Author: Nadjina Shanik
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480919772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Glenda’s Wedding Night By Nadjina Shanik Glenda’s Wedding Night is a search-for-love story like nothing you've ever read. It takes a look at many different cultures, how they deal with love and marriage. This tale revolves around culture shock and class clash. Our protagonist Glenda marries five times to men of different nationalities in different countries. She progresses hopefully from the spineless wimp to the ultra-macho man of her dreams. Traveling from Tuxedo Park, to Ibiza, Mexico, Greece, Israel, Cyprus, Jordan, Turkey, and New York City, Glenda’s Wedding Night is doormat versus diva, wife versus mistress, career versus home, feminism versus machismo, quack versus witch, users and losers, playboys and wannabes, the Latin culture versus the Anglo culture, and immigrant versus blue-blood. It’s about what everybody thinks they’re missing in life, about dangerous liaisons and fatal attractions. It’s all here in a multicolored tapestry of steamy romance and bizarre travel, spanning decades.
Glenda's Wedding Night
Author: Nadjina Shanik
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480919772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Glenda’s Wedding Night By Nadjina Shanik Glenda’s Wedding Night is a search-for-love story like nothing you've ever read. It takes a look at many different cultures, how they deal with love and marriage. This tale revolves around culture shock and class clash. Our protagonist Glenda marries five times to men of different nationalities in different countries. She progresses hopefully from the spineless wimp to the ultra-macho man of her dreams. Traveling from Tuxedo Park, to Ibiza, Mexico, Greece, Israel, Cyprus, Jordan, Turkey, and New York City, Glenda’s Wedding Night is doormat versus diva, wife versus mistress, career versus home, feminism versus machismo, quack versus witch, users and losers, playboys and wannabes, the Latin culture versus the Anglo culture, and immigrant versus blue-blood. It’s about what everybody thinks they’re missing in life, about dangerous liaisons and fatal attractions. It’s all here in a multicolored tapestry of steamy romance and bizarre travel, spanning decades.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480919772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Glenda’s Wedding Night By Nadjina Shanik Glenda’s Wedding Night is a search-for-love story like nothing you've ever read. It takes a look at many different cultures, how they deal with love and marriage. This tale revolves around culture shock and class clash. Our protagonist Glenda marries five times to men of different nationalities in different countries. She progresses hopefully from the spineless wimp to the ultra-macho man of her dreams. Traveling from Tuxedo Park, to Ibiza, Mexico, Greece, Israel, Cyprus, Jordan, Turkey, and New York City, Glenda’s Wedding Night is doormat versus diva, wife versus mistress, career versus home, feminism versus machismo, quack versus witch, users and losers, playboys and wannabes, the Latin culture versus the Anglo culture, and immigrant versus blue-blood. It’s about what everybody thinks they’re missing in life, about dangerous liaisons and fatal attractions. It’s all here in a multicolored tapestry of steamy romance and bizarre travel, spanning decades.
Pandemic
Author: Daniel Kalla
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 142991260X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Genesis of a Plague Right now, in a remote corner of rural China, a farmer and his family are sharing their water supply with their livestock: chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep. They share the same waste-disposal system, too. Bird viruses meet their human counterparts in the bloodstreams of the swine, where they mix and mutate before spreading back into the human population. And a new flu is born.... Dr. Noah Haldane, of the World Health Organization, knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, like the great influenza pandemic of 1919 that killed more than twenty million people in less than four months. So when a mysterious new strain of flu is reported in the Gansu Province of mainland China, WHO immediately sends a team to investigate. Haldane and his colleagues soon discover that the new disease, dubbed Acute Respiratory Collapse Syndrome, is far more deadly than SARS, killing one in four victims, regardless of their age or health. But even as WHO struggles to contain the outbreak, ARCS is already spreading to Hong Kong, London, and even America. In an age when every single person in the world is connected by three commercial flights or fewer, a killer bug can travel much faster than the flu of 1919. Especially when someone is spreading the virus on purpose... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 142991260X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Genesis of a Plague Right now, in a remote corner of rural China, a farmer and his family are sharing their water supply with their livestock: chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep. They share the same waste-disposal system, too. Bird viruses meet their human counterparts in the bloodstreams of the swine, where they mix and mutate before spreading back into the human population. And a new flu is born.... Dr. Noah Haldane, of the World Health Organization, knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, like the great influenza pandemic of 1919 that killed more than twenty million people in less than four months. So when a mysterious new strain of flu is reported in the Gansu Province of mainland China, WHO immediately sends a team to investigate. Haldane and his colleagues soon discover that the new disease, dubbed Acute Respiratory Collapse Syndrome, is far more deadly than SARS, killing one in four victims, regardless of their age or health. But even as WHO struggles to contain the outbreak, ARCS is already spreading to Hong Kong, London, and even America. In an age when every single person in the world is connected by three commercial flights or fewer, a killer bug can travel much faster than the flu of 1919. Especially when someone is spreading the virus on purpose... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
True Friends of the Heart
Author: Saragene Stamm Adkins
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450273890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
True Friends of the Heart,continutes the adventures of the main characters in my first book, The White Starched Apron. Maggie, Red and Glenda Faye go their separate ways, but this book brings them back together once more. There are all new adventures, trials and tribulations to over come. There is love, sorrow and much happiness when, The Fearsome Three Some, continue their lives during World War II, in Speedway City, Indiana.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450273890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
True Friends of the Heart,continutes the adventures of the main characters in my first book, The White Starched Apron. Maggie, Red and Glenda Faye go their separate ways, but this book brings them back together once more. There are all new adventures, trials and tribulations to over come. There is love, sorrow and much happiness when, The Fearsome Three Some, continue their lives during World War II, in Speedway City, Indiana.
Glenda's Miracle
Author: J. A. Cummings
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481742329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Twenty-five years of drug addiction came to a halt for Glenda Evans when she overdosed and ended up in the hospital. She was befriended by her nurse who helped her get into rehab where she was able to get clean, get an education, and eventually land a job. After ten year, she went on a search for her mother, Sarah, who she found in Denver, Colorado. When Glenda goes to Denver and is introduced to her daughter's family, her whole world is turned upside down. Read about the events that take place while she stays in Denver and what happens when she meets the Reverend Jeffery Hamilton. A compelling novel about the continuing love affair between Sarah and Charles Crowe, the growth of the Crowe family, and the surprises Sarah's mother, Glenda, brings to the family that will have you wanting to read more.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481742329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Twenty-five years of drug addiction came to a halt for Glenda Evans when she overdosed and ended up in the hospital. She was befriended by her nurse who helped her get into rehab where she was able to get clean, get an education, and eventually land a job. After ten year, she went on a search for her mother, Sarah, who she found in Denver, Colorado. When Glenda goes to Denver and is introduced to her daughter's family, her whole world is turned upside down. Read about the events that take place while she stays in Denver and what happens when she meets the Reverend Jeffery Hamilton. A compelling novel about the continuing love affair between Sarah and Charles Crowe, the growth of the Crowe family, and the surprises Sarah's mother, Glenda, brings to the family that will have you wanting to read more.
Chasing Away the Devil
Author: Susan Rogers Cooper
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645402215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"With a voice that's as comforting as a rocking chair and as salty as a fisherman" (Houston Chronicle, of Houston in the Rearview Mirror), Deputy Sheriff Milton Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, returns. Milt finally gets up the nerve to ask his longtime ladylove, Glenda Sue Rainey, to marry him—only to be rebuffed with no explanation and a good-bye at the door. When Glenda Sue is found dead the next day, brutally murdered, Milt is dazed. Enter Glenda Sue's long-lost daughter, who arrives in town for the funeral with her own little girl in tow. The only problem: little Rebecca is half-black, and the residents of Prophesy County aren't all as open-minded as Milt. As the threat of more violence looms, Milt begins to have strange dreams about Rebecca's safety, dreams whose common feature is the presence of a woman with leg braces. These dreams lead him to Dr. Jean McDonnell, a handicapped psychiatrist, whom Milt enlists to help him find out what happened to Glenda Sue—and why. When sister Jewel Ann announces plans to move herself and her family out of Milt's house and into the home of Harmon Monk, Milt begins to see Dr. McDonnell as having a role to play in his personal life as well.
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645402215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"With a voice that's as comforting as a rocking chair and as salty as a fisherman" (Houston Chronicle, of Houston in the Rearview Mirror), Deputy Sheriff Milton Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, returns. Milt finally gets up the nerve to ask his longtime ladylove, Glenda Sue Rainey, to marry him—only to be rebuffed with no explanation and a good-bye at the door. When Glenda Sue is found dead the next day, brutally murdered, Milt is dazed. Enter Glenda Sue's long-lost daughter, who arrives in town for the funeral with her own little girl in tow. The only problem: little Rebecca is half-black, and the residents of Prophesy County aren't all as open-minded as Milt. As the threat of more violence looms, Milt begins to have strange dreams about Rebecca's safety, dreams whose common feature is the presence of a woman with leg braces. These dreams lead him to Dr. Jean McDonnell, a handicapped psychiatrist, whom Milt enlists to help him find out what happened to Glenda Sue—and why. When sister Jewel Ann announces plans to move herself and her family out of Milt's house and into the home of Harmon Monk, Milt begins to see Dr. McDonnell as having a role to play in his personal life as well.
Shattered Lives
Author: Gail Sorenson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524526673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Shattered Lives follows the cat-and-mouse game of a seasoned detective and a serial killer. Jack Ireland is a man who worked his way up through the ranks and became chief investigator for Dakota County Criminal Investigative Division. As such, he is called in to lead an investigation of a serial killer who is striking terror in the small communities surrounding the Twin Cities. The psychopath leaves a calling card, a purple button on each of his victims bodies. As the investigation intensifies, the killer begins to taunt the detective personally, vindictively, and destructively. Soon women who are connected to Jack begin to disappear. What is the killers vendetta toward Detective Jack Ireland, and can he stop this maniac before he shatters his life completely?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524526673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Shattered Lives follows the cat-and-mouse game of a seasoned detective and a serial killer. Jack Ireland is a man who worked his way up through the ranks and became chief investigator for Dakota County Criminal Investigative Division. As such, he is called in to lead an investigation of a serial killer who is striking terror in the small communities surrounding the Twin Cities. The psychopath leaves a calling card, a purple button on each of his victims bodies. As the investigation intensifies, the killer begins to taunt the detective personally, vindictively, and destructively. Soon women who are connected to Jack begin to disappear. What is the killers vendetta toward Detective Jack Ireland, and can he stop this maniac before he shatters his life completely?
California Fruits, Flakes & Nuts
Author: David Kulczyk
Publisher: Linden Publishing
ISBN: 1610352130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
They call California the Granola State — a place where every inhabitant is a fruit, a flake, or a nut. They don’t get any fruitier, flakier, or nuttier than the deviants, crackpots, and losers profiled in “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts.” A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps, criminals, and failed dreamers, “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts” profiles 45 bizarre personalities who exemplify the Golden State’s well-deserved reputation for nonconformity. “California Fruits, Flakes and Nuts” tells the history that gets cleaned out of respectable history books. In these pages, Gold Rush pioneers are revealed as murderous madmen; Hollywood celebrities are shown to be drug-addled sex maniacs; early hippies are just 1950s weirdos; and even seemingly ordinary Californians have a talent for freakish, crazy, and criminal behavior. From frontier lunatic Grizzly Adams (whose head was one massive wound after multiple bear attacks) to “I Love Lucy” star William Frawley (a racist, misogynist, foul-mouthed drunk) to legendarily awful film director Ed Wood and many more nutjobs and oddballs , “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts” is a side-splitting look at the people who made California the strangest place on earth.
Publisher: Linden Publishing
ISBN: 1610352130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
They call California the Granola State — a place where every inhabitant is a fruit, a flake, or a nut. They don’t get any fruitier, flakier, or nuttier than the deviants, crackpots, and losers profiled in “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts.” A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps, criminals, and failed dreamers, “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts” profiles 45 bizarre personalities who exemplify the Golden State’s well-deserved reputation for nonconformity. “California Fruits, Flakes and Nuts” tells the history that gets cleaned out of respectable history books. In these pages, Gold Rush pioneers are revealed as murderous madmen; Hollywood celebrities are shown to be drug-addled sex maniacs; early hippies are just 1950s weirdos; and even seemingly ordinary Californians have a talent for freakish, crazy, and criminal behavior. From frontier lunatic Grizzly Adams (whose head was one massive wound after multiple bear attacks) to “I Love Lucy” star William Frawley (a racist, misogynist, foul-mouthed drunk) to legendarily awful film director Ed Wood and many more nutjobs and oddballs , “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts” is a side-splitting look at the people who made California the strangest place on earth.
The Man She Married
Author: Violet Winspear
Publisher: Harlequin Books
ISBN: 9780373105663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Man She Married by Violet Winspear released on Nov 24, 1982 is available now for purchase.
Publisher: Harlequin Books
ISBN: 9780373105663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Man She Married by Violet Winspear released on Nov 24, 1982 is available now for purchase.
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
Author: P. N. Elrod
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429954930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that question in this delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories. What's the seating plan when rival clans of werewolves and vampires meet under the same roof? How can a couple in the throes of love overcome traps set by feuding relatives---who are experts at voodoo? Will you have a good marriage if your high-seas wedding is held on a cursed ship? How do you deal with a wedding singer who's just a little too good at impersonating Elvis? · L. A. Banks · Jim Butcher · Rachel Caine · P. N. Elrod · Esther M. Friesner · Lori Handeland · Charlaine Harris · Sherrilyn Kenyon · Susan Krinard Shape-shifters, wizards, and magic, oh my!
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429954930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that question in this delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories. What's the seating plan when rival clans of werewolves and vampires meet under the same roof? How can a couple in the throes of love overcome traps set by feuding relatives---who are experts at voodoo? Will you have a good marriage if your high-seas wedding is held on a cursed ship? How do you deal with a wedding singer who's just a little too good at impersonating Elvis? · L. A. Banks · Jim Butcher · Rachel Caine · P. N. Elrod · Esther M. Friesner · Lori Handeland · Charlaine Harris · Sherrilyn Kenyon · Susan Krinard Shape-shifters, wizards, and magic, oh my!
Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
These three groundbreaking works by Julio Cortázar—a major figure of world literature and one of the founders of the Latin American Boom—are published together in one volume for the first time, in honor of the centenary of his birth. With his influential “counternovel” HOPSCOTCH and his unforgettable short stories, Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. HOPSCOTCH is a nonlinear novel about an Argentinean writer living in Paris; it consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises the reader to read out of order. BLOW-UP and WE LOVE GLENDA SO MUCH bring together the most famous of Cortázar’s short fiction, including “Axolotl,” “End of the Game,” “The Night Face Up,” “Continuity of Parks,” “Bestiary,” and “Blow-Up”. These are stories in which invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, the reader of a mystery finds out that he is the murderer’s intended victim, an injured motorcyclist is pursued by Aztec warriors, and a man becomes a salamander in a Parisian zoo. In Cortázar’s work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375712666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
These three groundbreaking works by Julio Cortázar—a major figure of world literature and one of the founders of the Latin American Boom—are published together in one volume for the first time, in honor of the centenary of his birth. With his influential “counternovel” HOPSCOTCH and his unforgettable short stories, Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. HOPSCOTCH is a nonlinear novel about an Argentinean writer living in Paris; it consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises the reader to read out of order. BLOW-UP and WE LOVE GLENDA SO MUCH bring together the most famous of Cortázar’s short fiction, including “Axolotl,” “End of the Game,” “The Night Face Up,” “Continuity of Parks,” “Bestiary,” and “Blow-Up”. These are stories in which invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, the reader of a mystery finds out that he is the murderer’s intended victim, an injured motorcyclist is pursued by Aztec warriors, and a man becomes a salamander in a Parisian zoo. In Cortázar’s work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.