Download or read book Milestones written by Clint Brown and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint Browns short stories have appeared in Reminisce magazine and two other periodicals published by Northfield Press. This is his first semiautobiographical novel about a man about to retire and looks back at that journey called life. He cant understand the physical changes he has gone through since his teenage years in the 50s and 60s. He wonders what is in store for him next.

Download or read book Bunny written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Download or read book Attack of the Jack O Lanterns Classic Goosebumps 36 written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goosebumps now on Disney+! PUMPKIN POWER!Nothing beats Halloween. It's Drew Brockman's favorite holiday. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker.Yes, this year Drew and Walker have a plan. A plan for revenge. It involves two scary pumpkin heads.But something's gone wrong. Way wrong. Because the pumpkin heads are a little too scary. A little too real. With strange hissing voices. And flames shooting out of their faces...

Download or read book Wounds written by Nathan Ballingrud and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times “One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there” (The Verge). In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his “piercing and merciless” (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives—both real and imagined: “What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” (Los Angeles Review of Books). Now, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in “The Visible Filth” to the search for the map of hell in “The Butcher’s Table,” Ballingrud’s beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.

Download or read book Enviropop written by Mark Meister and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much scholarly and critical attention has been paid to the relationship between rhetoric and environmental issues, media and environmental issues, and politics and environmental issues, no book has yet focused on the relationship between popular culture and environmental issues. This collection of essays provides a rigorous and multifaceted rhetorical and critical perspective on the ways in which the language and imagery of nature is incorporated strategically into various popular culture texts—ranging from greeting cards to advertisements to supermarket tabloids. As a distinguished group of scholars reveals, our notions about the environment and environmentalism are both reflected in and shaped by our popular culture in fascinating ways never previously examined in an academic context. The consumptive vision of nature presented in these texts represents a wholly American view, one promoting leisure and comfort, and nature as the place to experience them. This good life attitude toward the environment often serves to commodify it, to render it little more than space in which to pursue conventional notions of the American dream. As such, the volume represents a bold and striking vision both of popular culture and of popular notions of an environment that can be either protected or just simply consumed.

Download or read book The Link Colette s Fame written by Makala Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colette hits stardom in this hit sequel, making a decision to leave her home island because of the way she is being treated by the people she thought were friends.Hard though it was to leave her children, she joins her mother abroad along with her best friends, Roxy and Debbie.One lucky day she is heard singing on a train, therefore being signed to one of the biggest record labels. Colette enjoys being rich and famous, but there is a downside to all of this: her family, and the sly Matthew James.Cursed though they both are, Colette and Matthew do not seem able to resist each other when the charm lifts…

Download or read book Big Boys Don T Cry written by Jeanne Tompkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgina Sophia Bailey is a determined young woman who is working towards making her mark in the world of finance. All is going according to plan both in her personal and professional life, where she can look forward to a glittering future. However, it all turns to ashes. She is caught up in a dreadful scandal, and the man she thought she could spend the rest of her life with turns his back on her and runs away to America. Her future appears to be in tatters, but she picks herself up and, with the help of her landladys disabled son, starts afresh. This is her story, together with all the varied characters that are part of the rich and colourful tapestry of this tale. The story moves from Bedford, England, to Northumberland, the great city of York, then over the water to New York and Washington DC, and finally returns to York, UK.

Download or read book Looking Good Naked written by Andy du Feu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it look like if an Avenger turned up to help in youth work? Perhaps it would breathe a fresh sense of purpose. Maybe the primary response would be relief that backup had arrived. They would certainly pull a crowd for a few weeks at least. Looking for a superhero might be a good idea. But there is a better one. It’s called the church. Boring? Irrelevant? All dressed up but nowhere to go? Looking Good Naked strips off the ill-fitting outfits and recovers a biblical theology of the church as the body of Christ, drawing on the narratives of youth work and ministry. Written for the student of youth ministry, full-timer, part-timer or extra-timer, it is an engaging, practical, and deep book, seeking to renew our confidence in who we are in light of whose we are, so we can better engage with young people.

Download or read book The Sinner written by J.R. Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinner’s only hope is true love in this passionate new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Syn has kept his side hustle as a mercenary a secret from the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When he takes another hit job, he not only crosses the path of the vampire race’s new enemy, but also that of a half-breed in danger of dying during her transition. Jo Early has no idea what her true nature is, and when a mysterious man appears out of the darkness, she is torn between their erotic connection and the sense that something is very wrong. Fate anointed Butch O’Neal as the Dhestroyer, the fulfiller of the prophecy that foresees the end of the Omega. As the war with the Lessening Society comes to a head, Butch gets an unexpected ally in Syn. But can he trust the male—or is the warrior with the bad past a deadly complication? With time running out, Jo gets swept up in the fighting and must join with Syn and the Brotherhood against ultimate evil. In the end, will love true prevail...or was the prophecy wrong all along?

Download or read book The Mianji written by Luis Eduardo Pradal and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Z Codes written by Keith B. Zacharias and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a computer expert who accidentally taps into the universal codes that control everything. a woman from a far away monitors the access by the man and converses with him and they bring her to life by placing all the elements needed in a bath tub. they fall in love and decide to go to the woman's planet which is accomplished by traveling on a series of space ships. The man takes his place in the work of the world on this planet, which managing life on different planets.

Download or read book A Certain Ambiguity written by Gaurav Suri and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge--including religion. Together, the two men discover the power--and the fallibility--of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity--and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex. Moving and enlightening, A Certain Ambiguity is a story about what it means to face the extent--and the limits--of human knowledge.

Download or read book Rogue Blue Mountain Wolves written by Susan Macklin and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything was perfect. Langdon had found his mate. Until one sensual night together changed everything. Now Finn has the wolf curse and Langdon needs to tell him the truth. Finn is angry. Can he forgive Langdon? And can he stay away from the gravitational pull he now feels towards his mate.

Download or read book Engaged to the Single Mom written by Lee Tobin McClain and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Millionaire and the Mechanic Single mom Angelica Camden's determined to fulfill her sick son's every wish. At the top of the list is moving back to her hometown to be near family. His second request? Lots of dogs Gathering her courage, Angelica asks her former fianc , a veterinarian with a dog rescue farm, for a job. Though they're growing close again, Angelica can't bear to tell handsome, honorable Troy Hinton the painful truth about why she fled town and broke his heart. Yet when he discovers her son's biggest wish is for a father, Troy's shocking suggestion of marriage may just make all their dreams come true.

Download or read book Trino s Choice written by Diane Gonzales Bertrand and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1999-05-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated by his poor financial situation and hoping to impress a smart girl, seventh grader Trino falls in with a bad crowd led by an older teen with a vicious streak.

Download or read book The Cutting Edge written by M.L. Lindberg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CUTTING EDGE..is an all-American story about a country music performer trying to make it to Nashville. His van with all of his equipment is stolen. He ventures out to catch up with the thieves and get it back. Along the way he meets Wayne, a no-holds barred cowboy. The two of them have many exciting adventures in the quest to find the thieves. ..ALSO BY THE AUTHOR: The Crooner Series: Fictional novels about a lounge singer and his would-be detective wife. She leads her reluctant husband around in the pursuit of leads to crimes. Author: M.L. Lindberg

Download or read book The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits 9th Edition written by Joel Whitburn and published by Billboard Books. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the most complete chart information on every artist and song to hit Billboard’s Top 40 pop singles chart all the way back to 1955. Inside, you’ll find all of the biggest-selling, most-played hits for the past six decades. Each alphabetized artist entry includes biographical info, the date their single reached the Top 40, the song’s highest position, and the number of weeks on the charts, as well as the original record label and catalog number. Other sections—such as “Record Holders,” “Top Artists by Decade,” and “#1 Singles 1955-2009”—make The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits the handiest and most indispensable music reference for record collectors, trivia enthusiasts, industry professionals and pop music fans alike. Did you know? • Beyoncé’s 2003 hit “Crazy in Love” spent 24 weeks in the Top 40 and eight of them in the #1 spot. • Billy Idol has had a total of nine Top 40 hits over his career, the last being “Cradle of Love” in 1990. • Of Madonna’s twelve #1 hits, her 1994 single “Take a Bow” held the spot the longest, for seven weeks—one week longer than her 1984 smash “Like a Virgin.” • Marvin Gaye’s song “Sexual Healing” spent 15 weeks at #3 in 1982, while the same song was #1 on the R&B chart for 10 weeks. • Male vocal group Boyz II Men had three of the biggest chart hits of all time during the 1990s. • The Grateful Dead finally enjoyed a Top 10 single in 1987 after 20 years of touring. • Janet Jackson has scored an impressive 39 Top 40 hits—one more than her megastar brother Michael!