Download or read book Call Me Cassie written by Shaun Higgins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discourse on the varied forms and styles of creation and the pressure upon those who wish to create, Call Me Cassie follows, over several days, the struggles of a young and frustrated dilettante as he does battle with demons real, imagined and self-imposed. Flecked with touches of subtle-dry humour and irony, this New Tragedy's protagonist, Benny Bitumen, is beset on all sides by everyday difficulties as well as issues of emotional, theological and moral natures. In fighting unforeseen forces and material foes alike, Benny represents an artistic but constrained Everyman character whose thoughts fly further than his reality could ever gratify, and epitomises the challenges facing the twenty-first century creative.
Download or read book Call Me Cass written by Kelly Stone Gamble and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cass Adams is finally happy. She has a man who loves her, a family that understands her, and a baby on the way. Other than seeing the occasional dead person, Cass feels normal. But pregnancy has an unwelcome side effect. Cass is having visions of the future, just like Grams does. While some are cloudy, Cass knows one thing for certain. Her best friend, Maryanne, is going to die. Police Chief Benny Cloud has his own problems. His father has been released from prison and is on his way home to surprise Benny’s mother, who’s been keeping time with the county sheriff. Fat Tina’s Gentlemen’s Club is under siege by protestors. And it’s growing dark outside. A devastating storm is coming to Deacon, Kansas. In its wake, the town must deal with tragic losses that force everyone to reevaluate their lives.
Download or read book Cassandra s Calling written by Kathy Q. Bruhl and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra’s Calling By: Kathy Q. Bruhl Cassandra LeGardier was introduced in the book Lady of the Gulf. As a child in the early 1900s on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, she had ambitions of becoming a nurse. She thought her career in nursing would be better spent in Mississippi, but world events would alter the course of her life and take her to New Orleans, New York City, and eventually to war-torn Europe. In the process, she finds adventure, danger, and the man who would become the love of her life.
Download or read book Call Me Daddy written by Kelly Stone Gamble and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cass Adams comes from a long line of crazy, and she fears passing that on to her unborn child. Also, she’s run over Roland and Clay’s surprise half brother Britt, landing him in the hospital. With her inner demons coming out to haunt her, she doesn’t know if she should keep the baby. Clay Adams has his own decisions to make. His half brother shows up to tell him their father, Freddy, is still alive but needs a liver transplant. When Freddy blew out of town thirty-five years ago, secrets were buried. But it’s time for them to be dug up, because only then can Clay hope to lay the past to rest. Call Me Daddy is a story of family, the secrets they keep, and to what lengths someone would go to protect them. This sequel to They Call Me Crazy can be read as a standalone novel.
Download or read book Cassandra Lost written by Joanna Catherine Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott weaves a spellbinging tale based loosely on the true story of one woman's incredible odyssey from a prosperous Maryland farm to that devastation of revolution-era Paris and back again. When her father forbids her from marrying a charming French emigre, Cassandra Owings elopes with Benedict van Pradelles and sails for France. Her head is filled with romantic notions, so she is shocked by the privations she encounters in war-torn France. Since Cassandra's husband hails from an aristocratic family with ties to King Louis and Marie Antoinette, they are in constant fear for their safety. Joining forces with a young Jean Lafitte to smuggle other aristos out of the country, they must eventually flee themselves. Settling in Spanish New Orleans, Cassandra and Benedict build a prosperous life for themselves until their idyllic existence is shattered by the reappearance of Lafitte. Cassandra must choose between the devoted husband she loves and the dashing pirate she desires.
Download or read book Wintergirls written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written and riveting look at anorexia from acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson. Cassie and Lia are best friends, and united in their quest to be thin. But when Cassie is found dead in a motel room, Lia must question whether she continues to lose weight, or choose life instead.
Download or read book Call Me Sunflower written by Miriam Spitzer Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance”—a list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including: Send Mom flowers from a “Secret Admirer” to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away. Make a playlist of his favorite love songs—the mushier the better—and make sure it’s always playing in the car. Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love. But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photo—one that changes everything. Sunny’s family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she’ll have to reconcile her family’s past and present, or she’ll lose everything about their future.
Download or read book Bye Baby written by Carola Lovering and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A March 2024 Indie Next Pick "Powerful, relatable and crazily addictive, Bye, Baby takes an unflinching look at the battling forces of toxicity and love which define so many female friendships. I couldn't put it down." ––Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted and The Love of My Life Every friendship has its shadow... On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering—with a jolt of fear—that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie’s world. Once fiercely bonded by their secrets, Cassie and Billie have drifted apart in adulthood, no longer the inseparable pair they used to be in their small Hudson Valley hometown. Cassie is married to a wealthy man, has recently become a mother, and is building a following as a lifestyle influencer. She is desperate to leave her past behind—including Billie, who is single and childless, and no longer fits into her world. But Billie knows the worst thing Cassie has ever done, and she will do whatever it takes to restore their friendship... Told in alternating perspectives in Lovering’s signature suspenseful style, Bye, Baby confronts the myriad ways friendships change and evolve over time, the lingering echoes of childhood trauma, and the impact of women’s choices on their lifelong relationships.
Download or read book The Knight of Yesterday written by Raunak Kumar Jha and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long does it take to completely know a person? Or how long does it take to fall in love with someone? The answer may vary from person to person. Then let's change the question, would you let yourself be loved if you knew you were an awful person? Ana was just a normal girl in NYC, living with her friends Mia and Cassie, hating her job and questioning her life decisions. Life became a routine for her in the past five years, she felt stuck with the job and her failing love life when her friend Keith's new roommate Ronnie appears. He seemed like a decent guy and eventually she falls in love with him but little did she know what fate had in mind for her.
Download or read book Mortem written by I.B. Loyola and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you were the only one who survived an accident? What would you do if you came back from the dead? And what would you do if you start seeing dead people, hearing cries from the dead? Irish Stephen, is a Mass-communication, college student, and accident survivor. She mysteriously comes back from the dead when the bus that they were riding going to Baguio for their documentary project, fell on the cliff making it a wreck. All her friends, colleagues, including her boyfriend, died. After the accident, her life is never been the same. People call her “lucky” and “Lazarus” for surviving the accident but for her. It’s a curse because since the accident her life changed. Her life became weird and mysterious that made her aloof to people because she knows that there is something wrong inside of her. She starts seeing dead people, having visions, and hearing unwanted voices that she thought it is just an effect of the accident that happened to her a year ago. That gave her trauma and creep her out but she was wrong. When she starts discovering what happened to her with the help of her friend; Devon David that soon became her boyfriend and Luna. A born male, a practitioner who knows about spiritual awakenings and soul connecting. When she discovers what happened to her. She realized that it is all connected to her life. Find out how it happened. Here in Mortem from I.B.LOYOLA.
Download or read book Witch Finder written by Ruth Warburton and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1880, and eighteen-year-old Luke Lexton is about to endure his initiation into the Malleus Maleficorum - the secretive brotherhood devoted to hunting witches, and the organisation that will help Luke take revenge on the witch who murdered his parents. His final test is to pick a name at random from the Book of Witches, a name he must track down and kill within a month, or face death himself. Luke picks out sixteen-year-old Rosa Greenwood, a witch-girl living in rapidly fading grandeur on the west side of town. She's the last bargaining chip in her family's struggle to avoid bankruptcy and is about to be married off to the handsome, cruel, grotesquely rich Sebastian Knyvet - a powerful member of the Ealdwitan. As Rosa and Luke get to know each other, Luke realises it will be impossible for him to kill Rosa, just as Rosa knows she will bring disgrace on her family if she does not marry Knyvet. But Knyvet is hiding dark secrets - including the key which will unlock the mystery of Luke's murdered parents. Torn between appeasing their elders and their growing affection for each other, Rosa and Luke must each make their choice between life and death. 'Gorgeously romantic.' Amanda Craig, The Times
Download or read book Deep Into the Night written by Tracie Ingersoll Loy and published by Dutch Bay Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this romantic suspense thriller, Special Investigation Agent Jack Wyatt returns to Hartz Island in Washington State's San Juan Islands, enlisting the aid of his former Navy SEAL boss, Kip Hendricks and his Canadian counter-part Dan Johnson. Jack is convinced the increase in human trafficking in Seattle and on the west coast is being routed through the San Juan Islands from Victoria, British Columbia. All arrows point to Rob Armstrong, who is not on Hartz Island to write the great American novel, like he claims. On the run from her Russian mob boyfriend and his ruthless associates, actress Cassie Ryan narrowly escapes Los Angeles and knows of only one place to hide - Hartz Island, her childhood summer home. As the island's amateur sleuth and savior of souls, psychic Montana Worthington continues to interfere with ongoing investigations. She is convinced the minister's wife and her dalliance, Rob Armstrong, are in dire need of saving before catastrophe strikes. DEEP INTO the NIGHT is book 2 of the Hartz Island romantic mystery series.
Download or read book Love by Whose Definition Cassie written by Ek Cuan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Cassie had lost the homeland that she loved. Then her father. And her brothers. And her mother. Now her only childs life was being threatened and his father, her husband was just standing by waiting. What was a mother to do? One thing she wasnt going to do was stand around and wait. She knew he was alive, but there was no guarantee of how long hed stay that way. She turned to the one other person who loved her son almost as much as she did- the man who had taught her the skills to deal with the kidnappers as soon as they found them and they did. Kelly McGavin came to Farm Acres as a lowly worker, but gave her son a father figure much the opposite of his real father. More important he showed her how to tap her inner strength. He taught her mediation and how to defend herself. Through Kelly Cassie learned that she had rights and talents. None Farmer, as her husband, may have demanded strict obedience from her, he did not own her mind and spirit. Once she found she had the power to take care of herself, never again was the man she married going to control her. Evil belonged in its place and some day she would put him in that place before he had the chance to taint their son.
Download or read book Angel You re Mine written by Aspiring Raven and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholai swear not to love again. His life was on auto pilot after Amanda, her first love died. Then faith played with him one crazy night, he met Cassie, a young beautiful angelic innocent girl. Now, he is in battle whether to keep his promise to his first love or break it to be with a woman he can't keep his hands and mind off with. He created a wall to guard his heart but then he met her. They were united by one crazy night, can they stop from falling to each other. Both can't take their mind from each other, both can't deny the attraction they have. Can they stay together when the past holds him hostage? This is a roller coaster story will give you one hell of a ride. When can he finally stake his claim and say angel you're mine.
Download or read book Ship Mates written by Janie S. Monares and published by Janie S. Monares. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evil Guest written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Wolfe presents Lovecraftian noir fiction!
Download or read book The Curator of Broken Things Full Trilogy written by Corine Gantz and published by Carpenter Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CURATOR OF BROKEN THINGS TRILOGY is a fast-paced family-saga that takes place over a century and across four continents. Multiple narrative threads take the reader through love, betrayal, and espionage in a story that spans from the last days of the Ottoman Empire to Paris of the Roaring Twenties to the prewar French Riviera to the World War II Allied landing in North Africa and to modern-day Paris and Los Angeles. In this trilogy, three generations of a family’s secrets are unearthed that might bring it together or tear it apart. Book 1: From Smyrna to Paris. With her twins in college and her ex-husband off to a younger pasture, Cassie is resigned to a disappointing life in Los Angeles, until she reluctantly returns to Paris to visit her ailing father. There, she discovers the existence of an estranged aunt, a woman of many secrets who lives in a beautiful house in Paris’s exclusive Cité des Fleurs. Dumbfounded by what she learns, Cassie sets out on a quest to understand her family’s past and make sense of her father’s cold indifference toward her. In Paris, as the truth about her failed marriage begins to take form, Cassie fights with her family, grapples with French idiosyncrasies and her own, and attempts to resist the charms of a good-looking Parisian who rides a vintage motorcycle. Book 2: Escape to the Côte d' Azur. A family flees Paris at the dawn of the Second World War, haunted by secrets that threaten to rip them apart. Seventy years later, Cassie, in modern-day Paris, finds herself alone frantically trying to confront her hostile relatives. Meanwhile, puzzled by the advances of a charming Frenchman, she struggles to cope with the demands of her manipulative ex and gain an understanding of her true self. Book 3: Resistance in Algiers. Amidst he chaos of the Second World War, and having taken refuge in North Africa, Cassie’s parents and grandparents enter the French Resistance. As the Nazi threat tightens its noose, they find love and risk their lives and one another’s. In modern-day Paris, Cassie, now on the cusp of a surprising and disorienting love interest, has to conquer her fear of failure and success. When the last shocking piece of her family’s puzzle comes into her possession, Cassie must unburden herself from several generations of family secrets.
