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Office of Kink & Karma Boxed Set
Celia Kyle - 2009
A bit of subterfuge is in order: The Office of Kink and Karma... Touch Me - Josh Martin doesn't care what the Council wants, he's not about to let them turn him into some boy toy. Until he sees Emily's picture. Tri Me - Two men, one woman and some yummy man loving... What more could a woman ask for? Lara Kinley's asking for all of that... and more. Serve Me - Margaret Thompson is a prim and proper librarian by day and Dominatrix by night. Love Me - The Office of Kink and Karma is closed. After playing matchmaker and setting up three couples, Eric D'Amore can't handle the stress anymore. Can it get any worse? Of course. Note: This title contains BDSM and m/m sex practices.
Other Side of the Game
Amanda Parris - 2019
Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he’s been, when a police officer stops them.In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their voices and demanding to be heard.
Our Man in Havana
Clive Francis - 2015
So when the British Secret Service asks him to become their ‘man in Havana’ he can’t afford to say no. There’s just one problem…he doesn’t know anything! To avoid suspicion, he begins to recruit nonexistent sub-agents, concocting a series of intricate fictions. But Wormold soon discovers that his stories are closer to the truth than he could have ever imagined… In Clive Francis’ adaptation, Graham Greene’s classic satirical novel becomes a wonderfully funny and fast-moving romp.
Reckless - Acting Edition
Craig Lucas - 1985
She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti, a true "original" who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability). Thus begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists, a TV game show, and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. Filled with bizarre characters and events, the play reflects the fractured lifestyles which have become the norm for so many in our tenuous times.
Albert Nobbs
George Moore - 1918
Set in a posh hotel in nineteenth-century Dublin, Albert Nobbs is the story of an unassuming waiter hiding a shocking secret. Forced one night to share his bed with an out-of-town laborer, Albert Nobbs' carefully constructed facade nearly implodes when the stranger disovers his true identity-that he's actually a woman. Forced by this revelation to look himself in the mirror, Albert sets off in a desperate pursuit of companionship and love, a search he's unwilling to abandon so long as he's able to preserve his fragile persona at the same time. A tale of longing and romance, Albert Nobbs is a moving and startlingly frank gender-bending tale about the risks of being true to oneself. With a foreword by Glenn Close.
Metamorphoses
Mary Zimmerman - 2002
Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change. Nominated for three 2002 Tony Awards, including "Best Play," Metamorphoses earned Zimmerman a Tony for "Best Direction of a Play."
Merry Mistletoe
Emma Davies - 2015
And to make matters worse, the only contenders to buy Appleyard Farm, are the people she’d least like to sell it to – her rival growers, the Henderson brothers, who seem always to make life so difficult for her. It’s magical stuff though, mistletoe, and the arrival of the mysterious Amos Fry, brings a glimmer of hope that might just mean Freya can fall in love with Christmas all over again.As the snow begins to fall, cosy up and find your sparkle this Christmas with another big-hearted, and wonderfully warm read from the author of Letting in Light.
Drive Me To Ecstasy
Monica Walters - 2019
She thrives on reaching them where even sometimes their parents can’t. Their welfare is also important to her. Coming from a loving, two-parent home, she feels that she knows what love looks like, however, when she meets Cassie Daniels, she isn’t sure if she’s seeing love or neglect of some kind. When she reaches the child’s father, she gets the answers she’s looking for and most of them have nothing to do with Cassie. Price Daniels has a difficult task at hand. The mother of his eight-year-old daughter is in the wind, leaving Cassie with him for a weekend visit and not returning. While Price loves his daughter and will do anything for her, he’s facing a dilemma. He doesn’t know the first thing about being the full-time parent of a little girl. The youngest son of deceased parents and only having an older brother, there are no women in his life to show him the ropes. When he gets a note from her teacher, he’s praying she doesn’t report him to CPS, however, when he meets Ms. Washington, he wants to solicit her help with Cassie and so much more. Price and Kendall have one common interest; taking care of Cassie and making sure she has everything she needs. Once Cassie is squared away, the focus somehow shifts to their own needs. Will they be able to fulfill those needs through the attraction they have for one another? Or will too many lines be crossed if they even entertained the thought?
Fire Dancer: Ben Pecos Mysteries, Book 4
Susan Slater - 2018
But Connie harbors a deep secret she has never told anyone. Ben and Julie are hardly settled when people begin dying, and they find themselves swept into the midst of another mystery. The twists and turns in this complex plot will keep readers guessing to the very end! Praise for Susan Slater and the Ben Pecos series: “Solid, suspenseful narrative and colorful glimpses of Native American life ... strongly recommend.” —Library Journal “A series to watch.” —Booklist “… Ben Pecos—raised far from New Mexico’s Tewa Pueblo—could become as lasting a fictional presence as Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.” – Chicago Tribune “… a gripping, interesting tale.” –5 stars, online review
Saint Gabriel's Gospel
Jerry Harber - 2013
Stephen Saint Gabriel and his team discover a first century codex hidden in an earthenware jar. As he begins to decipher the ancient writing, he comes face to face with the journal kept by Mary Magdalene as she followed Jesus during his ministry. As Gabriel and his team take high resolution photographs of the codex pages for study, the codex is stolen, but by whom? Is it forces within the Israeli government? Perhaps members of his own team? Or, is it a sinister group within the Catholic Church--The Dark Brothers--who seek to suppress the discovery and keep Mary’s revelations from the world?Gabriel is joined by Nicki Taylor, a beautiful and wealthy volunteer on the dig, as they attempt to protect the photographic images and make Mary’s words available to the world. And in the process they make another discovery that could shatter two millennia of teaching by Christians around the world--a discovery which they must protect with their lives.
Die Laughing 2: Five More Comic Crime Novels
Ben Rehder - 2014
He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shorts—the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's report—and with his history, who can blame them?—it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.LAST CHANCE LASSITERPaul LevineIn this prequel to the “Jake Lassiter” series, the linebacker-turned-lawyer faces overwhelming odds. Fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Lassiter rents a grungy law office in a Miami Beach parking garage. What else could go wrong? Well, he could be disbarred for punching out his own client. As for cases, the down-and-out lawyer has only one. Lassiter represents Cadillac Johnson, an aging rhythm and blues musician who claims his greatest song was stolen by a top-of-the-charts hip-hop artist. The evidence is long gone and chances of winning are slim. Except for one thing. “If your cause is just,” Lassiter says, “no case is impossible.”CLIENTParnell HallStanley Hastings couldn't be happier. He had his first paying client, and the assignment was straight out of a forties noir movie, tailing the man's cheating wife and snapping pictures of her at a motel. If only he hadn't fallen asleep on stakeout. When he wakes up the woman is dead, the murder weapon is in his car, and a small town police force straight out of In the Heat of the Night has him cast in the Sidney Poitier role. To clear his name—and get paid—Stanley will have to figure out who his client is, who killed the woman in the upstate motel, and who was the resultant corpse!RADIO ACTIVITYBill FitzhughFM rock deejay Rick Shannon has just been fired from his latest Classic Rock station. He’s thinking it’s time to get out of radio once and for all. But when a famous deejay disappears in Mississippi, Rick gets a job offer to take over the slot. So he packs his bags and moves back to his home state where he comes across a tape of an illegally recorded phone conversation that might explain the fate of the missing deejay. Rick starts looking into the matter, and before you can say “Stairway to Heaven” he’s uncovered a scheme of blackmail, arson, murder, and a major FCC violation. Based on an illegal recording made by the author (and former FM rock deejay), Radio Activity redefines classic rock.CALABAMA Steve BrewerWhen a speeding Corvette flies over his head, leaving him without a scratch, Eric Newlin decides it's an omen and his life is about to change. He's right. Within days, he's broke, homeless, unemployed and getting divorced. He falls so far that he ends up involved in a kidnapping scheme with hillbilly crimelord Rydell Vance. Leavened with dark humor, CALABAMA takes a wry look at California's rural, redneck interior, a bitter, precarious place where it's easy for an outsider's life to spiral out of control.
Summer at the Lake
Bella Andre - 2021
Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with Bella Andre’s emotional, fun and sexy contemporary romances!THE BEST IS YET TO COMEBest friends. High school sweethearts. Passionate lovers. Once upon a time, Sarah Bartow and Calvin Vaughn were everything to each other. Until big dreams—and an even bigger tragedy—tore them apart. Ten years after good-bye, they're finally together again at Summer Lake in the Adirondacks...and the sparks between them are hotter than ever. Soon one kiss is turning into so much more. Not only breathtaking, sizzling lovemaking—but also deep, honest emotions that can't be denied.CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF OF YOUChristie Hayden escaped to Summer Lake to heal from heartbreak, but found so much more than that: a job she loves as an innkeeper, a close-knit community of friends, and a chance at the perfect romantic future she’s always longed for. But nothing is as it seems, especially when it comes to Liam Kane, the gorgeous millionaire who sweeps into her life from out of the blue…and instantly turns it—and her heart—upside down.
Camp Half-Blood - The Heroes of Olympus: Wikipedia Articles
Source Wikipedia - 2011
Pages: 54. Chapters: Characters, Places, The Heroes of Olympus books, The Heroes of Olympus characters, The Heroes of Olympus events, The Heroes of Olympus places, Alcatraz Island, Aphrodite's Cabin, Apollo's Cabin, Ares' Cabin, Artemis' Cabin, Athena's Cabin, Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, Bunker 9, Camp Half-Blood Forest, Carlsbad Caverns, Daedalus' Workshop, Demeter's Cabin, Dionysus' Cabin, DOA Recording Studios, Door of Orpheus, Elysium, Empire State Building, Gila Claw, Arizona, Hall of the Gods, Hecate's Cabin, Hermes' Cabin, Hoover Dam, Jamestown, Virginia, Junkyard of the Gods, Long Island, Mississippi River, Monster Doughnut, Mount Etna, Mount Olympus, Mount Othrys, Mount Saint Helens, Poseidon's Cabin, River Styx, San Francisco, Tartarus, The Big House, The Big House Attic, The Garden of the Hesperides, The Sea of Monsters, Waterland, Westover Hall, Yancy Academy, Zeus' Fist, The Lost Hero, The Mark of Athena, The Son of Neptune, Ella, Enceladus, Hazel Levesque, Lupa, Polybotes, Deaths, Important Dates, Romance, The Feast of Fortuna, The Quest for Hera, The Quest for Thanatos, Aphrodite's Cabin, Battle of Mount Othrys, Grand Canyon, Greece, Hephaestus' Cabin, Hera's Cabin, Long Island, Monocle Motors, Mount Diablo, Mount Olympus, Mount Othrys, River Styx, San Francisco, The Big House, United States of America, Wilderness School, Wolf House, Zeus' cabin. Excerpt: Alcatraz Island is a famous prison island located in the San Francisco Bay. Kamp 's prison is directly underneath the known Alcatraz prison. Briares, a hundred-handed elder brother of the Cyclopes, was held there by Kamp . Percy, Annabeth, Tyson, and Grover helped him escape into the Labyrinth. In the mortal world, Alcatraz is a famous national park that was used as a maximum security prison by the United States government. The island was first discovered in 1775 by the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala. He called it "La ...
Find Free Kindle Books: A how-to guide to finding and loading free books on your Kindle Fire
Edward C. Jones - 2014
Once you've read this guide and carried out its step-by-step directions, it may be months before you're forced to pay for another book! Topics that you will learn include:• What file formats work (and don't work) with the Kindle Fire• How to transfer e-books from your computer to your Kindle Fire using the USB charging cable• How to transfer e-books from your computer to your Kindle Fire using the free "Wi-Fi Explorer" app• How to send e-books, music files, and videos to your Kindle Fire using e-mail• How to find free books by the hundreds on the Amazon website• How to find free books by the thousands on the InternetStop paying for enjoyable reading when there is such a wealth of excellent free content available. Let Find Free Kindle Books serve as your roadmap to finding free e-books for your Kindle Fire!
Marriage and Mutton Curry
M. Shanmughalingam - 2018
Two sisters share a husband when one fails to produce a child for the longest time. An American diplomat's urgent inquires about the Malaysian treasury’s facilities are hilariously misunderstood. A daring civil servant proposes to a lady in his Ceylonese hometown mere minutes after meeting her, breaking a thousand years of marriage protocol.M. Shanmughalingam's debut collection paints, with gentle wit and humour, the concerns and intrigues of the Jaffna Tamil community in Malaya. Satirical yet deeply empathetic, these fifteen stories explore what happens when we hold on to—and choose to leave behind—our traditions and identities in a changing world.