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Backseat Saints

Author : Joshilyn Jackson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-06-08
ISBN 10 : 9780446569170
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (446 users)

Download Backseat Saints PDF Full or another Format written by Joshilyn Jackson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this "enthralling" portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created while reigniting her rough and tough Texan bravery (Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help). Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned. She's all but forgotten the girl she used to be-teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol-until an airport gypsy warns Rose it's time to find her way back to that brave, tough girl . . . or else. Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas, running from a man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did. Starring a minor character from Jackson's bestselling Gods in Alabama, Backseat Saints will dazzle readers with its stunning portrayal of the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will travel to satisfy the demands of forgiveness.

Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests

Author : Rebecca Vnuk
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2013-09-17
ISBN 10 : 9781610695381
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (61 users)

Download Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests PDF Full or another Format written by Rebecca Vnuk and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles.

Crowning Design

Author : Leila Meacham
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-01-03
ISBN 10 : 9781455541386
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (455 users)

Download Crowning Design PDF Full or another Format written by Leila Meacham and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender, classic love story about the secrets that linger in our hearts and the choices that set us free?Ķ Some people aren't meant for happily-ever-after. And Deborah Standridge is one of them. When she called off her wedding to the perfect man to pursue her passion as an architect, she didn't mean to hurt anyone. But Deborah saw her chance to finally make her own dreams come and she took it, setting in motion a tragedy that has haunted her ever since. Now, as one of Denver's most successful architects, Deborah has avoided love at all costs...until Daniel Parker walks into her life. He commissions her to design his company's headquarters and soon makes her want to believe in love again. But Dan is keeping a shocking secret that could rip apart everything they've built--and break Deborah's heart once and for all. Will Deborah find the strength to put the past behind her to fight for a love that could last for all time?

5-Star Career

Author : Penelope Przekop
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
ISBN 10 : 9781000473452
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 ( users)

Download 5-Star Career PDF Full or another Format written by Penelope Przekop and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industries across the globe manufacture products and provide services that you deem 5-star worthy; their goal is to satisfy your needs and desires. They follow the proven science of quality management to make that happen because it is common sense, and its effectiveness is irrefutable. 5-Star Career: Define and Build Yours Using the Science of Quality Management provides common-sense, strategic context for personally implementing quality concepts that reflect your goals as well as your own definition of a 5-star life and career. This book provides the following benefits: Explains how the science of quality management can ensure customer satisfaction, which is what industry uses to gauge the quality of products and services. Relates that explanation to you on a personal level including how the basic concepts and components of the science apply to your career/job, the path it has taken, and can take. Challenges you to identify your authentic needs and desires following the thorough process, research methodology, and data analysis corporations rely on to understand their customers. It tells you how to do all of that, and provides a unique tool to help you gather and analyze the right type of data and information. Clarifies the critical role that controlled systems and processes play in the science of quality management, the role they play in the personal application of quality management, and their surprising power to ensure intended outcomes. Explains how to apply the proven decision-making methodology (used by industry) to identify the best possible process that leads to the career you deem as 5-star worthy, and to address the career elements that will satisfy your authentic needs and desires. Relays how risk-based decision-making is key not only to identifying a process that ensures success but also to addressing the unexpected curveballs that will surely come your way. Penelope Przekop built a 30-year career around the science of quality management while struggling to overcome the uniquely disturbing childhood she shared with her brother. Along the way, she internalized the science used to build quality into products and services and discovered how it can be personally applied to build and manage not only the quality of a career but also the quality of a life.

Mother May I

Author : Joshilyn Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9781526633880
Pages : 359 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (526 users)

Download Mother May I PDF Full or another Format written by Joshilyn Jackson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month 'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian 'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street Journal It's every mother's worst nightmare. 'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME. Tell no one. Do not call the police. Do not call your husband. Be at your house by 5:15 PM. Or he's gone for good...' To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime, caught up in a tangled web of secrets that threatens to destroy the perfect life she has built. Mother May I is a pulse-racing, heart-pounding thriller that will have you turning the pages in the race to save Bree's baby, and find the kidnapper. Praise for Joshilyn Jackson 'Jackson writes the kind of book that will set even the most blameless on edge, leaving us to wonder who might know our imperfect histories' Christina Dalcher 'A master of domestic suspense' Entertainment Weekly 'Wonderful – suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' Lee Child

Tumbleweeds

Author : Leila Meacham
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-06-19
ISBN 10 : 9781455509256
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (455 users)

Download Tumbleweeds PDF Full or another Format written by Leila Meacham and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recently orphaned girl moves to the Texas panhandle and struggles to forge new friendships in a town of football glory in this unforgettable novel of surprising plot twists and unexpected beginnings. Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.

Ryan's Hand

Author : Leila Meacham
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-07-12
ISBN 10 : 9781455541317
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (455 users)

Download Ryan's Hand PDF Full or another Format written by Leila Meacham and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing she won't do for him, even now after his death. But inheriting Ryan's share of his family's ranch in west Texas and living there for a year? Cara doesn't understand what he was thinking. Still, she cannot, will not deny Ryan's last request...even if it means sharing a roof with his brooding, arrogant older brother. Jeth Langston doesn't trust Cara as far as he can throw her. Jeth is certain she prevented his baby brother from spending his last days at home. And he'll be damned if he lets this stranger take over the Langston family legacy too. Whatever the cost, he's determined to drive this beautiful outsider away-no matter how intriguing he finds her. But as the days grow longer and sunshine sweeps across the plains, Cara can't help but fall for the untamed land-and the man whose passion for it captures her, heart and soul. Can their love bloom wild and free on this Texas ranch?

A Pug's Tale

Author : Alison Pace
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2011-06-07
ISBN 10 : 9781101515396
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (11 users)

Download A Pug's Tale PDF Full or another Format written by Alison Pace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited follow-up to Pug Hill--from "a poignant and very funny" (Washington Post) writer. Hope McNeill has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for years, but this is the first time she's been able to bring along her pug, Max (without sneaking him in in her tote bag). The occasion is a party for an Animals in 19th-Century Art exhibit, but the evening ends badly when a small but important painting seems to be missing. The Met needs Hope's-and Max's-help. And Hope has to keep it all a secret from her beloved, Manhattan DA Ben Brown.

Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault in Popular Culture

Author : Laura L. Finley
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2016-04-18
ISBN 10 : 9781440837951
Pages : 188 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (44 users)

Download Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault in Popular Culture PDF Full or another Format written by Laura L. Finley and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using historical and current examples from film, television, literature, advertisements, and music, this book reveals the ways that rape and abuse are typically presented—and misrepresented—and evaluates the impact of these depictions on consumers. • Addresses both positive and negative depictions of domestic abuse and sexual assault from recent popular culture, utilizing examples from film, television, literature, music, advertisements, and more • Presents information that is ideal for undergraduate courses in gender studies, sociology, and psychology as well as communications and popular culture classes • Utilizes the most current research on dating and domestic and sexual violence to clearly demonstrate the importance of how these issues and crimes are depicted in popular culture • Provides a comprehensive appendix of additional resources that directs students in investigating the topic further

Ghost on Black Mountain

Author : Ann Hite
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781451606430
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (451 users)

Download Ghost on Black Mountain PDF Full or another Format written by Ann Hite and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONCE A PERSON LEAVES THE MOUNTAIN, THEY NEVER COME BACK, NOT REALLY. THEY’RE LOST FOREVER. Nellie Clay married Hobbs Pritchard without even noticing he was a spell conjured into a man, a walking, talking ghost story. But her mama knew. She saw it in her tea leaves: death. Folks told Nellie to get off the mountain while she could, to go back home before it was too late. Hobbs wasn’t nothing but trouble. He’d even killed a man. No telling what else. That mountain was haunted, and soon enough, Nellie would feel it too. One way or another, Hobbs would get what was coming to him. The ghosts would see to that. . . . Told in the stunning voices of five women whose lives are inextricably bound when a murder takes place in rural Depression-era North Carolina, Ann Hite’s unforgettable debut spans generations and conjures the best of Southern folk-lore—mystery, spirits, hoodoo, and the incomparable beauty of the Appalachian landscape.

Wedding Cake for Breakfast

Author : Kim Perel
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2012-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781101580806
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (11 users)

Download Wedding Cake for Breakfast PDF Full or another Format written by Kim Perel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every woman plans for the big wedding day. Few plan for the day after. But once the cake has been cut, the dress has been worn and the band has played its last song, a marriage begins. From the thrill and dread that comes with an unplanned pregnancy to catching up with an ex and having second thoughts, Wedding Cake for Breakfast offers an intimate and often surprising look at that first year of marriage through the eyes and lives of 23 acclaimed women writers. With humor and candor, this collection takes readers behind closed doors for close-ups and personal glimpses into the emotional joys and complications of creating a life together—all the while blending families, furniture, and traditions for the very first time. Gathered together in this hilarious and heartwarming anthology some of today’s most renowned female voices, including New York Times bestselling authors Susan Jane Gillman, Joshilyn Jackson, and Jill Kargman, share their most touching and illuminating stories from the first 365 days of matrimony.

All That’s True

Author : Jackie Lee Miles
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9781402240867
Pages : 314 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (42 users)

Download All That’s True PDF Full or another Format written by Jackie Lee Miles and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My life was close to being perfect until my brother Alex got killed. Then my mother started drinking and my father started having sex with Donna, my best friend's stepmother. She's not even thirty years old." With an equal mix of joy and sorrow, All That's True follows Andi's poignant-and sometimes laugh out loud-journey to young adulthood, where she struggles with the elusive nature of truth and the devastating consequences of deception. "Jackie Lee Miles is a wise and perceptive writer with a keen understanding of human frailties."-Julie Cannon, author of Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes "Perfect in voice and detail, chock full of girl talk and seat-of-the pants crises, Miles' book is a winner." -Rosemary Daniell, award-winning author of Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives "Miles is a fascinating new voice in Southern fiction. Readers will rejoice." -Karin Gillespie, author of Bet Your Bottom Dollar "For those of us looking for relationships that feel authentic, you will find them in this novel!" -Edward Mooney, Jr. author of The Pearls of the Stone Man

Don't Quit Your Day Job

Author : Sonny Brewer
Publisher : MP Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9781849821292
Pages : 324 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (849 users)

Download Don't Quit Your Day Job PDF Full or another Format written by Sonny Brewer and published by MP Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. J. O’Rourke said, “Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words ‘Write what you know’ is confined to a labor camp… The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?” Like O’Rourke, William Faulkner had his own take on the Other Commandment for writers, the one that goes, “Thou shalt not quit thy day job”. Faulkner, who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, had, twenty-five years before, worked at the post office in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Mr Faulkner was known to say, “One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours”. He must have been determined to give something else (writing, we may assume, perhaps a glass of whisky on the side) a whirl when he tendered his resignation to the postmaster. “I reckon I’ll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life”, he said, “but thank God I won’t ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who’s got two cents to buy a stamp." The authors in this book have tried their hands at some of the same jobs you have held, or still keep. They’ve worked on the railroad, busted rocks with a sledgehammer, fought fires, wiped tables, soldiered and carpentered and spied, delivered pizzas, lacquered boat paddles, counted heads for the church, sold underwear, and delivered the mail. They’ve driven garbage trucks. And like William Faulkner before them they have quit those day jobs. And like Faulkner they write. They tell good tales. If you wonder what work preceded their efforts to produce a great pile of books, if you would like to know how they made the transition to, as William Gay said, “clocking in at the culture factory”, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for...

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Author : Bridget Asher
Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 2011-03-29
ISBN 10 : 9780440338727
Pages : 450 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (44 users)

Download The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted PDF Full or another Format written by Bridget Asher and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every good love story has another love hiding within it.” Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier in the south of France, where a crumbling stone house may be responsible for mending hearts since before World War II. There, Charlotte confesses a shocking secret, and Heidi learns the truth about her mother’s “lost summer” when Heidi was a child. As three generations collide with one another, with the neighbor who seems to know all of their family skeletons, and with an enigmatic Frenchman, Heidi, Charlotte, and Abbot journey through love, loss, and healing amid the vineyards, warm winds and delicious food of Provence. Can the magic of the house heal Heidi’s heart, too?

Don't Breathe a Word

Author : Jennifer McMahon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-05-17
ISBN 10 : 9780062079459
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (62 users)

Download Don't Breathe a Word PDF Full or another Format written by Jennifer McMahon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Don’t Breathe a Word is a haunting page-turner that kept me up, spine shivering and enthralled, way past my bedtime.” —Joshilyn Jackson, author of Never Have I Ever On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in love with Sam, a practical, sensible man who doesn't fear the dark and doesn't have bad dreams—who, in fact, helps Phoebe ignore her own. But suddenly the couple is faced with a series of eerie, unexplained occurrences that challenge Sam's hardheaded, realistic view of the world. As they question their reality, a terrible promise Sam made years ago is revealed—a promise that could destroy them all. “Jennifer McMahon never flinches and never fails to surprise…as [she] weaves a young couple into a perverse fairyland where Rosemary’s Baby could be at home.” —Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer’s Daughters

School Year, Church Year

Author : Peter Mazar
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Release Date : 2000-03
ISBN 10 : 1568542402
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (542 users)

Download School Year, Church Year PDF Full or another Format written by Peter Mazar and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amazing book will walk you through the school year, give you a crash course on the church's year, and suggest customs you can use with children of all ages from Advent to Easter, fall to summer. Decorate a classroom that will form your students in the tradition of biblical and liturgical images.

Lord, Have Mercy

Author : Ellen Miller
Publisher : NavPress
Release Date : 2017-04-04
ISBN 10 : 9781496419408
Pages : 295 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (496 users)

Download Lord, Have Mercy PDF Full or another Format written by Ellen Miller and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you think you’ve got this wife and motherhood thing down . . . Your toddler expresses his inner Picasso on your freshly painted walls . . . In permanent marker. Your 14-year-old demonstrates her newly acquired modeling skills . . . via every social network known to man. Your husband pulls up in a new car that you can’t afford . . . and only has two seats. Lord, have mercy. What are they thinking? While motherhood is often a hysterical ride of pure joy, it can also hold some of the most mind-numbing, heartbreaking, and sacrificial moments of your life. In Lord, Have Mercy, popular author Ellen Miller writes to moms who could use a good laugh (and sometimes a good cry) as they live through the trials and triumphs of parenting in the 21st century. All-too-real, always honest, and often hilarious, each devotional is filled with personal stories to remind you that God is with you in both the big and small moments of motherhood—especially when you’re on your last nerve!