Henny on the Couch

Henny on the Couch

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  • Author: Rebecca Land Soodak
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1455510211
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

Cathleen Schine meets Lucinda Rosenfeld in this wonderfully written debut novel about a woman struggling to make sense of her past in order to create a meaningful future. Kara Caine Lawson has worked hard to become the woman she is-wife, mother and successful shop owner. Having survived a turbulent childhood, Kara understands that life could've just as easily gone another way . . . and even if she isn't gliding through the trials of lost library books, entitled customers and routine date nights, at least she's not sipping a Dewar's all day like her mother did. But then Kara unexpectedly encounters paintings by her now-famous college boyfriend just as she's beginning to suspect that her daughter Henny's difficulties may be the sign of something serious, and all of her past decisions are thrown into dramatic relief. Kara's narration, at turns heartbreaking and hilarious, captures the imperfect thoughts we have about ourselves and those around us. Rebecca Land Soodak's debut novel asks the difficult questions about the choices we make while revealing the minute details that end up defining our lives.


Dating Games

Dating Games

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  • Author: RM Johnson
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1439104069
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 479

RM Johnson, author of the #1 Essence bestseller The Harris Family, returns with a riveting story of love, family, and revenge. At age thirty-three, Livvy Rodgers is fed up with relying on men and working her dead-end job, so she decides to apply for a scholarship to become a registered nurse. In order to afford school, she needs to move to a smaller apartment -- leaving no room for her twin daughters, seventeen-year-old Hennesey and Alizé. Though both gorgeous, the two sisters couldn't be more different. Hennesey, a brilliant straight-A student, is soon off to college on a full scholarship. She's in a strong relationship with Rafe, a recently released convict unjustly jailed for drug possession after taking the rap for his old friend, Smoke, who has since become the most ruthless drug dealer in Chicago. Now a free man, Rafe wants nothing to do with his old friends and street life -- especially when he falls for Hennesey. On the other hand, Alizé, who is perfectly comfortable relying on her undeniable sex appeal, is a hell-raiser. Once Livvy makes her announcement, Alizé is in desperate need of some money. She and her girlfriends come up with an outrageous plan to score some fast cash -- persuading the men with fat pockets they meet at clubs to take the girls to a hotel, and then drugging them and making off with their wallets and jewelry. In a weird twist of fate, one of their first victims is none other than Smoke, Rafe's old buddy from the street. Once robbed, he's bent on revenge -- and the violent chain of events that follow will change the women of the Rodgers family forever. Emotionally charged and filled with unforgettable characters, Dating Games is an intense and thought-provoking page-turner, exactly what readers have come to rely on from RM Johnson.


Down to Puck

Down to Puck

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  • Author: Sylvia Pierce
  • Publisher: Two Gnomes Media
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

“No touching, beautiful. I warned you. Tonight, I’m only using my mouth.” As the NHL’s sexiest, surliest bad boy, Kyle “Henny” Henderson basically wrote the book on awkward morning-afters. But nothing prepares him for the hat trick of waking up naked, hungover, and hard as hell with his face between a luscious pair of breasts he doesn’t recognize… Because those soft, oh-so-lickable curves belong to his completely off-limits best friend. After a devastating breakup, Bex Canfield moved home to Buffalo to put her life back together, not cause another train wreck. But that was before. Before the hockey fight that led to Henny’s suspension that led to the tequila that led to… Oh, God. Bedroom? Trashed. Dignity? Obliterated. Best friend? He’s… wow. Seriously packing. Looks like last night was one to remember, but neither of them has a clue what happened. So maybe they should try it one more time—sober—just to get it out of their systems. Okay, two more. Three tops. Because nothing says train wreck like a wild, uninhibited, toe-curling, wall-banging sexcapade with your oldest friend… Except for maybe falling in love. DOWN TO PUCK is a sexy, steamy, best friends to lovers hockey romance and the second book in the Buffalo Tempest series. If you like red-hot, dirty-mouthed hockey players, smart and sassy women who aren't afraid to put their men against the boards, and a big, hilarious helping of bromance, then you don't want to miss this lineup!


Introduction

Introduction

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  • Author: Thomas W. Henry
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Geology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

A compilation of studies originating from the Pacific Enewetak Atoll Crater Exploration (PEACE) Program, prepared in cooperation with the Defense Nuclear Agency.


Speaking Up for Animals

Speaking Up for Animals

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  • Author: Lisa Kemmerer
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317251644
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

Speaking Up for Animals highlights eighteen courageous members of a growing international animal advocacy movement that is overwhelmingly powered by women. These remarkable activists take us with them as they lift factory farmed chickens and cows from quagmires of filth, free gigantic sea lions caught in fishing gear and secure undercover footage of dogs crying for mercy on stainless steel vivisection tables. In the process, these dedicated women expose the many ways that most of us are complicit in the suffering and exploitation of animals, and creatively suggest a variety of ways in which we might help bring change.


Ida's Story

Ida's Story

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  • Author: Steven A. Segal
  • Publisher: Tate Publishing
  • ISBN: 162295940X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 468

As he pulled up and shut down the engine, he took a deep breath to calm himself, and in that instant, the flash of anger he had felt the night he was torn from his mother returned. He shook it from his mind, slid out of the seat, and went up the stairs to the front door. Ida opened the door and threw her arms around his neck with exactly the same loving abandonment he had seen her often leap into his father's arms so many years ago. She hung onto her boy, hung on tight with her face buried in his shoulder and sobbed. He wrapped his arms around her tiny waist, fighting hard for control. He couldn't help himself. Her tears and unrestrained love swept away his resistance. He stood up straight, lifting her off her feet. They stood there, mother and grown son, in the open doorway, holding each other in an endless embrace as their tears rained down. Ida's life reveals the story of an incredibly resilient human being born in a Boston ghetto in the late 1870s who fights to survive, educate herself, and protect her family in the midst of the rampant political and social corruption of the early 1900s, the wide-open crime of mob violence of the Prohibition era, the economic destruction of the Great Depression, and the devastating tragedy brought on by the rise of Nazi Germany as it engulfs the world in the chaotic senselessness of World War II.


An Hour in Paradise: Stories

An Hour in Paradise: Stories

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  • Author: Joan Leegant
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 039334018X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 227

"Joan Leegant writes stories that last, stories that take root in the soul."—Bret Lott, author of Jewel Joan Leegant's collection takes its title from the Yiddish proverb "Even an hour in Paradise is worthwhile." In settings from Jerusalem to Queens, from Hollywood's outskirts to Sarasota, Florida, the characters in this mesmerizing debut collection are drawn to the seductions of religion, soldiering on in search of divine and human connection. A former drug dealer turned yeshiva student faces his past with a dying AIDS patient. A disaffected American in the ancient city of Safed ventures into Kabbalist mysticism and gets more than he bargained for. A rabbi whose morning minyan is visited by a pair of Siamese twins considers the possibility that his guests are not mere mortals. An aging Jerusalemite chronicles his country's changes during the biblical year of rest. By turns poignant and comic, unflinching and compassionate—with a dose of fabulist daring—An Hour in Paradise explores the dangers and unforeseen rewards of our most fundamental longings.


The Tulip Eaters

The Tulip Eaters

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  • Author: Antoinette van Heugten
  • Publisher: MIRA
  • ISBN: 0778313883
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has been murdered, and her infant daughter is missing. The only clue is the body of an unknown man on the living room floor, clutching a Luger in his cold dead hand. A missing child... A mother's search... A family's secret uncovered..


Odoru: The Dance of Death

Odoru: The Dance of Death

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  • Author: J.S. Frankel
  • Publisher: eXtasy Books
  • ISBN: 1487437870
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

Carl Silverman, and Amanda Worthington, both seventeen, dating, in love and loving their school life, have their world turned upside down when a virus--known as the Odoru (dancing) virus--spreads throughout their city of Routeville, Illinois, turning ninety percent of the population into zombies. Only ten percent are immune, Carl and Amanda among them. Their parents became victims, and the young teens escape with the help of an older couple, Grover Plover and Genevieve Gray. They journey west and arrive in Placerville, California, where they set up camp as zombie slayers. Soon, their ranks swell as they meet Norm Barnett, another teen, and the Rodriguez triplets. Training begins, and the team of teens proves to be zombie killers supreme. While they have to contend with the usual results of the loss of modern technology--no internet, radio, or water power--they make do. They also have to contend with an incompetent city manager named Griffin who refuses to help. Things get bad when the Rodriguez trio dies in a battle. Worse, a more intelligent zombie--King Zombie--emerges, leading the undead in disciplined attacks. Carl is consumed by vengeance, and he vows to find this king and end his unlife--before the undead overrun the populace. Things get bad when the Rodriguez trio dies in a battle. Worse, a more intelligent zombie--King Zombie--emerges, leading the undead in disciplined attacks. Carl is consumed by vengeance, and he vows to find this king and end his unlife--before the undead overrun the populace.


Dumpster Dying

Dumpster Dying

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  • Author: Michelle Bennington
  • Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202

A 2024 Silver Falchion Award Top Pick for Best Cozy Book A 2024 American Fiction Awards Finalist for Best Cozy Mystery Henny Wiley has a problem...she's a bit of a collector. Well, collector might be an understatement. She's a full-blown hoarder! Henny doesn't see it that way though. She considers herself a finder of lost treasures and the only thing Henny loves more than a great deal at a yard sale is to head to the parking lot of her favorite hobby store and search through their dumpster for bright new shiny things. During one such dumpster dive, Henny makes a horrific discovery...the dead body of a young woman she had a soft spot for. Determined to find out who murdered her friend Henny drags along her recently deceased husband Walter (who obviously has problems of his own!) and her long-suffering sister Ida Mae as back-up. But the murderer is paying attention and if Henny's not careful, the next body dying in a dumpster will be her own!