Download or read book Meet Me at the Pond written by Mindy Killgrove and published by Mindy Killgrove. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day romance with modern-day struggles, laced with a touch of humor. Meet Me at the Pond Meet Missy Lawrence. She’s a spirited local news correspondent living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Even though her work and social schedule are all-consuming, Missy suffers from unrequited love. The one that got away just won’t go away. Every time Missy attempts to move on, she fails because she can’t seem to forget the original love of her life. ​ Missy Lawrence and company explore the truths and myths of first love and many other stumbles and pitfalls that result thereafter. Meet Me at the Pond offers up a genuine representation of the modern, industrious woman and the lengths she must be willing to go in order to find her most suitable love match. ​ Reader Reviews: In Mindy Killgrove’s debut romance novel, Meet Me at the Pond, a group of young women discover very quickly that love hurts and friendships are necessary. ​ Daring and inquisitive, Meet Me at the Pond wastes no time in submerging the reader in the life of Missy Lawrence and her group of girlfriends. Together the women tackle the questions that plague females of all ages including, “Is Love Just an Illusion?” and “Do Girls Really Just Want to Have Fun?” ​ This generation of women lives the most challenging lives. From holding down jobs, taking care of the kids, and running about town trying to fit in some extra errands, it can be tough business trying to find out what a woman wants in this world. BUT THERE IS A NEW NOVEL THAT SERVES UP EXACTLY WHAT A WOMAN NEEDS: A STRONG DOSE OF REALITY. ​ Mindy Killgrove combines a unique mix of humor, hard reality and romance into a modern day love story in her debut novel. At the same time she takes the reader on a journey into the mind and soul of a modern woman and the struggle to keep it all in balance. We see the world through her eyes as we journey through the challenges and torments of love in an ever changing culture. ​

Download or read book Meet Me at the Pond written by Mindy Killgrove and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the one who got away just won't go away. Heartbreaks abound in this new adult novel featuring Missy Lawrence and her squad of gal pals. Our heroine, Missy Lawrence, lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and works for a local television station as a field reporter. She and her fabulous friends navigate the joys and woes of coming into their own together--always meeting at a restaurant called The Pond whenever they need each other. Throughout this story, Missy and her friends suffer through some major relationship failures. Missy is plagued by a string of cheating boyfriends. Her friend, Autumn, rekindles a romance with a man who is decidedly unavailable, and Jessica Adair, Missy's most stalwart friend, finds herself in a brand new situation--falling for a fling!

Download or read book It s Nice to Meet Me Too written by Cynthia Rust and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Randy. He was diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in 1979 at just nine months old. Written from the perspective of Randy's mother, Cynthia, it's nice to meet me too provides snapshots of what life is like raising a severely handicapped child. Randy's brought his fair share of heartbreaks but more importantly, endless laughter and joy. By putting down on paper a lifetime's worth of "Randy stories" that have been shared over with friends and family, she shows the comedic side of life with a child with special needs. - p. 4 of cover

Download or read book Meet Me by the Fountain written by Alexandra Lange and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards “A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who “might be the most influential design critic writing now” (LARB). Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as both critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated? In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood, Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know. She chronicles postwar architects' and merchants' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange's perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion--of consumerism, but also of community. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall's rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation.

Download or read book Meet Me at the Apex written by Steven Townsend and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever revel in the wonder of your inner world? Ever wonder if ours is a universe that smiles with us when we grow and evolve, and its processes are nurturance to that end? Meet Me at the Apex smiles, and yet it will shake you from your comfort zone and goad you toward transcendence---whatever your path. This novel is hilarious at times and will carry you to heights of joy, and yet is capable of dragging you through pits of sorrow; it is sublime and ethereal, and yet there are moments when it is sensual, raw and earthy; it is iconoclastic and controversial, and yet it celebrates as sacred each person's belief and path. This diary of protagonist Joshua Denton's 3-day stream of consciousness while buckled by illness forces readers to inspect even their most entrenched beliefs, whether God-fearing or atheistic. His hiatus quickly becomes a luring toward epiphany, his path to which is intense processing of events and enigmas.

Download or read book Pondlife written by Al Alvarez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player – has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and fierce honesty – from his relentlessly nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles with the council to keep his disabled person's Blue Badge, the devastating effects of a stroke, and the salvation he finds in the three Ss – Swimming, Sex and Sleep. As Alvarez swims in the ponds he considers how it feels when you begin to miss that person you used to be – to miss yourself. Swimming is his own private form of protest against the onslaught of time; proof to others, and himself, that he's not yet beaten. By turns funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love, the importance of life's small pleasures and, above all, a lesson in not going gently in to that good night. _____________________ 'A beautiful unfolding of a story, told in deceptively simple prose but with a great power to move' Sunday Times 'The adrenalin still flows in lively extracts' The Times 'A marvellous book... it has no business to be as invigorating and absorbing – its success is against the odds' Observer

Download or read book Meet Me at Midnight written by Elise Noble and published by Undercover Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet me at midnight… When Augusta Fordham receives that message from an unknown admirer, the plot could have come straight from her favourite romance novel. Oh, wait—it did. Augusta is soon caught between wealthy doctor Gregory and a dark stranger who makes her pulse race as he indulges her fantasies. Will she choose comfort and security or take a leap into the unknown? Meet Me at Midnight is a cut-down novella of my romantic thriller novel Carbon, with an alternative ending. The first eleven chapters are the same. This one’s for the romance fans—there’s no Emmy and no shooting in this version! Keywords: romance ebook, free romance, free romantic suspense, top romance reads, contemporary romance, series starter, free, mystery, female protagonist, woman sleuth, London, England, good romance, best romance, steamy romance, romantic suspense

Download or read book Meet Me There written by J.L. Rodze and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book Meet Me at the Rocket and Other Stories written by Neuman Connor and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His short stories demonstrate his sense of humor and his sensitivity to the sometimes difficult lives of the individuals in his community. You will begin to understand the joy they took in simple things. If you lived during this time period or have heard stories from others about it, you will appreciate Neuman Connor's style of bringing these tales to life.

Download or read book Meet Me at the Art Caf written by Sue McDonagh and published by Choc Lit. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sweet romance featuring two characters with painful secrets . . . a gentle and charming story anyone can enjoy” by the author of Summer at the Art Café (The Book Review). Would you take a chance on a bad boy with a leather jacket and a vintage motorbike? That’s the question single mom Jo Morris has to ask herself when she collides with local bike mechanic Ed Griffiths on a rainy Welsh hillside. Working at the Art Café, Jo hears the gossip and is all too aware of Ed’s reputation. But while he’s certainly no angel, there is something about Ed’s daredevil antics that Jo can’t ignore. And as she gets to know him better and watches the kind way he deals with her young son Liam, she begins to wonder—is there more to this ‘bad boy’ than meets the eye? “Truly brilliant! . . . a wonderfully warm, joyful, feel good story. It brings a huge smile to your face reading it and gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside of pure joy and delight.”—Just Kathryn “A lovely, uplifting read. It has some surprises and many moments to make your heart swell.”—Portobello Book Blog

Download or read book Meet Me on the Moon written by C.R. Waters and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Me on the Moon Seventeen-year-old Joseph "Dubbie" Lawson's life was turned upside down when his grandfather's almost tragic fall down the staircase left him no longer able to run the family farm. Dubbie would go to live with his grandparents full time. Dubbie has been coming to his grandparents' farm for the summer since he was five years old, so living there was nothing new to him. But now he wouldn't go home after the summer ended. Although this is the life Dubbie wanted for himself, he never realized it would come through heartbreaks and tragedies. In the midst of everything going on in his life, Dubbie also finds the love of his life, the girl next door. She had been there the whole time, and Dubbie never knew it. This is the tale of an unforgettable story where a young man is forced to grow up into adulthood as life unfolds before him. In a way that only a C.R. Waters's novel can, love is allowed to grow through heartaches and pain, laughter and sorrows, where a young man's love for his parents and grandparents is deep and the love of two young people grows deeper.

Download or read book All the Lost Voices written by Anthony Morelli and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Lost Voices is a first-person narrative that vacillates between the narrator’s present condition in a Mexico City brothel and his past experiences growing up fast and frightened in the unforgiving landscape of his hometown, Paterson, New Jersey. The parallel story lines are artfully interwoven creating a sometimes furious, sometimes apologetic exposition that encompasses not only a glimpse into the current psychosis of the protagonist, Tony De Felice, but a rearward view of the process that has brought this madness to surface. Alcoholism, violence, thieving, murder, exile, the imprisonment of his father, the loss of a fragile youth—all are addressed in drunken rants and gentle, often philosophical appeals to the reader, a tempestuous marriage of form and content offset by unexpectedly funny bits of wisdom and hilarious scenes of youthful indiscretion. The novel advances in several directions at once, from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City to Tuxpan in the present tense, and from Paterson to Florida to Oregon to any and all points of the American map in the past tense, via car, train, plane, and bus. Yet in spite of this motion, the narrator remains emotionally frozen, bound to his past and locked within the parameters of his mind, feverishly writing his way towards an elusive understanding of himself.

Download or read book Meet Me at the Riverside written by Rocky F. Catman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaun Collins and Clarissa Alba are hometown sweethearts who have been separated by life. Clarissa moved east to pursue a career in advertising, while Shaun headed to Los Angeles to record music at the behest of his musical mentor. For five years, they have had no contact-and a lot can change in five years. Shaun is now a multi-platinum musician, international celebrity, and world-class womanizer who carefully hides the hole in his heart left by Clarissa. Meanwhile, she is an advertising executive in New York City who just ended a relationship with her substitute for Shaun. Much to her dismay, no one can replace her first love. Circumstances bring them both home at the same time, and when their eyes meet on the Riverside dance floor, old feelings rekindle. But they are no longer the same couple that fell in love years before. They've both changed dramatically, and as Shaun prepares to go back on tour, it becomes apparent those differences could tear them apart.

Download or read book Meet Me in the Bathroom written by Lizzy Goodman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands. In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war—and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem. Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it—including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend—and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many others musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock-and-roll.

Download or read book Meet Me at Fountain Park written by Mindy Killgrove and published by Mindy Killgrove. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love is a bit like running a race--it's not easy for anyone. Meet Me at Fountain Park Everything changes, or at least that’s what they say. For Missy Lawrence, this old adage just doesn’t fit. Her life has come to an unsolicited standstill. Her job as a news reporter for WSTA-Charlotte is miraculously mundane and her love life is practically non-existent. Even though she tries, she can’t seem to pull herself out of this rut. While she’s stuck in between, all of her friends are finding themselves in a flurry of activities: Brooklyn’s moving in with Duke, Benson and Jack are heading across the country in search of stardom, and Adair is preparing to walk down the aisle and wed the man of her dreams. As her social engagements pile up, she notices that her calendar has reached maximum capacity because of her friends and their obligations. Missy now realizes that she is going to have to make a huge decision: Will she stay in the past or will she join her capricious pals and take a leap of her own? Reader Reviews: Mindy Killgrove builds the story of a modern young woman and her group of friends in this second novel in the Missy Lawrence Trilogy: Meet Me at Fountain Park. With a delicious blend of humor, sex appeal, and naivety, Killgrove takes the reader inside the eyes of the protagonist and allows them to ponder some of life’s biggest questions. This novel is the perfect beach blanket read and can be devoured on one sunny afternoon. Again, Missy Lawrence and her band of fabulous friends drew me in and entertained me throughout this entire second installment of Killgrove's Missy Lawrence Trilogy. I felt her characters were so accessible, and the ups and downs they found themselves in throughout the work so relatable, that I'm really looking forward to her third installment (although I will be sad when there isn't any new material). This was such a great sophomoric release that I highly recommend it to all would-be Missy Lawrence fans! ​

Download or read book Shayla written by Regina LaFrance and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAYLA is a calling and a movement dedicated to survivors of abuse. This semi-autobiographical novel and explosive bombshell lifts controversial veil on long-held trauma and reveals all. Inspired by real-life tragic events, SHAYLA is novelized to where only the names have been changed in this shattering account that takes on the persona of author, Regina LaFrance, as a child; when her nightmare started to unfold and escalate to unconscionable enormity. This heart-wrenching story spans to the time when young Shayla (Regina) was robbed of her youth, deflowered at the tender age of nine, as she was sexually attacked by the pedophile priest from her old village. By age 10 she became pregnant with his baby and was forced into an unfathomable, barbaric abortion. Trying to move forward in Shayla's adult life, away from her haunted past of pain, shame and suffering, this story is also about finding peace, redemption and emotional freedom. The bed of flowers on original cover make up picturesque scenery that young Regina would daydream (mentally escape) to when she was being raped by the priest as young girl—and why this imagery is a key part of the concept for her desired cover.

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