Author: Bo Reid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Growing up a Jinx is no cakewalk.Serendipity Jinx is determined to live her life on her own, but sometimes even the most determined person can use a little help.Malcolm Mayweather walked into Serendipity's life on the day she needed a miracle, that miracle just happened to have piercing blue eyes, wear leather, and drive a Harley.Malcolm is her neighbor, and new boss having given her a job when they met to help her get back on her feet.The problem? You're not supposed to date your boss, but after spending nearly everyday together for the last three months neither of them can seem to wait any longer.Will Serendipity and Malcolm risk everything for one night on the most cursed day of the year?*A Jinx'd Winter is book two in the Jinx novella series and should be read in order of publication.
Author: Sage Blackwood
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062129929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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The highly acclaimed first book of a fantasy adventure series set in a mysterious forest, starring a daring new hero. "Readers will thrill to journey with Jinx" (SLJ, starred review), a wizard's apprentice, as he sets off on a quest through the dangerous Urwald, a magical forest full of wizards and were-creatures, and discovers that it is more complex than he could imagine, and that it needs him more than he could ever guess. This humorous and smart tween fantasy adventure is perfect for fans of Septimus Heap, The Sisters Grimm, and Fablehaven. Supports the Common Core State Standards
Author: Ralph Hunter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453533699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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In Autumns Dancing Leaves, we met Eddie, an abused and neglected kid whose personality fractured to create Randy when he reached a point where he could no longer cope with the trauma in his life. Randy, defiant and determined, undertook the crusade of becoming Eddies champion, endeavoring to save him from his abusers and all who were a threat to him. Because of Randys effectiveness, Eddies mind decided it was possible to enjoy the life that Randy insured, that being involved with the world was preferable to merely surviving the lifetime. Eddies mind then developed Jesse from unused personality traits. Jesse, an aesthetic personality, believed his goal was to interact with people and the world to find missing elements in Eddies life and use his experiences to bring balance to the life he shared with Eddie and Randy. Randy and Jesse believed they were moving closer to what they saw as a normal life, exposing Eddie to the things they thought determined quality of life. But, Jesse made a mistake he felt would be devastating for Eddie. Randy responded by deciding to take them away from an environment he saw as detrimental ... Winters Stormy Rage picks up the story with Randy on the road, looking for a new life, a new place where they can settle down. He travels to Kansas City, to an old neighborhood where he is exposed to other runaway kids surviving on the streets, and those he calls societys undesirables. From there he makes his way west, toward the coast, stopping along the way for a time with a biker gang that picks him up alongside the highway. A series of tragedies convinces Randy that they dont have a chance of success in trying to attain a new life. With that realization, he turns to drugs and alcohol, which keep him numb and muddled, preventing him from sorting out the truth. When he hits a low point, Jesse takes over to lead them for a time, a role in which hes not comfortable. Jesse catches a ride on the highway with Marcella, a female impersonator, who declares herself to be an entertainer. Marcella takes him to San Diego where he meets the colorful crowd Marcella associates with. While Jesse is struggling to cope with the role of directing their life, Randy keeps showing up, still wrestling with substance abuse problems. Jesse fears Randy could be a threat to their existence. He decides he must seek help for them, but that would entail telling someone the secret of their life, a secret they had always sought to conceal. Winter's Stormy Rage follows the three facets of Eddie through their struggles, through the setbacks and the successes in the complex life they shared, from a bleak beginning to a promising conclusion ... Author Biography (Communication with Readers) PROLOGUE Prior ... Autumns Dancing Leaves ... Eddie was born not favoring anyone in his family, which created problems between his parents. His mother irrationally blamed him. When he was five years old, Evelyn sought to punish him by loaning him to pedophile men. As a result, he was abused by the companions and neglected by his mother. Intelligent, with heightened abilities in logic and reasoning, little Eddie attemped to rationalize his situation in an effort to keep the abuse in an acceptable perspective that would allow him to cope with it. He struggled with the increasing severity of the abuse but, by age eleven, he could no longer handle the circumstances of his life. Gravely depressed, he decided his only escape would be to die, that by conscious will, he could simply resolve to give up life and cease to exist. Eddies mind, alerted to his decision, was determined to survive, believing the ultimate goal for any entity was to continue, regardless of the form or quality of life. Panicked at the threat of cessation, his mind made a desperate decision - it fractured his personality and created Randy from traits that had been repressed in Eddie. Randy, a tough, defiant
Author: Wallace Collins
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453552138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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My endeavor here is to validate and document In Winters Eye what causes me to reflect, and try to recapture, in retrospect, my experiences--events propelled then by my pervasive apprehension of frost. This symbolic cold weather chills me to the bone In Winters Eye, which has now resurfaced in this brooding, but stark and detail reality. Yet, though the metaphorical winter weather doesnt bother me that much anymore, but when I accidentally get onto that slippery patch of racial black ice that camouflages the asphalt Thrue-way as passable, then, it would hit on my wheels and send me careening into a chaotic irrational verbal spin. My meeting with that icy patch on lifes roadway to somewhere, or nowhere for that matter, freewheels my sense of direction as it throws me off my intended course of normal human progress; after which I would struggle to maintain control of myself and the vehicle of my life I am driving down the road, if not to somewhere in the future, but to obliterate the past, where my wheels would swerve and skid helter skelter, luckily, into the shoulder of the Thrue-way for my ultimate survival. It became a necessity for me then, after meeting head-on the pronounced differences intoned by the assonant and dissonant sounds that racial preference plays out with acrimony, compared with the personal autonomy of my parent culture and the restrictions based on race in anothers. My endeavor to be accepted by my peers saw me struggle to adapt and to assimilate the new culture I enter, of which I wrote about In Winters Eye," or simply to remain, not just as an entity, but preferably that of a functional individual, as in the following. It is in such an ethnic arena that one jazz-dance to the subtle tempo from the racial nuances afoot, as one tries to keep time to that unique racial beat, sufficient to make one assess ones common experiences with others, keeping in mind, meanwhile, how it was in the countries, I lived and traveled over the years. In the fall of 1967, it was not a dream I had awakened from, and found myself living a life, akin to that of a spectator perched on a ledge in the balcony, gawking at the happenings taking place below in the arena. My consciousness held sway as I ogled at the vibrant milieu of racial politics happening then in my New York. I was not dreaming either when I found myself living in an apartment in Corona, Queens, as it was my natural evolvement within the trajectory of my migratory, path to the Big Apple. Neither was I having an-out-of-body experience that spirited me from Jamaica to London, then whisked me off to Toronto on a tidal wave, and finally being carried aloft by a big silver bird that landed me in the New York, slab-dab in the middle of the Civil Rights struggle. It was a vast struggle then, and remains so today, though on a higher level as still a living, breathing, a phenomenon that, in the 1960's, had elicited a mad rush of water to ooze from fire hoses manned by assiduous, if not sadistic, law and order protagonists that swept their fellow American brethren off their feet, and tossed them several yards from the offending fray.
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250892651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Dragon in Winter brings New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic Kagen the Damned Trilogy to a wild conclusion! War is coming! War is here! The Witch-king of Hakkia, aided by terrifying dark forces, sits uneasy on his stolen throne. His enemies, led by Kagen the Damned and the Bloody Bastards have found the secrets of ancient magic they hope will defeat him. Strange forces gather on both sides – vast armies of both the living and the dead, devious trickster spirits, strange gods, warrior ghosts, undying vampires, blood plagues that drive people to murderous rage, immortal faeries, and Earth’s last dragon. Kagen knows that he faces the impossible task of toppling a usurper whose dark magic conquered an empire in a single night. But the Damned fear nothing and there are no limits to what Kagen will do to destroy the Witch-king. With his allies he will tear apart the veils that separate our world from the infinite realms of supernatural magic. The Witch-king will not go down with a fight, and he is willing to drown the western lands in innocent blood to retain his stolen crown. Even if he rules over an empire of dust and blood. His power is growing and soon he will be unstoppable. But they are not the only forces at work in the world. Magic of all kinds is awakening and who can tell which side they will pick...or if they will pose a new and terrible threat to all! In the frozen North, the last dragon –tortured, captive, dying— cries out in despair. In the inky vastness of the outer dark that cry is heard! And something of incalculable power is coming in answer.
Author: Sara Lawrence
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781595141699
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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At the exclusive Stagmount School for Girls, wealthy seventeen-year-olds Jinx Slater and her best friend Liberty Latiffe are having a fabulous year until a new student arrives and Liberty falls under her spell, unaware of her sinister intentions.
Author: Joe Shek
Publisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Synopsis: A Jinx Called Joe is a semi-autobiography, based on Joe’s experience. ‘Jinx’ was the name that ‘the father’ assign to Joe, and the word has permanently been embedded in Joe’s painful memory. His life did not belong to him. Struggling his whole life since birth, Joe decided to survive independently. Lacking any support, Joe had to force himself to be brave and strong to overcome every uphill battle because he had no other choice. To escape from the abuse from ‘the father’, Joe had only two paths — committing suicide or risking everything to fight against ‘the father’. A Jinx Called Joe is an account of the struggle for the meaning of life and self-worth. With no strong literacy background, only sincere words and genuine feelings can touch the readers. Written by someone who was broken, the tale was born to seek to advocate empathy. Writing Style: This book possesses a unique writing style, inspired by A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo. A strong personality can be found in the first-person point of view. Some English sentences do not follow the grammar rules, with some Chinese writing elements.
Author: G. E. Murray
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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In these poems, G. E. Murray blends the colors of the soul with those of the world it brushes up against, exploring the ways in which art, both as possession and possessor, informs perception. Viewing his subjects sometimes from airplane altitude, sometimes from the intimacy of a shared restaurant table, Murray crafts “true stories about color,” narratives of dislocation and belonging that invite readers to question their own relationship to art. Included in this volume is a long sequential poem titled “The Seconds,” which Murray composed across the second days of thirteen months. The rhythms of this diary-as-poem seize the tensions of shifting times and locales, capturing the essences of moments that are at once chosen and arbitrary. “Codes toward an Incidental City,” the sequence that closes the book, is a confederacy of forty poems that delve into the concrete familiarities and mythologies of urban landscapes, illuminating the ecstasies of city life.
Author: Lindsey R. Loucks
Publisher: Evershade Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Aika and her wolves have declared war. Now the rival wolf shifters are out for blood. It’s been days since Old Man’s Den burned to the ground and Grady swore he heard his lost alpha howl. While holed up in a tiny inn, tensions are high. There’s no sign of the alpha. Aika is itching to improve her poison. And they’re being hunted. Risking the frigid temperatures outside is the only option—or is it? When Aika makes an unlikely alliance, the war takes an unexpected turn. She’ll have to stay steps ahead of her enemies, though, even when they’re chomping at her heels. Winter has a deadly bite. To live and save her wolves, she’ll bite right back. Don’t miss this exciting, sexy continuation! If you love authors like Caroline Peckham, Elizabeth Briggs, Meg Xuemei X, and Debbie Cassidy, this series is for you! KEYWORDS: new adult, mystery, paranormal, supernatural, reverse harem, fantasy, folklore, folktale, folk tale, legend, legends, myth, myths, action adventure, action, adventure, book, books, ebook, novel, quick read, read, short, serial, series, disabilities, protagonist with disability, female protagonist, blind protagonist, secret, suspense, thriller, alpha male, literature, story, stories, hero, fiction, romance, romance ebook, romance ebooks, romance book, romance books, women's fiction, racy, legal, romance novel, romance books, contemporary, werewolf, wolf shifters, wolf shifter, wolf shifter romance, shifter, shapeshifter, transform, wolf, secret, sensual, death, magic, sorcery, witch, wizard, paranormal romance, romance books, paranormal romance books, shifter romance books full novel, ebooks romance, romance books for adults, paranormal romance books full novel, steamy romance books, romance books, happily ever after, secrets, guaranteed HEA, sexually romantic books
Author: Sharon Sobel
Publisher: ImaJinn Books
ISBN: 1611945356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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YULE BE MINE by Jo Ann Ferguson Priscilla Flanders Hathaway and her new husband Neville are intending to spend Christmas together at their country estate with family--until a group of friends alight on their doorstep. The more the merrier . . . until they discover that one of their guests is about to commit murder . . . NO ROOM AT THE INN by Karen Frisch All the widow Rosemary Boughman wants for Christmas is to spend a joyous holiday with her young son in the small inn she's inherited. And if business picked up--or even started--that would be even better. What she gets, however, is a visit from her late husband's commanding officer . . . intent on keeping a promise. IN THE SEASON OF LIGHT AND LOVE by Sharon Sobel When her sister and brother-in-law are lost at sea, Miss Violet Makepeace vows to do anything she can to give her young niece and nephews a Christmas to remember. Unfortunately, she hadn't anticipated having to share them--and the holidays--with the rakish, absolutely irresistible James Hanford, Earl of Greenlough. A SEASON FOR GIVING by Shereen Vedam After one unsuccessful season, Miss Honoria Gilbert knows just what she wants in a husband. And she's finally found him. But Christopher de Wynter isn't your typical English gentleman. He's living a double life, doing undercover work for the crown, and has no intention of letting anyone get too close. But then again, he's never been up against the power of a young lady's Christmas wish . . .
