Author : Carolyn Ferrell
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1998-06-08
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9780395901359
Ferrell's remarkable stories show young people on the verge of being erased from society--but determined to endure. "Each story is a song, the voice tuned to perfection"--Tobias Wolff.
Author : Carolyn Ferrell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250793629
A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another. Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. Among them is lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, but how could anyone who fancies herself a “newspaperwoman” have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why is it that only two of the three girls—now women—were found? The mystery haunts the two remaining “victim girls” who are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. Like Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.
Author : Sarah Woodbury
Publisher : The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
As a descendant of one of the Founding Families of the colony of New Eden, Abby has lived a privileged existence—up until the moment she wakes up in a rent-by-the-hour hotel room in the worst sector of New Seattle with no memory of how she got there. Friends and family are suddenly strangers, and the only memories in her head can’t be hers. When the authorities accuse her of working for the Resistance movement and have evidence to prove it, Abby enlists her only friend, Raman, for help. Their quest takes them into the dark underbelly of the brave new world her family founded and reveals a far-reaching conspiracy which threatens not only Abby’s life, but the very foundations of New Eden.
Author : May McGoldrick
Publisher : Book Duo Creative LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1960330225
LOVE AND LOYALTY CLASH IN A WORLD OF SECRETS AND DECEPTION! In the sun-soaked streets of a California beach town, two strangers' paths collide, sparking an unexpected and fiery connection. Brought together by chance, they quickly discover that fate has a twisted sense of humor. And their entanglement is far from your typical love story. Both harbor secrets, lead double lives, and are on missions of paramount importance, setting the stage for a high-stakes battle of wit and will. Far from the conventional star-crossed lovers, Avalie and Reed are covert agents, each possessing the power to alter the course of history. Sparks ignite with every moment they share, yet their hearts and loyalties are divided. They find themselves ensnared in a whirlwind of deception, and their missions pit them against each other. Trapped in a perilous game of cat and mouse, trust is scarce, and betrayal lurks around every corner. As they race against time and each other, their emotions intensify, blurring the lines between duty and desire. Will they follow their hearts, risking everything they've ever known, or will they remain loyal to the orders that bind them? Can love conquer all, or will loyalty to their missions tear them asunder? Erase Me is a thrilling tale of cunning deception and a forbidden attraction so intense it could reshape the world. Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride filled with intrigue, betrayal, and passion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keywords - Mr. and Mrs. Smith, cat and mouse, spies at odds, James Bond story, Jane Austen Society, Jane Austen Cannot Marry, Jane Austen variations, Jane Austen variations and sequels, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Persuasion, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Project, Jane Austen's England, Jane Austen time travel, time travel pride and prejudice, time travel romance historical, time travel regency romance, time travel romance, time travel series books, time travel stories, time travel romance, time travel, time travel books, time travel books fiction, time travel fiction, time travel novels, time travel romance books, time travelers wife, time travelers wife book
Author : John Glenn High School
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category :
ISBN : 1456755943
All of the writers and artists are high school students at John Glenn High School in Walkerton, Indiana. The school has an enrollment of 600 in a rural area, some 25 minutes from South Bend, Indiana.
Author : Cazzie David
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0358197023
From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of comedic essays about anxiety, social media, generational malaise, and growing up in a famous family.
Author : Jessica Wynne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0691222827
A photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards “A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians’ chalkboards. While other fields have replaced chalkboards with whiteboards and digital presentations, mathematicians remain loyal to chalk for puzzling out their ideas and communicating their research. Wynne offers more than one hundred stunning photographs of these chalkboards, gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around the world. The photographs are accompanied by essays from each mathematician, reflecting on their work and processes. Together, pictures and words provide an illuminating meditation on the unique relationships among mathematics, art, and creativity. The mathematicians featured in this collection comprise exciting new voices alongside established figures, including Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Alain Connes, Misha Gromov, Andre Neves, Kasso Okoudjou, Peter Shor, Christina Sormani, Terence Tao, Claire Voisin, and many others. The companion essays give insights into how the chalkboard serves as a special medium for mathematical expression. The volume also includes an introduction by the author, an afterword by New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, and biographical information for each contributor. Do Not Erase is a testament to the myriad ways that mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and visual beauty of their discipline—shapes, figures, formulas, and conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation.
Author : Anna Brooks
Publisher : Anna Brooks
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
One truth can explain everything... Declan Kelly has spent his entire adult life saving people, all the while avoiding any real connections or emotions. He's already been destroyed once, and after she ruined him, he knows he'll never love again. Almost two decades later, Declan moves back home to raise his daughter around his family. He tried to prepare himself for how he would react when he saw Amie, but could never have anticipated just how hard it would be to remain unaffected. Amie Dotson knew from the moment she lied that Dec wouldn't forgive her... but she didn't want him to. Lying was easier than the truth because he would have stayed for her, and she didn't want him to miss out on his dreams because of her. Harboring more than one secret, Amie tries to avoid Declan when she discovers he's back in town, but when he sees the evidence marring her body, she knows he'll do whatever it takes to remove the fear from her eyes. When the truth is revealed, can two people finally find the happiness they lost but never forgot? See why readers need tissues for this beautiful second chance romance. "I CRIED!!!! Some might not understand why that matters but it matters. I never cry reading a book no matter how sad. But Anna Brooks did the impossible and made me cry. This story had me in all my feelings. It was undeniably the most heartfelt story I have read to date. With every word you felt their love and pain." ~Gail "I can't tell you enough how good this book is." ~Dawn T "So much emotion, so many tears! This story was phenomenal." ~Erin P *** Give Me This is the sixth book in a series of second chance romances featuring the most loyal men as they battle their past in order to secure a future with their one true love. Defeat is not an option when their hearts are on the line. Each emotional and angsty story can be read as a standalone. *** keywords: romantic suspense, alpha male romance, hot romance, contemporary romance, modern romance, sexy, angsty, contemporary romance series, romantic suspense series, family, love, friends to lovers, swoon, HEA, no cliffhanger, steamy romance, family saga, loyalty, second chance, emotional journey, love books, coast guard, military, single dad, second chance at love, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers
Author : Howard Fishman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593187385
The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense—a singer who seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel), the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. And then there was the bizarre legend about Connie Converse that had become the prevailing narrative of her life: that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from again. Could this have been true? Who was Connie Converse, really? Supported by a dozen years of research, travel to everywhere she lived, and hundreds of extensive interviews, Fishman approaches Converse’s story as both a fan and a journalist, and expertly weaves a narrative of her life and music, and of how it has come to speak to him as both an artist and a person. Ultimately, he places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist, a missing link between a now old-fashioned kind of American music and the reflective, complex, arresting music that transformed the 1960s and music forever. But this is also a story of deeply secretive New England traditions, of a woman who fiercely strove for independence and success when the odds were against her; a story that includes suicide, mental illness, statistics, siblings, oil paintings, acoustic guitars, cross-country road trips, 1950s Greenwich Village, an America marching into the Cold War, questions about sexuality, and visionary, forward thinking about race, class, and conflict. It’s a story and subject that is by turn hopeful, inspiring, melancholy, and chilling.
Author : Lauren Child
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763656364
"Sardonic narration will grab readers from the get-go, and puzzles laced throughout will intrigue those who share Ruby’s passion for solving mysteries." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort books. Now in her own starring role, Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum. Ruby gets into lots of scrapes with evil villains, but she’s always ice-cool in a crisis. Just take a classic screwball comedy, add heaps of breathtaking action, and multiply it by Lauren Child’s writing genius, and what have you got? Only the most exciting new middle-grade series since, like, ever.
