subject and exploit other human beings for his own personal gain. By adding a word where it was convenient and subtracting words so as to give scriptures a whole new meaning, then claiming priesthood power and rights, he locked naïve victims into a trap. Preach long enough, loud enough, often enough and they will begin to believe it. Control the environment. Do not allow your subjects to have outside communication, then capitalize on their labors. And what do you have? Prisons of the Mind. © This is a revised and extended version of that, my first book, now to include the rest of my life after I escaped. It is a true story of survival you will never forget. Oh, and by the way, the people involved in this story were part of the polygamist group eventually led by the child molester Warren Jeffs, who is in prison. I am now a Christian, a recipient of the goodness and grace of God, the God that is GOD. I changed some names to protect the children. The contents are for mature adults only. If you have heard my name, it may be from a news clip on KARE 11 News out of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2006 about where I, as an artist, began painting oil portraits of our Fallen Soldiers. I send the paintings to the families as a free gift. What they don’t know is the oppression I have endured and why my freedom means more to me than life itself.

Download or read book Looking Good written by Keith Maillard and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Summer of Love is already like a distant memory; the psychedelic underground has turned in on itself. John Dupre has deserted a perfectly satisfying life as a student in Toronto, drawn back to the US by the need to make a difference in the Revolution. He's living in Boston—under an assumed name because he's on the FBI's wanted list for draft evasion. His best friend is Tom Parker, an ex—GI turned righteous drug dealer. When John, Tom, and the militant feminist and Situationist Pam Zalman seize control of an underground newspaper and are put on the Weatherman hit list, there's really no place to hide—they're wanted on all sides. It's the year of the Harvard Square riot, the invasion of Cambodia, and Kent State. Campuses across America are host to demonstrations and riots. Burning ROTC buildings has become an everyday pastime. Pam and John forge a relationship where they're struggling against sex roles. The Left is splintering into ever smaller and crazier micro—factions. And that's when things begin to get really weird . . . Looking Good is a masterfully crafted, meticulously reconstructed social history of the '60s counterculture and a searching examination of gender identity—the magnificent, explosive climax to Difficulty at the Beginning.