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Apostando no Natal (Série Banqueiro Bilionário - Livro 6 #6)
by Lexy TimmsDA AUTORA BEST SELLER DO USA TODAY, Lexy Timms. Ame como se você nunca estivesse contando o custo. Com as festas de fim de ano se aproximando, Bethany Walker tem muito a agradecer: uma carreira de sucesso, um casamento iminente e, o melhor de tudo, o noivo dos seus sonhos. Seu casamento de um milhão de dólares é o assunto da cidade, mas planejar seu final de conto de fadas não é fácil. Agora que está sobrecarregada com os planos do casamento, celebrar o Natal terá que esperar. Kirk Sterling fará qualquer coisa para deixar sua futura noiva feliz, inclusive levá-la para umas merecidas férias nas montanhas do Colorado. Tirar uma folga do planejamento do grande casamento é exatamente o que Bethany precisa. Até Bethany ter a ideia impulsiva de ter um casamento de inverno durante suas férias. AGORA QUE AMBOS ESTÃO lutando para realizar este casamento, será que eles conseguem ter o casamento que sempre desejaram? Ou uma tempestade de neve que surge no horizonte frustrará seus planos de férias? Série Banqueiro Bilionário Livro 1 – Confiando nele Livro 2 – O Preço da Paixão Livro 3 – Investindo no Amor Livro 4 – Conhecendo Seu Valor Livro 5 – Estimada para Sempre Livro 6 – Apostando no Natal (conto)
Apostando por Él (El Banquero Multimillonario #1)
by Lexy TimmsPor la autora de superventas del USA Today, Lexy Timms Ama como si nunca consideraras el costo. Hace diez años, Bethany Walker era la típica chica rica que lo tenía todo. Pero su mundo se vino abajo cuando su padre fue arrestado, acusado de robar millones. Convencida de que le han tendido una trampa, Bethany se propone destruir a la poderosa familia Sterling, quienes arruinaron a su padre. Hará lo que sea necesario en su búsqueda de venganza, incluso seducir a su mayor enemigo. El banquero multimillonario Kirk Sterling se siente inmediatamente atraído por Bethany desde el momento en que la conoce. Cuando se trata de relaciones, él suele tener el control, pero Bethany tiene el poder de ponerlo de rodillas. Después de descubrir que ella está en una situación financiera desesperada, Kirk hará cualquier cosa para jugar a ser el héroe de su damisela en apuros. Enamorarse de él no es una opción, pero Bethany empieza a percibir que Kirk no es en absoluto lo que imaginaba. A medida que se acerca a él, su plan de venganza está en peligro, y también su corazón. Libro 1 – Apostando por él Libro 2 – El precio de la pasión Libro 3 – Invirtiendo en el amor Libro 4 – Calculando tu valor Libro 5 – Atesorado para siempre
Apostasy
by Gino Diiorio1m, 2f / Drama Sheila Gold, 55, a successful Jewish businesswoman suffering from terminal cancer, is spending the end of her life in a comfortable hospice where her only companion is her 30 year old daughter, Rachel. The two have a tense relationship as Rachel has spent most of her adult life working at Planned Parenthood and is generally a disappointment to her entrepreneurial mother. While in the hospice Sheila has become fascinated by a late night televangelist, Dr. Julian Strong, a black man in his 50's. She finds his message inspiring and comforting and she writes Strong, offering to make a sizable donation to his ministry. Much to her surprise, Strong flies out to visit Sheila, presumably to see her sign the check in person. His physical presence is even greater than his TV persona and the two fall head over heels in love. Sheila begins to toy with the idea of converting to Christianity and spending her final days with Strong's church in California. This revelation upsets her daughter to no end as Rachel is certain that Strong is a crook, promising hope and salvation, when all he really wants is to come between her and her inheritance. Is Strong truly in love with Sheila or is he only out for her money? Sheila must choose between her daughter and a new love and lifestyle, in what will certainly be her final days. "When Sheila Gold announces to her grown daughter, Rachel, that she is thinking of trading in her barely used Judaism for late-model, born-again Christianity, it looks as if we're being set up for a play about religious faith. But Gino DiIorio has something else up his sleeve in Apostasy, the absorbing new drama running through Aug. 13 at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch. Sheila's flirtation with Jesus is going to turn into a flirtation of an entirely differe
Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths
by Albert BrazIn the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across North America and Great Britain. His reputation was transformed radically, however, after he died in April 1938, and it was revealed that he was not of mixed Scottish-Apache ancestry, as he had often claimed, but in fact an Englishman named Archie Belaney. Born into a privileged family in the dominant culture of his time, what compelled him to flee to a far less powerful one? Albert Braz’s Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths is the first comprehensive study of Grey Owl’s cultural and political image in light of his own writings. While the denunciations of Grey Owl after his death are often interpreted as a rejection of his appropriation of another culture, Braz argues that what troubled many people was not only that Grey Owl deceived them about his identity, but also that he had forsaken European culture for the North American Indigenous way of life. That is, he committed cultural apostasy.
Apostle Lodge
by Paul MendelsonFrom the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as 'excellent and uncompromising', comes Paul Mendelson's explosive latest thriller.Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an award-winning mansion built by a renowned architect. Stark and minimal, its black opaque windows hide a terrible secret. As Colonel Vaughn De Vries investigates the depraved crime committed within its walls, he believes there may be more than one killer on the loose, all with connections to a charismatic man who as a child, drowned his sister and shattered his family.And his work is not over yet.'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller. Imagine The Killing moved to Cape Town and into the landscape of the hot and dusty African veld' Philip Glenister'Mendelson plots so smoothly and writes so powerfully' The Guardian
Apostle Lodge (Col Vaughn de Vries #4)
by Paul MendelsonFrom the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as 'excellent and uncompromising', comes Paul Mendelson's explosive latest thriller.Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an award-winning mansion built by a renowned architect. Stark and minimal, its black opaque windows hide a terrible secret. As Colonel Vaughn de Vries investigates the depraved crime committed within its walls, he believes there may be more than one killer on the loose, all with connections to a charismatic man who, as a child, drowned his sister and shattered his family.And his work is not over yet.'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller. Imagine The Killing moved to Cape Town and into the landscape of the hot and dusty African veld' Philip Glenister'Mendelson plots so smoothly and writes so powerfully' The Guardian
Apostle Paul: A Novel
by James CannonThe iconic Saint Paul - in his lifetime a scholar, prosecutor for the high court of the Jews, accomplice in murder, adventurer, traveler, orator, writer, advocate, and organizer of a new faith - was in fact a Jewish-Hellenistic citizen of the Roman Empire, a man who by the force of his intellect and indomitable will changed the course of history. Eventually he became the leader of the movement that delivered the social and moral authority of Christianity to a pagan world. Given a message - that man and woman had a purpose in earthly life and a future beyond the grave - he carried it first and unsuccessfully to his fellow Jews, then successfully to the gentiles and all mankind. His quality of mind and ability to exhort and persuade, his personal commitment to ethical conduct and values, and his courage and indefatigability made Paul one of the continuing forces in the progress of Western civilization.Author James Cannon has written about political leaders as a journalist, has served with leaders in public life, and has written feature stories while on the staffs of Time and Newsweek. Now he has taken the story of one of the most momentous quests in history and brought it to life with a vitality and immediacy that is at once gripping, informative, and inspiring.
Apostle of Desire
by Bruce WeiglTwo-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of America’s most revered military veteran writers —Bruce Weigl brings readers face-to-face with our country’s legacy of violence, the suffering of combat PTSD, and what it means to be truly haunted.Taking its cue from James Wright’s goal to write “the poetry of a grown man,” the poems in Apostle of Desire juxtapose the peace and comfort offered by the natural world with the bruising intensity of manmade violence. These sudden tonal shifts express a vulnerability and extremity of feeling that strips audiences’ own emotions bare, leading readers to question their roles as bystanders and consumers of violent media.In sharing his intertwining feelings of love and shame for both country and self, Weigl places readers into the role of the watcher and opens a window into the traumas of the Vietnam War and life’s daily battles with PTSD. The honesty of Weigl’s poetry exposes the ghosts of pain while still witnessing the glories of love, nature, and his ongoing experiences with the rich daily life of contemporary Vietnam.Readers will face the solitude of regret and the hopeful pursuit of redemption—remembering the past and looking toward the future.
Apostle's Cove: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)
by William Kent KruegerThe New York Times bestselling Cork O&’Connor Mystery series—a &“master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling&” (The Real Book Spy)—continues with Cork O&’Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present. A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O&’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit. Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth. At the same time, Cork&’s seven-year-old grandson has his own theory about the investigation: the Windigo, that mythic cannibal ogre, has come to Tamarack County…and it won&’t leave until it has sated its hunger for human blood.
Apostles of Mercy: A Novel (Noumena #3)
by Lindsay EllisTHE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERApostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis.First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before–to their distant transient relatives–and they could easily do it again. But the alien Ampersand and his human interpreter Cora Sabino are done with trying to save humanity from both the Superorganism and itself; to them, this is a civilization that does not deserve to be saved.When a strange new form of communication between the two of them reveals to Cora how alien Ampersand truly is, she begins to question her blind devotion. But she soon learns of a danger that may force them to leave Earth before either of them are ready: a group of superorganism enemies that have been wreaking havoc on Earth for decades. Existence on the margins has made them desperate and bent on revenge against any of Ampersand's race whose path they cross. Before Cora and Ampersand can make their final escape, these hostile aliens stage an attack, and take that which is most dear to both of them.Ampersand's enemies will not consider any form of truce; the greatest threat to them is not from the Superorganism, but from an increasingly fearful and violent human civilization newly aware of their existence. Cora and Ampersand must go to extreme measures to take back what was stolen and prevent wholesale human extermination–but in doing so they may be no better than the civilizations they are trying to escape.
Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street
by Indrek HarglaTallinn, 1419. What links the Keeper of the Tower, a prostitute and a Flemish painter to a haunted house on Rataskaevu Street? All three claim to have seen a ghost near the house, and each is found dead soon afterwards. Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary and assistant bailiff, is charged with unearthing the truth. With a cultivated sense for justice, Melchior investigates the deaths and attempts to find out whether, as the denizens of medieval Tallinn believe, ghosts can reap their revenge upon the living. When a powerful merchant dies, Melchior perceives a corporeal connection between this and the other deaths. As Melchior becomes embroiled in the conflicts and rivalries between religious orders, merchant guilds and Teutonic Knights, all vying with one another for control of the town, what he discovers is more incredible and more terrible than any ghost.
Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf's Church
by Indrek HarglaThe first in a series of books that have taken Europe by storm and are soon to be filmed, featuring a chemist-turned-sleuth who battles ignorance and superstition--as well as killers--in a beautiful setting and in a gripping and mysterious era of historyThe Apothecary Melchior series plunges the reader into 15th-century Tallinn when Estonia is at the edge of Christian lands and the last foothold before the East: a town of foreign merchants and engineers, dominated by the mighty castle of Toompea and the construction of St Olaf's Church, soon to become the tallest building in the world. Apothecary Melchior is a divisive figure in the town: respected for his arcane knowledge and scientific curiosity but also slightly feared for his mystical witch-doctor aura. When a mysterious murder occurs in the castle, Melchior is called in to help find the killer and reveals a talent for detection. But Tallinn has a serial killer in its midst, and Melchior is tested to the limit in a plot with as many twists and turns as the turreted castle itself. Melchior uncovers a mystery surrounding St Olaf's and a secret society that has been controlling the town for years, uncovering truths about the town that may spell danger.
Apotheosis. El Devorador de Almas 2 (El Devorador de Almas #2)
by Cesarino Bellini ArtioliLa odisea de Lord Samuel Kainz continúa Perseguido por la Muerte, maldecido por la vida, forjado por la ambición, no conocerá ni la rendición ni la derrota. No tendrá ningún remordimiento en aniquilar a cualquier persona o cosa que se interponga entre él y su objetivo. El destino que le esperaba era aniquilarse en el olvido de la otra vida, como todos los seres vivos de esta tierra, pero la misma voluntad que le salvó le llevará mucho más allá de las posibilidades humanas. Sacrificará su vida en pos de la ascensión, hacia ese poder que le permita desafiar a Dios y a sus Caballeros. Esta voluntad y esta fuerza le llevarán a la Apoteosis o a la más inmensa y ruinosa derrota. Se acabó el tiempo de huir y esconderse, ha llegado el momento de dar a conocer de lo que es capaz un hombre armado con una voluntad fuerte y una arrogancia sin límites.
App of the Living Dead (Gamer Squad)
by Kim HarringtonPokémon Go meets The Goonies in this exciting new adventure series! Monsters. Aliens. What&’s next? Use your BRAINS and figure it out! In their third exciting adventure, Bex and Charlie battle the living dead—ZOMBIES. After all they&’ve gone through, Bex and Charlie have no intention of playing the new zombie game that Veratrum Games Corp just released. But everyone else in town is hooked, and when a flu sweeps the school, turning teachers and students into the undead, it turns out that only non-players are immune. Now, Charlie and Bex have to find a way to save their friends and neighbors—and stop the company from unleashing more of their deadly games.
Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers From the Mountain South
by John LangThe last quarter-century has seen a remarkable outpouring of fiction and poetry from southern Appalachia--a surge of creativity that has formed an integral part of a larger, and still growing, regional self-consciousness. This book charts the course of this literary renaissance through twenty-one interviews with contemporary Appalachian writers, conversations conducted between 1983 and 2003 at Emory & Henry College's annual literary festival and originally printed in the Iron Mountain Review. The authors interviewed range from nationally known figures such as Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Mary Lee Settle, and Charles Wright to less prominent, though no less gifted, writers like George Ella Lyon, Jo Carson, and George Scarborough. Many of the interviewers are themselves creative writers or Appalachian studies scholars, as well as longtime friends of the interviewees. For example, Jim Wayne Miller interviews James Still; Loyal Jones interviews Jim Wayne Miller; Richard Marius interviews Wilma Dykeman; George Garrett interviews David Huddle; and Michael Chitwood interviews Michael McFee. These wide-ranging conversations address such topics as formative experiences in the author's childhood, major literary influences, the author's educational background and mentors, the writing process, the limitations imposed by such labels as "Appalachian writer," and the broadening scope of literature originating in the Appalachian region. Collectively, these interviews confirm the judgment of some observers that writers from the mountain South are now playing a much larger role in southern letters than in previous periods, thus constituting a "renaissance within a renaissance."
Appalachian Abduction: Kansas City Cop (Lavender Mountain #4)
by Debbie HerbertIn this tense romantic thriller, a rogue detective and a local cop join forces to bust a human trafficking ring deep in the Appalachian Mountains.Detective Charlotte Helms is on the trail of a human trafficking ring when her best friend’s daughter is abducted. Now it’s a personal mission, and nothing is going to get in her way—not even Officer James Tedder. Going undercover in the Appalachian Mountains, Charlotte and James cross paths under less-than-ideal circumstances.Trespassing, fleeing a peace officer . . . hell, she even aims a gun at his chest! Yet James can’t help but admire her fight. When they’re forced to become partners, James must trust Charlotte to have his back. But can he trust her with his heart?
Appalachian Daughter
by Mary SalyersMaggie Martin, teenage daughter of parents steeped in Appalachian mountain traditions ,struggles against the poverty and restrictive values cherished for generations by her Tennessee family. A deeply moving story of birth and death, triumph and tragedy, young love and broken hearts--peopled with unforgettable characters you'll rememberlong after you share Maggie's journey to independence.
Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
by Jeff Young The Ohio Valley ResourceA searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia&’s troubles are just a taste of what the future holds for all of us? Appalachian Fall tells the captivating true story of coal communities on the leading edge of change. A group of local reporters known as the Ohio Valley ReSource shares the real-world impact these changes have had on what was once the heart and soul of America. Including stories like: -The miners&’ strike in Harlan County after their company suddenly went bankrupt, bouncing their paychecks -The farmers tilling former mining ground for new cash crops like hemp -The activists working to fight mountaintop removal and bring clean energy jobs to the region -And the mothers mourning the loss of their children to overdose and despair In the wake of the controversial bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, Appalachian Fall addresses what our country owes to a region that provided fuel for a century and what it risks if it stands by watching as the region, and its people, collapse.
Appalachian Overthrow
by E. E. KnightE.E. Knight has proven "a master of his craft. His prose is controlled but interesting, and his characters are fully formed and come to life."* In his latest Vampire Earth novel, the national bestselling author tells a tale about David Valentine's fellow freedom fighter Ahn-Kha when he was imprisoned and forced into hard labor by the Kurians--and the rebellion he led against them... Captured and sold to the Kurian-allied Maynes Conglomerate, to work as a slave in the coal mines of Appalachia, Ahn-Kha is angered and appalled by the dangerous working conditions, and the brutal treatment inflicted upon his fellow miners. When a protest against shortages is deliberately and bloodily suppressed, Ahn-Kha sets himself against the ruling Maynes family and sets out on a trail of vengeance through the Coal Country. Finally, the people of the Coal Country are driven to the breaking point--and they now have a leader, a powerful and battle-hardened leader, determined to forge them into an army that will wage guerrilla warfare against the Maynes family and their Kurian masters--and free the Appalachians from their tyranny... *Science Fiction Weekly
Appalachian Peril: Appalachian Peril / Colton's Amnesia Target (the Coltons Of Kansas) (Lavender Mountain #3)
by Debbie HerbertWith her life under attack…she must join forces with the lawman from her past.An unseen enemy has tracked Beth Wynngate to Lavender Mountain, leaving her no choice but to seek the help of Sammy Armstrong. They share a fraught history, but the Falling Rock deputy sheriff is her best hope of survival. As Sammy teaches her the art of self-defense, Beth fights for a future that could be gone tomorrow.USA TODAY Bestselling Author
Appalachian Prey: Secured By The Seal (red, White And Built, Book 5) / Ranger Defender (texas Brothers Of Company B, Book 2) (Lavender Mountain #1)
by Debbie HerbertStar-crossed lovers on Lavender Mountain…Danger awaits them both.After her father’s murder, pregnant Lilah Tedder dreads facing deputy Harlan Sampson, her child’s secret father, who left her heartbroken. Though she still wants him, Lilah knows his professional ambition won’t let him associate with a moonshiner’s daughter. But when a killer targets Lilah, Harlan becomes more than her protector. Now they must uncover old family secrets or pay the ultimate price.
Appaloosa (A Cole and Hitch Novel #1)
by Robert B. ParkerWhen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning up after scavengers, but this one raises the stakes by playing not with the rules—but with emotion.Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Apparatus
by Don Mckay“There’s a place / between desire and memory, some back porch / we can neither wish for nor recall,” writes Don McKay inApparatus. The poems in this collection home in on that place – those keenly desired places – where language will not reach. Apparatusis Don McKay’s first collection of new poems since his 1991 award-winningNight Field. It is a passionate engagement with nature and a powerful critique of human assaults on wilderness which, for McKay, is more than unsubdued nature; it is whatever eludes the mind’s categories – the insoluble secret of life itself. To read McKay’s poems is to be in touch with the significant concerns of our time and all time. McKay is a poet of unmatched linguistic playfulness, with virtuoso flexibility of voice and an ability to shape-shift through forms, tones, and styles.
Apparition
by Gail GallantThe last time seventeen-year-old Amelia Mackenzie saw her best friend Matthew alive, he broke her heart. When he is found the next day in an abandoned barn at the edge of town, an apparent suicide, Amelia's whole world comes crashing down. And then she sees him again. Because Amelia has a secret that even Matthew didn't know: sometimes, she sees ghosts. When a local history columnist named Morris Dyson contacts Amelia after the funeral and tells her that he thinks the barn Matthew died in is haunted, and that Matthew wasn't its first victim, an unlikely partnership is born. With Amelia's gift for seeing ghosts, Morris's radical theories on the supernatural, and a bit of help from Morris's sexy but skeptical son, Kip, a mystery unfolds. One by one, the barn's other ghostly residents are revealed: all innocent, love-struck young men who've died horrific deaths, seemingly by their own hands. Life and death couldn't get more complicated as Amelia is torn between her devotion to the ghostly Matthew and her growing attraction to Kip, who may not believe in ghosts but can't help believing in Amelia. When she's confronted with a rivalry between the living and the dead, which side of the great divide will Amelia choose? Apparition is a fast-paced supernatural mystery about memory and obsession, bodies and spirits, love and loss.
Apparition
by Iyana JennaTwo college students, Drew and Zach, have had a long distance relationship for quite some time, as they go to different schools. It isn't really a problem as they always connect through video calls or online.One night, however, Drew can sense Zach's presence, as if his boyfriend is really there with him. The sensation soon disappears, though. Has something bad happened to Zach?