Download or read book 2 Hearts written by Diana Palmers and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when there are two absolutely gorgeous guys just waiting for you...and you have to decide which one you have been promised to? Valerine Kuyume and Valerane Satomiki have been best since ever since they met in the first grade and found out they look every much alike...and their names were almost identical. Ever since then, they have made their way through elementary school, breaking hearts and causing trouble whenever they were together. Now as young men, they were even more handsome and heartbreaking, and were breaking hearts twice as fast. Now it is time for Fate to repay them both back in full and it is time for their hearts to break... Mint had just moved back into Japan after being gone for nearly ten years at the young age of eight. Mint had never forgotten the small promise she made to Valerane—or was it Valerine? She is faced with two very heartbreaking young men, and one of them was her childhood sweetheart. Now, she must decide which one is the imposter—and which one did she make her promise to... Valerine remembers the little girl he had fallen in love with when he was young. He has never forgotten the promise she made. But Valerane also remembers Mint, the innocent little girl he had kissed—and had fallen in love with instantly. Now they both must convince her—which one is the imposter and which one is the real one—even if it meant going against each other.

Download or read book In Search of a Good Feeling written by Anthony Webb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Boswell Wilkerson has acquaintances and a job he enjoys, teaching at a major university, he knows there is something still lackinga feeling of pleasure and of something good deep inside his soul. He believes he makes great decisions when it comes to saving time or money, even if they dont entirely conform to the norms of society. Then he meets Michelle Waterman. There is something unique about her presence in his life that makes Boswell feel whole, comfortable, and good about himself, even if they dont always see eye to eye. Still, it isnt until they take a trip to the South to meet Michelles family that they learn something new about Boswells pastand thereby discover what a true connection they have. Faced with serious situations and secrets, can Boswell finally find release within himself, let go of all his trepidations, and find happiness? A tale of love, conformity, and comfort between two people, this novel presents the story of a couple reexamining themselves through their past and present relationships.

Download or read book Not Easily Broken written by T. D. Jakes and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When life forces them apart, a couple struggles to save their marriage from destruction -- and rediscover the meaning of true happiness -- in this inspiring novel from New York Times bestselling author T.D. Jakes. Clarice and Dave Johnson have different visions of meaning and success. He is satisfied coaching little league and running a janitorial service in his blue jeans and pick-up truck; she is driven to climb the social ladder and display her success with designer labels and luxury cars. After years of disagreeing about what true happiness and love really are, Dave and Clarice are finally facing the breaking point of their marriage. When Clarice's leg is crushed in a car wreck, the obvious truth is finally exposed: her injuries aren't the only pain that needs immediate attention. As they struggle to find restoration, Dave and Clarice learn the importance of promises made and kept -- and the truth that help sometimes comes from unlikely places.

Download or read book Donati Bloodlines Part One written by Bethany-Kris and published by Bethany-Kris. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re not star-crossed—they’re impossible. Bought and soon-to-be delivered, Emma Sorrento will be the next wife of a New York Don decades her senior. Not by choice, but as a mafia princess—was there ever one? But the soul-black eyes of the man tasked with ensuring her safe arrival to the wedding of her nightmares tempts her like no other. In the worst possible way. Calisto Donati. He’s entirely forbidden. The nephew of the man she’s supposed to marry. And just a touch from him could get her killed. Is it worth it? Now Emma has two problems. Saving herself from a marriage to a man she doesn’t want, and not falling in love with the one she does. NOTE: The Donati Bloodlines trilogy includes THREE parts that should be read in order—part one and two end on a cliffhanger, and part three is a HEA.

Download or read book From That Flame written by MaryAnn T. Beverly and published by Kallisti Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From that Flame follows the journey of a female journalist, Michelle Garrett, into Afghanistan's rugged Hindu Kush Mountains as she attempts to interview the legendary Commander Massoud. In the process, an attack by combined Taliban and al-Qaeda troops propels Michelle Garrett into a wartime adventure with Commander Massoud and his Mujahidin. As the novel progresses, a friendship between the journalist and the Afghan commander grows, giving her a unique perspective into the man the “Wall Street Journal” credited as the Afghan who ended the Cold War. The novel is best described as a well-researched blend of fact and credible fiction.

Download or read book King and Maxwell written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, when two former Secret Service agents investigate a message from a soldier who was supposedly killed, they're determined to protect his son...even if they pay for it with their lives. It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father...after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target? Sean and Michelle soon realize that they've stumbled on to something bigger and more treacherous than anyone could have imagined. And as their hunt for the truth leads them relentlessly to the highest levels of power and to uncovering the most clandestine of secrets, Sean and Michelle are determined to help and protect Tyler--though they may pay for it with their lives.

Download or read book Anthology written by Robert Deshaies and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear consumes all. It eats away at the deep and shadowed crevices of your mind until your body becomes frail and broken. Once the fear burrows between your hopes and nightmares, you'll pray to know the difference... Mr. Jacket awaits. Prepare for his arrival, for he will reveal what lies beneath.

Download or read book Donati Bloodlines The Complete Trilogy written by Bethany-Kris and published by Bethany-Kris. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets within the bloodlines of this family are deadly ... Emma Sorrento went from a carefree, young woman one day, to the paid-for bride of a mafia boss the next. She had been groomed for this life and position, but she didn't even realize it until it was too late. Promised to a man she despised, and stuck in a world where her desires and happiness are of little importance, she quickly learned to keep quiet and stay pretty. That is how she survives, even when life deals her devastating blow after blow, determined to knock her down for good. Until one day, a man with black eyes, a black soul, and a blacker heart wakes her up again. He's dangerous. He's all parts bad. He's also her husband's nephew, and she should know better. Calisto Donati gives Emma every single reason to live. And maybe die, too. They were never star-crossed. They were always impossible. Donati Bloodlines: The Complete Trilogy follows the story of Emma and Calisto through three full-length novels, to a final Happily Ever After. It also includes a 20k companion novella to the trilogy titled Behind the Bloodlines.

Download or read book Two Worlds written by Berlinda Ivin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There arent too many humans who go through their daily lives aware that there are two worlds here, the human existence and the Demons. Demon are everywhere, some even live amongst humans. There are only two species that are made, Vampire and Lamiahaem, the others, Jorgenhan, Changelings, Sirens, Casanovas, Witches and Warlocks are born or hatched, and they have normal life cycles. Magic plays a big part in our world, there are many humans who find that they can make things happen without being able to explain these happenings, the ones that are strong are generally found and recruited into our world, by the Guard. We had visited with many of these Witches and Warlocks. One family in particular always stood out, the Howard family. Their magic was powerful; nothing had ever measured up to them in all of my years. The matriarch of the family, decided not to join us, she stayed in the human world. Her granddaughters though we would watch from a distance. The Guard are soldiers for the Elders. There are seven Elders, in each sector, and there are three sectors, that keep the world covered. The reason there are seven is to ensure that all main Demons are represented. It is very rare that they ever get together, it has only happened once in my lifetime and that was in the very beginning when they first came to be. The Elders are our law; they are the ones who stop all unnecessary murders/slaughter being done to humans by our kind. They keep harmony. There is only one punishment, imprisonment followed by death. In our sector the lead Elder is my maker, my father, Elder Thomas Carter, he is a Lamiahaem. Lamiahaem are very passionate Demons, if we were not part of the Guard we would be living peacefully in our large family groups. Our species are not naturally aggressive, we have had to learn to adapt to a violent world. We are made and we make our partners, these are always humans that have magical gifts. When we meet that partner it is for life, this is natural for us. It is hard to explain the magnetic pull that you have when you first meet your mate; this love is also experienced by the human. There is only one mate for you, if that is denied you will recover and eventually meet another, but it can take some time. I have been Lamiahaem since 1554, my name is Simon. My father Thomas Carter lost his mate in a fight with vampire before he made me. He still cannot explain why he felt the need to change me, only to say that he noticed my gift of being able to feel illness and injuries and to know how to heal. Father believed that I would be useful to his world. We were in Newcastle in 1635, I was with the Guard. There were Renegade Vampire feeding off humans that had the plague, it appeared their affected blood was something like a drug to them. Even though these humans were going to die, we were still there to stop them from being slaughtered. That was when I seen the woman who would later become my wife, Julie, she had shoulder length light brown hair and sad brown eyes, the feelings I had were instant. Her eyes haunted me every second from the moment I seen her. It wasnt just sexual desire it was a desire to look after her, to be there for her, to never leave her. There were obstacles that I had to overcome, but in 1637, I made her my wife. After she was changed we discovered that Julie could sense feelings. My life now had purpose, she was everything, and she felt the same for me. Together we worked at healing both Demons and Humans. Normally that is where it would stop, we change our mate, but Julie and I were different. In 1665, the plague had hit London. The Vampire returned and so did the Guard. Julie had noticed a young man who was angry, lonely and deeply upset with himself. His family became ill with the plague, Julie and I nursed them until their eventual deaths. The young man, Jonathon became more emotional and was on a path of self destruction, he had an ability that he

Download or read book Sharp written by Michelle Dean and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing” book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review). In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—are united by what Dean calls “sharpness,” the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing despite the extreme condescension of the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.

Download or read book Reading With Patrick written by Michelle Kuo and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that’s when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers.

Download or read book The One Thing You Need to Know written by Marcus Buckingham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide body of research, including extensive in-depth interviews, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW reveals the central insights that lie at the core of: Great Managing, Great Leadership and Great Careers. Buckingham uses a wealth of relevant examples to reveal that at the heart of each insight lies a controlling insight. Lose sight of this 'one thing' and all of your best efforts at managing, leading, or individual achievement will be diminished. For great managing, the controlling insight has less to do with fairness, or team building, or clear expectations (although all are important). Rather, the one thing great managers know is the need to discover and then capitalize on what is unique about each person. For leadership, the controlling insight is the opposite - discover and capitalize on what is universal to all your people, regardless of differences in personality, race, sex, or age. For sustained individual success, the controlling insight is the need to discover what you don't like doing, and know how and when to stop doing it. In every way a groundbreaking work, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW offers crucial performance and career lessons for business people at every level.

Download or read book The Devil s Best Trick written by Randall Sullivan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan How we explain the evils of the world – and the darkest parts of ourselves – has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil’s Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt to understand it. Instructive, riveting, and unnerving, this is a profound rumination on crime, violence, and the darkness in all of us. In The Devil’s Best Trick, Randall Sullivan travels to Catemaco, Mexico, to participate in the “Hour of the Witches” -- an annual ceremony in which hundreds of people congregate in the jungle south of Vera Cruz to negotiate terms with El Diablo. He takes us through the most famous and best-documented exorcism in American history, which lasted four months. And, woven throughout, he delivers original reporting on the shocking story of a small town in Texas that, one summer in 1988, unraveled into paranoia and panic after a seventeen-year-old boy was found hanging from the branch of a horse apple tree and rumors about Satanic worship and cults spread throughout the wider community. Sullivan also brilliantly melds historical, religious, and cultural conceptions of evil: from the Book of Job to the New Testament to the witch hunts in Europe in the 15th through 17th centuries to the history of the devil-worshipping “Black Mass” ceremony and its depictions in 19th-century French literature. He brings us through to the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s and the story of one brutal serial killer, pondering the psychology of evil. He weaves in writings by John Milton, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and many more, among them Charles Baudelaire, from whose work Sullivan took the title of the book. Nimble and expertly researched, The Devil’s Best Trick brilliantly melds cultural and historical commentary and a suspenseful true-crime narrative. Randall Sullivan, whose reportage and narrative skill has been called “extraordinary” and “enthralling” by Rolling Stone, takes on a bold task in this book that is both biography of the Devil and a look at how evil manifests in the world.

Download or read book Hope written by Amanda Berry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Bestseller A bestselling book that is inspiring the nation: “We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life.” Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their abductions, captivity, and dramatic escape On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: “Help me, I’m Amanda Berry. . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for ten years.” A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained. In the decade that followed, the three were raped, psychologically abused, and threatened with death. Berry had a daughter—Jocelyn—by their captor. Drawing upon their recollections and the diary kept by Amanda Berry, Berry and Gina DeJesus describe a tale of unimaginable torment, and Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave the events within Castro’s house with original reporting on efforts to find the missing girls. The full story behind the headlines—including details never previously released on Castro’s life and motivations—Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two women whose courage, ingenuity, and resourcefulness ultimately delivered them back to their lives and families.

Download or read book Hardcastle Young Motiveless Murder written by Liz Vincent and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cosy crime mystery set in the villages of Staffordshire. In the village of Hawksmere a body has been found in a garden. The first in a new series.

Download or read book Indecent Acts written by Nick Brooks and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary achievement and change of direction for Brooks, in this, his third novel. Reported entirely by the protagonist, Grace, a semi-illiterate 40-something mother from Drumchapel, one of Glasgow's most notorious schemes, this is a story soaked in humour and empathy as we follow Grace's attempts to hold together her precarious, chaotic family life. Grace cares for Sean, her grandson, and Vincent, her son, who wants to join the army. She lives in fear that Francis, her drug-addicted daughter and mother to Sean, will come back and take the boy away. In the spirit of The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey, the novel is written in Grace's inimitable misspelt patois, with hilarious and moving effect. Indecent Acts is a glorious exploration of real working class life, of family ties and tensions, memory, riotous misadventure and ultimate redemption.

Download or read book Ghost Creek written by Rick Ley and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: