Download or read book Last Night in Twisted River written by John Irving and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

Download or read book Fallen Angels written by Patricia Hickman and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeb Nubey hides a secret about his past that has left him alienated from his family and hiding from the law.

Download or read book Silver and Red written by Nichole Sutton-Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s all just chance. There’s nothing special about the good people that would make them a target. Bad people, on the other hand, truly have something to worry about. Silver and Red follows the journey of two teens in Indianapolis, IN who are faced with challenges that would drive any ordinary person crazy. Sex, drugs, and a blood stained history bring them closer together and pull them further apart. What are the chances that something good would happen to them?

Download or read book After Dark written by Harold J. Recinos and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recinos’ love for poetry began on the tormented streets of the South Bronx and the experience of being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on them. On the streets, Recinos discovered a world of extreme poverty and drugs, until four years later he was taken into the family of a White Presbyterian minister and guided back into school. In graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended the Nuyorican poets the late Miguel Piñero and Pedro Pietri, who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets café. After Dark is poetry that speaks distinctively of the cultural and worldly experience of Black and Brown humanity driven by the resilience and challenging worlds that impose human limitations. Recinos uses the poetic instrument to enable readers to hear the history and share the experiences of people who see hope in “the brutal atmosphere / of this land of purple mountain majesties / lashed to fierce grief.” Recinos is a poet who writes between the lines and with a Spanglish vision for life.

Download or read book Contracultura written by Christopher Dunn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship erupted under even the most oppressive political conditions. Dunn reveals previously ignored connections between the counterculture and Brazilian music, literature, film, visual arts, and alternative journalism. In chronicling desbunde, the Brazilian hippie movement, he shows how the state of Bahia, renowned for its Afro-Brazilian culture, emerged as a countercultural mecca for youth in search of spiritual alternatives. As this critical and expansive book demonstrates, many of the country's social and justice movements have their origins in the countercultural attitudes, practices, and sensibilities that flourished during the military dictatorship.

Download or read book Angel s Secret written by Sheila Newberry and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Angel's Secret is an uplifting novel from the Queen of family saga, and author of Bicycles and Blackberries, Sheila Newberry. Suffolk, 1924. After the death of her fiancé in the field hospitals of France, Angel becomes nurse to the MacDonald family in the small village of Uffasham. Taking residence at the appropriately named Angel Inn, she is met by many new faces - and old ones, too. Edith, a fellow nurse from the war, while taking great interest in Angel's new life, refuses to let her forget her old one. As Angel grows closer to her employer, Robert, Edith threatens to expose a secret that could ruin everything . . . Can Angel ever be free to move on with her new life and her new family, or will the secrets of her past finally be revealed? 'Reading a Sheila Newberry book is like having dinner with your mother in her warm and cosy kitchen. You can feel the love and care put into every juicy morsel' - Diane Allen, bestselling author of For the Sake of Her Family 'I have long been a fan of Sheila Newberry's novels. I love their wonderful warmth and charm.' Maureen Lee, bestselling author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool Previously published as Angel's War.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-02-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book The Quest written by Susan Kearney and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n THE ULTIMATUM, he was a sex slave. Now Kirek's a full-grown Rystani warrior with the most powerful mind in the galaxy. During his previous mission, Kirek learned the Zin, an ancient enemy, are about to decimate the Federation. To stop them, he must sneak into enemy territory--and he's targeted just the right woman to help him. When Captain Angel Taylor "finds" the ultra sexy psi-warrior stowed away on her space salvage--and he claims he needs her help--she's cautious. Angel's a self-made captain and barely scraping by with her antiquated ship. But after Kirek promises her sole access to the galaxy's richest salvage haul, she's drawn into his reckless mission. It doesn't hurt that she finds Kirek devastatingly attractive. Charming. A man who knows how to play every sexual game. He's the perfect candidate for a fling. Too bad he keeps insisting that fate has brought them together, that they are destined to be life-mates, and that her psi is as all-powerful as his own. However sexy Angel finds the Rystani warrior, she isn't about to give up her skepticism, her independence, or her heart. So while they make an unlikely team, their battle of wills quickly escalates into a game of seduction. But once they're deep in enemy territory, Kirek risks everything--to save the Federation and to win Angel's everlasting love.

Download or read book The Sins of an Angel written by Ivella Jacobs and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Sins of an Angel: The Linmore Chronicles," Angelica "Angel" Hampton-Madison recalls the ups and downs of her life to a priest, hoping for guidance into a growing dilemma. Throughout life, Angel has been dealt a difficult hand. Following the death of Angel's parents, growing up on the wrong side of the tracks with her grandparents Blanche and Charles Franklin in the small community of Linmore, Indiana, was a challenge. But her relationship with Daniel Madison is a glimmer of hope for the red-haired beauty. However, the Madison family has it's own sinister secrets. Matriarch Elva Madison, who has been a nagging sore in the Franklin family's side before Angel was born, rules with a venomous tongue and an iron hand. Quickly alienated in an abusive marriage, Angel finds herself struggling with Daniel's increasing rage and intolerance while trying to preserve a relationship with her two daughters, who are taught to detest and disregard their mother by Elva's relentless meddling. Confronted with the daunting decision of whether to stay and hope for the best or venture out into the unknown alone, Angel discovers a radical third path while watching a newscast about recent carjackings that she believes will rekindle the magic her marriage once had. Angel is further confused when a familiar source of happiness reenters her life while waiting for the situation to turn the way she is hoping for. Meanwhile, the investigation into Angel's mysterious disappearance - and potential murder - engulfs the community of Linmore, who have been aware of the Madison family's dark secrets the entire time. Once all the drama unfolds and she is done bearing her soul to the priest, Angel is left with a simple decision; turn left or right, unsure where the new paths will take her.

Download or read book Angel and the Assassin written by Fyn Alexander and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-07-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kael Saunders loves to dominate handsome, masculine men like himself. Being in charge is his way of life, whether it be in his work with the secret intelligence service MI6, his empty and lonely personal life, or in the dungeon in his expensive flat on the River Thames. The last thing this no-nonsense, strict, and disciplined secret agent expects when he is out on a hit chasing down a gun runner is to fall in love with Angel Button, a young man desperate for the love and guidance of a Daddy. After spending his formatives years in foster care and then with his selfish, social-climbing mother and stepfather, Angel wants security, stability, and a man to love. However, Angel also has a passion for being spanked and restrained. Two very different men find love in a world of skilled assassins, Bosnian terrorists, and dungeon play. But can they make it work?

Download or read book The Crystal Mountain written by Thomas M. Reid and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven comes to the depths of Hell in this final Empyrean Odyssey adventure starring half-demon Kaanyr Vhok and his succubus lover, Aliisza Having escaped from his gilded cage in Heaven into the claws of demons, the half-fiend ruler Kaanyr Vhok is finally in position to exact revenge on his angel captors. Meanwhile, the succubus Aliisza—an escaped prisoner herself—is unsure where her loyalties truly lie. She has betrayed her lover, her son, and the angel who freed her in order to stop the dark plot to kill the goddess Mystra. She failed. Now the goddess is dead, magic is malfunctioning, and Aliisza and her companions are trapped. With nowhere else to turn, she must call upon the angels and demons she has just forsaken. Can she convince them to trust her and work together . . . before they kill each other?

Download or read book Dragon of Heaven written by Du Cheng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vampire ancestor, a five-clawed golden dragon, a Flaming Mirror of Emperor, a Sorrowful God Sword, and a young man in white clothes floating over from Hua Xia, stepping into the underworld with a sword. In this great dark yellow world, laughing at the buddhas of the world, wanting to break the will of heaven to die, to live to the end of time, until the mountains and rivers are reborn, until the universe is cleared, the gods are silent, the sky is clear, the end of cultivation, we cultivators will bear the burden of our hearts! 

Download or read book Making Certain It Goes On The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-07-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of a major American poet’s work. Richard Hugo was, in James Wright’s words, “a great poet, true to our difficult life.” Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, together with the new poems he wrote in his last years.

Download or read book Mylor written by Michael Maguire and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfie and Angel Young return to Parkway Grange for the holidays. The last time they saw Mylor, he had had a terrible accident. Had the Professor been able to restore the magnificent, lifelike electronic horse? Would he be the same? Luckily, Mylor is as perfect as ever, but almost everything else isn't Parkway Grange, the beautiful maze-surrounded home of the Professor and Boff, is to be demolished and replaced by high-rise flats unless 100,000 can be raised. Glen Striker, a sinister and cruel neighbour, constantly turns up at the oddest places and clearly has plans for Mylor. Angel, Alfie and Boff's new friendship with Davina and Prince Aziz seems threatened by the fact that Davina's father is the man who wants to bulldoze Parkway Grange. Trouble follows trouble when Mylor disappears. There are threats, fights, and a kidnapping, all building towards an action-packed climax at a tournament

Download or read book THE UNLIKELY BODYGUARD written by Amy J. Fetzer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TEMPTING, TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT Tired of being Miss Goody Two-shoes, Calli Thornton was ready to kick up her heels for a little adventure. She was a woman with a mission. But a sexy stranger thwarted every opportunity. It almost seemed as if this man had decided to save Calli from herself. Rancher Gabe Griffin had been secretly hired to protect Calli. But Gabe couldn't even keep his professional—let alone physical—distance when he moved her to his ranch for safekeeping. Heck, he couldn't even protect himself from falling hard and fast for the blue-eyed beauty. But a love-'em-and-leave-'em man like Gabe could never give Calli the forever she deserved. Could he?

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Download or read book Guardians The Turn Book 3 Previously titled Angels Of Omnis written by Lola St.Vil and published by Lola St.Vil. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There. Will. Be. Blood. After the Council hands down a severe punishment, A Guardian declares war on the Angel world. Before the end Lives will be lost Love will be tested And blood WILL flow...