Download or read book KNOCK KNOCK Snapshots of Perfect Strangers written by RONALD R CROSTHWAITE and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've always been curious about what stories lay behind closed doors. Everyone has a story, but not everyone will let you in to hear it. When a career change came along late in my life, a door opened up, so to speak, giving me the opportunity to peer into some of those mysterious places. I became a sales representative for a major moving company. My job was to provide an estimate for people's impending moves. Everything they owned was laid before my eyes. I had the privilege to read their life story by simply going through their belongings. I was virtually given permission to invade their privacy. I feel very fortunate to have gained in these encounters, love, friendships, and admiration for people I would have never met on the street.
Download or read book Shades of Death Series Volume 1 written by Debra Webb and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Trust No One Don’t miss the incredible, spine-chilling SHADES OF DEATH series from USA TODAY bestselling author Debra Webb, master of suspense! Serial-killer hunter Nick Shade built his legendary career chasing monsters—sadistic criminals with a gruesome thirst for death. When he rescued Montgomery detective Bobbie Gentry from horrific captivity and helped her reclaim her life, he didn’t intend to be a hero. Bobbie can’t forget the nightmares of her trauma at the hands of the Storyteller—or the man who saved her. Working with Nick to outmaneuver the person behind a deadly vendetta feeds her hope that there’s more to her world than ghosts and destruction. Maybe joining Nick’s search for a killer is about gratitude. Maybe it’s nothing more than cold revenge. But the only way they can protect themselves is to trust each other. THE BLACKEST CRIMSON originally published in 2016. NO DARKER PLACE and A DEEPER GRAVE originally published in 2017.
Download or read book After The Rain written by Karen-Anne Stewart and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A story intricately crafted with amazing characters and scenes that will leave a lasting image on readers. Raina is the perfect heroine, sweet and caring, but strong at the same time. The risks she is willing to take to save and protect others left me in awe. A great series with romance and suspense." Christine Janes - SheReadsAlot.com Finally able to put her harrowing past to rest, Raina looks forward to her future with Kas, but the Ghost has other plans. As the FBI team gets closer to taking down the largest human trafficking ring in the modern world, the Ghost begins a wicked game, making Raina the pawn and the target. Never before encountering a worthy adversary, he's fascinated by Raina and is enjoying the refreshing challenge of her intellect. The danger ignites to a blazing new level, and Kas struggles between the need to finally exorcise the Ghost and his need to protect his wife. Tension mounts as an internal battle wages, tormenting Kas as he watches Raina put her all into taking down the man responsible for horrific sex slavery and gruesome deaths. When a new player takes control, Jefferson orders the end of the Ghost's game with Raina, which results in one final, devastating act, leaving Kas desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to save her...by whatever means necessary.
Download or read book Always a Bridesmaid For Hire written by Jen Glantz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Sloane Crosley, Mindy Kaling, and Katie Heaney, a hilarious and insightful memoir about one New York City millennial’s journey to find herself, her dream career, and true love, all while juggling a truly unique job as the world’s only professional bridesmaid. After moving to New York City in her mid-twenties to pursue her dream of writing—and not living on the “Upper East Side” of her parents’ house anymore—Jen Glantz looked forward to a future of happy hours and Sunday brunches with her besties. What she got instead were a string of phone calls that began with, “Jen, I have something exciting to tell you!” and ended with, “I’d be honored if you would be my bridesmaid.” At first she was delighted, but it wasn’t long before she realized two things: all of her assets were tied up in bridesmaid dresses, and she herself was no closer to finding The One. She couldn't do much about the second thing (though her mother would beg to differ), but she could about the first. One (slightly tipsy) night, Jen posted an ad on Craigslist advertising her services as a professional bridesmaid. When she woke up the next morning, it had gone viral. What began as a half-joke suddenly turned into a lifetime of adventure for Jen–and more insight into the meaning of love than she was getting from OKCupid—as she walked down the aisle at stranger after stranger’s wedding. Fresh, funny, and surprisingly sweet, Always a Bridesmaid (For Hire) is an entertaining reminder that even if you don’t have everything together, you can still be a total boss—or, at the very least, a BFF to another girl in need.
Download or read book The Terrible Event written by David Cohen and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet. A public memorial’s name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two attention-seeking activists campaign against exclusionary policies adopted by the gift shop at a suburban shopping mall. A customer service representative becomes obsessed with a colleague who has worked from home for so long, nobody in the company remembers her. A middle-aged father loses his marriage and falls in love again with a cherished but damaged childhood toy. An academic’s research into roadside memorials takes a peculiar turn. David Cohen’s sometimes bizarre yet pitch-perfect stories capture everyday horrors but are always shot through with a profound empathy and generosity. The Terrible Event delivers not just one terrible event, but many events of varying degrees of terrible-ness. Death, destruction, disappearance, decline, defeat – it has something for everyone. ‘Wildly inventive. Deeply unsettling. Delightfully strange. The Terrible Event is Cohen’s best, most hilarious book yet. I absolutely loved it.’ – Bram Presser, The Book of Dirt ‘These are not the stand-up comedian’s one-liners; they have an awareness of the absurd, the surreal, the comic, in everyday life; the true comic’s unsettling serious gaze at the strange ways we make sense of existence.’ – Judges, Russell Prize for Humour Writing.
Download or read book These Letters End in Tears written by Musih Tedji Xaviere and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a double life Bessem notices Fatima for the first time on the soccer field—muscular and focused, she’s the only woman playing and seems completely at ease. When Fatima chases a rogue ball in her direction, Bessem freezes, mesmerized by the athlete’s charm and beauty. One playful wink from Fatima, and Bessem knows her life will never be the same. In Cameroon, a country where same-sex relationships are punishable by law, the odds are stacked against Bessem and Fatima from the start. And when Fatima’s older brother, a staunch Muslim, finds out about their affair, he intervenes by physically assaulting them, an incident that precedes a police raid at the only gay bar in town. After spending days in jail, Fatima goes missing without a trace, and Bessem is left with only rumors of her whereabouts. Has Fatima been sentenced to an unknown prison? Has she been banished from her community, or married off, as some have suggested? Or something even more sinister? Thirteen years later, Bessem is now a university professor leading a relatively quiet life, occasionally and secretly dating other women. However, she has never forgotten Fatima. After spotting a mutual friend for the first time in years—the last person who may have seen Fatima—Bessem embarks on a winding search for her lost love.
Download or read book The English Boys written by Julia Thomas and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark and Twisted Secrets Emerge in the Wake of a Deadly Wedding Daniel Richardson and his best friend, Hugh Ashley-Hunt, both rising British actors, are in love with the same woman, the free-spirited Tamsyn Burke. Daniel reluctantly steps aside when Tamsyn decides to marry Hugh, but right before the wedding ceremony, Tamsyn is murdered. Suspicion falls on the family, friends, and associates in attendance. Motivated by both Hugh's grief and his own, Daniel joins forces with Tamsyn's younger sister, Carey, to find the killer. As he digs into Tamsyn's past, Daniel unearths secrets she was hiding, and begins to discover why someone wanted her silenced forever. Praise: "An entertaining contemporary crime novel about love and revenge."—Library Journal (starred review) and Debut of the Month "A real gem...This is an excellent mystery and readers are in for quite a surprise at the end." —Suspense Magazine "[An] eminently readable debut."—Kirkus Review "A tightly sequenced tale with the many flashbacks expertly woven in."—Reviewing the Evidence
Download or read book Fun with the Colefaxes written by Lizzy Lloyd and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colefaxes are an unconventional family. When you think you understand them their behaviour startles you. The story tells us about Rosemary, a traditional wife whose discovery of her husband’s deceit changes her into a renegade and fierce rival. David, a well-meaning but self-doubting husband contained in his safe, middle class world who believes his secret is safe and Sean, their complex and insightful son, just discovering his adult persona. Their fates are interwoven by Alice, a designer whose commune childhood has given her a liberal and free-thinking attitude to love, sex and childbirth. 1960s London is exploding with liberated sex, fashion and music and morals break down rapidly into the summer of love. Alice’s family leaves David stunned with confusion. Sean’s discovery of free love grows during his adventures in Rome on holiday with his parents, where he meets Gina, a stunning Roman beauty. Each has a secret passion only expressed in the heady atmosphere of a Roman hot-bed. After they return to London and recognise their individual desires all are focussed on Alice and an intricate and hilarious farce ensues between the four that ends in an unexpected drama on New Year’s Eve.
Download or read book The Pieces written by James Wilson and published by Senex Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, English folk-singer Adam Earnshaw vanishes during a tour of the U.S. In The Pieces, a dazzling array of voices – university friends, lovers, fellow-musicians, a pirate radio DJ, an expatriate American record producer, an obsessive, self-destructive teenage girl – contribute their own fragments to the puzzle of his life. All, in their very different ways, have been indelibly touched by their encounter, more than fifty years ago, with the brilliant but elusive Earnshaw. But none, ultimately, can explain the riddle of what happened to him. In the end, there is an answer. But when it finally comes, it forces us to rethink everything we have just read.
Download or read book My Funny Valentine written by Caroline Fardig and published by Caroline Fardig. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Lizzie wants for Valentine's Day is for her fiancé NOT to be the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Is that too much to ask? Lizzie Hart is finally living the dream. She's engaged to the love of her life, Blake Morgan, and more importantly, she hasn't even given a thought to dead bodies or murder investigations for an entire year. The only hurdle in Lizzie and Blake's way to wedded bliss is introducing their polar opposite families to each other at their engagement party. Blake's parents have thrown a lavish shindig, but the fun is quickly over when Blake's brother arrives with an unexpected guest, the woman who left Blake at the altar years ago. If that weren't enough drama for one evening, Lizzie and Blake find the town mayor dead and the detectives on the case put Blake at the top of their suspect list. It's a race against the clock for Lizzie and Blake to find the real killer before the police decide to lock Blake up and throw away the key.
Download or read book Personal Development With Success Ingredients written by Mo Abraham and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team of successful people is a network of readers whose feedback have remained frankly remarkable. They have transformed themselves into an epitome of success by studying and practicing the principles outlined in the book. The book titled Personal Development with Success Ingredients written by Mo Abraham is a step-by-step guide for success, wealth, and happiness and the formula are by far tried and proven. The 12-In-1 book covering over fifty topics on Health & Mental Development, Personal & Social Development, and Financial Development was written with the sole aim of illuminating the minds of those who are disappointed at so-called ‘success books’ as many of them are only theoretical and somewhat not applicable in a different localized setting and hence, not workable. But Personal Development with Success Ingredients is a book embracing principles which are very much universal and can be found in virtually everyone. It's also like a whole library of knowledge, wisdom, key secrets and more packed into one book. For those wondering where the real secret of success can be found, it can be surely found in this book. The book was written by Mo Abraham, an experienced entrepreneur who has gained success by applying these same principles in his own life and business. He was a former merchant navy officer who also worked in big telecommunication companies occupying very high positions until he set up his own business in 2003. Like everyone else, Mo Abraham was also faced with the same struggle everyone faced but overcame those using strategic universal laws which he has hidden in the pages of this great book. The principles are affluently assuring and guarantee a life-changing experience. The author has deliberately set an affordable price so that anyone can have the alluring experience this book has to offer. The massive book contains over 900 pages of LIFE-TRANSFORMING information that have been proven to work for thousands and thousands of successful people around the world today.
Download or read book ECO WARRIORS written by Rod Raglin and published by Rod Raglin. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ECO-WARRIOR SERIES 4 Book Box Set. Sold individually for $3.99, NOW all for stories in one book for $5.99 Romance, action, mystery, magic and murder - four stand-alone contemporary novels that encompass multiple genres, each with a subplot that addresses important environmental issues. SAVING SPIRIT BEAR - What Price Success? Corporate Climber challenges Eco-Warrior to decide the fate of the rare and endangered Spirit Bear LOVING THE TERRORIST - Risking It All How far would you go to save a wild place you love? MAD MAGGIE - And the Wisdom of the Ancients Two passionate opponents are about to clash over the future of a grove of Ancient Old Growth Trees on a secluded island. Magic, mystery and madness against logic, cause and effect. Can love find a middle ground? FOREST - Love, Loss, Legend Lost gold, lost love and lost hope compels Matt to return home to a dying town on the edge of the Canadian wilderness. The forest is waiting.
Download or read book Strangers in Love written by Toyang and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you think will happen if an emotionally damaged woman meets an emotionally lost man? This is a story of two strangers who became friends to lovers. Ada Wynowitz is a damaged woman because of a failed relationship. Her ex-boyfriend made her believe that she is hard to love, which also made her doubt herself. That experience made her fear love until she met Yohan Lane. Yohan Lane lost himself when his bride-to-be runaway. That event made him aloof and doesn't want to be close to the opposite gender until he met Ada. Will they let their past hinder their future? Or will they let fate takes its course? Let us all find out what will happen to their story.
Download or read book Knock Knock written by Wynter Adams and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl...Three men...Fourteen days of HELL!What starts out as an inspirational getaway, all goes horribly array for up and coming writer Maddison Carter, who decides to rent herself a quiet little cabin in the woods to work on her latest novel.Not only is Maddison about to have every strength she's ever known tested to the limit, but she will also discover a side of herself willing to do just about anything to survive...Get ready for a new kind of home invasion!(WARNING: This book contains harsh scenes of sexual violence!)
Download or read book The Wizards of Once Knock Three Times written by Cressida Cowell and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How to Train Your Dragon: Two young heroes fight to save their beloved homes in the next thrilling installment of the internationally bestselling Wizards of Once series. Xar and Wish are heroes with a huge task ahead -- confronting the Nuckalavee is not for the fainthearted. But with Magic and Iron together, they might just have a chance of saving their beloved homes from those who seek to destroy everything they hold dear. The third electrifying book in The Wizards of Once series fizzes with magic and introduces us to a host of glorious new characters: bears and piskies and magical pins and needles to name but a few. Beloved bestselling author Cressida Cowell once again brings her trademark wit and stunning combination of action, adventure, humor, and incredible artwork to this epic new adventure, sure to transport and enchant readers. Stunningly written, magnificent in scope, hilarious and thrilling, Knock Three Times immerses you in a world you won't ever wish to leave.
Download or read book Perfect Strangers written by J. T. Geissinger and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon Top 50 Bestseller "These kisses of his...they're demanding and possessive. They're hungry and deep. They're the kisses of a man who wants more of a woman-who wants everything-and isn't going to stop until he gets it." Author Olivia Rossi hasn't been able to write a word since tragedy struck two years ago and ripped her world apart. Heartbroken and still haunted by the past, she accepts an offer to spend the summer at a friend's apartment in Paris in search of healing and her lost muse. What she finds instead is James, an enigmatic stranger who ignites in her an unexpected and all-consuming passion. Agreeing to tell each other nothing more than their first names, Olivia and James embark on a torrid affair. But the more time they spend together, the more Olivia begins to realize her summer fling is turning into a powerful connection...and that the magnetic man she's falling in love with might not be what he seems at all.
Download or read book Queen s Capture written by Virginia L. Hazel-Frye and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the young age of 4 Regina Londall became an heiress to a multimillion dollar fortune. Tragedy strikes suddenly at the age of twenty and Regina retreats to the family summer home in the Caribbean to find solace. She happens upon a heartbreaking reality, which changes her view of love for the rest of her life. The sudden shock of her revelation snaps her out her stupor of self-pity and she discovers in her absence the family empire is crumbling and under attack. She sets out to save the dying company and make it number one in the entire world. In order to see her dream fulfilled she needed power; political power. She had a clear cut plan of how to get it and where. ************************** After years of setups, payoffs and business savvy manipulation, Regina Londall successfully sits on a throne of power. She is Queen of the business world, Pesident and sole owne of Londall Enterprises; a multibillion dollar empire and Ambassador of Foreign Affairs for the United States of America. She holds in the palms of her hands an array of subjects; the mayor of Chicago and its Aldermen, Senators and the President of the United States of America. However, her highness is abdicated from her throne of power and her kingdom is overthrown when her subjects rebel. With her reign of terror over; Regina stands charged of treason against the United States of America. She swears it’s a setup despite the compelling evidence stacked against her. Now a jury of her peers will determine her fate. Will the power behind the Londall family empire be enough to save her highness? ******************************** Queen's Capture is the exciting saga about the lives of the Londall family. It spans over a hundred years from days of slavery to appointments to the President of the United States cabinet. You will travel with the Londall's as they journey from the great plantations of Mississippi to the lush land of England. Cry with them as they go through perils and tribulations of suffering, jump elated excitement as they strive to endure. Stand tall with them as they overcome their difficulties. Each member has his or he own story to tell and as you read, you will become apart of the Londall family clan. They will leave you wanting more and more.
