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41) Makin' My Way
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Life is tough for a young overweight punching bag.
Portland Oregon in the sixties was an exciting place for those who had good self-esteem and confidence, all of which John lacked. Moving into the inner city from the suburbs didn't help any and neither did the bullies, or the gang that ruled the neighborhood. But the bullies weren't the worst of it. No, the fact that the prettiest girl in the sixth grade would rather die than be caught in his presence...
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Sherrie Davis knows what it is to live in pain and fear. For her heartache and fear was a part of her young life. Born to a mother who sold and used drugs and a father who was a career criminal, Sherrie's life was marred by a series of unknowns and the harsh reality of life in the inner city.
By the time she was a teenager, she found herself living on the streets, but even that wasn't the most difficult chapter of her troubled life. Soon, she...
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You're stupid. Ugly. Too short, tall, skinny, fat, dark, light, slow. You'll never amount to much. You don't measure up. You're not good enough. I don't want you. You're a failure. A punching bag. Damaged goods. Pervert. Unholy. Bad.
Ouch! There are as many labels as there are abusive parents, schoolyard bullies, mean girls, and self-righteous preachers to slap them on you.
The two most important labels in your life are how you label yourself, and...
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Antonia Taylor had been living in hell since day one. At the tender age of six, she lost both of her parents and was forced to move in with her aunt from hell, along with her aunt's four other children. Antonia is a senior in high school, attending Miami Northwestern. While the other students may be coming to school, sporting new clothes and new shoes, Antonia is always sporting new bruises on her body because at home, she is her aunt's punching bag,...
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First, comes love, then lies, and then heartbreak. Well, at least that's the case with the couples in these captivating short-stories in this collection of love gone wrong. It seems like some people say, "I love you" and don't mean it and loyalty to their partner isn't their strongest character trait. How would you feel if you were Davon and you found out a child you have raised for the last ten years wasn't yours? How about if you were in Regina's...
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Would you like to stop being the narcissist's punching bag and regain the respect that you deserve? Do you tend to attract abusive people that take advantage of you? Are you left conflicted and confused after the relationship falls apart? It's a fact that the narcissist in your life doesn't care about you. To the narcissist, you are nothing more than a source of attention, admiration, and praise. They need you to supply these things so that they can...
47) ECHO Academy
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A Prince Of No Value
On planet Umbra, Thorne is known as the weak prince, extra brother and human-shaped punching bag for his father, Cole, Emperor of the Omniverse. Thorne never expected to find his transcendent soul mate. But when the prince connects with Meimi Archer, the human girl becomes Thorne's transcendent and his world...
...until Cole decides to abduct her.
Now the prince of no value will do anything to protect what's most precious. Meimi.
A...
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Zoey is not the stereotypical emo skateboard type but a cute, busty woman who rocks inline skates. She's trying to further her journalism apprenticeship but has hit a bit of a lull. This, combined with a mundane routine and struggling to find any women her type, forces her decision to try something new and hire a personal trainer.
Alexa is outrageously proud and gay. A tomboy who loves breaking a sweat on the punch bag at the gym, where she works,...
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Antonia Taylor had been living in hell since day one. At the tender age of six, she lost both of her parents and was forced to move in with her aunt from hell, along with her aunts four other children. Antonia is a senior in high school, attending Miami Northwestern. While the other students may be coming to school, sporting new clothes and new shoes, Antonia is always sporting new bruises on her body because at home, she is her aunts punching bag,...
50) Our Love Divine
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Toya Raylonn Vickers has created a piece that will keep you glued to the pages. Crystal is a woman who never should have made it to age 50. She carries a secret that even her family members do not understand and shunned her to stay away from them. Her daddy died when she was young, and her mother couldn't keep her liquor making Crystal her punching bag and a toilet for men twice her age when mama couldn't give them open legs like clockwork. The only...
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Hé, l'ami ! Ton arrivée au secondaire a été plus périlleuse qu'un saut en bungee sans élastique ? Tu es vite devenu le punching bag de certaines personnes, sans jamais leur avoir rien fait ? Si c'est le cas, ce guide est exactement ce qu'il te faut ! Tout y est : le dessin de l'intimidateur type, le matériel de survie nécessaire à une sortie scolaire, un test pour connaître ton degré de « nerditude » et quelques conseils pratiques pour...
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"Please don't pick me. I can't handle another master." Rose thought, pleading to herself as she looked down at the ground, her bottom lip started to quiver. "I think I'll take her." The world has been taken over by vampires. Humans have been enslaved and are now used as pets. Whether they are blood pets, maids, or just punching bags is all up to the vampires — their masters.
Rose, a thin 18 year-old girl, had seen her family killed by the vampires....
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Ryan Brownlee. Such a beautiful girl, but life was doing a number on her. She had been dealing with heartache pretty much since she graced the world with her presence seventeen years ago. At a young age, she's become familiar with watching her mother be her boyfriend's punching bag.
All Ryan wanted in life was for her mother to leave her abusive boyfriend, Malik, so the two of them could peacefully live their lives. Not only was she dealing with...
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Ted Tuscoma is a senior in high school and the smallest skinniest kid in school so everyone picks on and bullies him. One day Ted was exploring the attic in the house that his parents had just bought and came across a five book series about a six foot nine inch, three hundred and fifty pound barbarian named Kron.
When Teds reading the book he loses all track of time and space. It would feel like he was Kron walking through a world where he was not...
55) Playing Patience
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Life's been hard for Zeke. Being a punching bag for his alcoholic father has turned him into stone. Not even the dodgy trailer park he lives in can scare him. Fighting is his release and sex, drugs, and his guitar bring him peace, but deep down Zeke isn't quite as hard as he makes himself out to be. When he meets Patience, she finds all his broken pieces and puts him back together. She's a ray of light in his shadowed life and the last thing he wants...
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*contains sexual situations, strong language, violence, and depictions of abuse
This has all the hallmarks of CLASSIC AMERICANA: rural small town life, poverty, dark family problems, love, and friendship. author Paul Russell Parker III
An EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER. author Nikki Landis
Locklyn Gaines isn't her mother, but the residents of her small southeastern Kentucky town don't care. Her mother's secrets are Lock's shame, and every time her drunk...
57) Dream's Life
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A young mother will do anything to flee from her abusive and drug dealer boyfriend, but some other people are caught in the middle by this decision, which leads to a series of life-changing events.
Dream, a once-happy girl gets caught in an abusive and frustrating love life with her boyfriend, Cheez, a ruthless and top game player in the underworld. Dream realizes the life she had always dreamed of will never happen with Cheez, who treats her like...
58) Let America Live
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Dr. Stella Immanuel started treatingher patients with hydroxychloroquine and saw surprising success. To date, she says she hastreated more than seven thousand COVID patients with the drug, and only eight havepassed away. The rest recovered.
Yet Dr. Immanuel has been ripped in the media and even by the medical community, whosay the drug not only doesn't work but is harmful-the complete opposite of...
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"Trade allows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we don't. It lowers prices and gives us greater variety and innovation. Yet understanding our place in the global trade network is rarely so simple, and today's workers are wary of being taken advantage of. Trade has become an easy excuse for struggling economies, a scapegoat for our failures to adapt to a changing world, and--for many Americans on both the right and the left--nothing...
60) The Lost Diary
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Forrest England finds a little girl's diary, and his life is about to change. Shunning his wife and kids over and over again, Forrest delves into the life of an abused Andrea Deveaux. Fighting the yearning to protect the little girl is a losing battle, and his overwhelming longing to shield her, soon becomes an obsession. An obsession not only for the little girl in the diary, but also for the now grown woman who wrote that diary many years ago. Through...
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