Download or read book Saving Ben written by Ashley Farley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is sweet for Katherine Langley. A freshman at the University of Virginia, she is free from the drama of her parents' dysfunctional marriage and ready to focus on studying to become a nurse. Her brother, Ben, belongs to the hottest fraternity on campus, and her new roommate, Emma, is beautiful and charming, a party girl whose answer for a hangover is happy hour. She is also a psychopath. When Katherine's obsessive-compulsive overprotective brother succumbs to Emma's charms and falls dangerously off-track, Katherine must save Ben from himself. Lives are threatened and someone disappears on New Year's Day. The only evidence left: a single set of footprints in the snow. From the university campus to a cozy cottage on Carter's Creek, Virginia, Saving Ben is a haunting tale of love and loyalty, anger management, substance abuse, and betrayal.

Download or read book Embrace the Darkness written by Ashley N. Rostek and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I should warn you, I'm not a good person. I tried to be good...normal. But the darkness can't be suppressed forever. Six years ago, I walked away from the family. Now, I must go back. I have no choice. But things will be different this time. I'm stronger, smarter, and I refuse to submit in a world ruled by dangerous men. My name is Maura Quinn. I'm the Banphrionsa--Princess in my father's dark kingdom of crime. Everyone has a story. Even the bad guy. So proceed with caution because this is my descent or my rise. It depends on how you look at it. But most of all, this is how I embrace the darkness.*** Warning: This is a dark and twisted tale with violence, foul language, and sexual content. May contain triggers.***

Download or read book Ashley s Journey written by Cynthia Call and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley can steal your heart with her smile. Growing up, she had a spunky sense of humor and made friends easily. But something changed. Secluded in a life of drugs, lies and manipulation, Ashley became someone that nobody recognized. Her actions shocked her family and came close to taking her life. Completely reliant upon God’s mercy and her faith, Ashley’s mother plunged in head first to save her dying daughter. Follow this family as God tenderly sets Ashley back on a path of hope and trust in the One who makes all things possible.

Download or read book Remaking Black Power written by Ashley D. Farmer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.

Download or read book Push written by Sapphire and published by Vintage Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant by her father.

Download or read book Heart of Iron written by Ashley Poston and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A 2019 Rainbow Book List Selection* An action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of Anastasia. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows,Cinder, and the cult classic television show Firefly. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them. When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive. What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?

Download or read book Knowing the Score written by Marie Donovan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewelry designer Ashley Craig snags an exclusive invite to the oh-so-posh Bella Florida Polo Club in order to "bump into" a world-renowned jewelry seller and wow him with her creations. Instead, she spies polo player Beckett Emery, who has a body designed to wow her…. The problem is that Mr. Polo-Playing Sexypants makes Ashley forget about her business proposal—as well as everything else that doesn't involve Beck being stark naked. What's worse, he might think she was using him to get access to the club. Can she keep up with her fancy charade…without Beck knowing the score?

Download or read book Immediate Family written by Ashley Nelson Levy and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A goop Book Club Selection and Best Book of the Year • Amazon Editors' Choice “This unsparing and absorbing family portrait broke my heart and remade it a hundred times over.” —Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin It is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, her brother, Danny, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared a bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. What follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. In Immediate Family, a tender and fierce debut novel, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family.

Download or read book The Saving Seed written by Ashley Parks Cfp and published by BB Madison Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saving Seed challenges families to get in touch with their financial belief system, their money roots, to uncover good and bad habits with regard to money. The seeds we plant in our children, as the seeds that were planted in us, shape who they are and who they grow up to be. Ashley Parks, CFP(r) discusses how to model good financial behaviors with your children, starting in their youth and continuing into adulthood. This book will help you to understand what seeds to plant, determine what kind of roots you have and how to grow a financially healthy family tree. Understanding money in your family is crucial not only to your child's survival in the financial world, but a healthy relationship with money is what is needed for our country to survive. Plant good seeds and become a part of changing our future financial landscape.

Download or read book The Last Place You d Look written by Carole Moore and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day people go missing. Some run away, some are kidnapped, some are the victims of foul play. This book examines true stories of missing persons and their families alongside the various resources available to them.

Download or read book Masculinities in Play written by Nicholas Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity—including issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarism—and their intersections with digital games, the contexts of their play, and the social futures associated with sustained involvement in gaming cultures. Unlike much of the research and public discourse that put the onus of “fixing” games and gaming cultures on those at its margins—women, LGBTQ, and people of color—this volume turns attention to men and masculinities, offering vital and productive avenues for both practical and theoretical intervention.

Download or read book Ashley Bell written by Dean Koontz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the must-read thriller of the year, perfect for readers of dark psychological suspense and modern classics of mystery and adventure.

Download or read book The Separation written by Joshua Bailey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Separation marks the beginning of the Battle of Ertonia. Jacob is a typical boy from Waterport, New York, who, upon hearing news of an explosion at the address of his friend Ashley's house, goes to investigate. Ashley is safe, fortunately, but the house is decimated, and an old stone well is uncovered among the ruins. Curious, both friends draw closer to the well, but are pushed in by a shadow. They wake up in Traledor, a fantastical realm reminiscent of the bygone medieval era. There, they encounter allies such as the magically adroit warriors Joshua and David, the homely giant Mechi, and the demonic Valex, minion of the dark lord Jaque-em. As the story unfolds, Ashley goes missing, and Jacob takes it upon himself to train harder, search for her, and hopefully, fulfill the destiny that the inhabitants of old Traledor had prophesied. Jacob must stop Jaque-em and his army of demons from conquering this world, which he eventually learns to call his home.

Download or read book Beach House Romance written by Cora Seton and published by One Acre Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s 27 and just hit rock bottom… Emma Miller’s fiancé left her days before her meal delivery business went bust. Now she’s broke, homeless and starting out all over again, weighed down with debt that isn’t even hers. So when she learns she and her estranged sister, Ashley, have received an unexpected inheritance, she’s thrilled. Now they can both move to Seahaven, California and run Brightview, her grandmother’s rambling beachside bed & breakfast. She’ll do the cooking. Ashley can tend the Cliff Garden, the attached acre of winding paths and flower beds that has been in their family for generations. With her money and family woes solved, who knows—maybe someday Emma will find love again, too. He’s 33 and just hit it out of the park… Noah Hudson’s life couldn’t be better. He’s sold his successful business and can finally right the wrong he did years ago to his older brother’s career. Andrew deserves his turn in the limelight, so Noah just bought one of the last undeveloped oceanfront lots in Seahaven. He’ll give Andrew an unlimited budget to design and build a luxury vacation home that will land on the cover of every architectural magazine. While he’s waiting for his new digs, Noah has found a handy living situation in the bed & breakfast next door. While Andrew pursues his dream, he can spend his days on his own passions: extreme sports photography. Emma is furious when she finds out Ashley sold their grandmother’s garden to the newly minted millionaire renting one of her guest rooms—a very handsome millionaire who seems to have nothing better to do but surf, snap a few photos, and play havoc with her heart. Noah just realized what he left off his to-do list: find the woman of his dreams. Turns out she’s his current landlady and about to be his next-door neighbor—if she doesn’t kill him for destroying her grandmother’s legacy first. Can Emma and Noah find a way to heal the past without ruining their future together?

Download or read book Some Kind of Normal written by Heidi Willis and published by NorlightsPress. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Babcock family faces a life-threatening illness, they must also deal with the opposing positions of medical science and their church.

Download or read book Harlequin Romantic Suspense October 2020 Box Set written by Deborah Fletcher Mello and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON 911: AGENT BY HER SIDE (A Colton 911: Grand Rapids novel) by Deborah Fletcher Mello FBI agent Cooper Winston is determined to take down a deadly pyramid scheme and PI Kiely Colton has the information to make that happen. She’s not going to let him push her out of the search, but when danger flares, they’re forced to rely on each other and face the attraction they both fear. COLTON STORM WARNING (A Coltons of Kansas novel) by Justine Davis The last thing security expert Ty Colton wants is to play bodyguard for a spoiled heiress. But just as he begins to discover that there’s more to Ashley Hart than meets the eye, the threats against her are acted on—and the very weather itself tries to tear them apart. FAMILY IN THE CROSSHAIRS (A Sons of Stillwater novel) by Jane Godman Dr. Leon Sinclair is trying to rebuild his life when Dr. Flora Monroe arrives in town and threatens his job…and his peace of mind. But Flora and her twins are in danger and Leon must face the demons of his past in order to keep them safe. GUARDING HIS MIDNIGHT WITNESS (An Honor Bound novel) by Anna J. Stewart The last time he lost a witness, Detective Jack McTavish nearly lost his job. Now, protecting Greta Renault, an artist who witnessed a murder, is his top priority. As he’s forced to choose between believing her and saving his career, Jack’s decision could make the difference between life and death.

Download or read book Snake Skin written by CJ Lyons and published by CJ Lyons+ORM. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a Glock-carrying soccer mom in the series debut that’s “everything a great thriller should be—action packed, authentic, and intense” (Lee Child). A loving mom and wife, dutiful daughter, consummate professional, and kick-ass federal agent, Lucy Guardino is living the perfect life in Pittsburgh as a Supervisory Special Agent running the FBI’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement squad. Until the day she comes up against a predator more vicious and cunning than any she’s ever tackled before, one who forces Lucy to choose between the life of the young victim she is fighting to save and her own daughter’s . . . and Lucy’s dream life is shattered. Praise for CJ Lyons’ thrillers “A pulse-pounding adrenalin rush!” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “A high stakes adventure with dire consequences.” —Steve Berry, New York Times–bestselling author “Pulse-pounding suspense and hair-raising chills.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “A compelling new voice in thriller writing . . . I love how the characters come alive on every page.” —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times–bestselling author