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The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918152
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Ninth Life of Louis Drax written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax packs an irresistibly twisted wallop . . . An exhilarating, darkly inventive read. -Elle Now a major feature film starring Jamie Dornan and Aaron Paul Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously accident-prone. Every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in constant panic. He has always managed to survive-to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year.. When he falls off a cliff during a picnic, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives-but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is in shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a renowned coma clinic, a specialist tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling the doctor out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall-and he can't communicate. Or can he? The Ninth Life of Louis Drax is the story of a family falling apart, told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and Dr. Dannachet as he is drawn into the Draxes' circle. Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide.

My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919981
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Schleswig, the delightful narrator of Liz Jensen's latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she is no small success at the trade, she leaps at a new job opportunity for herself and Fru Schleswig, as cleaning ladies for the wealthy widow Krak. But mysteries abound at Fru Krak's dark old mansion. The basement appears to be haunted, townspeople claim to have seen the dead Professor Krak walking the streets as a ghost, and there are stories of desperate souls who paid the professor a visit and never emerged. In fact, as Charlotte will discover, there is a simple explanation for all this: the basement is home to a time machine. When their cunning investigations land them in trouble, Charlotte and Fru Schleswig find themselves catapulted through time and space to modern-day London, and there their adventures truly begin. With the minxy, intrepid Charlotte, Liz Jensen introduces a heroine every bit as memorable as Louis Drax. And with My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, she delivers yet another outlandishly entertaining novel, in which the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of spacetime proves no match for human ingenuity and earthly passion.

The Uninvited

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162040026X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Uninvited written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.

Egg Dancing

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408813602
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Egg Dancing written by Liz Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With only a schizophrenic mother and a militantly hostile sister for backup, Hazel Sugden, food-splattered mum and queen of low self-esteem, is palpably unfit to save the future of mankind as we know it. But when embryology, psychiatry and religion clash over the miracle designer drug Genetic Choice, the dysfunctional trio are propelled into action with explosively comic results....

Ark Baby

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408813599
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Ark Baby written by Liz Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's London veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children' and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the luscious twins Rose and Blanche. As the legacy of the girls' ancestor, Victorian freak Tobias Phelps, begins to connect with a century of history, religion, and evolutionary theory, new hope looms for the nation's future. Pointing the finger of destiny firmly at Bobby ...

The Rapture

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408809060
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Rapture written by Liz Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before? And what can love mean in 'interesting times'? A haunting story of human passion and burning faith set against an adventure of tectonic proportions, The Rapture is an electrifying psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink.

The Paper Eater

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408813629
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Paper Eater written by Liz Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the island paradise where utopianism and human greed are set to collide - with catastrophic results ... The whole world is beginning to fall in love with Atlantica. Miles from anywhere, the man-made island is a true twenty-first century vision. With a thriving economy based on global waste disposal and an infrastructure run by advanced software, politician-free Atlantica is the envy of other nations and a consumer paradise. But even Utopia has its outcasts. Meet Harvey Kidd, petty criminal, papier mâché craftsman, forlorn lover and holder of an explosive secret. Is the system about to discover that it spat out its most difficult customer too soon?

Pugs in Costumes

Author : Virginia Woof
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466887176
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Pugs in Costumes written by Virginia Woof and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From haute couture Oscar dresses and character classics, superheroes to inanimate objects, there isn't a creature on earth that can rock a costume quite like a pug. With over 100 full color, candid photographs of these adorable dogs in outfits ranging from adorable to hysterical to downright absurd, this book is a pure delight for animal lovers of all stripes. Packed with 128 pages of color photographs, some of the pugs you'll meet in this volume include: - Scarlett O'Pugra - Bob Pugley - Pugzilla - Chewpugca and Pug Vader - Evita Pugron - The Ba HumPug! And many, many more.

The Allegations

Author : Mark Lawson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509820914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Allegations written by Mark Lawson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning after he has celebrated his 60th birthday party at a celebrity-filled party, Ned Marriott is in bed with his partner, Emma, when there's a knock on the door. Detectives from the London police force's 'Operation Millpond' have come to arrest him over an allegation of sexual assault. Ned is one of the country's best-known historians - teaching at a leading university, advising governments and making top-rating TV documentaries - but this 'historic' claim from someone the cops insist on calling 'the victim' threatens him with personal and professional ruin and potential imprisonment. Professor Marriott would normally turn for support to Tom Pimm, his closest friend at the university, but Tom has just been informed that a secret investigation has raised anonymous complaints, which may end Dr Pimm's career. Swinging between fear, bewilderment and anger, Ned and Tom must try to defend themselves against the allegations, and hope that no others are made. The two men's families and friends are forced to question what they know and think. Can the complainants, detectives, HR teams, journalists and Tweeters who are driving the stories all be seeing smoke that has no fire behind it? By turns shocking and comic, reportorial and thoughtful, The Allegations startlingly and heart-breakingly captures a contemporary culture in which allegations are easily made and reputations casually destroyed. Asking readers to decide who they believe, it explores a modern nightmare that could happen, in some way, to anyone whose view of personal history may differ from someone else's.

War Crimes for the Home

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408813637
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book War Crimes for the Home written by Liz Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `You know what they say about GIs and English girls' knickers,' ran the wartime joke, `One Yank and they're off.' When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz, but still found time to grab what she wanted. Ciggies. Sex. American soldiers. But war has an effect on people. Gloria did all sorts of things she wouldn't normally do - evil things, some of them - because she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might. Now, fifty years on, it's payback time. In her old folks' home, Gloria is forced to remember the real truth about her and Ron, and confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic home front story. In a gripping, vibrant evocation of wartime Britain, Liz Jensen explores the dark impulses of women whose war crimes are committed on the home front, in the name of sex, survival, greed, and love .

All Dressed in White

Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501108557
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book All Dressed in White written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in the "series following The Cinderella Murder, featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride. Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Laurie Moran realizes a missing bride is the perfect cold case for her investigative television series, Under Suspicion."--

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Author : Joanne Greenberg
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429988770
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden written by Joanne Greenberg and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel about a young woman's struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author Hailed by The New York Times as "convincing and emotionally gripping" upon its publication in 1964, Joanne Greenberg's semiautobiographical novel stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrayal of mental illness. Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons. A modern classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains every bit as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.

Just Another Jihadi Jane

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902932545
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Just Another Jihadi Jane written by Tabish Khair and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters

Author : Elisabeth Robinson
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759509530
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters written by Elisabeth Robinson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-01-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling status (and subsequent blockbuster film adaptations) of Bridget Jones's Diary and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is proof of the enduring strength of this category. Although the novel is invented, Robinson is a successful Hollywood producer whose credits include Braveheart and Last Orders.

The Book of Fred

Author : Abby Bardi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743424492
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Fred written by Abby Bardi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life. Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose primary obsessions seem to involve an imminent Apocalypse and the propagation of the name "Fred," is hardly your average fifteen-year-old. She has never watched TV, been to a supermarket, or even read much of anything beyond the inscrutable dogma laid out by the prophet Fred. But this is all before Mary Fred's whole world tilts irrevocably on its axis: before her brothers, Fred and Freddie, take sick and pass on to the place the Reverend Thigpen calls "the World Beyond"; before Mama and Papa are escorted from the Fredian Outpost in police vans; and Mary Fred herself is uprooted and placed in foster care with the Cullison family. It is here, at Alice Cullison's suburban home outside Washington, D.C., where everything really changes -- for all parties involved. Mary Fred's new guardian, Alice, is a large-hearted librarian who, several years after her divorce, can't seem to shake her grief and loneliness. Meanwhile, Alice's daughter Heather, also known as Puffin, buries any hint of her own adolescent loneliness beneath an impenetrable armor of caustic sarcasm, studied apathy, and technicolor hair. And the enigmatic Uncle Roy is Alice's perennially jobless and intensely private brother. As Mary Fred struggles to adjust to the oddities of this alien world, from sordid daytime television and processed food to aromatherapy and transsexuality, she gradually begins to have an unmistakable influence on the lives of her housemates. But when a horrifying act of violence shakes the foundations of Mary Fred's fragile new family, she finds herself forced to confront, painfully, the very nature of the way she was raised. With a knack for laying bare the absurdities of daily life, Abby Bardi captures, with grace and authority, all the ambivalence and emotional uncertainty at the heart of these quirky characters' awakenings.

Love & Justice

Author : Diana Morgan-Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993092237
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Love & Justice written by Diana Morgan-Hill and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7 seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of the world with everything to live for to double-leg-amputee, her life in ruins. Then it got worse. A few days after her accident, as she lay in hospital, traumatised and heavily sedated, she learnt via a newspaper article that the railway's Transport Police were to interview "The Fall Girl," as the Press had labelled her, with a view to prosecution. She had boarded a moving train, they said, and trespassed onto their railway line. Her fight for justice took five years and was, she declares with no hesitation, a more harrowing experience than having both of her legs 'stolen' from her. As any young, single woman would be, Diana was shocked to the core by the sudden, catastrophic change in her body image. What man would ever love her now? The issues surrounding sexuality and disability are explored here with stark honesty as she recalls her complicated love life, the High Court dramas, and the rawness of her pain amidst a turmoil of emotion, all told with tremendous humour, charm and heart. For Diana loves to tell stories. Especially true ones. A brutally honest, heartwarming memoir that shocks and delights in equal measure - when you're not crying for her you're laughing with her

More Than It Hurts You

Author : Darin Strauss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440633568
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book More Than It Hurts You written by Darin Strauss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Darin Strauss's posts on the Penguin Blog Josh Goldin's happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms her baby. As each of them is forced to confront a reality that has become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are pushed to their breaking points. Darin Strauss's extraordinary novel is set in a world turned upside down-where doctors try to save babies from their parents, police use the law to tear families apart, and the people you think you know best end up surprising you the most.