Author: Sabrina Mahfouz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350027596
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Respect women, respect girls. Respect yourselves. Remember you are everyone who's gone before you and you are nobody that has ever been, so make it count, make it special, make a difference, make people listen, love the women who have loved you and watch us make the world move to a better place. For Layla, every day is a battleground. The pay gap, the thigh gap, over-sexed pop and selfies that are photoshopped – they're just part of the world she lives in. But that world is about to change. While breaking out of her bedroom – and with drama, comedy, poetry and music as her weapons – Layla breaks down and makes sense of the realities, difficulties and absurdities of teenage life in the UK today. Collected from a bespoke national survey, the voices of a thousand UK teens are brought to life in Layla. Their ambitions, concerns, role-models and regrets are woven together by award-winning Sabrina Mahfouz and theatre company Theatre Centre, offering a hard-hitting, yet hopeful, story. Layla's Room received its world premiere at Redbridge Drama Centre on 15 September 2016 in a production by Theatre Centre. It is ideal for students and young performers between 16 and 18 years old.
Author: Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1592703372
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Seven-year-old Layla loves life! So she keeps a happiness book. What is happiness for her? For you? Spirited and observant, Layla’s a child who’s been given room to grow, making happiness both thoughtful and intimate. It’s her dad talking about growing-up in South Carolina; her mom reading poetry; her best friend Juan, the community garden, and so much more. Written by poet Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin, this is a story of flourishing within family and community.
Author: Barry Oliver
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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The saga of 'Buttons and Blocks' continues! Four years have passed since investigative reporter Tim Lansing chose the life of a baby as the sweet little Timmy Turtle, and Dillon Peters was given a job at Buttons & Blocks as its Vice President of Recreational Activities. Dillon has since graduated from college and is working full-time at the daycare—the job of his dreams. The former Children’s Museum has now been completely transformed into an age-appropriate daycare for its age-regressed clients, formerly adult drug addicts. Dillon’s work has been a raging success. Dillon Peters’ life is certainly going in the right direction. He has a great job, a house of his own, and no student loan debt. He even has a girlfriend, Hailey, who he intends to propose to in the near future. The problem is, Hailey has never wanted children. She doesn’t think she could make Dillon happy as a childless couple. She knows nothing about the regression chamber at the Forever Free rehab center, but she will soon learn of its power. Dillon makes a very different kind of proposal to his child-reluctant fiancée-to-be, a decision that will change both of their lives in profound ways. If Hailey was to have a child, she imagined it would be a girl. Hailey would get exactly that! Well… from a certain perspective. Hailey would become the mother of a sissy.
Author: Linda C. McJunckins
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1600342884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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McJunckins presents the account of a daughter who relinquished her freedoms as a college student to an arduous life as a slave among strangers.
Author: Gillian McAllister
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525539409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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From the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Wrong Place, Wrong Time and Just Another Missing Person comes an electrifying novel about the unyielding bond between two sisters, which is severely tested when one of them is accused of the worst imaginable crime. Martha and Becky Blackwater are more than sisters--they're each other's lifelines. When Martha finds herself struggling to balance early motherhood and her growing business, Becky steps in to babysit her niece, Layla, without a second thought, bringing the two women closer than ever. But then the unthinkable happens, and Becky is charged with murder. Nine months later, Becky is on trial and maintains her innocence--and so does Martha. Unable to shake the feeling that her sister couldn't possibly be guilty, Martha sets out to uncover exactly what happened that night, and how things could have gone so wrong. As the trial progresses, fault lines between the sisters begin to show--revealing cracks deep in their relationship and threatening the family each has worked so hard to build. With incredible empathy and resounding emotional heft, The Good Sister is a powerhouse of a novel that will lead readers to question everything they know about motherhood, family, and the price of forgiveness.
Author: Elle Kennedy
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1460397266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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It's a race against time in this fan-favorite story from New York Times bestselling authorElle Kennedy! Journalist Morgan Kerr shouldn't be surprised that ex-fiancé Adam Quinnwants nothing to do with her. Two years ago the rugged mercenary ran out on her, believingshe'd betrayed him. But with her best friend murdered and her own father threatening tocart her away to a loony bin, she needs Quinn's help and forgiveness. Never mind that shenever stopped loving him. Reluctantly, Quinn is in. He knows Morgan's not crazy. With oldfeelings reigniting like wildfire, their investigation turns fiercely passionate. Quinntries to convince himself it's nothing more than lust. But when a killer takes Morganhostage, he realizes it is something more…a second chance with the woman he's alwaysloved. Originally published in 2010
Author: Gary Shteyngart
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812987209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very much of our times. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR’S FRESH AIR AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Mother Jones • Glamour • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Newsday • Pamela Paul, KQED • Financial Times • The Globe and Mail Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face. How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration, a poignant tale of familial longing and an unsentimental ode to America. LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION “The fuel and oxygen of immigrant literature—movement, exile, nostalgia, cultural disorientation—are what fire the pistons of this trenchant and panoramic novel. . . . [It is] a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions—both individual and collective—that grip this strange land getting stranger.”—The New York Times Book Review “Shteyngart, perhaps more than any American writer of his generation, is a natural. He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy. . . . The wit and the immigrant’s sense of heartbreak—he was born in Russia—just seem to pour from him. The idea of riding along behind Shteyngart as he glides across America in the early age of Trump is a propitious one. He doesn’t disappoint.”—The New York Times
Author: Teddy Wayne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501107895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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"A new novel about a troubled young college freshman who becomes dangerously sexually obsessed with a classmate"--
Author: Nicole Melleby
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643750372
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Eleven-year-old Joey navigates family, friendships, and her first crush, while looking for answers to why she feels so angry sometimes and by searching for the donor her moms chose.
Author: Karen Kirst
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369729404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: GUARDING HIS CHILD by Karen Kirst Following her best friend’s gruesome murder, Deputy Skye Saddler is assigned to protect the victim’s baby and the father who didn’t know the little girl existed. Now that rancher Nash Wilder is the killer’s next target, keeping close to Skye is their best chance at survival. PERILOUS SECURITY DETAIL (An Honor Protection Specialists novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Elizabeth Goddard When bodyguard Everly Honor rescues her secretive ex-boyfriend from an intentional hit-and-run, he hires her to guard his niece. But with danger closing in on all sides, Sawyer Blackwood must reveal hidden truths…or put their lives at risk. THEME PARK ABDUCTION by Patsy Conway A cartel kidnaps Rebecca Salmon’s son off a roller coaster, and now she needs help from FBI agent Jake Foster to solve a series of clues planted throughout the theme park. As they race against time and evade henchmen gunning for them, will Jake’s secrets get in the way of saving her son? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense March 2023 Box Set – 1 of 2
