Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best

Author: Lynda Sandoval

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1602824312

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After a tumultuous junior year, best friends Lila Moreno, Meryl Morganstern, and Caressa Thibodoux plan to make the most of the summer before senior year. But those plans fall by the wayside when Lila's archenemy, Jennifer Hamilton, finds herself friendless and flailing in a mess of her own making. Meryl steps up to help...and drags Lila and Caressa along with her. What was supposed to be a carefree few months morphs into a summer of girl power, growing up, and giving in to situations beyond their control. In the end, all four girls are tighter than ever and one step closer to tackling their all-important senior year.


The Best Horror of the Year

The Best Horror of the Year

Author: Ellen Datlow

Publisher: Night Shade Books

Published: 2022-12-12

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 159780665X

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From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the thirteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.


Fire of the Five Hearts

Fire of the Five Hearts

Author: Holly A. Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1135057176

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This book is about the influence of twenty years of work in the field of incest on a therapist's professional and personal life. It is comprised of individual cases, and touches upon topics including spirituality, sex between siblings, counter-transference, and incest teams. The author shares, in unadulterated prose, her experience as an incest therapist. This important, courageous work touches upon issues important to and resonant for mental health professionals treating incest and sexual abuse as well as the incest survivor or survivor's family member.


Unholy Desire

Unholy Desire

Author: Lynn Burke

Publisher: Lynn Burke

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy this steamy, father's best friend, age-gap gay novel by contemporary romance author Lynn Burke... As an overseas missionary who leads lost souls toward salvation, it’s imperative I live a godly existence, even in the midst of life-shattering grief. Returning to the States brings about a trial worse than the loss of love, and I’m faced with desire for someone forbidden to me by my church and the word of God. Aaron Weston. My best friend’s son who is no longer a gangly teen. He makes me want things no newly widowed man should. His presence fills the emptiness in my life, but my sinful nature longs for more. Every inch of him—in my heart, in my body, making me feel whole again. Giving into the hunger of the flesh will take us down a path of immorality, one that goes against my strive for holiness. I lost my wife from focusing on promised riches in glory. And if I make the same mistake, I fear the responsibility for the ruination of another soul. Unholy Desire is the third standalone novel in the forbidden gay romance Sinful Natures series which focuses on religious men learning to accept who they are. HEA guaranteed, this steamy LGBTQ romance contains religious undertones and homophobia. Perfect for readers who enjoy hurt/comfort age-gap romance with a younger man intent on showing his father’s best friend, a widowed missionary, that he is worthy of love. If you’re a fan of Lucy Lennox, Ella Frank, J.R. Gray, Jacki James, Alessandra Hazard, Saxon James, and Baylin Crow you’re going to love this forbidden gay romance novel! Keywords: Age gap, father’s best friend, gay love, gay sex, gay relationships, LGBT, m/m romance, queer fiction, romance, contemporary romance, male/male romance, MM, gay romance, forbidden romance, forbidden, contemporary forbidden romance, LGBTQ romance, gay first time, gay male romance, gay lovers, gay virgin, second chance romance, HEA


Dad's Best Memories and Recollections

Dad's Best Memories and Recollections

Author: Charles J. Humber

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2016-01-19

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1460283376

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DAD'S BEST MEMORIES AND RECOLLECTIONS is Chazzz Humber's epithaph casting a very long and sentimental shadow across North America and beyond. This 230-page volume is his granite monument, well-polished! It lavishly records 125 of his best memories over a life-span of nearly eighty years. The vignettes are serenaded with more than 400 illustrations. Those discovering this volume likely will find themselves wanting to record, in their own sunset years, their personal memories and recollections. And when they do, they are apt to recall what it was like to live in their fluctuating world dominated by a variety of personalities and cascading events. Mr. Humber vividly describes what it was like, in 1945, to travel in a 1930 Model A Ford from Toronto to Boston. With lively enthusiasm, he reports what it was like to live in post-World War II Boston, to cook a lobster for a former President of the United States or to sell a pair of elevator shoes to one of Hollywood's shortest celebrities or to shine the shoes of a Derby-hatted father of a future President of the United States. It is not a remarkable achievement to reflect, to recall or to have memories that are treasured. But to tell them with literary aplomb, to recall the events that happened nearly seventy-five years ago with utmost clarity is definitely an admirable achievement and should be cherished not only by the kin who follow Mr. Humber but by those who might like to imitate what he has monumentally achieved in Dad's Best Memories and Recollections.


Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998

Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998

Author: Carol Shields

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-02-24

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0684838362

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This collection of stories gathered from 100 different creative writing workshops, covers such subjects as mid-life career changes, extraterrestrials and marital fidelity.


Tianna the Terrible

Tianna the Terrible

Author: Karen Rispin

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1497611008

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Being twelve isn’t easy. But Anika Scott, who has joined her parents as a missionary in Kenya, uses her faith and trust in God and His words as guidance to help her through her adolescent problems. Join Anika in her exciting and often dangerous adventures, where using God and her own ingenuity, she makes discoveries about the truth in the world. What do you do when you’ve been thrown into a world that scares and confuses you? What if the one person who is supposed to help you adjust to your frightening situation is just plain mean? Watch Anika discover the answers to these difficult questions and more in her latest adventure. She will need to use all of God’s gentle words and guidance to put up with Tianna the Terrible!


The Rise of Chaos

The Rise of Chaos

Author: AnnMarie Stone

Publisher: AnnMarie Stone

Published: 2014-03-07

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1499300476

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All Anastasia has ever wanted was to start a new life, a normal life, a life without her parents. As soon as Anastasia gets that chance however, she discovers quickly that a normal life was never a possibility for someone like her. Anastasia has always known that she was different, but she has never understood why. Two mysterious strangers, identical twins, offer answers that she desperately seeks, but can she trust what they tell her? One is evil and a creature of Chaos, the other is Light and a being filled with a pure soul. Unfortunately for Anastasia, it’s no longer clear which is which. Chaos had already separated Anastasia from her soul mate, weakening her own purity. With her defenses down, she is a perfect target for Chaos to seep in and take control. Chaos has already corrupted her father, could she be next? Or will her determination to save her true love from the same fate be enough to protect her from corruption? When Chaos threatens to extinguish Light once and for all, Anastasia will have to decide which side to fight on. The unique abilities that have always made Anastasia different from everyone else are the very same abilities that may save or condemn her.


The Shark Club

The Shark Club

Author: Ann Kidd Taylor

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0735221480

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“A quintessential summer read.” —Marie Claire A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances—in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is bitten by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve has thrown herself into her work as a world-traveling marine biologist discovering more about the minds of misunderstood sharks. But when Maeve returns home to the legendarily charming and eccentric Hotel of the Muses where she was raised by her grandmother, she finds more than just the blood orange sunsets and key lime pies she’s missed waiting for her. While Maeve has always been fearless in the water, on land she is indecisive. A chance meeting on the beach with a plucky, irresistible little girl who is just as fascinated by the ocean as Maeve was growing up leaves her at a crossroads: Should she re-kindle her romance with Daniel, the first love she left behind when she dove into her work? Or indulge in a new romance with her colleague, Nicholas, who turns up in her hometown to investigate an illegal shark-finning operation? Set against the intoxicating backdrop of palm trees, calypso bands, and perfect ocean views, The Shark Club is a story of the mysterious passions of one woman’s life: her first love and new love; the sea and sharks that inhabit it.