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Book Synopsis Acts of Desperation by : Megan Nolan
Download or read book Acts of Desperation written by Megan Nolan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?
Download or read book Bad Behavior written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it “Pinteresque,” saying, “Ms. Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real…her reportorial candor, uncompromised by sentimentality or voyeuristic charm…underscores the strength of her debut.”
Book Synopsis Mother In the Dark by : Kayla Maiuri
Download or read book Mother In the Dark written by Kayla Maiuri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto." —Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me “A masterfully written novel, alive and lyrical, a hypnotic rendering of the mess and the tenderness of family life.” —Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. When Anna’s sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn’t return the call. She knows it’s about their mother. Growing up in an Italian American family in working-class Boston, Anna lives a simple but comfortable childhood--filled with homemade meals and front-porch gatherings in a close-knit neighborhood. She and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature. When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence. Anna's mother is suddenly adrift, and the darkness lurking inside her ignites. Her daughters, isolated and trapped with her in their new house, do everything they can to keep her from unraveling. Alternating between Anna's childhood and her twenties, when she receives a shattering call about her mother that threatens to blow up her precariously constructed life in New York, Mother in the Dark asks whether we can ever return home when the idea of home is fraught with instability. This story about sisterhood, the complications of class, and the chains of inheritance between mothers and daughters delivers an unvarnished portrayal of the fragile horrors of domestic life and a young woman consumed by her past.
Book Synopsis Acts of Infidelity by : Lena Andersson
Download or read book Acts of Infidelity written by Lena Andersson and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like diving into the mind of a brilliant, infuriating friend, this novel dissects the experience of "the other woman" with tremendous wit and insight. When Ester Nilsson meets the actor Olof Sten, she falls madly in love. Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless start to meet regularly and begin a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists he doesn't plan to leave his wife, but he doesn't object to this new situation either...it's far too much fun. Ester, on the other hand, is convinced that things might change. But as their relationship continues over repeated summers apart, and winters full of heated meetings in bars, she is forced to realize the truth: Ester Nilsson has become a mistress. Ester's and Olof's entanglements and arguments are the stuff of relationship nightmares. Cutting, often cruel, and written with piercing humor, Acts of Infidelity is clever, painful, maddening, but most of all perfectly, precisely true.
Download or read book Echoes in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes in Death, the chilling new suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb is the perfect entry point into the compelling In Death police procedural series featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas. As NY Lt. Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke are driving home, a young woman—dazed, naked, and bloody—suddenly stumbles out in front of their car. Roarke slams on the brakes and Eve springs into action. Daphne Strazza is rushed to the ER, but it’s too late for her husband Dr. Anthony Strazza. A brilliant orthopedic surgeon, he now lies dead amid the wreckage of his obsessively organized town house, his three safes opened and emptied. Daphne would be a valuable witness, but in her terror and shock the only description of the perp she can offer is repeatedly calling him “the devil”... While it emerges that Dr. Strazza was cold, controlling, and widely disliked, this is one case where the evidence doesn’t point to the spouse. So Eve and her team must get started on the legwork, interviewing everyone from dinner-party guests to professional colleagues to caterers, in a desperate race to answer some crucial questions: What does the devil look like? And where will he show up next?
Book Synopsis Acts of Conscience by : William Barton
Download or read book Acts of Conscience written by William Barton and published by Aspect. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When space construction worker Gaetan du Cheyne visits the planet Green Heaven, he discovers a fascinating ecosystem whose intelligent life forms are being hunted for sport and exported as slaves by human colonists. Now du Cheyne must follow his conscience and try to rescue the natives of Green Heaven--or die trying.
Download or read book Pure Gold written by John Patrick McHugh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People ‘Terrific’ RODDY DOYLE, author of Love ‘Truly brilliant’ MEGAN NOLAN, author of Acts of Desperation
Book Synopsis Acts of Desperation by : Emerson Shaw
Download or read book Acts of Desperation written by Emerson Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This highly anticipated debut novel was inspired by actual events.** Sember is a strong-willed attorney who's got it all: the budding career, the condo, and a marriage proposal right around the corner. When her sister, Sarah, needs a new attorney, Sember is torn. She wants to help Sarah, but she is terrified her emotions could compromise the case. With so much at stake, failure isn't an option. In walks Jax Alexander, a brilliant legal mind from New York who excites Sember's body and mind. When he offers to take on Sarah's case, he provides hope in a hopeless situation. Sember and Jax are thrust together as their passion ignites. As a web of lies is exposed, Jax works tirelessly to reveal the truth behind Sarah's case. But, he has a dark secret shadowing his past that threatens to destroy everything. In the midst of so many lies, can Jax really be trusted? His secret could put Sarah's case in jeopardy and could cost Sember her life. Will he risk it all to save them, or will he cut and run, leaving destruction in his wake? Sometimes, desperate acts call for desperate measures.
Download or read book Snowflake written by Louise Nealon and published by Manilla Press. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.
Book Synopsis Acts of Desperation by : Megan Nolan
Download or read book Acts of Desperation written by Megan Nolan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) paints a riveting, cathartic story about love addiction and what it does to us. Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him? In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her… Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it? Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability. "Hot as viscera." —The New Republic
Book Synopsis Ordinary Human Failings by : Megan Nolan
Download or read book Ordinary Human Failings written by Megan Nolan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Shortlisted for Fiction - 2023 Nero Book Awards * After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family... 'Gripping... a triumph' SUNDAY TIMES 'Heartbreaking' VOGUE It's 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, other-worldly, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances until life - and love - got in her way. Now, as the scandal unfolds and the tabloids hunt their monster, she must confront the secrets and silences that have trapped her family for so many generations. 'Daring, brilliant... bold and beautiful' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A compulsive read' THE TIMES 'A writer to be read on her own terms' FINANCIAL TIMES
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Book Synopsis Acts of Desperation by : Emerson Shaw
Download or read book Acts of Desperation written by Emerson Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is definitely an emotional roller coaster and will leave you begging for more." Meagan, My Secret Book Spot Sember Adler is a young attorney at the start of her career. When her sister is in need of legal rescue, Sember worries her inexperience could compromise the case and failure isn't an option. The situation appears hopeless, until the handsome legal eagle, Jax Alexander, arrives at her firm. Is he the light at the end of a dark tunnel, or will his light only bring more darkness? Secrets threaten to kill the innocent, danger lurks in the shadows, and vengeance is a perilous motivator. In an artful blend of suspense, romance, and revenge, Acts of Desperation barrels down a thrilling and twisted road in search of the one thing that evades everyone-the truth. Sometimes, desperate times call for desperate measures. *This stand-alone novel was based on actual events and is intended for mature audiences due to strong sexual content*
Book Synopsis Journal of the American Oriental Society by : American Oriental Society
Download or read book Journal of the American Oriental Society written by American Oriental Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.
Book Synopsis The Malayan Words in English by : Charles Payson Gurley Scott
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Book Synopsis Words Is a Powerful Thing by : Brian Daldorph
Download or read book Words Is a Powerful Thing written by Brian Daldorph and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March 2020, right before the COVID-19 lockdown; the virus is taking a heavy toll in confined communities like nursing homes and prisons. Words Is a Powerful Thing is Daldorph’s record of teaching at the jail for the two decades between 2001 and 2020, showing how the lives of everyone involved in the class—but especially the inmates who came to class week after week—benefited from what happened every Thursday afternoon in that jail classroom, where for two hours inmates and instructor became a circle of ink and blood, writing together, reciting their poems, telling stories, and having a few good laughs. Words Is a Powerful Thing brings into the light the works of fifty talented inmate writers whose work deserves attention. Their poetry speaks of “what really matters” to all of us and gives the reader sustained insight into the role that creativity plays in aiding survival and bringing positive change for inmates, and, in turn, for all of us. Daldorph’s account of his teaching experience not only takes the reader inside the daily life at a county jail but also sets the work done in the writing class within the larger context of inmate education is the US corrections system, where education is often one of the few lifelines available to inmates. Words Is a Powerful Thing provides a teaching guide for instructors working with incarcerated writers, offering an extensive examination of both the challenges and benefits. When Brian Daldorph decided the story of his classroom experiences and the great writing produced by the inmates deserved to be told to wider audiences, he struggled with how to bring it all together. Not long after, an inmate wrote a poem titled “Words Is a Powerful Thing,” offering Daldorph a title, concept, and purpose: to show that the poetry of inmates speaks not just to other inmates but to all of us.
Book Synopsis Soccer Lions of the Nosce Hostem by : Charles L. Valenti
Download or read book Soccer Lions of the Nosce Hostem written by Charles L. Valenti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My son had the fortune of growing up in Italy as a military dependent. There, he learned the sport of soccer through relationships made with his Italian friends. His book, All-American, reveals how he used his knowledge of American sports on the soccer field in order to lead a team that would put together a streak of ten consecutive years of not losing a single regulation game by more than one goal! And now, this book called Soccer Lions of the Nosce Hostem contains the military intelligence and counterintelligence with regard to strategic and tactical deployment of member of his team. This is the second half of the story in explaining exactly how military philosophies based on actual events were used by his Grover Cleveland soccer team out of Ridgewood, New York City. But beware, the faint of heart. My son is now in possession of this legacy called Soccer Lions of the Nosce Hostem. With it, he can help you understand the crucial knowledge gained from knowing your opponent. We are the last of the lions. We are the ghost and the darkness. Lions do not speak, but they know each others thoughts, and these we will convey. My background with regard to the writing of his book can be traced back to the years of growing up in an environment rich in experience gained from participating in the three basic America sportsbaseball, basketball, and football. Currently, I reside in Long Island with my wife, Leila, and my dogs, Gizmo and Betsy. I have two sons, Ted and Chris, and two grandchildren, Christina and Teddy.
