The door read: Club Imperial The truth was: It could never hide all your secrets. Emmy learned that the hard way. Behind Club Imperial's doors lay all of those Emmy never wanted to share. Secrets she wanted to hide forever from the world. And Nathaniel. As she lay unconscious in the hospital, beaten and bruised, Nathanial never left her side. He didn't want her lifestyle-their lifestyle-to take away from the justice her attack deserved. Slowly, as Emmy started to recover, she started to accept all the good in her new life... Until the day her phone rang and her world, all those secrets, came crashing down around her. Terrible things she left behind suddenly reappeared, and her scars were ripped open. Emmy wasn't sure she could survive the pain, again, and she had to let Nathaniel go to protect him from the hell of her past... But Nathaniel wasn't walking away.
Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Boston College.
TURNED Waking up dead sucks. Cracking her eyes open as one of the undead for the first time in the cellars of Castle Pietra, Sara immediately meets her guardian-well, werewolf. She witnesses him halt her summary execution and then save her life with his blood. His sweet, delicious, magical-laced blood. Slowly, through his tutelage and the kindness of his family, she starts to get used to being a vampire. It's not the best un-life, but at least she can make sure her little brother Keelan is safe and cared for. But all it took was one winter night. A night she was enjoying with her date, Marius, and trying to live just a little bit of the life she lost when everything changed. She, Marius and Michael are pulled into a world that was darker, more cruel, and bigger than they ever suspected. And Keelan was their captive.--------HURRICANE SKY Gavin always watched the pretty redhead as she shopped in the store. After a rude encounter with another customer, he finally screwed up the courage to ask her out. The first date turned out to be a disaster, and she was all in for the second. But Bernadette is an Iraqi Vet who is still fighting--only now, it's for her health. The bad days are getting more frequent now, and she keeps trying to push Gavin away. Gavin isn't going. He's in this for good, for her, for them together-she had become so much more than the pretty redhead in the store. The end of summer promises a dangerous and deadly hurricane at the shore, and nothing can stop its collision with the storm in Bernadette and Gavin's lives.
Five friends.One Summer.Everything changes.We wanted to celebrate the end of college. The end of all the hard work, the beginning of our new lives. Brandy had the perfect place: Alaska.Jess There were problems with the house, the wildlife, the land. The only thing that wasn't a problem was the neighbor: Garrett Pauler. We hired him to fix the house, and he did way more than that. There was something in the woods though. Something that didn't want us there, something that would go to any lengths to get rid of us. But it shared the woods with something-- someone determined to keep us safe. GarrettThe old Yeil place was a disaster, but I wasn't above the challenge. The challenge lay in the gorgeous woman who was waiting for me there. Jess Smythe. My mate. As human as they came, she was everything I dreamed and wanted in my life. I just didn't expect to show her my wolf before I convinced her we were meant to be. But there was something in the woods that would go to any lengths to get rid of the women, and of me and my pack. And it would force me to make decisions that would change the course of my mate's life...**Content Warning: This books contains adult language and situations. It is intended for audiences 18+ ONLY*
One million-dollar horse. One family farm. One Jersey Girl with an attitude. One recipe for complete disaster. Well, if anyone had asked RJ Miller, anyway. To make matters worse, he started the whole deal firmly planted on the wrong foot--and Lucy da Silva made sure he knew it. Visiting the Double Down Ranch outside Austin, Lucy is there with her sister to purchase a stock of breeding horses for her family back in New Jersey. She knows her horses. She knows her farms. She knows her mind--and she knows she doesn't like RJ Miller. Despite the rocky start, RJ finds himself falling for the high-spirited woman. It seems like there's nothing she can't do: ride, rope, clean, cook, and dance. Lucy can't seem to stay away from RJ either, and they find themselves riding more than horses. If only life were simple: find the girl, fall in love, happily ever after. But with people plotting to get their hands on Double Down's beautiful thoroughbred, King's Dominion, Lucy has to admit a truth she hid years ago to save RJ's sister and her own life...
Hollywood can seem like a tricky beast, but the more you know about its wily ways, the less intimidating it is, and the more fun its wild nature will be. "Thriving in Hollywood!" is a compilation of 25 pieces written by 21 different women in the entertainment industry from the first year of msinthebiz.com. Whether you are brand new to the business or an industry veteran, "Thriving in Hollywood!" will keep you motivated, inspired and arm you with knowledge.
Cruel. Criminal. Cunning. The bestselling VAMPIRE CROWN series continues with Death of Gods. Twisted characters and unfolding schemes fill this next installment with unbeatable darkness. Life is war. The Spine
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