Author: Feng Qu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647877059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 487
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"She was reborn as a sinner?" And, a silly girl? No, no, no, this wasn't her style. She didn't want to be a silly girl forever. After thinking about it, he decided to dress up as a man!However, this woman wasn't a man for real. If it weren't for the fact that her future path would be easier, she wouldn't have wanted to go! Err, she was actually selected by both the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince at the same time? What the hell! She was dumbstruck, she was clearly a "male" in front of them, why did these two grandfathers have to test her Real Body?She could only take a step back and reveal her daughter, the Real Body. By the way, she can help this body of hers turn the tables on the family! Eh, that's not right. Everything has been prepared, why does it feel like my heart has been lost? "Could it be that her heart had already gone elsewhere, and she wanted to blossom and bear fruit with someone here?"
Author: Di Meiliuguang
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647811805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 975
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"Brat, don't mess around. Those are mine." He was always kissing his bent face, which made him angry."Go, eat the vinegar of a child. Baby, call me mother again." She teased him and kissed him on the cheek.With one hand on her lips and the other on the child, she said, "Don't be reckless. You promised me that you would only kiss me."She lazily lay on the sheep-covered grass, looking up at the sky. "Night, I want to eat grapes."A peeled grape fell on her lips: "Lazy man. I have to wait on everything. "She smiled and said, "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I'm too lazy to bother with you. Don't you dare say that you don't like serving others?" She was going to be pampered to the heavens, making her not dare to be too arrogant. She was afraid that people would be jealous of her happiness.Happiness, in the palm of his own hand.
Author: Song Jiayin
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647673135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
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"Sir, the marriage certificate is in the wrong, can we ..." One day, Song Jia Yin had a flattering smile on her face.The overbearing CEO touched his handsome face: "It doesn't matter if you get the wrong certificate, as long as you marry the right person!"He swore: "Marry me, be my woman, you study, I teach seriously, you take the exam, I give you water."But, you're not allowed to look at other men, you're not allowed to have physical contact, you're not allowed to have eye contact."Song Jianyin bellowed, "Gong Yichen, you must be itching!""Wife, I'm so itchy!"
Author: Ruth Ann Nordin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781442181076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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When Carrie Allen learns that her father has arranged a marriage between her and Justin Monroe, she knows that a pair couldn't be more mismatched. And she wants out!Justin Monroe has loved Carrie for years, so he jumps at the chance to marry her. But he's in for a surprise when she tells him the truth...and asks for an annulment.Too bad for her he's not willing to give up without a fight. Too bad for him she's not going to make that easy.Will he succeed in melting her cold heart or will she forever be "the cold wife"?*This revised version of The Cold Wife is rated R.
Author: Sarah Manguso
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0593241231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (The Boston Globe), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America. “Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times “Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping “My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.” For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield. As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm—from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive. In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.
Author: Jess Walter
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062868101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library | New York Times Book Review (Historical Fiction) | NPR's Fresh Air | O Magazine | Washington Post | Publishers Weekly | Seattle Times | USA Today A Library Reads Pick | An Indie Next Pick From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes another “literary miracle” (NPR)—a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two brothers swept up in the turbulent class warfare of the early twentieth century. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. Dubious of Gig’s idealism, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless nineteen-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Is it enough to win the occasional battle, even if you cannot win the war? Featuring an unforgettable cast of cops and tramps, suffragists and socialists, madams and murderers, The Cold Millions is a tour de force from a “writer who has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors” (Boston Globe).
Author: CJ Hauser
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0593312880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.
Author: Song Jiayin
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647673143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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"Sir, the marriage certificate is in the wrong, can we ..." One day, Song Jia Yin had a flattering smile on her face.The overbearing CEO touched his handsome face: "It doesn't matter if you get the wrong certificate, as long as you marry the right person!"He swore: "Marry me, be my woman, you study, I teach seriously, you take the exam, I give you water."But, you're not allowed to look at other men, you're not allowed to have physical contact, you're not allowed to have eye contact."Song Jianyin bellowed, "Gong Yichen, you must be itching!""Wife, I'm so itchy!"
Author: Jessica Au
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
ISBN: 1922725188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA). Cold Enough for Snow was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries. A novel about the relationship between life and art, and between language and the inner world – how difficult it is to speak truly, to know and be known by another, and how much power and friction lies in the unsaid, especially between a mother and daughter. A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while, they talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes and objects; about the mother’s family in Hong Kong, and the daughter’s own formative experiences. But uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken? Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them. 'So calm and clear and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.' — Helen Garner 'Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power.' — Edouard Louis 'Au’s prose is elegant and measured. In descriptions of bracing clarity she evokes ‘shaking delicate impressions’ of worlds within worlds that are symbolic of the parts of ourselves we keep hidden and those we choose to lay bare. Put simply, this novel is an intricate and multi-layered work of art — a complex and profound meditation on identity, familial bonds and our inability to fully understand ourselves, those we love and the world around us.' — Jacqui Davies, Books+Publishing
Author: Pang Pang
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649354010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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He had clearly returned as a king, yet he was forced to marry a cold and beautiful wife. He was clearly an immortal, yet his entire body was covered in thorns. He couldn't even touch him, much less sleep. Even a man asking his wife for some living expenses is being snubbed. Ye Xian realized that his life could be so tragic. He was determined to push his life to this woman!
