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Make It Scream, Make It Burn

Author : Leslie Jamison

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 45,13 MB

Release : 2019-09-24

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0316259667

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From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book. With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth. Often compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, and widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Jamison interrogates her own life with the same nuance and rigor she brings to her subjects. The result is a provocative reminder of the joy and sustenance that can be found in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay One of the fall's most anticipated books: Time, Entertainment Weekly, O, Oprah Magazine, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Esquire, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, BuzzFeed, BookPage, The Millions, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Lit Hub, Women's Day, AV Club, Nylon, Bustle, Goop, Goodreads, Book Riot, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Pacific Standard, The Week, and Romper.



Splinters

Author : Kevin Sylvester

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 38,8 MB

Release : 2010-09-14

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0887769446

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Cindy Winters loves to play hockey. When her family's basement apartment is flooded and the floor freezes, she's even happy to skate on the concrete. Her parents are too poor to enroll her in a league, but she's resourceful and does odd jobs until she has earned enough money to play. Armed with her mother's old equipment, she is thrilled to join a team. But her happiness doesn't last long. Among her teammates are the horrible Blister Sisters. They make her life miserable. And worse, Cindy's sidelined by the coach, who just happens to be Mrs. Blister. It looks like she'll be spending the season cleaning equipment, instead of playing on the ice. Cindy's luck changes when her Fairy Goaltender appears and saves the day. With its great good humor and hilarious illustrations, Kevin Sylvester's Splinters is bound to become a favorite.



Splinters of Scarlet

Author : Emily Bain Murphy

Publisher : Clarion Books

Page : 405 pages

File Size : 20,79 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0358142733

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"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--



Splinter

Author : Sasha Dawn

Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab& 8482

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 10,53 MB

Release : 2018-08

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1541538455

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"Sami's mother disappeared ten years ago, and the police have always suspected that Sami's father killed her. But they've never had any convincing evidence...until now. Sami's sure her father's innocent. Or is she?"--



She Walks on Gilded Splinters

Author : Gene Dwyer

Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 10,39 MB

Release : 2011-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618970097

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Marie Laveau is recognized as one of the most influential women of 19th Century North America. Her life and legend as an authentic voodoo queen has been clouded in mystery. This unique novel is an intricate murder mystery following retribution for the sins of past generations set against the history and consequences of the slave trade.



The Equivalents

Author : Maggie Doherty

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 44,42 MB

Release : 2021-04-13

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0525434607

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships—poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen—quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves “the Equivalents.” Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation. “Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship.” —Harper’s Magazine “Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account.” —Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)



Splinters

Author : Susan Bird

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 38,80 MB

Release : 2015-10-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1514404621

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Sunday ONeil has made peace with all of her unhinged fences. She decides to move forward and leave her broken relationship behind her and start a new beginning. Sunday meets Dean Daniels who is kind and moreover, has no agenda except to make her happy. Sunday is reluctant to embrace another relationship, but somehow finds herself drawn to him. Dean was not the stereotypical type of man Sunday normally was attracted to. Aside from her personal relationship failures in the past, Sunday ONeil flourishes as a savvy business professional who owns her own employer paid employment agency. She is a dynamic head hunter! Sunday finds herself being pursued by Reinhart Preston, president of P & P Solar Industries. He is a wealthy, ruthless, undeniably handsome business man and president of P & P Solar Industries. Mr. Preston is determined by any means necessary to become the number one wholesaler of solar panels in the United States. Mr. Prestons proposal to Sunday ONeil was monetarily overwhelming yet unrealistic, and had a threatening overtone if not accepted. A love hate business relationship is born. Unbeknownst to Sunday there are lies and deception on woven into Mr. Prestons business proposal. Sunday ONeil fi nds herself in a twisted world of business, erotic encounters, betrayal, lies and deception. Can Sunday ONeil keep her head above water? -Beautifully written second instalment of Susan Birds Fences trilogy. I did not expect this turbulent ending. Thoroughly enjoyable. Dennis Koller author of Kissed by the Snow -Susan Birds book literally played like a soundtrack in my mind. Love the idea to mix music and literature! Loved this book I could not put it down. Wow, this ending I did not see coming. Venus Zamora..Actress



Splinter in the Blood

Author : Ashley Dyer

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 398 pages

File Size : 36,80 MB

Release : 2018-06-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0062797719

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A propulsive debut suspense novel, filled with secrets, nerve-jangling tension, perplexing mystery, and cold-blooded murder, in which a police officer on the hunt for a macabre serial killer is brutally attacked, and only his partner knows the truth about what happened—and who did it. After months of hunting a ruthless murderer that the press has dubbed the Thorn Killer, Detective Greg Carver is shot in his own home. His trusted partner, Ruth Lake, is alone with him. Yet instead of calling for help, she rearranges the crime scene and wipes the room clean of prints. But Carver isn’t dead. Awakening in the hospital, Carver has no memory of being shot, but is certain that his assailant is the Thorn Killer. Though there’s no evidence to support his claim, Carver insists the attack is retaliation, an attempt to scare the detective off the psychopath’s scent because he was getting too close. Trapped in a hospital bed and still very weak, Carver finds his obsession growing. He’s desperate to get back to work and finally nail the bastard, before more innocent blood is spilled. One person knows the truth and she’s not talking. She’s also now leading the Thorn Killer investigation while Carver recuperates. It doesn’t matter that Carver and the rest of the force are counting on her, and that more victims’ lives are at stake. Ruth is keeping a deadly secret, and she’ll cross every line—sacrificing her colleagues, her career, and maybe even her own life—to keep it from surfacing. Utterly engrossing and filled with masterfully crafted surprises, Splinter in the Blood is a propulsive roller coaster ride filled with deception, perplexing mystery, and cold-blooded murder.



The Splinters of Our Discontent

Author : Mike Godwin

Publisher : Zenger Press

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 41,8 MB

Release : 2019-05-14

Category :

ISBN : 9781939888754

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The legal and social choices we have to make right now will determine our future, which is why we have to recognize what aspects of social media and big tech platforms like Google and WhatsApp need to be fixed... and what needs to be saved. Author Mike Godwin gives you the answers you need--the decisions before us aren't always easy, but we can all take the right path by understanding the technologies, our own history with mass media, and the people using both to their advantage. No matter what, it's all coming fast. This book will make you ready for what lies ahead.



Splinter the Silence

Author : Val McDermid

Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Page : 378 pages

File Size : 34,63 MB

Release : 2015-12-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0802190936

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The bestselling “Queen of Crime reigns again” when a profiler and an ex-cop investigate the suspicious deaths of women targeted by Internet trolls (Independent, UK). From the international bestselling author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood comes the ninth installment of her beloved series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and former DCI Carol Jordan . . . Vicious online attacks seem to be driving outspoken women to silence themselves through suicide. Yet for profiler Tony Hill, who knows a thing or two about patterns in human behavior, something doesn’t add up. Carol Jordan, meanwhile, is too busy tackling her own demons to think about a potential serial killer. But when she gets an opportunity for a second chance, it’s game on. This time around, though, the stakes have never been higher. One of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2015