Download or read book The Masks of Imogen written by John Marriott and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted pianist and Princeton graduate unaware of her rare beauty, Imogen Edwards innocently catches the eye of Manfred Andreotti, the notorious crime boss of East Clintonwood who controls everything and everyone in the town. A virgin with high ethical standards, Imogen has no intention of becoming involved with a crook like Manfred, but no woman has ever turned him down. Hes relentless in his pursuit of Imogen. When Manfred threatens her good friends in Little Italy, Imogen makes a deal with the crime boss: in exchange for her friends safety, she agrees to become Manfreds mistress. Imogen knows this is a big price to pay and understands that her life will never be the same. But the unexpected happens. Imogen begins to enjoy the notoriety of being a gangsters mistress and participates in activities she could not have dreamed of. As she falls in love with Manfred, Imogen is accepted by all of the members of his family, save for one. And that makes all the difference in the future between Manfred and Imogen.
Download or read book Lockdown written by RJ Clark and published by M4L Publishing . This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New game. New rules. Just stay alive… When the last of the bodies were cleared from the house on St. Augustine Place, everyone thought the game was over. They were wrong. Now, a deadly virus forces everyone into a nationwide lockdown. What better way to pass the time than by playing a game? This time the game is bigger. Deadlier. Two teens, a seasoned detective, and an assortment of other players find themselves on a collision course with an unspeakable evil. Who brought these strangers together? What is the purpose behind this new, sinister game? As the mystery unfolds, death awaits at every turn and long-buried secrets are exhumed while the players inch closer to a terrifying truth. Is death the only way out of this Lockdown? Prepare for the unexpected in this genre bending, nightmare fueled, Staycation sequel that will keep you guessing until the end. Are you ready to play?
Download or read book The Ghost behind the Masks written by W. David Shaw and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare’s influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of imitating a play by Shakespeare or merely quoting his lines, a Victorian poet may embrace more elusive elements of rhetoric and style, adapting them to his or her own ends. Shaw argues that the most Shakespearean attribute of the Victorian poets is not their addiction to any particular trope or figure of speech but their reticence, the classical restraint of their great monologues, and their sudden descent from grandeur to simplicity. He explores such topics as man-made law versus natural right, Stoic fatalism versus self-reliance, and the sanity of lunatics, lovers, and poets versus the madness of commonplace minds.
Download or read book Thorn written by Sarah Rayne and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the creepy, spine-tingling Immortal Tales – a series of dark, sexy fairy-tale retellings from the master of British contemporary gothic horror Sarah Rayne, perfect for fans of TERRI WINDLING, ANGELA CARTER, ANNE RICE, LAIRD BARRON and BROM. “Rayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Equal parts Daphne du Maurier, Josephine Tey and Ruth Rendell . . . Rayne possesses superb story-telling skills” US MYSTERY GUILD “Highly enjoyable mainstream horror fare from a genre veteran” BOOKLIST “Rayne writes with panache and imagination” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Rayne is a fine writer, a sure-handed plotter and skillful character builder” BOOKLIST “Colorful characters and a mastery of slow-burning suspense” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Rayne perfects the craft of deftly chosen details, simmering suspense and chilling surprises” KIRKUS REVIEWS _______________________ A family curse that has lain dormant for decades awakes, unleashing a horror beyond imagining in this dark re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty tale – from critically-acclaimed British horror author Sarah Rayne. For several hundred years the Ingram family has lived under a curse – a hereditary madness which manifests itself in the females every other generation – and it appears the madness has struck again in the beautiful Imogen. When a grisly incident occurs at the funeral of Imogen’s cousin, it’s decided she must be shut away from the world. Imogen is sent to a mental institution, where she falls into a mysterious stupor from which it’s feared she will never wake. Dan Tudor, a writer commissioned to produce a feature on the family, is not convinced the curse is real. But he soon finds himself drawn into a strange, tangled web surrounding Imogen. His investigations are about to lead him to something more macabre and horrifying than anyone could ever have imagined . . . This lush, suspenseful novel, one of three standalone fairy-tale retellings in the Immortal Tales series, is the perfect read if you enjoy gothic horror with twists and turns that will keep you up all night. READERS ARE HOOKED ON THE IMMORTAL TALES: “I am enjoying this series. If you have a taste for the gothic it's for you . . . Very atmospheric and entertaining” Suspense Fan, 5* Amazon review “Sarah Rayne's writing is always beautiful. I want to read more stories by her” 5* Amazon review “Another superb book from a superb writer” Julie B., 5* Amazon review “An amazing read. Sarah Rayne keeps the reader in suspense until the very end” Amazon Customer, 5* Amazon review “Holds you captive every step of the way . . . you won't be disappointed” B.B. Norman, 5* Amazon review “If you like to be pleasurably frightened, then this is the book for you” Greg O'Rilla, 5* Amazon review THE IMMORTAL TALES: 1. Thorn 2. Changeling 3. Wildwood
Download or read book Lady Enigma written by Veronica Verity and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Enigma is a successful cat burglar who wont take crap from anyone. Even when thugs try to steal her most recent find after an apartment complex robbery, the Lady is not threatened. Shes capable of besting them before speeding off in her luxurious Corvette. After a night of adventure, Lady Enigma decides to step into the Gemini Club for a drinkand thats when everything changes. Enigma meets handsome, shy Phillip Sydney and feels an immediate attraction. After a bit of foreplay, she takes him back to her place to show him the art of lovemaking, Lady Enigma style. The next morning, shes back to her usual tricks or is she? Has this quiet young man awakened something in hersomething that might make her give up her thieving ways? In the midst of her identity crisis, Lady Enigma once again encounters thug trouble. When Phillip stands up for her in a fight, Enigma suspects shes falling for him. Will she be able to renounce the cat burglar lifestyle and tell Phillip about her true identity? More importantly, who is Phillip Sydney really, and why does she feel as though shes met him before? Perhaps her lover has an enigma of his own
Download or read book Craving Her Rough Diamond Doc written by Amalie Berlin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her hunky outdoor doc Her first sighting of Dr. Wyatt Beauchamp is of him with his shirt off—all deliciously bronzed corded muscle and mouthwatering abs—and nurse Imogen Donally hopes the next six months working in his remote mountain practice will be…more interesting than she'd originally thought! Only, her Dr. Tall, Dark and Handsome quickly proves to be more Tall, Dark and Seriously Brooding…. Tough cookie Imogen has no desire ever to settle down, but even she is reluctantly intrigued by a man just as haunted by the past as she is. Could a red-hot fling with the sexy, stubborn doc be Imogen's undoing?
Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life written by Rachel Cohn and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!" In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS -- the International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They miss school because of jet lag and visa issues. When they get in trouble, they seek diplomatic immunity. Enter foster-kid-out-of-water Elle Zoellner, who, on her sixteenth birthday, discovers that her long-lost father, Kenji Takahara, is actually a Japanese hotel mogul and wants her to come live with him. Um, yes, please! Elle jets off first class from Washington, DC, to Tokyo, which seems like a dream come true. Until she meets her enigmatic father, her way-too-fab aunt, and her hyper-critical grandmother, who seems to wish Elle didn't exist. In an effort to please her new family, Elle falls in with the Ex-Brats, a troop of uber-cool international kids who spend money like it's air. But when she starts to crush on a boy named Ryuu, who's frozen out by the Brats and despised by her new family, her already tenuous living situation just might implode. My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life is about learning what it is to be a family, and finding the inner strength to be yourself, even in the most extreme circumstances.
Download or read book Patrick McCabe s Ireland written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few contemporary Irish writers have been more attuned to the historical influence of partition on Ireland’s culture and literary representation than Patrick McCabe. In the recent context of Brexit, his work produced in the late nineteen nineties and early two-thousands carries considerable poignancy, especially in relation to the Catholic Church, gender roles and persistence of a history of violence in Ireland. This volume attends to three novels, The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto and Winterwood as an emblematic representation of Ireland in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Contributors are: K. Brisley Brennan, Aisling Cormack, Flore Coulouma, Luke Gibbons, Lindsay Haney, Barbara Hoffmann, Jennifer Keating, James F. Knapp, Colin MacCabe, Kristina Varade.
Download or read book Nevada written by Imogen Binnie and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.
Download or read book Start Me Up written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s faking her way to true love. Imogen is determined to take the app store by storm… if she can get funding for her dating app. But no one’s biting. And desperate times call for fake names. Real Imogen can’t get a callback. Fake Felix? The calls keep pouring in. There’s no way her plan can backfire. Until it turns out that Fake Felix isn’t so fake. And he’s got a dating app of his own. When Felix confronts Imogen, sparks fly, and soon it’s app versus app in a game of love. And it turns out that true love has a way of upsetting even the most complex algorithm.
Download or read book The Hidden Years written by Rachel Hore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A dramatic, warm-hearted, wonderfully written read.' DAILY MAIL 'Gorgeous' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A gripping read' HELLO! Sunday Times bestseller Rachel Hore’s captivating new novel of secrets, loss and betrayal - set on the beautiful Cornish coast during World War Two and the heady days of the 1960s. When talented musician Gray Robinson persuades Belle to abandon her university studies and follow him to Silverwood, home to an artistic community on the Cornish coast, Belle happily agrees even though they’ve only just met. She knows she is falling in love, and the thought of spending a carefree summer with Gray is all she can think about. But being with Gray isn’t the only reason Belle agrees to accompany him to Silverwood. Why does the name Silverwood sound so familiar? What is its connection to a photo of her as a baby, taken on a nearby beach? And who is Imogen Lockhart, a wartime nurse who lived at Silverwood many years ago? As the summer months unfold, Belle begins to learn the truth – about secrets from the past that have been kept hidden, but also about the person she wants to be. Praise for The Hidden Years 'A glorious story, The Hidden Years steals your heart. I loved it!' LIZ FENWICK 'Gripping and beautifully written' KATE FURNIVALL 'An intriguing dual timeline story set in beautiful Cornwall and brimming with sense of place. A gorgeous tale, I raced through the pages!' TRACY REES
Download or read book Honeymoon with the Boss written by Jessica Hart and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top tycoon Tom Maddison is used to calling the shots—until his convenient marriage falls through. But rather than waste his honeymoon, he'll take his boardroom to the beach and bring his oh-so-sensible secretary, Imogen, on a tropical business trip! Imogen's always fancied Tom, but knows he sees her as superefficient…not sexy! Yet on idyllic Coconut Island the white sand and inviting turquoise lagoons are weaving their magic….
Download or read book The Playground written by Michelle Frances and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading The Playground by Michelle Frances, you're strapped to a brakeless rollercoaster, steadily dragged to the summit of a huge, inevitable fall. Delicious tensions between parents and squabbles among their children seem so harmless, yet every one has the potential to start a devastating snowball of events. I couldn’t put this one down.' - Janice Hallet author of The Appeal Looking to escape her old life, Nancy and her ten-year-old daughter Lara move to Ripton. A quiet, picturesque village in the rolling Derbyshire countryside, it seems like the perfect place to settle down. But when Nancy reaches the school gates, she learns that beneath the quaint village atmosphere is a minefield. And after her daughter clashes with her school friends, Nancy quickly finds herself outside the whispering circle of parents. As much as Nancy finds the playground politics absurd, they soon become impossible to ignore when Lara is accused of hurting another girl. Desperate to clear Lara's name, Nancy is about to learn just what lengths a parent will go to for their child . . . Wry, twisting and suspenseful, Michelle Frances tells a story of schoolyard sniping turning into something much uglier in The Playground, for fans of Liane Moriarty and Adele Parks. ************** PRAISE FOR THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR MICHELLE FRANCES 'Michelle Frances is an author we're going to hear a great deal about' JILLY COOPER ‘Brilliant (toxic) context. Loved the epistolary touches. Taut, dark, and seriously addictive.’ WILL DEAN ‘I tore through the pages . . . A high-speed chase of a novel’ Louise Candlish ‘Michelle Frances manages to bring fresh energy to this age-old theme of family secrets . . . The finale doesn't disappoint’ Daily Mail ‘Toxic family relationships, sultry European settings and an intricate plot which leaves you never knowing who to trust’ Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet
Download or read book Road to Purgatory written by Vittorio Miguel Sherrod and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Road to Purgatory By: Vittorio Miguel Sherrod Seven years after a nuclear explosion eradicated the world into a wasteland where all of the world's population are mutated bloodthirsty zombies, Diego Ortega, a young man who wakes from a coma months after with no memory whatsoever, treks on a journey to search for his sister, with the help of and mentored by a lone vigorous U.S. Marine warrior, Jake Scully. He survives wearing an army Ronin gas mask and robust protective gear while assembling an alliance with a group of ragtag survivors that march all across the ruins of New York and the other eastern states. They must survive dangerous journeys finding freedom, a search of a possible cure, and saving each other for humanity's last hope of civilization to fight both the dead and the living-gangs of ferocious cannibals, militias, and a malicious political leader of New York City, living in a dystopian city built around the Empire State Building. Dive into this apocalyptic world filled with the walking dead and having a terrifying joyride with the main character and his protagonist going on this journey to search for Diego's sister. Road to Purgatory's message is persistence equals resilience. No matter how flawed, each character has a motive to search for a place of humanity and the people they will be in open arms with again once they survive a dreaded world. Keeping the one thing or person in your mind to help you thrive can shape how strong of a survivor you are.
Download or read book In Lonely Places written by Imogen Sara Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean streets of the Dark City, this volume explores the genre from a new angle, focusing on non-urban settings. Through detailed readings of more than 100 films set in suburbs, small towns, on the road, in the desert, borderlands and the vast, empty West, the author investigates the alienation expressed by film noir, pinpointing its motivation in the conflict between desires for escape, autonomy and freedom--and fears of loneliness, exile and dissolution. Through such films as Out of the Past, They Live by Night and A Touch of Evil, this critical study examines how film noir reflected radical changes in the physical and social landscapes of postwar America, defining the genre's contribution to the eternal debate between the values of individualism and community.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Abbeys written by Rosie Lear and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of the Alms house in Sherborne has taken the good people of Sherborne into much thought and energetic fund raising, despite still owing the Abbot money for rebuilding after the fire. Against this backdrop, Shaftesbury Abbey becomes embroiled in a gruesome happening which involves A Sherborne family close to the young schoolmaster, Matthias Barton. With eighteen miles of hard riding between the two towns, how can this be resolved?
