Girl In The Walls

Author : A. J. Gnuse
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063031821

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Girl in the Walls by A. J. Gnuse Pdf

“A riveting, astonishing, and flat-out gorgeous debut.”-- Nina de Gramont, author of The Christie Affair A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her former family home—and about what it means to be truly seen after becoming lost in life Eventually, every hidden thing is found. Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which boards will creak. She knows where the gaps are in the walls. She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It’s home, after all. The home her parents made for her, before they were taken from her in a car crash. And home is where you stay, no matter what. Eddie is a teenager trying to forget about the girl he sometimes sees out of the corner of his eye. But when his hotheaded older brother senses her, too, they are faced with the question of how to get rid of someone they aren’t sure even exists. And as they try to cast her out, they unwittingly bring an unexpected and far more real threat to their doorstep. Written with grace and enormous heart, Girl in the Walls is a novel about carrying on through grief, forging unconventional friendships, and realizing, little by little, that we don’t need to fear what we do not understand.

Author : Amy Lukavics
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781460399057

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The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics Pdf

Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable—a family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of time in the attic. She claims she can hear her dead mother's voice whispering from the walls. Emotionally shut out by her father, Lucy watches helplessly as her cousin's sanity slowly unravels. But when she begins hearing voices herself, Lucy finds herself confronting an ancient and deadly legacy that has marked the women in her family for generations.

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451661507

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The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Pdf

From one of the bestselling memoirists of all time comes a stunning and heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world in a triumph of imagination and storytelling.

Author : Patrice Kindl
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547630373

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The Woman In The Wall by Patrice Kindl Pdf

And hide is what Anna does throughout the course of this amazing book. She retreats into the fabric of a big old house, building a series of passageways and secondary walls that allow her to share the life of the house unseen by her mother and sisters. As Anna says, her family is not observant. But Anna herself is a quirky and perceptive witness to the life she has chosen to escape. Then a mysterious message is thrusted through a crack in the wall, a message that gives Anna a reason to emerge.... Once again Patrice Kindl has created a magical world and an irresistible heroine.

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416544661

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Pdf

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

Author : Julia Walton
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780399550904

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Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton Pdf

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell! Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia. When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart. Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy). An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams? "Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this [is a] frank and inspiring novel." --Publishers Weekly, starred review Don't miss Just Our Luck, another stunning book by Julia Walton. Coming in 2020!

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471129100

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The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Pdf

For readers who loved The Glass Castle comes a stunning, heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world. It is 1970. 'Bean' Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz fifteen when their mother, a woman who 'flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble', takes off to find herself. She leaves the girls enough money for food to last a month or two, but it's not long before Bean and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that has been in the family for generations. Once they've arrived, money is tight, so Liz and Bean start working for Jerry Madox, foreman of the mill in town, a big man who bullies workers, tenants and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister, inventor of wordgames, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, non-conformist. But when school starts in the autumn, it is Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens between Liz and Maddox... 'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' Sunday Independent 'There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book' Marie Claire 'Has immense power and readibility... What it does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland' The Times on Half Broke Horses

Author : Nova Ren Suma
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616205737

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The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma Pdf

SPECIAL PREVIEW! “Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.” The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries. We hear Amber’s story and Violet’s, and through them Orianna’s, first from one angle, then from another, until gradually we begin to get the whole picture--which is not necessarily the one that either Amber or Violet wants us to see. Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and innocence, and what happens when one is mistaken for the other. Praise for Imaginary Girls: “A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for 17 & Gone: “Suma’s exquisite sentence-level writing and fine eye for creepy detail are in abundant evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Miriam Cohen
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 1583308792

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Behind the Walls by Miriam Cohen Pdf

An account of the Holocaust experiences of Chanah Kaufman (née Zucker), born in 1929 to an Orthodox Jewish family, related from the viewpoint of the young girl that she was at the time. In Brussels, her parents paid a non-Jew to hide Chanah in her basement. Subsequently she was taken to the Misericorde convent in Leuven, where she and other Jewish girls were hidden throughout the war. The nuns pressured her to convert, convincing her that otherwise the Nazis might kill her along with those who gave her shelter. However, inwardly she always remained Jewish. When the war ended, the nuns did not inform their wards, hoping that the Jewish children they saved would remain Catholics. Chanah was eventually taken to a Jewish orphanage, the Tiefenbrunner Home. Her parents and brother did not survive. She immigrated to Israel after the war. An appendix on pp. 322-344 discusses the role of the general and Jewish undergrounds in Belgium in hiding Jewish children and returning them to their people after the war.

Author : Hollie Overton
Publisher : Redhook
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316268783

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The Walls by Hollie Overton Pdf

A heart-stopping psychological suspense novel about a Texas prison official driven to commit the perfect crime, by the author of the international bestselling thriller Baby Doll. YOU WOULD DIE FOR YOUR FAMILY. WOULD YOU KILL FOR THEM? Working on death row and raising her son as a single mom is tough. When Kristy Tucker meets and falls in love with handsome Lance Dobson, at last she can imagine a better future. But after their wedding, her life becomes one of constant terror. And as Lance's violence escalates, Kristy must decide how far she will go to save herself--and her son. The Walls is a riveting thriller about domestic violence, murder, and one woman's desperate gambit to protect her family. #TheWallsBook Also by Hollie Overton: Baby Doll

Author : Austin Mardon,Ernest G. Mardon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nazis
ISBN : 9781895385434

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The Girl Who Could Walk Through Walls by Austin Mardon,Ernest G. Mardon Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501157868

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Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous Pdf

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

Author : Sylvia Cassedy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0380698439

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Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy Pdf

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

Author : Madge Walls
Publisher : Madge Walls
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0989015432

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The Visiting Girl by Madge Walls Pdf

Upon graduating from Bryn Mawr College, class of 1901, Lily Paxton finds herself out of funds and at loose ends. With no immediate family, not raised to work, and without a prospective husband in sight, she becomes a "visiting girl," going from home to home among her married friends in Philadelphia, organized by her best friend and college classmate Caroline Crawford. After a year and a half, the visiting circuit pales and soon becomes impossible. Lily disappears one day while staying with Caroline and her family, leaving a note saying she is off to an adventure out West and thanking Caroline for everything. Lily keeps to herself that she is three months pregnant and has left Philadelphia with a man she barely knows and who is not the baby's father. Twenty years later Lily writes to Caroline from Portland, Oregon, where she is dying of leukemia, asking Caroline to come to her in her final days. Caroline, widowed by now, leaps at the opportunity for an adventure of her own and to reconcile with her long-lost friend. The two women have a joyous reunion, but Caroline soon discovers that Lily has a hidden agenda which, if not handled with supreme care, threatens to destroy both their families. The novel's time frame includes the Great War, the Spanish flu pandemic, Prohibition, and women's suffrage, all of which affect the characters' lives. The story also deals with issues women have always dealt with, many of which still confront us today: unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage of a wanted child, cultural restrictions on women's lives, disappointing men, and troubled children. The love story of Lily and Marco, the man she runs away with, and the friendship of Lily and Caroline keep the story upbeat and positive. The Visiting Girl is a historical novel of friendship, loyalty, secrets, and love set in Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon, in the early 1900s.The Visiting Girl is a novel inspired by the life of movie star Katharine Hepburn's mother, an early graduate of Bryn Mawr.

Author : Margaret Fetty
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597164375

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Helen Keller by Margaret Fetty Pdf

In Helen Keller: Break Down the Walls!, students will meet a remarkable woman who rose above the challenges of being deaf and blind to become one of the most respected speakers in America. Children will read how Keller worked with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, to learn to communicate when most people in the late 19th century held little hope for the deaf and blind. Full-color photographs, timeline, and a compelling biographical narrative will engage and enlighten readers as they learn about Keller's triumphant life.