Author: Izzy Sweet
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547147274
Category : Mistaken identity
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
They grabbed the wrong girl. They thought I was his wife, not the woman he's obsessed with. Ivan Romanov is one of the Russian mafia's biggest financial backers. And he's been destroying my life piece by piece just to get me in his bed. I never wanted to be in this situation. Stalked. Cornered. Desperate. I was doomed. About to be forced by a powerful man who was willing to take what I didn't want to give. Then he came, a demon in the dark. A dark voice that told me to be a good girl if I want to live...
Stealing Amy
Author: Izzy Sweet
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547147274
Category : Mistaken identity
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
They grabbed the wrong girl. They thought I was his wife, not the woman he's obsessed with. Ivan Romanov is one of the Russian mafia's biggest financial backers. And he's been destroying my life piece by piece just to get me in his bed. I never wanted to be in this situation. Stalked. Cornered. Desperate. I was doomed. About to be forced by a powerful man who was willing to take what I didn't want to give. Then he came, a demon in the dark. A dark voice that told me to be a good girl if I want to live...
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547147274
Category : Mistaken identity
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
They grabbed the wrong girl. They thought I was his wife, not the woman he's obsessed with. Ivan Romanov is one of the Russian mafia's biggest financial backers. And he's been destroying my life piece by piece just to get me in his bed. I never wanted to be in this situation. Stalked. Cornered. Desperate. I was doomed. About to be forced by a powerful man who was willing to take what I didn't want to give. Then he came, a demon in the dark. A dark voice that told me to be a good girl if I want to live...
Love Invents Us
Author: Amy Bloom
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A sharp and funny, rueful, and uncompromisingly real tale of growing up—from National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube is the only child of parents whose indifference to her is the one sure thing in her life. When her search for love and attention leads her into the arms of her junior-high-school English teacher, things begin to get complicated. And even her friend Mrs. Hill, a nearly blind, elderly black woman, can't protect her when real love—exhilarating, passionate, heartbreaking—enters her life in the gorgeous shape of Huddie Lester. With her finely honed style and her unflinching sensibility, Bloom shows us how profoundly the forces of love and desire can shape a life.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A sharp and funny, rueful, and uncompromisingly real tale of growing up—from National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube is the only child of parents whose indifference to her is the one sure thing in her life. When her search for love and attention leads her into the arms of her junior-high-school English teacher, things begin to get complicated. And even her friend Mrs. Hill, a nearly blind, elderly black woman, can't protect her when real love—exhilarating, passionate, heartbreaking—enters her life in the gorgeous shape of Huddie Lester. With her finely honed style and her unflinching sensibility, Bloom shows us how profoundly the forces of love and desire can shape a life.
Keeping Lily
Author: Izzy Sweet
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541154544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
My husband traded me away to save his own life... And now I belong to the devil. One night and everything in my life changed. Two words and my world turned dark. "Take her." Owing the most ruthless crime lord in Garden City five million dollars, my husband chose to trade me and my children away to save himself. I was on the cusp of freedom, so close to divorcing that scumbag I was married to. Now I'm enslaved to a man who is obsessed with me. A man so wicked and beautiful they call him Lucifer. So alluring, he makes the angels weep with envy. He's so powerful, I can't stop myself from bending to his will. He's determined to master me, and he won't rest until I give him all. He wants my light, and he wants my dark. He wants my body, and he wants my heart. But most of all, he wants the one thing I can't give him. The one thing I can't bear to part with... My soul.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541154544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
My husband traded me away to save his own life... And now I belong to the devil. One night and everything in my life changed. Two words and my world turned dark. "Take her." Owing the most ruthless crime lord in Garden City five million dollars, my husband chose to trade me and my children away to save himself. I was on the cusp of freedom, so close to divorcing that scumbag I was married to. Now I'm enslaved to a man who is obsessed with me. A man so wicked and beautiful they call him Lucifer. So alluring, he makes the angels weep with envy. He's so powerful, I can't stop myself from bending to his will. He's determined to master me, and he won't rest until I give him all. He wants my light, and he wants my dark. He wants my body, and he wants my heart. But most of all, he wants the one thing I can't give him. The one thing I can't bear to part with... My soul.
Breaking Meredith
Author: Izzy Sweet
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722173968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
For five years - one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-two nights to be exact - I've watched her from afar... Protecting her. Keeping her safe from the world. And stalking her every move. What started as a favor for her brother has grown into something so much more. A full-blown obsession. I can't sleep, I can't eat, unless I get my Meredith fix. Claiming her could start a war, and might very well result in my death. But she's mine, she's always been mine. She just doesn't know it yet.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722173968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
For five years - one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-two nights to be exact - I've watched her from afar... Protecting her. Keeping her safe from the world. And stalking her every move. What started as a favor for her brother has grown into something so much more. A full-blown obsession. I can't sleep, I can't eat, unless I get my Meredith fix. Claiming her could start a war, and might very well result in my death. But she's mine, she's always been mine. She just doesn't know it yet.
Lucky Us
Author: Amy Bloom
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812978943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. “My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.” So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck. Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island. With their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Praise for Lucky Us “Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a treasure.”—Michael Cunningham “Exquisite . . . a short, vibrant book about all kinds of people creating all kinds of serial, improvisatory lives.”—The New York Times “Bighearted, rambunctious . . . a bustling tale of American reinvention . . . If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.”—The Washington Post “Bloom’s crisp, delicious prose gives [Lucky Us] the feel of sprawling, brawling life itself. . . . Lucky Us is a sister act, which means a double dose of sauce and naughtiness from the brilliant Amy Bloom.”—The Oregonian “A tasty summer read that will leave you smiling . . . Broken hearts [are] held together by lipstick, wisecracks and the enduring love of sisters.”—USA Today “Exquisitely imagined . . . [a] grand adventure.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Marvelous picaresque entertainment . . . a festival of joy and terror and lust and amazement that resolves itself here, warts and all, in a kind of crystalline Mozartean clarity of vision.”—Elle
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812978943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. “My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.” So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck. Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island. With their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Praise for Lucky Us “Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a treasure.”—Michael Cunningham “Exquisite . . . a short, vibrant book about all kinds of people creating all kinds of serial, improvisatory lives.”—The New York Times “Bighearted, rambunctious . . . a bustling tale of American reinvention . . . If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.”—The Washington Post “Bloom’s crisp, delicious prose gives [Lucky Us] the feel of sprawling, brawling life itself. . . . Lucky Us is a sister act, which means a double dose of sauce and naughtiness from the brilliant Amy Bloom.”—The Oregonian “A tasty summer read that will leave you smiling . . . Broken hearts [are] held together by lipstick, wisecracks and the enduring love of sisters.”—USA Today “Exquisitely imagined . . . [a] grand adventure.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Marvelous picaresque entertainment . . . a festival of joy and terror and lust and amazement that resolves itself here, warts and all, in a kind of crystalline Mozartean clarity of vision.”—Elle
Stealing the Show
Author: Joy Press
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1501137727
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers of women in TV” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In recent years, women have radically transformed the television industry both behind and in front of the camera. From Murphy Brown to 30 Rock and beyond, these shows and the extraordinary women behind them have shaken up the entertainment landscape, making it look as if equal opportunities abound. But it took decades of determination in the face of outright exclusion to reach this new era. In this “sharp, funny, and gorgeously researched” (Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker) book, veteran journalist Joy Press tells the story of the maverick women who broke through the barricades and the iconic shows that redefined the television landscape starting with Diane English and Roseanne Barr—and even incited controversy that reached as far as the White House. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with the key players like Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), and Jill Soloway (Transparent) who created storylines and characters that changed how women are seen and how they see themselves, this is the exhilarating behind-the-scenes story of a cultural revolution.
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1501137727
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers of women in TV” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In recent years, women have radically transformed the television industry both behind and in front of the camera. From Murphy Brown to 30 Rock and beyond, these shows and the extraordinary women behind them have shaken up the entertainment landscape, making it look as if equal opportunities abound. But it took decades of determination in the face of outright exclusion to reach this new era. In this “sharp, funny, and gorgeously researched” (Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker) book, veteran journalist Joy Press tells the story of the maverick women who broke through the barricades and the iconic shows that redefined the television landscape starting with Diane English and Roseanne Barr—and even incited controversy that reached as far as the White House. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with the key players like Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), and Jill Soloway (Transparent) who created storylines and characters that changed how women are seen and how they see themselves, this is the exhilarating behind-the-scenes story of a cultural revolution.
Losing Everything
Author: S. P. Murray
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1946540080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Losing Everything: A Family's Journey with Alzheimer's Disease is written about our long journey with Mom and her illness, as well as how this disease has impacted our lives. Alzheimer's is a thief that slowly robs families of loved ones, long before their lives end. This book is in memory of the mother we once knew, and even though she is still alive, she was stolen by this disease and is now forever lost to us. Mom is sick and getting sicker each day. Once Mom became ill, I began keeping a journal with the idea that it might help Mom's memory. Of course, it did not. Instead, the journal is a series of anecdotes that touches on all the core emotions that we feel: anger, frustration, laughter, and most importantly, love.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1946540080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Losing Everything: A Family's Journey with Alzheimer's Disease is written about our long journey with Mom and her illness, as well as how this disease has impacted our lives. Alzheimer's is a thief that slowly robs families of loved ones, long before their lives end. This book is in memory of the mother we once knew, and even though she is still alive, she was stolen by this disease and is now forever lost to us. Mom is sick and getting sicker each day. Once Mom became ill, I began keeping a journal with the idea that it might help Mom's memory. Of course, it did not. Instead, the journal is a series of anecdotes that touches on all the core emotions that we feel: anger, frustration, laughter, and most importantly, love.
Ditchmen 4
Author: Joe Ginter
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
First there was Ditchmen, where teacher, Jay Griner, saves his hometown from an invasion of Ditchmen. This invasion turned out to be the out-of-control research of his supposedly deceased wife, Amy. Then there was Ditchmen 2, where a government-organized task force attempts to steal Amy Griner's Ditchmen research. Amy foils their plan with the help of her husband, Jay Griner. Next there was Ditchmen 3--one member of the government organized task force attempts to duplicate Amy Griner's Ditchmen research. Once again, the diabolical plan is foiled, but a mutated form of a Ditchmen is created. Now in Ditchmen 4, Turfie, the mutated Ditchman, must help Jay and Amy foil the twisted plan of another member of the government-organized task force to eliminate a newly discovered cryptid in order to preserve their climate crisis agenda.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
First there was Ditchmen, where teacher, Jay Griner, saves his hometown from an invasion of Ditchmen. This invasion turned out to be the out-of-control research of his supposedly deceased wife, Amy. Then there was Ditchmen 2, where a government-organized task force attempts to steal Amy Griner's Ditchmen research. Amy foils their plan with the help of her husband, Jay Griner. Next there was Ditchmen 3--one member of the government organized task force attempts to duplicate Amy Griner's Ditchmen research. Once again, the diabolical plan is foiled, but a mutated form of a Ditchmen is created. Now in Ditchmen 4, Turfie, the mutated Ditchman, must help Jay and Amy foil the twisted plan of another member of the government-organized task force to eliminate a newly discovered cryptid in order to preserve their climate crisis agenda.
Hope for the Journey
Author: William Cook
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
ISBN: 1734281898
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The authors-professional psychologists who work with children and families-believe that adults can help children build hope and combat hopelessness, and use stories that children construct about themselves to document the hope-building process. Included are two useful appendixes and a new introduction, in which the authors respond to readers' questions and reactions to the original edition, which was published by Westview Press in 1997.
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
ISBN: 1734281898
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The authors-professional psychologists who work with children and families-believe that adults can help children build hope and combat hopelessness, and use stories that children construct about themselves to document the hope-building process. Included are two useful appendixes and a new introduction, in which the authors respond to readers' questions and reactions to the original edition, which was published by Westview Press in 1997.
The Viper's Nest (The 39 Clues, Book 7)
Author: Peter Lerangis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545349729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The most dangerous secret in Amy and Dan's past is unveiled in Book 7 of the #1 New York Times bestselling series. The hunt for 39 hidden Clues that lead to an unimaginable power have taken a heavy toll on fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan. They've just seen a woman die. They're wanted by the Indonesian police. They're trapped on an island with a man who knows too much about the death of their parents. And a tropical storm is rolling in. Just when they think it can't get any worse, it does. Because the Cahills have one more rattling skeleton for Amy and Dan to discover . . . the terrible truth about their family branch.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545349729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The most dangerous secret in Amy and Dan's past is unveiled in Book 7 of the #1 New York Times bestselling series. The hunt for 39 hidden Clues that lead to an unimaginable power have taken a heavy toll on fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan. They've just seen a woman die. They're wanted by the Indonesian police. They're trapped on an island with a man who knows too much about the death of their parents. And a tropical storm is rolling in. Just when they think it can't get any worse, it does. Because the Cahills have one more rattling skeleton for Amy and Dan to discover . . . the terrible truth about their family branch.