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Just Say (Hell) No

Author : Rosalind James

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Page : 412 pages

File Size : 39,81 MB

Release : 2018-02-07

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ISBN : 9781984341730

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Even a hard man needs a soft side.Marko Sendoa isn't a beach man. He's not an Auckland man. He's a hard man. Born Basque tough, raised in the heart of New Zealand's Southern Alps, and bred on hard work, discipline, and getting the job done. It's not easy for a rugby flanker who's played 13 bruising seasons to make it to age 32 at the top of his game, but he's done it. Next year is the Rugby World Cup, and he'll do whatever it takes to be on the field in the black jersey when the anthems are sung. He doesn't need a kitten. He doesn't need a pregnant cousin.He definitely doesn't need a too-short, distractingly curvy, totally unimpressed Maori barista and part-time pet portraitist who fills his house and his life with too much color, too much chaos, and too many secrets.He's getting them anyway.



The Town that Said 'Hell, No!'

Author : Paul Andersen

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Page : 286 pages

File Size : 30,57 MB

Release : 2022-02

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ISBN : 9781737643623

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"The Town That Said 'Hell, No!' is the story of a rural Colorado community under siege by AMAX, a huge international mining corporation. This powerful company was accustomed to getting its way, but it met its match in the late 1970s and early 1980s when it tried to overrun a unique and undaunted adversary. Crested Butte was no ordinary town. Hemmed in by high mountains in the heart of the Central Rockies of Colorado, summers at 9,000 feet are idyllic, and snow covers the ground for eight months of the year. This small, remote town and the disparate and eccentric community it nurtured refused the dictates of Big Business and Big Brother when the town said a firm and resounding "NO!" A five-year pitched battle ensued where Crested Butte claimed its right to autonomy. The town stood up to the mining giant and defended its intimate sense of place, the vulnerable mountain environment in which the town is nestled, and the delicate balance of values that made the town unique and loved by its loyal townspeople. Surprising to all was the way seemingly average citizens rose to the challenge of the town's defense and assumed roles they could never have imagined taking on. This spontaneous, innovative ragtag army manned the front lines in a battle that changed the town and all of their lives. With courage, commitment, humor and derring-do, the town stood its ground for values that connected its struggle with the roots of liberty and the founding principles of democracy. That Crested Butte prevailed against AMAX is part of a larger story depicting the plight of small communities where the economics of resort development present even greater threats than a mining giant when community is pitted against commodity and the allure of prosperity has the power to compromise long standing traditions. When Vail Resorts bought Crested Butte Mountain Resort in 2019, an entirely new set of challenges underscored the need for homespun communities to protect themselves from high-priced development and soul-killing gentrification. This is the story of rural America defending itself in the American West.



Hell With the Lid Blown Off

Author : Donis Casey

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 37,63 MB

Release : 2014-06-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1464203016

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"If you can only read one book this year, Hell with the Lid Blown Off should be that one." —NY Journal of Books In the summer of 1916, a big twister cuts a swath of destruction through Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker's family and neighbors are not spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm. But no one will mourn for dead Jubal Beldon, who'd made it his business to know everyone's ugly secrets. It never mattered if Jubal's insinuations were true or not since in a small town like Boynton, rumor could be as ruinous as fact. Then Mr. Lee, the undertaker, discovers that Jubal was already dead when the tornado swept his body away. Had he died in an accident or had he been murdered by someone whose secret he had threatened to expose? Dozens of people would have been happy to do the deed, some of them members of Jubal's own family. As Sheriff Scott Tucker and his deputy Trenton Calder look into Jubal's demise, it begins to look like the prime suspect may be someone very dear to the widow Beckie MacKenzie, mentor of Alafair's daughter Ruth. Ruth fears that the secrets exposed by the investigation are going to cause more damage to Beckie's life than the tornado. Alafair, coping with injuries to her own, still has time for suspicions about how Jubal Beldon came to die. What if the truth of it hits very close to home?



South of Hell

Author : P. J. Parrish

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 405 pages

File Size : 40,87 MB

Release : 2008-07-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1416579508

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Dig up the past. Pay the price. With one phone call from a man he barely recalls meeting years ago, South Florida detective Louis Kincaid heads to the Michigan town of his college days to reopen a disturbing cold case -- and finds himself confronting his own painful past secrets...secrets that risk his future with the woman he loves, detective Joe Frye. Ann Arbor police detective Jake Shockey wants Kincaid's help in the case of Jean Brandt, who went missing nine years ago -- and whose husband, Owen, has since been paroled. Now, Owen Brandt's girlfriend appears to be at risk, and Shockey is desperate to get involved. Kincaid soon unearths the deeply personal reasons why...and with Joe Frye assisting, Kincaid links yesterday's jealousies with today's potentially lethal vengeance. It's only a matter of time before one will win out over the other -- and before Kincaid's own shattering revelations will be forced out into the light of day.



How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town

Author : Roger Kahn

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Page : pages

File Size : 14,65 MB

Release : 2019-06-15

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ISBN : 9781733962216

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A fun-filled social and political history of the early, raucous, years in the formation of a modern, cosmopolitan, tourist town and recreation community. This detailed case study exemplifies how Crested Butte, CO, and many other new recreation exurbs, came into being in the affluent post WW II years, A "must-read" for anyone interested in the recreation industry, the New West, the social sciences, etc.



Hell of a Book

Author : Jason Mott

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 29,21 MB

Release : 2022-06-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0593330986

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***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! An Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2021 | One of Shelf Awareness's Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books | One of NPR.org's "Books We Love" | EW’s "Guide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021" | One of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Adults | San Diego Union Tribune—My Favorite Things from 2021 | Writer's Bone's Best Books of 2021 | Atlanta Journal Constitution—Top 10 Southern Books of the Year | One of the Guardian's (UK) Best Ten 21st Century Comic Novels | One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" | One of the New York Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root's PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021 An astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters’ stories build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it’s also about the nation’s reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists, it truly becomes its title.



Hell No, We Won't Go

Author : Jim Stevens

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Page : 214 pages

File Size : 49,22 MB

Release : 2014-07-15

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ISBN : 9780984924783

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The 1970 college football season is coming to a close and Touchdown Tony McIntyre couldn't be riding higher. He's in the running for the Heisman Trophy, on the cover of Sports Illustrated as "The next Joe Namath," and about to be drafted into the NFL. He's two wins away from taking his team to the Rose Bowl, when receives a letter from the Selective Service, "Greetings," This must be a mistake. Tony can't get drafted, he's about to get the biggest signing bonus in NFL history. Tony has to find a way out. As anti-Vietnam war protestors make their voices heard on campus, Tony finds himself caught in the crossfire of one of the most decisive issues Americans have ever faced. All he ever wanted to do is play football, but he discovers he's now in a much bigger arena. It all comes down to one Saturday in November, when Touchdown Tony McIntyre is thrust into a game where the stakes are life and death.



Never Say Never - The Beginning: Four Wedding Rings

Author : Nydia Sagre

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 355 pages

File Size : 21,75 MB

Release : 2019-10-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1684711630

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When Carmen is fifteen, she is forced to hide her high school sweetheart from her parents. She and Johny have amazing chemistry, and the night before he is to leave for war, Carmen gives him her body as a symbol of her devotion. Two months later, she discovers Johny has died when his plane is shot down over Hanoi. Soon after, Carmen also learns that she is pregnant. Her controlling father and traumatized mother kick her out of the house. Financially, Carmen has no choice but to leave her baby girl at an orphanage. A heartbroken Carmen plans to earn a living, save money, and eventually return for her daughter, but plans change when her daughter is adopted. Over the next few decades, Carmen grows into a strong, independent woman. She meets four men, each presenting her with a wedding ring and the promise to find her long lost daughter. Although misfortunes continue, Carmen fights on for the love of her child and a marriage that is meant to be.



Lost

Author : Johnathon Loughry

Publisher : Archway Publishing

Page : 131 pages

File Size : 23,83 MB

Release : 2023-05-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1665740817

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This is a true story. It has been a ridiculous life since the early eighties. It involves true love, pain beyond what most would endure. And an innocent Kid that destroys all He comes in contact with it seems.



Hell's Half Acre

Author : William W. Johnstone

Publisher : Pinnacle Books

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 29,57 MB

Release : 2017-01-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0786035943

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In this Western series debut,Fort Worth is the deadliest place on the Texas frontier. Good thing the new sheriff isn’t afraid to die—or kill. “Stay the hell out of Fort Worth.” Those were the last words uttered by the boomtown’s last sheriff. Rail-thin and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Casey not only enters Fort Worth, he takes the dead man’s job. Now it’s up to him to keep the peace in a body-riddled slice of heaven known as Hell’s Half Acre—home of notorious outlaws like Kurt Koenig and his merciless gang. For Koenig, the only good lawman is a dead one, and he puts a pretty price on Casey’s head. For Casey, that means war. Against him are the frontier’s fastest draw and a host of murderous triggers. On his side are decades of rock-hard Texas living, a couple of ne’er-do-well deputies, and the good sense to do all his talking behind the barrel of a fast-blazing gun . . .