Download or read book Nude Besides the Lake A Novel written by Ashok Malhotra and published by Dr. Ashok Malhotra. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story set around a beautiful blue lake surrounded by lush green hills in the Himalayas, of a town where being fully nude for men or women, day or night is normal. The choice of the word 'besides' in the title instead of 'beside' is intentional.
Download or read book A Week at the Lake written by Wendy Wax and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, Emma, Mackenzie and Serena bonded over their New York City dreams. Then, each summer, they spent one week together at the lake. It's been five years since Emma has seen her friends, but now she's in desperate need of their support. But when a terrible accident keeps Emma from saying her piece, Serena and Mackenzie begin to learn about the past on their own. Now, to heal their friendship and their broken lives, the three women will have to return to the lake that once united them and discover which relationships are worth holding on to.
Download or read book Tell No One written by Harlan Coben and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive. Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope. But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.
Download or read book Every Last Drop A Novel written by Sarah Robinson and published by Books by Sarah Robinson. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a 2021 RWA Vivian Finalist in Mainstream Fiction* Marry the love of my life. Become a mother. Write a book. Number one was complete. I was well on my way to checking off goals two and three, before a cancer diagnosis derailed my plans. A story meant to chronicle the journey of impending motherhood with wit, became a brutally honest memoir of living life to the fullest. Make every breath count. When finally confronted with the knowledge the cancer is terminal, I search for a way to accomplish all the things I wanted to do within my lifetime... when I don’t have a lifetime left. Every Last Drop is the heartfelt, unflinching, and original story of how when faced with the hardest truth, we finally learn how far we will go to discover who we are before it’s too late.
Download or read book Second Shot of Whiskey A Small Town Southern Romance Standalone Novel written by Sarah Robinson and published by Books by Sarah Robinson. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Wylde is ready to prove he’s more than just the privileged son of a wealthy Southern dynasty. Wyldefire Whiskey is poised to take Nashville by storm—and with any luck, overshadow the scandal of his cheating ex-girlfriend marrying his brother. The only problem? This gruff country boy has no idea how to throw a launch party that will get people talking. The answer to everything might just be Holly Glen. A party wrapped up in one tiny woman, Holly is tattooed, tempting, and exactly the event planner Sam needs to liven up his brand—and his life. He can give her what she needs, too. All it will take is a ring on her finger. Falling in real love with his fake wife was not part of the plan—but one shot of Holly isn’t going to be enough. (Formerly titled Wylde Fire and published in 2019. It has since received intense edits, scene additions, and a brand new cover and title!)
Download or read book A Crystal Lake Novel Boxed Set 1 3 written by Juliana Stone and published by Juliana Stone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set includes the first three titles in the Crystal Lake Novel series. The Thing About Trouble: Cam Booker learned the hard way that commitment and love aren’t for him. Fresh out of a relationship that nearly saw him go to jail, he’s focused on building a life and his business. But when he suddenly finds himself responsible for a motherless five-year-old, his world is turned upside down. What does he know about caring for a little girl? On top of that, his newest client, the notorious widow Banes is definitely the kind of trouble he doesn’t need. That Thing You Do: All her life, tomboy Molly Malone, has been one of the guys. When her brother decides to get married it means the gang will reunite, but more importantly it means Nate Jacobs will finally come home. With the impending nuptials looming fast and a family that can barely put together a grocery list, Molly will be tested like never before. To make matters worse, one look from Nate confirms he’s still her kryptonite and that her teenage crush is now something more. He's only ever thought of her as ‘one of the boys’ and to protect her heart, she’s determined to keep it that way. A Little Bit of Christmas: For ex-con, Cash Bodine, surprising his sister at Christmas just got complicated. His plan to blow into Crystal Lake and then leave is squashed when a winter storm settles in, stranding him at a motel outside of town. He has no choice but to hunker down and make the best of it, and while the woman next door intrigues him, he has no desire to get tangled up in her life. He’s not sticking around past the holidays, so why bother?
Download or read book The Lake Wobegon Virus written by Garrison Keillor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin’ motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears—a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
Download or read book The Guy Next Door A Potter Lake Novel written by DL White and published by DL White. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evonne busted into Taj's life like a wrecking ball!" In the charming nooks of Potter Lake, Evonne Girard, a vivacious hair stylist has an unexpected encounter with Taj Wright, a soulful nurse with a mysterious past. Their chance meeting at the Curl & Dye is filled with sparks and unforgettable moments. But as fate would have it, they part ways, only to be reeled back by destiny. Evonne's leap towards independence lands her in a delightful rental. Little does she know it's owned by Taj—the nurse who's been lingering in her thoughts. For Taj, Potter Lake was his second chance, a fresh slate. With Evonne now as his tenant, "close quarters" gets a whole new meaning. When a fierce storm pins them together, the chemistry is palpable, leading them on a whirlwind escape to a beachside haven where boundaries blur. However, every tale has its twist. A secret they share could be the bridge that brings them closer or the chasm that tears them apart.
Download or read book Violence Nudity Adult Content written by Vince Passaro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Violence, Nudity, Adult Content" is as suspenseful as a Scott Turow legal thriller and as dramatic and incisive as the best work of Russell Banks and Lorrie Moore--a book alternately erotic, funny, frightening, and beautiful. It stands as a revelatory novel about morality, justice, contemporary manners, and the long, hard road to personal redemption.
Download or read book Like a Lake written by Carol Mavor and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to grasp, “like water slipping through our fingers.” Can a man innocently love a boy who is not his own? Using fiction to reveal the truths about families, communities, art objects, love, and mourning, Like a Lake tells the story of ten-year-old Nico, who lives with his father (an Italian- American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor who learned how to draw while interned during World War II). Set in the 1960s, this is a story of aesthetic perfection waiting to be broken. Nico’s midcentury modern house, with its Italian pottery jars along the outside and its interior lit by Japanese lanterns. The elephant-hide gray, fiberglass reinforced plastic 1951 Eames rocking chair, with metal legs and birch runners. Clam consommé with kombu, giant kelp, yuzu rind, and a little fennel—in each bowl, two clams opened like a pair of butterflies, symbols of the happy couple. Nico’s boyish delight in developing photographs under the red safety light of Coda’s “Floating Zendo”— the darkroom boat that he keeps on Lake Tahoe. The lives of Nico, his parents, and Coda embody northern California’s postwar landscape, giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles and poetic visions. Author Carol Mavor addresses the sensuality and complexity of a son’s love for his mother and that mother’s own erotic response to it. The relationship between the mother and son is paralleled by what it means for a boy to be a model for a male photographer and to be his muse. Just as water can freeze into snow and ice, melt back into water, and steam, love takes on new forms with shifts of atmosphere. Like a Lake’s haunting images and sensations stay with the reader.
Download or read book The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 written by Joe Hill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories published during 2014.
Download or read book Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing written by Anna Faktorovich and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on the top two bestselling genres in modern fiction. It is a linguistic, literary stylistic, and structurally formalist analysis of the male and female “sentences” in the genres that have the greatest gender divide: romances and mysteries. The analysis will search for the historical roots that solidified what many think of today as a “natural” division. Virginia Woolf called it the fabricated “feminine sentence,” and other linguists have also identified clear sexpreferential differences in AngloAmerican, Swedish and French novels. Do female mystery writers adopt a masculine voice when they write mysteries? Are femalepenned mysteries structurally or linguistically different from their male competitors’, and vice versa among male romance writers? The first part can be used as a textbook for gender stylistics, as it provides an indepth review of prior research. The second part is an analysis of the results of a survey on readers’ perception of gender in passages from literature. The last part is a linguistic and structural analysis of actual statistical differences between the novels in the two genres, considering the impact of the author’s gender.
Download or read book Photography Books Index written by Martha Kreisel and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthologies of photographs are indexed by photographer, subject, and named individuals in portraits.
Download or read book Nude in Tub written by G. K. Wuori and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen stories set in a rural Maine town focus on people caught in unusual situations of nakedness, and reflect America's obsessions with sex, violence, and immorality
Download or read book All the Rage written by Courtney Summers and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a "Best Book of 2015" by Bustle, Book Riot, Chicago Public Library, Quill and Quire, and the B&N Teen Blog! The sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everything-friends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romy's only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past there; she can finally be anonymous. But when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing after a party, and news of him assaulting another girl in a town close by gets out, Romy must decide whether she wants to fight or carry the burden of knowing more girls could get hurt if she doesn't speak up. Nobody believed her the first time-and they certainly won't now-but the cost of her silence might be more than she can bear. With a shocking conclusion and writing that will absolutely knock you out, Courtney Summers' new novel All the Rage examines the shame and silence inflicted upon young women in a culture that refuses to protect them.
Download or read book American Historical Fiction written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication will fill a gap in the bibliographic reference shelf by identifying historical novels for both adult and young adult readers. ^IAmerican Historical Fiction^R contains over 3,000 titles set in states and historical regions of the United States. Entries are organized by time period. The newest titles, as well as old favorites, are covered. The volume is indexed by author, title, genre, subject, and geographic setting.
Download or read book Gone Away Lake written by Elizabeth Enright and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
