Touchy Feely Sweet Thing
Touchy Feely Sweet Thing

Author: Kieran Frank

Publisher: Deep Hearts YA

Published:

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13:

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Jayden has dropped his ex, Kail, but he deserved it, even if it leaves Jayden feeling lonely. His bestie, Sasha, is going out of state for college next year, creating a countdown for the end of their friendship. Ollie continues to capture Jayden's heart, but that boy isn't around much these days. Gracie, a Christian extremist with a hate-on for Jayden, just keeps making his life worse. And his mother doesn't seem to care about anything except her new boyfriend, Mitch. Now, there’s someone new who enters Jayden's life... Geoff is an exchange student from Germany. He's staying with Sasha and her family—and he seems to be taking Jayden's place in Sasha's life. Maybe that countdown to the end of their friendship is already over? But as Jayden forces himself to learn to like Geoff, he learns he might like him a little more than he wanted to. Jayden's heart belongs to Ollie, but Ollie's not around enough. Geoff, though... Ollie started as Jayden's squish, then became a crush. But will he also be that special sweet thing that gives Jayden all the feels? Or will Geoff claim that space in Jayden's heart instead?

Lovey Dovey Deep Thing
Lovey Dovey Deep Thing

Author: Kieran Frank

Publisher: Deep Hearts YA

Published: 2024-08-23

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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Senior year is just endless drama for Jayden. From Jayden getting irritated with his mom’s scuzzy new boyfriend to the way Gracie flaunts her Christian superiority over Jayden any chance she gets, Jayden always finds life never goes his way. And when new complications come along like his estranged father re-entering the picture, and brings with him a shocking secret, things just get immeasurably worse. But there is a bright spot in Jayden’s life. Or two, rather. Ollie and Geoff. It started as a romance with Ollie but was upended when Geoff entered the picture. Now Jayden is faced with a problem—he likes both boys. A lot. When he’s with one boy, he’s always missing the other, and vice versa. Could he talk both into a poly relationship? Or will he face losing one of them as a potential boyfriend?

An Almost Purrfect Murder
An Almost Purrfect Murder

Author: Jacqueline Vick

Publisher: Classical Reads

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1945403179

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“A delightfully intriguing murderer mystery.” “A fun, fast and hilariously funny mystery.” A wedding cruise, dangerous secrets, and a troupe of performing cats. What could go wrong? When Frankie Chandler boards an Alaskan cruise ship, she’s hardly a cheerful advertisement for sailing the ocean blue. Her best (and only) friend is getting married, which means the end of impromptu girl’s nights. Her only consolation is the all-night buffet, but even that can’t make up for the body she discovers below her balcony. The only witnesses are a troupe of performing cats. Just when things can’t get any more bizarre, Detective Martin Bowers joins the cruise in Juneau, and the investigation isn’t the only thing about to heat up. Mystery meets Romantic Comedy in this latest Frankie Chandler adventure. Irreverent humor, snappy dialogue, and a cast of quirky characters will have you laughing out loud.

The Long Headache
The Long Headache

Author: Michael Egbejumi-David

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-09-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1728356482

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This is about betrayals - and counter betrayals, and heartbreaks. It is about a doctor, Mark, whose life took a downward spiral following the end of his marriage. His choices and lifestyle conspired to make his life one long headache. Those choices led to dire consequences. Ultimately Mark decided to retrace his steps; work his way backwards. He found himself at the start-line where it all began for him. Unfortunately, that too proved another headache. Written in biting humour, sassy and snappy wit, the story weaves through modern life & living, friendships & betrayals, personal convictions & doubts, human foibles and fallibility, and their inevitable stark cost!

Some Sing, Some Cry
Some Sing, Some Cry

Author: Ntozake Shange

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 1429959355

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Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America's most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century. From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family's journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real-life sisters, Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Ifa Bayeza, award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her goodbyes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as seamstress and fortune-teller. Eudora marries, the Mayfield lines grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.

All Things Nice
All Things Nice

Author: Sheila Bugler

Publisher: The O'Brien Press

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1847178502

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Charlotte Gleeson is living the life she always dreamed of, but it's nothing like she imagined. Her daughter hates her, her husband is having an affair, her drinking is out of control. And now she's the prime suspect in a murder investigation ... For DI Ellen Kelly, this is her first big investigation in eight months – since she let a serial killer get away. There's an awful lot riding on a good result, which means keeping up the pressure on Charlotte Gleeson and her messed-up family. As Ellen investigates, it becomes clear the Gleesons are harbouring some dangerous secrets. The more she digs, the more she uncovers ... and the closer she comes to a deadly confrontation. All Things Nice is the third in the Ellen Kelly series of crime novels.

The Madaris Series
The Madaris Series

Author: Brenda Jackson

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 1427

ISBN-13: 1466888172

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Dive headfirst into the burning passion and sizzling longing of the Madaris Family series from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson. The Madaris Series bundle contains The Midnight Hour, Unfinished Business, Slow Burn, and Taste of Passion. The Midnight Hour CIA agent Drake Warren gave his heart to a woman-a fellow Marine whose death in an explosion left him aching, and Drake vowed he would never love again. But his devotion to his former lover is tested when he meets his mysterious new partner, Agent Victoria Green. Victoria leaves Drake yearning for the love he lost-and left in the dark that she was the Marine who was in an explosion that nearly killed her. Her life-saving surgery gave her a new face and identity-but just as the passion she's denied for so long threatens to boil over, Drake begins to put together the pieces of the puzzle. And when he does, will Victoria lose him forever? Unfinished Business Investigative reporter Christy Madaris doesn't want to complicate her life with romance. She made that mistake once when she believed Alex Maxwell's promise to marry her. True, Alex made that promise when Christy was just a teenager. But she believed him with all her heart-and when Alex laughed it off years later, Christy was crushed. Slow Burn Everything in attorney Skye Barclay's life is fitting smoothly into place until she makes the startling discovery that she was adopted. Not only does she learn that her birth mother has died, but now Skye finds out that she has a biological brother: Vincent. Skye wants to track him down, and her parents support her. But her fiancé, Wayne, refuses to accept her decision...and abruptly ends their engagement. Skye's search for Vincent leads her to his adoptive parents, Dr. Justin and Lorren Madaris, and, lo and behold, Slade Madaris-Vincent's tall, dark, and sexy cousin. Slade is by far the most compelling man Skye has ever met, but she isn't ready to get involved so soon after Wayne's rejection...or is she? Taste of Passion Attorney Mackenzie "Mac" Standfield swore off love when her heart was shattered into a million pieces. But there's one man who has managed to tempt her beyond reason-rodeo star Luke Madaris. Although five years have passed, Mac discovers when she runs into Luke again that the sexual tension is just as charged as ever...

Slow Burn
Slow Burn

Author: Brenda Jackson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780312940492

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When attorney Skye Barclay discovers that she had been adopted and launches a search for her birth mother and her biological brother, her fiance Clark abruptly ends their engagement, leaving her free to enjoy a steamy affair with her brother Vincent's sexy cousin, Slade, until Clark returns to win her back.

Unequal Treatment
Unequal Treatment

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-10-02

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 0309133084

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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve providerâ€"patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.

The Next Girl
The Next Girl

Author: Susan Lund

Publisher: Susan Lund

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1988265789

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When the body of a young girl is discovered near the border between Washington State and Canada, her name is added to the list of missing and murdered girls from the region. Not long after, another young girl is found wandering a deserted road close to the border, telling a harrowing tale of abduction and rape at the hands of child pornographers. Michael Carter and Tess McClintock work together to help authorities find and stop the perpetrators before the next girl goes missing.