Download or read book This Raging Light written by Estelle Laure and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A funny, heartwrenching, and soulful” debut novel about family, friends, and first love from the acclaimed author of Mayhem and But Then I Came Back (Bustle). Lucille Bennett is pushed into adulthood after her mom decides to take a break from parenting, from responsibility, from Lucille and her little sister, Wren. Left to cover for her absentee parents, Lucille thinks, “Wren and Lucille. Lucille and Wren. I will do whatever I have to. No one will pull us apart.” Now is not the time for level-headed Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she’s about to experience when she falls for Digby Jones, her best friend’s brother. With blazing longing that builds to a fever pitch, Estelle Laure’s soulful debut will keep readers hooked and hoping until the very last page. “I loved this book. I was torn between wanting to devour it in one breathless read and needing to stop and savor each gorgeous turn of phrase. This is a remarkable debut.”—Morgan Matson, New York Times-bestselling author of The Unexpected Everything “Estelle Laure’s This Raging Light might be YA, but it’s got plenty of grown-up appeal.”—Entertainment Weekly “A funny, poetic, big-hearted reminder that life can—and will—take us all by surprise.”—Jennifer E. Smith, bestselling author of Field Notes on Love “Lucille may not take down a beast or assassinate any super bads, but she’s what heroines look like and love like in real life.”—Justine Magazine “Heartbreakingly hopeful, lyrically told.”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Sid and Teddy written by H. D. Knightley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of John Green, Gayle Forman, and Rainbow Rowell-The kind of book that requires a box of tissues for all the feels. __________________________ Sid loves Teddy. Sid loves surfing and the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her mom. It's just all really complicated. Because Teddy is her best friend. Her mom dies, and Mary might not be the best role model-fate can drag you by the hand and pull you along, but maybe you have to choose to be happy. And does the hot rock star make Sid happy? Possibly. Read along to find out. ___________________ "The relationship between Sid and Teddy is gorgeous, gut wrenching, heart-warming and real." -SummerSto "Sometimes I would laugh, sometimes I would get mad, and sometimes I came close to crying. It was very enlightening to see the changes and feel a long with them." - J. Fox ..".Knightley is amazing at channeling boy super heroes, and fragile, yet strong young women." -A. Conrad

Download or read book Bright written by H. D. Knightley and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estelle lived in a world where her career had been chosen.Her future husband had been picked.Sure, she had her faults, but she tried to improve. She really tried.She just had too many questions. She wanted to change everything about the world starting with her night sky. Her overly lit, decorated by projections, careening and spiraling, night sky.So she came up with a bright idea.Now she's a celebrity. She's a rebellious outlaw. She's a criminal. And the chances are that everyone she loves will be disappeared. How could she have risked so much just to see the stars?

Download or read book City of Villains Book 1 Volume 1 written by Estelle Laure and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney's Villains meet Gotham in this gritty fairy tale-inspired crime series. Mary Elizabeth Heart is a high school senior by day, but by night she's an intern at the Monarch City police department. She watches with envy from behind a desk as detectives come and go, trying to contain the city's growing crime rate. For years, tension has simmered between the city's wealthy elite, and their plans to gentrify the decaying neighborhood called the Scar - once upon a time the epicenter of all things magic. When the daughter of one of the city's most powerful businessmen goes missing, Mary Elizabeth is thrilled when the Chief actually puts her on the case. But what begins as one missing person's report soon multiplies, leading her down the rabbit hole of a city in turmoil. There she finds a girl with horns, a boyfriend with secrets, and what seems to be a sea monster lurking in a poison lake. As the mystery circles closer to home, Mary finds herself caught in the fight between those who once had magic, and those who will do anything to bring it back. This dark and edgy YA series explores the reimagined origins of Maleficent, Ursula, Captain Hook, and other infamous Disney Villains like you've never seen before.

Download or read book The Best Laid Plans written by Helen Kaine and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Little Joy written by Cecilia Pavon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón's short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose aesthetics and politics were an earnest response to the disastrous impact of American-exported neoliberal policies and the resulting economic crisis of 2001. Their publications were fragile--xeroxed, painted on cardboard--but their cultural impact, indelible. A cofounder of Buenos Aires's independent art space and publishing press Belleza y Felicidad--where a whole generation of soon-to-be-famous Argentine artists showed for the first time--Pavón pioneered the use of "unpoetic" and intimate content, her verses often lifted from text messages or chatrooms, her tone often impish, yet brutally sincere. Fellow Argentine poet Marina Yuszczuk once wrote, "Pavón's writing is filled with minor illuminations and conjectures; her syntax is the syntax of commas, 'buts,' and disjunctives, thoughts and impressions organized into a current that flows, branches off, and stands still." In 2015, Pavón's first volume of collected poems, A Hotel With My Name, was published in English. Contemporary writers in the US, Australasia and Europe discovered a deep affinity with her work. Pavón's protagonists, Ariana Reines noted, "are absolute women, guileless dreamers, saints in sneakers, on sidewalks, in jail, in Zara, on buses, in nightclubs, in bed." Translated by Pavón's own poetic protégé Jacob Steinberg, Little Joy collects the best of Pavón's short stories written between 1999-2020, originally published in three volumes in Spanish.

Download or read book Cork Dork written by Bianca Bosker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK “Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a shade closer.” —Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine—until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a “cork dork.” With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what’s the big deal about wine? What she learns will change the way you drink wine—and, perhaps, the way you live—forever. “Think: Eat, Pray, Love meets Somm.” —theSkimm “As informative as it is, well, intoxicating.” —Fortune

Download or read book Becoming Mila written by Estelle Maskame and published by Publishers Group UK. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Los Angeles and Nashville over a long, hot summer, this gorgeous contemporary YA romance shimmers with love, friendships - and family frictions.

Download or read book The Replacement Wife written by Tiffany L. Warren and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling romance from Essence-bestselling author Tiffany L. Warren, two women are determined to win the heart of Atlanta’s most eligible widower . . . Five years after his beloved wife’s death, wealthy Quentin Chambers still hasn’t returned to the church or his music ministry. Even his home is now devoid of music, and without his attention, Quentin’s five children are out of control—until his mother steps in and hires a live-in nanny. Montana is pretty, compassionate, churchgoing, and even has a beautiful singing voice. The children take to her right away, and soon Quentin finds his heart opening to faith—and love—once more. But not everyone loves Montana . . . A “friend” of Quentin’s first wife, Chloe has been scheming since the funeral to become the next Mrs. Chambers. Now she’ll do whatever it takes to get rid of Montana—including blackmail, theft, and digging up a troublemaking man from Montana’s past. But Chloe has secrets of her own, and the tables may turn with a twist she never saw coming . . . “I just love her work.” —Victoria Christopher Murray “Warren brings the Sound of Music story to modern wealthy Atlanta in this moving inspirational novel.” —Booklist

Download or read book Estelle written by Linda Stewart Henley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edgar Degas visits his French Creole relatives in New Orleans from 1872 to ’73, Estelle, his cousin and sister-in-law, encourages the artist—who has not yet achieved recognition and struggles to find inspiration—to paint portraits of their family members. In 1970, Anne Gautier, a young artist, finds connections between her ancestors and Degas while renovating the New Orleans house she has inherited. When Anne finds two identical portraits of Estelle, she discovers disturbing truths that change her life as she searches for meaningful artistic expression—just as Degas did one hundred years earlier. A gripping historical novel told by two women living a century apart, Estelle combines mystery, family saga, art, and romance in its exploration of the man Degas was before he became the artist famous around the world today.

Download or read book The Truth Is in the Words written by Ginette Therrien and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truth Is in the Words/span/em holds within its pages two novellas, Noula's Prayer & The House That Called Me Home. The House that Called Me Home begins with a dream, a haunting dream that comes true in steps to reveal the power of prayer, the patience of love and the healing from life controlling shame. It's a story that touches your heart and maybe even your own story. It shows you that you're never too old to find out that you have been loved all along. That is what Celine finds out when her dreams come to an end in reality. Noula's Prayer takes you on a journey through many lives which all end up in the same church. When God asks Noula for one prayer and one prayer only, she searches her heart and examines her life, she then seeks guidance in God's Word. Noula finally prays her one prayer. Will God answer..?

Download or read book Bringing Out the Best in Teachers written by Joseph Blase and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What strategies do great principals use to influence teachers, students, and classroom instruction? This best-selling book by Joseph Blase and Peggy C. Kirby, now in its third edition, provides the answers from the teachers themselves. New material in this revised edition compares the authors' original research findings with recent literature on transformational leadership, school productivity, and adult learning, as well as the ISLLC and ELCC standards. Such comparisons underscore the continued timeliness and timelessness of this teacher's-eye view of effective school leadership. The book offers strategies and related practices that allow leaders to use the power of praise, influence others by using expectations and involvement, encourage professional autonomy lead by standing behind, suggest rather than direct, use formal authority positively, ideal for experienced or aspiring school principals, this enlightening and compact resource provides invaluable perspectives on how to motivate and inspire classroom teachers."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.

Download or read book The Malhoa Connection written by Estelle Ryan and published by Estelle Ryan. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decades-old crime. A torment not forgiven. Ice-cold revenge. When a prolific international criminal takes one of Doctor Genevieve Lenard’s friends hostage in his own flat, she is hard pushed to believe his motivation. Calling on her expertise as a nonverbal communications specialist, she sees the genuine fear and desperation behind this thief’s blustering demand to help him stop the Collector. For almost a year, the Collector has evaded Genevieve and her team, leaving behind a trail of stolen artworks, burned-down museums and blown-up galleries. And innocent victims. Grudgingly cooperating with this thief and his associates, Genevieve and her team track the Collector to the cobbled alleyways of Lisbon, Portugal, where they have only one chance to stop this merciless killer from exacting revenge that took decades to plan—an action that would have an irreversible political and economic impact on a global scale.

Download or read book By Any Other Name written by Simon Morley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fascinating...I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life’s seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeare’s sonnets to Bulgaria’s Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and hybrids of remarkably different provenance. This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.

Download or read book Discerned written by Sarah Addison-Fox and published by Sarah Addison-Fox. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mick and Celeste accept the offer to search for rogue agents, what should have been one final adventure becomes Torrance Kyle's worst nightmare. Amaya Mason may no longer be an agent, but there is no way she'll allow a mistake from the past wreck her happy ending. And she will fight anyone who stands in her way. Mick Haynes didn't expect to have Celeste under his command, but she's not about to let him forget just how capable she is, and that she's more than just the woman he loves.

Download or read book The Velocity of Autumn written by Eric Coble and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN swirls around Alexandra, an 80-year-old artist in a showdown with her family over where she’ll spend her remaining years. In Alexandra’s corner are her wit, her volcanic passion, and the fact that she’s barricaded herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with enough Molotov cocktails to take out the block. But her children have their own secret weapon: estranged son Chris, who returns after 20 years, crawls through Alexandra’s second-floor window and becomes the family’s unlikely mediator. No sooner are the words “Hi, Mom” uttered than the emotional bombs start detonating. THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN is a wickedly funny and wonderfully touching discovery of the fragility and ferocity of life.

Download or read book Sing Lofty written by Don Estelle and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: