Author: Lori Garfinkle Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1467024511 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 500
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When temptation propels her headfirst into the abyss, CHLOE, a thirty-five year old Manhattan based author finds herself ensnared in a mind game of the highest caliber. In her quest to dispel vulnerability as a myth, she crosses the line between fantasy and reality, falling prey to the electrifying side effects of a self-discovery so potent she has no choice but to complete her breakthrough. CHLOE is tempted into hell when her best friend, the infamous gay hairstylist Christophe suggests that an online affair is just what she needs to spark her writing. In between juggling her husband Brads Vicodin addiction, her brother Dylans cocaine fetish and her mother Ceciles overdose of daily Jewish guilt, Chloe surrenders her common sense for a dance down serendipitys back alley. What begins as a meeting of the minds before a meeting of the flesh soon spirals into a powerful seduction when Chloe meets Bryce, a British Commodities Trader with a posh accent and the ability to chisel away at her defenses like a grand European master. With humor and strength, Chloe struggles with the depths of her vulnerability as she seeks answers to lifes multifaceted questions. What she ends up discovering, is herself and exactly what it means to be human. From the high-powered worlds of New York and London to the pristine beaches of Cancun and Bora Bora, Hopscotch With The Devil is a laugh out loud adrenaline rush into the demons of emotion that simmer beneath the surface of a life filled with choice.
Author: P Mattern Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
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ONCE YOU BEGIN THE GAME, YOU CAN NEVER STOP PLAYING Every truly terrible story begins with either boredom or curiosity... This one begins with both. Bored on a rainy day, three good friends, Lionel, Clem, and Daisy decide to hang out in Daisy's attic. She assures them that there are some old board games up there they might be interested in playing. At the bottom of a stack they find one that seems oddly different than the rest, with a title they have never seen. The name of the game emblazoned across the top of the red box in silver is... THE DEVIL'S HOPSCOTCH. It consists of a board that folds out in a dramatic way to create a hopscotch game that stretches out about 9 feet long, and two decks of cards, one labeled CONSEQUENCE and the other REWARD. The legend inside the top of the box says, "Once you begin, the game never ends" They all laugh at this. The rules are simple. If a player jumps through the squares and back again to the start without stepping on a line they are allowed to pick a REWARD card. If they mess up they must either perform the task indicated on the board or select a CONSEQUENCE card. The game starts out fun, but the Devil is in the details, and one of them will not survive.
Author: Adrianne Harun Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101609850 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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“Harun is heir apparent to Louise Erdrich and Harry Crews.... Readers will be swept away by this breathless, absorbing novel.” —Claire Vaye Watkins, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this mysterious and chilling novel, girls, mostly Native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway in the isolated Pacific Northwest. Leo Kreutzer and his friends are barely touched by these disappearances—until a series of enigmatic strangers arrive in their remote mountain town, beguiling and bewitching them. It seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them. The intoxicatingly lush debut novel by the acclaimed author of The King of Limbo, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is an unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town, as seductive and beautifully written as the devil’s dark arts are wielded. WINNER OF THE 2015 PINCKLEY PRIZE FOR DEBUT CRIME NOVEL
Author: Gisele Magnin Publisher: LesbianMuses ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 342
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Hey There Darlin' is an apocalypse humor serial featuring two lesbian leads. The serial began release in February 2019 and finished Part 1 in August 2020. It follows the chaotic adventures of The Devil's Daughter and CowGirl, along with side chapters of The Devil's Daughter's ever-expanding family. Compacted with everything from Notre Dame burning, to Storming Area 51, and the fall of the Fourth Pyramid, the romance of two women who watch the fall of heaven and the collapse of hell, is an ever-refreshing sense of humor during tough times. 91 chapters 99,048 words 342 (8.5x11) pages = approximately 1,368 5x7 pages Apocalypse Humor, Science Fiction, Extraterrestrial, Supernatural, Mythological Gods
Author: J.M. Davis Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc ISBN: 1628308672 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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After the death of her father and her own serious issues, Kara Maven decides to move back to her hometown to complete her senior year at Belman University. She settles into life on campus when her world is shaken by a handsome bad boy with a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dominic Benenati is a half-demon Damamah, or whisperer, whose role on earth is to ensure Hell’s population thrives by pushing humans to act upon their sinful thoughts. To complicate matters, enter Cayden Adams who is an angel determined to save Kara from Dominic’s influence. But does Kara really want to be saved?
Author: Marvin Etheridge Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 1478763957 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 291
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Then the brothers were Gnostic warriors seeking to grow their way out of that time. Now, much later the two have less time to make sense of what was forgotten or never understood. They pick one October week at their child’s beach to discover secrets buried. In thus doing they disturb the past in the oncoming storm and release from their search a storm started in the past that once found out must end. Once again they become warriors as they unknowingly call up a devil from their Gnostic past. As the reader becomes entangled in the brothers’ spiders’ web, he or she find a reality, foreign but not to be hugged tightly because the story is familiar. The story began as a child recalled with his accepting mind the events always remembered but did not know if they happened that way or at all. The grown child remembered but was the recall of long past events tainted by some coexistent disease that hid the truth? Is his past deceiving them now? Either way the adult mind with its own hard learned prejudice would need to attempt to find the answers of long ago, itself buried deep, but not dead. Now, on a stormy October beach in North Carolina as the two brothers, Gnostic warriors of a time past, seek the truth, the truth reveals itself, not quite evil, but evil not always is. The King James Bible puts it well in Romans 1:18: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;”
Author: Darryl Wimberley Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429953454 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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Special Agent Barrett "Bear" Raines of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has his Little League game interrupted when a returning GI uses Bear and the local sheriff to commit suicide-by-cop. Barrett agonizes over the young man's death. He knows that the young marine came home with a squad of other veterans who live outside the law near a place called Devil's Slew. Those GIs come under suspicion when federal authorities trace counterfeited currency to Bear's backyard. The feds believe that the counterfeiters are responsible for the kidnapping of a female agent off the streets of New Orleans. The threads connecting these local crimes stretch from northern Florida to Afghanistan and Mexico, and so, once again, Barrett Raines and the FDLE are called in to dodge the bullets and connect the dots. A superb storyteller, Darryl Wimberley writes about a Florida not many people know about, bringing to life its rich characters---and its lurking dangers.
Author: M.R. Pate Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359940374 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 401
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An innocent game with an Ouija board, turns a young woman's life from normal to deadly. After being possessed by a demon, Krystal finds she has gained a strange power. While not completely immortal, she is not easily killed. Finding she is not alone and that others have special gifts, she chooses to spend her life as a demon hunter. Only one day she learns that she has become the hunted. Krystal is forced to assist a Demon Lord in order to stay alive. This task sends her to Hell and back. During her journey she will face horrific monsters, and wish to die on a few occasions. Yet her will to protect the human race keeps her fighting on. With a few priests to guide her, and weapons designed for vanquishing demons, she continues to risk her life each day
Author: James Traub Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0307432130 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth century through the Runyonesque heyday of nightclubs and theaters in the 1920s and ’30s, to the district’s decline in the 1960s and its glittering corporate revival in the 1990s. First, Traub gives us the great impresarios, wits, tunesmiths, newspaper columnists, and nocturnal creatures who shaped Times Square over the century since the place first got its name: Oscar Hammerstein, Florenz Ziegfeld, George S. Kaufman, Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell, and “the Queen of the Nightclubs,” Texas Guinan; bards like A. J. Liebling, Joe Mitchell, and the Beats, who celebrated the drug dealers and pimps of 42nd Street. He describes Times Square’s notorious collapse into pathology and the fierce debates over how best to restore it to life. Traub then goes on to scrutinize today’s Times Square as no author has yet done. He writes about the new 42nd Street, the giant Toys “R” Us store with its flashing Ferris wheel, the new world of corporate theater, and the sex shops trying to leave their history behind. More than sixty years ago, Liebling called Times Square “the heart of the world”—not just the center of the world, though this crossroads in Midtown Manhattan was indeed that, but its heart. From the dawn of the twentieth century through the 1950s, Times Square was the whirling dynamo of American popular culture and, increasingly, an urban sanctuary for the eccentric and the untamed. The name itself became emblematic of the tremendous life force of cities everywhere. Today, Times Square is once again an awe-inspiring place, but the dark and strange corners have been filled with blazing light. The most famous street character on Broadway, “the Naked Cowboy,” has his own website, and Toys “R” Us calls its flagship store in Times Square “the toy center of the universe.” For the giant entertainment corporations that have moved to this safe, clean, and self-consciously gaudy spot, Times Square is still very much the center of the world. But is it still the heart?
Author: Gary Towner Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 161160317X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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Johnny Walker is asked by an old friend, Karl Baumstark, to come rescue him from marauding rebels that have taken him and his granddaughter, Heather, hostage. The rebel leader has learned the archeological dig Baumstark was working on just might harbor a biblical relic, a tiara called the Devil's Crown. Legend has it that the wearer will gain supernatural powers endowed by the devil himself. With plans of universal domination, the lizard eyed Basil Crump believes Walker is the only hope he has of making Baumstalk tell where to look for the find, but he harbors an unyielding grudge against Walker that makes him as dangerous as nitroglycerin left out in the sun. When Walker arrives on the scene he soon finds out Crump is the least of his problems; Baumstark's flirtatious granddaughter is smitten with him. Walker must keep reminding himself she is only sixteen years old. Worse yet, when he finds the accursed Crown inside a cave, Walker is unable to resist trying it out. Instantly he loses all self-control and he tries to force Heather to submit to the unthinkable. Heather nearly brains Walker attempting to escape. She later fears she killed him. So ends Walker's last Adventure... or is it only the beginning of an even greater adventure?
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