Download or read book Desperate Acts written by Alexandra Ivy and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pike, Wisconsin is a small town with more secrets than residents, and as a woman searches for the truth about a long-ago night, a killer prepares to silence her forever. New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy’s immersive new romantic thriller is a must-read for fans of Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, and Mary Burton… WILL SHE FIND THE ANSWER Teenager Lia Porter shouldn’t have been anywhere near the railroad bridge that night. Sneaking home after a party in the fields outside Pike, Wisconsin, she glimpsed a woman in a leather jacket, running in terror. Lia puts the incident from her mind—until a body is found near the same spot fifteen years later, wearing the same jacket. The police rule it a suicide. Lia knows different. The woman she saw was trying to save her own life, not end it. But whatever she was fleeing from found her first . . . BEFORE THE KILLER The stranger who arrives at Lia’s store shares her suspicions. Hollywood stunt driver Kaden Vaughn has come home to Wisconsin to learn the truth about what happened to his brother’s fiancée years ago. The leather jacket, the timing—he believes the dead woman is Vanna, and that Lia may be the only person who can help. Together they retrace Vanna’s steps, but the more they dig, the darker the secrets become. FINDS HER? The killer is still out there, stalking the streets of Pike again, willing to do whatever is necessary to keep the truth locked in mystery. One by one, all those who know something about that night must be silenced, until there is no one left to tell . . .

Download or read book Desperate Acts written by Jane Candia Coleman and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-01-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nan Fletcher is an abused wife whose scars are all hidden because they're emotional. She appears to have it all—a great house, a successful professor husband, Jake, and her beautiful teenage son, Jamie—but with Jake's constant demand for perfection, she finds that she has lost her sense of self. She only feels alive when she finds a few moments to write poems and short stories, which her husband belittles. Nan and Jamie finally get a break from overbearing Jake when they end up going on vacation to a dude ranch without him.

Download or read book At the Edge written by Larry Verstraete and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects more than twenty true stories of people facing critical life or death decisions, including a man saving someone in the path of an oncoming train, a tragic mountainclimbing accident, and a family caught in a tsunami.

Download or read book Acts of Desperation written by Megan Nolan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?

Download or read book Desperate Measures written by Jo Bannister and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third novel in Bannister's brilliant new crime series set in a small British town features young policewoman Hazel Best and her friend Gabriel Ash

Download or read book A Desperate Fortune written by Susanna Kearsley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Firebird, comes a new, exquisitely crafted novel of modern-day and historical intrigue. For nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread-its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal’s cipher. But when she arrives in Paris, Sara finds herself besieged by complications from all sides: the journal’s reclusive owner, her charming Parisian neighbor, and Mary, whose journal doesn't hold the secrets Sara expects. It turns out that Mary Dundas wasn’t keeping a record of everyday life, but a first-hand account of her part in a dangerous intrigue. In the first wintry months of 1732, with a scandal gaining steam in London, driving many into bankruptcy and ruin, the man accused of being at its center is concealed among the Jacobites in Paris, with Mary posing as his sister to aid his disguise. When their location is betrayed, they’re forced to put a desperate plan in action, heading south along the road to Rome, protected by the enigmatic Highlander Hugh MacPherson. As Mary’s tale grows more and more dire, Sara, too, must carefully choose which turning to take…to find the road that will lead her safely home.

Download or read book Gates of Freedom written by Eugenia C. DeLamotte and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The time is surely right to draw attention to Voltairine de Cleyre, one of the most uncompromisingly revolutionary of all American women writers . . . [Gates of Freedom] gives a fine selection of de Cleyre's work, while articulating it to contemporary critical and cultural concerns . . . . The book's organization, its tendency to tackle the most difficult issues head on, and its careful selection of published and unpublished work are all superb." ---Cary Nelson, University of Illinois "The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now." These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech given a hundred years earlier by Voltairine de Cleyre, a leading anarchist and radical thinker. A contemporary of Emma Goldman---who called her "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced"---de Cleyre was a significant force in a major social movement that sought to transform American society and culture at its root. But she belongs to a group of late-nineteenth-century freethinkers, anarchists, and sex-radicals whose writing continues to be excluded from the U.S. literary and historical canon. Gates of Freedom considers de Cleyre's speeches, letters, and essays, including her most well known essay, "Sex Slavery." Part I brings current critical concerns to bear on de Cleyre's writings, exploring her contributions to the anarchist movement, her analyses of justice and violence, and her views on women, sexuality, and the body. Eugenia DeLamotte demonstrates both de Cleyre's literary significance and the importance of her work to feminist theory, women's studies, literary and cultural studies, U.S. history, and contemporary social and cultural analysis. Part II presents a thematically organized selection of de Cleyre's stirring writings, making Gates of Freedom appealing to scholars, students, and anyone interested in Voltairine de Cleyre's fascinating life and rousing work.

Download or read book The Desperate Mission written by Jude Watson and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the events of Episode III, Obi-Wan Kenobi finds himself adrift in the galaxy . . . with Darth Vader on his trail.

Download or read book Desperately Seeking Permission written by Erin Moug and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Desperately Seeking Permission, author Erin Moug writes a vulnerably honest first novel. Based on a real life experience, she shares her story of a life that spirals out of control. It begins at the age of twenty-six; an adventurous six-month solo backpacking trip through Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji results in Erin falling head over heels in love with an Australian man. Fast forward four years. Circumstances surrounding the relationship lead Erin to a darkness she has never known. At a deep soul level, she knows the path back to happiness but desperately seeks permission from outside sources, willing to suffer mentally and physically until it is granted. Ultimately, this painful experience serves as her greatest gift, teaching her an invaluable lesson: the only permission you need to be true to yourself comes from you.

Download or read book Kinaiya written by Pete Barlow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys grow up and go their separate ways. Charlie, an introspective, hard-working young man stays back in the shadows, cultivating his family farm and trying to find his own way while Ellis goes off to school, finds and loses love, and becomes a journalist who goes off to see the world. Ellis encounters tragedy when he gets too close to political tensions on one of his journeys to the Philippines, while Charlie continues to pursue his dreams quietly at home. Both men endure pain and loss, and finally end up together, back at home in Southside Virginia. A story of love, loss, and complexity, KINAIYA is a tale of life's realities, and the strength, or frailty of character that it can manifest.

Download or read book Between the Acts written by Benjamin Lease Crozer Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Act written by J. M. Gregson and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambert & Hook discover that interrogating professional actors is an impossible business in the latest intriguing mystery. Sam Jackson is not a man who suffers fools – or anyone else – gladly. A successful British television producer who fancies himself as a Hollywood mogul, he makes enemies easily, and delights in the fact. It is no great surprise that such a man should meet a violent death. Detective Chief Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook deduce that the person who killed him is almost certainly to be found among the company of actors who are shooting a series of detective mysteries in rural Herefordshire. But these are people who make a living by acting out other people’s fictions, people more at home with make-believe than real life – and the two detectives find interrogating them a difficult business. How can Lambert and Hook fight their way to the truth when faced with a cast of practised deceivers?

Download or read book The Young Christian s Career Guide written by Rutendo Bvumbi and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is your guide on how to navigate your professional journey with purpose. How do you know you are in the right profession for you? We are all individuals with different gifts and talents and our career choices are reflective of these individual differences. This book offers you the tools you need to have peace as you discover yourself and progress in the career that God has called you into.

Download or read book The Rejection Syndrome written by Dr. Margaret Rogers Van Coops Ph D and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eventually", I had all the intellectual answers. I tried desperately to apply this knowledge in my professional and family lives. I pointed out the error of our ways to those who sought my counsel. Many were glad to receive my advice, but those closest to me had deaf ears. My pain and anger climaxed into a massive breakdown. I was dying. I was drowning in " The Rejection Syndrome." In our daily lives, all of us experience moments of rejection, either by ourselves or from others, that create an internal impasse. Dr. Margaret Rogers Van Coops assists those wishing to be free of these encumbrances, which are brought about by The Rejection Syndrome.

Download or read book Making Sense of America written by Herbert J. Gans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, Herbert J. Gans has been one of the leading sociologists in the United States. His writing on American communities, culture, and ethnicity have been widely read here and elsewhere, and his incisive analyses of antipoverty policy and other social policies have been influential in many policy analysis offices and government agencies. This new collection of Gans's scholarly and other writings, including excerpts from his most prominent ethnographic books, The Urban Villagers, The Levittowners, and Deciding What's News, will be a thought-provoking resource for social scientists, students, and all those who care about America.

Download or read book Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor written by R. George Wright and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider the horror we feel when we learn of a crime such as that committed by Robert Alton Harris, who commandeered a car, killed the two teenage boys in it, and then finished what was left of their lunch. What we don't consider in our reaction to the depravity of this act is that, whether we morally blame him or not, Robert Alton Harris has led a life almost unimaginably different from our own in crucial respects. In Does Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?, author R. George Wright argues that while the poor live in the same world as the rest of us, their world is crucially different. The law does not recognize this difference, however, and proves to be inconsistent by excusing the trespasses of persons fleeing unexpected storms, but not those of the involuntarily homeless. He persuasively concludes that we can reject crude environmental determinism without holding the most deprived to unreasonable standards.

Download or read book The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law written by Laurie L. Levenson and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2024 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Criminal law is one of the most important classes you will take in law school. For some students, it is important because they want to become prosecutors, defense lawyers, or judges. However, a course in criminal law is also important for those students who see their futures in civil practice. Especially in today's society, it is not unusual for clients from all walks of life to have problems that implicate the criminal justice system. For example, a simple business transaction may trigger questions regarding fraud, or a family law case can raise issues regarding criminal abuse. In the final analysis, criminal law is important because it teaches you how to read statutes, interpret them in light of hundreds of years of common law, and argue their application in light of today's policy concerns"--