Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476795622
Size: 49.36 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Orange Is the New Black meets Jennifer Probst’s New York Times bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy, featuring a strong-minded prison tutor who discovers that her sexy bad-boy student is far more than he appears to be. Haunted by nightmares of her father’s street murder fifteen years ago, Kat Lane decides to face her fears and uphold his legacy of helping others by teaching inmates at a New York prison. There she meets arrogant Wesley Carter, who’s as handsome as he is dangerous, as mysterious as he is quick-witted, and with a reputation that ensures people will keep their distance. As teacher and student, Kat and Carter are forced to leave their animosities at the door and learn that one should never judge a book by its cover. As Carter’s barriers begin to crumble, Kat realizes there’s much more to her angry student than she thought, leaving them to face a new, perilous obstacle: their undeniable attraction to one another. When Carter is released and Kat continues to tutor him on the outside, the obstacles mount. Can they fight the odds to make their relationship work? Will Kat’s family and friends ever accept her being with someone of his background? And will Kat’s discovery of Carter’s role on the night her father died force them apart forever...or unite them?

Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE
ISBN: 3736300239
Size: 27.77 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 544
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Die Fanfiction-Sensation aus Großbritannien, die Millionen von Lesern begeisterte! Seit Kat Lane ihren Vater durch einen brutalen Raubüberfall verlor, wird sie von Panikattacken geplagt. Trotzdem versucht sie an das Gute im Menschen zu glauben und nimmt einen Job als Literaturdozentin in einem New Yorker Gefängnis an. Sie weiß, dass dies ihre Chance ist, sich ihren Ängsten endlich zu stellen, - aber auch, dass sie sich in große Gefahr begibt. Denn Straftäter Wesley Carter ist genauso gutaussehend wie bedrohlich. Er übt eine magische Anziehungskraft auf Kat aus, die nicht ahnt, dass sie die Dämonen ihrer Vergangenheit mit jedem Moment, den sie mit Carter verbringt, unaufhaltsam zurück in ihr Leben lässt ... "Sophie Jackson beweist mit diesem Roman, dass für die Liebe absolut nichts unmöglich ist! Unbedingte Leseempfehlung!" Romantic Times

Author: Kenneth Butler
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1645301656
Size: 32.45 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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A Pound of Flesh By: Kenneth Butler Thirty-three-year-old poet Paxton Graham is recovering in a Boston hospital from injuries sustained when a bomb detonates in a local restaurant. FBI agents inform him that the attack was the work of an animal rights group, and the chief conspirator is none other than his wife, Erika. Paxton’s big problem with this information? Erika’s been dead for six years, a result of an accident caused by Paxton’s drunk driving. Paxton refuses to believe the agents’ claim and after losing his job, apartment, and pet hamster all in the same afternoon, accepts a business offer to manage a store in a small town on the New England coast. Here he encounters Hayley, an eighteen-year-old poetry freak, who he allows to complicate his already unmanaged life. A public sex scandal ensues, transforming Paxton into a local pariah while he uncovers more evidence that Erika may in fact be alive. He finds himself involved in a clandestine transaction involving Grigori Rasputin’s preserved penis that takes him and Hayley through the wilds of Maine to a late sexologist’s laboratory/museum. A Pound of Flesh will both entertain readers and lead many to reconsider some of their assumptions. It speaks to the lack of a standard notion of ethical behavior and the lengths to which people—especially the wealthy and politically passionate—will go to preserve the appearance of virtue. In the end though, Paxton’s journey challenges and inspires hope for redemption for even the most downtrodden among us.

Author: Art Linson
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135513
Size: 16.30 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The author, a Hollywood producer, describes how movies are made, sharing his experiences working with Robert De Niro, Brian De Palma, Sean Penn, and Sean Connery

Author: Susan Wright
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451462152
Size: 55.63 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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WRIGHT/POUND OF FLESH

Author: Alexes Harris
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448553
Size: 73.96 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Over seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their criminal records often following them for life and affecting access to higher education, jobs, and housing. Court-ordered monetary sanctions that compel criminal defendants to pay fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution further inhibit their ability to reenter society. In A Pound of Flesh, sociologist Alexes Harris analyzes the rise of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system and shows how they permanently penalize and marginalize the poor. She exposes the damaging effects of a little-understood component of criminal sentencing and shows how it further perpetuates racial and economic inequality. Harris draws from extensive sentencing data, legal documents, observations of court hearings, and interviews with defendants, judges, prosecutors, and other court officials. She documents how low-income defendants are affected by monetary sanctions, which include fees for public defenders and a variety of processing charges. Until these debts are paid in full, individuals remain under judicial supervision, subject to court summons, warrants, and jail stays. As a result of interest and surcharges that accumulate on unpaid financial penalties, these monetary sanctions often become insurmountable legal debts which many offenders carry for the remainder of their lives. Harris finds that such fiscal sentences, which are imposed disproportionately on low-income minorities, help create a permanent economic underclass and deepen social stratification. A Pound of Flesh delves into the court practices of five counties in Washington State to illustrate the ways in which subjective sentencing shapes the practice of monetary sanctions. Judges and court clerks hold a considerable degree of discretion in the sentencing and monitoring of monetary sanctions and rely on individual values—such as personal responsibility, meritocracy, and paternalism—to determine how much and when offenders should pay. Harris shows that monetary sanctions are imposed at different rates across jurisdictions, with little or no state government oversight. Local officials’ reliance on their own values and beliefs can also push offenders further into debt—for example, when judges charge defendants who lack the means to pay their fines with contempt of court and penalize them with additional fines or jail time. A Pound of Flesh provides a timely examination of how monetary sanctions permanently bind poor offenders to the judicial system. Harris concludes that in letting monetary sanctions go unchecked, we have created a two-tiered legal system that imposes additional burdens on already-marginalized groups.

Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476795592
Size: 79.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Committed to fulfilling her murdered father's dying wish to help those in need, Kat becomes a prison tutor and develops a strong attraction to her dangerously sexy student, but his role on the night her father died may force them apart forever.

Author: Stephen K.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491883588
Size: 77.21 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Initially set in post Gulf War Iraq, A Pound of Flesh tells the tale of a middle class family and their struggle to leave Iraq for the freedom of the West. Drawing upon real life events, the family: Karim (father), Zaffer (son) and Sami (daughter) eventually escape with Karim's concubine Qozay. The family end up in Manchester and struggle as asylum seeking foreigners in trying to adjust and make a new life in the UK. Zaffer and Sami are gifted students who enrol in medical school and sixth form college respectively. Karim and Qozay now together in a new and free society eventually get married, finally laying the memories of Karim's missing wife to rest. Eventually Karim with the aid of his cousin Ali who is already in the UK is presented with an opportunity to buy a takeaway business: The Chippy which is located in the heart of Moss Side. Although initially proud to be business owners, the daily grind sets in and they discover that the business is not without it's problems. They are tormented by a gang of drug dealing youths whose actions are progressively getting worse. Karim and Qozay lament about the irony that they have everything they wished for whilst in Iraq but are still not happy. Karim is forced to close The Chippy after a serious assault and while off ill and depressed, a twist of fate resurrects a perverse plan that Karim has harboured to alleviate his suffering. Getting his son and cousin on side, the trio put Karim's plan into action to combat their tormentors. Karim's miscreant solution to his problems eventually backfires in a twisted and unexpected fashion.

Author: Robert Sims
Publisher: Publish Green
ISBN: 1936400006
Size: 51.65 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Sister Kate, an ex-nun, is the owner of Holy Spirits, a run-down bar in Key West where two retired Michigan lawmen hang out in "A Pound of Flesh." Their worlds change drastically when a twisted wild man from the cops' past breaks out of prison and heads south bent on absolute revenge! Suntans and boat drinks will have to wait while the nightmare from another time litters the emerald waters with bodies as his calling card to lure them out. Ricochet across the islands with the crew of Holy Spirits to a finish that is out of control!

Author: Sophie Jackson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472224760
Size: 58.77 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Fate and Forever is the fourth title in the A Pound of Flesh series from fan-fiction superstar Sophie Jackson. Fans of Samantha Young, Jodi Ellen Malpas, Jamie McGuire, Katy Evans and Prison Break will find Sophie Jackson's powerful love stories utterly addictive and unforgettable. Tutor and prison student - their love was forbidden but their attraction was impossible to deny. And now Kat Lane is excitedly planning her wedding to the brooding, dangerously tempting love of her life, Wes Carter. Kat and Carter couldn't be happier to be man and wife and start their life together - but it's not long before they realise married life isn't all plain-sailing. Everywhere they turn, couples are becoming parents, and the longing in Kat's eyes worries Carter. After his rough childhood, he's not so sure he has what it takes to be a good parent. But fate has brought Kat and Carter together - can their love survive forever? Loyalty, redemption and all-consuming love against the odds. Check out the whole A Pound of Flesh series: A Pound of Flesh, Love and Always, An Ounce of Hope, Fate and Forever and A Measure of Love.