Author: Shaun Higgins
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129189747X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
A discourse on the varied forms and styles of creation and the pressure upon those who wish to create, Call Me Cassie follows, over several days, the struggles of a young and frustrated dilettante as he does battle with demons real, imagined and self-imposed. Flecked with touches of subtle-dry humour and irony, this New Tragedy's protagonist, Benny Bitumen, is beset on all sides by everyday difficulties as well as issues of emotional, theological and moral natures. In fighting unforeseen forces and material foes alike, Benny represents an artistic but constrained Everyman character whose thoughts fly further than his reality could ever gratify, and epitomises the challenges facing the twenty-first century creative.
Call Me Cassie
Author: Shaun Higgins
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129189747X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
A discourse on the varied forms and styles of creation and the pressure upon those who wish to create, Call Me Cassie follows, over several days, the struggles of a young and frustrated dilettante as he does battle with demons real, imagined and self-imposed. Flecked with touches of subtle-dry humour and irony, this New Tragedy's protagonist, Benny Bitumen, is beset on all sides by everyday difficulties as well as issues of emotional, theological and moral natures. In fighting unforeseen forces and material foes alike, Benny represents an artistic but constrained Everyman character whose thoughts fly further than his reality could ever gratify, and epitomises the challenges facing the twenty-first century creative.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129189747X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
A discourse on the varied forms and styles of creation and the pressure upon those who wish to create, Call Me Cassie follows, over several days, the struggles of a young and frustrated dilettante as he does battle with demons real, imagined and self-imposed. Flecked with touches of subtle-dry humour and irony, this New Tragedy's protagonist, Benny Bitumen, is beset on all sides by everyday difficulties as well as issues of emotional, theological and moral natures. In fighting unforeseen forces and material foes alike, Benny represents an artistic but constrained Everyman character whose thoughts fly further than his reality could ever gratify, and epitomises the challenges facing the twenty-first century creative.
Call Me Cass
Author: Kelly Stone Gamble
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Cass Adams is finally happy. She has a man who loves her, a family that understands her, and a baby on the way. Other than seeing the occasional dead person, Cass feels normal. But pregnancy has an unwelcome side effect. Cass is having visions of the future, just like Grams does. While some are cloudy, Cass knows one thing for certain. Her best friend, Maryanne, is going to die. Police Chief Benny Cloud has his own problems. His father has been released from prison and is on his way home to surprise Benny’s mother, who’s been keeping time with the county sheriff. Fat Tina’s Gentlemen’s Club is under siege by protestors. And it’s growing dark outside. A devastating storm is coming to Deacon, Kansas. In its wake, the town must deal with tragic losses that force everyone to reevaluate their lives.
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Cass Adams is finally happy. She has a man who loves her, a family that understands her, and a baby on the way. Other than seeing the occasional dead person, Cass feels normal. But pregnancy has an unwelcome side effect. Cass is having visions of the future, just like Grams does. While some are cloudy, Cass knows one thing for certain. Her best friend, Maryanne, is going to die. Police Chief Benny Cloud has his own problems. His father has been released from prison and is on his way home to surprise Benny’s mother, who’s been keeping time with the county sheriff. Fat Tina’s Gentlemen’s Club is under siege by protestors. And it’s growing dark outside. A devastating storm is coming to Deacon, Kansas. In its wake, the town must deal with tragic losses that force everyone to reevaluate their lives.
Cassandra's Calling
Author: Kathy Q. Bruhl
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1648042953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Cassandra’s Calling By: Kathy Q. Bruhl Cassandra LeGardier was introduced in the book Lady of the Gulf. As a child in the early 1900s on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, she had ambitions of becoming a nurse. She thought her career in nursing would be better spent in Mississippi, but world events would alter the course of her life and take her to New Orleans, New York City, and eventually to war-torn Europe. In the process, she finds adventure, danger, and the man who would become the love of her life.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1648042953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Cassandra’s Calling By: Kathy Q. Bruhl Cassandra LeGardier was introduced in the book Lady of the Gulf. As a child in the early 1900s on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, she had ambitions of becoming a nurse. She thought her career in nursing would be better spent in Mississippi, but world events would alter the course of her life and take her to New Orleans, New York City, and eventually to war-torn Europe. In the process, she finds adventure, danger, and the man who would become the love of her life.
Call Me Daddy
Author: Kelly Stone Gamble
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Cass Adams comes from a long line of crazy, and she fears passing that on to her unborn child. Also, she’s run over Roland and Clay’s surprise half brother Britt, landing him in the hospital. With her inner demons coming out to haunt her, she doesn’t know if she should keep the baby. Clay Adams has his own decisions to make. His half brother shows up to tell him their father, Freddy, is still alive but needs a liver transplant. When Freddy blew out of town thirty-five years ago, secrets were buried. But it’s time for them to be dug up, because only then can Clay hope to lay the past to rest. Call Me Daddy is a story of family, the secrets they keep, and to what lengths someone would go to protect them. This sequel to They Call Me Crazy can be read as a standalone novel.
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Cass Adams comes from a long line of crazy, and she fears passing that on to her unborn child. Also, she’s run over Roland and Clay’s surprise half brother Britt, landing him in the hospital. With her inner demons coming out to haunt her, she doesn’t know if she should keep the baby. Clay Adams has his own decisions to make. His half brother shows up to tell him their father, Freddy, is still alive but needs a liver transplant. When Freddy blew out of town thirty-five years ago, secrets were buried. But it’s time for them to be dug up, because only then can Clay hope to lay the past to rest. Call Me Daddy is a story of family, the secrets they keep, and to what lengths someone would go to protect them. This sequel to They Call Me Crazy can be read as a standalone novel.
Cassandra, Lost
Author: Joanna Catherine Scott
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312319434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Scott weaves a spellbinging tale based loosely on the true story of one woman's incredible odyssey from a prosperous Maryland farm to that devastation of revolution-era Paris and back again. When her father forbids her from marrying a charming French emigre, Cassandra Owings elopes with Benedict van Pradelles and sails for France. Her head is filled with romantic notions, so she is shocked by the privations she encounters in war-torn France. Since Cassandra's husband hails from an aristocratic family with ties to King Louis and Marie Antoinette, they are in constant fear for their safety. Joining forces with a young Jean Lafitte to smuggle other aristos out of the country, they must eventually flee themselves. Settling in Spanish New Orleans, Cassandra and Benedict build a prosperous life for themselves until their idyllic existence is shattered by the reappearance of Lafitte. Cassandra must choose between the devoted husband she loves and the dashing pirate she desires.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312319434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Scott weaves a spellbinging tale based loosely on the true story of one woman's incredible odyssey from a prosperous Maryland farm to that devastation of revolution-era Paris and back again. When her father forbids her from marrying a charming French emigre, Cassandra Owings elopes with Benedict van Pradelles and sails for France. Her head is filled with romantic notions, so she is shocked by the privations she encounters in war-torn France. Since Cassandra's husband hails from an aristocratic family with ties to King Louis and Marie Antoinette, they are in constant fear for their safety. Joining forces with a young Jean Lafitte to smuggle other aristos out of the country, they must eventually flee themselves. Settling in Spanish New Orleans, Cassandra and Benedict build a prosperous life for themselves until their idyllic existence is shattered by the reappearance of Lafitte. Cassandra must choose between the devoted husband she loves and the dashing pirate she desires.
Wintergirls
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407148710
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A beautifully written and riveting look at anorexia from acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson. Cassie and Lia are best friends, and united in their quest to be thin. But when Cassie is found dead in a motel room, Lia must question whether she continues to lose weight, or choose life instead.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407148710
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A beautifully written and riveting look at anorexia from acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson. Cassie and Lia are best friends, and united in their quest to be thin. But when Cassie is found dead in a motel room, Lia must question whether she continues to lose weight, or choose life instead.
Call Me Sunflower
Author: Miriam Spitzer Franklin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510711813
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance”—a list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including: Send Mom flowers from a “Secret Admirer” to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away. Make a playlist of his favorite love songs—the mushier the better—and make sure it’s always playing in the car. Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love. But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photo—one that changes everything. Sunny’s family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she’ll have to reconcile her family’s past and present, or she’ll lose everything about their future.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510711813
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance”—a list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including: Send Mom flowers from a “Secret Admirer” to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away. Make a playlist of his favorite love songs—the mushier the better—and make sure it’s always playing in the car. Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love. But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photo—one that changes everything. Sunny’s family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she’ll have to reconcile her family’s past and present, or she’ll lose everything about their future.
The Knight of Yesterday
Author: Raunak Kumar Jha
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How long does it take to completely know a person? Or how long does it take to fall in love with someone? The answer may vary from person to person. Then let's change the question, would you let yourself be loved if you knew you were an awful person? Ana was just a normal girl in NYC, living with her friends Mia and Cassie, hating her job and questioning her life decisions. Life became a routine for her in the past five years, she felt stuck with the job and her failing love life when her friend Keith's new roommate Ronnie appears. He seemed like a decent guy and eventually she falls in love with him but little did she know what fate had in mind for her.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How long does it take to completely know a person? Or how long does it take to fall in love with someone? The answer may vary from person to person. Then let's change the question, would you let yourself be loved if you knew you were an awful person? Ana was just a normal girl in NYC, living with her friends Mia and Cassie, hating her job and questioning her life decisions. Life became a routine for her in the past five years, she felt stuck with the job and her failing love life when her friend Keith's new roommate Ronnie appears. He seemed like a decent guy and eventually she falls in love with him but little did she know what fate had in mind for her.
Mortem
Author: I.B. Loyola
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9355972504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
What would you do if you were the only one who survived an accident? What would you do if you came back from the dead? And what would you do if you start seeing dead people, hearing cries from the dead? Irish Stephen, is a Mass-communication, college student, and accident survivor. She mysteriously comes back from the dead when the bus that they were riding going to Baguio for their documentary project, fell on the cliff making it a wreck. All her friends, colleagues, including her boyfriend, died. After the accident, her life is never been the same. People call her “lucky” and “Lazarus” for surviving the accident but for her. It’s a curse because since the accident her life changed. Her life became weird and mysterious that made her aloof to people because she knows that there is something wrong inside of her. She starts seeing dead people, having visions, and hearing unwanted voices that she thought it is just an effect of the accident that happened to her a year ago. That gave her trauma and creep her out but she was wrong. When she starts discovering what happened to her with the help of her friend; Devon David that soon became her boyfriend and Luna. A born male, a practitioner who knows about spiritual awakenings and soul connecting. When she discovers what happened to her. She realized that it is all connected to her life. Find out how it happened. Here in Mortem from I.B.LOYOLA.
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9355972504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
What would you do if you were the only one who survived an accident? What would you do if you came back from the dead? And what would you do if you start seeing dead people, hearing cries from the dead? Irish Stephen, is a Mass-communication, college student, and accident survivor. She mysteriously comes back from the dead when the bus that they were riding going to Baguio for their documentary project, fell on the cliff making it a wreck. All her friends, colleagues, including her boyfriend, died. After the accident, her life is never been the same. People call her “lucky” and “Lazarus” for surviving the accident but for her. It’s a curse because since the accident her life changed. Her life became weird and mysterious that made her aloof to people because she knows that there is something wrong inside of her. She starts seeing dead people, having visions, and hearing unwanted voices that she thought it is just an effect of the accident that happened to her a year ago. That gave her trauma and creep her out but she was wrong. When she starts discovering what happened to her with the help of her friend; Devon David that soon became her boyfriend and Luna. A born male, a practitioner who knows about spiritual awakenings and soul connecting. When she discovers what happened to her. She realized that it is all connected to her life. Find out how it happened. Here in Mortem from I.B.LOYOLA.
Witch Finder
Author: Ruth Warburton
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 1444914472
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
London, 1880, and eighteen-year-old Luke Lexton is about to endure his initiation into the Malleus Maleficorum - the secretive brotherhood devoted to hunting witches, and the organisation that will help Luke take revenge on the witch who murdered his parents. His final test is to pick a name at random from the Book of Witches, a name he must track down and kill within a month, or face death himself. Luke picks out sixteen-year-old Rosa Greenwood, a witch-girl living in rapidly fading grandeur on the west side of town. She's the last bargaining chip in her family's struggle to avoid bankruptcy and is about to be married off to the handsome, cruel, grotesquely rich Sebastian Knyvet - a powerful member of the Ealdwitan. As Rosa and Luke get to know each other, Luke realises it will be impossible for him to kill Rosa, just as Rosa knows she will bring disgrace on her family if she does not marry Knyvet. But Knyvet is hiding dark secrets - including the key which will unlock the mystery of Luke's murdered parents. Torn between appeasing their elders and their growing affection for each other, Rosa and Luke must each make their choice between life and death. 'Gorgeously romantic.' Amanda Craig, The Times
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 1444914472
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
London, 1880, and eighteen-year-old Luke Lexton is about to endure his initiation into the Malleus Maleficorum - the secretive brotherhood devoted to hunting witches, and the organisation that will help Luke take revenge on the witch who murdered his parents. His final test is to pick a name at random from the Book of Witches, a name he must track down and kill within a month, or face death himself. Luke picks out sixteen-year-old Rosa Greenwood, a witch-girl living in rapidly fading grandeur on the west side of town. She's the last bargaining chip in her family's struggle to avoid bankruptcy and is about to be married off to the handsome, cruel, grotesquely rich Sebastian Knyvet - a powerful member of the Ealdwitan. As Rosa and Luke get to know each other, Luke realises it will be impossible for him to kill Rosa, just as Rosa knows she will bring disgrace on her family if she does not marry Knyvet. But Knyvet is hiding dark secrets - including the key which will unlock the mystery of Luke's murdered parents. Torn between appeasing their elders and their growing affection for each other, Rosa and Luke must each make their choice between life and death. 'Gorgeously romantic.' Amanda Craig, The Times