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Author : Mary O'Connell
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385740494
In the week following her mother's death in a freak accident, eighteen-year-old Sandanista Jones finds small measures of happiness even as she fantasizes about an act of revenge against an abusive teacher at her high school.
Author : Mary O'Connell
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375899294
In the aftermath of her mother's tragic death, a newly independent and unstable teenage girl finds small measures of happiness even as she plots an act of lethal revenge on an abusive teacher. Sandinista Jones is a high school senior with a punk rock name and a broken heart. The death of her single mother has left Sandinista alone in the world, subject to the random vulnerability of everyday life. When the school system lets her down, her grief and instability intensify, and she ponders a violent act of revenge. Still, in the midst of her crisis, she gets a job at The Pale Circus, a funky vintage clothing shop, and finds friendship and camaraderie with her coworker, a boy struggling with his own secrets. Even as Sandinista sees the failures of those with power and authority, she's offered the chance to survive through the redemptive power of friendship. Now she must choose between faith and forgiveness or violence and vengeance. "Palpable grief plus irreverent humor equal one extraordinary debut novel." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred "The book takes place over the course of a week, but there are so many thoughtfully drawn characters and intense emotions that it reads like a small lifetime." --Booklist, Starred "O’Connell shows exceptional skill in building tension and creating atmosphere" --Publishers Weekly, Starred "Brilliant lyrical prose, clever banter, distinctive characters, and suspenseful plotting combine for a winning debut novel." --VOYA
Author : Deborah Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1410411958
Mama's antics - especially her penchant for finding trouble - drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the killer.
Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618241115
Gangs rule Cantilucca. Two syndicates dominate the planet. Guns are the only law. Both sides are arming for a bloody showdown that can only end with a handful of survivors sifting for subsistence in the ruins of what could be a rich world. Then the survey team arrives . . . David Drake introduces a new kind of Hammer's Slammer. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Michelle Dean
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802165718
A “deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing” book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review). In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—are united by what Dean calls “sharpness,” the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing despite the extreme condescension of the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.
Author : Ron Berry
Publisher : Time To...Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 164123198X
With these sound books and a little patience, potty training can be easy and rewarding for both parent and child. Each book includes a progress chart and a PVC sound button of an authentic toilet flush, which allows children to become familiar with the sound and dispel any fears. Full color. Consumable.
Author : Leah Mol
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385697231
For readers of My Dark Vanessa and Lullabies for Little Criminals, this important, electrifying novel about the agony and exhilaration of being a teenage girl will challenge you, unsettle you and ask you to look at your own experiences with perversions of power. Katie is used to being let down. Her best friend abandoned her for a boy, her mom is a hypochondriac who spends most days on the couch, and the guys at school can do whatever they want while the girls are stuck following the rules. All Katie wants is to be seen. So when she finds an online world where women aren't ashamed of what they want and consent doesn't feel like the grey area she's used to, she thinks she's finally in control. But as Katie becomes more and more enmeshed in this virtual playground, she begins to realize her newfound power may just be an illusion. Sharp Edges is the story of a girl lost in a grown-up world far darker than she could have imagined—searching for someone to guide her to a place where she can be sixteen again.
Author : Lydia Sharp
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338047509
A missing boy. A road trip into the Alaskan wilderness. A week that will change everything... Into the Wild meets Paper Towns in this romantic and thrilling contemporary adventure! A missing boy. A road trip into the Alaskan wilderness. A week that will change everything... After Gabi's parents' divorce, she moves to Alaska with her dad. At first, it feels like banishment-but there she meets Kai. He welcomes her into his life, sharing his family, his friends, and his warmth. Until suddenly, Kai pulls away for no reason at all. He's quiet, withdrawn. Then one day, he disappears. Kai's twin, Hunter, believes Kai's retracing their missing father's steps in the wilderness north of Anchorage. When they learn there's a blizzard on the way, Gabi's hurt at Kai's coldness swiftly turns to serious concern. He's alone out there. This is the boy who saved her from the dark. She can't lose him to it. So Gabi convinces Hunter to join her on a wild journey north-a trip that will challenge them physically and emotionally, as they try to convince the boy they love to return home.
Author : R.O. Gunther [Dryfuss W. Driftwood]
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499049541
This is the third in the series of three volumes featuring the adventures of our hero, Charles. The first two were: The Life and Times of Charles and Charles-Spy Extraordinaire! In those two publications Humor and adventure are rampant. Charles’s world travels forced his contact with the bad-guys. In these encounters, Charles' unique personality and astonishing ability always won-out. He and close companions became members of the International Good-Guy Spy Agency, with headquarters in The Hague, Holland. It's the good guys against the bad guys, Guys! However, the closing Chapters reveal that Charles had become awakened to a terrible reality: they had failed to defeat the bad guys of the world. This fact shocked him into deep depression. While at home in England and at his emotional lowest; King, fellow agent and archaeologist, came. Charles was startled when he was informed that research in Bible lands had disclosed an incredible conclusion. That famous old book, The Bible, is in reality—accurate world history! Charles, jolted, “Why! That's impossible; the Bible is an old religious book that practically nobody pays any attention to.” But, he had been shaken out of his lethargy. His drive, now, was to research King's unbelievable assertion; which drive launched the production of The Sharp Sword. Personal opinion, pride, are cast aside. Could God exist? Could God be the source of this incredible work? Can it answer our most imposing questions? The life and times of Charles takes a drastic turn for the best as he sharply researches the Bible. Is it really God’s two edged sword, activated for us today?! The reader is invited to join right in, participate—become a fellow researcher.
Author : Ruth Ozeki
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101606254
A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Author : Tess Sharpe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593353806
Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobbie Brown! In this feminist, suspenseful thriller the daughter of a con artist is taken hostage in a bank heist—and will need to tap into all her skills in order to survive. A BUSTLE, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN, BUZZFEED and MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2021 Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's protégé. But when her mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years Nora's been playing at normal. But she needs to dust off the skills she ditched because she has three problems: #1: Her ex walked in on her with her girlfriend. Even though they're all friends, Wes didn't know about her and Iris. #2: The morning after Wes finds them kissing, they all have to meet to deposit the fundraiser money they raised at the bank. It's a nightmare that goes from awkward to deadly, because: #3: Right after they enter the bank, two guys start robbing it. The bank robbers may be trouble, but Nora's something else entirely. They have no idea who they're really holding hostage . . .
Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735233119
The first comprehensive history of Canadians in WWI in forty years, and already hailed as the definitive work on Canadians in the Great War, At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of 1914—16. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands, died before the generals and soldiers found a way to break the terrible stalemate of the front. Based on eyewitness accounts detailed in the letters of ordinary soldiers, Cook describes the horrible struggle, first to survive in battle, and then to drive the Germans back. At the Sharp End provides both an intimate look at the Canadian men in the trenches and an authoritative account of the slow evolution in tactics, weapons, and advancement. Featuring never-before-published photographs, letters, diaries, and maps, this recounting of the Great War through the soldiers' eyes is moving, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.
Author : Mary O'Connell
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802139264
Praised for her "gift for mordant wit, which at its best is reminiscent of Lorrie Moore" ("The New York Times Book Review"), O'Connell draws upon the lives of the saints to show the divine at work in even the most mundane lives. Readers of all faiths (or none) will be delighted by these savvy and highly original modern visitations.
Author : William F. Halloran
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781783745036
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
Author : Patrick Cave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416912224
In a furutistic world, Great Families rule Britain through a caste system where reproduction is seriously restricteed, while the families keep illegal clones or spares of themselves.