Download or read book The Driftwood Girls written by Mark Douglas-Home and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO MISSING WOMEN. AN OCEAN FULL OF SECRETS . . . 'A first-class mystery - perplexing and at times disturbing' i 'Intelligence, imagination and lucid writing' The Times __________ Kate and Flora have always been haunted by a mystery - their mother, Christine, vanished without trace when they were children. But now Kate has a more urgent problem: Flora has disappeared too. In desperation, she searches Flora's house, and finds a scrap of paper with a name scribbled on it: Cal McGill. Cal is a 'sea detective': an expert in the winds and the tides, and consequently adept at finding lost things - and lost people. Can Cal find Flora? And might he even know the secret of what happened to their mother, all those years ago . . . ? __________ 'I'm completely addicted to this series' Dermot O'Leary Praise for Mark Douglas-Home: 'I could not put it down' 5***** reader review 'The best novel I have read in years. A real page turner' 5***** reader review 'Utter brilliance' 5***** reader review 'Many twists and turns and kept me intrigued to the end' 5***** reader review

Download or read book The Sea Detective written by Mark Douglas-Home and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first mystery in a truly unique crime series. 'There comes a time when a novel raises the bar for a particular genre, and The Sea Detective does just that for Scottish crime fiction' (Scotsman) Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, environmentalist and one-of-a-kind investigator. Using his knowledge of the waves - ocean currents, prevailing winds, shipping records - McGill can track where objects have come from, or where they've gone. It's a unique skill that can help solve all sorts of mysteries. Such as when two severed feet wash up miles apart on two different islands off the coast of Scotland. Most strangely, forensic tests reveal that the feet belong to the same body. As Cal McGill investigates, he unravels a web of corruption, exploitation and violence, which threatens many lives across the globe - very soon including his own... Praise for The Sea Detective: 'Raises the bar for Scottish crime fiction ... elegantly written and compelling' The Scotsman 'Excellent' The Literary Review - top five crime books of the year 'Promises to be a fine series of detective novels' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month 'An unusual, interesting and enthralling read' Shotsmag 'A compelling protagonist' The Times Literary Supplement

Download or read book Driftwood Summer written by Patti Callahan Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry continues to spellbind readers in this rich and engaging novel of three sisters...their loves, their rivalries, and the events of one summer that change their lives. In the small seaside town of Palmetto Beach, the Sheffield sisters—responsible Riley, vivacious Maisy-Rose, and fun-loving Adelee—reunite to save the family's beach-community bookstore. But summer also marks the return of Mack Logan, whose choice of Maisy over Riley years ago destroyed the special closeness between the sisters... Now Riley, a single mom, is hiding a shattering secret about their mother. Maisy, a California designer, still blames Riley for ruining her one true love. And Adalee resents the family's intrusion into her summer plans. All three will be forced to confront the conflicts that tore them apart and the bounds of love and loyalty that still draw them together...

Download or read book The Malice of Waves written by Mark Douglas-Home and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping and atmospheric mystery about one boy's disappearance from an isolated but bleakly beautiful island on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean . . . 'A fine series of detective novels' SUNDAY TIMES 'CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH' ________ Five years ago, fourteen-year-old Max Wheeler disappeared from Priest's Island. It's a close-knit local community. There are no secrets. Except what happened to Max. None of the police or private investigations have shed any light on what happened. But there is one man who is yet to take on the case: The Sea Detective. Cal McGill is an oceanographer and unique investigator who uses his knowledge of tides, winds and currents to solve mysteries no-one else can. But Cal is an unwelcome stranger who must navigate the tensions between Max's inconsolable father, the broken family he has neglected, and the embittered locals, resentful after years of suspicion. As Cal arrives, a violent storm approaches, threatening to completely cut off the island, with a possible murderer at large . . . ________ 'The Malice of Waves is the first novel literally to give me nightmares . . . for a crime novel that's surely a mark of distinction' Herald 'Really good stuff, full of atmosphere, and accomplished in both prose and plot' Morning Star Praise for Mark Douglas-Home: 'A first-class mystery - perplexing and at times disturbing' i 'Intelligence, imagination and lucid writing' The Times 'I'm completely addicted to this series' Dermot O'Leary

Download or read book The Clay Girl written by Tucker, Heather and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and lyrical debut novel Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls. But Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge to Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper, an imaginary seahorse. Yet the respite does not last, and Ari is torn from her aunts and forced back to her twisted mother and fractured sisters. Her new stepfather, Len, and his family offer hope, but as Ari grows to adore them, sheÍs severed violently from them too, when her mother moves in with the brutal Dick Irwin. Through the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s, Ari struggles with her fatherÍs legacy and her motherÍs addictions, testing limits with substances that numb and men who show her kindness. Ari spins through a chaotic decade of loss and love, the devilish and divine, with wit, tenacity, and the astonishing balance unique to seahorses. The Clay Girl is a beautiful tour de force about a child sculpted by kindness, cruelty, and the extraordinary power of imagination, and her families „ the one sheÍs born in to and the one she creates.

Download or read book Maren s New Family written by Jen Jones and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maren has been very close to her mother, so she is not happy when she discovers that she will soon have a new stepfather, and when she meets his twin children she is not sure that even her three friends, Delaney, Ashley, and Willow, can pull her through--especially after the twins shave Ashley's dog Coco during a particularly disastrous sleepover.

Download or read book The Summer Girls written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Alice Monroe captures the complex relations between three half sisters scattered across the country and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds.

Download or read book Beach Girls written by Luanne Rice and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three women whose friendship echoes across generations, and the mystic coastal town that brings their scattered lives and loves back home again.

Download or read book This Town Is Not All Right written by M. K. Krys and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An engaging, plot-driven thriller that begs for a sequel." - Kirkus Reviews "For junior conspiracy theorists everywhere." - Booklist Driftwood Harbor may seem like an ordinarily boring, small New England town, but there's something extremely strange and downright creepy happening within town limits. Twins Beacon and Everleigh McCullough are moving from their home in sunny LA to Driftwood Harbor, a rainy fishing village in New England. If that wasn't bad enough, there's something strange about this town and the mysterious group of too-perfect students called The Gold Stars. After Everleigh is recruited into their ranks, Beacon must uncover Driftwood Harbor's frightening secret before he loses his sister forever. This Town Is Not All Right is the middle-grade horror debut from M. K. Krys (YA author Michelle Krys). Be prepared for a thrilling page-turner with a major mystery, because the residents of Driftwood Harbor will do whatever it takes to keep their dark secrets from rising to the surface.

Download or read book Driftwood Unmasked written by Gibbes McDowell and published by Ybr Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional story based on a real person. "Driftwood" Cory is a local legend in Beaufort County, SC, known for art he made from driftwood along the shore and horseshoe shells. Who was he, where did he come from? The answers, and more, are here!

Download or read book Driftwood Bay A Hope Harbor Novel Book 5 written by Irene Hannon and published by Revell. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tragedy upends her world, Jeannette Mason retreats to the tiny Oregon seaside town of Hope Harbor to create a new life. Vowing to avoid emotional attachments, she focuses on running her lavender farm and tea-room--until a new neighbor with a destructive dog and a forlorn little girl invades her turf. But she needn't worry. Dr. Logan West is too busy coping with an unexpected family, a radical lifestyle change, and an unruly pup to have any interest in his aloof and disagreeable neighbor. Yet when both Jeanette and Logan find themselves pulled into the life of a tattered Christian family fleeing persecution in war-torn Syria, might they discover that love sometimes comes calling when it's least expected? Bestselling and award-winning author Irene Hannon invites readers back to the charming seaside town of Hope Harbor, where they are sure to find peace, healing, and a second chance at happiness.

Download or read book Gather the Daughters written by Jennie Melamed and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

Download or read book Sunset on Moonlight Beach written by Sheila Roberts and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Roberts proves again why she is the premier purveyor of small-town, feel-good romance.” —Booklist USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts takes readers back to the sun-dappled shores of Moonlight Harbor as its citizens find hope, happiness and humor in the wake of a tragic loss. Jenna Jones has been standing on the shore of the Sea of Love for too long. Even with two good men interested in her, she's been afraid to wade in. According to her best friend, Courtney, she should. The water’s fine. Life is great! Practically perfect, if you don’t count Courtney’s problems with her cranky ex-boss. Maybe Courtney’s right. It’s time to dive in. When tragedy strikes, everything changes and Jenna's more confused than ever. But this fresh heartache might help her figure out at last who she can turn to when times get tough. Full of warmth and humor, Sunset on Moonlight Beach proves that every ending can be the beginning of a beautiful new story. “A sun-dappled, ocean-splashed, and superbly satisfying addition to the endlessly charming Moonlight Harbor series.” —Booklist on The Summer Retreat Don't miss these other delightful entries in the Moonlight Harbor series: Welcome to Moonlight Harbor Winter at the Beach The Summer Retreat Beachside Beginnings

Download or read book Magnolia Canopy Otherworld written by Erin Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Carlyle's Magnolia Canopy Otherworld is a stark collection of poems examining female autonomy and hardship within the American South. Included inside is a featured interview with the poet.

Download or read book The Dancing Girl written by Hasan Shah and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jan's death, her grief-stricken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, first-person narrative "without realizing", as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), "that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel".

Download or read book The Island of Sea Women written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).

Download or read book Broken Heart Club written by Cathy Cassidy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andie, Eden, Ryan, Tasha and Hasmita love being part of the Heart Club. They've promised to stay best friends forever and nothing can tear them apart. But sometimes things happen that you couldn't ever have expected and forever might not be as long as you think. Now, two years later, Eden and Ryan are haunted by memories of the past. Can they find a way to bring the club back together or is it too late to mend a broken heart? A gorgeous new story from the bestselling author of the Chocolate Box Girls series.