Download or read book Maura s Game written by Martina Cole and published by Headline. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maura Ryan is back to claim her gangland crown... MAURA'S GAME is the unputdownable sequel to DANGEROUS LADY, the iconic first novel by Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole which catapulted her to fame and made her the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian). Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then, she's retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she's ever loved. But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan. The dangerous lady is back and she's as lethal as ever... We know you'll be hooked on Maura Ryan, so be sure to first read the gripping prequel to MAURA'S GAME, DANGEROUS LADY.
Download or read book Dangerous Lady written by Martina Cole and published by Headline. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. * In gangland London, Maura Ryan is queen... Martina Cole's extraordinary first novel DANGEROUS LADY introduced a totally original genre of thriller, paving the way for her multiple No. 1 bestsellers, including BETRAYAL and GET EVEN. 'Right from the start [Cole] has enjoyed unqualified approval for her distinctive and powerfully written fiction' [The Times] No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone. Once you're hooked on Maura Ryan, be sure to read MAURA'S GAME, the second book from 'the undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian).
Download or read book The Maura Ryan Books written by Martina Cole and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Martina Cole's iconic first novel, Dangerous Lady - the novel that crowned her the Queen of Crime - and it's gripping sequel, Maura's Game. Available together for the first time, discover Cole's classic heroine, Maura Ryan, in these bestselling novels. DANGEROUS LADY. MAURA's GAME. No one thinks she could take on the hard men of London's criminal underworld but it would be a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Maura is back and she's as lethal as ever... PRAISE FOR MARTINA COLE: 'The stuff of legend. . . utterly compelling' Mirror 'Intensely readable' Guardian 'There really is only one Martina Cole' Closer
Download or read book When Angels Play Poker written by Maura O’Leary and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2017-05-13 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasoned con-artist named Jimmy lands himself in a new high-end senior living complex, and is looking forward to hanging out with a hot chick he meets the first weekend there, when he suddenly drops dead of a heart attack, and arrives in Heaven. While adjusting to the shock of his new situation, Jimmy meets his elder angel guide Norm, and is assigned to watch over a woman on earth he never knew before. He finds out the woman, Maura, is his brother’s girlfriend and he learns from Norm that he’ll play a critical role in helping Maura through the relationship. As time goes by though, Jimmy realizes Maura’s life is much less exciting than his was on Earth. He finally approaches Norm, and tells him how bored he is. That’s when he is told that sometimes while waiting for events to unfold on earth, even Angels get to play poker in Heaven.... If you’re wondering what Angels do all day, immerse yourself in a charming, inspirational story about the adventures in Heaven when an ordinary couple go about their lives on earth, while being watched over, prayed for, and loved every day.
Download or read book Fadeaway written by Maura Ellen Stokes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sam's best friend Reagan dies after her heart suddenly gives out, Sam must learn to deal with her grief and ultimately discover who she is without her best friend by her side. Fourteen-year-old Sam thinks she has all summer to hang out with her best friend, Reagan. But then her life changes forever. Sam's world, once filled with school, basketball, and Reagan, has now abruptly changed and she must learn to navigate high school on and off the court without her best friend. But when Reagan suddenly "reappears," Sam clings to her friend's presence, even as it hurts rather than helps her grief. Can Sam learn to accept herself without her other half? This authentic, powerful story of friendship, grief, and discovering yourself is a can't-miss debut novel from Maura Ellen Stokes.
Download or read book Playing Games in Nineteenth Century Britain and America written by Ann R. Hawkins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
Download or read book Choosing to See Beauty written by Maura Preszler and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Maura Preszler shares her bittersweet journey from pain and trauma to recovery and healing. Growing up in an abusive home, receiving negative and painful messages about her value and worth, Maura was set on a path filled with mental, emotional, and physical suffering. Finding herself battling an eating disorder and a tremendous fear of vulnerability to others, particularly men, Maura was determined to face her demons and do whatever it took to find healing. Through her tremendous faith in God and her determination to persist in the hard work of therapy, Maura has found her way to freedom and the kind of love-filled life for which she once yearned. Maura's story serves as a model and inspiration for those seeking a way forward from trauma and into a future filled with hope.
Download or read book Dr Grant written by Catharina Maura and published by Ichara LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Noah Grant's dream job at a prestigious private college came with three rules:1. Don't sleep with the students2. Don't sleep with a patient3. Stay away from Harold Astor's granddaughterSeems easy, right?It was. Right until Amara Astor walks into his office with one of her own inventions - a toy - stuck inside her.She's a patient, a Ph.D. student, and she's Harold Astor's granddaughter. She's entirely off-limits.Getting involved with her puts his promising future at risk, yet he can't turn her away. Not when doing so means she'll find someone else to test her crazy inventions with.
Download or read book Curatorial Activism written by Maura Reilly and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of new curatorial strategies based on pioneering examples of curators working to offset racial and gender disparities in the art world Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year’s Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of artists represented by U.S. galleries are female, but over two-thirds of students enrolled in art and art-history programs are young women. Arranged in thematic sections focusing on feminism, race, and sexuality, Curatorial Activism examines and illustrates pioneering examples of exhibitions that have broken down boundaries and demonstrated that new approaches are possible, from Linda Nochlin’s “Women Artists” at LACMA in the mid-1970s to Jean-Hubert Martin’s “Carambolages” in 2016 at the Grand Palais in Paris. Profiles key exhibitions by pioneering curators including Okwui Enwezor, Linda Nochlin, Jean-Hubert Martin and Nan Goldin, with a foreword by Lucy Lippard, internationally known art critic, activist and curator, and early champion of feminist art, this volume is both an invaluable source of practical information for those who understand that institutions must be a driving force in this area and a vital source of inspiration for today’s expanding new generation of curators.
Download or read book Maura s Game written by Martina Cole and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off an audacious bullion robbery. Since then she's retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she's ever loved. But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan.
Download or read book Maura s Game written by Martina Cole and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maura Ryan is back to claim her gangland crown... MAURA'S GAME is the unputdownable sequel to DANGEROUS LADY, the iconic first novel by Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole which catapulted her to fame and made her the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian). Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then, she's retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she's ever loved. But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan. The dangerous lady is back and she's as lethal as ever... We know you'll be hooked on Maura Ryan, so be sure to first read the gripping prequel to MAURA'S GAME, DANGEROUS LADY.
Download or read book Tabletop Role Playing Therapy A Guide for the Clinician Game Master written by Megan A. Connell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book explaining “applied RPGs”—using role-playing games therapeutically. Across the globe, therapists are using tabletop roleplaying games (RPG) such as Dungeons & Dragons as a part of their practice. This book provides an overview of what RPGs are and what makes them such an effective and powerful tool for therapy. By examining research on gaming, flow, immersion, and role-play, readers will gain a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and how to skillfully and ethically use RPGs in their own practices. The author also looks at the history of RPGs, specifically focusing on issues of diversity and representation to help providers understand some possible pitfalls that exist within the medium. The book utilizes an example group to walk through everything from conception, planning, running, documentation, and termination of the group.
Download or read book The Geometry of Sisters written by Luanne Rice and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters, in an unforgettable story of loss, redemption, and forgiveness The storm off Mackinac Island that engulfed Maura Shaw’s husband and elder daughter,Carrie, also swept away the illusion of her life as the perfect midwestern wife and mother. Now, after years away, Maura has returned to Rhode Island to teach English at the fabled Newport Academy and to seek a new beginning. Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mystery and hope, but ever since the accident, her younger daughter, fourteen-year-old Beck, has retreated into the safe, predictable world of mathematics. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself—the half that would have fit into the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will attend. The half that made things right. Sixteen-year-old Travis is also struggling to adjust—juggling a long-distance first love and an attraction to a girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here—an unresolved breach with her own beloved sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free. . . .
Download or read book The Joyful Family written by John S. Dacey and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you bring more joy into your family? By creating situations and celebrations that bring the family together for meaningful moments. The Joyful Family presents more than 70 tools and activities for creating and maintaining family togetherness and provides concrete strategies for designing new traditions. The book is organized into the different types of events that can be marked by celebration, with chapters such as "Marking Milestones" and "Making the Ordinary Special." Each chapter contains 4-6 wonderfully guided activities, complete with situations, objectives, and lists of materials needed. At the core of the book are heartfelt stories from the lives of the authors and their students and clients.
Download or read book How to Sin Successfully written by Bronwyn Scott and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riordan Barrett: Last Rake Standing With his comrade rakes-in-arms succumbing to respectability, anyone might think that wicked Riordan Barrett is next. But such happy endings aren't for him—the whole of society knows there isn't a redeemable bone in his sinfully sexy body. Suddenly Riordan finds himself not only an earl…but father to two young wards! His only experience is in the art of irresponsibility. This rake needs help—and hiring a young, pretty governess won't be such a hardship! Sweet, innocent Maura Caulfield is the only lady in London seemingly unaware of Riordan's disreputable ways. But it won't stay like that for long. He'll show her just how much fun sinning can be….
Download or read book Screwmachine Eyecandy written by C. J. Hopkins and published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's America's favorite game show, but tonight the rules are a little different. Or are they? Haven't we seen this before? Can two average contestants from the heartland figure it all out before it's too late? "If the political-advertising principle of equal time were applied to entertainment programming, every game show would be followed by SCREWMACHINE/EYECANDY. While the game show as a metaphor for the horrors of consumer culture is somewhat overdone, in the hands of CJ Hopkins the conceit is nothing short of a blistering revelation. Hopkins's body of work owes a huge debt to the absurdists and so manages to blast beyond the merely political or allegorical to the existential. Bits of GODOT and NO EXIT seem present in all his plays." -Trav S D, Time Out New York "If SCREWMACHINE/EYECANDY, playwright CJ Hopkins's latest indictment of American crassness and overconsumption, serves as any indication, our country hasn't learned much ... Hopkins's sharp-toothed satire ..." -Alexis Soloski, Village Voice "As a metaphor for the unaccountable, bullying, shape-changing and fear-mongering face of power in our increasingly media-driven consumer democracies, it could hardly be more potent. One of the angriest and most chilling pieces of political theatre on this year's Fringe." -Joyce MacMillan, The Scotsman "SCREWMACHINE/EYECANDY starts out as one of those eyes-and-teeth American T V game shows but rapidly descends into something much blacker and almost surreal as America's relationship with consumerism and the media is unerringly skewered." -Robert Dawson Scott, The Times "The use of the game show as metaphor for what is politely called the American condition is not a new concept ... The premise has been used in films such as The Truman Show and Magnolia. CJ Hopkins has made brazen use of this metaphor to create a vicious piece of agit prop ... Not only does SCREWMACHINE/EYECANDY beat its audiences harder, but it contains fragmentary glimpses of America's vastness that leave you breathless." -Tim Abrahams, The Guardian
Download or read book Such Pretty Flowers written by K. L. Cerra and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW • “A lush, seductive Southern Gothic that’s deliciously queer . . . K. L. Cerra’s gift for gorgeous, gruesome atmosphere had me spellbound.”—Layne Fargo, author of They Never Learn A woman investigating her brother’s apparent suicide finds herself falling for her prime suspect—his darkly mysterious girlfriend—in this “creepy, compelling, and utterly original” (Karen Dionne) thriller. “Get it out of me.” It was the last message Holly received from her brother, Dane, before he was found cleaved open in the lavish Savannah townhouse of his girlfriend, Maura. Police ruled his death a suicide sparked by psychosis, but Holly can’t shake the idea that something else must have happened—something involving another message he sent earlier that night about a “game” Maura wanted to play. Determined to discover the truth, Holly begins to stalk Maura, a magnetic, black-eyed florist with a penchant for carnivorous plants. But what begins as an investigation quickly veers into a fixation that lures Holly into the depths of Maura’s world: Savannah high society, eerie black roses, and a whisper of something more sinister. Soon Holly is feeling a dark attraction to the one woman she shouldn’t trust. As Holly falls deeper for Maura and her secrets, she’s left with only one choice: find out what happened to Dane or meet the same fate.
