In 1975, three twelve-year-old boys met in the nerd's corner of the cafeteria at Mission Hill Junior High School and discovered that they all shared the same raunchy, pubescent sense of humor. Over the next forty years, they managed to preserve their friendship and their sanity by tapping into the goofy immaturity of their youth with double-meaning word-play jokes. They recently collected the best of those jokes into the book that you now hold in your hands. So, flip it open, grab your lunch bag, and join us. You're welcome. And we hardly even know you.
We live in society which always wants to tame us and when we fight back to unleash ourselves, we are put back to our cages. Hi I am Sara, a college student. Like most of the teenagers I was also clueless about my life. I have friends who are more precious than anything in this world. Yes there are some issues in my family but I have never taken them seriously. Everything was running smoothly until I found letter that changed my life completely I had never been alone outside my town but circumstances took me to an unplanned journey to find as unknown girl who is less like me and more like you. “They tried to shut me up with their swords but I stood up fiercely with my words”
You would think waking up from a coma would be the best thing to ever happen to someone. A love triangle changed John forever. It left him with no trust in humanity. A new sense of bitterness, hate, confusion, scars and stitches. This is all dramatic but even worse is after his hospital stay is the fact that deep down he’s not scared and unable to sleep which leads him to slowly lose his mind. He hears voices and begins to see things from sleep deprivation. The newly turned twisted loner soon finds that the only way he’s able to sleep at all is from pills, drinking, any extreme high or from the aftermath of a adrenaline rush. Finding this “high” soon takes over his life. His new path turns him into a person he never thought he would be. He’s finally alive and acting out trying everything that he never thought he never would have the nerve to try before which includes being a sexual deviant, drugs and even murder.
A National Book Award Finalist Brad Watson's first novel was eagerly awaited after his breathtaking, award-winning debut collection of short stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men. In The Heaven of Mercury, Watson fulfills that literary promise with a humorous and jaundiced eye. Finus Bates has loved Birdie Wells since the day he saw her do a naked cartwheel in the woods in 1916. Later he won her at poker, lost her, then nearly won her again after the mysterious poisoning of her womanizing husband. Does Vish, the old medicine woman down in the ravine, hold the key to Birdie's elusive character? Or does Parnell, the town undertaker, whose unspeakable desires bring lust for life and death together? Or does the secret lie with some other colorful old-timer in Mercury, Mississippi, not such a small town anymore? With "graceful, patient, insightful and hilarious" prose (USA Today), Brad Watson chronicles Finus's steadfast devotion and Mercury's evolution from a sleepy backwater to a small city.
Life as one of Hollywood's most handsome, charismatic and critically-acclaimed movie stars seems like a glitzy fairytale to the people who orbit around Renn Ivins. But for his grown children, Anna and Will, their father's fame threatens to permeate every aspect of their lives. For Anna - a diligent medical student with a promising future ahead of her but not so promising romantic prospects - the exploits of her celebrity father are a source of embarrassment and, at best, bemusement. Her brother Will, on the other hand, is floundering in a quarter-life crisis. The only thing to outlast his directionless career and failed relationships is his trust fund, but while he and Anna may be happy to use their father's money, they're less happy to use his influence. As the family, lovers and hangers-on of Renn Ivins struggle to forge their identities in the colossal shadow of his celebrity, Christine Sneed deftly unravels the secrets they tell each other and themselves. Little Known Facts is a multi-layered, deftly observed novel of the fallout of fame and fortune.
He’s destined to become Alpha. She’s an alien hiding on Earth. Will his desire to repay a debt backfire because of a simple handshake? Zack Edgewater’s life revolves around leading his pack. Biding his time until he can rise to Alpha status, he isn’t looking for a relationship—especially not with a woman whose heritage is the reason he’s not already the leader. But when a stranger threatens to take her back to her world against her wishes, he steps in to help by claiming to be her fiancé. Eliana has lived her whole life according to someone else’s demands. On Earth, she’s managed to carve out a life all her own. And even though Zack means well by posing as her fake boyfriend, she’s terrified of the werewolf lurking inside him. And although she refuses to return to Tuala, she can’t remain with a man who hates her race, but she can’t shake the feeling that he’s her fated mate. Inadvertently bound in a marriage pact of producing an heir within a year, they must choose to change their futures or risk dire consequences. They can’t get divorced. They can’t stay married. They don’t even know one another. Can this culture-clashing couple shift into a charmed love that will last? Bound to the Alpha Wolf is the riveting fourth book in the Romances Beyond Tuala fated mate shifter series. If you like magical heroines, dangerous heroes, and sweet romance, then you’ll adore Amy Proebstel’s howling story. Enjoy Bound to the Alpha Wolf to answer the heart’s call today! Keywords: 21st Century, Action Adventure, Adventure Books, Alien Romance, Alpha Hero, Alpha Male, Animals & Nature, Book, Clean PNR, Clean Romance, Clean & Wholesome Romance, Contemporary, Current, ebook, Epic Fantasy, Essential Reads, Fantasy Books, Fantasy Romance Books, Fantasy Romance, Fantasy Stories, Fantasy, Fated Mate Shifter Romance, Fated Mates, Feisty Heroine, Happy Ever After, HEA, Heroine, Love Story, Magical Adventures, Mythology and Folklore, Paranormal Fantasy Books, Paranormal Romance Books, Paranormal Romance Series, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Popular Series, Quick read, Rich, Romance Books, Romance eBook, Romance Novel, Romance Series, Romances Beyond Tuala, Romantic Suspense, Science fiction romance, Series, Shapeshifter Romance, Shifter Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance, Shifter Series, Short Reads, Small Town Romance, Story, Supernatural, Suspense, Suspenseful Read, Thriller, USA Today Bestselling Author, Wealthy, Werewolf, Werewolves and Shifters, Wolf Romance, Wolf Shifter Romance, Wolves, Wolves of Catskill County, Women's Fiction
Brenda is struggling with issues of hearing her father's voice after his death in matters of her making something of herself and taking care of her mother. As a lawyer, her "boyfriend" Russell (who owns his own janitorial service) is suggesting that the relationship should move toward marriage, but her boss is pushing her to choose her career. In the midst of hearing these voices, she strains trying to hear the Father's Voice.
Pregnant with two of his babies, She must tell no one, Or risk everything falling apart… HIM: Three years ago I went deep undercover. My mission? To rescue her from a life that was a lie. She, pure, sweet, innocent, Me, the battle-hardened Navy SEAL. We lost touch after the FBI took over, But now she’s back in my sights. I couldn’t resist picking up where we’d left off. How would I know that one night could change my life in two very beautiful, but accidental ways? HER: Three years ago he saved me… After a chance meeting, we reunited for just one hot night, Before reality came rushing back to bite us. Six weeks later I find out I’m pregnant, But if news gets out the consequences could be dire. How is my SEAL savior going to react, When he finds out he’s got twins on the way?
The “extraordinary” novel of a teenage gang in the 1960s Bronx, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Clockers and The Whites (Newsweek). The basis for the feature film, The Wanderers tells the story of teenagers on the streets of New York City, coming of age and drifting apart. Tormented by cold-hearted girls and cold-blooded ten-year-olds, maniacal rivals and murderous parents, they are caught between juveniles and adults in a gritty novel filled with “switchblade prose” and “dialogue [that] has the immediacy of overheard subway conversation”—from an award-winning author renowned for his writing on HBO’s The Wire and The Night Of, as well as such modern-day classics as Lush Life and Bloodbrothers (Newsweek). “A kind of teenage Godfather with its own tight structure of morality, loyalty, survival, and reprisal.” —Los Angeles Free Press “The flip side of American Graffiti . . . an amalgam of sex, violence, and humor, glued together with superb dialogue and unsentimental sensitivity.” —Rolling Stone “A superbly written book . . . insights that allow us—at times force us—to feel closer to other human beings whether we like and approve of them or not.” —The New York Times Book Review
