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Book Synopsis Who Stole Nan's Knickers? by : Carol P Townsend
Download or read book Who Stole Nan's Knickers? written by Carol P Townsend and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The other day I ventured into the neglected and eerie vaults of my haunted chateau and came across this collection of anecdotes that I had scribbled down in an unaccustomed fit of feverish activity. They are all true, except maybe one, with which I have tinkered just a little.
Book Synopsis The Stolen Daughter by : Florence Ọlájídé
Download or read book The Stolen Daughter written by Florence Ọlájídé and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Wow!!!... Devastatingly heartbreaking and beautiful… Absolutely rammed with emotions… An absolute eye-opener!!... A beautiful, heartbreaking and educational read!!… My heart absolutely broke with tears streaming down my face… Unputdownable, heart-wrenching.’ @bookwormwhitlock86 My heart races as gunfire startles me from my sleep, and my lungs fill with smoke as I realise my village is being burned to the ground. I tremble as I discover my family is missing, but before I can find them, I am taken. With tears streaming down my face, I wonder if I’ll ever see my parents and little brother again… In a small, peaceful village in Western Africa, fourteen-year-old Ṣìkẹ́mi dreams of being like the boys, learning how to hunt and defend herself. But as her father reminds her often, in order to make her family proud she must live by the rules and marry well. Soon, everything Ṣìkẹ́mi loves shatters in an instant. Her beloved village is raided and Ṣìkẹ́mi is taken from her family to work for Madam Tinúbú, a rich and powerful slave trader. As she begins her new life alone, Ṣìkẹ́mi’s only comfort is the memory of her little brother’s laughter as they played together before she drifts off to restless sleep. Ṣìkẹ́mi longs to see her family again and she knows deep down that the only way to survive her brutal new life is to be her enemy’s greatest ally. When she uncovers a plot against Madam, Ṣìkẹ́mi faces an impossible decision. Can she stay faithful to a ruthless slave trader who has taken everything she ever loved if it means she might see her family again? Or will her own life and that of her family be in even greater danger? Inspired by true events, The Stolen Daughter is a gripping and unforgettable story about overcoming unimaginable hardship against all the odds, and the unending courage and strength of women in a world ruled by men. Perfect for readers of Sadeqa Johnson, Laila Ibrahim’s Yellow Crocus, and 12 Years a Slave. Readers love The Stolen Daughter: ‘WOW! If this isn't a book to brag about I don't know what is. I started it late last night. Never did I anticipate I would be closing the book at 1am left in complete shock. A book I’ll be recommending to all!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Amazing… Incredible… I absolutely devoured this book… Masterfully written. I felt completely submerged in the setting and felt as though I was watching a movie I could not take my eyes from!’ LibraryThing, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow… powerful and… I had a hard time putting it down… a phenomenal page-turner… my heart was broken.’ Harper’s Court, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I absolutely loved this book…I enjoyed it so much and recommend it to everyone. Great read!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Captivating and compelling… Readers are simply going to fall in love with this… Beautiful… Six out of five stars… Fast-paced, unputdownable.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Inspiring… Captivating… An unforgettable emotional journey… Prepare to be swept away by a powerful historical coming-of-age story… This book won't let you down.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A gripping, unputdownable tale… heart-wrenching and uplifting.’ Michelle Cornish, author, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wonderful… incredible.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Gripping… flawless.’ @the.aesthete.nerd, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An absolutely bingeworthy read… such a page-turner!’ @coffeeandpages2021
Download or read book Queenie written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1953, the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of England. Elsie Kettle can't wait to go to London to see the celebrations on Coronation Day. Elsie lives with her Nan - her mum works as a showgirl, so she's not around very often. Spirited and imaginative, but often lonely, Elsie longs for a best friend. Luckily, she and Nan are very close; Elsie just wishes she was allowed a cat to keep her company sometimes. Then tragedy strikes. Nan and Elsie both fall ill with tuberculosis, and Elsie finds herself whisked away to the children's ward of the hospital. Confined to bed for months on end, Elsie finds it very hard to adapt to the hospital's strict regime. But she invents astonishing ways of entertaining the other children on the ward, and for the first time finds herself surrounded by true friends - including Queenie, the hospital's majestic white cat. Finally, Elsie is well enough to leave hospital. But before she does, she has one very special, very unexpected visitor... A master storyteller - The Good Book Guide
Download or read book Staunch written by Eleanor Wood and published by HQ. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fun and uplifting memoir' Cosmopolitan Eleanor finds herself in her late 30s on a beach in India with three old ladies, trying to 'find herself' and 'discover her family history' like some sad middle-class crisis cliché. How did she get here? Truthfully, it could be for any one of the below reasons, if not all combined: * Stepmum dying/Stepdad leaving - family falling apart, subsequent psychotic break; both parents now on third marriage * Breaking up with K after 12 years - breaking up a whole life, a whole fucking universe - for reasons that may have been... misguided? * New boyfriend moving in immediately, me insisting 'it's not a rebound!' even after everyone has stopped listening, then breaking up with me * Going into therapy after dating a threatening narcissist (the most pertinent point of which should be noted: I did not break up with him - he ghosted me) How to address this situation? Take a trip to India with your octogenarian nan and two great aunts of course. The perfect, if somewhat unusual, distraction from Eleanor's ongoing crisis. But the trip offers so much more than Eleanor could ever have hoped for. Through the vivid and worldly older women in her life, she learns what it means to be staunch in the face of true adversity.
Book Synopsis Cat and Nat's Mom Truths by : Catherine Belknap
Download or read book Cat and Nat's Mom Truths written by Catherine Belknap and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Hilarious best friends Cat and Nat created a massive online community of moms by sharing their ultra-real and just a bit R-rated dispatches from the mom trenches. From what not to eat a few days after giving birth (chicken wings) to the most effective ways to dodge post-partum sex, Cat & Nat’s Mom Truths shares everything no one will tell you about having kids. Mixing memoir, humor, and advice, Cat and Nat tell never-before-told stories about the stress, guilt, joy, and laundry (oh the laundry!) of being a mom in their first book. With seven kids between them and millions of fans on social media, they get real about the parts of parenting that somehow don’t make the Instagram feed. Sharing their outrageous humor, fearless myth-busting, and genuine comfort on every page, they walk you from pregnancy to the toddler years and beyond. And they dole out ridiculously honest advice, like what you think you need at the hospital when you have your first baby (lip gloss) versus what you actually need (hemorrhoid pillow), and how worried you should really be about germs (less than you are). Fearless crusaders against the perfection myth and all the gluten-free, sugar-free baking it entails, Cat and Nat assure you that you’re already doing a great job, making this an essential companion for moms everywhere.
Download or read book Women of the Dunes written by Sarah Maine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully told and intriguing mystery about two generations of Scottish women united by blood, an obsession with the past, and a long-hidden body, from the author of The House Between Tides. Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullaness, a headland on Scotland’s sea-lashed western coast where a legend has taken root. At its center is Ulla, an eighth-century Norsewoman whose uncertain fate was entangled with two warring brothers and a man who sought to save her. Libby first heard the stories from her grandmother, who had learned it from her own forebear, Ellen, a maid at Sturrock House. The Sturrocks have owned the land where Ulla dwelled for generations, and now Libby, an archaeologist, has their permission to excavate a mysterious mound, which she hopes will cast light on the legend’s truth. But before she can begin, storms reveal the unexpected: the century-old bones of an unidentified man. The discovery triggers Libby’s memories of family stories about Ellen, of her strange obsession with Ulla, and of her violent past at Sturrock House. As Libby digs deeper, she unravels a recurring story of love, tragedy, and threads that bind the past to the present. And as she learns more of Rodri Sturrock, the landowner’s brother, she realizes these forces are still at work, and that she has her own role to play in Ulla’s dark legend.
Book Synopsis How Hard Can It Be? by : Allison Pearson
Download or read book How Hard Can It Be? written by Allison Pearson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United Kingdom by The Borough Press"--Copyright page.
Book Synopsis Love on the Sweeping Plains by : Leanne Lovegrove
Download or read book Love on the Sweeping Plains written by Leanne Lovegrove and published by Leanne Lovegrove. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A lovely, gentle rural romance with snippets of all that is wonderful about rural life in Australia' - Naomi, aplace_inthesun reviewer. Desperation drove Tori back to her home town, but that’s not why she stayed. Vowing never to be hurt again, Tori Christensen flees home to Cedar Creek Plains and the loving grandmother who raised her, after the devastating end of her marriage. Zac Coleman has lived in Cedar Creek Plains his whole life. His family operates the Coleman Cattle Station and Zac has a Vet practice in town. After a health scare, he’s given up on love. His sisters are keen to see him married with a family and sign him up for the reality country television show, Local Lads Looking for Love. He begrudgingly agrees to be the star of the show to keep his sisters off his back. And it’s good for the region, including Tori’s grandmother’s B&B. Tori returns on the first day of filming, blundering into the show’s cameraman. Zac and Tori have history, but that was years ago. Now she’s a single mother and Zac is dating four women as the eligible bachelor. Set on the sweeping outback plains of Queensland, will Tori and Zac get a second chance at love?
Download or read book Presidio written by Randy Kennedy and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive…wonderfully lit from within” (Lee Child, The New York Times Book Review), this critically acclaimed, stunningly mature literary debut is the darkly comic story of a car thief on the run in the gritty and arid landscape of the 1970s Texas panhandle. In this “stellar debut,” (Publishers Weekly) car thief Troy Falconer returns home after years of wandering to reunite with his younger brother, Harlan. The two set out in search of Harlan’s wife, Bettie, who’s left him cold and run away with the little money he had. When stealing a station wagon for their journey, Troy and Harlan find they’ve accidentally kidnapped a Mennonite girl, Martha Zacharias, sleeping in the back of the car. But Martha turns out to be a stubborn survivor who refuses to be sent home, so together, these unlikely road companions haphazardly attempt to escape across the Mexican border, pursued by the police and Martha’s vengeful father. But this is only one layer of Troy’s story. Through interjecting entries from his journal that span decades of an unraveling life, we learn that Troy has become so estranged from society that he’s shunned the very idea of personal property. Instead of claiming possessions, he works motels, stealing the suitcases and cars of men roughly his size, living with their things until those things feel too much like his own, at which point he finds another motel and vanishes again into another man’s identity. Richly nuanced and complex, “like a nesting doll, [Presidio] continually uncovers stories within stories” (Ian Stansel, author of The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo). With a page-turning plot, prose as gritty and austere as the novel’s Texas panhandle setting, and a determined yet doomed cast of characters ranging from con artists to religious outcasts, this “rich and rare book” (Annie Proulx, author of Barkskins) packs a kick like a shot of whiskey. Perfect for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, and Larry McMurtry, who said that Kennedy “captures the funny yet tragic relentlessness of survival in an unforgiving place. Let’s hope he keeps his novelistic cool and brings us much, much more.”
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Book Synopsis The Price of Fame by : Rowena Cory Daniels
Download or read book The Price of Fame written by Rowena Cory Daniels and published by Clan Destine Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where will Antonia's search for truth lead and who will suffer? When film and TV graduate, Antonia Carlyle sets out to make a documentary about eighties band, 'The Tough Romantics', she uncovers new facts surrounding the death of singer song-writer, Genevieve. This leads her to suspect that the man arrested for her murder was not the killer. One of the three surviving band members believes it is time to settle old ghosts but the other two have gone on to forge solo careers and don't want Antonia to rake up the past. One of them knows who the killer is, the other needs to hide their guilt. A growing psychic link with the dead girl and the conviction that justice must be done, drives Antonia to face her own demons, uncover the past and confront the present.
Download or read book Flirty Dancing written by Jenny McLachlan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bea Hogg is shy but fiery inside. When national dance competition Starwars comes to her school looking for talent, she wants to sign up. It's just a shame her best friend agreed to enter with school super-cow Pearl Harris. Bea will fight back! But when school hottie, Ollie Matthews, who also happens to be Pearl's boyfriend, decides to enter the competition with Bea, she will have more than a fight on her hands. This warm, nuanced, hilarious story about friendship, fortitude . . . and dancing is impossible not to fall in love with. Jenny's voice is fresh and convincing, and she handles both darker and lighter elements of the story with equal panache.
Download or read book Women in Clothes written by Sheila Heti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives. It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think more deeply about their personal style. Writers, activists, and artists including Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Kalpona Akter, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Tavi Gevinson, Miranda July, Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Molly Ringwald answered these questions with photographs, interviews, personal testimonies, and illustrations. Even our most basic clothing choices can give us confidence, show the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with our friends, or function as armor or disguise. They are the tools we use to reinvent ourselves and to transform how others see us. Women in Clothes embraces the complexity of women’s style decisions, revealing the sometimes funny, sometimes strange, always thoughtful impulses that influence our daily ritual of getting dressed.
Book Synopsis WORLD PISS by : Steve "Fly Agaric 23" Pratt
Download or read book WORLD PISS written by Steve "Fly Agaric 23" Pratt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 dreams to introduce 23 condensed chapters of reflections on time-space spent well in England, America and the Netherlands--(2000-2011). World Piss or (Shannanigums Wave) juxtaposes a selection of prose from Fly's note-books, blogs and novels into a big soup, brewing since 2006 and presented here in it's 45th incarnation, edited for the special date 11/11/11. Re-njoy.
Book Synopsis The Clothes They Stood Up In by : Alan Bennett
Download or read book The Clothes They Stood Up In written by Alan Bennett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.
Book Synopsis Black Swan Green by : David Mitchell
Download or read book Black Swan Green written by David Mitchell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time
Download or read book 740 Park written by Michael Gross and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of House of Outrageous Fortune For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. The last great building to go up along New York’s Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most powerful families, some of America’s (and the world’s) oldest money—the kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier, Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton, and Harkness—and some whose names evoke the excesses of today’s monied elite: Kravis, Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman. All along, the building has housed titans of industry, political power brokers, international royalty, fabulous scam-artists, and even the lowest scoundrels. The book begins with the tumultuous story of the building’s construction. Conceived in the bubbling financial, artistic, and social cauldron of 1920’s Manhattan, 740 Park rose to its dizzying heights as the stock market plunged in 1929—the building was in dire financial straits before the first apartments were sold. The builders include the architectural genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s grandfather), and a raft of financiers, many of whom were little more than white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers. Once finished, 740 became a magnet for the richest, oldest families in the country: the Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the Plymouth Colony; the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins, Scovilles, Thornes, and Schermerhorns; and top executives of the Chase Bank, American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the walls of 740 Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and economically. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. As the social climate evolved throughout the last century, so did 740 Park: after World War II, the building’s rulers eased their more restrictive policies and began allowing Jews (though not to this day African Americans) to reside within their hallowed walls. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. At its core this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old bloodlines to new money. But it’s also much more than that: filled with meaty, startling, often tragic stories of the people who lived behind 740’s walls, the book gives us an unprecedented access to worlds of wealth, privilege, and extraordinary folly that are usually hidden behind a scrim of money and influence. This is, truly, how the other half—or at least the other one hundredth of one percent—lives.
