Download or read book The Queen of the Dead written by Michelle Sagara and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in omnibus format, the Queen of the Dead trilogy tells the gripping tale of a teenage girl who discovers her powers of necromancy after the death of her boyfriend. It began in the graveyard... Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accident, Emma had been coming to the graveyard at night. During the day she went through the motions at her prep school, in class, with her friends, but that's all it was. For Emma, life had stopped with Nathan's death. But tonight was different. Tonight Emma and her dog were not alone in the cemetery. There were two others there--Eric, who had just started at her school, and an ancient woman who looked as though she were made of rags. And when they saw Emma there, the old woman reached out to her with a grip as chilling as death.... Emma was not quite like other girls. It was true that other girls had experienced grief. Other girls had also lost their fathers, or had their boyfriends die in senseless accidents. But though she hadn't known it till that night in the graveyard, unlike those other girls, she could see, touch, and speak with the dead. Follow this gripping saga as Emma must learn to navigate her powers and the responsibilities that accompany them.

Download or read book Know Your Place written by Nathan Connolly and published by Dead Ink. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them. Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and firsthand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic, but persistent, class structure."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Adjustment written by Suzanne Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tatum's boyfriend Weston loses his memories of her in The Program, they decide to undergo The Adjustment, where Tatum's memories of their time together are implanted into Weston's mind, but trouble lies ahead when Weston's emotions do not match the experiences.

Download or read book The Net written by Ken Kaye and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb McRay, a real estate developer, goes online to publish his wife's illustrated children's books - incognito. "I thought ahead, all the way to the last chapter. My fantasy did not culminate in a denouement when my brilliant, loving deed could be revealed to Suzanne; when we could laugh about it. An act of love of the purest kind: Suzanne must never know the act had been committed, let alone by whom."

Download or read book Family Based Treatment for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder written by James D. Lock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the theoretical and clinical rationale for the use of Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). Based on years of clinical care and systematic study of children and adolescents with ARFID using Family-Based Treatment for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (FBT-ARFID), the manual provides guidance about assessment of ARFID. Topics covered include how to incorporate the medical, nutritional, and psychiatric problems that are common with this disorder and how to evaluate the principle maintaining behaviors related to lack of interest or appetite, extreme sensory sensitivities to food, and fear of physical repercussions of eating (e.g. pain, vomiting, allergic reactions). Step-by-step illustrations of the key interventions in FBT-ARFID are provided and detailed case discussions demonstrate how these are implemented in a range of cases. Ideal for clinical practitioners who treat children and adolescents with eating disorders, specifically, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and allied health practitioners.

Download or read book The Path written by Heather Thomas and published by Table Mountain Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hard Justice written by Martin H. Petry and published by Hard Justice The Violation. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book of the trilogy Expurgation is the continuation of seeking out the killers of Sam Murphy's family.Expurgation reveals the vicious nature of Muhammad in his designs of Western Destruction, and demonstrates betrayal of one within the ranks of the team in Montreal working to locate Muhammad.

Download or read book After Life written by Jaron Lee Knuth and published by Jaron Lee Knuth. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the seventh grade, Alex, a retail slave, has secretly been in love with his best friend, Morgan, a web cartoonist. Unable to overcome social awkwardness, they both find themselves in very separate lifestyles as they reach adulthood. Amidst these distanced and inhibited lives, Alex and Morgan are suddenly faced with the literal end of the world. Corpses around the globe begin to hunger for the flesh of the living, and society crumbles quickly under the shock of the attacks. With the animated dead filling the streets, Morgan has no choice but to hide in Alex's apartment, surviving on canned food, soda, and a huge supply of illegally downloaded movies. While death is waiting outside the apartment every hour of the day, the two friends force themselves to rethink every social rule and emotional response in order to keep their sanity. Both of them will ultimately decide whether they should struggle to hold onto the life that they lost, or adapt to the change. In a world where only the numb can survive, Alex and Morgan must face their true feelings for the first time. Love, blood, and the undead.

Download or read book Conception of the Sphinx written by Paul Brynner and published by Paul Brynner. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Scruples written by T.A. Evans and published by Literary Genius Pubishing. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealth is her only love, but will obtaining it cost her everything? Queensland’s Gold Coast, 1974. Emilia Hamilton is fed up with everyone else raking in the cash. Desperate for her own piece of the pie, she abandons a dull marriage and four children for a shot at fame and fortune. Consumed by the jealousy of her friends’ success, she vows to stop at nothing to join them—even if her methods are barely legal. With a shrewd German national by her side, Emilia’s massage business thrives. But just as she finally earns the riches she craves, her growing public reputation draws the attention of the corrupt police force. Afraid that local law enforcement could take everything away, they hand her an ultimatum: give them a cut or watch her empire crumble. Can Emilia evade the shady police, or will her ill-gotten gains exact the ultimate price? No Scruples is a standalone contemporary fiction novel with mystery, suspense, greed, romance and exploitation. If you like complex characters, powerful writing, and rich historical detail, then you’ll love T.A. Evans’s compelling tale about the true price of success. Buy No Scruples to explore a world of Australian crime and corruption today!

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Download or read book Immortal Bride written by Lisa Childs and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, local residents have whispered about an evil menace lurking near the shore of the Lake of Tears. The recent murder of landowner Damien Gray's bride, Olivia, confirms the worst. Now, confused and heartbroken, Olivia's spirit survives death and seeks vengeance upon the man she desired more than life itself, the man she now suspects was her killer—Damien. But an angry shaman has his own vicious agenda, one that will bring Damien to understand his Native ancestry. Steamy passion and ancient vendettas will draw them ever deeper into a drama of a family's legacy, murder and a love so strong it can withstand even death.

Download or read book A Study of Ash Smoke written by Yolandie Horak and published by Yolandie Horak. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague, deception, and spies in a steampunk setting. Cara Lenoir knows all about secrets. Her existence is one. To keep her sister, the queen, safe from their monstrous father, Cara hides as Carl Fletcher, physician’s apprentice. It’s either that or die. But when Nathan Cutter shows up to be her mentor, danger lurks closer. What hope does a physician have against a ruthless killer? A deadly plague reaps in the slums. A network of spies is closing in on her. Under the Mantle, Cara has nowhere left to hide.

Download or read book Torque A Bad Boy Next Door Romance written by Gillian Archer and published by Gillian Archer. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s his little sister’s best friend—totally off limits. But then again, this tattooed bad boy has never followed the rules. Maddie: I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t in love with Nathan Burns. We met when I was six and twenty years later, I love him still. But he’ll never see me as anything other than his little sister’s best friend—a pest—if he even thinks of me that much. I’ve got to face facts. He’s not into me. He’ll never be into me. It’s beyond time to move on. Nathan: I swear I blinked and my little sister’s best friend—a woman who’s about as off-limits as it can get—grew up. And she’s hot as hell. When did that happen? It doesn’t help that she’s everywhere now—at our weekly family dinner nights, sleeping on my brother’s couch next door, lying out in our complex’s swimming pool in a barely-there bikini. And who are these losers hanging around her lately? None of them are worthy of the woman she’s become. Then again, neither am I. And when I stumble across her profile on a hook up app, all bets are off. *Can be read as a standalone*

Download or read book American Dervish written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

Download or read book Jennifer Shot Another Shot written by Patricia Kristensen and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned at the age of thirteen, Jennifer lives with her Aunt Elizabeth in the historic Tasmanian suburb of Battery Point. After her aunt moves into assisted care following some dementia-related incidents, Jennifer studies law with her best friend, Mary, at the University of Tasmania. To help with expenses, she rents rooms to two over-sexed fellow law students, Rod and Nathan, and a police officer, Cindy, who has anger-management issues. While working part-time as a private investigator, she becomes involved in the investigation of an international serial killer who dresses his victims like Barbie dolls and is nicknamed The Barbie Slasher by the press. Joining forces with the FBI, the local police and an American mercenary, Jennifer agrees to use herself as bait to catch a hitman with links to the killer. But it is Jennifer and her friends who are caught and earmarked to become part of the deadly “doll collection.” Jennifer Shot – Another Shot is a humorous thrill-a-minute murder mystery.