Sugar-Baby Bridge

Sugar-Baby Bridge PDF Author: Brett Edward Stout
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981947419
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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When what's expected to be a one-night stand is followed by an offer to visit a lakeside cabin in Tahoe, Brad postpones his flight back home to Hawaii. After all, what's waiting for him back there except the vague prospect of life after the Marine Corps? Besides, he is curious about Ron, the wealthy older man making the offer, who seems to be both intelligent and competent-but also dangerously reckless. And so it is that Brad finds himself mingling with the very, very elite while bit by bit discovering more of Ron's unsettled past-and all the while pondering his own unsettled future. UPDATED VERSION

Sugar-Baby Bridge

Sugar-Baby Bridge PDF Author: Brett Edward Stout
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981947419
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Book Description
When what's expected to be a one-night stand is followed by an offer to visit a lakeside cabin in Tahoe, Brad postpones his flight back home to Hawaii. After all, what's waiting for him back there except the vague prospect of life after the Marine Corps? Besides, he is curious about Ron, the wealthy older man making the offer, who seems to be both intelligent and competent-but also dangerously reckless. And so it is that Brad finds himself mingling with the very, very elite while bit by bit discovering more of Ron's unsettled past-and all the while pondering his own unsettled future. UPDATED VERSION

The Other Side of the Bridge

The Other Side of the Bridge PDF Author: Mary Lawson
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0440336376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father’s character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know – the family misfit. When a beautiful young woman comes into the community, the fragile balance of sibling rivalry tips over the edge. Then there is Ian, the family’s next generation, and far too sure he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the fifties, and the world has changed—a little, but not enough. These two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men—its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. With her astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, Lawson builds their story to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising us with moments of tenderness and humour, The Other Side of the Bridge is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.

Tiny Beautiful Things

Tiny Beautiful Things PDF Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307949338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

The Bridge of Peace

The Bridge of Peace PDF Author: Cindy Woodsmall
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307459462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Love alone isn’t enough to overcome some obstacles. Lena Kauffman is a young Old Order Amish schoolteacher who has dealt all her life with attention raised by a noticeable birthmark on her cheek. Having learned to move past the stares and whispers, Lena channels her zest for living into her love of teaching. But tensions mount as she is challenged to work with a rebellious young man and deal with several crises at the schoolhouse that threaten her other students. Her lack of submission and use of ideas that don’t line up with the Old Ways strengthen the school board’s case as they begin to believe that Lena is behind all the trouble. One member of the school board, Grey Graber, feels trapped by his own stifling circumstances. His wife, Elsie, has shut him out of her life, and he doesn’t know how long he can continue to live as if nothing is wrong. As the two finally come to a place of working toward a better marriage, tragedy befalls their family. Lena and Grey have been life-long friends, but their relationship begins to crumble amidst unsettling deceptions, propelling each of them to finally face their own secrets. Can they both find a way past their losses and discover the strength to build a new bridge?

Bridge to Haven

Bridge to Haven PDF Author: Francine Rivers
Publisher: Tyndale House Pub
ISBN: 1414368186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.

Pegasus Bridge

Pegasus Bridge PDF Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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The acclaimed WWII historian’s “illuminating account of . . . an operation as strategically important as any fought on D-Day” (The New York Times Book Review). In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. It was a mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. In Pegasus Bridge, Stephen Ambrose draws on original interviews with British, German, and French survivors to present a thrilling, ground-level view of the battle. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality—the stuff of all great adventures.

The Best Bridge Book

The Best Bridge Book PDF Author: Linda Tafet
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627877908
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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When Linda Tafet injured her shoulder and could no longer play golf or tennis, she found a new passion in the game of bridge. She took lessons, and the more she learned the more fascinated she became with the game. Every time she learned something new, she would condense it into her own words on a small index card. Soon, these cards became a stack, and then she combined the stack into a small three-ring binder. When her bridge friends saw what she was up to, they asked her to make them binders as well, and pretty soon she found herself in the handmade book-making business, selling each book for $75 each. After selling more than five hundred of these books, Linda decided she was working too hard and could reach more bridge players if she published her book. The Best Bridge Book is a compilation of her original handmade book, now produced as a paperback. Larry Cohen, a very good friend of Linda's and one of the best bridge teachers in the world, edited her book, ensuring that each lesson is correct and easy to follow. Now all bridge players from beginners to advanced can enjoy and learn from Linda's book.

Tile Your World

Tile Your World PDF Author: John P. Bridge
Publisher: Mistflower Press
ISBN: 9780974275437
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Book Description
Illustrated instructions enable you to 'tile with style'.

This Bridge Called My Back

This Bridge Called My Back PDF Author: Cherríe Moraga
Publisher: Kitchen Table--Women of Color Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. 65,000 copies in print.

The Bridge to Brilliance

The Bridge to Brilliance PDF Author: Nadia Lopez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101980265
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who “stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading." In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, in one of America’s poorest communities, in a record heat wave—and crime wave. Everything was an uphill battle—to get the school approved, to recruit faculty and students, to solve a million new problems every day, from violent crime to vanishing supplies—but Lopez was determined to break the downward spiral that had trapped too many inner-city children. The lessons came fast: unengaged teachers, wayward students, and the educational system itself, rarely in tune with the already disadvantaged and underprepared. Things were at a low ebb for everyone when one of her students told a photographer that his principal, “Ms. Lopez,” was the person who most influenced his life. The posting on Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York site was the pebble that started a lucky landslide for Lopez and her team. Lopez found herself in the national spotlight and headed for a meeting with President Obama, as well as the beneficiary of a million-dollar campaign for the school, to fund her next dream: a field trip for her students to visit another school—Harvard. The Bridge to Brilliance is a book filled with common sense and caring that will carry her message to communities and classrooms far from Brooklyn. As she says, modestly, “There are hundreds of Ms. Lopezes around this country doing good work for kids. This honors all of them.”