Specializing in natural daylight settings such as the beaches of the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Seychelles, Marc Collins's erotic nude photos are known for capturing the mood and natural sensuality of the models. Through spontaneous, unplanned poses and settings, the works collected in this volume artfully convey the beauty and charisma of the women shown while evoking a welcoming and captivating mood.
She lives in a car. She wears the same clothes every day. She eats whatever bits of junk food Paw buys when he’s around, and she tries to make a life for her addictive, fantasy-driven Mama, and mute by choice, younger sister, Scarlett O’Hara. She knows this lifestyle isn’t normal, but Paw promises one day they’ll live in a billboard house full of comforts. However, time is running out: he’s gone more, Mama’s deteriorating, and Scarlett O’Hara is helpless. She must become more resourceful than ever to save them. When Mr. Coons befriends her, Lady starts to believe in a better life. After Mama dies, his secret threatens to shatter her new-found stability. No sooner does Lady recover from Mr. Coons’ exposé, Scarlett O’Hara shows her unfathomable evidence proving the unthinkable about their family. Now Lady, in order for her and Scarlett O’Hara to be free, must decide between forgiveness, love, or magic, to release them from killer secrets.
A “deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing” book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review). In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—are united by what Dean calls “sharpness,” the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing despite the extreme condescension of the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.
Bobby Bray lives to play golf with his friends at the Stoney Creek Golf Club. The talented teenager dreams of a golf scholarship. But how do you beat the reigning club champion who hits it 300 yards and has a mean streak just as long? Bobby needs help getting off the Bogey Train. Sometimes help comes from where you least expect it, and a girl named Natalie. This thrilling story of golf and growing up, will appeal to boys and girls of all ages, their parents, and anyone who ever stood over a three foot putt.
The biography of James Tillis, a champion boxer who was ultimately broken by the ring itself and the people who controlled it. His fearlessness was legendary as was his gentleness. Written whilst serving a prison sentence, this is the story of how he came to battle seven heavyweight champions, how he was to enter the ring 64 times, his fights with Tyson and Earnie Shivers, and perhaps more poignantly, how the sport he loved sacrificed him, robbed him of the women he loved, his fortune, his dignity and his title.
Parker Dozhier has led a very interesting life as a freelance writer, book author, lecturer, trapper, fur buyer, consultant, fur broker, and fishing camp operator. His vast knowledge of the fur industry, both on a national and international scale, is unrivaled. While Pelts is a fictitious novel centering around the many ups and downs of the intriguing worldwide raw fur industry, much of it is based upon his experiences and observations while traveling the globe as a fur broker and consultant. His travels have taken him to China, Korea, Canada, and Africa. Dozhier negotiated the fi rst export of North American furs to Mainland China since the Communist takeover in 1949. Parker lives near Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is currently working on a sequel to Pelts. His fi rst book, Death in the Desert (involving those in the fur trade), has been widely read and received favorable reviews.
Three people have shaped David Grant's life. Now one is on the other side of the country, one is on the other side of the world, and one may be gone forever. Dave's Dad is always there for him. But everything changed in Niagara Falls, where Dave learned that fathers are not superheroes. They are flawed and fallible and invaluable models of the men that boys become. Dave's best friend is Ollie. And you can always count on "The Big Man" to carry Dave, his wheelchair, or both during hard times. They joked and fought their way through the adolescent purgatory that was Slauson Junior High School, and together they can survive anything. But can Dave survive alone? His first day at Slauson, Dave met Annie, and she was perfect in a twelve-year-old boy's eyes. Over the years, their adventures in Toronto and the Bahamas brought them closer, but now the distance between them may be insurmountable. And so Dave's journey to find them begins. The question is: where will his journey end?
Websites are essential these days for every business, but there are 5 questions you need to ask before you make one. If you didn't you're in the majority. Don't worry you won't need to scrap your site to benefit from these ideas. "If your website was an employee, would you fire it?" will walk you through how to think differently about your website. What is it now? What should it be? Who's using your site and how? Did you design your website for you, or for the people who are using it every day? When you ask yourself better questions, you'll get better answers and better results.This book was designed to be a quick and easy read. I want you to get on to taking real action, as without action there won't be any change. You'll discover easy things you can do, right away, to improve the performance of your current site or help you design a new one. If you're making a new site, you can still make some of these changes to your current site while the new one is getting ready.Are you ready to begin? Let's start your journey to greater success, today.
