The Frugal Repast

The Frugal Repast
Author: Ron Hirsen
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2007
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573650888

Three bright urbanites want to make their mark on the world. Paul, a master of irony and distance, is a hardworking film maker on the rise. His girlfriend Karen, a grad student, must get on with her thesis or find a life outside of academia. Dave, a life long buddy whose brilliance is being consumed by increasingly severe episodes of manic depression, is camping on Paul's couch. Paul and Karen decide to turn Paul into a documentary. The camera is on 24 hours a day, capturing up close images of his jags and torpors and their responses. How far will love, friendship and ambition take this hip trio?

Sure Signs of Crazy

Sure Signs of Crazy
Author: Karen Harrington
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316210579

A poignant and powerful coming of age story perfect for fans of Wonder and The Thing about Jellyfish You've never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson. While most of her friends obsess over Harry Potter, she spends her time writing letters to Atticus Finch. She collects trouble words in her diary. Her best friend is a plant. And she's never known her mother, who left when Sarah was two. Since then, Sarah and her dad have moved from one small Texas town to another, and not one has felt like home. Everything changes when Sarah launches an investigation into her family's Big Secret. She makes unexpected new friends and has her first real crush, and instead of a "typical boring Sarah Nelson summer," this one might just turn out to be extraordinary.

I'm Not Innocent But...

I'm Not Innocent But...
Author: Tina Washington
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 164424196X

Karen, a young teen, born and raised in Gary, Indiana, always aspired to become a model. Having big dreams, she would do whatever it took to reach the stars and see something else other than Gary. Her dreams will shortly change once her access to social media will send her on a tail spend of dangerous sexual encounters, drugs, a near-death experience, and life lessons. Karen's life went downhill when she encountered a woman in the form of a man who took the name of Todd. Following short after, she met her boyfriend, who turned her emotions inside out and did the unexpected. She went from a sheltered happy teenager to a damaged woman real fast. That saying "The older and wiser use" would shortly be a motto she wished she lived by: "Stay a child while you can. Stop being in a rush to grow up." Karen's history of partners could lead her in a direction that's hard to detour from, when she has unfortunate STD results. Where will her choices land her, and is it ever possible to regain that life she once had? Just how far will opening Pandora's box take Karen? Will she survive, or will death take its place? Follow Karen on her journey through the adult world to find the answers you are searching for.

Not My Own

Not My Own
Author: Yovette B. Brooks
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468571796

Twenty-Three, didnt remember anything about a real family. The only thing she did remember about being young was being in classes. She had been trained and sent to the field when she was still a child and now being in her twenties, she was the most hunted agent in history. She had killed, rescued and spent more time in captivity than people twice her age. She was proud of what she did and she had no regrets about not having a normal lifeuntil now. After a four year stint in a foreign prison to kill a notorious human trafficker she found herself being sent out for some rest and recovery. She had been told to be normal for a while, live a little. Getting involved with anyone was something she couldnt afford to do for her own safety and theirs. But she never planned on meeting anyone like Brandon Clearwater. She now wondered if there was a way out but at what cost? Would her freedom cost the lives of innocent people?

My Sister Life

My Sister Life
Author: Maria Flook
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307795004

When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives. With unrelenting realism and beguiling wit, Flook gives us an intimate account of her sister's life as a child prostitute, and of their coming of age in the 1960s--that surreal and wrenching moment of baby-boomer disenfranchisement, when the sexual revolution collided with the domestic fallout from the Vietnam War. From the ocean liners and Paris vacations of their refined upbringing to the gritty peepshows and adult theaters where they find jobs, the girls flee from a beautiful and tormented matriarch with secrets of her own. Her missing sister becomes Flook's secret heroine--the sole example to follow in her journey into womanhood. The sisters live in trailer parks. They are faced with sexual assault, car thefts, and petty crimes with unpredictable men. Escaping from an abusive Vietnam vet, Karen takes her toddler to join her sister, who is herself raising a baby on her own; it is the first time they are under the same roof since their childhood. Their unorthodox reunion allows the sisters to forge a life-saving bond. My Sister Life moves beyond biography or memoir to give us an astonishing vision of an American family--an authentic testimony to the defiant, undaunted faith between two sisters who connect after years apart.

Aftershocks

Aftershocks
Author: William Schlichter
Publisher: BHC Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643970089

The undead amass as they seek the epicenter of an earthquake. Aftershocks ensure they stay on course, drawn to the origin of the ground-shaking waves. Acheron sits in the path of the horde, and the residents have little ammo to spare. They prove they will defend the camp at all cost, taking extreme measures to protect Acheron from being overrun. Acheron survivors, both inside and outside the gates, fight to stay alive, working with too few bullets to fend off the thousands of undead. Inside, they wait for their leader’s return from Memphis, hopeful for news of a cure. Those outside seek to return to the safety of Acheron, including Ethan, who proves he’s a force to be reckoned with. The survivors, exhausted and injured, scattered far and wide, fend off the undead, vengeful Bowlin brothers, collapsing houses, and radical fanatics, but as they encounter more and more undead moving south, they face the reality that not even Ethan has enough bullets.

Alaska Nights

Alaska Nights
Author: Debbie Macomber
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146039867X

LONELY MEN IN HARD LUCK, ALASKA, LOOKING FOR WOMEN. OUR TOWN MIGHT BE COLD, BUT OUR HEARTS ARE WARM! Location: north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 (mostly men!). But the three O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to town. Daddy's Little Helper Mitch Harris is a friend of the O'Hallorans, and he's responsible for law and order in Hard Luck. He's also the widowed father of a little girl—although he never talks about his marriage. But it's not long before seven-year-old Chrissie decides that her new teacher, Bethany Ross, is the perfect candidate for wife and mom! Because of the Baby Matt Caldwell, Charles O'Halloran's brother-in-law, is an easygoing charmer, and still in love with his ex-wife. Karen's still in love with him, too. Her reaction to him the night of his sister's wedding certainly proved that. It also left her pregnant… Now Matt wants her to marry him again—and not just because of the baby!

The Trade Off--My Husband/Your Wife

The Trade Off--My Husband/Your Wife
Author: Robert H. Rimmer
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2000-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595009530

If you’ve ever had an affair, or are divorced, married again, or still faithful and monogamous, you may be completely shocked, or might approve—Karen Bradford’s proposal to her husband Hank. After eighteen years of marriage,and three children, she wants him to sign a marriage contract with a clause that from now on—he will agree to a Succedaneum Marriage. He doesn’t know and has never met Tony Castellani who is married to Gina, and has two kids—or that Tony and Karen are lovers. But a Succedaneum Agreement (check the word in your dictionary) would allow them to enjoy a second relationship—and stay married! Guaranteed! You’ve never read a non-stop, detailed, explicit sex and loving story like this. It all takes place in Guadeloupe, on Spring vacation, where Karen hopes to mate her husband with Tony’s wife—and make her dream come true. But alas, taking their five children—one—Judy Bradford, sixteen, an another Marc Castellani, seventeen,along with them—conniving a foursome vacation, at free wheeling Club Libre, isn’t the right environment for their more puritanical spouses... On top of that Marc—who despises Catcher in the Rye, thinks he’s smarter than that phony, Holden Caulfield, ever was. He’s still a virgin, but he’s determined to mate with Judy. Before that happens—he, inadvertantly, discovers that his father is making out with her mother—at the same time Soufriere, the volcano is about to explode. Bob Rimmer who has chartered bare boats, and sailed in most of the Caribbean Island—loves Guadeloupe best. Is this story based on fact ? Well, sort of—and it proves that the path he has carved in other stories—though the jungle of potential expanded monogamy, like corporarte marriage, in Proposition 31, and synergamy in Thursday, My Love, is filled with rumbling volcanos.

NIrV, The Story for Children Bible

NIrV, The Story for Children Bible
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 2615
Release: 2012-12-25
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0310736838

The Story for Children Bible, NIrV is a large-print Bible for children age six to nine with 32 beautiful full-color pictures highlighting eight important Bible stories with Scripture reference. The stories end with ""God's Message,"" sharing with children God’s great love for us. Each “message” was written by beloved pastor and bestselling author Max Lucado along with Randy Frazee and Karen Davis Hill. Features include: •32 pages of full-color Bible story illustrations •Large print (12-point) type for easy reading •Book introductions •Dictionary-concordance to explain key Bible words •8 pages of full-color maps to show where Bible events happened •Presentation page for personalization and gift giving •Bible passages written at a third grade reading level

Picture Me Dead

Picture Me Dead
Author: Heather Graham
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 148802409X

New York Times–Bestselling Author: “A real page-turner . . . romantic suspense that will appeal to fans of Catherine Coulter, Iris Johansen, and Linda Howard.” —Booklist Police rookie Ashley Montague is shocked by the discovery of a body on the highway—and her glimpse of a mysterious hooded figure watching from the side of the road. At another crime scene in the heart of the Everglades, Detective Jake Dilessio stares at the mutilated body of a woman—and notes the striking resemblance to previous victims he’s seen. But he put away a cult leader for those murders five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or is the wrong man behind bars? As they join their investigations together, the last thing Ashley and Jake want or need is the electric pull of desire as they are dragged deeper into a dangerous conspiracy. Now, with time running out and their lives on the line, they have everything to fight for . . . and everything to lose. “The fast action is neatly punctuated by red herrings and false clues . . . Graham’s tight plotting, her keen sense of when to reveal and when to tease, and her eye for the Florida landscape will keep fans turning the pages.” —Publishers Weekly