Download or read book Invitation to a Bonfire written by Adrienne Celt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Oprah.com, and MSN.com as one of the best books to read this summer! The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose books Zoya has privately obsessed over for years--her luck seems to have taken a turn for the better. But she soon discovers that Leo is not the solution to her loneliness: he's committed to his art and bound by the sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera. As the reader unravels the mystery of Zoya, Lev, and Vera's fate, Zoya is faced with mounting pressure to figure out who she is and what kind of life she wants to build. Grappling with class distinctions, national allegiance, and ethical fidelity--not to mention the powerful magnetism of sex--Invitation to a Bonfire investigates how one's identity is formed, irrevocably, through a series of momentary decisions, including how to survive, who to love, and whether to pay the complicated price of happiness.
Download or read book Alone with the Horrors written by Ramsey Campbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published by Arkham House in 1993 in a substantially different form"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book A Bonfire in My Mouth written by Susi Newborn and published by Harpercollins Australia. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and revealing autobiography of a strong and resourceful woman who has lived on the edge and put her body on the line for her beliefs. Susi Newborn is a committed environmental activist and one of the founding directors of Greenpeace UK. As the daughter of an Argentinean diplomat she was born to an exotic life of privilege. However, this came to an abrupt end when her father died in London in mysterious circumstances. Susi then chose a life of environmental activism, unafraid to speak out and take direct action. fishing trawler she later renamed the 'Rainbow Warrior'.
Download or read book I m taking her written by Dmitry Nazarov and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of my wedding night, I ended up in a casino where my new husband lost all his money. And the owner of the casino wished to take me as a pledge...What should I do? Fight? But what if this man, Max, awakens feelings in me that I have never experienced for my husband? What if, when the time comes, I don’t want to leave?..Contains foul language.
Download or read book Fire Me Up written by Katie Macalister and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aisling Grey is back-and in more trouble than ever. She thought being a courier would be easy. It's not. She thought being a Guardian would come naturally. It doesn't. She thought she could get out of being a wyvern's mate. She can't. And she never thought she'd be irresistible to men. But she is.
Download or read book Bonfire written by Krysten Ritter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the forthcoming novel Retreat. “A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn “Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.”—Ruth Ware Nothing burns as bright as the truth. It has been ten years since Abby Williams, a successful environmental lawyer, left home for the modern apartments and one-night stands of Chicago. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’s biggest scandal, involving her former classmate Kaycee Mitchell—just before Kaycee disappeared for good. And when Abby unearths a disturbing ritual called “The Game,” it will threaten reputations and lives, exposing a darkness that may consume her.
Download or read book Incriminating Dating written by Rebekah L. Purdy and published by Entangled: Crush. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opinionated, unconventional Ayla Hawkins isn’t the type to use blackmail, but sometimes a girl has to stand up for what’s right. So when she catches Mr. Perfect Luke Pressler doing something decidedly un-perfect, Ayla’s got the dirt she needs to get Luke on her side—in the form of her new fake boyfriend. One mistake. All Luke wanted was a night to goof off, to blow off steam. The next thing he knew, he was pretending to date Ayla Hawkins. But his little blackmailer turns out to be kind. Honorable. And just the breath of fresh air he didn’t even realize he was suffocating for. But Luke and Ayla come from different worlds, and once the terms of their agreement end, their fauxmance will, too. Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book features adult language, sexual situations, and plenty of girl power. Reading may result in swooning, laughing, and looking for a Luke of your own.
Download or read book Blood of Angels written by Alexis Brooks de Vita and published by Fiction4All . This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy. In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners' Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free. From the tale of a beautiful woman imprisoned in a tower to save her village from slave raiders to the murdered girl whose spirit is trapped in her bedroom mirror, these stories build to a bloody battle between the shape-shifting freed people hiding in plain sight and the bounty-hunting patrollers who pursue them. The blue-eyed African American girl who masquerades as the freed people's owner must learn, in the end, to choose the love and freedom in hiding that she can have or succumb to the death that is its only alternative.
Download or read book The Night I Spent with Aubrey Fisher written by Christopher M. Tantillo and published by Christopher M. Tantillo. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy determined to die. A girl determined to save his life. After the death of his little brother, Grayson’s guilt spirals his life into chaos; it’s all his fault. He wants to rewind that night back. To erase the pain he’s caused. So he’s decided; in twenty-four hours, he’ll kill himself. Then mysterious and reckless Aubrey shows up with a proposition: A “literally insane” all-night adventure that will show him the beauty in the mundane. Grayson doesn’t know why the foster girl with the piercings, crimson locks, and fishnet leggings is helping, especially when he finds out Aubrey harbors dark secrets of her own. Yet as they spend his last night learning to let go of pain, Grayson may have a new choice to make. But can he ever really be happy again? Told in a heartfelt and poignant style interspersed with quirky humor, The Night I Spent with Aubrey Fisher is a coming of age romance about two people who need to get lost in order to find each other.
Download or read book Wound from the Mouth of a Wound written by torrin a. greathouse and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.
Download or read book The End of August written by Yu Miri and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee Woo-cheol. When his ghost appears, alongside those of his brother Lee Woo-Gun, and their young neighbor, who was forced to become a comfort woman to Japanese soldiers stationed in China during World War II, she must uncover their stories to free their souls. What she discovers is at the heart of this sweeping, majestic novel about a family that endured death, love, betrayal, war, political upheaval, and ghosts, both vengeful and wistful. A poetic masterpiece that is a feat of historical fiction, epic family saga, and mind-bending story-telling acrobatics, The End of August is a marathon of literature.
Download or read book How Not to be Popular written by Cecily Anne Paterson and published by Wombat Books. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddie tries to be nice to everyone. Even weird, chicken-obsessed Tahlia. BUT she'd way prefer to hang out with the cool K-girls at school. The only problem is that they don't seem interested in her anymore. And at Year 6 camp Maddie has a decision to make: how far will she go to be popular? Will she be able to live with the guilt when she finally has everything she's been hoping for? Follow Maddie's hilarious antics with chickens, secrets and undies in the latest adventure at Kangaroo Valley Public School.
Download or read book The Reckless Kind written by Carly Heath and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the face of small-town tradition—full of compassion, love, and determination to live the lives of their choosing. It’s 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn’t want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic future, given her single-sided deafness, unconventional appearance, and even stranger notions. Asta would rather spend her life performing in the village theater with her fellow outcasts: her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, wealthy Erlend Fournier. But the situation takes a dire turn when Nils lashes out in jealousy—gravely injuring Gunnar. Shunning marriage for good, Asta moves with Gunnar and Erlend to their secluded cabin above town. With few ties left to their families, they have one shot at gaining enough kroner to secure their way of life: win the village’s annual horse race. Despite Gunnar’s increasing misgivings, Asta and Erlend intend to prove this unheard-of arrangement will succeed. Asta trains as a blacksmith; Erlend cares for recovering Gunnar. But as race day approaches, the villagers’ hateful ignorance only grows stronger. With this year’s competition proving dangerous for the trio, Asta and Erlend soon find they face another equally deadly peril: the possibility of losing Gunnar, and their found family, forever.
Download or read book Pioneer Trails Trials and Triumphs written by Laura Hardin Carson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To All Survivors written by Yakov Avidon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before that morning, I had only heard of prisons. After all, these had nothing to do with my life. But now, bewildered and numb, I was standing in a small hot room trying to keep from falling down, author Yakov Avidon describes as he opens To All Survivors, an intense, gripping, and graphic memoir of himself-a man who was there. He didnt seem to remember much. All he knew was that he was in some kind of prison with many beds, in blocks of eight, all welded together. Trying to remember, he looks back at the circumstances leading him to his present dilemma, beginning with his childhood and family. Jewish, he recalls fleeing from his home, when Germany invaded the country. He mentions the painful and bloody encounters, as well as many other heartbreaking and enduring exploits he and his family had to undergo while trying to stay alive. How the events unfold towards the narrators eventual redemption will touch the readers hearts. Not only an autobiography, To All Survivors also revisits a painful part of history-pre and post Soviet Union, through the authors memories. Avidon shares his story in this compelling read in an effort to share what actually happened in the past, to settle with it once and for all, and to serve as an inspiration for others. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com.
Download or read book Door of Bruises written by Sierra Simone and published by Sierra Simone. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve years ago, our fates were sealed with a kiss. We are all, for better or worse, doomed to love each other until death do us part. My heart belongs to Proserpina and St. Sebastian—even if he no longer wants it. Even if she has left it behind to follow him. Delphine’s fled back home, and Becket’s holy calling is in peril. And now only Rebecca and I remain at Thornchapel to face the unknown. The door is open. The door that shouldn’t exist; the door that people have died to close. I don’t feel like the lord of the manor. I don’t feel like a king or a wild god. I am a friend and a boyfriend and a brother—and a failure at being all of these things. But the door doesn’t care about my guilt. It only cares about the sacrifice I’ll make to close it. As the bruising dark of Samhain approaches, so does the fate of our circle, of Thornchapel and the village and the valley beyond it. And I must don the crown, because one thing is still true, even if I must face it alone. Here at Thornchapel, the kings must go to the door. Here at Thornchapel, all kings must die. Door of Bruises is Book Four of the Thornchapel series. Content warnings can be found at thesierrasimone.com/contentnotes
Download or read book Heads or Tails written by Rahul Bhatia and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all starts with the flip of a coin. Shrey is a daring risk-taker, who gambles with his life. Struggling with his indecisiveness, he takes dangerous decisions based on the game of ‘Heads or Tails,’ believing he has tapped into a lucky streak that will never run out. Shrey falls in love with the adventurous, playful Tamanna, wins a jackpot for his gambler friend Sahil, as he discovers the secret to living a perfect life. However, after a wrong turn, his fate changes and madness begins. Everything starts falling apart like a house of cards. Will he still choose his destiny above all? Join Shrey on a thrilling journey into the darkness and divinity of the human soul. A poignant exploration of romance, fate, addiction, friendship, idealism, karma and spiritual awakening, 'Heads or Tails' is a story that will have your heart balanced on the edge of a coin. The end will leave you spellbound. www.headsortails.in
