Download or read book Maybe I ll Sleep in the Bathtub Tonight written by Debbie Levy and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous poems about going to bed.

Download or read book Sky Bridge written by Laura Pritchett and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman who offers to raise her teenage sister’s baby gets more than she bargained for in “a moving story about love, duty, and family” (Publishers Weekly). A supermarket clerk in a small dusty Colorado town, twenty-two-year-old Libby is full of dreams but lacks the means to pursue them. When her younger sister Tess becomes pregnant, Libby convinces her not to have an abortion by promising to raise the child herself. But then Tess takes off after the baby is born and Libby finds that her new role puts her dreams that much further away. Her already haphazard life becomes ever more chaotic. The baby’s father, a Christian rodeo rider, suddenly demands custody. Libby loses her job, her boyfriend abandons her, and her own mother harps on how stupid she was to make that promise to Tess. Worse, her sister’s reckless new life could put Libby herself in danger. Not just a story of a single mother overcoming obstacles, Sky Bridge is a complex novel from a PEN Award winner that leaves readers with a fresh understanding of what it means to inhabit a world in which dreams die, and are sometimes reborn. “In this spare yet haunting portrait of the American West, Pritchett’s powerful, poetic voice speaks with clarity, wisdom, and passion about country, family, and one young woman’s majestic spirit.” —Booklist “A superb writer.” —Library Journal

Download or read book Escape from Ann Arbor written by Robert C. Cooper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, psychotherapist Rash and his girlfriend Kayla, fearing a biological attack on the U.S. by Islamic terrorists, flee from vulnerable Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the presumed safety of Oak, a small rural town in eastern Ohio. While there the couple attempts to resolve problems in their testy relationship, but this is complicated by a local militia leader who tries to recruit Rash. The leader also recruits an expert to create a lethal virus that will target specific ethnic groups, but it turns out that the expert has a grievance-driven agenda of his own.

Download or read book Mindful written by Beverly Taff and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindful is a powerful novel about child abuse. It explores the divided mind and sexuality of Ian Evans, a transvestite child whose questions about his identity initiate the onset of telepathy.Without any telepathic adult mentors to guide him through his experiences, young Ian believes he is mad because of the inexplicable, accusative and critical voices in his head. Ian ends up in a psychiatric unit run by paedophiles, where he is seriously abused because of his transvestism.He escapes to end up as a child prostitute on the streets. Winter overwhelms Ian and he is delivered to another care unit, where Doctor Mary Evans makes a breakthrough by encouraging a friendship between Ian and Sandra, a similarly abused girl. The unit is then closed and the children are placed in the community, except for Ian, the violent transvestite, and Michael, an autistic mute.In a psychiatric unit, Ian and Michael develop a symbiotic telepathic relationship, but it is misinterpreted as a sexual liaison because of Ian’s burgeoning transvestite femininity. Their separation causes Michael to commit suicide, while Ian, now living as Iona, is left alone to deal with her growing telepathic skill.The psychiatric unit proves a perfect place to practice telepathy. Iona uses her telepathic skills to get released, but then runs afoul of the military, who want to use Iona for her Mindful talents.

Download or read book No Man S Land written by Geraldine Patience and published by AuthorHouse UK. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirty~ something couple after a traumatic year move to a new home near to the wifes parents home. The wife begins to experience strange episodes relating to a ten year old murder in the vicinity. A mysterious plot of land adjacent to their new home seems to have some effect on the wifes problems. The husband tries to solve the mystery of who owns this plot but he becomes convinced that his wife is still suffering from her illness and does not believe what she tells him of the young girl she sees sometimes. His wife thinks of this girl as a ghost, a ghost telling her that the young man accused of her murder is not guilty. In investigating the story of the murder she meets a young newspaper reporter who offers to help her fi nd out more. Together and with the help of the ghost`, they unmask the real killer and solve some outstanding missing persons cases.

Download or read book As the Crow Falls written by Don Maddux and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mob and a real estate company are about to join forces. Gregory Crow is one of the owners of the real estate company and he has no idea what is happening around him. Or does he? He tries to forget through nearly suicidal levels of chemicals that hes the center of it all. From the violence that is associated with the mob, to the world of high finance and luxury that is bestowed upon him, he lives in his own world. After over three decades of weaving his way out of crime, Gregory Crow breaks his silence.

Download or read book Rage written by Debra Webb and published by Forever. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jess Harris moved back to her Alabama hometown, she thought she'd left her past behind her. But the blood bath the new Major Crimes deputy chief finds at a murder scene is beyond even the savagery of Eric Spears, the serial killer who now haunts Jess's life with terrifying text messages. Amid eerie echoes of the Charles Manson massacre, Jess investigates the dismemberment of a cop's wife while her baby lay sleeping down the hall. The discovery of two more headless victims makes Jess wonder if it's a gang-related slaying, a personal vendetta . . . or something else. And the sudden reappearance of her ex-husband makes her question her future with Chief of Police Dan Burnett. Now as the net widens to include a shocking suspect, Jess realizes that the identity of the killer may lie with an autistic eight-year-old boy. With inner-city tensions at an all-time high and the community calling for blood, Jess must race to save an innocent child-and prevent a final, horrifying act of rage.

Download or read book Undying written by Robert Bowden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve awoke with tears streaming down her cheeks. As she had done too many times recently, she had cried herself awake. She glanced over to the nightstand through the blur of tear filled eyes where the digital readout told her it was 2:00. The same as yesterday and the day before. In fact, as far back as she could remember in recent history, it didnt matter what time she went to bed, she always woke up at the same time

Download or read book Rock Star s Heart written by Kella Campbell and published by Tied Star Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a twist of fate throws university student Crys Murphy into an unexpected job on tour with a wildly successful rock band, her crush on the guitarist turns into powerful temptation. But there’s a dark side to the glamour and champagne: Blade has anger and addiction issues, a history of partying with groupies, and a tendency to get naked in public — and Crys is supposed to keep him out of trouble. As she gets to know the talented and lonely man behind the bad boy behavior, the chemistry between them wavers on the edge of something deeper. But he doesn’t do relationships, and she grew up expecting a white-picket-fence future. Can he reform and open his heart to love? Will she give up her straitlaced upbringing for her troubled rock star?

Download or read book Tank Hill written by Don Otey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Owens, a successful young businessman, is trying to repair a marriage he has seriously damaged with alcohol and addiction to work. Then a new and frightening challenge confronts him. His older brother Kyle is viciously beaten and lies in the hospital. In near panic, Dave rushes back to Springlake, his boyhood hometown, in Virginia. A chilling puzzle begins to take shape. It involves a nearly forgotten incident during the Owens brothers' youth and Dave's personal nemesis, Tank Hill. The brothers and their friends are being stalked by a sadistic killer who fears what they may remember. He sets out to eliminate them one by one in horrific ways. Along the way an enticing young woman threatens to detour Dave's efforts to set his personal life straight. He struggles with his feelings while the maniac killer breathes down his neck. The local sheriff makes life difficult for Owens until he uncovers the lawman's real motivation for his animosity. The spirit of a young Confederate soldier comes to Dave's aid and Owens experiences a jarring epiphany on a battlefield of some 140 years ago. The heart-stopping outcome is one that neither Dave nor his brother could have anticipated.

Download or read book I Make Envy on Your Disco written by Eric Schnall and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit cafés and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials. A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility. In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future—in nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a café; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam’s hotel, whom Sam finds himself drawn to and determined to thaw. I Make Envy on Your Disco is at once a tribute to Berlin, a novel of longing and connection, and a coming-of-middle-age story about confronting the person you were and becoming the person you want to be.

Download or read book The Magic of Shirley Jackson written by Shirley Jackson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a generous selection of Shirley Jackson's work, consisting of three complete books: The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery."

Download or read book Playing with Fire written by R.J. Blain and published by Pen & Page Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, a fire-breathing unicorn on a mission of destruction, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution. Catering to the magical is a tough gig on a good day, but Bailey has few other options. Spiking drinks with pixie dust keeps the locals happy and beats cleaning up the world’s nastiest magical substances. She could live without serving Police Chief Samuel Quinn most days of the week, especially after destroying his marriage. But when she’s targeted with a cell phone bomb containing gorgon dust capable of transforming her beloved home into a stone tomb, she’s tossed head first into a mess with her sexiest enemy. Add in his ex-wife angling for revenge, and Bailey must use every trick up her sleeve to survive. The last thing she needs is to fall in love with Manhattan’s Most Wanted Bachelor. Saving Manhattan will be tough enough.

Download or read book Love the Sinner written by Lynn Bulock and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, Gracie Lee Harris, do hereby declare I had nothing to do with the murder of my two-timing, con man husband. But I do know three women who could have killed Dennis: his devoted mother who gave him her life savings—which he squandered; his disillusioned daughter who gave him her college fund— again, squandered; and his pregnant almost-fiancée, whom he'd left with empty promises and unpaid bills. With the help of some new friends—and the Lord—I'll find the killer… hopefully without becoming the next victim!

Download or read book Everything to Nothing written by Mark Henthorne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary novel charting the rise and decline of relationships set in a modern Britain; relationships set against the lives and privilege of the mega rich to the despair of down and outs. As the relationships develop between Sally and David, Michelle and Simon, contrasted with Sarah's destructive drug fuelled affair with Peter, Sally's privileged upbringing and relationship with her father is scrutinised. The power of great wealth is set against the ordinariness of the other characters' backgrounds. The heart of the book however highlights the ongoing and unstoppable repercussions of Peter's actions. He is a hard, greedy and unfeeling man. As a direct result of Peter's actions and manipulation of a vulnerable Sarah, there is a later breakdown of David and Sally's relationship and the disintegration of the friendship between Sally and Michelle. The book boldly ends with a series of tragedies. This novel certainly engages with the reader and leaves us wanting more.

Download or read book DENIAL S ORPHAN written by Warren Stephens and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every teenager thinks he or she is the only person in the world going through turbulent, rebellious times. There are awkward social graces, peer pressures, parents who don't care to understand, physical growth, anger, bodily experiments, and oh, yes, there are resulting consequences!Sixteen year old Gerri DeMore faces pressures of growing up and her conclusions are she feels abandoned by her parents and left to find her own way through the maze of life. When she's subjected to external jolts of inhumane, unimaginable tragedy she's defenseless and buried into depths of despair and anger. She reacts with sixteen year old choices leading down dark paths. Thank God she's got friends who step forward: Paulette Guthrie, her neighbor, Daniel Penn, a dreamboat teacher, Len Ferguson, a handsome policeman, and Jake Waltrip, a ringer for James Dean. Gerri's survival hangs in the balance between people she trusts and the wisdom of her tender sixteen years. Can she survive when some of those she trusts circle her like hungry hyenas?

Download or read book Life Sentences written by Alice Blanchard and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Hubbard, a genetic researcher in a prestigious Boston lab, is driven to find a cure for the rare genetic disease that claimed the life of her younger brother. Her progress is halted, however, when her mentally unstable sister Anna is discovered missing from her California home. Daisy, fearing the worst, drops everything and flies across the country to find Anna. Once there, she is informed by the LAPD that known serial killer Roy Gaines has confessed to Anna's murder, but he will only reveal where he has hidden the body if he can lead Daisy to it himself. Daisy, teaming up with a handsome detective named Jack Makowski, follows Roy to a number of dead bodies, but none of them are Anna's. As Daisy realizes that Roy knows too much about her research, she begins to fear that Anna is a pawn in a game with much larger stakes. It will take all of Daisy's cunning and resolve to stop the killer in his tracks and to uncover his obsession with the disease she has been trying to unravel for her entire life.