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IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A NEW BEGINNING BUT ALL HE FOUND WAS THE WRECKAGE OF A BAD ENDING... Seven years had passed since the brutal war. Retired Marine, Shay Taylor Has found some form of peace with his wife Melissa Taylor, and their son Tommy. Their new home is secluded and quiet. It's meant to be a new beginning for them all but as the days pass, Shay unearths a darker side. Can Shay let go of the past in order for him to continue his life in peace? What is really going on? Now that is the question. Author Note: This book may not make sense to some readers but please note that this book is about a soldier who suffers with PTSD and is stuck between real life events to fiction life events.
Now famous, a former New York cop turned PI finds himself helpless as Broadway actors get murdered for no apparent reason. NYPD detectives are equally baffled until the private eye's stepdaughter teams up with a Broadway make-up artist to go underground to reveal a mobster's plan to corrupt Broadway unions and control the Great White Way.
*** 5-star Silver Medal winner in the 2014 Readers' Favorite Annual International Award Contest *** A Web photo of a dominatrix sends a man mired in midlife crisis on a last-ditch attempt to feel truly alive one more time, even if it kills him. "There are multiple ways to view success in life, and Kit's journey through sexuality is not about preservation of the body, but of the soul... A remarkable investigation of a man attempting to save himself from stagnation." - IndieReader "... a stylish piece of literary fiction... intellectually engaging throughout. A finely drawn portrait of desire in its fall and winter seasons."- BlueInk Review "...All in all, this is a delectable novel about a man exploring his unknown sexual fantasies at the price of possibly losing his true self along the way."- Red City Review Growing numb to life, to his on-and-off girlfriend of many years, his career, even Scotch, a man turns fifty. He is a translator who can no longer dream of translating beautiful works of fiction. He is an amateur musician who can no longer dream of expressing his life on a higher plane, without words. As he glares inside himself he sees little but his declining sexuality, his crumbling hold on life, a growing list of failed relationships, and a darkening well of loneliness. Stumbling upon an image on the Internet one night, he suddenly hears cell doors sliding open. He stares at a young woman, in profile, beautiful, unblinking, regal. Instinctively he knows that by lingering on that image he will shatter a relationship that has kept him on the sane side of loneliness as surely as if he stepped in front of a speeding eighteen-wheeler. But desperate to feel alive again before time runs out, he knows he must see the stranger behind the pixels on his laptop screen. Although it is her image that first transfixes him, his eye afterwards chances on a handful of words on the Internet page. She is a dominatrix. The word triggers something inside him, blows the dust off fantasies trickling back to adolescence, and slowly begins to re-choreograph his decades of sexual memories. Was he ever really the dominant male he thought he was? Did he have a sexual alter-ego? Was this the last card he had to play in life? The face on the screen held the answer. He would find out even if it killed him.
Bobby Fischer is not alone in creating antics away from the chess board. His understudies, the royal game's masters, players, fans, coaches, parents, tournament officials, and hangers-on, have created their own "tales from the wild side" escapades. This book chronicles those tales. Over the board chess experience takes a back seat to these anecdotes of human interest, human follies and quirky behavior. Lean back and enjoy this peek at human conduct on the sidelines of the chess universe.
A former New York cop turned PI can't get over the loss of the only woman he ever loved. The sacred memory is violated when the woman's daughter, the PI's only link to her, is mysteriously kidnapped as he investigates a seemingly unrelated network of bootlegging and stock market scams in the Roaring Twenties.
. 2017 Book Excellence Awards Finalist for Fiction . 2017 Winner 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading Kidnapped in France and brought to America as an indentured servant, a young woman takes on the brutal merchant king of New York's East River waterfront...
This book reflects the author's fifty years' experience in international construction projects and the management and resolution of disputes. During those fifty years, Wayne Clark's aim has always been to guide parties towards sensible and clear communication, nurturing relationships and seeking early solutions to their differences. His primary goal is to help parties avoid unnecessary conflict - a theme that is clearly evident throughout this book. While two chapters are devoted to preparing construction claims to persuade a tribunal - and in so doing persuade the other side to reach an amicable settlement - the book covers a much wider scope: from the building owner's dream through to the contractor handing over the completed project, wise contract administration, settlement negotiations, the third-party resolution process and, finally, arbitration. During each of these stages, the theme is for the parties to continually seek ways to resolve their differences. The book also introduces the idea of the 'shadow arbitrator', who, if commissioned early in the dispute process, can guide parties and legal counsel to prepare claims and arbitral pleadings that will persuade a tribunal - and encourage the parties to find sensible solutions.
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