Afterburn
Title | Afterburn PDF eBook |
Author | Zane |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2005-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0743493982 |
Finding love isn't easy and keeping love is even harder—especially when everyone seems bent on trying to destroy it. When Washington, D.C., chiropractor Yardley Brown goes to his local bank, it isn't only to make deposits into his account. He has long since accrued some interest in Rayne Waters, a bank employee who's too beautiful to be true—and too beautiful to be single. At least that's what Yardley believes, which is why he has never approached her. Little does he know that Rayne is anything but taken. Not for want of trying, of course. But after barely surviving a dating disaster with her hairdresser's brother and then falling for a member of her church band, she's on the verge of giving up. That is, until Yardley—discouraged by his own slew of dead-end romances—finally works up the courage to give her a try. But the true craziness is just beginning, thanks to a cast of characters who seem bent on botching the young couple's relationship. There's Rayne's erratic mother, Yardley's playboy buddies, always trolling for sex, and past lovers who make a habit of popping up to ruin things as only old flames (or previous mistakes) can. Weaving the carnal and the comical in true Zane fashion, Rayne and Yardley's struggle to find love in a world gone mad is a timeless talk about everything that can go wrong in the dating game—and a few things that can go right.
Afterburn
Title | Afterburn PDF eBook |
Author | Biba Pearce |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781685331290 |
When missing heiress Natalia Cruz's body is found in the Everglades, journalist Kenzie Gilmore is assigned the case. The victim's husband begs her to uncover the truth about who killed his wife. Is she the fourth victim of a sexual predator stalking women in Miami, or is her killer trying to make it look like she is?Ex-cop Reid Garrett doesn't appreciate bodies turning up in his backyard. The Everglades is his turf. Four women in as many months. Determined to track down whoever is responsible, he reluctantly joins forces with Kenzie, a reporter with ties to the victim's famous musician husband.As they get closer to the truth, a shocking revelation turns everything on its head. Can Kenzie and Reid track down the killer before he claims another victim?
Afterburn
Title | Afterburn PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Harrison |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2001-11-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0312978707 |
With his family in danger of dying out--the son is dead, the daughter is infertile and the wife is on the verge of Alzheimer's--a millionaire searches for a woman who will give him an heir. In this way, high-flying businessman Charlie Ravich meets Christina, a gangster.
Afterburn
Title | Afterburn PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Heinberg |
Publisher | New Society Publishers |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1550925849 |
Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon future Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a "civilization reboot" on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Afterburn consists of 15 essays exploring various aspects of the 21st century migration away from fossil fuels including: Short-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adapt The origin of longer-term trends (such as consumerism), that have created a way of life that seems "normal" to most Americans, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable Potential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge. From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies, to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, Afterburn offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands. AWARDS FINALIST | 2015 Foreword INDIES: Essays
AfterBurn
Title | AfterBurn PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Gilmore |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780826333995 |
Stories of the counterculture event that brings together thousands each year for a weeklong spasm of self-expression in the Nevada desert.
Afterburn
Title | Afterburn PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Harrison |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2007-04-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429922834 |
A high-voltage international thriller about a millionaire businessman catapulted into a world of criminal intrigue, sexual obsession, extortion, and death. Charlie Ravich is a survivor whose brutal experience as a POW in Vietnam has more than prepared him for the cutthroat world of global commerce. Now a wealthy Upper East Side executive in his late fifties, Charlie has only one problem: his family is dying out. His wife teeters on the edge of Alzheimer's; their son has succumbed to leukemia; and their daughter, Julia, is unable to bear a child. Charlie is being trumped by time. Enter Christina, a beguiling Columbia University dropout-intelligent, selectively dishonest, filled with desire. Her affair with Rick Bocca, a member of a big-time truck-theft ring run by mobster Tony V., has landed her in prison. After four years in Bedford Hills, she is suddenly released by the Manhattan D.A.'s office-perhaps because she is innocent, perhaps not. Warned by a detective that Christina is being set up by Tony V., Rick begins a desperate, bungled search to warn Christina, who has lied her way into the high-flying world of Charlie Ravich. But her past catches up with her, and Rick's catches up with him, setting off a harrowing chain of betrayals that leaves only one person with any hope of a future. At once smart, sexy, and graphically violent, Afterburn spans the mean streets of New York's underworld and Hong Kong's corridors of high finance, and stands as Colin Harrison's most commercial work yet
Aftershock
Title | Aftershock PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Day |
Publisher | HarperCollins Australia |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 2014-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1743643624 |
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sylvia Day, America's premier author of provocative fiction delivers the dramatic finale to a series set within the inner circle of glamour, sex and privilege. Now an original movie from PassionFlix. When it came to playing games, my lover Jax was a master strategist. He pulled strings behind the closed doors of D.C.'s most powerful political players, and somehow still found time to nearly sideline my career. What he didn't know was that when I didn't like the rules, I threw them out and made my own. I wasn't going to let Jax get away with it. I wasn't going to let him get away at all. I loved Jax enough that it was impossible to give up. Jax loved me enough that giving up was the only end he'd consider. He didn't think I could swim with the sharks. It was entirely my pleasure to show him that I'd already dived in...