Welcome to the Towers

Welcome to the Towers
Author: GlytchedChiq
Publisher: GlytchedChiq
Total Pages: 229
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A Tower litrpg. A group of friends, hearing about a liminal zone called the Devil's Crown, decide to try their luck. They've all played a variety of games, accrued a variety of real life skills, and honestly believe they might make it out if they stick together. Hopefully the information in the forums is accurate. ~*~ Book One of the Devil’s Crown series where readers join Kennedy, Jessica, and Kylie as they delve into a dangerous liminal zone known as the Devil’s Crown. An area that begins with 13 Towers hidden in mundane settings. Getting in is the easy part. Surviving long enough to figure out how to get out is a bit more difficult. New worlds. New people. New Problems. They’ve compiled a starter guide from information they’ve found from other Climbers online. Hopefully they didn’t find any misinformation.

Jesse’s Triumph

Jesse’s Triumph
Author: Amra Pajalic
Publisher: Amra Pajalic
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1922871370

From award-winning young adult author Amra Pajalic comes a best friends love triangle, zero to hero makeover, found family, coming of age YA novel for fans of Melina Marchetta and John Green. Jesse's childhood took a backseat as he became his ailing mother's primary caregiver, patiently counting down the days until high school finished and his real life began. When a new student, Sabiha, arrives at his school he meets his dream girl, but she’s met his best friend first. After Jesse’s debut novel is published while he’s a high school student, he's thrust into the spotlight. Can Jesse steer his way trough his new-found triumph, be with his dream girl, and ride the high school popularity wave without losing sight of who he truly is?

Sons of Cain

Sons of Cain
Author: Peter Vronsky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0698176146

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes. Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos. In Sons of Cain--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers--Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of serial murder--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers. These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.

Daisies in the Junkyard

Daisies in the Junkyard
Author: Michael Enright
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 076530144X

Follows high school seniors Tony and Carlos, who are determined to go to college and leave the ghetto behind, as they resist the call of the streets, only to discover that the gangs have other plans for them.

Jesse's Girl

Jesse's Girl
Author: Miranda Kenneally
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1402284837

Practice makes perfect. Everyone at Hundred Oaks High knows that career mentoring day is a joke. So when Maya said she wanted to be a rock star, she never imagined she'd get to shadow the Jesse Scott, Nashville's teen idol. But spending the day with Jesse is far from a dream come true. He's as gorgeous as his music, but seeing all that he's accomplished is just a reminder of everything Maya's lost: her trust, her boyfriend, their band, and any chance to play the music she craves. Not to mention that Jesse's pushy and opinionated. He made it on his own, and he thinks Maya's playing back up to other people's dreams. Does she have what it takes to follow her heart—and go solo? Praise for Miranda Kenneally's Breathe, Annie, Breathe: "[An] expertly paced and realistic romance."—Booklist, starred review "Heartfelt, uplifting, and quite possibly enough motivation to make readers reach for their running shoes." —Publisher's Weekly "Breathe, Annie, Breathe is an emotional, heartfelt, and beautiful story about finding yourself after loss and learning to love. Her best book yet." —Jennifer L. Armentrout, New York Times bestselling author of Wait for You

Jesse's Wife

Jesse's Wife
Author: Annamaria Q. Proctor
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 143891900X

Jesse's Wife is a story for anyone who has suffered by loves broken arrow, all its perversions and lies, and learned to love again. It describes the raw torment of Jessica and Jesse, a husband and wife whose marriage is ripping apart by alcohol abuse and adultery. Jesse and Jessica have too many secrets that have added to the demise of their relationship. Supernatural characters, angels and demons, work to push them towards reconciliation and peace or divorce and hate. Jessica sees Jesse with another woman. Nicole, a young beautiful girl, has sold her soul to the devil for the chance to have someone to love. Jessica plans a new life for herself unaware that an angel, Abbygail, a little girl in a blue taffeta dress with blonde ringlets of hair falling around her face, is attempting to help Jesse with his alcoholism and reconciliation with her. Both Jessica and Jesse will suffer through the pain of exposing the lies and truths in their lives. Mel, the owner of a grocery store, and Claire, a long time employee, will help them expose the secrets hidden in their lives that even they are unaware exist. Jesse and Jessica are pawns in a battle between lies and truth. The prize of their suffering is something that evil's demons want to acquire very much. Demons have earned this prize because of Nicole's deal. Everything will change when Jessica and Nicole discover that they too share a very important secret. Demons are working hard to destroy all of them. One little child angel, Abbygail, is there to help. This first tale in the saga of An Angel's Tale captures the essence of human fear matched against human faith, rivaling them against life's overwhelming temptations and desires.

Brownsville

Brownsville
Author: Oscar Casares
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2008-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316055174

"Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises. In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change. The achievement of Brownsville lies in its remarkably honest portrayal of these lives -- the lives of people whose dreams and yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal. "Marvelous...Brownsville resembles early Steinbeck work more than anything else." --Carolyn See, Washington Post

Jesse's Power

Jesse's Power
Author: Maxine Graff
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595377564

Jesse could hardly see them now. It was miles away to any lighted buildings. The natural light from the stars and moon was restricted by the partly cloudy conditions. That made it barely possible for Jesse to identify the outline of his body as he partially lifted the lady's torso and rested it on the short wooden railing which ran along both sides of the bridge. He looked like a giant in the night to Jesse. She was aghast at the outline of his enormous structure looming in the darkness on the bridge next to the lady's body sprawled over the wooden rail. Then, with a very deliberate motion, he pushed the body over the wooden rail. The lady's body fell quickly through the air in the darkness toward the water and sharp rocks below. Although it must have been only a few moments, it seemed to Jesse a very long time before she heard a splashing thud the body made when it landed into the creek.

The Drowning Woman

The Drowning Woman
Author: Robyn Harding
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2023-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538726785

From the bestselling author of The Party comes a "dark and wild ride of redemption, betrayal, and friendship" following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning: "As twisty and pacey as it gets" (Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push). Most anticipated by Goodreads · Indigo​ · SheReads Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead of appreciation, she is met with fury. The drowning woman, Hazel, tells her that she wanted to die, that she’s trapped in a toxic, abusive marriage, that she’s a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life. Out of options, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage, and Lee thinks she’s seen the last of her, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And then one day, Hazel makes a shocking request: she wants Lee to help her disappear. It’ll be easy, Hazel assures her, but Lee soon learns that nothing is as it seems, and that Hazel may not be the friend Lee thought she was.

Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds
Author: A.R. Barley
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2016-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459293533

When the weather outside starts cooling down, inside the dorm things are heating up. Can these college roommates fall in love without going out of bounds? Beaten and heartbroken, Jesse Cole is placed in a new dorm room after his last roommate attacked him. Just wanting to be left alone to heal in peace, he's shocked when tall, dark and dangerous-looking Nick Moretti walks in. Nick doesn't have time to tiptoe around his new roommate—he's too busy working in order to pay for school. But something about Jesse brings out his protective instincts. As their cautious friendship grows and becomes loaded with sexual tension, he wants to make Jesse comfortable. Enter the perfect plan: a line of tape down the center of the room. Boundaries established. But as innocent movie nights become hours-long temptation marathons, and whispered chats from across the room delve into straight-up dirty territory, crossing the line has never been so satisfying.