Author: Erin Richards
Publisher: Midnight Muse Publishing
ISBN: 1943800049
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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To be a normal teenage girl. To forget about the past. To fall in love for the first time. Is that too much to ask? Sixteen-year-old Allie Bailey just wants a break—a break from her overly-protected life. And Dragonfly Meadows summer camp is the answer. A summer away from her parents in the California Sierras with her best friend is exactly what she needs. But once at camp, Allie notices that things are a little off. Paid excursions are cancelled and staff is replaced with shady new people. When the camp's founder goes "missing," Allie starts to worry. Unable to let it rest due to her past, she starts to investigate, enlisting the help of Logan Montgomery, her best friend's older and adorably geeky brother. When hauntingly familiar flowers appear in Allie’s cabin, she’s not sure what to think—has her past caught up to her? Yet, after Allie stumbles across a murder conspiracy and chases down the truth, she becomes a target. Pushing through her paranoia and fear to find strength, it’s up to Allie to save herself and the campers from a deranged killer before it’s too late.
Author: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Publisher: September Publishing
ISBN: 1912836491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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'One of the most unforgettable books I have read in the last few years... What a writer! What a thinker! What a woman!' Fiammetta Rocco From the award-winning author of Dust comes a magical, sea-saturated, coming-of-age novel that transports readers from Kenya to China and Turkey. On an island in the Lamu Archipelago lives a solitary, stubborn child called Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor, Muhidin, enters their lives, the child finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life, leading her to distant countries and fraught choices. Selected as a descendant of long-ago Chinese shipwrecked sailors Ayaana is sent to study in China. Leaving her resourceful single mother, she is forced to grow up fast. Whether it's the scarred captain of the Chinese shipping container that transports Ayaana or the son of Turkish shipping magnate who trades in refugees, Owuor never loses a profound sense of empathy for her characters. She evokes a fascinating kind of beauty in this dangerous, chaotic world and its ever-shifting oceans and trade. Told with a glorious lyricism, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of love and adventure, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world. 'One of Africa's most exciting voices ... The Dragonfly Sea is a continent-hopping novel of epic proportions.' Refinery29 'In its omnivorous interest in the world, The Dragonfly Sea is a paean to both cultural diffusion and difference . . . as much as [the novel] traces the globe, it also depicts an internal pilgrimage, its heroine in rose attar a broken saint.' New York Times 'Owuor continues to break ground among contemporary African writers.' Vanity Fair
Author: Leila Meacham
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538732211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539
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Read the USA Today bestseller from the author of Roses, a "sumptuous, full-bodied, and emotional" novel about five young spies embedded among the highest Nazi ranks in occupied Paris (Adriana Trigiani, NYT bestselling author of Tony's Wife). At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds -- a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer -- all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of her or his own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly. Thus begins a dramatic cat-and-mouse game, as the group seeks to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. But is everything as it seems, or is this one more elaborate act of spycraft?
Author: Erin Richards
Publisher: Midnight Muse Publishing
ISBN: 1943800111
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Rosalind H. Williams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
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In Dream Worlds, Rosalind Williams examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.
Author: Paul Winter
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595351212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Paul is stunned when his foster son Herman tells him about the awfully devastating news concerning his gay hooker friend Jonathan, who was found dead with his head lying in a pool of orange liquid. Four bizarre physiological phenomena, each lasting four days, preceded his death. Paul's research discovers two other gay teenage male hookers who died under similar circumstances as Jonathan, and all three dead teenagers had four letters tattooed on their chests. They were all sixteen years old. The clues to the decoding of the tattooed letters are revealed in Paul's dreams, and are connected to a cave, which boasts a huge water hole with the promise of treasure, where Paul played with his childhood friend Leon, and to an army Barracks where grotesque experiments where carried out by an army psychologist to try and change the sexual orientation of homosexuals. A priest with a secret past, a woman who communicates with the dead, a ritual involving a corpse and a special seed taken from Jonathan's corpse plunges Paul into a struggle against time and evil to try and save Herman from being trapped in an irreversible curse which could destroy his life forever.
Author: Neil Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317237536
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 623
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The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human phenomenon, not simply a medical condition. Initial chapters build a foundation for understanding traumatic loss and explore the many ways we respond to trauma. Later chapters counterbalance the individualistic focus of dominant approaches to traumatic loss by highlighting a number of thought-provoking social dimensions of traumatic loss. Each chapter emphasizes different aspects of traumatic loss and argues for ways in which clinicians can help deal with its many and varied impacts.
Author: Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800467044
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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On a very usual day, on a very usual school trip to Hampton Court Maze, there is a very unusually named girl called Victoriana Elizabeth Alice Royal. At least she can concentrate on history today and learn new facts as she wanders the maze. But little does Victoriana know that history will come alive for her in a way it never has before...
Author: Nicole Jalonen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456890247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Britney summers is still fighting to know why she lost her memory. Though she is starting to believe more and more that her lost memories are the work of her evil and biological father Devolin Voltron. Who also happens to be a wizard who has been trying to kill her for the past two years. The only hope Britney has of regaining her memories and defeating Devolin is her Adoptive brother Andy Summers. But to help britney kill the wizard Andy must also try to recall a connection of family blood with Britney that he does not remember having. So the question now becomes can their family love overcome their foe even though they are only Britneys adoptive family?
Author: Rich Shapero
Publisher: Outside Reading
ISBN: 0971880158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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This enhanced eBook combines Rich Shapero's fiction with his original song compositions, featuring vocals by Maria Taylor (of Azure Ray), and visual art by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. Shapero’s Too Far follows an imaginative pair of characters through a transformative summer spent exploring the woods behind their remote Alaskan homes. The forest—and the gods who inhabit it—becomes their refuge until they are forced to choose between the crushing prospects of the real world, and their ideal one.
