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Author: Sabrina Simon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469798196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Spunky television sports reporter Lyla Garcia has just received a proposal from her boyfriend, Stedman. After she accepts his offer to accompany him to Japan on a professional golf tour, Lyla requests a leave of absence from work and secretly hopes the trip will bring Stedman and her closer to a long-term commitment. But just days before she is to depart, Stedman shatters her world by telling her he needs to focus on his golf career without her. Heartbroken and with several weeks of time off ahead of her, Lyla meets up with her three best friends - Chloe, Ava, and Marissa - for a little estrogen-laced advice. At their insistence Lyla decides to use her sabbatical to write a book about dating, sex, and astrology. Lyla throws herself into her risqu new project, wanting to experience a freedom in her dating life that she has never allowed before. As she begins research that takes her from Fort Lauderdale strip clubs to the Gateway Arch, Lylas manuscript begins to come together but not without consequences. Once Lyla finally returns to work at the dysfunctional television station, she discovers that in her quest to win in the game of love, passions on and off the field dont mix.
Author: Sarah Lyu
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1481498843
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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“A gripping story of love, obsession, and the space in between.” —Kirkus Reviews Gone Girl meets Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls in this mesmerizing debut novel about a toxic friendship that turns deadly. Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow will look like. She was happy once. Remy had her boyfriend Jack, and Elise, her best friend—her soulmate—who understood her better than anyone else in the world. But now Jack is dead, shot through the chest… And it was Elise who pulled the trigger. Was it self-defense? Or something darker than anything Remy could imagine? As the police investigate, Remy does the same, sifting through her own memories, looking for a scrap of truth that could save the friendship that means everything to her. Told in alternating timelines, this twisted psychological thriller explores the dark side of obsessive friendship.
Author: Sabrina Simon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469798196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Book Description
Spunky television sports reporter Lyla Garcia has just received a proposal from her boyfriend, Stedman. After she accepts his offer to accompany him to Japan on a professional golf tour, Lyla requests a leave of absence from work and secretly hopes the trip will bring Stedman and her closer to a long-term commitment. But just days before she is to depart, Stedman shatters her world by telling her he needs to focus on his golf career without her. Heartbroken and with several weeks of time off ahead of her, Lyla meets up with her three best friends - Chloe, Ava, and Marissa - for a little estrogen-laced advice. At their insistence Lyla decides to use her sabbatical to write a book about dating, sex, and astrology. Lyla throws herself into her risqu new project, wanting to experience a freedom in her dating life that she has never allowed before. As she begins research that takes her from Fort Lauderdale strip clubs to the Gateway Arch, Lylas manuscript begins to come together but not without consequences. Once Lyla finally returns to work at the dysfunctional television station, she discovers that in her quest to win in the game of love, passions on and off the field dont mix.
Author: Arch Brown
Publisher: TnT Classic Books
ISBN: 9781886586055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Elena Ferrante
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1922253278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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The Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volume in the Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay). The quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, to their thirties, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child. Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. Frantugmalia, a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in 2016. She is one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors. Ann Goldstein has translated all of Elena Ferrante’s work. She is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Prize. Praise for Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels ‘[Ferrante’s] charting of the rivalries and sheer inscrutability of female friendship is raw. This is high stakes, subversive literature.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Ferrante is an expert above all at the rhythm of plotting...Whether it’s work, family, friends or sex–and Ferrante, perhaps thanks to her anonymity as an author, is blisteringly good on bad sex–our greatest mistakes in life aren’t isolated acts; we rehearse them over and over until we get them as badly wrong as we can.’ Independent ‘Great novels are intelligent far beyond the powers of any character or writer or individual reader, as are great friendships, in their way. These wonderful books sit at the heart of that mystery, with the warmth and power of both.’ Harper’s ‘Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk...In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now—one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman.’ New York Times Sunday Book Review ‘When I read [the Neapolitan novels] I find that I never want to stop. I feel vexed by the obstacles—my job, or acquaintances on the subway—that threaten to keep me apart from the books. I mourn separations (a year until the next one—how?). I am propelled by a ravenous will to keep going.’ New Yorker ‘The best thing I’ve read this year, far and away...She puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She’s marvellous.’ Richard Flanagan ‘The Neapolitan series stands as a testament to the ability of great literature to challenge, flummox, enrage and excite as it entertains.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘The depth of perception Ms. Ferrante shows about her character’s conflicts and psychological states is astonishing...Her novels ring so true and are written with such empathy that they sound confessional.’ Wall Street Journal ‘The older you get, the harder it is to recapture the intoxicating sense of discovery that comes when you first read George Eliot, Nabokov, Tolstoy or Colette. But this year it came again when I read Elena Ferrante’s remarkable Neapolitan novels.’ Jane Shilling, New Statesman ‘There is nothing remotely tiring or trying about the experience of reading the Neapolitan novels, which I, and a great many others, now rank among our greatest book-related pleasures...it is writing that holds honesty dear.’ Weekend Australian ‘Dickens gave working people a voice. Ferrante, whoever she might be, presents a new paradigm for being female in the world...Ferrante’s great literary creations, Lenu and Lila, have the same emotional weight as Anne in Persuasion, Jo in Little Women, Maggie in The Mill on the Floss, Jane in Jane Eyre.’ Helen Elliott in the Monthly ‘This stunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Ferrante’s masterpiece and guarantees that this reclusive author will remain far from obscure for years to come.’ Publishers Weekly ‘The Neapolitan novels are smart, thoughtful, serious literature. At the same time, they are violent, suspenseful soap operas populated with a vivid cast of scheming characters...Ferrante’s novels are deeply personal and intimate, getting to the very heart of what it means to be a woman, a friend, a daughter, a mother.’ Debrief Daily ‘Shattering and enthralling, intimate and vicious...The Neapolitan Novels are the kind of books that swallow me whole. As soon as I pick one up, I don’t want to breathe or move lest I break the spell...The Neapolitan Novels are among the most important in my reading life. I can’t recommend them highly enough.’ Readings ‘Ferrante captures the complexities of women, friendship and motherhood in ways that make your heart soar and ache in equal measures. If you haven’t already, treat yourself to this series.’ ELLE Australia ‘[Ferrante’s] Neapolitan novels contain real life – recognisable anxiety, joy, love and heartbreak. This is an incredibly difficult feat to achieve in the first place, let alone sustain, over four books. We will be talking about Elena and Lila for years to come.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘There's a bright, sinewy humanness to Ferrante’s writing that is so alive it's alarming...The Story of the Lost Child is a full emotional experience, and a fitting end to a huge, arresting series.’ New Zealand Listener ‘I was one of the many who wept and wondered over Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child. I plan to re-read the entire series soon.’ Favourite Feminist Reads from 2016, Feminist Writers Festival
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Award Finalist A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.
Author: Gloria Frym
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872863583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Stories on broken relationships. In Tagging, a married couple's move into a better district hastens the end of their union, and in To See Her in Sunlight Was to See Marxism Die, the narrator draws a parallel between the decline of idealism in the Soviet Union and the decline of romance in his marriage.
Author: Jullian Scott
Publisher: Jullian Scott
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Ten years ago, Lyla Masterson left a party on Terror Island and was never seen again. Her best friend, Jamie Lawrence, fled the island and the people she loved most, vowing never to return. But when her older brother decides to have his wedding on the island a decade later, Jamie is forced to return and face the ghosts of her past. She is only back a few minutes when a dead body is found. Now Jamie is forced to make amends with the only man she has ever loved - Ryan Stevens. He's a cop now, and still in love with Jamie. As they work through their feelings, Jamie learns more details about her friends and family that shed new light on Lyla's disappearance. As decade-old secrets are revealed, Jamie soon realizes that her time in paradise is about to turn deadly.
Author: Jacob Wenzel
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365665690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Lyla and Jonha are young artists who live on their own tiny planet. Theirs is one of a thousand such planets, each hosting a pair of artists who are destined to spend their lives together. The artists on these planets know very little about the rest of the galaxy and believe that they are creating solely for each other's enjoyment. One day, communication from the other planets, and from Central Authority is suddenly cut off, and the other small planets begin disappearing from the night sky. Jonha and Lyla try to continue with their lives as normally as possible. When it becomes obvious that whatever has been taking the planets is coming for them next, Lyla and Jonha go on the offensive. Armed with only their wits and determination, they take on the Captain and crew of the largest ship in the galaxy; The Queen Tiffany's Revulsion.
Author: Victoria E. Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399586571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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"New York, 1917. Elizabeth Miles makes a dangerous enemy when she cons a brutal and greedy entrepreneur out of a great deal of money. With his thugs hot on her trail, Elizabeth seizes the moment to blend in with a group of privileged women campaigning for women's' suffrage and an unlikely bond is formed"-- "--
Author: Robert Pirsig
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307764214
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
