Download or read book Poor Margo written by Soti Triantafyllou and published by Patakis. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Αυτή εδώ είναι η ιστορία της Μάργκο Κρουπ, μιας έφηβης απ' τα μεσοδυτικά που αφήνει την πατρίδα της, το Μάουντ Πλέζαντ του Μίσιγκαν, για να πάει στο Χόλλυγουντ. Στο τέλος του δρόμου βρίσκονται ο Σήζαρ, ο νεαρός Μεξικανός που ερωτεύεται τρελά, κι ο Μαξ, ένας φανατικός κινηματογραφόφιλος που μανατζάρει ένα ροκ συγκρότημα, τους Gringos, καθώς κι ο Γκρεγκ Τζόουνς, ένας πρώην ρόουντι των Grand Funk που γράφει τ' απομνημονεύματά του· και κάμποσοι άλλοι παράξενοι κι ευάλωτοι άνθρωποι που γεμίζουν, άθελά τους, τη ζωή της Μάργκο με τρυφερότητα, αναστάτωση και απόγνωση. Και παρ' όλο που η Φτωχή Μάργκο μιλάει για το πώς είναι να είσαι νέος, κι ανήσυχος και έκπληκτος μέσα στη μεγαλούπολη, δεν πρόκειται για ένα μυθιστόρημα πάνω στο σεξ, τα ναρκωτικά και το ροκ εν ρολ, αλλά μάλλον για το χρονικό μιας ενηλικίωσης, μιας ελεύθερης πτώσης κι ενός ανεκπλήρωτου έρω

Download or read book Remembering Margo written by Donzella Michele Malone and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely moving true story about the life and tragic death of Margo Prade, a physician, mother, daughter, sister and wife. Dr. Prade was a well respected member of her community who lost her life one fateful day at the hands of her husband. Ms. Malone believes this compelling and heart wrenching story she never be forgotten.

Download or read book The Darkling written by R. B. Chesterton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “spellbinding tale” of an Alabama family and a troubled teenage orphan: “eloquent evidence that Southern storytelling is indeed a very special art form” (The New York Times Book Review). In the 1940s, Coden, Alabama was a hideaway for movie stars—an isolated playground tucked among live oaks and placid bay waters where pleasure and vice could be indulged. By the summer of 1974 Coden's glamour has faded, but it doesn't bother Mimi Bosarge, who is just happy to have a job as a live-in tutor with the wealthiest family in town, the Hendersons. When the Hendersons generously open their arms to Annie, a troubled teenager with no recollection of her past, Mimi's greatest concern is creating a curriculum for the family's new ward. But it soon becomes obvious that something is wrong. Annie seems suspiciously savvy for her young age, and Mimi can't quell the unnerving sense that there is something malicious about the waiflike beauty.

Download or read book The Collected Stories written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.

Download or read book Paper Towns written by John Green and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.

Download or read book Margo written by Helen Sheehy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States today, more than three hundred resident nonprofit professional theatres bring both classics of world drama and daring new plays to life for audiences across the country. In a recent year, American resident theatres produced over three thousand plays for an audience of fifteen million. During that same period, the commerical theatre on Broadway mounted just thirty-two productions. Now New York looks to regional theatre for new plays: in the past decade every Pulitzer Prize-winning play has originated not on Broadway but in nonprofit regional houses.

Download or read book The Beautiful People written by Michelle Gable and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set—a failed debutante's new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach’s inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer “This glittering novel shines as brightly as its heroine. A true delight.” —Nicola Harrison, author of Hotel Laguna Washington Post Best Book of April * PureWow Best Book of Summer It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she's completely broke. But she’s just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons—famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars—and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better. From the bright beaches of Acapulco to glitzy parties in New York, Margo is thrown headfirst into the glamorous jet-set world she so covets, observing its ways from behind the camera as Slim’s sidekick. There’s Jackie Kennedy, Truman Capote's Swans, a host of Vanderbilts. Beautiful people in beautiful places. But when they land in Palm Beach, a scene with few rules and many riches, the lines between work and play begin to blur. As Margo becomes swept up in the city’s social circle—and into a friendship with heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer—the golden life seems increasingly in reach. Until she finds herself entangled in a complicated web of loyalties and secrets that could bring it all crashing down…

Download or read book Our Hands written by Annie V. Prewitt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the story of "Minnie Miles" continues to unfold through the finished work of "OUR HANDS" you will discover the amazing truths between Minnie and Dr. Malcolm Forbes. It turns out that Dr. Forbes is not actually the man that Minnie thought he was for so long. Before her very eyes she finds out who he truly is and what he's really all about. Be amazed and inspired by what develops between Ms. Jackson and Mr. Baines the store owner over on Nims Road, simply through their phone conversations since the day he handed over to her the diary left with him by Cylia Faye Miles, Minnie's mother.

Download or read book Firestarter written by Claire Farrell and published by Claire Farrell. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margo will protect those around her from death, even if it kills her. Dorian will do anything to stop her. A series of accidents send both their lives spinning out of control. Together, they can restore order, but at what price?

Download or read book Depression in Children and Adolescents written by Harold S. Koplewicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, this title has contributions from many internationally respected experts from this field. The book covers the following areas: theories of development and etiology of depression; medical illness and depression; depression and other psychiatric conditions; treatment approaches to depression. The book has been written in such a way that research, clinical and psychiatric issues are easily understood. It will still be of interest and value to paediatricians, mental health practitioners and researchers in the field.

Download or read book Projections written by The Projections S. E. Porter and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. E. Porter, critically-acclaimed YA author of Vassa in the Night, bursts onto the adult fantasy scene with her adult novel that is sure to appeal to fans of Jeff VanderMeer and China Mieville. Love may last a lifetime, but in this dark historical fantasy, the bitterness of rejection endures for centuries. As a young woman seeks vengeance on the obsessed sorcerer who murdered her because he could not have her, her murderer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied—or suffer mortal consequence. A lush, gothic journey across worlds full of strange characters and even stranger magic. Sarah Porter’s adult debut explores misogyny and the soul-corrupting power of unrequited love through an enchanted lens of violence and revenge. Also by Sarah Porter: Vassa in the Night When I Cast Your Shadow Never-Contented Things At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Twentieth century American Literary Naturalism written by Donald Pizer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pizer explores six novels to define naturalism and explain its tenacious hold throughout the twentieth century on the American creative imagination.

Download or read book Growing Up Poor written by Terry Moses Williams and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnographic study looks at teenagers trapped in poverty--how some succeed in the struggle to get out and others finally give up trying. It is an outgrowth of interviews with some 900 teens in New York City, Cleveland, Louisville, and Meridian, Mississippi. The neighborhoods where they live are socially and racially diverse. Among them are white areas slding into poverty as traditional blue-collar jobs in smokestack industries fade away, and black and Hispanic neighborhoods where chronic unemployment has long been the prevailing tradition and fact of life. Based on the teenagers' own accounts, the book describes their experiences with working and seeking work, achievements in school and athletics, family life, and the positive influences of their peers and adult mentors. It also details the negative choices that tend to make poverty a life sentence: prostitution and street hustles, pregnancy and early parenthood, gang membership and criminal outlets, drugs and withdrawal into despair. Still, hope is an unquenchable attribute of youth, and it bubbles up in this book as the authors show how much these teenagers seek to do for themselves in exercising their limited options.

Download or read book Tales of the Time Scouts written by Robert Asprin and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO NOVELS OF TIME-TRAVELING ADVENTURE. Includes Time Scout and Wagers of Sin. When an experiment on an orbiting space station went wrong¾bad wrong¾ripples in time washed over the Earth bringing global disaster. The survivors, beginning to rebuild, learned that they were now able to travel into the past, utilizing the remnant time strings. But first, the time strings had to be mapped. That was the job of the brave pioneers known as time scouts. Their occupation was only slightly less dangerous than front line combat, and when it was discovered that a time traveler who wasnt extremely careful could zap himself out of existence, elaborate rules to prevent that evolved, and it was the job of the time scouts to enforce them. Time Scout: Kenneth _KitÓ Carson was one of the best, if not the best, time scouts in the business. But he has collected more than a few scars, both physical and mental, while poking around back in time, and trying not to draw the dangerous attention of the natives, not always successfully. Nowadays, he runs a small hotel at Time Terminal 86, and just wants to be a hotelier renting rooms to tourists on their way to see the Roman Circus Maximus or Victorian London firshand . . . until a cartain red-headed girl flounces out of his life through an illicit gate that may collapse and leave her lost eternally in the corridors of time . . . Wagers of Sin: Time Travel stations have become big business, with wealthy tourists taking vacations back in time. For Skeeter Jackson, one of Time Terminal 86s least honest residents, scamming those tourists is a way of life. A mans got to follow his calling, even a con man, and Skeeter might be a dyed-in-the-wool thieving scoundrel, but he freely admits it and relishes the crisp, cool feel of cash in hand¾until one of his scams went terribly wrong, and he was in more trouble than even his quick wits and crooked tricks could get him out of again. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Download or read book Emma of 83rd Street written by Audrey Bellezza and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this debut romantic comedy, a modern retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, a beautiful, clever, and rich Upper East Sider with a passion for matchmaking quickly discovers that the best match of all might just be the one she never saw coming"--

Download or read book Love and the Single Mom written by C.J. Carmichael and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming her Ex-factors took perseverance… She was an ex-wife, ex-lawyer and soon-to-be ex-owner if her restaurant didn’t turn around. To top things off, Margo Evans’s ex was getting married again. What if her two children preferred their new stepmom? But all was not lost. A new lunchtime regular, Robert Brooks, seemed likely to add some spice to her life—or he would if a single mom hadn’t recently left him standing at the altar, wrenching away the child he’d begun to love. Could Margo coax the conservative banker to swallow his fear of women with kids? And show him to a table for four? SINGLES…WITH KIDS Is it really possible to find true love when you’re single…with kids?

Download or read book Nellie Wildchild written by Emma Blair and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glasgow Nellie Thompson had been born in city bled colourless by poverty and despair, and divided against itself by religion and class. A city where appearances meant more than the truth that might lie in a person's heart . . . Nellie knew what it was like to be hungry and hopeless; to live a bitter lie with a man she hated. But still she held on to her dreams. Somehow she would leave those grey and violent streets behind. Somehow she would make her own life and her own world - even if she were forever denied the comfort of love. Praise for Emma Blair: 'An engaging novel and the characters are endearing - a good holiday read' Historical Novels Review 'All the tragedy and passion you could hope for . . . Brilliant' The Bookseller 'Romantic fiction pure and simple and the best sort - direct, warm and hugely readable. Women's fiction at an excellent level' Publishing News 'Emma Blair explores the complex and difficult nature of human emotions in this passionately written novel' Edinburgh Evening News 'Entertaining romantic fiction' Historical Novels Review '[Emma Blair] is well worth recommending' The Bookseller