Download or read book The Bone Parade written by Mark Nykanen and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2004-02-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Stassler is not your average artist. He has been wildly praised for a series of bronze sculptures that group families together, depicting them in moments of excruciating physical and emotional pain -- but the art world has no clue as to how he creates such authentic, gruesome, seemingly tortured human representations. He assigns each family a number, and now he's up to number nine. What's in store for family #9? Cruelty and savagery that you can't even imagine . . . The Bone Parade introduces a villain who is as methodical, calculating, and detached as any found in the best fiction. It's gripping. It's chilling. You might be too afraid to read on, but you'll never be able to tear your eyes away.

Download or read book The Parade written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this "darkly funny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.

Download or read book Bone Parade written by Mark Nykanen and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Stassler n'est pas un artiste ordinaire. Il tire son immense succès d'une série de bronzes représentant des familles en proie à d'abominables souffrances physiques et morales. Les critiques, eux, ignorent comment l'éminent sculpteur réussit à créer des figures si authentiques et, pourtant, si horriblement tourmentées. Chaque famille s'est ainsi vu attribuer un numéro et Stassler attaque maintenant la pièce n°9. Que réserve-t-il donc à cette famille n°9 ? Un traitement d'une cruauté et d'une sauvagerie que vous ne pouvez même pas imaginer. Seulement, cette fois-ci, un grain de sable vient enrayer sa terrible machine...

Download or read book Parade written by Shuichi Yoshida and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crowded two-bedroom apartment in Tokyo, four Japanese twenty-somethings are waiting for their lives to begin. They have come from all over Japan, bringing with them dreams of success and romance, but life isn’t exactly going as planned. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls, Ryosuke is sleeping with his best friend’s girlfriend, and Mirai’s drinking has become a serious problem. Only Naoki, an aspiring filmmaker and the glue that keeps them all together, seems to be on the right track. Meanwhile, their next door neighbors are up to something suspicious, and a mysterious attacker is terrorizing the neighborhood. When a homeless teenager suddenly appears, his arrival sets off a chain of events that will bring to light dark secrets the tenants of Apt. 401 have kept from one another—and from themselves. Parade—from Shuichi Yoshida (“Japan’s Stieg Larsson” —The Wall Street Journal), the wildly popular author of Villain—is a shocking story of life in the big city.

Download or read book The Biggest Parade written by Elizabeth Winthrop and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey is so excited when the mayor appoints him Parade Chairman for a big celebration that he forgets something very important but, fortunately, his dog, Fred, remembers.

Download or read book Red at the Bone written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi Coates 'Generous and big-hearted' Brit Bennett 'A true spell of a book' Ocean Vuong 'A proclamation' R.O. Kwon 'A little masterpiece' Paula Hawkins 'I adored this book' Elizabeth MacNeal 'Pure poetry' Observer 'A sharply focused gem' Sunday Times 'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist 'Haunting' Guardian 'A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story' Metro 'Prose that sings off the page... Gorgeous' Mail on Sunday 'A nuanced portrait of shifting family relationships' Financial Times 'As seductive as a Prince bop' O, The Oprah Magazine 'Razor-sharp' Vanity Fair 'Dazzling... With urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York Times An unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us. From the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to post 9/11 New York - Red at the Bone explores sexual desire, identity, class, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, as it looks at the ways in which young people must so often make fateful decisions about their lives before they have even begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. *** ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR: New York Times; Washington Post; Time; USA Today; O, The Oprah Magazine; Elle; Good Housekeeping; Esquire; NPR; New York Public Library; Library Journal; Kirkus; BookRiot; She Reads; The Undefeated ***

Download or read book The Night Parade written by Ronald Malfi and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Stephen King's The Stand, acclaimed horror writer Ronald Malfi takes readers on a nightmarish journey through a post-pandemic landscape, as a devoted father seeks a safe haven for his young daughter, who may hold the key to humanity's survival... First the birds disappeared. Then the insects took over. And the madness began… They call it Wanderer’s Folly—a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out the human race. After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up one morning thinking that the worst was over. By midnight, he’s bleeding and terrified, his wife is dead, and he’s on the run in a stolen car with his eight-year-old daughter, who may be the key to a cure. Ellie is a special girl. Deep. Insightful. And she knows David is lying to her. Lying about her mother. Lying about what they're running from. And lying about what he sees when he takes his eyes off the road…

Download or read book Max and the Fall Parade written by Grosset & Dunlap and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 8x8 storybook, it’s almost time for the Fall Parade! Max and Roger are making a car float, while Ruby and Louise are making a doll float. Max finds lots of things to use for his float—but they’re things Ruby and Louise had already put aside! Eventually, Max makes everyone realize that by sharing their resources, they can create the best float ever: best dressed dolls riding in a cool car!

Download or read book Hush written by Mark Nykanen and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art therapist in Oregon becomes suspicious of weird drawings by a pupil. So begins the story of a serial killer who marries single mothers in order to abuse their children.

Download or read book Beto and the Bone Dance written by Gina Freschet and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beto searches all day for something all his own to put on his grandmother's grave for the Day of the Dead.

Download or read book The Night Parade written by Kathryn Tanquary and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Coraline and Spirited Away comes a diverse fantasy debut steeped in Japanese mythology about a girl and a deadly curse. The last thing thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto wants to do for her summer vacation is trade in exciting Tokyo for the antiquated rituals and bad cell reception of her grandmother's village. Preparing for the Obon ceremony is boring. Then the local kids take interest in Saki and she sees an opportunity for some fun, even if it means disrespecting her family's ancestral shrine on a malicious dare. But as Saki rings the sacred bell, the darkness shifts. A death curse has been invoked...and Saki has three nights to undo it. With the help of three spirit guides and some unexpected friends, Saki must prove her worth—or say goodbye to the world of the living forever... The Night Parade is perfect for: Fantasy fans and kids 11 to 14 who love Spirited Away Kids and teens looking for creepy, suspenseful stories Adults looking for diverse books for kids Mythology fans and kids 12 to 14 A 2017 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A Kids' Indie Next Pick A Junior Library Guild Selection A 2017 Freeman Book Award Winner

Download or read book Bone Worship written by Elizabeth Eslami and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and soul-searching novel about an Iranian-American girl whose enigmatic father has decided to arrange her marriage. Jasmine Fahroodhi has always been fascinated by her enigmatic Iranian father. With his strange habits and shrouded past, she can't fathom how he ended up marrying her prim American mother. But lately love in general feels just as incomprehensible. After a disastrous romance sends her into a tailspin, causing her to fail out of college just shy of graduation, a conflicted Jasmine returns home without any idea where her life is headed. Her father has at least one idea—he has big plans for a hastegar, an arranged marriage. Confused, furious, but intrigued, Jasmine searches for her match, meeting suitor after suitor with increasingly disastrous (and humorous) results. As she begins to open herself up to the mysteries of familial and romantic love, Jasmine discovers the truth about her father, and an even more evasive figure—herself—in this highly original and striking debut novel.

Download or read book The Bone Collector s Son written by Paul Yee and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and of his father.

Download or read book Blood Water Falls a Scottish Detective Mystery DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 2 written by T. G. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Sensational." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Nerve-jangling brilliance." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Another absolute belter." You can't drown the dead. When the brutally murdered body of a local geography teacher is discovered at Kilwinnoch's famous beauty spot, Blood Water Falls, the community is rocked to its core. For DCI Duncan Bone, the killing appears to be an open and shut case. But it's not long before a sinister clue unleashes dark and deadly forces, blowing the investigation wide open, and putting Bone and his team in grave danger. With the town baying for blood, and too many suspects and not enough answers, DCI Bone faces not only the toughest case of his career, but the battle of his life to defeat the psychological demons determined to destroy him once and for all. Set among the dramatic hills and glens of Scotland's Campsie Fells, Blood Water Falls is the second in a series of edge-of-your-seat crime thrillers that will keep you guessing right up to the nail-biting, heart-stopping climax. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, J.D. Kirk, Val McDermid and Stuart MacBride. Also available in Kindle Unlimited. What Readers are saying about the DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrilller Series : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A brilliantly written thriller set in beautiful Scotland. A great read very highly recommended." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I have found my new favourite author. If you are going to read this then make sure you have time to finish it in one go as you will not want to put it down before you know how it ends." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This book is fantastic! It grips you from the first page to the last. A go-to for crime fiction lovers. Can't wait for the next one! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I think we have another great author to add to the ever growing Scottish crime fiction author top table list." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Fast moving, strong storyline with great interaction and banter between the police characters. Realistic and gritty, but with humour throughout. I'll most definitely be back for the next one. Loved it!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A brilliant brilliant book. I love all the characters and would definitely recommend to other avid crime readers like me." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An incredible police thriller, with all the elements that make these kinds of books fabulous reading. A damaged detective, a case that pushes all his buttons and more mind games than you can poke a stick at. Fabulous read, I can't wait to read the next book in the series!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The author has a wonderful knack of creating very believable characters as well as building a marvellous sense of atmosphere - the hairs on the back of my neck were on end." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The book drew me in from the start with the clever plot and excellent characterisation." Kindle Reviewers

Download or read book Too Close to the Bone written by Allon White and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Easter Parade written by Richard Yates and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional and her love affairs never really satisfy her. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time.

Download or read book Bone Confetti written by Muriel Leung and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian American Studies. In BONE CONFETTI, there are two types of survivors at the end of the world--lovers and ghosts who die, are revived, and die again. Each death and resurrection carves its way into the landscape of a wrecked city where skies are flocked by molten birds and trees grow in shades of ash. The same confetti floats between funeral and parade, wedding and hell. When all that is left is the terrible residue of memory, lovers and ghosts try their best to make do. They scale the horizon, collecting debris wherever they go in the attempt to fashion a new sense of humanity. BONE CONFETTI houses something else: an activity of mourning. The book does this in place of the other things it could have done. Or housed. It struck the bone of my own heart. It made the words into a bell. And the bell made me stop what I was doing, just as certain events or thoughts or scenes do, and orient to that unexpected, powerful sound. Leung is this kind of writer, whose book makes you want to come up with a new language to describe what a book could be, could feel like, to read. I am grateful for the chance to encounter her work at this time, in this part of the real year.--Bhanu Kapil