Author: Baby Cakes Bloomer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524646555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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This is a heartbreaking yet triumphant story about two girls growing up in the 60s and 70s in the households with street gangster fathers who present them with twisted, dark, and challenging scenarios to overcome. However, it would be one girl through her courage and unyielding faith as instilled in her from the words of her dying great grandmother who decided she would resist all the negative forces coming up against her by attaining education and standing firmly on her spiritual legacy as a means to fight the negative effects of male dominance coupled with mental illness, drugs, and sex all the while resisting but still curious about the street life. This personal journey evokes a rollercoaster of emotions from sadness to happiness and demonstrates elements of suffering and struggle along with love, friendships, resistance, patience, and perseverance. Courageously sacrificing her own safety, Kathleen, returns to her dangerous and wicked environment to help her mother and good friend escape the obstacles hindering them from living decent and happy lives. It gives a riveting account of survival when you find yourself in circumstances beyond your control. Kathleen beginning at the young age of 10 years old decided to fight, not die, and live realizing then there was nothing else to depend on except God.
Author: Nick Cave
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140294552
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both. . . Compelling and astonishing in its baroque richness, Nick Cave's acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into the twisted world of Deep Southern Gothic tragedy.
Author: Laini Taylor
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316192147
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Author: Larry ''L. Black'' Hill
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146283843X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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KALI JAMES aka REDFLAG is an unruly gangster Blood from the notorious streets of Los Angeles who's experienced it all. Kali's reputation for Murder, Mayhem, and Robbery keeps him among the elite in the violent underworld. Unfortunately, a strange twist of events begin to take place after detectives raid his neighborhood, and begin asking questions about robberies they're following up on. Kali and his crew are taken in for murder which eventually turns into a land slide of betrayal, police cooperation, and mistrust. Take a journey with Kali, who's on the verge of losing it all, his life, and his relationship with his child's mother, Martika who's drifting toward the arms of another man. Martika never thought Kali's words would be so relevant in life, but comes to find out otherwise as she comes face to face with the Process of Elimination.
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Category : Women college students
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Lauren Sanders
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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This novel about a violently obsessed fan is “part journal, part suicide note and part psychological suspense story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Set in the late 1980s, and shifting between the points of view of an eighteen-year-old girl who is in prison for murdering a soap actress and the mother of the victim, this novel takes a dark look at celebrity and tabloid culture, neglectful parenting, and the damage that can arise from a desperate need for attention. From a Lambda Literary Award–winning author, With or Without You is “a fearless book that captures perfectly the torment of modern-day adolescence, as well as the utter loneliness of obsession” (Nina Revoyr, author of Southland).
Author: Michael Poore
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062064428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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“The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel.” —Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish John Scratch, the Devil himself, is the protagonist in this stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and tender novel, as he tricks, teases, and prods America to greatness in the hope of luring his lost love back down to Earth from Heaven. Up Pops the Devil is fiction with humor and heart, the kind of hilarious, off-beat, and original reading experience that fans of Chris Moore, Joe Hill, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jim Shepard would sell their souls for—a brilliant blending of the occult and the outrageous starring the anti-hero of anti-heroes, the one and only Prince of Darkness.
Author: Frau Henriette Wach von Paalzow
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Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Author: Jodi Angel
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1935639579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Jodi Angel’s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom’s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, and often acting out of mixed intentions and questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Angel’s gritty and heartbreaking prose leaves readers empathizing with people they wouldn't ordinarily trust or believe in.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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