Teenager Cassandra Economos loves five things: Her awesome friends. Her big fat, dysfunctional, Greek family. Rock music. Her plan to move to Chicago. And Kurt Cobain. Soon, she’ll gain another love. Sex. Stifled by her family’s rules, how will Cassie explore her sexuality?
Everything I know about sex I learned from health class diagrams and from reading erotica books I secretly borrowed.
Boys never paid attention to me in middle school. Then it happens. Keith Cook starts a conversation with me. We play Seven Minutes In Heaven, and somehow he’s my boyfriend. My sister tells me he isn’t a great one because he never calls, and he keeps pressuring me do things I’m not ready to do. After Kurt dies, I realize life is short and nothing’s stopping me from having sex with Keith. Except for one thing – he betrays my trust.
That same week, Todd Miller comforts me when I ditch class to mourn Kurt. Todd’s definitely an upgrade from Keith. He listens and can hold an intelligent conversation. He cares about my opinion. And he has a body all the girls drool over.
Our first kiss is mutual. The first time he touches me is mutual. When he pops my cherry, that’s mutual, too, even if I am jail bait. We said we’d wait until I turn 17, but we just couldn’t. We want to be together so badly it hurts. I never feel pressured with Todd. That’s how it’s supposed to be, isn’t it, when a guy cares about you?
Book one in The Rock Star’s Wife series, a series about sex, family, and rock & roll. It contains coarse language, sexual situations and adult themes, and is intended for mature audiences.
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What do a bubbly six year old, a Christian Scientist and a farmhouse boarder have in common? They were all brutally murdered by a person that society least expected.
In Heinous: Forgotten Murders From the 1910s, you’ll travel back to a violent decade – a time when “idiots and morons” were police departments’ first suspects, when journalists had the opportunity to conduct interrogations and when forensics was in its infancy. It also was a decade when crime of all varieties was surging, and experts blamed everything from immigration to lax parenting.
If fascinated by true crime history, you’ll enjoy these 17 tales of murder and mysterious deaths.
The people you’ll meet include Hans Schmidt, a priest who believed his crime was divinely inspired; Russell Pethrick, a 22-year-old grocery delivery boy who was caught based on a new technology – fingerprint analysis; Thomas Fitzgerald, a pedophile who enjoyed showing little girls “pretty” pictures of dead people; and Nathan Swartz, a murder suspect whose family experienced intense shame after he went on the lam.
Heinous: Forgotten Murders From the 1910s also includes a bonus case: What Happened to Dorothy Arnold? The socialite’s baffling disappearance made headlines for decades and remains unsolved to this day.
These stories made headlines more than a century ago and provide insight into how the media covered sensational crimes.
Find it: https://books2read.com/Heinous-Forgotten-Murders
Spanish flu pandemic tempers celebration
The war ends, prompting spontaneous and boisterous parties to erupt in cities throughout the United States and Canada.
Joy follows the deadliest month of the Spanish flu pandemic, an event that would kill more Americans and Canadians than the war.
Part five in the A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WW1 series. The series explores journalism history by examining how newspapers reported on the war, painting a picture of the war as our ancestors knew it.
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Victory and valor
The Battle of the Somme drags on in Europe, but the battle receives sparse coverage in Canada.
American voters go to the polls in a close election that pits Democrats against Republicans and Republicans against Democrats and Progressives. Suffragists seize the moment and hope to gain universal suffrage for women on all three parties’ planks.
Part three in the A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WW1 series. The series explores journalism history by examining how newspapers reported on the war, painting a picture of the war as our ancestors knew it.
Find it: https://books2read.com/1916
Victory at what cost?
Canadian troops endure a trial by fire at the Second Battle of Ypres. While the Canadians are ultimately successful – to the pride of their countrymen – the battle marks the first widespread use of chlorine gas.
Americans are rocked by the torpedoing of the Lusitania, an ocean liner that, like the Titanic, was thought to be unsinkable.
Part two in the A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WW1 series. The series explores journalism history by examining how newspapers reported on the war, painting a picture of the war as our ancestors knew it.
Find it: https://books2read.com/1915
The shot heard around the world!
Slavic nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Soon war clouds envelop Europe.
In Canada, the news is met with excitement and pride while in the United States, the government focuses on isolationism and neutrality.
Part one in the A Tale of Two Nations: Canada, U.S. and WW1 series. The series explores journalism history by examining how newspapers reported on the war, painting a picture of the war as our ancestors knew it.
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Considering starting a business? Unsure where to begin?
Starting your own business is one of the most empowering things you’ll ever do, especially if you’re a woman. It’s also one of the most challenging. Business ownership is fraught with pitfalls ̶ lack of planning, funding, marketing skills, dedication and passion.
Enterprising Women: A Practical Guide to Your First Business is a handbook highlighting the basics of launching a startup.
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#nonfictionbook #nonfictionreads #nonfictionbooks #advicebook #advicebooks The book trailer for Enterprising Women: Practical Advice for First Time Entrepreneurs
Melina Druga interviewed nearly 100 female entrepreneurs and asked them several career defining questions including the one people don’t talk about:Did you struggle when starting your business?
The businesswomen did not disappoint, speaking candidly about failure as well as success, self doubt and what the process of launching a business taught them.
In Enterprising Women: Practical Advice for First Time Entrepreneurs, you will read advice on:
• Women and business ownership
• Discovering what type of business to open
• The importance of business planning
• Marketing
• Support during difficult times
• Asking for help
• Taking care of yourself
You’ll also read about:
• What the process of starting a business taught the entrepreneurs
• Struggles the entrepreneurs faced
• The advice they give you as you begin your entrepreneurial journey
Find at: https://books2read.com/Practical-Advice
