Download or read book It S Kris written by Kristine Bowdry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...Ive tried my best and its not good enough. We cant afford the school that you appear to not give a damn about Soit leaves me with no other alternative. My mom paused waiting for her comments to sink in. What did that mean? I finally had the courage to look up at her. You are going to go live with your Aunt Sydney. What? In Las Vegas? People make mistakes and Kris is learning the hard way when one mistake leads to her life being upturned. She is forced to move with her aunt in Las Vegas right when things with her best friend Jimmy were starting to get interesting. She finds that making friends in Vegas might be easier than she thought especially when theyre attractive. Throughout the story Kris struggles with family crises. She thought she knew enough about family and love but life is full of surprises.
Download or read book Gray Hair Don t Care written by Karen Booth and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything went wrong. And then she went gray. At 47, newly divorced makeup artist Lela Bennett is dreading her next steps. Dating. Meeting people. Not letting herself go. But then she runs into Donovan James and tries something different-sleeping with her sexy crush from college. Unfortunately, in a post-orgasm stupor, Lela confesses she was in love with Donovan all those years ago. He responds by leaving while she sleeps. The next morning, her gray hairs are practically taunting her. She knows she has to get it together. Forget men. Embrace her age. Own her gray. Donovan James is a marketing genius, but his ex-wives will tell you-nothing freaks him out like feelings. Three years after his one-night stand with Lela, he's focused on his daughter's lifestyle company, but unprepared to meet the face of their new beauty brand. It's Lela. With stunning silver locks and new confidence, she's no longer swayed by his charms. When business starts booming, the universe seems intent on throwing them together time and again. And suddenly, two people convinced that romance was behind them are wondering if love could be what's next.
Download or read book Wild Wild Hair written by Nikki Grimes and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rhyming story, an African American girl hides when it's time to comb and braid her hair
Download or read book Desert Notebooks written by Ben Ehrenreich and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Download or read book Wild Pets written by Amber Medland and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Smart and funny... Wild Pets is an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction.' Guardian 'A wickedly funny and emotionally complex novel.' Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation 'An impresive, cumulatively powerful first outing.' Daily Mail 'A ripe and excellent debut... funny and smart and human and true.' Andrew O'Hagan, author of Mayflies Wild Pets follows Iris, Ezra and Nance in the years after university. They fall in and out of bed with each other, reread The Art of War, grieve the closing of Fabric and write book proposals on the history of salt, while submerging their nights in drink and drugs. Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour against contemporary political and social turmoil, these young men and women seem to have everything going for them. So why are they still swimming desperately against the tide? A bold, honest novel, Wild Pets is about the fragility of mental health, power imbalances in friendship and sex, and creative ambition fused with destruction - and the lingering power of first loves.
Download or read book The 13th Notebook written by Frederick K. Van Patten and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna the Red, a teenage runaway in Seattle, auditions for an amateur theatrical billed as a Stone Age Opera. The opera tells an ancient tale from a lost society a story of self-sacrificing innocence overcome by suffocating evil. The inspirational brainchild of the opera is Dr. Elizabeth Mellony, a forensic archaeologist, who teams up with Malcolm Washington, a black ex-con, to produce the show. On opening night Anna is spirited away by her father, a bigoted Idaho backwoodsman who tracks her down in the city. She leaves behind a mysterious note-a page torn from an old notebook given to her by a member of a paramilitary environmental group called Whole River Systems. Years earlier, Malcolm had been given 13 private notebooks written by his troubled grandfather. But the notebooks were stolen while Malcolm was in prison. The page Anna leaves behind is from one of the notebooks written by Malcolm's grandfather. That single page provides the first clue to the mysterious disappearance of the notebooks. But when Anna tries to help, she finds herself up against Mortim Rimpoche, the paranoid spiritual leader of Whole River Systems. Her youth and naïveté collide with his unmerciful narcissism, creating a near fatal showdown.
Download or read book A Wild Justice written by Craig Thomas and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three murders. Two continents. One price for justice. Bill Grainger, chief executive of an American gas company, and his wife Beth are found dead, violently murdered in their home in Washington D.C. It appears to be a home invasion and robbery, gone horribly wrong. Beth’s brother, former CIA agent John Lock vows revenge, swearing to not stop until their killers are brought to justice. Meanwhile, in the subarctic gas field town of Novy Urengoy, Siberia, a parallel investigation is taking place. Detective Alexei Vorontsyev is looking into the death of another executive of the same American gas company, apparently the victim of the local mafia. John and Alexei’s cases soon become entwined as they battle endless red tape to uncover new evidence, and both of their lives are put at risk. The deaths connected to the Grainger gas company seem to be symptoms of a wider conspiracy – a conspiracy which threatens world order and the future of the West... Part-police procedural, part-spy thriller, A Wild Justice is a knock-out, perfect for fans of Desmond Bagley and Frederick Forsyth.
Download or read book 42 Things to Do When You re the Last Man on Earth written by Jackson M. Slade and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 42 Things to do When You're the Last Man on Earth is NOT - we repeat NOT - a "how to" book. If you happen to find yourself alone on the planet and you are armed only with your wits and this novel you are in serious trouble. Though before you die a horrible death we hope you take time to read the swiftly moving science fiction comedy novel about a security guard who wakes up one morning to discover everyone else on the planet had left. Now he, his super advanced talking sneakers, and a couple of other stragglers must figure out how and why everyone else left while battling evil cows, insane civil servants, and other nasty surprises. This will most likely be the most powerful book you have ever read that features talking sneakers.
Download or read book Twang written by Julie L. Cannon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer Clodfelter believes she is destined to be a country music star. When her passion, determination and homemade demo tape were rejected by every music label in Nashville, she refused to give up. In just three years, a combination of guts and raw talent have propelled her on a journey of fame beyond her best dream. Now Jennifer has all she ever wanted, only to discover that there is a dark side to the glitz and number one hits. She will have to decide whether to sing her pain to a loving audience or find the courage to face the music in the private studio of her heart.
Download or read book Behind the Binoculars written by Mark Avery and published by Pelagic Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Avery and Keith Betton, passionate birdwatchers and conservationists, interview members of the birdwatching community about the lives of famous birdwatchers. They take you behind the scenes, and behind the binoculars, of a diverse range of birding and wildlife personalities.
Download or read book From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him--is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
Download or read book As Told By Nerdy written by TSUBAME and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah “Nerdy” Littman is your typical high school nerd—geeky glasses, straight A’s, the works. Her only social life consists solely of hanging out at the cafeteria with her best friend Becky Tyrone, as she tries to avoid being bullied by her arch nemesis Matt Adams. When superstar Leon Walden transfers to their school pretending to be just another regular student, Sarah’s life completely turned upsidedown, much to her chagrin. Things get even more complicated when Leon moves in next door and deliberately befriends her. And when Sarah finds herself falling for the teen star, she learns that there is no mathematical equation or scientific formula that can help her sort out her feelings.
Download or read book The Wild Girls written by Pat Murphy and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It?s 1972. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called ?Fox,? and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. The Wild Girls brilliantly explores friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers.
Download or read book Buzz Books 2020 Fall Winter written by and published by Publishers Lunch. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buzz Books 2020 presents passionate readers with an insider’s look at 30 of the buzziest books due out this fall season. Our “digital convention” features such major bestselling authors as Ken Follett, Matt Haig, Jonathan Lethem, and Sue Miller. Other sure-to-be popular titles are by Rumaan Alam, J’nell Ciesielski, Vendela Vida, and Bryan Washington. Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting debut authors. Simon Stephenson’s novel about a humanlike bot has already been optioned for film, while Finnish sensation Max Seeck’s thriller is due out as a television series. Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets and Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club were both sold at auction. Our nonfiction selections include an inspirational World War II story, Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story Of Hannie Schaft And The Oversteegen Sisters, Teenaged Saboteurs And Nazi Assassins by Tim Brady); a true crime read, We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper; and the incisive Can't Even: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation by BuzzFeed columnist Anne Helen Petersen. Finally, we present early looks at new work from up-and-coming young adult authors: Alexandra Bracken, Caroline George, and Cole Nagamatsu. And be sure to download Buzz Books 2020: Romance, also available now.
Download or read book Psychology and Other Stories written by C. P. Boyko and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE “C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may well be the most audaciously original collection of Canadian fiction, ever. Mr. Mustard alone is worth the price of admission.”—Bill Gaston, author of Mount Appetite “Very revealing.”—Hubert T. Ross, PhD, PsyD, DPsy Psychologists are people we admire and resent. At best, they’re compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they’re smug, hyper-educated, bombastic, yappy, socially deaf, thrice-divorced and twice-separated spouse-swapping cat-torturing perverts. Plus, they’re all in this book. And so are their patients. C.P. Boyko’s Psychology and Other Stories is replete with analysts, attorneys, criminals, Freudians, wardens, and self-help gurus. From Dr. Pringle’s treatment-resisting young patient in “Reaction-Formation” to the philandering forensic psychiatrist of “The Blood-Brain Barrier,” Psychology is a droll dissection of industry archetypes—as well as a brilliant study of mental illness, mental health, and the people who try to tell them apart.
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Download or read book Touch of Phenomenon written by Avis Dillon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories for Touch Of Phenomenon were written over many years, although most of them were produced over a six month period. The Little Green Pony, for instance, was written some 55 years ago when the author was just a teenager, and although she has read and reread it many time, it has never been changed. The Waiting was a short story assignment while taking a two-day writing seminar with William Kennedy back in the 70s. That story, too, has not been altered. The rest started with an idea of a subject, and then took on a life of their own, and Avis says she could hardly wait to see what happened next! Each one seems to have a unique twist on an old genre. The table of contents gives a brief synopsis of each story. Printer Magic, by the way, was awarded Honorable Mention in a Writers Digest contest two years ago, competing with over 2000 short stories.
