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Download or read book Crux written by Jean Guerrero and published by One World. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death PEN America Literary Award Winner • “The kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre.”—Los Angeles Review of Books From renowned journalist Jean Guerrero, here is the haunting story of a daughter’s mission to save her father from his demons and to save herself from destruction. Marco Antonio was raised in Mexico, then migrated to California, where he met Jean’s mother, Jeannette, a Puerto Rican woman just out of med school. Marco is a self-taught genius at building things—including mythologies about himself and the hidden forces that drive us. When he goes on the run, Jean follows and embarks on an investigative journey between cultures and languages, the earthly and the mystical, truth and fiction. A distinctive memoir about the search for an elusive parent, Crux is both a riveting adventure story and a profoundly original exploration of the mysteries of our world, our most intimate relationships, and ourselves. “[Guerrero] writes poetically about borders as a metaphor for the boundary of identity between father and daughter and the porous connective tissues that bind them.”—The National Book Review

Download or read book Vinnie's Diner written by Jennifer Allee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something big and black crashes against the windshield, and an explosion rocks the car. Turn into the skid! I see a flash and something in front of me. Something tall with black material flapping around it like the tail ends of an old-fashioned duster. Long, straw-colored hair. A scraggily goatee. A man? What's a man doing at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere? Why's he just standing there? Why doesn't he get out of the way? I yank the wheel back the other way, and the car swerves around him. And heads straight off the road. When the world stops bouncing and the car settles, I try to keep my eyes focused, but everything blurs around the edges. The waves ebb, and I hear a crunching sound, like boots on gravel. Straining to see, I barely make out . . . What is that? A flag? No, it's that flapping black material. I think it's the man I swerved to miss. A sweet, melodious voice makes its way through the undulating roar in my ears. “Let me help you.” Help. Yes, I need help.

Download or read book Mirrored Life written by Anita Richmond Bunkley and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After serving five years in prison, Sara Jane is determined to start a new life, and, armed with a new identity, takes a job in a ritzy Dallas salon where her dreams begin to come true, but her brutal past threatens to shatter her new existence.

Download or read book Her Werewolf Bodyguard written by Jodi Vaughn and published by Jodi Vaughn. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild. Untamed. Blazing with need. She can't avoid being burned. Werewolf Damon Trahan lives by one rule, protect the pack with his life. Content to be left alone, he avoids complications until he is ordered to rescue a general's daughter from a rival werewolf pack...or die trying. Little does he know she will tempt him to break every rule he's ever known, because the opposing pack isn't the only enemy in Ava's life. Her own father has been keeping deadly secrets from Ava, and now it's up to Damon to convince her of the truth before it's too late. Ava Renfroe is tired of Alpha males running her life. Growing up the daughter of a strict military general made her crave independence more than air. First she's kidnapped, and the danger ignites a rage in her body she's never felt before. Adding insult to injury, her commanding and arrogant new bodyguard is exactly the kind of man she doesn’t want. But try telling that to her out-of-control libido. Being on the run with a dark and powerful stranger will push Ava so far she might never recover. And this wild, needy thing stirring to life inside her? With the entire werewolf pack hunting them, there is nothing Damon can do now but keep her close...and let their passion burn. keywords: paranormal romance series, werewolves and shifters, urban fantasy, epic fantasy, Christine Feehan, JR Ward, Nora Roberts, Lee Savino, Milly Taiden, Karen Marie Moning, Donna Grant, Lora Leigh, Ilona Andrews,

Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Emilie Richards and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a USA Today–bestselling author, an “electrifying family drama” about a woman protecting her sister, who may not be innocent, from a murder charge (Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times–bestselling author of Sleep No More). All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy’s achievements, she didn’t even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice. Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters’ choices have taken them in different directions, which is why Ryan is stunned when Wendy calls, begging for her help. There’s been a murder—and Wendy believes she’ll be wrongfully accused. While Wendy lies low, Ryan moves back to their hometown to care for the nieces she hardly knows. Using the sleuthing skills she developed as a true crime podcaster, Ryan digs for answers with the help of an unexpected ally. Yet the trail of clues Wendy’s left behind leads to nothing but questions. Blood may be thicker than water, but what does Ryan owe a sister who becomes more and more a stranger with every revelation? “In A Family of Strangers, Emilie seamlessly mixes intrigue, romance and emotional drama as she puts family ties to the test with a protagonist you won’t soon forget. A page-turner to the end!” —Diane Chamberlain, New York Times–bestselling author of The Dream Daughter “Richards deftly shifts from women’s fiction into domestic suspense, but she doesn’t sacrifice the emotional acuity that her fans expect. Readers of relationship-focused domestic-suspense authors such as Lisa Jewell will enjoy Richards’ pivot into the genre.” —Booklist

Download or read book The Deadsong written by Brandon Hardy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gina Starkweather lives in Hemming, a rural Tennessee town where thirteen children die each year from snakebite. It has been an expected phenomenon for nearly twenty years, and only the victims' mothers suspect why. They wouldn't have had children at all, had a stranger not appeared and promised them the gift of life. These desperate mothers finally bore children without knowing their offspring would never reach adulthood. It has been written off as myth, a local legend that speaks of one called the Keeper of Serpents who comes in the night with his army of snakes to claim those born under the stranger's contract before their eighteenth birthday. When Gina learns of her own mother's deal with Death, she and her brother set out to find the Keeper before her time runs out.

Download or read book Sometimes the Truth Hurts (Before It Sets You Free) written by Denise Gambone and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortunes and misfortunes, experiences and adversity endured in life are sometimes the result of choices we make, sometimes due to events we have no control of. My name is Denise. These are my stories. It was a time of clashing values, the end of the freewheeling 60s, the beginning of the tumultuous 70s, and the evolving 80s. Told in her distinctive style, Sometimes the Truth Hurts are stories of loss, rebellious youth, stubborn independence, and determination to overcome adversity and achieve a secure and better place in life. Unexpected outcomes, irony and humor resonate throughout, reflecting perseverance of the human spirit. Some stories may be considered controversial, but are told openly and honestly without moral judgement, life lessons, contemporary and timeless, rendered unabashedly from the heart and soul.