Author: Roxanne Sher Olson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539923510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A bedtime story about a child's gratitude for the wonders and beauty of Santa Cruz, California.
Good Night Santa Cruz
Author: Roxanne Sher Olson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539923510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A bedtime story about a child's gratitude for the wonders and beauty of Santa Cruz, California.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539923510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A bedtime story about a child's gratitude for the wonders and beauty of Santa Cruz, California.
Kiss Mommy Goodnight
Author: Barbara Nickolae
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Barbara Nickolae’s first thriller was... “GRIPPING.” — MARY HIGGINS CLARK “SUSPENSEFUL.” — TONY HILLERMAN “A TANTALIZING PUZZLE.” — PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY Now she captivates readers once more with a chilling new novel. A tale of a caring woman, an innocent child—and a roller coaster ride of pure terror... TV news reporter Paula Carroll keeps her professional distance on the job. But when her best friend, Belinda, is found murdered, the devastating news hits close to home... Stepping in to care for Belinda’s little girl, Lissa, Paula tries to piece together the shattering murder...the brutal attack in a quiet suburban home... the neighbor who is a prime suspect. And like any mother would, Paula does everything she can to keep Lissa from harm. But a killer watches their every move. Waiting for a goodnight kiss.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Barbara Nickolae’s first thriller was... “GRIPPING.” — MARY HIGGINS CLARK “SUSPENSEFUL.” — TONY HILLERMAN “A TANTALIZING PUZZLE.” — PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY Now she captivates readers once more with a chilling new novel. A tale of a caring woman, an innocent child—and a roller coaster ride of pure terror... TV news reporter Paula Carroll keeps her professional distance on the job. But when her best friend, Belinda, is found murdered, the devastating news hits close to home... Stepping in to care for Belinda’s little girl, Lissa, Paula tries to piece together the shattering murder...the brutal attack in a quiet suburban home... the neighbor who is a prime suspect. And like any mother would, Paula does everything she can to keep Lissa from harm. But a killer watches their every move. Waiting for a goodnight kiss.
Santa Cruz Noir
Author: Tommy Moore
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617756474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
“A new collection of short fiction stories explores a seedier side of this beach town filled with murder and mystery.”—KAZU FM In Akashic Books’ award-winning series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County Noir, and Oakland Noir, “we get a series of crime stories rich with surf culture in a town loaded with itinerant spirits, typifying Santa Cruz as a place to be lost, or get lost, or lose yourself. That ethos permeates the stories in the collection, granting them an intriguing grittiness that might otherwise be missing. Concluding with a serious gutpunch of a story, Santa Cruz Noir is a worthy addition to the series” (San Francisco Book Review). This anthology features Elizabeth McKenzie’s “The Big Creep,” a Shamus Award finalist, and Lou Mathews’s “Crab Dinners” and Dillon Kaiser’s “It Follows as it Leads,” which have been included in the Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2018 list in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. It also includes brand-new stories by Tommy Moore, Jessica Breheny, Naomi Hirahara, Calvin McMillin, Liza Monroy, Jill Wolfson, Ariel Gore, Jon Bailiff, Maceo Montoya, Micah Perks, Seana Graham, Vinnie Hansen, Peggy Townsend, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Lee Quarnstrom, Beth Lisick, and Wallace Baine. “A thrilling, whip-smart book that will dazzle local lovers of crime fiction.”—Good Times Santa Cruz “There are intricate plots, sketchier plots, dubious motives, inscrutable motives, downright creepiness, edgy stuff, and wonderful humor. Something for everyone’s taste in noir.”—Escape into Life
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617756474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
“A new collection of short fiction stories explores a seedier side of this beach town filled with murder and mystery.”—KAZU FM In Akashic Books’ award-winning series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County Noir, and Oakland Noir, “we get a series of crime stories rich with surf culture in a town loaded with itinerant spirits, typifying Santa Cruz as a place to be lost, or get lost, or lose yourself. That ethos permeates the stories in the collection, granting them an intriguing grittiness that might otherwise be missing. Concluding with a serious gutpunch of a story, Santa Cruz Noir is a worthy addition to the series” (San Francisco Book Review). This anthology features Elizabeth McKenzie’s “The Big Creep,” a Shamus Award finalist, and Lou Mathews’s “Crab Dinners” and Dillon Kaiser’s “It Follows as it Leads,” which have been included in the Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2018 list in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019. It also includes brand-new stories by Tommy Moore, Jessica Breheny, Naomi Hirahara, Calvin McMillin, Liza Monroy, Jill Wolfson, Ariel Gore, Jon Bailiff, Maceo Montoya, Micah Perks, Seana Graham, Vinnie Hansen, Peggy Townsend, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Lee Quarnstrom, Beth Lisick, and Wallace Baine. “A thrilling, whip-smart book that will dazzle local lovers of crime fiction.”—Good Times Santa Cruz “There are intricate plots, sketchier plots, dubious motives, inscrutable motives, downright creepiness, edgy stuff, and wonderful humor. Something for everyone’s taste in noir.”—Escape into Life
Dancing with Strangers, Living with Ghosts
Author: Carl Brown
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Not very long before we had the pride flag and the pretty rainbow, there was the plague. Coming out as a gay man in the eighties meant mysterious deaths, antibody tests, and fears of internment along with endless funerals and a virus that was always 100 percent fatal. This is one man's story of unexpected survival, southern adventure, and maybe even divine intervention, all of which came with a surprising and surprisingly fantastic soundtrack. The eighties was a decade known for great music, and if you were a gay man, it was also known for great heartache and grief. For me, there was plenty of both, and this is my story of being one of the first to be infected and one of the very few to survive the early days of what was once an always 100 percent fatal diagnosis.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Not very long before we had the pride flag and the pretty rainbow, there was the plague. Coming out as a gay man in the eighties meant mysterious deaths, antibody tests, and fears of internment along with endless funerals and a virus that was always 100 percent fatal. This is one man's story of unexpected survival, southern adventure, and maybe even divine intervention, all of which came with a surprising and surprisingly fantastic soundtrack. The eighties was a decade known for great music, and if you were a gay man, it was also known for great heartache and grief. For me, there was plenty of both, and this is my story of being one of the first to be infected and one of the very few to survive the early days of what was once an always 100 percent fatal diagnosis.
Author: Ann Caruso
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467064491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Diary of a Sorority House Mom recount's Ann Caruso's first two years as house director for a female version of "Animal House," where the women of the house set and enforced their own rules. When the girls asked if they could recycle liquor bottles during their first meeting, she knew she was in trouble. Though the house director contract and manual mandated that Ms Caruso was responsible for the safety of the girls, she had no authority to carry out that task. There was no tab on the manual for "what happens if a drunk girl falls out of the third floor window, gets raped, or dies of alcohol poisoning." It was common to find kegs icing in the bathtub, bottles of alcohol used as room decorations, and when she asked the risk-management vice president if she wanted to know when a guy spent the night, her response was, "Why? Has someone complained." Diary of a Sorority House Mom will make you laugh out loud, and bring you to tears. It is sometimes hysterical, and at others disturbing or disguesting, but it was her life for two years. Her first sorority girls gave her eighteen of the happiest and six of the saddest months of her life. And for the most part, she wouldn't have changed a thing.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467064491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Diary of a Sorority House Mom recount's Ann Caruso's first two years as house director for a female version of "Animal House," where the women of the house set and enforced their own rules. When the girls asked if they could recycle liquor bottles during their first meeting, she knew she was in trouble. Though the house director contract and manual mandated that Ms Caruso was responsible for the safety of the girls, she had no authority to carry out that task. There was no tab on the manual for "what happens if a drunk girl falls out of the third floor window, gets raped, or dies of alcohol poisoning." It was common to find kegs icing in the bathtub, bottles of alcohol used as room decorations, and when she asked the risk-management vice president if she wanted to know when a guy spent the night, her response was, "Why? Has someone complained." Diary of a Sorority House Mom will make you laugh out loud, and bring you to tears. It is sometimes hysterical, and at others disturbing or disguesting, but it was her life for two years. Her first sorority girls gave her eighteen of the happiest and six of the saddest months of her life. And for the most part, she wouldn't have changed a thing.
Scribner's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Purity
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book “So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book “So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Working Days
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440674523
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440674523
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.
University of California Chronicle
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description