Download or read book The Book of Ruth written by Russell Clarke and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Ruth is about two sisters, Ruth Matilda Clarkson and Cora Undine Lasciter, who survive the trials of a challenging childhood and a demanding father in 1940s America and then find themselves swept up in the powerful currents of the men who come into their lives. Ruth, the older, whose life is a sort of modern-day parody of her namesake, Ruth the Moabite of the Old Testament, marries a young man she meets at college, the enigmatic Richard Clarkson, a man controlled by his appetites and unending desires, and leaves her family in St. Louis and moves to the rural town of Ox Bend, Missouri, where she becomes part of the Clarksons’ family-run funeral business. After they have been married only a few months, Ruth’s family, attempting to avoid a scandal, asks her to adopt her sister’s illegitimate child, Aaron, who turns out to be a special-needs child who ultimately transforms Ruth’s life in ways she never thought possible, even after his death in 1990. Her estranged sister, Cora Lasciter, a beautiful, impetuous, free-spirited woman and a survivor of sexual abuse, gives birth to a child, Aaron, at age seventeen, signs over her parental rights to her sister, and then moves from relationship to relationship as she struggles with the demons from her past. Years later, when she attends Aaron’s funeral, the two sisters, bound by their connection to the child, gradually rebuild their filial connection, and together they face the pains of infidelity, the loss of love, and the vicissitudes of old age. It’s an uplifting survival story of two very different women connected by the unbreakable bond of sisterly love, unending faith, and the innocent truth and unfiltered love of a child who brings them back together, and represents the possibility of love, forgiveness, and ultimate redemption.
Download or read book Exposed written by Lexxi James and published by Lexxi James, LLC. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This billionaire will risk losing everything. Everything but her. Book #2 in the Alex Drake Series ★★★★★ "Absolutely Amazing" ★★★★★ "…brilliant page turner." Thirty days. That's how long it takes to get to know a billionaire in his natural habitat. Move in with him. Get to know him better. Discover the real Alex Drake. At least, that's what he told Madison Taylor. Thirty days. To earn her trust. To peel back her defenses. To unravel her desires. And to let her in on a little secret. The reason she's in his life. ________________________________________ EXPOSED is the continuation of ACCESS. HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading ACCESS first. Warning: Full Steam Ahead. Lexxi James Books are seductive, suspenseful romances filled with fun, sensual, and sizzling high-heat love scenes. Reviews "The twists and turns will shock you!" - Goodreads Reviewer "The mystery that is Alex Drake and the secrets that flew off the pages had me captivated." - Goodreads Reviewer "The chemistry between Alex and Madison is still off the charts." - Goodreads Reviewer This billionaire romance series includes: Access: An Alex Drake Novel Exposed: An Alex Drake Novel Burned: An Alex Drake Novel Finders Keepers: An Alex Drake Novel The Alex Drake Collection: Books 1-3 PRAISE FOR THE ALEX DRAKE SERIES: "A smoking hot steamy romance with a mix of James Bond" "... excellent and beautiful” "Captured!" “Access was one of the best books I have read." "...from the first page I was drawn into this story." "The book hangover I know I'll be feeling tomorrow will be so worth it. If your looking for intrigue, surprises and steam factor that is blindingly hot then you need to dive in.” Fans of the following books and series are known to enjoy this billionaire romance series: Fifty Shades Series Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades Freed The Crossfire Series Bared to You Reflected in You Entwined with You Captivated by You One with You This Man Series This Man Beneath this Man This Man Confessed With this Man Fixed Series Fixed on You Found in You Forever With You Hudson Fixed Forever Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this hot romance series: E. L. James Sylvia Day Jodi Ellen Malpas Laurelin Paige CD Reiss Abbi Glines Carly Phillips Colleen Hoover Jamie McGuire K. Bromberg Meredith Wild Nicholas Sparks Nora Roberts Pepper Winters Willow Winters Tijan Jamie McGuire Danielle Steele J. S. Cooper Jodi Piccoult James Patterson Julia Kent Jaine Diamond Aleatha Romig Helen Hardt Keywords related to this billionaire romance series: Billionaire Romance, Epic Sagas, Billionaire Romance Books, Hot Romance Books, Steamy Romance, Steamy Romance Books, Steamy Romance Books, Popular Series, Military Romance, Military Romance Box Set, Billionaire Romance Books For Romance Readers, Top Rated Books, Billionaire Romance Box Set, Romance Box Set, Romance Trilogy, Epic Romance Series, Romance Books, Romance Books, Billionaire Books, Military Romance Books, Hot Romance Books, Contemporary Romance Books For, Epic, Romantic Suspense Books, Romantic Suspense Books, Family Saga Books, Billionaire Set, Billionaire Best Books, Essential Reads, Books For Steamy Romance, Billionaire Romance Book Bundle, Romance Book Bundle, Book, Military Alpha Romance, Alpha Books, Series Starters, Romance Books For Contemporary Romance, Billionaire Romance Series , Military Romance Series, Women’s Action and Adventure Books, Women’s Action and Adventure Box Set, Top Rated Billionaire Romance Collection, Romance Books, Chick Lit Books, Books For Women, Military Romance Bundle, Heroine, Strong Women, Military Romance Series, Romance Box Set, Billionaire Romance Stories, Romance Megapack, Alpha Male Series, Series Box Sets Romance, Military and Romance Books, Adventure Books, Best Rated Billionaire Romance, Alpha Male Collection, Boxed Set, Alpha Male Books, Books To Read And Download, eBook, Romance Books, Adventure, Women’s Adventure, Age-Gap Romance, Age-Gap Romance, Age Gap Romance, Age Gap Romance, Multi-cultural romance, Multicultural Romance, Multicultural Romance, Books, Top Romance Box Set, Collections & Anthologies
Download or read book Tales of Earth Wind and Scales written by Ruben Zamora Equert and published by Rubén Zamora Equert. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, "Tales of Earth, Wind, and Scales," the reader will encounter a narrative universe that surpasses conventional boundaries. Through the sixty-three stories, not only different landscapes and characters are explored, but also multiple dimensions of human experience. It's not an easy book to categorize, and that's precisely its greatest virtue. The title speaks of natural elements, but also of something more elusive: scales. In these pages, there is a hint of a quest, a concern to unravel both the tangible and the spiritual. Each story is a world unto itself, but all share that same life force that makes us irredeemably human. It's a book that invites us to dream but also to reflect. It leads us by the hand, like an experienced guide through a maze, but at each turn, it offers us the freedom to find our own way. Some stories will make us laugh, others will plunge us into deep melancholy, and some will leave us bewildered, amazed by the complexity of the human soul and the world around us. The characters that populate these pages are as diverse as the stories themselves: from the little man crumbled in a corridor to the dreamer seeking answers in the wind. But all of them show us facets of the same reality, a mosaic of emotions and situations that make up the fabric of life. In this book, the narrative voice moves with the same ease through psychological introspection as it does through poetic description. It's as if the author wanted to remind us that beauty and complexity are not exclusive but often intertwined in that intricate dance that is existence. This anthology consists of 63 selected short stories spanning different genres, realities, and emotions. Some are lengthy, others mere whispers. Some may seem familiar to you, but others might appear strange, even foreign. They are brushstrokes, narrative frames, and they are also, all of them, the product of over twenty years of writing from all those versions of me.
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Download or read book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F ck written by Mark Manson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
Download or read book Taken for Granted written by Earl Sewell and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nina comes to terms with her unhappy marriage and underachieving adult daughter, she seeks a change, finding unlikely solace in Richard, who has own marital issues.
Download or read book The Alpha s Claim written by Holley Trent and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim West, the New York Coyote pack alpha, has successfully defended his territory from external threats for almost fifteen years. Pack politics may be a pain in his ass, but his command has never been doubted, his authority never questioned. Until Teddy, an argumentative pancake-house server, challenges more than his patience. The lithe, pretty human calls to Jim's baser instincts. He knows instantly Teddy is his mate—but the timing couldn't be worse. Tension within his pack is growing, and adding a human mate to the mix could spark an uprising, with Teddy as the target. Teddy's smart mouth may heat Jim's blood, but with a full moon only days away, getting Teddy to let down his guard and accept him—the man and the beast—is his main priority. There's no fighting the pull of a mate, but learning his lover is a literal predator might make Teddy run right into the danger Jim's desperate to control. This book is approximately 45,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you're looking for with an HEA/HFN. It's a promise!
Download or read book BACK UP As far as the world stretches written by Bert Holtes and published by Holtes & Sietsma. This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BREAKING NEWS - Part 2 is also via Google or Kobo FREE to read and to download! Or visit the authors' website to download the e-books for free. www.everywhereconnected.com An exciting thriller, with the necessary action, plot twists and many surprises. Nothing is what it seems This story starts in front of the Peace Palace in The Hague, where an attack is committed on the life of the director of UNBI (United Bureau of Investigation).He was summoned to testify at the International Criminal Court in the trial of an international criminal organization. As an investigator, Lémarc Tasker has been assigned to investigate the attack, and he starts an unprecedented, fierce, international manhunt to find the perpetrators. During the manhunt he has to deal with all kinds of strange twists and turns and gets help from an unexpected angle: a woman! Just a woman? Or is there more? Because if so, then who is responsible for this chain of special events with dazzling moments? Will he (and the reader) succeed in unravelling the mystery surrounding the attack? ================================= This book is the first part of the fictional thriller series 'BACK-UP'. This first and the second part can you also read via KOBO or go to our website, where you can download the free e-book or buy the paperback. https://everywhereconnected.com/ ================================= About the authors Holtes & Sietsma is the pseudonym of the Dutch authors Bert Holtes and Wop Sietsma. Both authors were born in 1957, Bert in Alkmaar and Wop in Sneek. Bert spent his working life as a pastry chef, marine, police officer, entrepreneur and manager in various industries, while Wop worked as a secretary and as an independent IT worker in the computer world before they both began enjoying their free time. They are the joint authors of the fictional thriller series BACK-UP.
Download or read book Unloaded written by J.L. Abramo and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Collection *** Proceeds from the sales of Unloaded will benefit the nonprofit States United To Prevent Gun Violence (CeaseFireUSA.org) *** For the first time, more than two dozen crime and mystery authors have joined together to use the strongest weapon at their disposal—words—in a call for reasonable gun control in the U.S.A. In this collection you get all the thrills and excitement you come to expect from a great crime story, but without any guns. From best sellers and writing legends to the brightest stars of the next generation of crime writers, the twenty-five authors here have taken pen in hand to say enough is enough. Gun violence has got to stop and this is our way of speaking out—by showing that gun violence can be removed from the narrative, and maybe from our lives. It's not anti-gun, it's pro-sanity. And above anything else, these are thrilling crime stories that will surprise and shock, thrill and chill—all without a gun in sight. The writers are from both sides of the political aisle and many of the authors are gun owners themselves. But everyone felt it was time to speak out. Featuring the talents of J.L. Abramo , Patricia Abbott, Trey R. Barker, Eric Beetner, Alec Cizak, Joe Clifford, Reed Farrel Coleman, Angel Luis Colón, Hilary Davidson, Paul J. Garth, Alison Gaylin, Kent Gowran, Rob Hart, Jeffery Hess, Grant Jerkins, Joe R. Lansdale, S.W. Lauden, Tim O’Mara, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Pitts, Thomas Pluck, Keith Rawson, Kelli Stanley, Ryan Sayles, and Holly West. Praise for UNLOADED… “The 25 short stories in this thought-provoking theme anthology prove that clever crime writers can generate just as much mayhem, weirdness, and chills without the use of firearms.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Baby I Lied 80 s Mixtape Series written by Nikki Malone and published by Columbine Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing like a high school reunion to highlight just how wrong one decision can be. Ellie Mitchell celebrated her fifty-third birthday. Alone. Why? Because her two-timing husband is too busy entertaining his pole-dancing girlfriend who just loves getting her picture on the front page of any newspaper. If that isn’t devastating enough, her thirty-fifth high school reunion is just around the corner and she knows she's sure to run into her high school heartache, Caleb Cahill. She never wanted to break up with the handsome cowboy, but the stubborn guy refused to understand that a man couldn't support a family riding bulls for a living. He'd told her then she'd regret breaking up with him. She'd told him she wouldn't give him a second thought. Turns out, she was wrong on both accounts. High school love is never easy, especially when the girl Caleb gave his heart to made it clear that a life with a bull-riding cowboy was not in her future. He tried to make her see reason, but even after all this time, his deepest regret was letting her go. Now, thirty-five years later, Caleb is living large. He's pulled himself up by the bootstraps and runs his own multi-million dollar bucking stock company. With proof that Ellie was dead wrong about him, their class reunion is the perfect time to show Ellie just how wrong she was to let him go. Can Ellie and Caleb turn back time and rekindle the smoldering ashes of unrequited love? Can they reconcile their past decisions and turn this new encounter into the blazing inferno of renewed passions they both dreamed about? Go to their reunion and find out!
Download or read book I m Everywhere and Nowhere and I Own Nothing and Everything written by Yann Girard and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past seven years I've lived in more places than I can remember. I lived and worked in Shanghai, New York, Berlin, Bangkok, Munich and a few more places, not including the dozens of places I've stayed at for just a few days or weeks.While writing these lines I'm in a small town in Malaysia.I've basically lived out of a backpack for the past seven years. And the longer I'm doing this, the less stuff I need. Right now I carry less than 10 items around with me in a carry on backpack that weighs less than 10kg. I go wherever I want to go. I currently spend less than $800 a month. Including everything. My most precious possession is a $300 Acer laptop.I've started a clothing company in China, for the Chinese market, which failed miserably. I've launched more than 10 websites, some of them made some money, some of them didn't. I shut down all of them. I've written seven books (this is my eighth). None of them was a bestseller. I write a blog where I published more than 500 articles so far. I've more than 100,000 monthly readers spread across multiple platforms.I'm by no means successful. Or rich. But I have more than enough, by all means. I have access to everything I need. And I can buy and afford everything I need.I'm not a minimalist. Or a digital nomad. Or an entrepreneur. Or a blogger. Or an author.I'm mostly trying to just be myself. I'm trying to be myself in a world where it gets harder and harder every single day to just be yourself.It's not always been easy. As a matter of fact it's probably been hard more often than it's been easy. But every day of struggle and doubt has been worth it. Being yourself and creating your own life instead of just living a life is always worth the struggle.This right here is my story. This is what I've learned about life, myself and the world around me.I'm everywhere and nowhere. And I own nothing and everything...
Download or read book My Body Is Yours written by Michael V. Smith and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambda Literary Award finalist Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male—a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compulsions of alcohol, sex, reading, spending, work, and art as many means to cope and heal. Drawing on his work as an artist whose work focuses on our preconceived notions about the body, this disarming and intriguing memoir questions what it means to be human. Michael asks: How can we know what a man is? How might understanding gender as metaphor be a tool for a deeper understanding of identity? In coming to terms with his past failures at masculinity, Michael offers a new way of thinking about breaking out of gender norms, and breaking free of a hurtful past. Michael V. Smith won the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers from the Writers Trust of Canada for his first novel, Cumberland. He's since published two poetry books and a second novel, Progress. He teaches creative writing in the faculty of creative and critical studies at University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus.
Download or read book The Fighter written by Jordan Ford and published by Forever Love Publishing Ltd. This book was released on with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’ll do anything to save a young girl’s life. She’s a runaway who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can a carjacking turn into a partnership that will redeem them both? I may be an underground cage fighter, but I’d never intentionally hurt an innocent. I had to steal her car, though. To save someone I swore to protect. I’ve screwed up enough times to turn my life into a wreck. But I’m not failing on this one. There's a little girl depending on me. Maybe this chick can help. I don’t want to risk her life, but she’s smart and resourceful…and just might know how to keep us alive. Kena Chan with her beautiful eyes and knock-out smile. Grandpa would love her. He always told me to find a girl who was a thinker. “They’re worth their weight in gold, son. If anyone can get you out of a mess, it’s a woman who’s smarter than you are.” I hope he’s right. I hope that the Barrett in me can find the strength to fight this battle and keep the ones I love away from this dangerous life I never meant to get caught up in… The Fighter is the second book in a thrilling NA romance series. If you like high-octane drama, a smoking hot bad boy, fiery banter and sizzling kisses, then you’ll love Jordan Ford’s gripping novel. ★★★★★ "I have a feeling Deeks and Kena will be my favorite of this whole series. This book was one of the best I’ve read in a while." She's Lost in the Pages, Book Reviewer ★★★★★ "I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish with this story..." Bel., Book reviewer. ★★★★★ "I ADORED every single second of this book. I just kept turning page after page, not breathing, waiting to see what happened. This author knows how to pull you in and keep you hooked." Nana Pickerel., Book reviewer.
Download or read book The Lonely Detective written by Charles E. Schwarz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four absolutely funny, culturally outrageous who-done-it stories whose unique detective, a lonely disrespected anti-hero, sees sacred beliefs turned upside down as he solves the mysterious deaths of a rich Tasty Cake deliveryman, a woman supporting the correct causes, a bum exposing the correct causes, and a disillusioned volunteer involved in the correct causes.
Download or read book Coasters written by Gerald Duff and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waylon McPhee, middle-aged and divorced, moves back in with his widowed father in hopes of coasting through another year. But his father is dating again, and his sisters are trying to manipulate Waylon into asking their father for their inheritance before he gives it to a second wife. The sarcastic Waylon, juggling his relationships and responsibilities caustically but light-heartedly, hangs on hoping to recover something he lost in his youth: enough momentum to reach escape velocity. By turns humorous and melancholy, this novel cruises to a conclusion where all its characters satisfyingly reap what they have sown. Gerald Duff is a splendid writer of sparkling dialogue, and has perfect pitch for the ennui of contemporary life in the suburbs of the petroleum-chemical corridor that stretches along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Mississippi.
Download or read book Ragged Man written by Jack Priest and published by Bootleg Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: