Books with author Alana Parker

Tall, dark, and gorgeous with cobalt-blue eyes.It doesn’t hurt that he’s the billionaire owner of the resort we’re staying at.And all of it is just what I needed for my celebration weekend after graduating with my master’s. It’s our last girls’ weekend before my friends and I go our separate ways, and it’s going to happen with a bang. Literally. Hopefully. It would be a first. The desire was to keep things casual, but our connection is far too deep for that. Him being ex-military and me being an Army brat. The rules we each set up are shattered thanks to the raging passion between us. But eventually, I have to go home. What I never expected in a million years was that he might follow me. Enough swimming in the shallow end of the pool. We’re diving in deep.

All I’ve ever wanted to do was write good music and sing my heart out, but my father expects different from his eldest son. No matter how hard I try, I can't please him and be who I really am. But everything changed the night a hot little city girl showed up at our local bar. Her skirt was tight, and her heels were high, but she was classy—a business woman. A talent agent.I couldn’t help but notice the way she watched me as I stood on the stage, my guitar and a mic my only companions. What did she want from me? A long night of passion? The cold steel of the hood of my truck pressed to her back, and my warm hard body tucked against her front?I couldn’t tell for sure, but it didn’t matter. Outside of ranching and singing, I started to yearn for one thing... her. David Dawson is the oldest brother of the rowdy Dawson boys, and the one his father depends on most to help run the family ranch. Unfortunately, he’s far more interested in playing music than baling hay. He plays at the local bar and gets lucky one night. A beautiful talent agent happens to be passing through the city and she’s desperate to find talent. Lucky, lucky girl. In more ways than one. This is a stand-alone, full-sized novel in the Dawson Brothers’ series (8 books total). Each book focuses on a different brother/cousin. HEA is guaranteed, no cheating or violence.

I’m a country boy. We get messy for fun.The good times are over, though. Hard work, long days, and the heat of the sun have calloused my hands and my heart. My brother split, and my folks headed out for a trip, leaving me and my pup to manage the ranch. Between family coming to help, training the new guys, and dealing with a sexy little dog trainer my Pa hired, I’m going nuts. I need to focus on the crops for next year, but the only thing on my mind is her. She’s everything I want in my life, but love is complicated. Any man would love to have this loudmouth, sexy little tart.Especially me. I could use a safe place to land, but her daddy ain’t too keen on my father. There’s bad blood between our families. But that’s our fathers’ beef. Not ours. Regardless of why she’s here, this girl is after my heart, and she’s not shy about it. Time to show her who’s in charge of the ranch and her. I am, and I’ll always be.Don't Close Your Eyes is an 80,000 word novel with an HEA. It's book 4 of a standalone series about the Dawson brothers.

Read the story behind the beloved film – now available in Essential Modern Classics.In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town – but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It’s up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day…Packed with thrills and spills (and more than a few custard pies and splurge), this is a mobster story with a twist – the stars are kids!

Read the story behind the beloved film – now available in Essential Modern Classics.In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town – but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It’s up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day…Packed with thrills and spills (and more than a few custard pies and splurge), this is a mobster story with a twist – the stars are kids!

What makes a bird of prey so intriguing? What is so enrapturing about them? So cool? Is it the long, arched and ebony colored hooks? These are not nails, not claws, but specifically named as their primal possession: talons are the key feature for grabbing and seizing by raptors. Their coarse sandpaper foot pads, their long legs that are usually folded and hidden as part of the body, their wings and tail built for specific types of air mastery, and their eyesight keen beyond our understanding – these mystify us all in their uniqueness of design and use. The very rarity of hawk, eagle, and owl sightings causes us to wonder all the more. But perched as they are at the top of the food chain, they are also at greater risk. This relational position makes them automatically an unintended target of our careless stewardship of the wild. A natural indicator dial of our mismanagement of earth, they are also a sensible target for restoration.A Hope for Wings relates stories of relationships to eagles, hawks, and owls from the perspective of a field biologist, falconer, and student of raptor behavior. The author spent most of his professional life releasing and monitoring bald eagles, peregrine falcons, barn owls, and osprey in the Ohio Valley states. This story of their recovery is personalized by his intimate relationships to these awe inspiring birds. Their individual natures as well as their biological and behavioral characteristics are revealed in stories of incidents that occurred during the years of hacking and follow-up investigation. The book is also a clarion call for bringing the conservation movement back to the importance of relationships. When our interactions are viewed in terms of us against them, people apart from nature, and progress vs. protection dichotomies, we find no way to heal that which is injured – no means of finding a wholeness. As harm is detected in the wild world, we seek fixes from science. But science alone leaves out the heart of people – one of the key ingredients for why we want to see things made right. In our fight against irreverence and disrespect for wildlife we often forget one of those heart weapons – hope. Conservation needs hope for wholeness. In these tales, may you find your own.

The story behind the beloved film, Bugsy Malone, leaps off the page in this full colour original comic-strip graphic novel.(This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not suitable for e-Ink kindle devices, such as the PaperWhite. We recommend you download a sample to your device before purchase if in doubt.)In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town – but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It’s up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day…Packed with thrills and spills (and more than a few custard pies and splurge), this is a mobster story with a twist – the stars are kids!Original graphic novel format with full colour illustrations now available.

Get your students to be gansters in this great play which has been specially adapted for schools from the popular film and it even includes still photographs. So join all the characters: Bugsy, Fat Sam, Tallulah and Dandy Dan for great fun with the whole class.Students will relish this opportunity to play a cast of Prohibition-era mobsters.Fat Sam, who runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town, is in danger of being closed down by his ‘business rival’ Dandy Dan. Enter baby-faced Bugsy Malone, a killer with the ladies and a definite asset to Fat Sam. Unfortunately, Bugsy has also caught the eye of Sam’s girlfriend Tallulah – though he’s set his designs on the showgirl Blousey Brown.This play lends itself perfectly to school performance with its large mixed cast and consistent humour.The book contains a stimulating playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities.

DIXIE DOODLE - A Beautiful Welsh Pony - tells her story of neglect, loneliness, and survival. Dixie tells her story of living in a small, cramped home, moving again and again, scared and not sure who to trust. She finally meets a little girl named Apryl. Apryl teaches Dixie Doodle how to trust people and other horses, how to let others know what she is feeling or needing, and what it means to be in a forever-family.

In a bid to save his dying mother, Dwayne Todd is driven into a life of crime at the tender age of twelve by the biggest kingpin in Chicago, Tyrone Blackwell. Despite his kind heart, it is evident that he is destined to follow the dark path in life. And it becomes inevitable that chaos and death should trail behind him.This is a fictional tale of the origin and details of what would become the most vicious, chaotic and destructive riot in the history of Chicago.