High Heels in the Laundry Room

High Heels in the Laundry Room
Author: Michelle Cully
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781732570603

High Heels in the Laundry Room is about believing in yourself and learning to trust your instincts. Michelle Cully's courageous story is a must-read for anyone with a wild dream, and who dares to hope a better life is possible.

Read All About It

Read All About It
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 211
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"This is what really happened… reported by a free press, to a free people…" When Julia Bancroft discovers that her gorgeous, irresistible editor, Wes, is actually her boss and the secret owner of The Golden Mail, she's furious. As a respected journalist at the paper, it's Julia's job to uncover secrets. But this secret is a betrayal after the hot, steamy nights she's shared with him. Julia knows she's in danger of losing her heart to him, and she's caught between the agonizing betrayal and the attraction she still feels. If she tells him that she knows the truth she could lose him forever, but keeping his secret could cost her the career she's worked so hard to build. Wes Shaw has never worked with a woman as infuriating, exciting, and tempting as Julia. He thought he had finally knocked down the wall around her heart, but now he can feel Julia pulling away from him. When they go undercover as husband and wife to take down a notorious drug smuggler, Wes knows he has the chance to win her back. Pretending to be happily married is a challenge he's more than ready to accept. All Wes and Julia have to do is make it through this dangerous assignment without killing each other first. The Golden Mail Series Hot Off the Press – Book 1 Extra! Extra! – Book 2 Read All About It – Book 3 Stop the Press – Book 4 Breaking News – Book 5 This Just In – Book 6 SEARCH TERMS: contemporary romance, new adult, romance, hot doctors, famous actor, true l, billionaire obsession, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, free kindle romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, true love, coming of age, overcoming, women's fiction, drugs, fake girlfriend, billionaire, Alpha male romance, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, hot romance, hot and steamy, happily ever after, billionaire romance, billionaire romance, new, bbw, FICTION / Romance, suspense, romantic suspense, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Romance / New Adult FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy F, action romance, action adventure romance, Action & Adventure Romance Fiction

Ransom

Ransom
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2009-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307566757

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.

The Inheritance of Shame

The Inheritance of Shame
Author: Peter Gajdics
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2020-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1941932096

Read the book that's getting conversion therapy banned in Canada Winner of the Independent Book Publisher Award, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction and the Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award. "Unforgettable... This book is appallingly appropriate in these times." — FOREWORD REVIEWS This resonant and acclaimed memoir recounts the six years that the author spent in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality, and the inspiring story of how he cast out shame and reclaimed his life. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Peter Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents' tormented past–his mother's incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father's upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary, The Inheritance of Shame explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. “DEEPLY MOVING." — THE ADVOCATE “RAW AND UNFLINCHING" — KIRKUS REVIEWS “A HERO’S JOURNEY IN WHICH ANY READER, GAY OR STRAIGHT, CAN FIND INSPIRATION.” — LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION All over the United States and Canada, districts, cities and states are banning conversion, ex-gay and reparative therapies. A powerful example of "healing through memoir," this book offers the most complete and compelling reason for those bans to date. A groundbreaking memoir, The Inheritance of Shame offers insights into overcoming all kinds of shame, especially that which has trickled down from previous generations, and into the complicated but all-too-worthwhile process of forgiveness.

He Counts Their Tears

He Counts Their Tears
Author: Mary Ann D'Alto
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1457537443

A handsome, successful, charming man. Healer. Miracle maker. Aaron Stein is all those things. Behind the benevolent façade, however, hides a monster: a destroyer of souls who lusts after power and control. Aaron plays his ruse again and again with unsuspecting women who genuinely believe that they have met their new “best friend”, their “soul mate”. Covert hypnosis, edgy trysts, psychological warfare - they’re all part of the sick game he plays “to have all the power” …until his secret life is threatened by a series of events he never sees coming. Will his devoted cousin, Constance, succeed in protecting him, just as she has throughout his entire life? And what exactly is it that she does to protect him? Is she a murderer, or is she simply devoted to him? Are they merely cousins (possibly, once, long ago, lovers), or are they partners in crime? Did Aaron learn his evil ways from her, or was he born a psychopath? In the end, these answers will make no difference in the lives of the women who, each in turn, are charmed into becoming his victims.

Mayor Helen Boosalis

Mayor Helen Boosalis
Author: Beth Boosalis Davis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496209524

As a 1950s housewife and League of Women Voters volunteer who spearheaded the city of Lincoln's switch to a "strong mayor" form of government, Helen Boosalis (1919-2009) never anticipated that she herself would one day be that strong mayor and chief executive of Nebraska's capital city. Helen Boosalis's story, told by her daughter, Beth Boosalis Davis, is that of a true pioneer of women in politics. The daughter of Greek immigrants, Boosalis achieved national prominence as the first woman president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and as an outspoken advocate for economically distressed cities facing President Reagan's "new federalism." Winning the Democratic nomination for governor of Nebraska in 1986, Helen Boosalis ran against Kay Orr in the first gubernatorial contest between two women in U.S. history. The interwoven tales of conflict and challenge, from the mayor's office to the campaign trail, combine personal insight into one woman's trailblazing political history with a compelling memoir of a half century of public service and private devotion shared by two remarkable women, mother and daughter. Listen to an interview with Helen Boosalis and Beth Boosalis Davis on AARP's Radio Prime Time show.

The Eighty-Year-Old Sorority Girls

The Eighty-Year-Old Sorority Girls
Author: Robin Benoit
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612545521

“A heart-warming story that celebrates the bonds of friends, family and sisterhood. This is a beautifully crafted novel.” —Kristina Seek, author of The Hashtag Hunt As a group of eighty-something girlfriends deals with the mental decline of their sorority sister, they reconnect with their college sorority, advise their grandchildren, find new lives for themselves, and continue to show up for each other. Vivian, nicknamed “Button,” is an Alzheimer’s patient who adores her sorority group. Helen rediscovers love at age eighty-one, Ida’s crazy side comes out during football season, and Laney is the “big sister” in charge of baking for the group. These three women consistently show up for Vivian as her mental health deteriorates—because that is what sisters do. As they discover a new way of life, they find they would rather take “the road less traveled,” just as they did in their college days. “I love books that represent the values of female friendships and supporting one another. The way these women show up for each other is truly inspiring.” —Pat Mitchell, Co-Founder and Curator of TEDWomen and author of Becoming a Dangerous Woman “I think fans of Steel Magnolias will love this book! I recommend it wholeheartedly!” —Carey Conley, coauthor of Keep Looking Up “A truly endearing book . . . We all need our tribe, our pride and to think about our special relationships and their lifetime impact personally and on future generations.” —Robin White Fanning, President of the Phi Mu Foundation “Sorority sister or not, this book is an incredible portrayal of sisterhood and friendship that will warm your heart.” —Kelin Kushin, Chief Business Development Officer at Vivid Vision

The Little Tree That Changed Everything

The Little Tree That Changed Everything
Author: David R. R. Gaslin
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1645841340

Henry is a young boy who was born with a crooked leg. Though his family had more than enough love to share, they didn't have enough money to fix his leg. Henry determines to be the very best he can be anyway. One Christmas, Henry comes upon a weak, misshapen little Christmas tree that no one wants. No one else knows what Henry knows. This little tree has a fierce heart and wants very much to be the best it can be. Henry believes in the tree's destiny and takes it home to make that destiny a reality. This is the story of how Henry's compassion and devotion to the little tree, and the little tree's response to Henry's love and care, impact the lives of everyone who knows them, even the president of the United States! This is a story of love, faith, strength, and loyalty that weaves its way through the lives of Henry; his beloved wife, Ruthie; his children, and his grandchildren. It's a story that reminds us that faith and love always triumph over obstacles and tragedies if we will just believe.

Help Me, Jacques Cousteau

Help Me, Jacques Cousteau
Author: Gil Adamson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408820706

Hazel is only a toddler when she sails back to Canada with her parents to begin a new life. As the boat dips and dives across the ocean and sends her bed crashing against the walls, Hazel wakes up to the tragic reality of the world around her. From then on, life seems a constant struggle as Hazel juggles with the miseries of childhood, while attempting to make sense of the odd bunch of grown-ups around her. After all, how much help can you expect from an uncle who collects only white animals, or a grandfather who drives around with a dead dog on the back seat of his convertible, when you have to confront your first day at school, the arrival of a baby brother or your parents' divorce? Still, life could be worse, thinks Hazel, she could be in the chess club, or have a name like Bogdana or Flower... In this haunting and extremely funny account of the world according to Hazel, Gil Adamson's first work of fiction, written twn years ago and published now for the first time in the UK, reminds us that although growing up is about sorting out life as it is, from life as it should be, stories will always be there to help us pretend.

Tremors

Tremors
Author: Anita Amirrezvani
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1557289956

This anthology brings together twenty-seven authors from a wide range of experiences that offer new perspectives on the Iranian American story. Altogether, the narratives capture the diversity of the Iranian diaspora and complicate the often-narrow view of Iranian culture represented in the media. The stories and novel excerpts explore the deeply human experiences of one of the newest immigrant groups to the United States in its attempts to adjust and assimilate in the face of major historical upheavals.