Download or read book Damn the Ponytail written by Matt Devirgiliis and published by Everytime Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Damn the Ponytail!' is an open, revealing look at coping with premature babies, and the joys and delights and the dramas they bring.

Download or read book Stuck on You 2 written by Sunny Giovanni and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De’Shane Hartford thought that life was finally pulling together. He has the girl, the family, the money, and the power. However, there are always many bumps in the road before reaching the destination that every person strives to get to. Gearing up to take on his father’s hustle, things couldn’t happen at a worse time. Shane has always tried his best to stay away from darkness that is depression and failure, and constantly reached for happiness. Every time it seems as though he has finally made it to a great place, it’s snatched away. Shane is faced with two options now. He can either be the monster everyone expects him to be, or he could fight for what it is that he desires most in the midst of bodies dropping like flies around him. With Cherie away in California, it’s hard for Shane to cope, yet he tries to by replacing her with Jessica— the curvy diva who knows him inside and out. But is it a mistake? Cherie, herself, comes face to face with heartbreaking news about Shane and Jessica that no one bothered to tell her. She just so happened to stumble upon it. She’s forced to stay away from him, even when her heart is crying out for him to choose her all over again. Because of this decision, she’s lost. She doesn’t know if she wants to be the villain who will tear apart a happy home and claim who is hers, or if she wants to accept defeat and let Shane live somewhat of a happy life as he’s putting on. That will be hard to do with her ex-fiancé on her trail. He sternly warned her to stay away from Richmond, Virginia, and that’s exactly what he meant. Not a man who is accustomed to losing, he sets out to make her pay for disobeying in the first place, and will set a string of events in motion to prove to Shane that he— Terry— is the alpha and the omega. Will love conquer all? Or is it too late for Shane and Cherie to finally wise up and reconcile like reasonable adults, even if it means saving both their lives

Download or read book Stephanie s Ponytail written by Robert Munsch and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another laugh-out-loud book from the author of The Paper Bag Princess! Everyone is copying Stephanie’s ponytail! No matter which way she wears it, the list of copycats keeps growing. But when Stephanie declares her next hair style, she tries to shake all of her followers loose. A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this tale of trend-setting hairdos to a young generation of readers.

Download or read book Boss Lady written by Omar Tyree and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Ellison, the star of Omar Tyree’s Flyy Girl and For the Love of Money, returns in this bestselling novel, Boss Lady. Everybody’s favorite flyy girl is a little bit older, a whole lot wiser, and just as sassy as ever. After a series of triumphs in the world of letters and acting, Tracy takes on the dazzling world of Hollywood’s A-list players to film a project close to her heart. Told from the point of view of Tracy’s cousin and personal assistant, Vanessa, Boss Lady chronicles the trials and tribulations of adapting the story of Tracy Ellison’s life. In this novel, Flyy Girl is becoming a major motion picture and Tracy is prepared to do anything and everything to tell her story and to make sure it's done right, from screenwriting to producing to designing. In the meantime, she’s also juggling the highs and lows of her famously turbulent love life. Is it better to remain single and committed to her career? Or is she ready to take the plunge and embrace the married-with-children life? Written with Omar Tyree’s irresistible urban style, Boss Lady finds the author’s best-loved character at the top of her game, thoroughly in charge, and taking life strictly on her own terms.

Download or read book A Network Exposed written by Bo Wagoner and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After forming a task force to assist local law enforcement agencies regarding concerns over escalating drug activity within the region, Agent Wagoner and his team discover that one of the regional sheriff departments, which also requested federal assistance, was at the core of the problem. The sheriff and some of his deputies were actively involved in much of the manufacturing and distribution of the illegal drugs flowing through the area. As it turned outthey were nothing more than pawnsmere puppets with a powerful crime boss pulling their strings. The team soon learns that the crime boss has ties with other criminal operations throughout the United States, as well as one of the Mexican drug cartels, establishing an extensive pipeline to better funnel their products. In an explosive climax, the team finds themselves tracking a truckload of military grade weapons headed to rendezvous with a Mexican cartel in exchange for a shipment of drugs. The team must try to shut down this lucrative criminal enterprise, but will money, power and political corruption be too much of an overwhelming force to overcome?

Download or read book Great Hair written by Davis Biton and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 100 classic, salon-quality styles that any non-professional can handle, all shown with full-color photographs that detail every step, as well as information on essential supplies and basic techniques.

Download or read book Giving You All I ve Got written by A'zayler and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love you. I’m here no matter what. Whatever it is that you need, you look to me to provide it. The past is over, the future is now. Let me save you. Let me have you. Allow me to be the person to make it all better. Give me your body. Give me your mind. Give me your heart... just let me have it all. If nothing else, I’ll be happy with you just giving me all you’ve got. Uzoma Youngblood, the Cameroonian powerhouse has fallen and fallen hard. He’s loved before, but it cost him his heart. He’s given before, and it’s cost him his soul. Even with both of those things being of the utmost importance to who he is as a man, he’s not ready to give up yet. He’s ready to love and to be loved. To be the man and the protector that Joc needs. Jocelynn, Joc, Waters, is the self-conscious and emotionally damaged woman who has caught Uzoma’s attention. Beautiful with a fun loving personality, she’s all that a man would want, the sad part is, she doesn’t know it. So what are two people with troubled pasts going to do for each other? Love seems far away, and so does happiness, but with a passion and desire that’s determined to prosper, they win. They find love, they make it work, and they start a relationship that’s built to last, or at least built to last as long as their pasts stay a secret. Zino has lived through one trial after the next. Being disappointed and let down time and time again. So when he meets Lonnie, his expectations are no different. Though he likes her and enjoys the time they spend together, he’s more than positive she’ll be like the rest. With a wall around his heart, Zino not only rejects Lonnie, but he rejects the love and friendship she tries to give. With a heart of gold and a personality to match, Lonnie has become Zino’s favorite past time. However, that’s only during the time he actually allows her in. She’s happy and ready to make his life better just by being herself, but that’s proving to be more than a struggle. Having dealt with her own share of grief and pain, shying away from Zino’s is not an option. With both of them having different interpretations of their relationship it's nearly impossible to give it all they’ve got.

Download or read book Retribution written by George LaVigne and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retribution A Novel of Murder and Revenge George LaVigne's first novel is an irresistable page turner. Love or hate what's happening, you won;t be able to put it down. By all measures, Jack Latham was a lucky man. His loving wife and two young sons were the centerpiece of his American Dream. Then one night, his luck runs out. The senseless murder of his wife and sons leaves Jack a shattered man with just two feelings. One was rage that would drive him to do what had previously been unthinkable. The other was a certainty that the evil that destroyed his family would not go unpunished. Left to others, justice would be far too kind and far too slow. Left to jack, that would change. His journey begins with a woman who shares a common agony. Together they encounter people and places they never imagined, bound by a quest for justice at any cost- even their own lives. Whether you cheer for Jack or condemn him, Retribution will leave no doubt: There's nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose.

Download or read book Bringing Maddie Home written by Janice Kay Johnson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's always one case… The moment police captain Colin McAllister sees her on TV he knows. She may call herself Nell Smith, but she is Maddie Dubeau—the girl who went missing from Angel Butte, Oregon, years ago. She's haunted Colin, and now the adult version of her is so captivating, he can't stay away. He wants to help her recover her memories—even solve her case—without crossing a professional line. But distance becomes impossible when the threats against her escalate. It's clear someone is determined that Nell never remembers what happened to Maddie. Colin must keep her safe so that he can finally bring her home…to his home.

Download or read book Presiding Over the Damned written by Liam Sweeny and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An arson in New Rhodes reveals the body of Julia Mae Jefferson, an eight-year-old African American girl in the city’s North Central District. Jack LeClere, the top homicide detective in the New Rhodes Police Department, is paired with a new partner for the case, Clyde Burris, a former New York City homicide-turned-New Rhodes PD Internal Affairs detective. Jack and Burris have a mutual distrust of each other, but that’s the least of their worries. In the heat of the ashes of that row-house, the search for a brutal killer awaits. New Rhodes is a city on the edge. An influx of new police recruits aren’t adjusting to the community they serve. A fight during a protest at a defunded community center begins a back-and-forth struggle between the New Rhodes Police and the North Central community that threatens the relationships that Jack and Burris need to find leads in Julia Mae’s case, including the already fractured relationship with the community’s lead activist, Marcus Ellison. A well-intentioned move by Jack to help with her funeral backfires as Ellison discovers the true nature of her murder that same day. Julia Mae’s world was one of neglect—of a child, and in fact, many of the North Central children—falling through the cracks. Jack and Burris follow her through those cracks and discover an underbelly of abuse and an industry of exploitation in the guise of a daycare center called Mount Vision. Jack and Burris, through their own struggle to build trust in a city where little can be found, find something that even the most cynical activists could never have imagined—a true wolf in sheep’s clothing, and a monster with an SS tattoo and a rebel flag in his window. To give Julia Mae justice, Jack, Burris and Marcus Ellison must make a temporary peace, and the city must come face-to-face with the fruits of its indifference. Praise for PRESIDING OVER THE DAMNED: “Presiding Over the Damned is a journey into the heart of darkness. Lucky for us Detective Jack LeClere is our fearless guide through the shadows.” —S. A. Cosby, author of My Darkest Prayer “Holy Moley! I was just going to read the first chapter of Liam Sweeny’s new novel, Presiding Over the Damned, and seven hours later, I finished it. What a page turner! Not since Peter Benchley’s Jaws have I had a novel pull me into the story with such voracity that I was afraid to stop reading, lest I miss what was coming next! The characters are crafted so skillfully that I felt I knew them, maybe I’ve even worked with them. Even the criminals seemed familiar. The story is so skillfully written, it almost seemed like Liam had worked with me at some point. On a scale from one to ten stars, I give this novel ten stars and highly recommend it to everyone.” —Michael G. Edwards, author of the Mike J. Rock, NYPD Homicide series “Take a deep breath before cracking the spine of Liam Sweeny's latest Jack LeClere novel, Presiding Over the Damned. It will be a while before you draw another one. Jack LeClere returns, hits the ground running, and races the reader through a deliciously twisted plot peppered with whip-crack dialogue amid breakneck pacing. If you have to pick one detective novel for 2018, make it Liam Sweeny's Presiding Over the Damned. Sweeny continues to deliver and should be on everyone's Must Read list.” —Eryk Pruitt, Anthony-nominated author of What We Reckon “Jack LeClere is a cop you want on your side. Liam Sweeny is a writer you want on your bookshelf. Presiding Over the Damned, more than a great addition to the LeClere series: a book that will not only gut you, but one you can't help but cheer on.” —Beau Johnson, author of The Big Machine Eats “Presiding Over the Damned is more than just a flash-bang police procedural; it’s also unafraid to plunge into some of the roughest, toughest issues of our time. If you’re a fan of Michael Connelly or George Pelecanos, you’re going to dig the heck out of this.” —Nick Kolakowski, author of Boise Longpig Hunting Club “Fast and violent like a fire, strong like Jack LeClere’s knuckles, and as brutal as a kid in a body bag, Liam Sweeny’s prose is a pleasure to read. Here’s an author doing the thing instead of talking about it, and he does it in a commanding manner and with an undeniable touch of swag. This is solid crime fiction done right.” —Gabino Iglesias, author of Zero Saints “Sweeney’s Presiding Over the Damned is a finely tuned crime fiction piece of powerful and provocative writing. The dialogue roars with authenticity, the tension is thick and the story is marinated in reality. If you are a fan of hard boiled crime fiction moving at the speed of a bullet, you’ll want to read this book. Sweeney’s books will certainly occupy a prominent place on my bookshelf.” —Pam Stack, host, Authors on the Air

Download or read book Honor Thy Boss written by Charmanie Saquea and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust and loyalty are two key factors that Boss, the king of the mean Detroit streets, live by. When the only woman to ever steal his heart goes against him, leaving him to become a single father, Boss puts all his emotions, time, and focus on his daughter and his empire. That was until he just so happens to run across the young, sexy, and ambitious Choyce. Sharing a similar story, Choyce was also forced to become a single mother at a young age when the father of her child switched up on her. She had no interest in finding love and just wanted to accomplish the goals she had set for herself. Falling for the sexy, dominant, and sometimes callous Boss, was nowhere in her plans, but you can't help who you fall for. Will these two broken and guarded people be able to put their pasts behind them and form a love that no one will be able to penetrate? Or will the pain from previous betrayal cause them to push one another away? Take a journey through the streets of Detroit as Boss and Choyce show us that dealing with love is not as easy as some may think.

Download or read book Before I Tried Civilizing Her written by Seven and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a girl name Nicky who’s growing up in the streets of our inner cities. That forces her take her own life in her own hands and raise her self. Coming from an upper-middle-class family with a lot of love and values, she is dropped in the abyss of the ghetto, where the strong will survive and the weak will perish. The untold story of little girls all over America when force in the belly of the beast of the streets of the materialistic profiles, also upholding a reputation while slowly dieing within themselves. Which take place in the streets of Elizabeth NJ and all over Irvington,Newark,and all over Essex county.

Download or read book Fabrications written by Pamela Painter and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "—Bobbie Ann Mason"This is fiction of immense beauty, full of wisdom and informed by rare grace."—Steve Yarbrough

Download or read book Janie On Board written by Edith Scheffer and published by Dragonsflye Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third entry in the heartfelt, madcap Janie Chronicles has Janie O’Connelly wishing she missed the boat. When Benny proposes to kooky Aunt Marble, it's required that Janie, her newly designated Spirit Daughter, be in attendance. Janie is honored (kind of) to be included, until she learns the wedding is taking place off the coast of Mexico... on a ship. Adding to Janie’s boat and ocean phobias is the revelation of Barry’s feelings for her. Through choppy waters, Janie must examine her growing feelings for heartthrob Cecil while imagining the possibilities offered by Barry (who just happens to be her lifelong crush). The heart wants what the heart wants… But who will that be?

Download or read book Ghostflowers written by Rus Wornom and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekend of July Fourth, 1971 The jukebox is playing ”Everything is Beautiful”… Old Glory flaps against the blue, Southern sky… The aromas of burgers and hot dogs hang in the still air… Children laugh as they play with sparklers in the park… And the night fills with screams when a girl’s body is found, her throat torn out by savage teeth… Summer Moore is a waitress at the Dixie Dinette. Twenty, blonde and beautiful, Summer desperately needs to break free from her mother’s constant nagging and the dull monotony of life in the small mountain town of Stonebridge, Virginia. She wants out. His buddies in ‘Nam called him the Midnight Rider. Trager’s the name on his Army jacket, but a dark shadow of the unknown hangs over this Vietnam vet as he rides into town on a night-black Electra Glide, called on a quest that’s tainted by blood. Sheriff Buddy Hicks doesn’t like hippies in his town…especially not long-haired hippie bikers. As soon as the sheriff saw him, he knew the biker was trouble. Now something feels different in Stonebridge—something he doesn’t understand—and he’s not going to put up with radicals in his town…not some biker, and not some smart mouth like Summer Moore. There are secrets in the woods. Summer and the biker, locked in a waltz, an embrace of shadows, that has lasted for centuries… It’s a death-dance in the moonlight. It’s a love story. With blood.

Download or read book Shades Of Black written by Eleanor Taylor Bland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories by Black authors. Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field—from Walter Mosley, “one of America's best mystery writers” (The New York Times), to the late Hugh Holton, whose “gift for retaining suspense is golden” (Chicago Sun-Times)—it is the first anthology of African-American mystery writers. Shades of Black is not only a tribute to the art of storytelling, it's a fascinating foray into the rich and widely varied Black experience. Includes stories by: Frankie Y. Bailey • Jacqueline Turner Banks • Chris Benson • Eleanor Taylor Bland and Anthony Bland • Patricia E. Canterbury • Christopher Chambers • Tracy Clark • Evelyn Coleman • Grace F. Edwards • Robert Greer • Terris MacMahan Grimes • Gar Anthony Haywood • Hugh Holton • Geri Spencer Hunter • Dicey Scroggins Jackson • Glenville Lovell • Lee E. Meadows • Penny Mickelbury • Walter Mosley • Percy Spurlark Parker • Gary Phillips • Charles Shipps

Download or read book Up in Flames written by Nicole Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elle Montgomery is a good girl. Born and raised in a small town in Washington State, she's always done exactly what she's supposed to and what everyone expects of her. She helps out at the café her family owns, and has been dating the pastor's son, Logan, since she was allowed to go on her first date at sixteen. Having just graduated from high school, and knowing that Logan wants to put a ring on her finger and get married as soon possible, Elle feels like her life is already mapped out. Cole Carson's life couldn't be more different. An adrenaline junkie, he has worked as a smokejumper for the past three summers, roaming from town to town following the fires. Cole lives his life day to day and dreads the thought of putting down roots or being tied to one person. Following an awkward, embarrassing first meeting, Elle knows she should keep away from Cole and the feelings he ignites in her. And Cole just can't help but pursue Elle, the girl who seems immune to his charms. But as summer heats up, their attraction grows, and as tensions between them run high, Elle and Cole realise that one way or another, they're going up in flames…