Author : Mary Stolz
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780060260064
An overprotected unpopular sixteen-year-old girl travels alone for the first time to spend the summer at her aunt and uncle's Maine hotel. Here she joins a group of college student help and, as a member of the group, takes a big step toward confidence and maturity.
Author : Michael E. Petrie
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1458203565
The glint of a gun barrel caught his eye it was the second to last thing wealthy Los Angeles businessman Griffin Gambil would ever see. There is a loud, percussive pop, a spume of red, and the final seconds of his life are spent watching his own blood spilling onto his Gucci loafers before collapsing in the driveway of his mistress house the ink on his Last Will and Testament still wet. Meanwhile, in another part of L.A., attorney Benjamin Harding feeling jilted by the legal system is turning his back on the practice of law after twenty years. Ben now looks forward to spending his days as a carefree sun worshiper and people watcher along one of Southern Californias most fascinating stretches of sand, Venice Beach. Just settling into his new life, Ben is contacted by the long lost love from his youth newly widowed, Samantha Zimmer-Gambil asking Ben to handle her deceased husbands estate. Finding the woman of his dreams once again available, Ben reluctantly agrees to take on this one last legal matter but it quickly exceeds what he intended. Officially ruled as suicide, Samantha is certain her husband was murdered, enlisting Ben to go above and beyond the call of your average probate attorney in trying to discover who killed her late husband. Searching for clues takes the reader on a fun but dangerous romp, surfing and sailing through the ocean communities of Los Angeles and offshore to the isles of Santa Catalina and Hawaii. YOURE THE ONLY ONE I CAN TRUST offers up a fine webbing of plot twists, unusual suspects, aspects of travelogue, legal primer, and a touch of the bizarrely erotic, spun together in a murder mystery that will keep the reader guessing right to the final page.
Author : Arturo Islas
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826317322
A posthumous novel by the pioneering Chicano fiction writer--a tragi-comic tale revealing a new side to Arturo Islas's talent.
Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 110156699X
A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.
Author : Jane Jesmond
Publisher : CMC Verve
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857308173
A FAST-PACED, TWISTY THRILLER WITH ECHOES OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now. Honestly, she has. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it. Yet, when Jen awakens to find herself drugged and dangling off the local lighthouse during a wild storm less than twenty-four hours after a 'family emergency' takes her home to Cornwall, she needs all her skill to battle her way to safety. Has Jen fallen back into her old risky ways, or is there a more sinister explanation hidden in her hometown? Only when she has navigated her fragmented memories and faced her troubled past will she be able to piece together what happened - and trust herself to fix it. PRAISE FOR ON THE EDGE ’Gritty, gripping, knotty, intense – this is going to be HUGE' – Fiona Erskine, author of The Chemical Detective and The Chemical Reaction ’Evocative, compelling and pulse-pounding, with cliff-edge suspense, riveting action and a plot as tricksy as a dare-devil free-climb' – Philippa East, author of CWA Dagger-shortlisted Little White Lies ‘Thoroughly original - hooks you in from the start and keeps you guessing’ – Frances Quinn, bestselling author of The Smallest Man 'In Jane Jesmond, the thriller world has gained a compelling and seriously talented voice. On the Edge is a truly surprising, original, and twisted story that will not only take your breath away but which also does exactly what it announces loud and proud: keep you on the edge of your seat. I couldn’t — and didn’t want to — put it down' – Hannah Mary McKinnon, internationally bestselling author of Sister Dear and You Will Remember Me 'It literally had me on the edge from the word go. Tense, taut and thrilling' – Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me and The Party ‘A proper nerve-shredder of a tale. Literary Cornwall has rarely been so magnificently menacing. Hold on tight. You won't be able to let go until the very last page!’ – Helen Fields, internationally bestselling author of the DI Callanach series ‘Complex characters and a setting so vivid I could almost smell the sea air – an astonishing debut’ – Marion Todd, author of the DI Clare Mackay series ‘A beautifully atmospheric story that grips you from the start! Jesmond cleverly weaves a tale of intrigue and suspense – a talented new crime fiction writer. One to watch!’ – Louise Mumford, bestselling author of Sleepless ‘On The Edge is an exceptional debut. Skilfully written, tightly plotted and compulsive reading. Highly recommended' – Maddie Please, author of The Summer of Second Chances and The Year of New Adventures Perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Sharon Bolton
Author : Edwin Vizor
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1911593269
The story of a moving and lively love relationship dating from teenage years to early middle age, including an account of those other relationships of both during their intense relationship.
Author : L Taylor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0244382611
At 42, Constance, left to nurse Pa and then Ma, has lived her life through others' experiences. Sister Daphne moves from one alternative therapy to another to try and cure her general hypochondria; Alison is so sophisticated yet never able to sustain a relationship for long; Bridget, the third sister, brusque but caring has three sons and a husband with a wandering eye; Edwin, the eldest brother, is coming home to England for his share of the family home but suffering a personal crisis and finally, Jake. Well, no one heard from him... Warring siblings aside, Constance wants something more. She needs her own life: to create her own story. So one morning, she just takes off, telling no one...
Author : Mary Stolz
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Adolescence
ISBN :
A nineteen-year-old reflects on her time in private school, when a coarse, hostile, brilliant daughter of a cleaning woman attended, and of the effect the girl had on those at the school, including the nineteen-year-old's idealistic older brother.
Author : David B. Butcher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1465382658
This book is “packed full” of true episodes and events that I’ve experienced since I have been an Apostle. It is a “true” and “exciting” story, and it describes “real” experiences, and “real life” adventures, that I experienced “while” in service to The Lord, and it “also” describes communications between him and I. If you want to find out what God is like, “this book”, will provide that for you, it will tell you a lot about him, and maybe you can get to know him, “or”, get to know him “better”, which ever may be the case. It will “also” tell you a lot about Satan, and how he works, it will give you a lot of information about him that “you need to know”, because he “is” real, and he “is” around, I can “defiantly” attest to that. The Bible says that he “roams the earth” as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, and he has many different ways of doing that, he has been around a long time and he knows what he is doing. I feel sorry for the little ones, the world is like a jungle, with it’s “snares and traps” just waiting for them as they get “old enough” to encounter them. Satan really worked hard to stop me from writing this book, and I think it is because he don’t want the truth known. So please read, and experience a “deeper” insight into the “two powers” that rule The Universe. “War with Satan” is a very “inspiring”, and “exciting” book, I hope you enjoy it!
Author : Chris Offutt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439129193
From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Same River Twice is the second volume from an American literary star. “If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (Chicago Tribune). At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north—into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans. Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he’d be: settled down with a pregnant wife. Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of his youthful journeys with that of his journey to fatherhood in a memoir that is uniquely candid, occasionally brutal, and often wonderfully funny. As he reckons with the comforts and terrors of maturity, Offutt finally discovers what is best in life and in himself.
