Download or read book By the Time You Read This I ll Be Dead written by Julie Anne Peters and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant book about one girl's struggle with suicide, from National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Daelyn is fifteen years old, and in her mind she is a failure. She tried slitting her wrists, and she was rescued. She tried swallowing chemicals, and after burning through her esophagus enough to lose the ability to speak, she was rescued. But this time will be different. As readers see Daelyn's touching friendship with a quirky seventeen-year-old boy develop and her newfound willingness to share all of the pain she has held inside of her, they may just see a glimmer of hope. Will Daelyn see it though? Raw and heartfelt, this is an inside look into the mind of a teen who has lost the will to fight and the parents that will do anything they can to help her survive. Still, there are some things that even loving parents can't protect you from—yourself. Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the material in this book, we will be providing back matter from key experts. We hope that this book will help to open a dialogue about this increasingly prevalent issue.
Download or read book The Marijuana Chronicles written by Jonathan Santlofer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gem” of a collection of marijuana stories, poems and artwork by Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Linda Yablonsky, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, and others (New York Journal of Books). It’s known by many names: Pot. Grass. Hash. Hemp. Reefer. Ganja. Dope. Weed. Smoke. Spliff. Mary Jane. Tea. Blunt. And it has played just as many parts in the mind of the public, from Reefer Madness to medical marijuana. Here is a collection of new works as diverse and provocative as the drug itself. From Joyce Carol Oates’s “High” to Dean Haspiel’s “Cannibal Sativa”; from Maggie Estep’s “Zombie Hookers of Hudson” to Philip Spitzer’s “Tips for the Pot-Smoking Traveler,” this collection explores the drug in its many forms and varietals. In prose, pictures, stories, and poems, you can delve into the folklore and the facts, rich cultural history, and dramas personal, political, spiritual, and legal. Like Dave Chappelle says: “Hey, hey, hey. Smoke weed every day.”
Download or read book All Things Await written by Seth Clabough and published by Savant Books & Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightly, an impossibly good-looking star quarterback from an elite Virginia college, drags along an unlikely sidekick-the immensely unpopular and overweight Santana Montana-to a remote Costa Rican fishing village in search of a unifying vision-a secret location where he might glimpse the parallel universes predicted by quantum physics. Informed by quantum theory and driven by the desire to outrun the dark grip of family trauma, Lightly sets out on an impromptu picaresque adventure that is at once absurd and poignant.
Download or read book One Perfect Couple written by Ruth Ware and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Available to pre-order now!** AND THEN THERE WERE NONE meets THE TRAITORS Five beautiful couples. One deadly game. Who will escape alive? Lyla Santiago has spent months working on a research project that could be the key to getting a permanent job in her field. So, she can’t really drop everything to go to a desert island with her actor boyfriend Nico to film One Perfect Couple, a new reality TV show that Nico is sure will lead to his big break – can she? Two weeks later, Lyla finds herself boarding a boat to an isolated luxury resort in the Indian Ocean. The rules of the game are simple. Ten strangers have to survive together on the island - and the last couple standing scoops the prize. There will be sun, sea, laughs and plenty of flirting. What could possibly go wrong? But when a huge tropical storm cuts them off from everything, the group must band together. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla realises that someone is playing this game for real – and they'll stop at nothing to win. Ten might have arrived, but who will survive to the end? ‘A sun-soaked, deeply sinister and unputdownable read’ Cressida McLaughlin ‘Ruth Ware has another winner on her hands! She so deftly sets the scene, and then the terror begins. Ware is a genius at building suspense – One Perfect Couple is an absolutely compulsive read!’ Shari Lapena ‘A must read… another thriller from one of our best thriller writers’ Daily Mail ‘Tense and entertaining’ Platinum ‘If you’re missing The Traitors, this one is for you!’ Prima Praise for Ruth Ware: ‘A rocket ride that will satisfy the biggest thriller addicts out there’ DAVID BALDACCI 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive' LUCY FOLEY ‘A breathless action thriller which packs an emotional punch’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Hits the ground running and doesn’t let up till the last chapter’ ERIN KELLY 'Every Ruth Ware novel is a unique and unexpected gem and this one is no exception. A heady, tense, slowburn dream of a book, multi-layered and steeped in atmosphere and peril. I loved every page' LISA JEWELL 'Absolutely brilliant murder mystery – seamless, flawless, perfectly clued and utterly gripping' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Impeccably crafted and totally compulsive – you’ll be sad to reach the final page and realise you have to say goodbye' JP DELANEY 'Ruth Ware is in a league of her own' JACK JORDAN
Download or read book To Love Amari written by Marilyn D. Ewell and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, deception, unrelenting desire all come together in this sizzling romance about the love lives of the beautiful graphics designer, Amari St. John and sexy R&B singer, Malik Santana. Amari has been unlucky in love. Now her best friend awakens her from another romantic dream about her favorite singer, Malik Santana, with devastating news. Her boyfriend of more than three years is scheduled to marry her long-time enemy that very day. Encouraged by her two best friends, Amari decides to crash the wedding and confront them. Similarly, Malik, a popular and successful singer from Brooklyn, New York, is experiencing his own problems with love. Growing up he was very shy and sensitive, but with fame and fortune came confidence and cynicism. He becomes disillusioned with the music business and the shallow people who come along with it, especially the women. He prays that one day he will meet the right woman. Fate brings these two people together. Will Amari be that special lady Malik is looking for? Will Amari's bad luck in love finally change and bring her a long-awaited happy ending? This steamy and drama-filled romance reveals how two very different people can find the love of their dreams. Author Marilyn D. Ewell says she has found her passion in writing, and plans to continue to write more romance novels. She is a single mother with two children and four grandchildren. Ewell was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, but now resides in Henrico, Virginia. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ToLoveAmari.htm
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Download or read book Hate the 1 Social Behavioral Disease written by Sir Steven Anthony and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy meets girl. Steven is from the country club brought up with understanding reasoning, believing in facts, having a consciousness, and carrying a moral compass. Octapella lives in a trailer park and under her mother’s standards, disbelieves, suffocating control tactics. Zoo controls all of Octapella’s decision-makings. Zoo wants her children to be bad, thoughtless, and much as possible, uneducated with life, society, and not understand how the real world lives. Zoo’s network of people she titles as family are all corrupted in the way they think, act, and believe. The more Steven tries to listen to Octapella, the more he wants to give Octapella a better life. However, Zoo continues to interfere, so Octapella, like a mermaid, keeps going back to her mother for advice, instead of her fiancé. The book resembles a reflection of the Cinderella story. Questions seem to unveil. Do we live in a society where evil is prevailing and becoming the ruler, the norm, and way of life? Do we have immature people in higher-up places of authority making decisions to the people and for the people? This story unfolds. We can sweep off and brush away the dirt on society through detection by observation and then making awareness for other to adjust accordingly for the better. There is always room to make change for the better of the people. Steven and Octapella move in together. They practice together the steps and ceremony of marriage in church, however, never reach the point of marriage. As the same time, Steven practices for war and eventually goes off to war for five years in the deserts of Iraq. It is not Octapella who needs rescue from a knight in shining armor. It is their daughter, Santana Maria. Worse, the presidential judge happens to have the same character of Zoo and Octapella, a social behavioral disease that carries internal deception, an intergenerational violent behavior of selfishness, hate, control, shaming, jealousy, and unjust. Therefore, a tease of unfairness just for their personal satisfaction. People like Judge Sorrow, Zoo and Octapella love the center of attention and being in charge only to spread more corruption in decision-making. They must have the final word, right or wrong. They despise when others are smarter, keen, happy, organized, correct, and content without drama. Judge Sorrow’s technique in court is not to make a final decision. Even after fifteen years, Steven continues to ring more evidence, and the judge says she needs more evidence and in the meantime, gives Steven zero custody. Like an undertow, families get separated because of a misrepresentation, heartbroken allegation, false promised arbitration, all from a malpracticed broken lopsided, slippery slope inconsiderate judge’s sloppy, careless, and weak rulings.
Download or read book Made Love To A Street King written by Tyra Racquel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." From dope boy to street king, Yali and his team rose from the bottom to the top with no worries. The respect that they have from around the way leaves them untouchable... Until somebody tries to touch them. With a hard demeanor, Yali's focus is to remain on top, by any means necessary, until his focus suddenly shifts to a beauty by the name of Eniko. She was the rose that grew from the concrete. With a past that left her fragile, Eniko finds herself relocating to breathe in some fresh air. With her attention on her writing career, she didn't expect for Yali to creep into her life and steal her heart. Falling in love again wasn't something she thought would happen, but is that love strong enough not to break their bond when everything goes south? Be careful who you let into your life. Betrayal is one thing, and loyalty is another. You may think that you can stay on top forever, but always remember... When you're on top, the only way to go is down.
Download or read book The Demise of Alexis Vancamp written by Karen Williams and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling urban author Karen Williams returns with another explosive tale of obsessive love gone horribly wrong. Twenty-four-year-old Alexis Vancamp has the world at her feet. She is young, beautiful, educated, and adored by her family, fiancé, and friends. Just when she thinks her life is set, in walks sexy, thugged-out Santana. He's a dangerous man with a dark secret, a rough past, and a plan to get Alexis under his thumb. Despite the warnings from the people around her, Alexis finds herself drawn to this man. To have him means to lose everything, but none of this bothers Alexis as long as she has him in her world. Santana soon leads Alexis down a destructive path. He turns her away from her family and friends. Alexis's sheltered life dissipates as she finds herself wrapped up in deceit, violence, lies, and trouble with the law. Despite losing almost everything, Alexis still refuses to let Santana go. When his mind-blowing secret is revealed, will she step away before it's too late?
Download or read book For More Than Glory written by William C. Dietz and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author’s military sci-fi saga continues as the fate a remote planet decides the future of the Confederacy. Second Lt. Antonio Santana was considered a hero—until he refused an order to fire on unarmed civilians. Now stripped of his rank, he’s been posted to the isolated planet of LaNor. Since its discovery, LaNor has attracted attention from all corners of the still-precarious Confederacy of Sentient Beings—all with an eye to exploiting its location and natural resources. As for the native LaNorians, little concern is paid to them except as a steady supply of cheap labor. But now, led by their empress, the LaNorians are ready to launch a rebellion. Taken by surprise and suddenly surrounded, the competing interests must band together for survival. It is an unlikely alliance held together by Santana’s courage and the diplomatic prowess of his sometime lover Christine Vanderveen. Even as the Legion and its newfound allies struggle to fend off the LaNorians, Santana begins to suspect that they all may be pawns in a much greater and deadlier campaign. Someone else is behind the uprising. And their true objective is to spread the chaos of war far beyond LaNor . . . “[An] elaborate military-political thriller . . . Dietz has created an intricate tapestry of local and star-faring culture with topnotch action sequences.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Santana and Sa l written by Santana Acuña and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has two related themes. The first is a story of an improbable friendship between a rural, semi-literate, violent, heroin addicted Chicano and a Brooklyn bred Jew, who bonded almost immediately. Life drew them apart for almost half a century and when the friendship resumed, both Santana and Saul realized, to their satisfaction, that their feelings for the other had remained strong. In the intervening years, however, their circumstances had changed radically. Santana, after spending much of his life in California prisons for violent crimes, had become a devout Christian and church pastor. Saul had become a successful businessman and remained an atheist. The book shows how the strong bond survives the difference both in life circumstances and belief and suggests a way for others to follow.
Download or read book Mosquito written by Gayl Jones and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-first century.--E. Ethelbert Miller, Emerge
Download or read book Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music written by Steven Joseph Loza and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted portrait of "El Rey", the king of Latin music, this is the first in-depth historical, musical, and cultural study to trace the career and influence of Tito Puente. 57 photos.
Download or read book DownBeat the Great Jazz Interviews written by Frank Alkyer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects interviews from DownBeat's seventy-five year history, including conversations with Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Joe Zawinul.
Download or read book The Dawn of Indian Music in the West written by Peter Lavezzoli and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology, an
Download or read book Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball written by Donald Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall's forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis's story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the poet, give us remarkable insight into the customs and culture of this closed clannish world. Dock's keen vision, filtered through Hall's extraordinary voice, shows us the hardships and problems of the thinking athlete in an unthinking world.
Download or read book The Second Favorite Daughters Club 1 Sister Sabotage written by Colleen Oakes and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sisters and Netflix’s The Baby-sitter’s Club, a contemporary series for the siblings who always come in last. Santana Barnes is tired of playing second fiddle to her ballet protégé, honor student older sister Victoria. Casey Hammond is sick of her cute-as-a-button, adventurous little sister Sage, who steals all of their dad’s attention. When the girls meet in their middle school library, they learn they have a lot in common: they both love reading, they hate after-school activities, and most important, they are clearly their parents’ second-favorite children. So they decide to do something about it. They create the Second Favorite Daughters Club. The members? Just the two of them. The mission? To become their parents' favorite children by undermining their love-hoarding siblings. But is it possible to cheat your way to becoming your parents’ favorite? And is being in the spotlight really what they want after all? Bestselling author Colleen Oakes’s middle grade debut, SISTER SABOTAGE is a celebration of friendship and family in all its challenging forms, and a reminder that there’s no one way to stand out.
