Download or read book A Small Indiscretion written by Jan Ellison and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman’s reckoning with a youthful mistake. “Part psychological thriller, part character study . . . I peeled back the pages of this book as fast as I could.”—The Huffington Post At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in a washed-out California town for a London winter of drinking and abandon. Twenty years later, she is a San Francisco lighting designer and happily married mother of three who has put her reckless youth behind her. Then a photo from that distant winter in Europe arrives inexplicably in her mailbox, and an old obsession is awakened. Past and present collide, Annie’s marriage falters, and her son takes a car ride that ends with his life hanging in the balance. Now Annie must confront her own transgressions and fight for her family by untangling the mysteries of the turbulent winter that drew an invisible map of her future. Gripping, insightful, and lyrical, A Small Indiscretion announces the arrival of a major new voice in literary suspense as it unfolds a story of denial, passion, forgiveness—and the redemptive power of love. Praise for A Small Indiscretion “Ellison is a tantalizing storyteller . . . moving her story forward with cinematic verve.”—USA Today “Rich with suspense . . . Lovely writing guides us through, driven by a quiet generosity.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Book Club pick) “Delicious, lazy-day reading. Just don’t underestimate the writing.”—O: The Oprah Magazine (Editor’s Pick) “Rich and detailed . . . The plot explodes delightfully, with suspense and a few twists. Using second-person narration and hypnotic prose, Ellison’s debut novel is both juicy and beautifully written. How do I know it’s juicy? A stranger started reading it over my shoulder on the New York City subway, and told me he was sorry that I was turning the pages too quickly.”—Flavorwire “Are those wild college days ever really behind you? Happily married Annie finds out.”—Cosmopolitan “An impressive fiction debut . . . both a psychological mystery and a study of the divide between desire and duty.”—San Jose Mercury News “A novel to tear through on a plane ride or on the beach . . . I was drawn into a web of secrets, a world of unrequited love and youthful mistakes that feel heightened and more romantic on the cold winter streets of London, Paris, and Ireland.”—Bustle “Ellison renders the California landscape with stunning clarity. . . . She writes gracefully, with moments of startling insight. . . . Her first novel is an emotional thriller, skillfully plotted in taut, visual scenes.”—The Rumpus “To read A Small Indiscretion is to eat fudge before dinner: slightly decadent behavior, highly caloric, and extremely satisfying. . . . An emotional detective story that . . . mirrors real life in ways that surprise and inspire.”—New York Journal of Books “If you liked Gone Girl for its suspenseful look inside the psychology of a bad marriage, try A Small Indiscretion. . . . It touches many of the same nerves.”—StyleCaster

Download or read book Indiscretions of Archie written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiscrete Englishman tries to be a friend to all, but fails to win his American father-in-law.

Download or read book Indiscretions of Archie written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This episodic novel tells the story of Archibald Moffam, a perennially down-on-his-luck character who meets with misfortune as he tries to navigate the landmines of marriage, family relationships, and the working life. Told with the kind of sparkling wit only P.G. Wodehouse can muster, Indiscretions of Archie is enough to make anyone feel better about their own mishaps, while providing plenty of belly laughs along the way.

Download or read book Indiscretions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, once apparently progressive causes such as sexual equality and lesbian and gay emancipation are increasingly redeployed in order to discipline and ostracize immigrant underclass subjects, primarily Muslims. Gender and sexuality on the one hand and race, culture, and/or ethnicity on the other are more and more forced into separate, mutually exclusive realms. That development cannot but bear on the establishment of queer and postcolonial studies as separate academic specializations, among whom relations usually are as cordial as they are indifferent. This volume inquires into the possibilities and limitations of a parceling out of objects alternative to the common scheme, crude but often apposite, in which Western sexual subjectivity is analyzed and criticized by queer theory, while postcolonial studies takes care of non-Western racial subjectivity. Sex, race: always already distinguished, yet never quite apart. Roderick A. Ferguson has described liberal pluralism as an ideology of discreteness in that it disavows race, gender and sexuality's mutually formative role in political, social, and economic relations. It is in that spirit that this volume advocates the discreet, hence judicious and circumspect, reconsideration of the (in)discrete realities of race and sex. Contributors: Jeffrey Geiger, Merill Cole, Jonathan Mitchell and Michael O'Rourke, Jaap Kooijman, Beth Kramer, Maaike Bleeker, Rebecca Fine Romanow, Anikó Imre, Lindsey Green-Simms, Nishant Shahani, Ryan D. Fong, and Murat Aydemir

Download or read book Little Indiscretions written by Carmen Posadas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects. But who could have it in for a harmless cook? The answer, it turns out, is just about everyone who happens to be staying in the house. Nestor, while quietly stirring his sauces and whisking his egg whites, had decided to publish a compendium of gastronomic secrets that revealed, along with the culinary tricks of his trade, more than a few damning details of the hosts’ and houseguests’ private lives. To what lengths would they go to ensure that Nestor maintained a more permanent sense of discretion? Not since Nick and Nora Charles’s last cocktail party has such a merry band of mischief makers convened in one place. Little Indiscretions marks the discovery of a phenomenal writer with tremendous flair. It’s a gourmet treat readers will pounce on.

Download or read book Indiscretions of Archie Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indiscretions of the Naval Censor written by Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg, Sir bart. and published by London ; Toronto : Cassell. This book was released on 1920 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indiscretions written by Patricia Mellencamp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.

Download or read book Alien Indiscretions written by Tracy St. John and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-hidden secrets threaten to shatter their love...and the Kalquorian Empire. Cissy Salter is more than ready to shed Earth's repression when she moves to the planet Kalquor. She leaps headlong into drinking, partying and liaisons with young alien men. She would be having the time of her life if not for the disapproval of a certain rich, gorgeous Dramok she can't avoid. She'd love to despise him, but her heart has other ideas. Dramok Diltan sees the bawdy, unrefined Cissy as a thorn in his side. The last thing he needs is a woman who drives him crazy every time they meet. Yet the spark in her eyes kindles a fire he can't ignore. His enthralled clanmates Wal and Rolat are determined to get the two to stop fighting, at least long enough to explore the possibility of making Cissy part of their clan. When they discover Diltan's past misdeeds, Wal and Rolat issue an ultimatum—help them seduce the Earth-woman or face punishment. As Cissy and Clan Diltan discover each other's true natures and love blooms, the long-hidden secrets of Kalquor's leadership are revealed. An old conspiracy brought to light shatters Kalquor's peace, driving the Empire apart...and tearing Cissy from the arms of the three men she can no longer live without.

Download or read book Further Indiscretions written by Amy Charlotte Bewicke Menzies ("Mrs. Stuart Menzies") and published by London : H. Jenkins. This book was released on 1918 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book INDISCRETIONS written by Robyn Donald and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bride's Bay Resort Compelled, charmed…and compromised! Mariel loved Bride's Bay Resort, its Sea Island location, its friendly staff. She'd jumped at the offer to translate there again—but soon wished she hadn't. For one thing, working for a security-conscious delegation was no job for a woman with a past. For another, there was Nicholas Leigh, the most commanding, charismatic man Mariel had ever met and—for her—the most dangerous! From the start a feral and magnetic attraction crackled between them. An affair with a delegate would be indiscreet enough. If Nicholas discovered her carefully covered past, too, it would destroy both their lives. For his sake—for hers, too—Mariel had to get out of this man's life…. But first she had to break the spell that bound them!

Download or read book The Many Indiscretions of Arty Boyle written by Gerard Shirar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur "Arty" Garret Boyle is a master manipulator. With a sociopathic personality and an IQ of 175, he embarks on a career as an art dealer and popular musician. He associates with those in the criminal world as well as the elite of society, thereby mixing his legitimate art business with stolen and forged art. Boyle finds himself hunted by FBI agent Terry Latimer of the bureau's Art Recovery Squad and is convicted of stealing paintings from the Robert Farnsworth estate. Boyle fails to appear for sentencing and a fugitive warrant is issued. While a fugitive, Boyle masterminds the theft of a famous Rembrandt painting. He reasons that he will help the authorities "find" the painting in exchange for leniency for his crimes. But Arty expands on his original plan and exploits the stolen Rembrandt painting while being pursued by Agent Latimer. Can Arty successfully escape, or will Agent Latimer finally capture him?

Download or read book Presidential Indiscretions written by Turner Joy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Indiscretions explores the life of the President and his closest advisors. The chapters are glimpses into the world of politics, deceit and promiscuity. The book begs the question: What happens when a political icon uses cruelty and promiscuity as a mechanism of control? The President's past, present and future relationships impact on all other main prominent characters throughout the book. Experience the engaging satire and deception that is woven into each chapter. This powerful mix of political and emotional intrigue is set against a backdrop of a Washington, D.C. that few Americans ever see. It will touch your heart with its realism, warmth, surprise, sensuality, and emotions of unparalleled love for power.

Download or read book Secret Indiscretions written by Trice Hickman and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years into her happy marriage, Geneva Mayfield is devastated to find that things aren't going the way she thought they would when she first looked earnestly into her husband's eyes and made her vows. Her husband, Johnny, is suddenly acting distant when he is with her, and is mostly not with her at all. Surely, no one needs to work late that often? While ruminating on her suspicions, Geneva starts getting to know colleague Robbie Owens - and soon, their relationship blooms into an uncontrollable affair.

Download or read book Indiscretions written by Donna Hill and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attorney Khendra Phillips isn’t used to dealing with men on anything more than a business level. After having her heart broken years ago, she has spent her time focusing on her budding legal career, and it has paid off—or has it? Khendra learns the case that will make her career is being given to hotshot New York City lawyer Sean Michaels, and she can’t deny her attraction to the devastatingly handsome attorney. Can she let go of the past in order to be found guilty of love?

Download or read book Indiscretions of Archie written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-01-07T23:51:51Z with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiscretions of Archie is a comic novel adapted from a set of short stories serialized in the Strand magazine between March 1920 and February 1921 in the United Kingdom and between May 1920 and February 1921 in Cosmopolitan in the United States. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom on February 14, 1921 by Herbert Jenkins and in the United States on July 15, 1921 by George H. Doran. The eponymous Archie is Archibald Moffam, a gaffe-prone but affable Englishman who has found himself living in New York City after the end of the First World War, in which he had served with distinction. After a whirlwind romance Archie marries Lucille, the daughter of wealthy hotel owner and art collector Daniel Brewster. Many of the ensuing events revolve around Archie’s attempts to win favor with his new father-in-law. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.