Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Download or read book Credence written by Penelope Douglas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue in this steamy dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material. Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. And when her parents suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But she's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan. Sent to live in the mountains of Colorado with Jake and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, Tiernan quickly learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the men take Tiernan under their wing, she slowly finds her place among them. Because lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her. But he's going to keep her.

Download or read book written by F. l. Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewel, AKA, Tadpole is nine when he follows The Cobras in their escape from a burning reform school in rural Arkansas. The boys commit horrible crimes, but most of them manage to avoid capture and become model citizens. It is more than twenty-five years before the code of silence is broken and their secret is told.

Download or read book written by L. Wright F. L. Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewel, AKA, Tadpole is nine when he follows The Cobras in their escape from a burning reform school in rural Arkansas. The boys commit horrible crimes, but most of them manage to avoid capture and become model citizens. It is more than twenty-five years before the code of silence is broken and their secret is told.

Download or read book The Adventure Zone Here There Be Gerblins written by Clint McElroy and published by First Second Books. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Adventure Zone SEE The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure READ Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters MARVEL At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance. With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure.

Download or read book McKenna s Bride written by Judith French and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caitlin McKenna defied her family to marry her sweetheart, Shane, on the eve of his departure for America. But years passed, with no word from Shane for Caitlin to join him. Now, after eight years, a letter comes. But the man who greets Caitlin in Missouri is a stranger. And, as Caitlin soon discovers, he is a man with a past that includes a son by another woman. A son Shane expects Caitlin to raise. But Caitlin has a few surprises of her own, as the desire that once bound them ignites anew. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Download or read book The Keep written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

Download or read book A Bee Trapped By Its Own Honey written by Tee WallFlower and published by Tee WallFlower. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You ever wondered how being pretty could get you into so much trouble? No? Te'lia, Cynia, and Tion can tell you all about it. When so many things are going right, you tend to forget the things that were going so wrong. But for these three girls, they soon find out that karma comes around no matter what time it is. Te'lia is one of the BADDEST females AROUND! Mentally and physically ahead of her time and usually with the snap of her fingers, she could have anything she wants but this time she might've bitten off more than she can chew. It all started when she was taking a walk and stumbled upon what she thought was her next come up and after using a lot of seduction and too much nectar, what happened after, she never saw coming. Te' lia has gotten herself in a world of trouble and now has to devise a plan to fight her way out of it. A series of events come crashing down around her team as well, but these girls can take down an ARMY! With the help of her gangster sister, dancing doctor friend, and a few others, she can tie up a few loose ends while getting to the root of everyone else's problems. However, in the end will they have helped the wrong person?

Download or read book Full Figured 13 written by Mona Love and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she wins the lottery, Keisha, overweight and longing for a boyfriend, suddenly has more suitors than she can keep up; and trying to reclaim the woman she used to be, Secret finds a doctor to perform weight loss surgery at a reduced price.

Download or read book Intervention written by Morgan Bruce and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexei has a secret. He is different from every other boy in his class. Different, in fact from any boy or girl he has ever seen. He may be only eleven years old, but he is also an angel who has just completed a mission to save the life of his human sister. When dressed in his school uniform, he may look like any other child, but he possesses special angelic abilities, such as being able to be invisible. He also has wings and can fly! As yet, almost no one knows his secret. Not even his foster parents. But a moment of carelessness on a wind-swept beach and the ruthless actions of an amateur bird-watcher, intent on having his moment of television fame, are about to place Alexei's whole existence in jeopardy. With the knowledge that such a revelation could eventually lead to his having to give up his life posing as a human child, Alexei realises that it is time to reveal his secret to those closest to him. With the hope that, instead of viewing him as a "mutant freak," they will give him the help he needs to continue his life on Earth and avoid the bird-watcher's criminal intentions.

Download or read book Women Ask Me All the Time written by G.G. Kalfas and published by VERNAL FIRE PRESS. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author G.G. Kalfas; Women Ask Me All the Time: Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll, and Hair; is the true story of Konstantine, a musician hairstylist. Follow Konstantine as he takes you through the arduous circumstances of his life that led him into alcoholism and drug addiction. From an early age the author had only one passion, one dream; to become a professional musician. Circumstances on the other hand, chose a different path for him to walk down. Walk with Konstantine down the path which led him astray.

Download or read book The Walking Dead 163 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW STORY ARC CONQUERED In the aftermath of The Whisperer War: ALL IS LOST. ALSO, HOLY CRAP! THIS ISSUE IS 99¢ CENTS TO CELEBRATE THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF IMAGE COMICS!

Download or read book Letters from a Patchwork Quilt written by Clare Flynn and published by Cranbrook Press. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A story of love, loss and tragedy: a heart-breaking and moving tale" Readers' Favorite Pressured by his family to join the priesthood, a young man escapes to pursue a new life, in this powerful and moving love story. England 1875, Jack Brennan, runs away from home to take up a teaching job and follow his dreams of becoming a poet. Arriving in the thriving port city of Bristol, Jack loves his new teaching job. When he falls passionately in love with a fellow teacher, Eliza Hewlett, their future together looks bright. But everything changes when the daughter of Jack's landlord falsely accuses him of fathering the child she is expecting. Unable to convince the parish priest and his powerful landlord, Jack is in an intolerable position. Desperate, Jack and Eliza decide to risk everything by emigrating to America. As they stand hand-in-hand on the deck of their ship on the Liverpool quayside, the couple are excited about the adventure ahead. But just as the ship is about to weigh anchor, police come on board to arrest Jack, while preventing Eliza from disembarking with him. Eliza is left alone en route to New York with just a few shillings in her pocket, while Jack is taken back to Bristol to face a shotgun wedding. Will Jack be forced to marry his accuser? Will he fulfil his dream of becoming a poet? How will Eliza cope alone and penniless when she arrives in New York? Will the heartbroken lovers ever be reunited? A sweeping, heart-wrenching tale of love and sacrifice, separation and courage, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Janet MacLeod Trotter Readers are utterly compelled by Letters from A Patchwork Quilt: “Another brilliant book by Clare Flynn… a beautiful ending and very inspiring” “Love books by this author and can never put them down.” “The story is captivating.” “This was the most engrossing page turner” “Well written, moving and highly recommended. A great read.” “I highly recommend to readers of historical fiction, romance and women's books.”

Download or read book NORPHORIA JONES written by PAMELA F. JONES GATEWOOD and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norphoria Jones also known as NO, Jasmine Getty aka, Lil mama and Patsy Pollet aka, Joker. These three have been best friends since the 5th grade. They are known to all as the trio. Now, it's their senior year at West Cali high school and they are looking forward to walking across the stage and throwing their caps in the air to represent completion. There is only one person that might stop this event from actually taking place and that person is, Teka Watts. Teka's mother decided to move back to California after the death of Teka's father. Little do the trio know Teka is planning on moving in on lil mama's spot as a trio that she so desperately wants to be a part of. Teka's cousin Kat tries to warn her about the trio and the guys that hang around them that they call their posse Wesley, Presley, Matt and Josh . They are a close knit group and to start problems in their circle might be hazardous to her health. Unfortunately, Teka doesn't listen to her cousin and continues on with her sneaky and deceitful plan to become one of the trio. She pretends that Lil mama has lied on her about finding out her true intentions. Teka is unaware of Norphoria's bad side. Norphoria is the sweetest person you could every want to meet, until you cross her. She becomes unfeeling towards her victim and sympathy is not one of her strong points. She's beautiful, smart, popular, sought after by two young men, president of her student body class and also big sister to the trio. To secretly try to deceive one of the them is like a personal attack on Norphoria herself. And once you have crossed her there is no reasoning with her. She becomes a living nightmare and her girls are always down for what ever she has planned. Teka has no idea of the monster she has unleashed upon herself.

Download or read book Locks written by Ashleigh Nugent and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A rollicking debut' - Telegraph 'A necessary exploration of identity and belonging' - Derek Owusu, author of That Reminds Me In Ashleigh Nugent's dynamic coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks, teenager Aeon is on a quest for belonging. Locks is the story of Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, who is desperate to find his Black roots and understand the Black identity foisted upon him by his community. To his growing shame, the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase – but they don’t count. Aeon’s dad is intent on ignoring race and climbing the social ladder. And Increase has taken to demeaning all Black culture since the shady and unresolved death of his own father, a ‘Yardie’ gangster. Aeon’s quest seems set to be fulfilled when he and Increase travel to Jamaica. But Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed, growing messy dreadlocks and wearing massive red boots don’t, necessarily, help him to fit in. He gets mugged, stabbed, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre, where he is beaten unconscious for being the ‘White boy’. And then things really start to go wrong . . .

Download or read book Year of the Chick series Romantic Comedy boxed set written by Romi Moondi and published by Romi Moondi. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [NOTE: each novel in the boxed set is about 74,000 words for a total of approximately 850 printed pages] This three-book romantic comedy series is all about starting from nowhere (no dating skills, no passion for a corporate job, low self-esteem), and undergoing a big transformation. The years go on, the landscapes change, and all along our heroine genuinely grows, as she moves past failures, achieves personal goals, becomes a better friend, and even gets the chance to fall in love. More specifically, there's Internet romance (or obsession? Fine line...), there's a meeting with the right guy at the wrong time, there's long-distance romance turmoil, and there's a life-changing journey to a totally different place. The stories are told in a bold narrative with punchy dialogue, to give this series a little more edge than your typical chicklit books. Throughout the series there's also an underlying tension caused by culture clash, when a strict Indian background brings up totally unpleasant scenarios (pressure to get married, pressure to get an ARRANGED marriage...you get the drift). ---------------------------------- LENGTH: each romantic comedy is a full-length novel of about 74,000 words (or between 280-285 printed pages each) DISCLAIMER: the books contain occasional profanities and mild sexual references