Author : Dorothy Garlock
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2006-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786282562
Coming to Ward Sanderson's beautiful Guadalajara estate to tutor his niece and escape from some problems in her life, Meredith Moore finds herself both intimidated by her handsome, brooding host and falling in love with him.
Author : Amber Tamblyn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062688936
“An explosive, shapeshifting piece of literary real estate, Amber Tamblyn’s arresting debut offers a scathing portrait of American celebrity culture and the way in which it transmutes human tragedy into a vicious circus; victims are forgotten as likes and shares swirl, and ‘news’ becomes a squalid orgy, a lurid feast. Tamblyn takes every risk in this astonishing and innovative work, and succeeds, gloriously.” — Janet Fitch, bestselling author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Paint It Black Vanity Fair's Summer Ultimate Fiction List Entertainment Weekly Summer Preview List In this electric and provocative debut novel, Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture. A violent serial rapist is on the loose, who goes by the name Maude. She hunts for men at bars, online, at home— the place doesn’t matter, neither does the man. Her victims then must live the aftermath of their assault in the form of doubt from the police, feelings of shame alienation from their friends and family and the haunting of a horrible woman who becomes the phantom on which society projects its greatest fears, fascinations and even misogyny. All the while the police are without leads and the media hound the victims, publicly dissecting the details of their attack. What is extraordinary is how as years pass these men learn to heal, by banding together and finding a space to raise their voices. Told in alternating viewpoints signature to each voice and experience of the victim, these pages crackle with emotion, ranging from horror to breathtaking empathy. As bold as it is timely, Any Man paints a searing portrait of survival and is a tribute to those who have lived through the nightmare of sexual assault.
Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250144833
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
Author : Mariana Reuter
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2015-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781512227826
Alexandra is a teenage tomboy. On the same day on which her mother escapes with her lover, her friend Jennifer asks Alex to be her girlfriend and start dating, which utterly confuses Alex-she's never thought of taking the tomboy thing that far. A week later, her stepfather attempts to do "dirty stuff" with her, but Alex runs away from home in the middle of the night. Seeking support, Alex travels to her grandmother's hometown. Unbeknownst to her, the town's ruinous mansion keeps the key to solving her father murder, but the ghouls who keep the secret are not somebody to mess with. The mansion's old, half demented gatekeeper seems to be only one who recognises Alex. However, could an old, crippled man save her from her fate? Alex will fall in love with the wrong chap, which will further confuse her-wasn't she about to start dating another girl? Despite his efforts to protect her, both will face certain death. Would Alex be able to act fast enough to save them, or would he died in the same cold blooded way in which her father did? An epic coming of age tale in which a teenage girl must be brave enough to break with her family's paranormal past in order to understand her present. A tender story about a girl who must first discover her own sexuality before falling in love.
Author : Paige Toon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1471138429
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Blinding sunshine… A bend in the road… What became of the little girl with the sun in her eyes? Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother's life. She doesn't remember the accident, but a stranger at the scene has been unable to forget. Now, almost thirty years later, she's trying to track Amber down. Amber, meanwhile, is married to Ned and living on the other side of the world in London. When her father has a stroke, she flies straight home to Australia to be with him. Away from her husband, Amber finds comfort in her oldest friends, but her feelings for Ethan, the gorgeous, green-eyed man she once fell for, have never been quite disappeared. As Ethan and Amber grow closer, married life in London feels far away. Then Amber receives a letter that changes everything: 'Before your mother died, she asked me to tell you something…' Your favourite authors LOVE Paige Toon: 'Heart-warming, wistful and full of joy . . . Paige Toon tugs on the heartstrings like no other' LINDSEY KELK ‘Warm, inspiring, like a holiday mood in book form’ MHAIRI MCFARLANE ‘A really charming, moving story about how a life is made of so many different kinds of love . . . Will make every reader’s life feel a bit more magical’ DAISY BUCHANAN 'Family secrets, new horizons and a gorgeous continent-crossing romance . . . prepare to be swept away!' LUCY DIAMOND 'You'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' MARIAN KEYES 'Tender, heartbreaking and magical' GIOVANNA FLETCHER ‘Poignant and lovely, warm and wise’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘A gorgeous, warm novel’ ADELE PARKS 'Filled with warmth and poignancy' CATHERINE ISAAC 'For smart, romantic fiction, look no further than the new book from bestselling Paige Toon' RED 'Achingly romantic and brilliantly written . . . Five Stars!' HEAT 'Simply gorgeous' SUN 'You won't be able to put down this emotional read' CLOSER 'Paige Toon is the queen of will-they/won't-they romance, setting up an ending that will leave you in bits' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Full of living-in-the-moment and what-might-have-been contrasts, this tender read pulls at the heart strings' FABULOUS 'A lovely read' BELLA
Author : Amber Sparks
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631496212
Amber Sparks holds her crown in the canon of the weird with this fantastical collection of “eye-popping range” (John Domini, Washington Post). Boldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks has built a cultlike following with And I Do Not Forgive You. Fueled by feminism in all its colors, her surreal worlds—like Kelly Link’s and Karen Russell’s—are all-too-real. In “Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy,” a friend is ghosted by a text message; in “Everyone’s a Winner at Meadow Park,” a teen coming-of-age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. Rife with “sharp wit, and an abiding tenderness” (Ilana Masad, NPR), these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that “history likes to lie about women,” as the subjects of “You Won’t Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women” will attest. Written in prose that both shimmers and stings, the result is “nothing short of a raging success, a volume that points to a potentially incandescent literary future” (Kurt Baumeister, The Brooklyn Rail).
Author : Christine Sleeter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004462856
Situated within today’s changing racial demographics, Family History in Black and White: A Novel traces two competitors – one white and one black – for the same position. Both are urban high school principals. Ultimately, both must reckon with a surprising twist in their histories.
Author : Edmund de Waal
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0374603499
A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art. The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, “the Rothschilds of the East,” who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism—much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son, Nissim; after Nissim was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After de Waal, one of the world’s greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory.
Author : Lyra Selene
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1338210041
In a magical world where the sun never sets, a gifted girl dreams to be in the royal court but once inside, she may not be prepared for the drama. Sylvie has always known she deserves more. Out in the permanent twilight of the Dusklands, her guardians called her power to create illusions a curse. But Sylvie knows it gives her a place in Coeur d’Or, the palais of the Amber Empress and her highborn legacies. So Sylvie sets off toward the Amber City, a glittering jewel under a sun that never sets, to take what is hers. But her hope for a better life is quickly dimmed. The empress invites her in only as part of a wicked wager among her powerful courtiers. Sylvie must assume a new name, Mirage, and begin to navigate secretive social circles and deadly games of intrigue in order to claim her spot. Soon it becomes apparent that nothing is as it appears and no one, including her cruel yet captivating sponsor, Sunder, will answer her questions. As Mirage strives to seize what should be her rightful place, she’ll have to consider whether it is worth the price she must pay . . . Lyra Selene weaves a lush and thrilling story of sacrifice, secrets, and star-crossed love set in a Parisian-inspired world where the sun never sets in this remarkable YA fantasy debut. Praise for Amber & Dusk “A shimmering tapestry of language, woven through with soaring beauty and subtle menace.” —Sara Holland, New York Times–bestselling author of the Everless series “Full of riotous color, fantastical locations, and surprising plot twists.” —School Library Journal
Author : Eagle Ngo
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780648374428
Amazing Amber is a superhero who uses her laser eyes to save her friends from Pie-throwing Pete. But when Pie-throwing Pete invents a new pie-throwing machine, Amazing Amber discovers that she has a lazy laser eye. Can Dr Teddy help her save the day once again?
