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Download or read book Strange Truth written by Maggie Thrash and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of Honor Girl, comes a “sassy, sultry whodunit” (School Library Journal) set in an Atlanta boarding school that’s infused with subversive humor and featuring a cast of bizarre and unforgettable characters. It’s better to know the truth. At least sometimes. Halfway through Friday night’s football game, beautiful cheerleader Brittany Montague—dressed as the giant Winship Wildcat mascot—hurls herself off a bridge into Atlanta’s surging Chattahoochee River. Just like that, she’s gone. Eight days later, Benny Flax and Virginia Leeds will be the only ones who know why. Their search for the truth reveals a web of depravity hiding in plain sight at their picture perfect school. When love becomes obsession, how far will someone go to make their twisted fantasies a reality? And who has the power to stop them? A twisty, turny mystery loaded with the perfect punch of satire and heart.
Book Synopsis The Strange Truth about Us by : Marion Alice Coburn Farrant
Download or read book The Strange Truth about Us written by Marion Alice Coburn Farrant and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tell-all book by M.A.C. Farrant, whom Publishers Weekly has celebrated as "a brave iconoclast" and whose work the Globe & Mail has said "bristles with moral fury ... at the absurdities of our accelerated age and a great dose of laugh-out-loud humour," offers her readers nothing less than The Strange Truth About Us. A three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations, and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark, comedic, and lyrical, it attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures for our garrisoned world. "Annotations About an Absence" is a series of 115 numbered annotations to the day-long ruminations of a retired couple living in a gated community attempting to create an imaginary novel in which they express their fears about the future: "We attempt to express the universal confusion of mind that is the main feature of contemporary life. Which is? We are afraid." "Woman Records Brief Notes Regarding Absence" is written as a series of notes to these annotations, providing (in the utterly blank spirit of transparency) a running satiric narrative on the project. Each of these "notes" is written as if it were a description of a late-night TV movie or the content of a wet Jehovah's Witness pamphlet left on a woman's doorstep that has taken hold of her mind. "Other Prose Surrounding Absence" comprises twenty-seven prose pieces that take aim at a globalized world bludgeoned by the threat of "end times"--climate change, species extinction, pandemics, and really bad politics--that seem designed insofar as we are able to retain our status as "individuals." Unique in style and approach, engaging, enigmatic, controversial, and delightful, this book is an attempt to prick the bubble of our complacency in the face of the "awful atrocity" we've made for ourselves.
Book Synopsis Truth Stranger Than Fiction by : Augusta Rohrbach
Download or read book Truth Stranger Than Fiction written by Augusta Rohrbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, Truth Stranger than Fiction shows how African American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. More specifically, Truth Stranger than Fiction traces the influences of generic conventions popularized in slave narratives - such as the use of authenticating details, as well as dialect, and a frank treatment of the human body - in later realist writings. As it unfolds, Truth Stranger than Fiction poses and explores a set of questions about the shifting relationship between literature and culture in the United States from 1830-1930 by focusing on the evolving trend of literary realism. Beginning with the question, 'How might slave narratives - heralded as the first indigenous literature by Theodore Parker - have influenced the development of American Literature?' the book develops connections between an emerging literary marketplace, the rise of the professional writer, and literary realism.
Download or read book Strange Lies written by Maggie Thrash and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo in what may have been an accident, while a mystery man was handing out drugs.
Book Synopsis The Strange Truth of Fiction by : Joe Bugeja
Download or read book The Strange Truth of Fiction written by Joe Bugeja and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author turns true experiences into stories that adorn his biographies and autobiographies. He does so as a means of information, instruction and discussion. In fact he provides authentic insights of the human predicament in a universe that is sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile but often indifferent. He also delineates the human aspect in realistic living characters. The narration of many incidents and accidents is woven into his stories reinforced by imaginative fiction. True tragic incidents are both intensely dramatic and highly emotional. They engender sympathy and empathy that imprints them as true to life. On the other hand, comic episodes in the life of the characters stimulate humour, an element of pleasant relief and entertainment. True or imaginary they embellish the literary world by allowing the readers' participation in adventures of ordinary people. Personal experiences encompass man's journey on earth, no matter how colourless and humdrum is his life. However man's physical activities, such as travels to nearby or to distant countries, enrich life experiences. In addition, man's thought, stimulated by philosophical dicta, makes him aware of the hidden truths of his universal role. As a human being, Man is subject to superior forces. He is buffeted by coincidences, destiny, misfortune and even Providence. Though this collection of stories may encapsulate a short span of a man's life, they are in essence true to life. Though plot may be coloured by imaginative fiction, the stories are characteristic of a true narration and a recording of what truly happened. Thus, the reader should evaluate the story by its truth rather than by other characteristic structures. Nevertheless, the author considers these stories more as a literature of escape than of interpretation. Yet they broaden the readers' vision and sharpen their awareness of the everyday reality of life. The stories are certainly true to life. They illustrate various reactions and other aspects of human behaviour,
Book Synopsis Here Lies Daniel Tate by : Cristin Terrill
Download or read book Here Lies Daniel Tate written by Cristin Terrill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young runaway is welcomed into the arms of an affluent family after he takes on the identity of the family's missing son Daniel, only to slowly realize that the family knows more about Daniel's disappearance than they're letting on.
Book Synopsis Truth is Stranger Than Fiction 2 by : C Wilson
Download or read book Truth is Stranger Than Fiction 2 written by C Wilson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the pressure of dropping new music is starting to weigh down heavily on Tone. Especially when he is completely overwhelmed with the task of being a husband and now a new father. He never in his life would have thought that he would be under such circumstances. But he must deal with the unfortunate cards that he was dealt. A hand full of betrayal and disloyalty. Becoming a rapper's wife was never in the cards for Chasity, but you can't help what your heart desires. Learning to re-love and trust her husband again will be the hardest pill to swallow once she learns of his infidelities - a pain so great that someone's blood must spill for it. Maleeka will down right risk it all to beat Chasity and to gain Tone's love back. Having his child just isn't enough for her. She craves more. This time around she plans on turning Chasity's world completely upside down. Tone, Rowdy, Stacks, The Twins, Ashley, Chasity, and Maleeka are back - and someone will die. This is the final chapter...
Download or read book Honor Girl written by Maggie Thrash and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel memoir depicting the author's teenage experiences at summer camp where she fell in love with an older girl.
Download or read book Furious Hours written by Casey N. Cep and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Book Synopsis Following the Equator by : Mark Twain
Download or read book Following the Equator written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America's finest writer, Mark Twain could make entertaining reading -- and great literature -- out of almost anything. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into ill-advised schemes. So, in 1895 at age 60, he undertook a two-year round-the-world lecture tour, in which he circumnavigated the globe via steamship, including stops at the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, India, South Africa and elsewhere. He describes a rich range of experiences -- visiting a leper colony in Hawaii, shark fishing in Australia, tiger hunting, diamond mining in South Africa, and riding the rails in India. The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers, the poetry of Australian place-names and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand, among other topics, are the focus of his wry humor and redoubtable powers of observation. An evocative and highly unique American portrait of nineteenth-century travel and custom, this book has a serious thread running through it, recording Twain's observations of the mistreatments and miseries of mankind.
Book Synopsis The People in the Trees by : Hanya Yanagihara
Download or read book The People in the Trees written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life “Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Strange Bodies written by Marcel Theroux and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months, yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery involving unknown letters by the great Dr. Johnson grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure. Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.
Book Synopsis Stranger to the Truth by : Lisa C. Hickman
Download or read book Stranger to the Truth written by Lisa C. Hickman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the fatal intersection in the lives of Noura Jackson, her circle of dissolute Memphis friends, and the death of Noura's mother, Jennifer, on the eve of a popular outdoor festival"--page 2 of cover.
Book Synopsis Exile Corporation by : Mark McClafferty
Download or read book Exile Corporation written by Mark McClafferty and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast read that will take you on a thrill ride with more twists and turns than an amusement park ride after dark... Born and raised in England; Mark moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 at the age of 25 years old. Training to become an Investment Securities Broker, by 1995 he was one of the most sought after telemarketers throughout the USA. Upon the advent of the Internet, Mark joined an organization that then manipulated the burgeoning electronic age, eventually embezzling approximately $117 million by 1999. This is his story.
Book Synopsis Strange But True Book 2 by : Janet Lorimer
Download or read book Strange But True Book 2 written by Janet Lorimer and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes: Hi-Lo, nonfiction. Who isn't fascinated by the world of the weird? These stories are the ultimate in high-interest reading. Fact or fiction? Real or unreal? Let your students decide. The people, places and things in these story collections range from the peculiar to the preposterous, from creepy to utterly terrifying, from the odd to the awful. Yet, all are based on eyewitness accounts or the solid scholarship of serious investigators. Contents Include: Bob Lazar, The UFO Guy, The Mothman Mystery, Mischievous Spirits, and many more.
Book Synopsis Emily's Secret Book of Strange by : Rob Reger
Download or read book Emily's Secret Book of Strange written by Rob Reger and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily shows how she sees the world and how deceptive sight can be, in this book of illusions and surprises.
Book Synopsis Strange But True Book 1 by : Janice Greene
Download or read book Strange But True Book 1 written by Janice Greene and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes: Hi-Lo, nonfiction. Who isn't fascinated by the world of the weird? These stories are the ultimate in high-interest reading. Fact or fiction? Real or unreal? Let your students decide. The people, places and things in these story collections range from the peculiar to the preposterous, from creepy to utterly terrifying, from the odd to the awful. Yet, all are based on eyewitness accounts or the solid scholarship of serious investigators. Contents Include: The Presidential Ghost, Mystery Spots on Earth, UFO or Weather Balloon? And many more.
