Author: Edward J. B.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504322827
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Me and My Godship Ava Chat, is a series of inner chats with the writer's personal God. The main theme is one of Love and the ease of having Love embrace the everyday happenings. Free will and choices,plus the responsibilities involved. It is a joyful journey of inner contentment, done with ease. The intention is to flood the reader with a Love mantle whenever invoked. There is no chronological order, and an intent is that whatever page is opened, a resolution is applicable. It was fun transcribing and perhaps there may be more chats along the way. Enjoy. Edward J B.
Me and My God Ava Chat
Author: Edward J. B.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504322827
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Me and My Godship Ava Chat, is a series of inner chats with the writer's personal God. The main theme is one of Love and the ease of having Love embrace the everyday happenings. Free will and choices,plus the responsibilities involved. It is a joyful journey of inner contentment, done with ease. The intention is to flood the reader with a Love mantle whenever invoked. There is no chronological order, and an intent is that whatever page is opened, a resolution is applicable. It was fun transcribing and perhaps there may be more chats along the way. Enjoy. Edward J B.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504322827
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Me and My Godship Ava Chat, is a series of inner chats with the writer's personal God. The main theme is one of Love and the ease of having Love embrace the everyday happenings. Free will and choices,plus the responsibilities involved. It is a joyful journey of inner contentment, done with ease. The intention is to flood the reader with a Love mantle whenever invoked. There is no chronological order, and an intent is that whatever page is opened, a resolution is applicable. It was fun transcribing and perhaps there may be more chats along the way. Enjoy. Edward J B.
What Happens in Vegas
Author: Shana Gray
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
ISBN: 1640636404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
"Full of fun, friendship and romance - a real escapist treat." - NYT bestselling author Jill Shalvis In the first warm, funny and romantic novel in the Girls Weekend Away series, four best friends embark on the ultimate girls' getaway filled with hijinks and a sprinkling of romance. For any fan of Bridesmaids and Sex and the City and readers of Jo Watson, Lauren Layne, Joanna Bolouri and Cate Woods. When the cop... Tough-as-nails detective Bonni Connolly is on a girls' getaway in Vegas with her friends, when Lady Luck shines on her. Seizing the chance to treat them all, Bonni splurges on a little luxury including a VIP booth in an exclusive club. That's when she sees him. Meets the gambler... Professional poker player Quinn Bryant is in town for one of the largest tournaments of the year. Fortune smiles on him when he spots Bonni across the dance floor. But what starts as a holiday fling soon turns into something more, as Bonni learns to see the man behind the poker face. The stakes have never been higher. Even though Bonni's trip has an end date and there is another tournament calling Quinn's name, their strong connection surprises them both. And by the end of the weekend they start to wonder if what happens in Vegas doesn't have to stay there... Each book in the Girls Weekend Away series is STANDALONE: * What Happens in Vegas * Meet Me In San Francisco * The Nashville Bet * A Match Made in Monaco
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
ISBN: 1640636404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
"Full of fun, friendship and romance - a real escapist treat." - NYT bestselling author Jill Shalvis In the first warm, funny and romantic novel in the Girls Weekend Away series, four best friends embark on the ultimate girls' getaway filled with hijinks and a sprinkling of romance. For any fan of Bridesmaids and Sex and the City and readers of Jo Watson, Lauren Layne, Joanna Bolouri and Cate Woods. When the cop... Tough-as-nails detective Bonni Connolly is on a girls' getaway in Vegas with her friends, when Lady Luck shines on her. Seizing the chance to treat them all, Bonni splurges on a little luxury including a VIP booth in an exclusive club. That's when she sees him. Meets the gambler... Professional poker player Quinn Bryant is in town for one of the largest tournaments of the year. Fortune smiles on him when he spots Bonni across the dance floor. But what starts as a holiday fling soon turns into something more, as Bonni learns to see the man behind the poker face. The stakes have never been higher. Even though Bonni's trip has an end date and there is another tournament calling Quinn's name, their strong connection surprises them both. And by the end of the weekend they start to wonder if what happens in Vegas doesn't have to stay there... Each book in the Girls Weekend Away series is STANDALONE: * What Happens in Vegas * Meet Me In San Francisco * The Nashville Bet * A Match Made in Monaco
The Book That Matters Most: A Novel
Author: Ann Hood
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393253848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group’s goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood—one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely deaths of her sister and mother. Alternating with Ava’s story is that of her troubled daughter Maggie, who, living in Paris, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man. Ava’s mission to find that book and its enigmatic author takes her on a quest that unravels the secrets of her past and offers her and Maggie the chance to remake their lives.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393253848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group’s goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood—one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely deaths of her sister and mother. Alternating with Ava’s story is that of her troubled daughter Maggie, who, living in Paris, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man. Ava’s mission to find that book and its enigmatic author takes her on a quest that unravels the secrets of her past and offers her and Maggie the chance to remake their lives.
Who Killed The Salls
Author: Irene Milow
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Home robbery? This is an unlikely story of a family of five murdered in cold blood. The only witness Detective Emma Carrs has to work with is a ten-year-old girl named Z Sall, who survives the attack but doesn't remember much. As Carrs dig deeper into the case, she notices the first responding officer, Cole Jane, being very shady. Could the police be involved in the family murder? As Carrs gets closer to the real truth, the killer starts turning his attention to her. Carrs has to race against the clock to catch this murderer before he finishes the job and makes her his next target.
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Home robbery? This is an unlikely story of a family of five murdered in cold blood. The only witness Detective Emma Carrs has to work with is a ten-year-old girl named Z Sall, who survives the attack but doesn't remember much. As Carrs dig deeper into the case, she notices the first responding officer, Cole Jane, being very shady. Could the police be involved in the family murder? As Carrs gets closer to the real truth, the killer starts turning his attention to her. Carrs has to race against the clock to catch this murderer before he finishes the job and makes her his next target.
The Island
Author: Natasha Preston
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 059348150X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding read from the undisputed queen of YA thrillers! They said goodbye to their friends and family for the weekend. They weren’t counting on forever. Jagged Island: a private amusement park for the very rich—or the very influential. Liam, James, Will, Ava, Harper, and Paisley—social media influencers with millions of followers—have been invited for an exclusive weekend before the park opens. They’ll make posts and videos for their channels and report every second of their VIP treatment. When the teens arrive, they're stunned: the resort is even better than they’d imagined. Their hotel rooms are unreal, the park’s themed rides are incredible, and the island is hauntingly beautiful. They’re given a jam-packed itinerary for the weekend. But soon they'll discover that something's missing from their schedule: getting off the island alive.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 059348150X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding read from the undisputed queen of YA thrillers! They said goodbye to their friends and family for the weekend. They weren’t counting on forever. Jagged Island: a private amusement park for the very rich—or the very influential. Liam, James, Will, Ava, Harper, and Paisley—social media influencers with millions of followers—have been invited for an exclusive weekend before the park opens. They’ll make posts and videos for their channels and report every second of their VIP treatment. When the teens arrive, they're stunned: the resort is even better than they’d imagined. Their hotel rooms are unreal, the park’s themed rides are incredible, and the island is hauntingly beautiful. They’re given a jam-packed itinerary for the weekend. But soon they'll discover that something's missing from their schedule: getting off the island alive.
Javier
Author: Fiona Murphy
Publisher: Fiona Murphy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Castillo Family: Follow Rafael, Matteo, Javier and their nephew Santos a billionaire family they made their fortune in the construction business. When it comes to building relationships all their money can't help them when it comes to women who want what money can't buy. Javier Castillo might be a gorgeous, brilliant billionaire—but he's also a massive a$$hole. His only redeeming quality is how much he loves his baby daughter. A daughter he wasn’t aware existed until her grandmother dumped her on him like she was returning lost luggage. Her mother is dead and her grandmother decided she couldn’t take care of her after all. Okay, it’s kind of amazing the way he didn’t flinch from the baby thrust into his arms. He wants the best for her but doesn’t believe I am it. I’m the nanny with a thirty-day trial hanging over my head. He’s trying to get me to quit, I just know it. Except I refuse to go easily or quietly, no matter how mean or rude he gets. There's no way I am going to mess up this job. If I do, I'll be homeless again. I’m positive he’s just worried I’ll develop a crush on him and become a clingy, lovesick pain. So why do I feel his eyes on me when he thinks I'm not paying attention? What about overhearing him warning a man away from me with a feral, jealous possessive air? It's wishful thinking—poor, plain, fat women like me don't get the gorgeous billionaire like him anywhere but in the movies. I'm here for his daughter, not him. Except before long it isn’t just his daughter who has stolen my heart, and I wonder if maybe I'm not imagining things after all. This is book 2 in the Castillo Family series. You need not have read the previous book to enjoy this one, and it does not end in a cliffhanger. Trigger warning: The heroine's father commits suicide off page as her personal history. Her mother commits suicide off page during the course of the story. Keywords: Billionaire Romance, Age gap romance, Nanny Romance, multicultural romance, Virgin Romance, BBW Romance, Curvy romance, older man younger woman, jealous possessive hero, alpha hero
Publisher: Fiona Murphy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Castillo Family: Follow Rafael, Matteo, Javier and their nephew Santos a billionaire family they made their fortune in the construction business. When it comes to building relationships all their money can't help them when it comes to women who want what money can't buy. Javier Castillo might be a gorgeous, brilliant billionaire—but he's also a massive a$$hole. His only redeeming quality is how much he loves his baby daughter. A daughter he wasn’t aware existed until her grandmother dumped her on him like she was returning lost luggage. Her mother is dead and her grandmother decided she couldn’t take care of her after all. Okay, it’s kind of amazing the way he didn’t flinch from the baby thrust into his arms. He wants the best for her but doesn’t believe I am it. I’m the nanny with a thirty-day trial hanging over my head. He’s trying to get me to quit, I just know it. Except I refuse to go easily or quietly, no matter how mean or rude he gets. There's no way I am going to mess up this job. If I do, I'll be homeless again. I’m positive he’s just worried I’ll develop a crush on him and become a clingy, lovesick pain. So why do I feel his eyes on me when he thinks I'm not paying attention? What about overhearing him warning a man away from me with a feral, jealous possessive air? It's wishful thinking—poor, plain, fat women like me don't get the gorgeous billionaire like him anywhere but in the movies. I'm here for his daughter, not him. Except before long it isn’t just his daughter who has stolen my heart, and I wonder if maybe I'm not imagining things after all. This is book 2 in the Castillo Family series. You need not have read the previous book to enjoy this one, and it does not end in a cliffhanger. Trigger warning: The heroine's father commits suicide off page as her personal history. Her mother commits suicide off page during the course of the story. Keywords: Billionaire Romance, Age gap romance, Nanny Romance, multicultural romance, Virgin Romance, BBW Romance, Curvy romance, older man younger woman, jealous possessive hero, alpha hero
Merged
Author: MJ Fields
Publisher: MJ Fields
ISBN: 195411298X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
When we met, the world around us turned upside down and nothing mades sense. When we come together in body, there is nothing hotter. In desire, nothing deeper. In the realization of one true love, there is nothing stronger. This journey —through hell on earth— has brought me to the point in my life where I finally know I'm capable of love and deserving of it too. Will I be able to give Harper the love her father always wanted for her? Will our souls finally come together, giving us the beautiful life that I know we deserve?
Publisher: MJ Fields
ISBN: 195411298X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
When we met, the world around us turned upside down and nothing mades sense. When we come together in body, there is nothing hotter. In desire, nothing deeper. In the realization of one true love, there is nothing stronger. This journey —through hell on earth— has brought me to the point in my life where I finally know I'm capable of love and deserving of it too. Will I be able to give Harper the love her father always wanted for her? Will our souls finally come together, giving us the beautiful life that I know we deserve?
Unbreakable Series: The Complete Collection
Author: Rebecca Shea
Publisher: Rebecca Shea Author LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
From USA Today Best Selling author, Rebecca Shea comes the entire Unbreakable series complete collection. Three heartbreaking and heartwarming stories of love, loss, regret, and healing. Follow the journey of three couples who overcome life's obstacles on the path to finding true love and their happily ever after.
Publisher: Rebecca Shea Author LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
From USA Today Best Selling author, Rebecca Shea comes the entire Unbreakable series complete collection. Three heartbreaking and heartwarming stories of love, loss, regret, and healing. Follow the journey of three couples who overcome life's obstacles on the path to finding true love and their happily ever after.
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Author: Ava Homa
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683358945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer Set primarily in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel weaves 50 years of modern Kurdish history through a story of a family facing oppression and injustices all too familiar to the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Her younger brother, Chia, influenced by their father’s past torture, imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online, she finds herself in grave danger as well. Inspired by the life of Kurdish human rights activist Farzad Kamangar and published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his execution, Daughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds. It’s an unflinching but compassionate and powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family. A landmark novel for our troubled world, Daughters of Smoke and Fire is a gripping and important read, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683358945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer Set primarily in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel weaves 50 years of modern Kurdish history through a story of a family facing oppression and injustices all too familiar to the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Her younger brother, Chia, influenced by their father’s past torture, imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online, she finds herself in grave danger as well. Inspired by the life of Kurdish human rights activist Farzad Kamangar and published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his execution, Daughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds. It’s an unflinching but compassionate and powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family. A landmark novel for our troubled world, Daughters of Smoke and Fire is a gripping and important read, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.
Turn-taking in human communicative interaction
Author: Judith Holler
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889198251
Category : Conversation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600 ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking, such as its timing, are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages – with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals – do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This Research Topic contributes to advancing our understanding of these problems by summarizing recent work from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialog and conversation analysis, linguists, phoneticians, and comparative ethologists.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889198251
Category : Conversation
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600 ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking, such as its timing, are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages – with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals – do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This Research Topic contributes to advancing our understanding of these problems by summarizing recent work from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialog and conversation analysis, linguists, phoneticians, and comparative ethologists.