Download or read book Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink written by Kim Gruenenfelder and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink, Kim Gruenenfelder's delicious follow-up to There's Cake in My Future, Seema, Nic and Mel are back, adjusting to their new lives as a bride-to-be, a mother-to-be, and a recently single girl looking for love It's been almost a year since Mel, Nic and Seema pulled their magical charms out of the cake at Nic's bridal shower and most of their happily-ever-afters seemingly came true. Seema is about to marry Scott in an elaborate three-day affair. Nic is glowingly pregnant. And Mel... well, Mel feels as if she accidentally veered off the rails of her life at some point and isn't sure how to get back on. She recently became single again, she's been threatened with a layoff from her teaching job, and she has to find her own place now that Scott is moving in with her roommate, Seema. Nic thinks Mel just needs a new cake charm to bring her good luck. . . and decides to rig the cake pull at Seema's bridal shower. Desperate for travel, Mel asks for the passport charm. But, once again, the cake proves to have a mind of its own, and she pulls a charm she doesn't want, and can not use. Rather than be bound by the charm's prophecy, Mel realizes she, and she alone, is responsible for her destiny. A spur of the moment decision takes her to Paris and then Maui, where she finds herself on an adventure that she never could have imagined, experiencing the trials and tribulations of a life suddenly and perfectly unplanned. And, along the way, she begins to learn that, however nonsensical it may seem, the cake is never wrong...

Download or read book A Bartender s Story written by Tom Obermeier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When last we heard of Jerry Russell he had just ended his employment with Bill Mucs in the story The Dance Teacher. What happens to Jerry Russell is chronicled in this sequel, A Bartender's Story.Welcome to The Stockyards Bar and Restaurant where the good and the bad mix together like anybody's favorite cocktail and, like any other respectable drinking establishment, the Stockyards has its regular clientele.The regulars at The Stockyard aren't any different, except that they also share a common love of community theatre, and occasionally will engage in some production that they all can reflect about afterwards at their favorite spot, The Stockyards.One of their members, fellow actor and part time playwright, William Dorn, has a moral dilemma to deal with. Allen Flesser, the man who molested William when he was nine, had been arrested on other sexual abuse charges and released due to lack of evidence. Flesser's transgressions left emotional scares on all of his victims and cost William years of therapy in an effort to put it all behind him, but his past had now come to haunt him.Faced with the injustice of these circumstances, William Dorn will concoct a solution that will put at risk the lives of every one of the regulars at The Stockyards as well as Jerry Russell and Ann Brill.

Download or read book Martial Arts For Dummies written by Jennifer Lawler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s plenty of good reasons that millions of people around the world study martial arts. Besides the fact you can get a great workout when you study a martial art, you may also experience a rewarding balance between your mind, body, and spirit that you just won’t find anywhere else. Plus, it can be a lot of fun! No matter what shape you’re in, martial arts is a great way to drop extra pounds, learn to defend yourself, and develop personal and physical discipline. Whether you’re already studying a style of fighting or you’re just considering it, you’ll find everything you need to know in this helpful, friendly guide (including which movies to check out!). The book breaks down the differences and presents the basics of each style of fighting, so you can make an informed choice about which style you want to study. You’ll also find out what makes for a good instructor, so you can be sure that you’re learning from the best. And there’s much more. You’ll find out: What martial arts is and is not Five resolutions you must accept Understanding the role of the instructor How to set goals for yourself All about the proper clothes, shoes, and equipment How to prevent injuries The philosophy of self defense All about competing in tournaments About Meditation and breathing techniques The lowdown on weapons There’s also a helpful glossary of foreign-language terminology that you’ll frequently encounter in the dojo – that’s the training hall – so you’ll always be prepared. Whether you’re looking for a new way to get in shape, or a new way to sharpen your mind, Martial Arts For Dummies is all you need to get started in Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, or any other style!

Download or read book Jesse s Way written by L. M. Chase and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel Infernal an ultimate experience of terror, is the story of Glenn, Jacob, and Susan among other characters that encounter evil. There are others like Glenn in the story that search to be freed from the nightmare in which they find themselves. Each is weighed down differently by personal demons, or so it seems to be that way, that make them vulnerable to being tortured by the horrifying reality of what evil is. This terrifying, yet captivating novel will appeal to the fans of classical horror. People will be drawn to the style and story of this novel because of the resemblance it has to those classics they have read and hungered for in the past. Infernal is a novel that developes deep into demonic oppression. The characters, such as Glenn, who occurs mostly throughout the story, suffer through horrifying shifts of reality. They fear for their sanity. They seek help, but are thrown into chasm between medical science and religious tradition. As you read on, the story gives you a feeling of coldness, dreadfulness, loneliness, confusion and hopefulness almost like an emotional roller coaster. When things seem to get normal, they turn dark, violent and frightening. The characters are so exposed that they are tortured by the demons. They look for an answer that modern medicine does not have. The explanations all come down to science contradicting religion. Join in exploring the minds of these characters as we encounter their nightmares.

Download or read book THE OUTLAWS OF THE WILD WEST 150 Westerns in One Edition written by Zane Grey and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 12828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Introduction Story of the Cowboy Story of the Outlaw Novels & Stories Riders of the Purple Sage Saga (Zane Grey) Ohio River Trilogy Dan Barry Series (Max Brand) The Virginian (Owen Wister) Lin McLean Leatherstocking Series (James F. Cooper) Flying U Series (B. M. Bower) Cabin Fever Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) Breckinridge Elkins Series (Robert E. Howard) In a Hollow of the Hills (Bret Harte) Roughing It (Mark Twain) Outcasts of Poker Flat Call of the Wild (Jack London) Heart of the West (O. Henry) White Fang Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood) Gold Hunters Last of the Plainsmen Border Legion Smoke Bellew Country Beyond Lone Star Ranger Ronicky Doone Trilogy Riders of the Silences Three Partners Man of the Forest Lure of the Dim Trails Tennessee's Partner Covered Wagon (Emerson Hough) Luck of Roaring Camp Rustlers of Pecos County Pike Bearfield Series O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) My Ántonia Log of a Cowboy (Andy Adams) Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer) Short Cut (Jackson Gregory) Astoria (Washington Irving) Ungava (R.M. Ballantyne) Valley of Silent Men Black Jack Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman) A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo) Trail Horde Golden Dream (Ballantyne) Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane) Long Shadow Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) Hidden Children (Robert W. Chambers) Where the Trail Divides Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge) Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Hidden Water…

Download or read book Aloof Master Can t Hold Himself written by A Suo and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bride was abandoned by the groom at the wedding, and the bride said something fierce on the spot. I will marry whoever marries me." "I'll marry her." He had never expected that the man who had stood up was actually the brother of the groom ... She had lost her body and her heart, and finally she knew that she had married her only to save the little bit of cinnabar in his heart, and how could this farce of a marriage end?

Download or read book Hard Checked written by Stacey Lynn and published by Stacey Lynn. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting served divorce papers was not how I planned spending New Year’s Day. I probably shouldn’t have gone to my favorite bar and gotten wasted trying to drown my sorrows. I definitely shouldn’t have spent the night passed out in the bed of the bartender’s daughter, Gigi. And the absolute last thing I should have done was let my guard down and start having fun. Now I’m thinking of her all the time… fantasizing about the things I want to do to Gigi. I’m in the middle of the best hockey season of my life. I need my head in the game and my focus on the playoffs – not playing house with the gorgeous bartender who makes me feel more alive than I have in years. Finding someone new so soon after a failed marriage isn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done. But it just might be too late. I’ve been checked hard into the boards, right off my skates, and I’m not only spinning out of control… I might just be falling in love all over again.

Download or read book With Good Behavior written by Jennifer Lane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of organized crime and dim hopes of redemption, can love persevere? For Sophie Taylor, a psychologist who lost everything when she violated an ethical boundary, and Grant Madsen, a naval officer who sacrificed himself to protect his uncle, finding that love seems unlikely. As they start their lives over in Chicago, both fight family influences and run as fast as they can to escape the past. When their paths cross outside their parole officer’s door, attraction sparks. Too bad a hidden connection may not only shatter their fledgling love, but prove deadly to them both. Re-Release in 2017! We have re-edited With Good Behavior (Conduct #1), book one of a complete romantic suspense trilogy.

Download or read book The CONduct Series Box Set written by Jennifer Lane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three book box set of The CONduct Series by Jennifer Lane includes With Good Behavior, Bad Behavior, and On Best Behavior. With Good Behavior: The romantic leads in With Good Behavior are two law-abiding citizens who unwittingly got mixed up with a Mafia capo, Logan Barberi, which led them both to prison sentences. The story begins as Sophie and Grant are starting parole and attempting to rebuild their lives and their dignity. Sophie Taylor is a former psychologist who's an intelligent, spunky, strawberry-blond beauty. She has a tendency to open her heart to wounded people, including the "bad-boy" boyfriends littering her past. Grant Madsen is a former Navy lieutenant who's hard-working and kind, with dark Italian features and stunning crystal-blue eyes. He has a penchant for brooding and self-sacrifice. Their paths collide outside their parole officer's door, and both have no idea about the explosive hidden connection waiting for them like a ticking bomb down the road. Re-Release in 2017! We have re-edited With Good Behavior (Conduct #1), book one of a complete romantic suspense trilogy. Bad Behavior: Grant Madsen's got issues. He's still battling his Mafia family and doing everything possible to keep his loved ones safe. With the cruising season coming to an end, he has to find another job soon or he'll rejoin his father in prison. And he's trying to convince his rebellious teenage nephew to stay away from their criminal relatives (you can imagine how that's going). But worst of all, Grant's parole officer has mandated that he attend therapy. The only saving grace is that they're couples sessions with his girlfriend, Sophie Taylor, a fellow parolee who's struggling with a few issues of her own. Sophie desperately hopes her past with Grant's brother won't destroy her future with him. There's a sleazy professor at work who revels in sexually harassing women in the psychology department. And her father still hates Grant. Their psychologist has his work cut out for him. When Grant's ruthless father hints at a plot to get out of prison, Grant must use everything he's learned in therapy and beyond to try to stop him. It's a race against time -- and a race to rescue Sophie from the Mafia's clutches once again. But this time McSailor and Bonnie refuse to play victims. This time the cuffs are coming off. On Best Behavior: Planning a wedding is never easy--especially when the Russian Mafia wants you dead. On Best Behavior--the third and final book in The Conduct Series--finds our favorite couple moving forward, despite the odds. Following a pardon by the Governor of Illinois, ex-cons Sophie Taylor and Grant Madsen are finally free to pursue their love and the life that lies ahead for them. Grant now fights the forces that have hurt his loved ones by working undercover for the FBI, and he has infiltrated the Russian Mafia in Chicago. Sophie dives into swimming with Grant's nephew, Ben, and into her career as a psychology professor. Thankfully, now it's Ben's turn to heal through therapy sessions with Dr. Hunter Hayes. With so many things going right for Grant and Sophie, it's too bad the Russians aren't their only threat. When Grant's father, Enzo Barberi, discovers his own son thwarted his plan to break out of prison, his overdeveloped sense of vengeance flares to life. As Sophie scrambles to save her fiance, it's impossible to say who will kill Grant first--the Russians or his Italian family. Can love triumph over evil? Are hard work and a pledge to be on best behavior ever enough?

Download or read book Flowers in the Boneyard written by Marcel G. Mendes and published by marcel mendes. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young and bold American travels to Burma in search of rubies. during his trip, he befriends a Burmese Boy who becomes his guide. When a group of dangerous men kidnaps his friend, our protagonist decides to rescue the young boy. But the powerful enemies he has to face on the outside are nothing compare to the ones gnawing at his soul.

Download or read book Prism written by Jonathan Francis Brodsky and published by Bookspoke. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prism puts the reader on the sidelines of the sometimes shocking, edgy and often comical ways of the day-to-day life of slackers. The novel follows five twenty-somethings through their symbiotic relationships with one another, and it exciting, fast-paced prose, will keep the reader guessing until the very end.

Download or read book Just Because of You written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarie Walsh just wants to lay low during her senior year after being branded the class tramp by her loathsome ex. Unfortunately for her, she doesn't escape the notice of the new kid Eric Lawington, the arrogant but incredibly sexy son of a billionaire who makes the rich heirs and heiresses at her school look middle-class in comparison. At first, she wants nothing to do with him, but Eric is nothing if not persistent and evident sparks fly between them. However, jealousy, the past, and a drama-making twin with a history of wrecking his sibling's happiness threaten their relationship... Excerpt: All the hardness left her face. Her eyes turned wide; her mouth stopped glowering. She looked vulnerable, like she could fall into pieces at any moment. "I don't know if I should be relieved or scared that you've stopped acting like a jerk." "Why should you be scared?" "Most of the time, guys are jerks. When they're being nice, they want something from you or are planning to break your heart." "You're so cynical." "Blame my ex." He untied the knot behind her mask. "How about I help you forget your ex?" "Trying to seduce me?" "Maybe." "Why are these masks so small?" she asked as he took off her mask. "Isn't the point of a masquerade ball to not know who anyone is?" "Not for me. I just wanted to show off my wealth." "You're a douche, but at least you're an honest one." "Unlike your ex?" She lifted the corners of her mouth. "You don't know his name, yet you already somehow know him so well." His mask fell to the bed. "May I kiss you?" "Why not?" she whispered. Closing his eyes, he put his lips on hers. From the way she moaned without pulling away from him, he could tell she enjoyed this. He then left a trail of kisses down her slender white neck, making her sigh in bliss. Christ, even her shoulders are beautiful, he thought as he pulled the straps of her dress down the smooth pale skin. She gasped as his teeth grazed the skin over her collarbone. "Want me to stop?" he breathed against her shoulder. "No," she whispered.

Download or read book Uncle John s Funniest Ever Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title says it all. This is the funniest Bathroom Reader EVER. It might even be the funniest book in the history of books, but Uncle John is much too modest to state that outright (even though it is). Over the past 25 years, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has published more than 40,000 pages of bathroom reading. In this book you will find the funniest 288 of them (with a few all-new funny pages squeezed in just because we couldn’t help ourselves). That’s page after page after page of laugh-out-loud dumb jokes, dumb jocks, toasts, pranks, kings, kittens, caboodles, and, of course, poorly translated kung-fu movie subtitles--such as. “It took my seven digestive pills to dissolve your hairy crab!” So whether you like your humor witty or witless, light or dark, or silly or sublime, you’ll laugh until your head explodes. Chortle at… * Dumb crooks: The robber who ran face-first into a wall because he forgot to poke eye holes in his pillow case. * Witty wordplay: If Snoop Doggy Dogg were to marry Winnie the Pooh, his name would become Snoop Doggy Dogg Pooh. * Flubbed headlines: “British Left Waffles On House Floor” * Quirky stars: Billy Idol’s concert rider demands he have one large tub of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter in his dressing room. * Job Lingo: If you hear an E.R. doc mention a “VIP,” be on the lookout for a “Very Intoxicated Patient.” * Comedian quips: “I wonder if deaf people have a sign for ‘Talk to the hand.’” --Zach Galifianakis * Sputtering sportscasters: “If only faces could talk.” --Pat Summerall And much, much more!

Download or read book Too Friendly Too Dead written by Brett Halliday and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary chump has been murdered—and Mike Shayne has 36 hours to find the killer When Linda Fitzgilpin is woken by the sound of the ringing telephone, she finds her husband is missing. For years now, Jerome has always slept in his bed across the room, but last night he didn’t come home. When the phone rings, Linda knows why. A body matching his description has been found at the scene of an accident—Jerome is dead. Uncertain of what to do, Linda asks her downstairs neighbor Lucy Hamilton for help. And Lucy calls her boss, the toughest private detective in Miami: Mike Shayne. Responding quickly, Shayne takes the newly minted widow to identify the body, and is on hand when the routine procedure turns into an ordeal. Although Linda’s husband’s body was found dead beside a wrecked car, it wasn’t the crash that killed him. It was poison—and Shayne has only 36 hours to find the killer before the trail turns as cold as the body on the slab. Too Friendly, Too Dead is the 44th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Download or read book The Dragon Lord s Love The High Garden Dragons 8 written by C.K. Noel and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romantic Suspense, Shape-shifters, MM, HEA] A lonely, 4,000-year-old dragon discovers his fated mate… too bad his mate is engaged to a woman. The endless stream of lovers, dragon lord Matías Tilly parades through his life hasn’t helped him feel less alone. Finding his fated mate should help him escape his loneliness. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Unluckily for Matías, his mate’s happily engaged to be married… to a lovely woman. Ryan Hall has always sought his father’s approval; every decision in his life stems from him trying to be good enough. The validation he craves never materialized. It has, however, led to an engagement to his best friend. Except… they’re both gay. When the two meet, Matías must face that his heart is bound to another. Ryan must struggle with the thought that being true to himself might cost him everything. Oh, and Ryan doesn’t know that Matías is a dragon shifter, so that’s going to be a surprise.

Download or read book According to a Source written by Abby Stern and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Warren, an undercover reporter for a celebrity news website, pursues exclusive stories about the glitz and grit of Hollywood before her own life becomes intertwined in a public scandal that may cost her everything.

Download or read book Hornstone written by Philip McCormac and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Tim Dillon resigns his army commission in order to run a saloon with his brother, and thinks his fighting days are over. However, after arriving into town just in time to bury his brother's body, it seems that fate has other plans. To bring his brother's murderer to justice, and free a town from the grip of evil cattle baron, Stirling Hornstone, he must fight again. Only this time it will be a battle to the death.