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Schifflebein's Folly by IrisChacon2
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Winner of 2016 PROJECTWD Award, Paranormal category, on Wattpad. A hunky carpenter plans to adopt six kids -- IF he can convince authorities that he is not crazy. He isn't. His teapot really DOES talk! This is a funny way to build a family!
Welcome to St. FEEEPS by IrisChacon2
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The transcript of a typical quarterly meeting of parents, students, and teachers of the fictional Saint Francis Evangelical Ecumenical Economical Parochial School. If you or a member of your family ever attended a parochial school, or if you were a pastor, administrator, or teacher at a church-sponsored private school, you will appreciate the trials and tribulations that are daily routine at St. FEEEPS.
LOU'S TATTOOS by IrisChacon2
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2017 Red Ribbon winner, The Wishing Shelf international book awards (Adult-Fiction). A tattoo artist is pursued by the man of her dreams, but her biker-gang friends mistake him for a hit man out to get her. It's 1995, and Galen Randall, the world's greatest nature photographer, is a recluse who, ironically, has never been photographed. Lourdes O'Malley idolizes the faceless Galen Randall and dreams of taking pictures like he does someday. Meanwhile, she works in her pop's tattoo parlor in Miami. Buddy the Blade is a hitman who claims he was in Las Vegas at the time a certain murder went down in Miami. Only Lou O'Malley knows that Buddy was in her chair, getting inked, that day. His alibi is blown if she ever testifies against him. Buddy needs to silence Lou. Lou is beloved by hundreds of motorcycle gang members, who wear her inked art proudly. So, when the bikers hear that Buddy the Blade wants to get rid of Lou, the gangs rally to protect her. Then, by chance (if you believe in "chance"), Randall meets Lou. He is smitten. He follows her when she takes a trip Out West to photograph the national parks there. Neither Lou nor her biker friends know who Randall is and, as it happens, her friends will only recognize Buddy the Blade if they can see the ornate tattoo Lou inked on his back. As a result, Randall is searching for Lou all over Moab, Utah, while motorcycle goons follow Randall, thinking he is Buddy the Blade. Other motorcycle thugs follow Lou, thinking to keep her safe. The bikers try scaring Randall, misdirecting Randall, ambushing Randall, having him arrested on trumped up charges, anything to keep him from finding Lou. The bikers following Lou try many gambits to keep her from seeing them, but Lou outsmarts them again and again. It's a muddle of murder, motorcyclists, and mistaken identities, culminating in a life-and-death contest between Galen Randall and Buddy the Blade, with Lou O'Malley's life as the prize.
Sylvie's Cowboy: Cinderella In Reverse by IrisChacon2
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When her wealthy father dies, Sylvie Pace's surprise inheritance is only the clothes she can fit into her (using the word loosely) "car" and a remote Florida ranch she shares with Walt McGurk, cowboy. (Based on the author's feature film screenplay, which won Honorable Mention, 2001 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, Television/Movie Scripts, out of 19,500 entries.) These opposites do not attract. She's Palm Beach, he's Podunk Holler. She's haute couture, he's old jeans, sweaty tee-shirts, and stinky boots. She's Italian sports cars, he's American-made pickup trucks. She's determined to find a way back to her old way of life, he's only trying to make a living. He calls her The Pouty Princess. She has labeled him The Abominable Cowboy. He says she's unemployed, she says she's "at leisure." He's dating the owner of Clarice's Beauty World in Clewiston. She's dating a real-estate tycoon with homes in Miami and Palm Beach. She's pretty, okay, but that can't make up for all the aggravation she causes poor Walt. She knows her way around high society, sure, but around a real house without servants or a concierge, she doesn't know how to do anything. Some of her mistakes around the house-especially the ones involving electricity-nearly kill him. The worst thing for Walt about the death of Sylvie's father? Harry Pace isn't actually dead. He's moving in the shadows of his former business world, locating and retrieving assets stolen by his former partners. Walt's job? Keep Sylvie safely squirreled away, far from the nefarious activities of Harry and his unscrupulous associates, until Harry can exact his revenge. Things get really interesting the day EVERYBODY shows up at the Palm Beach Polo Club.
Mudsills & Mooncussers (#multimedia) by IrisChacon2
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Historical Fiction Finalist:The 2016 Awards from AwardsForStories. In 1863 on the tiny island of Key West, Yankee spy Aaron Matthews must find and eliminate a deadly Rebel saboteur whom he fears just may be the woman he loves.
Finding Miranda by IrisChacon2
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2018 Favorite Covers award (Prismatic Prospects.com), 2018 Favorite Reads award (Prismatic Prospects.com), 2018 Readers' Favorite International Book Award winner (Audiobook-Fiction). Winner 2017 LibraryJournal Indie Ebook Award for Mystery. Finalist: The 2016 Wishing Shelf Book Awards (Fiction). In a small, rural Florida town, a popular local radio host notices the new librarian -- which is strange since she is virtually invisible to everyone else, and he is totally blind. Deejay Shepard Krausse has made enemies with his conspiracy-theories talk show. Too bad the innocent librarian, Miranda, is about to become a target-by-association. Can Shep and his dog, Dave, keep Miranda safe when hired killers set out to eliminate all three of them, even if it means tracking them through a Florida swamp at midnight?
Breathe by bringmemybed
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"What the hell should I do next?" "Don't stop to breathe." Marina Coburn has been labelled by many names; the popular girl, the jocks girlfriend, the chick with a perfect life, the spoiled brat.. the list goes on and on. However a new name for Marina has sprung out during her summer holiday on a yacht with her family: the girl that's still breathing..and the girl that should've died with the rest of her family in that fatal evening. Senior year comes by and Marina tries to pull her little show together. Marina tries so hard to act as nothing ever happened. How her parents and her little brother hadn't died, how she has this knowing feeling that their death wasn't an accident, how her entire life has been a deception and she's the dummy.. until she met him, Chet Ford. Living completely different lives, fate made them clash into one another. Fate might also have a wicked sense of humor in stall. Their lives might not be completely different after all. This is a story of how Marina survives the flaws and the strings of lies from being a Coburn, and also the struggle of being a teenager in high school. - All of the contents in Breathe is from my brain only and the content in it is all fiction.
MVF's book of  poems by marissavfosterr
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Here's a book of poetry, filled with some of my best work yet! 💘
Getting Over Matt by tessalovatt
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Isobel's world is turned upside down when she meets a mysterious guy who reveals a devastating secret about her boyfriend. *** Isobel and Matt had been best friends for most of their school life when they decided to start dating. Comfortable around each other and knowing everything there was to know, a relationship seemed like a natural--and exciting--step for them. But with the novelty starting to wear off, Isobel struggles to accept that her loving boyfriend has changed, only remembering years of good memories with the guy she could talk to about anything. When Nathan arrives on the scene and secrets from the past become exposed, Isobel's world is set to change. Mysterious, dangerous and infuriatingly persistent, Nathan is the opposite of everything she's known. But maybe that's just what she needs to get over Matt. 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿: ❌ I do not use generative AI to write my books. ❌ I do not consent to my books being used to train AI models. ❌ I do not consent to my books being used to create AI-generated content.
Getting Through Italy by tessalovatt
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Isobel encounters many challenges when she moves to Italy, but managing a long-distance relationship is the biggest one. *** Italy: home of pizza, pasta and prosecco. It will also be Isobel's home for the next year as she embarks on her Erasmus placement in Bologna. However, she soon discovers that life in Italy isn't just about enjoying the local cuisine. Language barriers, culture shocks and an unfamiliar city are just some of the obstacles she'll have to contend with during her time there. Then there's the added challenge of a long-distance relationship. Living 1000 miles away from each other, Nathan and Isobel find their chemistry more explosive than ever when together, but struggle to maintain the same level of emotional intimacy when apart. With the help of her flatmate, Isobel creates a list of ideas to prevent the distance from having an impact on her relationship. From romantic love letters to racy Skype sessions, Isobel hopes that her list will contain everything she needs to help her--and Nathan--get through Italy. [Book 3 in the GOM series] 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿: ❌ I do not use generative AI to write my books. ❌ I do not consent to my books being used to train AI models. ❌ I do not consent to my books being used to create AI-generated content.