Elise Davenport was not having a good night. Just the day before she put her whole career on the line thanks to a few glasses of champagne. Loose lips can sink ships, and they can obliterate your social status. So here she was, stumbling through Fairhaven Park in pitch blackness, looking for the cabin she rented. She'd just hung up the phone with her agent when she heard the rumbling growl come from beside her. Not a good night at all... Dietrich Best was trying to play it cool. The young lady now sitting next to his Gram looked him up and down, her eyes stopping on his washboard abs. But soon they made their way up, locking with his. She knew. Somehow she knew... This 11,000+ word Novella contains handsome bachelor Bear Shifter hotness,
Lila lay on her bed staring at the ceiling thinking over the events of the evening. The more she recalled, the more she was mortified for acting like a love sick, slobbering idiot in front of not only the most beautiful man she’d ever met, but he was her best friends cousin of all things! Lila groaned, burying her head into her pillow. She tried to console herself by thinking she would never see him again. She could avoid him by simply not going back there. It wouldn’t be too difficult to do. She would never have the guts to venture to a club like that on her own. This is exactly the reason that Rachael had taken her there. Lila was trying to convince herself he was charming to all the ladies. He worked at a night club. Of course he would
It was on July 22, 1975, I can remember it as vividly as if it was yesterday. I was having lunch with my 2-year-old goddaughter, Tiare, and suddenly a fire broke out in our apartment. We tried to find a way out but the fire escape had already collapsed. I went to the balcony and found a crowd of people, pedestrians, firemen, policemen and even photographers. Everyone was hustling to help us but it was nearly impossible to reach us on the upper floor. Eventually a firefighter came to rescue us. As they were placing a ladder, the balcony suddenly fell. I grabbed the firefighter’s legs as he held onto the ladder. In a glimpse of an eye I found myself mid-air with nothing to do but pray that my daughter would be fine as she we were just inches apart. This is my story, I am Diana Bryant. I’ve heard plenty of conversations about the pictures that were taken of me in this
I arrived on scene at about 0025 hours. I made contact with Deputy Williams and he advised the female who was reported to have left was in the residence and she had a severe injury to her face.
For the most part, Representative Accardo, what your Nightingale colleagues have brought me is an actual relic that once belonged to my family,” Hannelore Elvira Bauer, otherwise known best as Germania, informed Action Andy of her findings regarding the artifact the Nightingales had found during the morning hours of the 31st of May.
Even her old friends are not even cordial with her because of an incident that happened at a party.“Her eyes meet mine for a second.”I hate you,” she mouths silently. She turns her back and laughs with her friends” (5). Despite all the negativity that is going on with her old friends, Melinda finally finds a friend that makes her feel like she belongs again but once again, another friendship dies right along with Melinda’s hope of feeling normal again. “You don’t like anything. You are the most depressed person I ever met, and excuse me for saying this, but you are no fun to be around and you need professional help. (105). After the only friends that she has breaks her heart, the thought that Melinda is alone in this world finally hits her and she just wants to curl up in a ball. Melinda’s depression takes over her social skills and she just shuts down.
Phil Jackson once wrote, “Good teams become a great one when the members trust each other enough to surrender the ‘me’ in ‘we’.” In the story The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi, the theme of the novel is “Trust is Best”.
In the book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AVI, a beautiful, wealthy, young girl named Charlotte Doyle climbed aboard a ship called the Seahawk. The ship was dark and dirty, the two worst D words. She had to stay on the ship for six months while she was on her way back to America. You will be amazed and intrigued with the adventures she encounters.
In the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, the protagonist, Charlotte, is now a responsible and cooperative young woman because she is more open to the crew, she is willing to do work, and she disrespects the abusive captain. Charlotte is more open to the crew because of this line in the book "I mingled more often with them on the deck" (Avi 65). While earlier in the book she said, "They were like men recruited from the doormat of Hell." (Avi, 26). This means that Charlotte got over there looks and decided to get to know them.
Livvy is invited to an A-list writers conference that she is not excited to go to. The only reason she decides to accept the invitation is so she will get lots of attention and praise from the writer wannabes while she writes her new novel. In addition, she just bought a new red Audi convertible with all her money from her earlier novel. On the road to the writer’s conference Livvy hits a detour. The detour takes her onto a county road where she is distracted by a nasty looking
In the book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi, the main character, Charlotte Doyle, can’t decide who to trust on the ship, Captain Jaggery or Zachariah. Zachariah is a black crew member that told Charlotte that Captain Jaggery is a horrible person and that Jaggery did terrible things in his past. He also gave her a dirk, which is a dagger-like blade, because he said that she needs to protect herself from some things on the ship. He told Charlotte that Jaggery cut a person’s arm off just because he made the smallest mistake. Charlotte kind of believes it, but she doesn’t want to believe it because she thinks that Jaggery is a gentleman.
Willow Davenport and her family have always loved the wild west. They love it so much, they sing and dance in their own Western themed show. Always on the hunt to expand their holdings, they are elated when the ranch next door goes on sale. They jump on the chance to buy it.
The strangest things happened to Cassie St. Clair. Wherever she went, things weren't quite normal. When she was four years old, the building where she attended day care vanished in the middle of the night. The day it disappeared was the same day that the other children made fun of her for believing that cats could talk. They made fun of her so much that it made her cry, and wish she would never have to go back to that awful place. As if by a stroke of luck, she never had to return. The disappearance of the day care center was the first strange incident to happen around her, and if it had been the last then she might not seem so strange. But the strange events followed her and her mother when they moved to Los Angeles a few months later.
“We’ll see you soon sweetheart,” said Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower. Little did they know that they would never see their precious daughter ever again.
Her name is Cindy, Samantha Rose, I see her every week at the hospital I volunteer at. I walk past her on my way to the cafeteria, four times a week when I work as a chef. Cindy sits at the end of the waiting room in a corner by herself, people feel afraid of her, her dark clothes and spiked boots scare other people in the waiting room. When I look at her, all I see is a sweet little girl that's hiding from the cruelty this world holds. A couple of days ago I heard some nurses gossiping about her. I eavesdropped on them--the only humane thing to do. The nurses were talking about Cindy’s medical history. They spoke softly, trying to keep her files confidential. From then on I now know that since the age of thirteen Cindy has been fighting against depression and anorexia.
When Elle sees that two girls are crudely and bluntly rejecting her sweet friend David Kidney, she ingeniously decides that the smartest thing for her to do is to walk up to David and slap him. Confused and stunned, David apologizes for an imagined wrong, and Elle pretends to have been a scorned ex-lover who had spent a night of unimaginable bliss with David before he supposedly disappeared on her. She storms away and giggles lightly after getting out of earshot of the two girls, and one of them turns to David and asks, “So… what are you doing tonight?” By acting as if David had left her, Elle relied on her appearance as a beautiful woman to make the other women believe that David was a man to be reckoned with. Elle’s act was based on the assumption that the other girls would see her as a desirable woman and therefore lend credence to the fact that David is an even more desirable person. Therefore, Elle’s physical appearance, coupled with her verbal rampage, communicates to the two bullies that David is actually a suave casanova who tosses aside beautiful girls every day.