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Download or read book The Guardians written by Rick Boyle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how good our lives seem to be going, we often long for a little more excitement. Sometimes we don’t realize it though until something unusual is presented to us, and we need to make some big, important decisions. In author Rick Boyle’s The Guardians: The Search for the Golden Praying Mantis, you join three teenagers who undertake an adventure of a lifetime. Seth is the star quarterback for La Jolla High School and his younger brother, Sean, is a genius. For the most part, the brothers are pleased with their lives. Then they meet their new science teacher. Miss Tia, a former college professor from New York University. When she shares a story about the elusive Golden Praying Mantis, the boys are intrigued. With the help of classmate, Amber, they go on a search for this mystical creature. And when they discover a black and white crystal, their lives are changed forever. The Guardians: The Search for the Golden Praying Mantis shows us that things are not always what they seem. Nor are people—even parents. Join Seth and Sean as they begin their journey to become Guardians of the Universe.

Download or read book Blue World written by Robert McCammon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful and macabre short fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman’s touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Father John, and after she departs he becomes obsessed. Around the corner from his church is a neon-lit alley of sin. He goes there hoping to save her life before he damns himself. That is “Blue World,” the novella that anchors this collection of chilling stories by Robert R. McCammon. Although monsters, demons, and murderers fill these pages, in McCammon’s world the most terrifying landscape of all is the barren wasteland of a lost man’s soul.

Download or read book Edwin Mullhouse written by Steven Millhauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler. As a memorial, Edwin Mullhouse's best friend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary genius in the remarkable novel, Cartoons.

Download or read book Blue Jeans written by Carolyn Purnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or casual as blue jeans. Yet, their simplicity is deceptive. Blue jeans are nothing if not an exercise in opposites. Americans have accepted jeans as a symbol of their culture, but today jeans are a global consumer product category. Levi Strauss made blue jeans in the 1870s to withstand the hard work of mining, but denim has since become the epitome of leisure. In the 1950s, celebrities like Marlon Brando transformed the utilitarian clothing of industrial labor into a glamorous statement of youthful rebellion, and now, you can find jeans on chic fashion runways. For some, indigo blue might be the color of freedom, but for workers who have produced the dye, it has often been a color of oppression and tyranny. Blue Jeans considers the versatility of this iconic garment and investigates what makes denim a universal signifier, ready to fit any context, meaning, and body. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Download or read book I'm Not Innocent But... written by Tina Washington and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book I'll Be Watching You written by M. William Phelps and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true-crime story of Edwin Snelgrove, an American serial killer who wanted to out-kill Ted Bundy, from the New York Times bestselling author. In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful thirty-two-year-old Hartford mother of four, went missing. At first police were stymied . . . until a killer's crucial mistake led investigators down a long, dark road of cold, calculated murder . . . In 1987, single mother Mary Ellen Renard was strangled, repeatedly stabbed, and left for dead in her New Jersey apartment. Her vicious assailant had already killed once . . . and would kill again. But unlike the fiend's other victims, Mary Ellen lived to tell the tale . . . Clean-cut, popular and on the fast track at a multinational computer firm, Rutgers grad Edwin “Ned” Snelgrove shocked friends and colleagues with a plea bargain for Renard's brutal attack—and the heinous 1983 murder of college girlfriend Karen Osmun. Vowing never to be caught again, Ned spent his time in prison obsessively studying the violent career of his idol Ted Bundy . . . then was released ten years early for good behavior . . . Unflinching and brilliantly researched, this is an exclusive tour into the twisted mind of an all-American killer . . . and a state attorney's tireless efforts to lock him away forever. Praise for I'll Be Watching You “Skillfully balances a victim's story against that of an arrogant serial killer as it reveals a deviant mind intent on topping the world's most dangerous criminals. Phelps has an unrelenting sense for detail that affirms his place as one of our most engaging crime journalists.” —Katherine Ramsland, New York Times – bestselling author of Confession of a Serial Killer Includes sixteen pages of revealing photos

Download or read book My Father’s Shadow written by P. M. Smith and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanessa Collins has known her life’s destiny since she was a child. Now as an adult Vanessa is on the verge of fulfiling the very purpose for which she was created. Before she can carry out this purpose God creates events that cause her to deal with her deceased father’s ideologies, her older brother’s huge sense of entitlement and the biggest test of all, facing her own faults and insecurities.