Author : K Arsenault Rivera
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765392534
A lush new epic historical fantasy series that evokes the ambition and widespread appeal of Patrick Rothfuss and the vivid storytelling of Naomi Novik
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Rajiv Joseph
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1593763891
Rajiv Joseph is one of today’s most acclaimed young playwrights. The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award, he is an artist to watch. This volume gathers together for the first time his three major works to date. Included herein are his latest play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, which charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another’s love and the cumulative effect of such damage; Animals Out of Paper, a subtle, elegant, yet bracing examination of the artistic impulse and those in its thrall, which follows a world-famous origamist as she becomes the unwitting mentor to a troubled young prodigy, even as she must deal with her own loss of inspiration; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a darkly comedic drama that looks on as the lives of two American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, and a tiger intersect on the streets of Baghdad.
Author : Andrea Smith
Publisher : Meatball Taster Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Our futures are left to fate. And if we're lucky, sometimes fate throws us a curve ball we couldn't possibly have seen coming. Nineteen year old Lindsey Dennison returns home after her freshman year of college to find the life she had left existed no more. Her parents' marriage had imploded; her dad was on the run from the law, and her mother had somehow found her lost youth. All in less than a year's time. Enter twenty-nine year old Taz Matthews, a sexy FBI agent and partner of her new stepfather, and suddenly Lindsey's life is about to get really complicated. When Lindsey's safety and well-being are threatened, Agent Taz is sent to protect her. The problem is, there's nobody to protect Taz when he finds himself becoming smitten with the sweet and innocent Lindsey. Trying to fight the urge proves useless for this hot FBI agent and stuff is about to get real! He finds himself in uncharted territory with Lindsey Dennison. All he knows is that somebody is out to take what he now claims as his . . . All books in the G-Man Series can be read as a stand-alone, but are most enjoyable if read in order since the characters interconnect. HEA* **Warning** This book is intended for a mature reading audience and isn't suitable for younger readers. Mature content. Sexual situations and some violence.
Author : E.L. Waggoner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477135189
Ava Rose Wibbell is a girl who has never felt like she fits in. She has a large number of close friends, a father, who loves her, and a small community that has watched her grow from infancy to adulthood. And that close-knit, small-town community adores both Ava and her father. But even with the seemingly perfect surroundings, Ava can’t help but notice the odd things that happen around her. For instance, the way people fall in love with her without knowing a single thing about who she is. She starts to recognize the peculiar reactions everyone has when she’s in their vicinity—reactions that aren’t exactly normal human behavior. And then there is the way her father always seems to be waiting for something, waiting for Ava to do something, or be something other than what she is. She can feel his eyes searching her for some change, but she has no idea what he is expecting to happen. She begins to piece together the puzzle of who she is, and when the picture finally becomes clear, the truth will change her life forever.
Author : Rumaan Alam
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062667653
Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?
Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0394800818
Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge.
Author : Cynthia Eden
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617730351
"It hooked me from the first page." --Christine Feehan Beware Of Each Other In a hotbed of secrets like Baton Rouge, it's only natural Assistant DA Erin Jerome is keeping a couple of her own. Like the fact she's not entirely human--she's Other, desperately trying to keep her supernatural strength under wraps. Or that she's got a killer stalking her--an Other rogue set on "gifting" her bloody corpses, not to mention nights lying awake in terror. But the bounty hunter on her new case is about to change everything. Jude Donovan is a shapeshifter, and when the two are near each other their hidden instincts are definitely awakened. Tracking a rogue Other through half of Louisiana is hard enough without letting their wild sides come out to play. . . "Cynthia's on my must-buy list." --New York Times bestselling author Angie Fox
Author : Alice Wong
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593315405
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project “Alice Wong provides deep truths in this fun and deceptively easy read about her survival in this hectic and ableist society.” —Selma Blair, bestselling author of Mean Baby In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.
Author : Colleen Houck
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 140279844X
With three of the goddess Durgas quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tigers curse. But the trios greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durgas final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Adaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Its a race against time--and the evil sorcerer Lokesh--in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume of the bestselling Tigers Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers true destiny once and for all.
