Author: Lucy Carver
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447241398
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
You can’t get into St Jude’s Academy unless you’re gifted, talented and supremely rich. New girl Alyssa is on a scholarship and feels like an outsider - she's not even that smart, apart from her photographic memory (and that's cheating, right?). Then one day her room-mate Lily is found floating face down in the lake. It looks like suicide, but, torn apart with guilt and grief, Alyssa is convinced that things aren't as they seem. Soon a jolted memory puts her on the trail of a sinister secret that might hold the clues to Lily's suspicious death. But Alyssa is in too deep, and she's being watched . . . The first in a brand-new YA series, perfect for fans of The Gallagher Girls
Young, Gifted and Dead
Author: Lucy Carver
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447241398
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
You can’t get into St Jude’s Academy unless you’re gifted, talented and supremely rich. New girl Alyssa is on a scholarship and feels like an outsider - she's not even that smart, apart from her photographic memory (and that's cheating, right?). Then one day her room-mate Lily is found floating face down in the lake. It looks like suicide, but, torn apart with guilt and grief, Alyssa is convinced that things aren't as they seem. Soon a jolted memory puts her on the trail of a sinister secret that might hold the clues to Lily's suspicious death. But Alyssa is in too deep, and she's being watched . . . The first in a brand-new YA series, perfect for fans of The Gallagher Girls
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447241398
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
You can’t get into St Jude’s Academy unless you’re gifted, talented and supremely rich. New girl Alyssa is on a scholarship and feels like an outsider - she's not even that smart, apart from her photographic memory (and that's cheating, right?). Then one day her room-mate Lily is found floating face down in the lake. It looks like suicide, but, torn apart with guilt and grief, Alyssa is convinced that things aren't as they seem. Soon a jolted memory puts her on the trail of a sinister secret that might hold the clues to Lily's suspicious death. But Alyssa is in too deep, and she's being watched . . . The first in a brand-new YA series, perfect for fans of The Gallagher Girls
Young, Gifted and Dead 2: Killing You Softly
Author: Lucy Carver
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447248058
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
After the tragic events of last term, Alyssa arrives back at St Jude's to a school full of freaked-out students. They are wary of her ability to remember every tiny thing they do, and Alyssa's beginning to feel lonely and ostracized. Then she gets an email, seemingly from a secret admirer. He teases her about her photographic memory and challenges her to prove how good it really is. At first Alyssa is intrigued and likes showing off her talent, but as her admirer's challenges get darker and more extreme and there is a murder in the nearby town, she realizes she's in too deep. Now her memory might be the only thing that can help her understand the killer and save her from the same fate . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447248058
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
After the tragic events of last term, Alyssa arrives back at St Jude's to a school full of freaked-out students. They are wary of her ability to remember every tiny thing they do, and Alyssa's beginning to feel lonely and ostracized. Then she gets an email, seemingly from a secret admirer. He teases her about her photographic memory and challenges her to prove how good it really is. At first Alyssa is intrigued and likes showing off her talent, but as her admirer's challenges get darker and more extreme and there is a murder in the nearby town, she realizes she's in too deep. Now her memory might be the only thing that can help her understand the killer and save her from the same fate . . .
Young, Gifted, and Dead
Author: Lucy Carver
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 9781250052766
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nihil sed optimus. It's Latin for ,nothing but the best.' And the truth is that you can't get through the ancient oak doors of St. Jude's Academy unless you have a brain the size of a planet and your parents appear five years running in the Sunday Times Rich List. So, Alyssa has no idea why they let her in, let alone gave her a scholarship. She's not even that smart, apart from her photographic memory (and that's cheating, right?). Resigned to her destiny as an outsider, she's happily surprised when her new roommate Lily pulls her under her wing and into a social circle that includes handsome and popular Jack Cavendish. Which makes Alyssa even more devastated when Lily is found floating face down in the lake two months later. The police rule it a suicide - there's even a note - but Alyssa's perfect memory convinces her that things aren't as they seem. Soon, a recovered memory puts her on the trail of a sinister secret society that might hold the clues to Lily's suspicious death. But Alyssa is in too deep, and she's being watched...
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 9781250052766
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nihil sed optimus. It's Latin for ,nothing but the best.' And the truth is that you can't get through the ancient oak doors of St. Jude's Academy unless you have a brain the size of a planet and your parents appear five years running in the Sunday Times Rich List. So, Alyssa has no idea why they let her in, let alone gave her a scholarship. She's not even that smart, apart from her photographic memory (and that's cheating, right?). Resigned to her destiny as an outsider, she's happily surprised when her new roommate Lily pulls her under her wing and into a social circle that includes handsome and popular Jack Cavendish. Which makes Alyssa even more devastated when Lily is found floating face down in the lake two months later. The police rule it a suicide - there's even a note - but Alyssa's perfect memory convinces her that things aren't as they seem. Soon, a recovered memory puts her on the trail of a sinister secret society that might hold the clues to Lily's suspicious death. But Alyssa is in too deep, and she's being watched...
My Dead Parents
Author: Anya Yurchyshyn
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0553447041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Named one of Esquire's "Best Nonfiction Books of 2018" "Sharp and searching...a potent look at the fraught, painful, and complicated relationship between parents and children, and the mysteries — revelatory, difficult — that can and cannot be solved." — Boston Globe Anya Yurchyshyn grew up in a narrow townhouse in Boston, every corner filled with the souvenirs of her parents’ adventurous international travels. On their trips to Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, her mother, Anita, and her father, George, lived an entirely separate life from the one they led as the parents of Anya and her sister – one that Anya never saw. The parents she knew were a brittle, manipulative alcoholic and a short-tempered disciplinarian: people she imagined had never been in love. When she was sixteen, Anya’s father was killed in a car accident in Ukraine. At thirty-two, she became an orphan when her mother drank herself to death. As she was cleaning out her childhood home, she suddenly discovered a trove of old letters, photographs, and journals hidden in the debris of her mother’s life. These lost documents told a very different story than the one she’d believed to be true – of a forbidden romance; of a loving marriage, and the loss of a child. With these revelations in hand, Anya undertook an investigation, interviewing relatives and family friends, traveling to Wales and Ukraine, and delving deeply into her own difficult history in search of the truth, even uncovering the real circumstances of her father’s death – not an accident, perhaps, but something more sinister. In this inspiring and unflinchingly honest debut memoir, Anya interrogates her memories of her family and examines what it means to be our parents’ children. What do we inherit, and what can we choose to leave behind? How do we escape the ghosts of someone else’s past? And can we learn to love our parents not as our parents, but simply as people? Universal and personal; heartbreaking and redemptive, My Dead Parents helps us to see why sometimes those who love us best hurt us most.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0553447041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Named one of Esquire's "Best Nonfiction Books of 2018" "Sharp and searching...a potent look at the fraught, painful, and complicated relationship between parents and children, and the mysteries — revelatory, difficult — that can and cannot be solved." — Boston Globe Anya Yurchyshyn grew up in a narrow townhouse in Boston, every corner filled with the souvenirs of her parents’ adventurous international travels. On their trips to Egypt, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, her mother, Anita, and her father, George, lived an entirely separate life from the one they led as the parents of Anya and her sister – one that Anya never saw. The parents she knew were a brittle, manipulative alcoholic and a short-tempered disciplinarian: people she imagined had never been in love. When she was sixteen, Anya’s father was killed in a car accident in Ukraine. At thirty-two, she became an orphan when her mother drank herself to death. As she was cleaning out her childhood home, she suddenly discovered a trove of old letters, photographs, and journals hidden in the debris of her mother’s life. These lost documents told a very different story than the one she’d believed to be true – of a forbidden romance; of a loving marriage, and the loss of a child. With these revelations in hand, Anya undertook an investigation, interviewing relatives and family friends, traveling to Wales and Ukraine, and delving deeply into her own difficult history in search of the truth, even uncovering the real circumstances of her father’s death – not an accident, perhaps, but something more sinister. In this inspiring and unflinchingly honest debut memoir, Anya interrogates her memories of her family and examines what it means to be our parents’ children. What do we inherit, and what can we choose to leave behind? How do we escape the ghosts of someone else’s past? And can we learn to love our parents not as our parents, but simply as people? Universal and personal; heartbreaking and redemptive, My Dead Parents helps us to see why sometimes those who love us best hurt us most.
Another Kind of Dead
Author: Kelly Meding
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345525779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No longer able to trust her former allies or even the highest echelons of the Triads, Evy Stone, gifted with extraordinary powers, discovers that she is the key to a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist's ultimate experiment in mad science. Original.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345525779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No longer able to trust her former allies or even the highest echelons of the Triads, Evy Stone, gifted with extraordinary powers, discovers that she is the key to a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist's ultimate experiment in mad science. Original.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Author: Emily Austin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982167351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982167351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.
Born Again, Dead Again
Author: Sergio Lovett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477151842
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Born Again, Dead Again, is a book about spiritual warfare within oneself......... Are you gifted and favored by God, or do you know someone that is? Then this book is for you. This book will make you laugh, cry, love, despise, and downright piss you off at some point. Its about a spiritually gifted young boy that is tormented by the devil, because of his gifts from God. Its a constant battle for his soul, and as he becomes an adult, the twists and turns of his life are devastating. Through it all God is always there, even when he makes the wrong decisions....... You can avoid spiritual quicksand and experience the fullness of Gods grace, and find peace ... under His will.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477151842
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Born Again, Dead Again, is a book about spiritual warfare within oneself......... Are you gifted and favored by God, or do you know someone that is? Then this book is for you. This book will make you laugh, cry, love, despise, and downright piss you off at some point. Its about a spiritually gifted young boy that is tormented by the devil, because of his gifts from God. Its a constant battle for his soul, and as he becomes an adult, the twists and turns of his life are devastating. Through it all God is always there, even when he makes the wrong decisions....... You can avoid spiritual quicksand and experience the fullness of Gods grace, and find peace ... under His will.
When Bodies Remember
Author: Didier Fassin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520250273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520250273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher Description
For the Confederate Dead
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375711414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines” (Publishers Weekly).
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375711414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines” (Publishers Weekly).
Lessons from a Dead Girl
Author: Jo Knowles
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763660027
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
An unflinching story of a troubled friendship -- and one girl’s struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal (age 14 and up). Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in some way, responsible set her on a journey of painful self-discovery. Yes, she wished for this. She hated Leah that much. Hated her for all the times in the closet, when Leah made her do those things. They were just practicing, Leah said. But why did Leah choose her? Was she special, or just easy to control? And why didn’t Laine make it stop sooner? In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laine is left to explore the devastating lessons Leah taught her, find some meaning in them, and decide whether she can forgive Leah and, ultimately, herself.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763660027
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
An unflinching story of a troubled friendship -- and one girl’s struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal (age 14 and up). Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in some way, responsible set her on a journey of painful self-discovery. Yes, she wished for this. She hated Leah that much. Hated her for all the times in the closet, when Leah made her do those things. They were just practicing, Leah said. But why did Leah choose her? Was she special, or just easy to control? And why didn’t Laine make it stop sooner? In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laine is left to explore the devastating lessons Leah taught her, find some meaning in them, and decide whether she can forgive Leah and, ultimately, herself.