Download or read book Invitation to a Bonfire written by Adrienne Celt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Oprah.com, and MSN.com as one of the best books to read this summer! The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose books Zoya has privately obsessed over for years--her luck seems to have taken a turn for the better. But she soon discovers that Leo is not the solution to her loneliness: he's committed to his art and bound by the sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera. As the reader unravels the mystery of Zoya, Lev, and Vera's fate, Zoya is faced with mounting pressure to figure out who she is and what kind of life she wants to build. Grappling with class distinctions, national allegiance, and ethical fidelity--not to mention the powerful magnetism of sex--Invitation to a Bonfire investigates how one's identity is formed, irrevocably, through a series of momentary decisions, including how to survive, who to love, and whether to pay the complicated price of happiness.

Download or read book Alone with the Horrors written by Ramsey Campbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published by Arkham House in 1993 in a substantially different form"--T.p. verso.

Download or read book A Bonfire in My Mouth written by Susi Newborn and published by Harpercollins Australia. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and revealing autobiography of a strong and resourceful woman who has lived on the edge and put her body on the line for her beliefs. Susi Newborn is a committed environmental activist and one of the founding directors of Greenpeace UK. As the daughter of an Argentinean diplomat she was born to an exotic life of privilege. However, this came to an abrupt end when her father died in London in mysterious circumstances. Susi then chose a life of environmental activism, unafraid to speak out and take direct action. fishing trawler she later renamed the 'Rainbow Warrior'.

Download or read book I m taking her written by Dmitry Nazarov and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of my wedding night, I ended up in a casino where my new husband lost all his money. And the owner of the casino wished to take me as a pledge...What should I do? Fight? But what if this man, Max, awakens feelings in me that I have never experienced for my husband? What if, when the time comes, I don’t want to leave?..Contains foul language.

Download or read book Bonfire written by Krysten Ritter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the forthcoming novel Retreat. “A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn “Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.”—Ruth Ware Nothing burns as bright as the truth. It has been ten years since Abby Williams, a successful environmental lawyer, left home for the modern apartments and one-night stands of Chicago. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’s biggest scandal, involving her former classmate Kaycee Mitchell—just before Kaycee disappeared for good. And when Abby unearths a disturbing ritual called “The Game,” it will threaten reputations and lives, exposing a darkness that may consume her.

Download or read book Incriminating Dating written by Rebekah L. Purdy and published by Entangled: Crush. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opinionated, unconventional Ayla Hawkins isn’t the type to use blackmail, but sometimes a girl has to stand up for what’s right. So when she catches Mr. Perfect Luke Pressler doing something decidedly un-perfect, Ayla’s got the dirt she needs to get Luke on her side—in the form of her new fake boyfriend. One mistake. All Luke wanted was a night to goof off, to blow off steam. The next thing he knew, he was pretending to date Ayla Hawkins. But his little blackmailer turns out to be kind. Honorable. And just the breath of fresh air he didn’t even realize he was suffocating for. But Luke and Ayla come from different worlds, and once the terms of their agreement end, their fauxmance will, too. Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book features adult language, sexual situations, and plenty of girl power. Reading may result in swooning, laughing, and looking for a Luke of your own.

Download or read book Blood of Angels written by Alexis Brooks de Vita and published by Fiction4All . This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy. In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners' Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free. From the tale of a beautiful woman imprisoned in a tower to save her village from slave raiders to the murdered girl whose spirit is trapped in her bedroom mirror, these stories build to a bloody battle between the shape-shifting freed people hiding in plain sight and the bounty-hunting patrollers who pursue them. The blue-eyed African American girl who masquerades as the freed people's owner must learn, in the end, to choose the love and freedom in hiding that she can have or succumb to the death that is its only alternative.

Download or read book Wound from the Mouth of a Wound written by torrin a. greathouse and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.

Download or read book The Fire and the Flame written by Robert Paul Szekely and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Brothers written by Allen D. Anderson and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brothers, Peter and Andrew Amonovitch, are fraternal twin brothers, age 14 when the story begins. They are called out of school, informed that their mother is facing death after falling or being pushed down the basement stairs by their alcoholic father. On her deathbed their mother pleads with Andrew to watch over his defiant aggressive brother. Andrew agrees to fulfill her plea. This proves a formidable task. Andrew tells the story of his enduring challenge to uphold the commitment to his mother.

Download or read book The Stick Handler written by Cathryn Fox and published by Cathryn Fox. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A honeymoon in Italy and I’m the pretend bride? How can I say no? Luke just dumped his conniving fiancé and needs a shoulder to cry on. I’ll always be there for him. Problem is, I want him. I’ve always wanted him. Then I see the king-sized bed. And Luke starts pulling out all the plays. His kisses are far more real than the ones I’ve imagined. And the more we pretend, the more real it feels. But come the end of the week, will our make-believe honeymoon be the end of a lifelong friendship? Or the beginning of something much more? I guess it’s time to find out.

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Download or read book The Tenacity of a Wandering Warrior written by Guy Marchi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some life stories beggar belief . . . even those of people we may yet to hear of. In this astonishing memoir, author Guy Marchi recounts the truly extraordinary story of his life. Born and raised in small-town British Columbia, Marchi’s experiences have been unbelievable. He enjoyed a successful musical career, travelling much of the world, spending years touring Southeast Asia and earned his name into the Guinness Book of World Records for most instruments played (186). Not only did he have an incredible musical career, though—he also became a high-ranking athlete, running marathons, setting power-lifting records, placing nationally as a cyclist, and winning the Fitness Canada competition. Beyond this, Marchi has had a number of other extraordinary experiences, including living in India as a beggar, being forced to run—on foot—from a criminal inquest, sailing the Caribbean for two years, and building an immaculate two-story authentic log house with the logs cut from his own land. Striking, evocative, and dynamic, Marchi’s is a truly incredible story of what one might accomplish in a single lifetime—if only you set your mind to it.

Download or read book The Box Man written by Kobo Abe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. The Box Man is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.

Download or read book Telling Thyme written by Karny McFlynn and published by Karny McFlynn. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”That witch we don’t know can kill us…” Everly Thyme accepted her long lost aunt’s offer of the family estate, but it created more problems than it solved. When Everly moves in she’s got more problems than she can handle between a basement full of water and an unwanted houseguest, and her long lost aunt has flown the coop. When Everly trips over her aunt’s dead body, she sets in motion a chain of events that send her new world spiraling out of control. Something’s not quite right and everyone is keeping things from her. With Everly’s aunt floating around looking for a new body and an evil demon confusing her every thought, will Everly solve the mystery or be the next victim? Find out in this “cozy on speed” with the first full length book of Karny McFlynn’s Thyme Witch Mysteries series. Keywords: Witch, fun, humorous, comedy, slap-stick, laugh out loud, fast-paced, female protagonist, vampire, cat, ghost, gargoyle, spirit, paranormal, supernatural

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