Author : Penelope Sky
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
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I'm working off my buttons. But I'm also giving them away. The more I fall for Crow, the more I want him to do the things that I want. Dinners, dates, and evenings at the beach. Everything comes at a price, and the hoard of buttons I worked hard to earn are quickly depleted. Will this go back and forth forever? Or will someone run out of their buttons first?
Author : Penelope Sky
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
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From New York Times Bestselling Author Penelope Sky comes a darkly twisted tale of debt, repayment, and violence. Follow Pearl's story of betrayal, damnation, and redemption, as she struggles to overcome her situation and growing feelings for her captor, Crow. I owe him a debt. A big one. The payment can't be settled with money or favors. He only wants one thing. Me. Every action gets a reward. A button. Once I fill his jar with three hundred and sixty-five buttons, he'll let me go. He'll let me walk away. But I have to earn every single one. By submitting to the darkest, cruelest, and most beautiful man I've ever known. "5 dark ★★★★★s! Pearl clearly has gone through hell and more... this story is so breathtaking !!!! I am awed by her defiance, gallantry, and great fortitude! As far as Crow is concerned, under his savageness, there are shreds of compassion and humanity" -Goodreads Reviewer "Haunting, disturbing, emotionally tormenting and oh so dark! I loved Pearl's strength and bravery. I got lost in Crow's complexity and fell in love with the man behind the mask. Being a fan of the dark, this definitely ticked all the right boxes for me." -Goodreads Reviewer "I read A LOT of books and this series will always be my favorite. Crow and Pearl. I fell in love with both of them. Penelope Sky knows how to develop her characters and does it very well. The story never gets boring. This would make a great mini-series for television!" -Amazon Reviewer "Good golly, Miss Molly! At first, I was apprehensive about reading this book, but ... it is truly a work of art. When I find a book that's this good I end up staying awake till 4 in the morning because I just can't put it away till my hubby makes me. This book makes you a little stronger and gives worth to the reason why you should never stop fighting for yourself. I would recommend it to anyone." -Amazon Reviewer Trigger Warning: Not for the faint of heart.
Author : Penelope Sky
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
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The NEW YORK TIMES bestseller! When I saw my escape, I took it. Now I'm in New York City and trying to get my life back on track. Despite the tracker in my ankle, Crow hasn't come for me. He hasn't even called me. I told him the depth of my feelings but he cruelly rejected them. Maybe he's forgotten about me. One day, I walk into my apartment and spot the pile of buttons on the counter. I never left them there, and there's only one explanation for their presence. Maybe Crow hasn't forgotten me after all.
Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1541539257
Discusses what a hate group is and how it operates, how we legally define hate speech and hate crimes, and what the history is of organizing around hate and how we recognize and confront it.
Author : Albert Ellis
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0806538104
Learn to stop letting people and situations upset you and start enjoying life in this classic self-help book by a respected pioneer of psychotherapy. Life can get tough. From unemployment—or overwork—to divorce or remarriage, the challenges of newly blended families, not to mention everyday hassles, stress can feel non-stop. To top it off, technology confronts us with a barrage of seemingly urgent tasks 24/7. It’s no wonder things and people can make you lose your cool. In this landmark book you’ll find a very specific, powerful skill set designed to help you keep any scenario from pushing your buttons—and it works. Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), created by world-renowned therapist Dr. Albert Ellis, provides you with realistic, simple, proven techniques that will significantly reduce your stress levels and help you react effectively, whether the circumstances are professional or personal. Discover: • Ten beliefs we use to let people and situations needlessly push our buttons • A powerful alternative to the kind of thinking that upsets us • The Fatal Foursome—feelings that sabotage you • How to change your irrational thinking using four key steps Whether you’re dealing with colleagues, parents, kids, friends, or lovers, How to Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons will show you how to enjoy an active, vibrant, successful life. “No individual—not even Freud himself—has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy.” —Psychology Today Praise for How to Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons “Don’t get mad or get even—get placid using these techniques for defusing difficult situations.” —Booklist
Author : Bill Sammon
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780895261229
Describes Al Gore's efforts to overturn the results of the 2000 presidential election, including his attempts to toss military ballots and his campaign against Florida attorney general Katherine Harris.
Author : Penelope Sky
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
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ISBN : 9781986101479
"My brother got mixed up with a crime lord and lost everything he had, including his life. And now I have to pay his debt. All I have is twenty bucks in my pocket and the clothes on my back. The bank took the house, and my last living relative was murdered. Knuckles threatened to torture me if I ran. He's counting down the days until he'll claim me, making me treasure my final days of freedom ... The greatest lingerie designer in the world is looking for new talent for Barsetti Lingerie. I'm not exactly model material, but maybe I can get a job doing something--and get paid under the table"--Back cover.
Author : Bonnie Harris
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0446540749
In the bestselling tradition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?" It's a given-kids push their parents buttons like nobody else can. Too many parents can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns. WHEN YOUR KIDS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the "road rage of parenting." When parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their child's behavior is telling them, the child becomes the teacher to the parent. Filled with anecdotes from real families, this book is quickly joining the list of parenting classics.
Author : Rachel Plotnick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262347512
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.
Author : Irene Runkle Smith
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2011
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ISBN : 1608447731
In my youth, my father said to me, "Don't just read about life, but LIVE it, so that others may read about you." I write because I love to write. Words fascinate me. I did not plan to write a book. As my writings became many, my granddaughter, Heather, insisted that they belonged in a book. Bless her. She worked long and hard taking care of all the details. Because of her, the book exists. The book holds my memories, observations, love, laughter, tears, and poems. It embraces a loving family, cherished friends, and faithful pets. In retrospect, it is a brief glance into my life- the way it has been the ninety-two years that I have walked this earth. And so too, to let the world know that I was here. Okay Dad? -Irene Runkle Smith July 2010 I was born in 1918, on Cool Springs Farm in Ashville (Columbus), Ohio, to loving parents who raised me with high morals and values and to always respect truth and honesty. After school, I worked in the Budget Department at General Motors. My dearest role in life was wife and mother. I then worked as a postal clerk, retiring after twenty years. Norman and I enjoyed twenty years of retirement before his tragic accident and death. I started writing after I lost Norman. Any talent of mine I owe to my father. The perfect words that flowed from his pen were inspiring. Today I am independent, except for driving. I have the tender love of a beautiful family, and I am blessed and happy I thank God every day for having had a wonderful and fulfilling life. I attribute my ninety-two years to love, laughter, and vinegar and honey.
