Sparrow Hill Road

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698145825

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Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire Pdf

Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It’s been more than sixty years since that night, and she’s still sixteen, and she’s still running. They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The Phantom Prom Date. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. Mostly she just goes by “Rose,” a hitchhiking ghost girl with her thumb out and her eyes fixed on the horizon, trying to outrace a man who never sleeps, never stops, and never gives up on the idea of claiming what’s his. She’s the angel of the overpass, she’s the darling of the truck stops, and she’s going to figure out a way to win her freedom. After all, it’s not like it can kill her. You can’t kill what’s already dead.

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756413804

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The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire Pdf

Hitchhiking her way along the highways and byways of America, ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer--the immortal Bobby Cross.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684850276

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The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Pdf

In his rich and dazzling new novel, the author of the bestselling "The Sixteen Pleasures" chronicles the journey of a man awakening from profound sorrow and rediscovering love in a most unexpected time and place.

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756416898

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Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire Pdf

"Rose Marshall died when she was sixteen years old and on her way to her high school prom. She hasn't been resting easy since then; Bobby Cross, the man who killed her, got away clean after running her off the road ... She's been looking for a way to stop him ... But things have changed in the twilight world where the spirits of the restless dead continue their lives. The crossroads have been destroyed, and Bobby's protections are gone. For the first time, it might be possible for Rose to defeat him"--

Author : Rebecca Sparrow
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702252297

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The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay by Rebecca Sparrow Pdf

Bubble skirts. Transvision Vamp. Corkscrew perms. ‘21 Jump Street’. It's 1989 and Rachel Hill is the girl most likely to succeed. And the girl most likely to have everything under control ... that is, until her father invites the moody Nick McGowan to live with them. With the help of her best friend Zoe, Rachel battens down the hatches in preparation for Nick McGowan to move into her old bedroom and into her life. Nick immediately labels Rachel as uptight. With bad taste in music. Rachel immediately labels Nick a no-hoper. With a bad attitude. But it's a secret from Nick's past that will draw them together and make the year Nick McGowan came to stay one that Rachel will never forget. From the bestselling author of The Girl Most Likely.

Author : Donna Everhart
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496733337

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The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart Pdf

Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart's latest novel immerses readers in its unique setting—the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. This captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds' intersecting lives will stay with readers long after turning the final page. It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together. Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who spent her childhood in an orphanage, is thankful for it--and for her kind if careless husband. When Warren falls victim to his own negligence, Rae Lynn undertakes a desperate act of mercy. To keep herself from jail, she disguises herself as a man named "Ray" and heads to the only place she can think of that might offer anonymity--a turpentine camp in Georgia named Swallow Hill. Swallow Hill is no easy haven. The camp is isolated and squalid, and commissary owner Otis Riddle takes out his frustrations on his browbeaten wife, Cornelia. Although Rae Lynn works tirelessly, she becomes a target for Crow, the ever-watchful woods rider who checks each laborer's tally. Delwood Reese, who's come to Swallow Hill hoping for his own redemption, offers "Ray" a small measure of protection, and is determined to improve their conditions. As Rae Lynn forges a deeper friendship with both Del and Cornelia, she begins to envision a path out of the camp. But she will have to come to terms with her past, with all its pain and beauty, before she can open herself to a new life and seize the chance to begin again. “Fans of Sarah Addison Allen won't be able to put it down.” —Booklist

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545337625

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Crow Call by Lois Lowry Pdf

The two-time Newbery medalist has crafted “a loving representation of a relationship between parent and child” in post-WWII America (Publishers Weekly, starred review). This is the story of young Liz, her father, and their strained relationship. Dad has been away at WWII for longer than she can remember, and they begin their journey of reconnection through a hunting shirt, cherry pie, tender conversation, and the crow call. This allegorical story shows how, like the birds gathering above, the relationship between the girl and her father is graced with the chance to fly. “The memory of a treasured day spent with a special person will resonate with readers everywhere.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Beautifully written, the piece reads much like a traditional short story . . . the details of [Ibatoulline’s] renderings gracefully capture a moment in time that was lost. Relevant for families whose parents are returning from war, the text is also ripe for classroom discussion and for advanced readers.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Victoria Jayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 164034411X

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Sparrow by Victoria Jayne Pdf

Author : Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338188387

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Mister Impossible (The Dreamer Trilogy #2) by Maggie Stiefvater Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them? Ronan Lynch isn't planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed . . . even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves. Jordan Hennessy knows she will not survive if the dreaming fails. So she plunges into a dark underworld in order to find an object that may sustain her. Carmen Farooq-Lane is afraid of the dreamers -- which is why she's agreed to hunt them down. The closer she gets, though, the more complicated her feelings become. Will the dreamers destroy the world . . . or will the world be destroyed trying to eliminate the dreamers? In the remarkable second book of The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater pushes her characters to their limits -- and shows what happens when they start to break.

Author : Richard Buckner
Publisher : Black Sparrow Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574232444

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Cuttings from the Tangle by Richard Buckner Pdf

A debut prose-poem collection from the cult singer-songwriter.

Author : Justin Torres
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547577005

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We the Animals by Justin Torres Pdf

The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award–winning author of Blackouts. In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. “A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver’s or Jeffrey Eugenides’s voice did when we first heard it.” —The Washington Post Three brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. “We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful. It resembles no other book I’ve read.” —Michael Cunningham “A fiery ode to boyhood. . . A welterweight champ of a book.” —NPR, Weekend Edition NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101602423

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Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire Pdf

The fifth book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us. "The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book." —Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series Destiny, Noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also “Screwed.” Verity Price is back on the West Coast and getting back into the swing of the family business: cryptozoology. She's rescuing cryptids from bad situations, protecting them from monster-hunters, and generally risking life and limb for the greater good, with her ex-Covenant partner/husband, Dominic, by her side. Her ballroom dance career is behind her...or so she thinks. When Verity gets the call from the producers of Dance or Die, the reality show she almost won several years before, she finds the lure of a comeback impossible to resist, and she and Dominic are off to L.A. for one last shot at the big time. Of course, nothing is that simple. When two of her fellow contestants turn up dead, Verity will need every ally she can find—and a couple she wasn't looking for—in order to navigate the complicated steps of both the tango and a murder investigation without blowing her cover. It doesn't help that her official family backup is her grandmother, Alice Price-Healy, who thinks "subtle" is something that happens to other people. Winning this competition may have just become a matter of life and death.

Author : Quan Huynh
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1544514409

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Sparrow in the Razor Wire: Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence by Quan Huynh Pdf

In 1999, Quan Huynh shot and killed another man in a gang-related incident in Hollywood, California. He received a prison sentence of fifteen years to life in a state that, at the time, did not parole prisoners with life sentences. Behind bars, Quan continued his downward spiral. This could have been the end of the story for Quan, as it is for many prisoners. But somewhere along the way, he discovered a new path-one that prompted him to commit to self-reflection, truth, and personal responsibility. Sparrow in the Razor Wire is Quan's story of transformation inside a place many see as the end of the road. In his book, he shares the journey of redemption and discovery that led to his ultimate freedom. He found that, no matter the prison, the key to unlocking the door is in each one of us.

Author : Paulo Lins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408827345

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City of God by Paulo Lins Pdf

A sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. THE ORIGINAL NOVEL BEHIND 'THE GREATEST CRIME FILM OF ALL TIME' Cidade de Deus, the City of God ... welcome to one of Rio's most notorious slums. A place where the streets are awash with drugs, where violence can erupt at any moment, over drugs, money ... and love... but also where the samba beat rocks til dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. Paulo Lins was born in Rio de Janeiro and at age seven moved to the 'City of God' housing project. He escaped the cycle of violence there to become an internationally celebrated writer, and still lives in Rio. This novel is the result of extended research in the housing project where Lins was raised. He spent eight years interviewing people and researching the drug trafficking and gang warfare that marked the history of the neighbourhood in the 1970s and 80s. Based on a true story, this is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. The original novel of the hugely acclaimed film.

Author : Seanan Mcguire
Publisher : Subterranean Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 159606997X

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Dying with Her Cheer Pants On: Stories of the Fighting Pumpkins by Seanan Mcguire Pdf