Download or read book Rinse Off My Color and Call 911 written by Sher Lee Sommers and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through our home passed race car drivers, astronauts,a Walt Disney Director, the Australian and Chilean Davis Cup Teams, professional musicians, NBA coaches, players and presidents, a few criminals, Charles Goren, con artists and many, many relatives., and my daughters still managed to grow up to be fine people. The book is meant to be an entertaining and enlightening story telling just how my daughters became such wonderful adults. I was the first influence in their lives, but I believe that every person they met and every experience they had also had an influence on them. Their father was rich, a graduate from Harvard and a thirty one year old businessman, and I was a nineteen year old aspiring opera singer when we met. The book deals with the differences in our backgrounds, and our interests, and my trying to make it as a singer in New York, then getting married instead and creating a happy home in which to bring up children in spite of many untimely deaths, illnesses, disappointments and heart attacks, I have written about my ideas about raising children, but also about such wheelers and dealers, as my father in law, Charles B. Sommers, and Carl Fisher, the developer of Miami Beach and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with D.C. Stephenson, head of the Ku Klux Klan, with a lurid murder trial in Indianapolis, with Methodist Hospital, Clarian Health Care, racing cars and races, semesters abroad, our fabulous trips to Europe, Wimbledon, South America, and Trenton, and my opinions about just about every topic you can think of. I end with a chapter on the technology and events that has changed our lives and with my memories and thoughts about WWII and 9//11, and what I see for the future. My point is that all these things played a part in determining how my children grew to be such fine adults.

Download or read book Summer Blowout written by Claire Cook and published by Marshbury Beach Books. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer Blowout is a USA TODAY bestseller! “As intoxicating as a seat at the top of the Ferris wheel. Reading Claire Cook might be the most fun you have all summer.”—Elin Hilderbrand “Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it. Summer Blowout is irresistible!”—Meg Cabot “As refreshing as an icy drink on a sultry day.” —Family Circle Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family’s small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, along with her four half-brothers and -sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times-divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair, who is obsessed with all things Italian and still carries a torch for his first wife, Bella’s mother. After Bella’s own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella decides she has seen enough of the damage love can do. She makes a vow: no more men. Then Bella meets a cute entrepreneur at a college fair, and despite their bickering, they can’t seem to stay away from each other. He also gives her a brilliant business idea, one that just might allow her to share her makeup expertise with the world. A small, well-tressed dog finds her way into her life, and her heart, and she decides to chance that, too. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly—in a summer blowout no one will ever forget. This hilarious, rambunctious novel is pure Claire Cook: full of juicy conflict and unconditional love. “Lipstick rules in this sunny romance tucked inside a Boston family’s chain of beauty salons…Snap this one up and enjoy the makeup advice.”—Library Journal “Summer Blowout is every bit as much fun as Must Love Dogs and Life’s a Beach.”—The Times-Picayune “Laugh out loud.”—Good Housekeeping “Summer Blowout is primed, like Cook’s previous novel Must Love Dogs, to become a big-screen romantic comedy.”—Booklist “Nobody does the easy-breezy beach book with a lighter hand than Claire Cook.”—Hartford Courant

Download or read book The Color of Darkness written by Michael English Bierwiler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When alcohol and depression overtakes Jim Delano, he forfeits his family, his friends and his job in Dallas-Fort Worth. Jim sets out in his old pickup to live an unencumbered life devoid of responsibility in sparsely populated west Texas. However, the accidental discovery of a dead immigrant worker leads him into a murky world of drugs and counterfeit cash. The only way to recover the life he left behind is through working undercover with his former mentor to bring down the syndicate that controls the desolate Texas town of San Mateo near the Mexican border.

Download or read book The Color of Light written by Emilie Richards and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today–bestselling author “daringly pairs up a minister and her mentor, a Catholic priest” in this romantic woman’s fiction novel (Publishers Weekly). For more than a decade minister Analiese Wagner has felt privileged to lead her parishioners along a well-lit path. Her commitment has never been seriously tested until the frigid night she encounters a homeless family huddling in the churchyard. Offering them shelter in a vacant parish house apartment and taking teenage Shiloh Fowler—a girl desperate to rescue her parents—under her wing, she tests the loyalty and faith of her congregation. Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her first mentor and the man she secretly longed for, understands her struggles only too well. At a crossroads, he’s suddenly reappeared in her life, torn between his priesthood and his growing desire for a future with Analiese. Divided between love and vows they’ve taken, both must face the possibilities of living very different lives or continuing to serve their communities. With a struggling family’s trust and her own happiness on the line, Analiese must define for herself where darkness ends and light begins. Praise for the Goddesses Anonymous series: “Complex characters, compelling emotions and the healing power of forgiveness—what could be better? I loved this book!” —New York Times–bestselling author Sherryl Woods on One Mountain Away “Emotional, suspenseful drama filled with hope and love.” —Library Journal on No River Too Wide

Download or read book The Six Minute Memoir written by Mary Helen Stefaniak and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short essays delivers more joy than many books twice its size. Each essay invites readers into the ordinary life of a woman "with a family and friends and a job . . . and a series of cats and a history living in one old house after another at the turn of the twenty-first century in the middle of the Middle West." Writing prompts at the end of the book invite readers to search their own lives for such moments--the kind that could be forgotten but instead are turned, by the gift of perspective and perfectly chosen detail, into treasure. The Six-Minute Memoir encourages people to tell their own stories even if they think they don't have the kind of story that belongs in a memoir.

Download or read book Trifecta Box Set 3 Novels written by Pamela M. Richter and published by Pamela M. Richter. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRIFECTA - Box Set Midnight Reflections, The Living Image, The Necromancer MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS - Romantic Suspense Julia's Midnight Reflections actually happened at about four in the morning. She was watching a handsome man sleeping in her bed. She rescued him while Robin was playing a dangerous undercover role to help her solve a murder. She herself is playing her own undercover role, working for the man she suspects of several contract kills. Together they discover information so deadly and inflammatory they are forced to flee a murderous politician.  THE LIVING IMAGE - Thriller What would you do if you found your own double? Sabrina discovers that hers is part human and part something else. Things become harrowing when the CIA, The Russians, and a Japanese business man will do anything to possess the woman she calls Eve. The CIA wants to study it. The KGB wants to abduct it for the technology. The Japanese don't care if they have to tear the woman to pieces--they want to know how she was made. THE NECROMANCER - Paranormal Michelle was brutally attacked in her locked hotel room. The police didn't believe her and thought she had invited a man to her room for a little sexual encounter, which went dangerously out of control. She decides an affair with the devilishly handsome man who moved into her building might cure her of the panic attacks. How can she know she picked the wrong man.

Download or read book Shackles from the Grave written by Cynthia Lynn Stigger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia is young, beautiful, and a single mother. She is educated and smart, but not smart enough to know when to release those shackles. Now she is stuck with consequences that would lead her to taking on more than just love. If only she had listen to her best friend Angel that was always pushing God on her But now she is stuck with a decision of either breaking the last two links in the shackles or making it a permanent fixture of her life.

Download or read book Diabolical written by Jana DeLeon and published by Jana DeLeon. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil can always find an accomplice… Nine years ago, police found Shaye Archer wandering in the French Quarter, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name. But her last case uncovered more than she ever anticipated. She’s starting to remember. “I’m launching an investigation,” Shaye says. Eleonore, her friend and therapist sighs. “I figured you would.” “I always knew my past was bad. It couldn’t have been otherwise.” Shaye holds up the piece of paper that had sent her life into a tailspin. “But I never imagined this.”

Download or read book Every Cloak Rolled in Blood written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws. Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron’s only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next. Drawn from James Lee Burke’s own life experiences, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood is a devastating exploration of the nature of good and evil and a deeply moving story about the power of love and family.

Download or read book Looking Through Darkness written by Aimée Thurlo and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers have captured the flavor of the American Southwest better than Aimee and David Thurlo, in both mysteries and romantic suspense. Josephine Buck runs a trading post just off the Navajo Reservation. Widow Leigh Ann Vance is Jo's right-hand-woman, filling the emptiness in her own life. Shortly after her husband, Kurt, was killed, Leigh Ann discovered he had been having a string of affairs. Leigh Ann's trust issues affect her feelings for blind sculptor Melvin Littlewater. Kurt's business partners accuse Leigh Ann of helping Kurt embezzle and the police wonder if Leigh Ann killed him. When she turns to Melvin for help, she finds him fighting his own demons, haunted by memories of a young girl he saw moments before the car crash that cost him his sight. Together, Leigh Ann and Melvin delve into the darkest moments of their pasts, searching for truth and light. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-06-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book The Gold Plated Porsche written by Stephan Wilkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence of lifes serpentine paths sparked by the painstaking and loving restoration of a Porsche 911SC

Download or read book Women of a Certain Age written by Bob Freeman; Rosalie Freeman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE is an 80,000 word version of what goes on in a retirement village in South Florida as seen through the eyes of four senior women. Though this is a work of fiction, many of the situations depicted were real. The authors may have exaggerated these events but they do represent actual incidents that took place in senior communities. Written in an anecdotal style, this novel explores the premise that life goes on after Social Security as does dating and intimacy. Children, even when they are fully grown, pose headaches for their parents. Death is a frequent visitor; the inevitable is always at the next sunrise. These women cope with humor and love. All of this, and more, becomes a way of life and they learn to manage and to survive with the hands they are dealt. We view their heartbreaks, their joys, their good days and bad, and their intense loyalty to one another. The strength of WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE lies in its honest dialogue, realistic situations, and its portrayal of what occurs with the graying of senior women. We learn to love these people, flaws and all, as we begin to understand that they are all a reflection of ourselves and that one day, if we are lucky, we will walk in their shoes.

Download or read book Fountain in the Valley written by Dr. Yvette Hickman, MD and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fountain in the Valley is about the breaking process and the beautiful transformation of us--God's earthen vessels--into the beautiful bride of Christ. It chronicles the spiritual journey to the humility and brokenness required to be fit for the Master's service. This body of work was literally born in a dream, which is depicted on the front cover as prophetic art. Fountain in the Valley also includes original poetry. One poem eloquently describes submission to God--allowing him to lead the dance of life. Many inspirational and transparent testimonies appear throughout the book, where you'll read of individuals going through purification processes. The details of real-life medical miracles are highlights of each chapter. The roles of traditional medicine and God's healing power are explored and united.

Download or read book In the House of the Hangman Volume 7 written by John Bloomberg-Rissman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marathon dance mix consisting of thousands of mashed up text and image samples, In the House of the Hangman tries to give a taste of what life is like there, where it is impolite to speak of the noose. It is the third part of the life project Zeitgeist Spam. If you can't afford a copy ask me for a pdf.

Download or read book Counting Coup written by Rick Church and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-cop and Native American private investigator Noel Two Horses is hired by a well-to-do madame to help clear her decorated Navy corpsman kid-brother who has been recently discharged from the Navy and is now framed for the murder of a Phoenix, Arizona stripper. Two Horses soon discovers he needs to protect his client from his older sister who framed him for the murder. Her estranged family members lived with her dysfunction, power playing, and lying until she was a teenager, and she left home returning to her native Columbia to lead an adult-criminal lifestyle. Supported by illicit drug money and organized cartels, the sister stalks both Two Horses and her brother to silence them.

Download or read book The Brooding Surgeon s Baby Bombshell written by Susan Carlisle and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, unexpected consequences…! But can they be a family? After sparks fly with Dr. Gabriel Marks at a conference, nurse Zoe Avery’s left with a permanent reminder of their night together. Knowing Gabe doesn’t want kids, Zoe decides she’ll have the baby alone. Then Gabe moves to the same city just as pregnant Zoe needs a temporary home. Gabe comes to her rescue, but can they overcome their hurdles and become a family?