Download or read book My Friend Anna written by Rachel DeLoache Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​ ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City—as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000. Rachel DeLoache Williams’s new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. She was also generous—picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer. When Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, Rachel jumped at the chance. But when Anna’s credit cards mysteriously stopped working, the dream vacation quickly took a dark turn. Anna asked Rachel to begin fronting costs—first for flights, then meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private villa. Before Rachel knew it, more than $62,000 had been charged to her credit cards. Anna swore she would reimburse Rachel the moment they returned to New York. Back in Manhattan, the repayment never materialized, and a shocking pattern of deception emerged. Rachel learned that Anna had left a trail of deceit—and unpaid bills—wherever she’d been. Mortified, Rachel contacted the district attorney, and in a stunning turn of events, found herself helping to bring down one of the city’s most notorious con artists. With breathless pacing and in-depth reporting from the person who experienced it firsthand, My Friend Anna is an unforgettable true story of “glamour, greed, lust for power” (The New York Times), and female friendship.

Download or read book Their Very Special Marriage written by Kate Hardy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I won't be working for the next week—unless you'd rather stay home with Sophie?' Sophie would adore having her daddy all to herself—and maybe nursing his daughter through her illness was the wake-up call Oliver needed. The thing that would make him start concentrating on his family. Though Rachel already knew what his reaction was going to be. 'No, she needs her mum with her.'Sophie needed her dad, too. So did Robin. But Rachel wasn't feeling up to a row. 'If you think it's best,' she said coolly.Oliver raked a hand through his dark hair. 'Don't worry. I'll sort things out at the practice.' Hell. Why did he have to look so sexy when she didn't have time to do anything about it? Since they'd had the children they didn't spend Sunday mornings in bed any more. Rachel realised just how much she missed it—the warmth of her husband's body heating hers, tangled limbs, the roughness of the hairs on his chest against her skin.Then she remembered last night. The guiltgift—chocolates that she hadn't been able to face eating because she knew why he'd bought them and they would have stuck in her throat…

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Download or read book Next of Kin written by Scott Barron and published by Scott Barron. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... they were now moving down the slope towards his house. The soldier raised his rifle to look at Azal through the light intensifying sight, and for a fleeting moment his face was illuminated as a pale green mask, Alaz shivered with fear and ran as if his life depended on it. Because it did.' Iraq 1991, a special forces mission to plant fake weapons of mass destruction goes spectacularly wrong. Years later, a soldier's daughter, Rachel is looking forward to leaving Boston and travelling the world, that is until her mother's car leaves the road and plunges into the icy waters of the Charles River. With her younger brother missing, swept away by the current, things take a turn for the worse when the hospital refuse to continue treating her mother. As Rachel desperately searches for medical documents, she discovers a hidden box containing information about an attack on a remote Kurdish village. As she looks into the events of the attack, she is shocked to find that her father may have been there. Rachel seeks to find out the truth about his involvement, but by the time she realises her mother's crash was not an accident, everyone she cares about is at risk. And once she learns what really happened can she make the ultimate decision of who lives and dies?

Download or read book After Eli written by Terry Kay and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, a sweet-talking, blackhearted Irishman works an isolated Georgia town into a ferment with his visions and wild schemes in quest of a legendary cache of money.

Download or read book Rachel s Prayer Country Road Chronicles Book 2 written by Leisha Kelly and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wortham family has been tested through hard times of injury, illness, and loss. But with the world on the brink of war, they are about to be tested again. And this time, they'll face the ultimate test: one of courage and survival. Just days after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Wortham and Willy Hammond enlist. As they head off to fight, their families are left behind to deal with fears of what lies ahead for their beloved brothers and sons. Armed with their faith in God and a bold prayer from Robert's girlfriend, Rachel, the Worthams and Hammonds can only hope for peace, strength, and a greater understanding of God amidst this cruel conflict that could forever change the future of both families. The continuing story of the Wortham family and book 2 in the Country Road Chronicles, Rachel's Prayer is a powerful saga of courage and faith during the Second World War.

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Download or read book Doodlebug written by Wahoo High School Students and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These award winning plays were written by Wahoo High School students for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Community Playhouse's, Enersen Playwriting Contest. One of the sixteen plays, Kate Decoste's, "Until My Last Breath," is about a girl coping with AIDS after one sexual encounter over summer vacation. Another selection, Amanda Hall and Melissa Swanson's, "A Gorilla's Way of Wagging Its Tail," is about five friends visiting a Gypsy. As she predicts the future and reveals secrets buried in the past, the kids learn that everyone's future starts with today's decisions. In Ian Richmond's, "The Kids Are All Right," a group of friends write poems and share them with their friends in order to deal with their feelings, express their ideas, and survive family problems. As they try to figure out God and their place in the world, their friendship and poetry allows them to believe that, at least for another day, they will be all right! This book brings together in one place, for the first time, the three Wahoo High School plays that captured first prize in the Enersen Playwriting Contest: "Until My Last Breath," by Kate DeCoste, "The Locket," by Peggy Sharp, and "An Identical Stranger," by Megan Rezac. As you read this book, you will discover the joy of young writers finding their "voice" for the first time.

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Download or read book The Art of Noise written by Daniel Rachel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ART OF NOISE offers an unprecedented collection of insightful, of-the-moment conversations with twenty-seven great British songwriters and composers. They discuss everything from their individual approaches to writing, to the inspiration behind their most successful songs, to the techniques and methods they have independently developed to foster their creativity. Contributors include: Sting * Ray Davies * Robin Gibb * Jimmy Page * Joan Armatrading * Noel Gallagher * Lily Allen * Annie Lennox * Damon Albarn * Noel Gallagher * Laura Marling * Paul Weller * Johnny Marr * and many more Musician-turned-author Daniel Rachel approaches each interview with an impressive depth of understanding—of the practice of songwriting, but also of each musician's catalog. The result is a collection of conversations that's probing, informed, and altogether entertaining—what contributor Noel Gallagher called "without doubt the finest book I've ever read about songwriters and the songs they write." The collected experience of these songwriters makes this book the essential word of songwriting—as spoken by the songwriters themselves.

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Download or read book Three s a Crowd written by Dianne Blacklock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well, we're different, we lead such different lives. I'm not sure how we'll go now without Annie. She was like Carrie, you know, in Sex and the City. Annie was our Carrie." Without Annie, friends Catherine, Lexie and Rachel are lost. What will things be like now? How will they fill the void? Will their friendship survive? These questions are soon overshadowed by the complexities of their own lives. Catherine is excelling in her high-flying career but struggling in her relationships, especially with her unfathomable teenage daughter. Lexie is juggling the demands of her young family and the ego of her hardworking husband, while taking the first steps to achieving her own dreams. And finally Rachel, the one who can?t seem to settle down, is experiencing the heady euphoria of a new relationship. But when the truth comes out about who she has fallen in love with, fragile friendships will be put to the test all over again...

Download or read book Bass Desires written by D. Lufkin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduced to holding down the bottom in a lukewarm nostalgia band, the thrill is gone for old-school bass player Jude Barnes. What's more, his materially challenged wife, Rachel, wants more out of life than Jude's enough-to-get-by income has provided over the years. She conspires with their annoying eleven-year-old son, Miles, and her eccentric father-in-law to force Jude into a life of middle-class respectability. A solution presents itself when caustic college buddy, Donny, fast-talks Jude into working the sell-side of the burgeoning tech-stock bubble. But just as it appears that Rachel has succeeded in transforming Jude into a responsible adult, a mysterious and obstinate diva named Nefertiti arrives on the scene, threatening to unravel Rachel's plans by tempting Jude into one last fateful dance with his elusive muse.

Download or read book Anya written by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before she goes to America, the Polish Jew Anya who has escaped several times during World War II, always searches for her little girl, given to Gentiles at the start of the war.