Download or read book White Fox written by Sara Faring and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eerie and sly, White Fox is a trap waiting to be sprung. I was completely enthralled.”—Rory Power, New York Times-bestselling author of Wilder Girls “A ghost story that will spook even the most hardened grown-ups.” —Entertainment Weekly After their world-famous actor mother disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Manon and Thaïs left their remote Mediterranean island home—sent away by their pharma-tech tycoon father. Opposites in every way, the sisters drifted apart in their grief. Yet their mother's unfinished story still haunts them both, and they can't put to rest the possibility that she is still alive. Lured home a decade later, Manon and Thaïs discover their mother’s legendary last work, long thought lost: White Fox, a screenplay filled with enigmatic metaphors. The clues in this dark fairytale draw them deep into the island's surreal society, into the twisted secrets hidden by their glittering family, to reveal the truth about their mother—and themselves. An Imprint Book

Download or read book The Phoenix Guards written by Steven Brust and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the same world as Stephen Brust's beloved Vlad Taltos books, The Phoenix Guards is a fantasy rewrite of The Three Musketeers—a swashbuckling tale of adventure. A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, wild adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive—and an easy place to die. Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and "tolerably well-acquainted with its use." Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement. But in a realm renowned for repartee and betrayals, where power is as mutable as magic, a young man like Khaavren, newly come from the countryside, had best be wary. His life depends on it. And so does the future of Draegara. The Khaavren Romances, set in the world of Vlad Taltos's Dragaera: 1. The Phoenix Guards 2. Five Hundred Years After 3. The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 1) 4. The Lord of Castle Black (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 2) 5. Sethra Lavode (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 3) The Baron of Magister Valley [standalone] At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Dear Captor written by Liz Lovelock and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Captor,You've stolen me. You've spilled my blood.You've brought me pain.But what you're yet to realize is . . . I'm a fighter.I've been broken before.I've at one point even lost the will to live.So now you know . . . this information I gift to you.I'm ready for you, so do your worst.Sincerely, Elenore

Download or read book Something Beautiful written by Liz Lovelock and published by Liz Lovelock. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s the best man. I’m the maid of honor. What could go wrong? Spencer Cook is the love of my life and my ex-best friend. Three years ago, I let him walk away without telling him how I truly felt. Since then, it’s been radio silence between us. That doesn’t mean I forgot about him though. How could I? Now he’s back, and my feelings for him haven’t changed. I still want him. Could this be our second chance at love? **Something Beautiful was previously released as The Final Play and has since been rewritten and now includes new content. The Jilted Series Something Old - Book One Something New - Book Two Something Borrowed - Book Three Something Blue - Book Four Something Beautiful - Book Five

Download or read book Something New written by Liz Lovelock and published by Liz Lovelock. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant, no, that can’t be right. The little pink lines staring back at me don’t lie. I can’t be, though, not to the one man I know my family will hate, although, at the time, I had no idea about our family's past. He said he’d call, and he never did. Now today, of all days, he decides to show up with some lame excuse of losing my number. How ironic. I’m officially screwed. How do I tell him, better yet, how do I tell my family?

Download or read book Something Borrowed written by Liz Lovelock and published by Liz Lovelock. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Can I borrow you for a night?” When Maddie poses this question to her long-time friend Wyatt, his immediate response is yes. He could never say no to the one woman who’s held a special place in his heart since they were teenagers. With a boyfriend who can’t seem to make her a priority, Maddie turns to the one person she knows she can always rely on… Wyatt. Maddie is the girl Wyatt shouldn’t let walk away twice, and he plans to hold on to her and never let her go, but first, she has a decision to make. Will she stay or will she take a chance on the unknown?

Download or read book The Wedding Steal Complete Series written by Layla Valentine and published by Layla Valentine. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He kidnapped me on the eve of my cousin’s wedding, And now he’s the only one who can protect me…” HER: I’ve been to a few bad parties, but this is the first one that ended in me getting kidnapped! My hot-as-hell captor tells me he used to be a SEAL, that he’ll make sure no-one hurts me… Would you trust a guy who just abducted you, ripped body and soulful green eyes aside? He came here to steal the bride, But he got me, the bridesmaid, instead. And now we’re both on the run. HIM: I served my country, but now I’m working for the mob. And instead of saving women, I’m being hired to kidnap them. It doesn’t feel good, but in my line of work there’s only one way out. I just didn’t expect to fall for the girl I’m being paid to steal. I’m gonna make this my last job, and damn the consequences. If they want her, they’ve got to get through me first…

Download or read book The Captor s Image written by Basil Dufallo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential view of ecphrasis--the literary description of art objects--chiefly treats it as a way for authors to write about their own texts without appearing to do so, and even insist upon the aesthetic dominance of the literary text over the visual image. However, when considering its use in ancient Roman literature, this interpretation proves insufficient. The Captor's Image argues for the need to see Roman ecphrasis, with its prevalent focus on Hellenic images, as a site of subtle, ongoing competition between Greek and Roman cultures. Through close readings of ecphrases in a wide range of Latin authors--from Plautus, Catullus, and Horace to Vergil, Ovid, and Martial, among others--Dufallo contends that Roman ecphrasis reveals an ambivalent receptivity to Greek culture, an attitude with implications for the shifting notions of Roman identity in the Republican and Imperial periods. Individual chapters explore how the simple assumption of a self-asserting ecphrastic text is called into question by comic performance, intentionally inconsistent narrative, satire, Greek religious iconography, the contradictory associations of epic imagery, and the author's subjection to a patron. Visual material such as wall painting, statuary, and drinkware vividly contextualizes the discussion. As the first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis at Rome, The Captor's Image resituates a major literary trope within its hybrid cultural context while advancing the idea of ecphrasis as a cultural practice through which the Romans sought to redefine their identity with, and against, Greekness.

Download or read book Edge of Sanity written by Jesi Met and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the distinction between reality and fiction? Sanity and insanity? These are the questions that twin siblings Jasmin and Herby find themselves attempting to answer. Jasmin writes in an attempt to understand what is true. She struggles to maintain separation between her scrambled memories and her grief stricken reality without losing herself in the process. Herby tries to answer most of the unanswered questions that Jasmin's letters raise. He also battles between his sanity and insanity in his efforts to gain the love and affection of his beloved sister. He will eliminate any boundaries that come between him and what his heart longs for regardless of the consequences. However, what ails the two most is what has brought them to the mental torment they suffer. Their less than normal childhoods certainly did not foster reputable adulthoods. What confines Jasmin to her white prison? Who are her daily noonday "friends" that visit her at the cusp of her reality leaning over her imagination? What motivates Herby to want to destroy all those that stand in his way of pursuing his only love? Will he accomplish all that his soul desperately tries to fulfill? With all these unanswered questions and more, it is no wonder why the two bear the mental torment to which they are submitted.

Download or read book Dear Child written by Romy Hausmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You escaped. But he will never let you go. Now a major Netflix series A windowless shack in the woods. Lena's life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father: meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulously observed. He protects his family from the dangers lurking in the outside world and makes sure that his children will always have a mother to look after them. One day Lena manages to flee - but the nightmare continues. It seems as if her tormentor wants to get back what belongs to him. And then there is the question whether she really is the woman called 'Lena', who disappeared without a trace over thirteen years ago. The police and Lena's family are all desperately trying to piece together a puzzle that doesn't quite seem to fit. 'Chilling, original and mesmerising. Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' DAVID BALDACCI 'Couldn't put this book down, loved every minute' 5* READER REVIEW 'A peerless exercise in suspense' FINANCIAL TIMES 'So many twists and turns, you can barely catch your breath!' 5* READER REVIEW 'Will haunt you long after the last page' ALICE FEENEY 'A nail-biting page turner' 5* READER REVIEW 'Keeps you guessing' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Addictive' 5* READER REVIEW 'Intelligent and original' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'Loved everything about this book' 5* READER REVIEW 'Claustrophobic, terrifying and fiercely compelling' DAILY MAIL 'If you loved Room you will love this' 5* READER REVIEW 'Disturbingly good' LESLEY KARA 'Gripping, astounding, heart-pounding' 5* READER REVIEW 'Gripping, suspenseful and beautifully written' JO SPAIN

Download or read book Dear Miss Metropolitan written by Carolyn Ferrell and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another. Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. Among them is lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, but how could anyone who fancies herself a “newspaperwoman” have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why is it that only two of the three girls—now women—were found? The mystery haunts the two remaining “victim girls” who are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. Like Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.

Download or read book The Orphan Master s Son written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.

Download or read book Change of Plans The Complete Series written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Change of Plans series. Follow Jupiter and Emilia on their galactic saga in this four-book boxset. She’s a runaway princess – he’s a runaway prince. When Jupiter – the most important and hunted royal of the Orion Empire – accepts a deal to kidnap a wayward princess, he shouldn’t accept. He does, and it drives him right into the arms of a galactic war. If he doesn’t keep his wits about him, it’ll thrust him into her arms, too. A problem, as Emilia Astrid is infected with a power to change everything. …. Change of Plans follows two witty, wisecracking runaway royals fighting to save their crooked galactic kingdoms. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Change of Plans: The Complete Series and soar free with an Odette C. Bell boxset.

Download or read book Change of Plans Episode One written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s a runaway princess – he’s a runaway prince. When Jupiter – the most important and hunted royal of the Orion Empire – accepts a deal to kidnap a wayward princess, he shouldn’t accept. He does, and it drives him right into the arms of a galactic war. If he doesn’t keep his wits about him, it’ll thrust him into her arms, too. A problem, as Emilia Astrid is infected with a power to change everything. …. Change of Plans follows two witty, wisecracking runaway royals fighting to save their crooked galactic kingdoms. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Change of Plans Episode One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.

Download or read book A Good Day to Die written by Linda Penninga and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Wainwright is fifteen years old in 1866 when her family travels west on the Oregon Trail. The journey is difficult, tedious, and at times, dangerous. They cross swollen rivers, endure severe storms, and Indian attack. While the wagon train continues on to Oregon, the Wainwright family stops and settles in Nebraska. They build a sod home and farm the land. Rebecca and her family endure many hardships on the windswept prairie: fierce snowstorms, voracious wolves, and prairie fire. In the spring of 1867, the Wainwrights are attacked by a party of Lakota Indians and Rebecca is taken captive. Her fear is nearly overwhelming and she wonders what these savages may have in store for her. Her captor, a young, handsome warrior, brings her to a woman in his own village to become the woman's daughter. Rebecca learns the Lakota language and way of life, realizing she has had many misconceptions about the Indians. She learns they are loving, caring people who only want to be left alone by the whites. She falls in love with the young, handsome warrior and they are married in the Lakota tradition. She begins to see the destruction of the native people, their lands stolen and desecrated, the buffalo slaughtered, and the tribes forced onto reservations. She witnesses the Indian people fighting back against white aggression, and becoming a hunted and hated people in their own country.

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