Tommy's Sweet Revenge


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Since the age of thirteen, Tommy Mendoza has taken boxing lessons at his father's boxing club, the Windy City Gym. Now eighteen-years-old and fresh out of high school, Tommy lands his dream job as a bouncer at the Phoenix, a posh nightclub in downtown Chicago. Tommy meets a unique assortment of people, including fellow bouncer Joe Castillo, the beautiful Iris Martinez, and his future roommate, Benita Valadez. He has his share of adventures and disturbances at the club and in his love life. When his father asks him to fill in for an injured fighter, Tommy jumps at the chance to get back in the boxing ring. But it is a near-tragic car accident that propels his life in a new direction. Following his brush with death, Tommy asks Iris to marry him. When their marriage ends in divorce after only a year, Tommy-heartbroken and searching for a fresh start-travels to Texas to work a construction job. He meets and falls in love with Jessica Gamez and the two marry six months later. Their life is full of difficulties, but a surprise gift enables them to find their happily ever after.




Sweet Revenge


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Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, a fiance, a life she deserved. Then Rosemary Hershey took her career, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving--killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal Sisterhood agree: Rosemary has to be punished.




Sweet Revenge


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EVERYONE, AT SOME POINT DURING THEIR LIVES, HAS BEEN HUMILIATED AND EMBARASSED BY THE ACTIONS OF SOMEONE ELSE. IT MAY HAPPEN DURING THEIR SCHOOL YEARS, DURING THEIR YEARS IN THE WORKPLACE OR DURING THEIR MARRIAGE. "SWEET REVENGE" IS A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-ONE SHORT STORIES ANALYZING CASES WHERE A PERSON HAS BEEN EMBARASSED AND HUMILIATED AND THE MEANS BY WHICH "THE VICTIM" GETS REVENGE AGAINST THE PERSON THAT EMBARASSED OR HUMILIATED THEM.




Tommy's Ark


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For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots - some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. And then there were the animals and insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice and larger animals such as deer and rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches and how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.




Heart-Shaped Lies


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John Tucker Must Die meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in this tongue-in-cheek mystery about three feuding exes of a social media prank star who are forced to work together to uncover the truth behind his death when his deactivated account resurfaces online with claims that one of them murdered him. Kiara, Priscilla, and Nevaeh have nothing in common—except they just found out that they’re all dating Tommy Harding, the internet's most famous teen prank star. KIARA is the girlfriend who the cameras know and love, the academic star who Tommy parades around in public to keep his image in check. PRISCILLA is Tommy's co-star. As a beauty influencer and an accomplice to Tommy’s notorious antics, she’s always known that the two of them could be the Internet’s power couple—if only he would confess to his girlfriend what really goes on during their 'rehearsals'. And NEVAEH is the good girl, the pastor's daughter who'd never dream of dating a boy who’s already taken. When a viral post from Tommy’s social media account exposes his cheating ways during their high school class trip to Florida’s biggest theme park, the girls are crushed—and furious. Tommy claims his account was hacked. Now, Kiara, Priscilla, and Nevaeh want him out of their lives. Forever. After all, Tommy doesn’t just hold their hearts—he holds their secrets, too. But when Tommy's body is found the next morning, their so-called wish becomes a twisted reality. Because Tommy may be gone, but the internet is forever. And the girls are about to go from strangers to suspects….




Miracle Moments


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DIV A practical guide to listening to the whispers, warnings, power, and presence of the Holy Spirit—and expecting the miraculous every day./div




Syndicate of Sin Boxset


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Debt, desire, and a dangerous deal with mafia devils. Mafia Boss I never thought I'd find myself indebted to the cruelest mafia don in Manhattan, but Cristian Ricci changes everything one fateful night when he proposes a way for my dues to be cleared. His offer: leave my fiance and marry him instead. Mafia Toy It all began with an offer too tempting to resist: one million dollars in exchange for a year of secrets, passion, and danger. The only problem? Jealous best friends, FBI break-ins, and falling in love were never part of the deal. Mafia Betrayal I should’ve known better than to trust an Italian mobster. When my father offers me an opportunity to oversee a shipment of illegal drugs, I’m forced to partner with Alessandro Russo, my worst enemy. The man who vows to watch me fall from my standing in the Capitelli Family. A monster who only wishes to see me on my knees for him.







Celestine Hangs on


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Canio's Secret: A Memoir of Ethnicity, Electricity, and my Immigrant Grandfather's Wisdom


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In 1950s Chicago, a boy hides in his closet to escape a father's habitual rage. There he conjures up another paternal figure in his artistic Italian grandfather, Canio Grieco. With his wondrous tricks and stories of "Italy," his library and drawings, his baseball and opera, Canio becomes the model of creativity for the lonely, introverted grandson who learns to survive through ingenuity, imagination, and electricity. Canio's Secret is a coming-of-age story about young Greg's struggle to find solace in his mother's Catholicism and break free of his father's anger. Told through intimate portraits of parents and grandparents, nuns and janitors, friends and local characters, and their unsettling, often humorous, encounters, it is also the vibrant portrait of a multi-ethnic neighborhood soon to be scattered by white flight. As the older writer ponders his grandfather's influence, the memoir becomes a meditation on Canio's enigmatic advice, spoken in the summer of 1953: "Happiness is all that's required."