Author: Shona Patel
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 146039125X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
"Thrilling and illuminating."—LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." —People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and the upcoming page-turner Don't You Cry, Mary Kubica She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated. More Praise: "Hypnotic and anything but predictable." —Kirkus, starred review "A superb psychological thriller…stunning."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Read the New York Times bestselling novel that everyone is talking about, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica! Look for Mary's latest complex and addictive tale of deceit and obsession, Don't You Cry. Order your copies today!
A Partial History of Lost Causes
Author: Jennifer DuBois
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 1400069777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, who she decides to visit in Russia. A first novel.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 1400069777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, who she decides to visit in Russia. A first novel.
The Naughty Girls Book Club
Author: Sophie Hart
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780007514946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Estelle sets up a book group in order to increase custom to her struggling small town cafe, what follows is more scandalous than she could have ever imagined ... As the first book club meeting flounders, Estelle suggests a spot of erotica to spice up the members lives --with trepidation the decision is accepted. Inspired by their sizzling reads, this group of shy suburban readers shake off their inhibitions and discover a new side to themselves with some tantalising results.
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780007514946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Estelle sets up a book group in order to increase custom to her struggling small town cafe, what follows is more scandalous than she could have ever imagined ... As the first book club meeting flounders, Estelle suggests a spot of erotica to spice up the members lives --with trepidation the decision is accepted. Inspired by their sizzling reads, this group of shy suburban readers shake off their inhibitions and discover a new side to themselves with some tantalising results.
The Book Club
Author: Kate McCabe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781842233153
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781842233153
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traveling with Pomegranates
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594134197
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594134197
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter.
The Next Page: A Fiction Sampler for Book Clubs
Author: Shona Patel
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 146039125X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
"Thrilling and illuminating."—LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." —People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and the upcoming page-turner Don't You Cry, Mary Kubica She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated. More Praise: "Hypnotic and anything but predictable." —Kirkus, starred review "A superb psychological thriller…stunning."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Read the New York Times bestselling novel that everyone is talking about, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica! Look for Mary's latest complex and addictive tale of deceit and obsession, Don't You Cry. Order your copies today!
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 146039125X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
"Thrilling and illuminating."—LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." —People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and the upcoming page-turner Don't You Cry, Mary Kubica She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated. More Praise: "Hypnotic and anything but predictable." —Kirkus, starred review "A superb psychological thriller…stunning."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Read the New York Times bestselling novel that everyone is talking about, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica! Look for Mary's latest complex and addictive tale of deceit and obsession, Don't You Cry. Order your copies today!
Rules for Being Dead
Author: Kim Powers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949467352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A movie-obsessed boy in 1960s Texas loses his mother, and he and her ghost search for what happened to her.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949467352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A movie-obsessed boy in 1960s Texas loses his mother, and he and her ghost search for what happened to her.
Hachette Book Group Summer Reading Fiction Sampler 2014
Author: Hachette Book Group,
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455589020
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Summer is the perfect time to settle into your beach or deck chair and discover a new writer. Hachette Book Group proudly presents this free Summer Reading Fiction Sampler, filled with the first chapters of 15 novels being published across all our imprints over the course of summer 2014. Authors Jeff Abbott (Inside Man), Megan Abbott (The Fever), Adam Brookes (Night Heron), M.R. Carey (The Girl With All The Gifts), Stephan Eirik Clark (Sweetness #9), Kimberly Elkins (What Is Visible), Ryan Graudin (The Walled City), Edan Lepucki (California), Jodi Ellen Malpas (One Night Promised), David Shafer (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot), Anne Rivers Siddons (The Girls Of August), Carla Stewart (The Hatmaker's Heart), Alison Sweeney (Scared Scriptless), Carl Weber (The Choir Director 2) And Chris Weitz (The Young World) are united by a common publisher and a desire to share their work with any reader eager for a great story. Hopefully this taste of their work will lead you to discover your new favorite novelist!
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455589020
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Summer is the perfect time to settle into your beach or deck chair and discover a new writer. Hachette Book Group proudly presents this free Summer Reading Fiction Sampler, filled with the first chapters of 15 novels being published across all our imprints over the course of summer 2014. Authors Jeff Abbott (Inside Man), Megan Abbott (The Fever), Adam Brookes (Night Heron), M.R. Carey (The Girl With All The Gifts), Stephan Eirik Clark (Sweetness #9), Kimberly Elkins (What Is Visible), Ryan Graudin (The Walled City), Edan Lepucki (California), Jodi Ellen Malpas (One Night Promised), David Shafer (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot), Anne Rivers Siddons (The Girls Of August), Carla Stewart (The Hatmaker's Heart), Alison Sweeney (Scared Scriptless), Carl Weber (The Choir Director 2) And Chris Weitz (The Young World) are united by a common publisher and a desire to share their work with any reader eager for a great story. Hopefully this taste of their work will lead you to discover your new favorite novelist!
Library Materials and Services for Teen Girls
Author: Katie O'Dell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031307707X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Libraries can define their service goals to better serve and empower teen girls. This book shows how you can make a difference in your community by establishing partnerships with organizations, offering developmentally appropriate programming, and providing timely reader's advisory services tailored to this population. A short history of girl power, collection development guidelines, library programming ideas, and issues regarding girls and technology, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach are provided. An introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and index complete the book. Make a difference in your community: improve your library services to teen girls! This book describes how libraries can define their service goals to better serve—and even empower—young women. Author O'Dell describes how to establish partnerships with organizations, offer developmentally appropriate programming, and provide timely reader's advisory services. Everything you need to know is presented here: a short history of girl power, collection development guidelines, library programming ideas, and issues regarding girls and technology, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach. An introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and index complete the book.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031307707X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Libraries can define their service goals to better serve and empower teen girls. This book shows how you can make a difference in your community by establishing partnerships with organizations, offering developmentally appropriate programming, and providing timely reader's advisory services tailored to this population. A short history of girl power, collection development guidelines, library programming ideas, and issues regarding girls and technology, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach are provided. An introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and index complete the book. Make a difference in your community: improve your library services to teen girls! This book describes how libraries can define their service goals to better serve—and even empower—young women. Author O'Dell describes how to establish partnerships with organizations, offer developmentally appropriate programming, and provide timely reader's advisory services. Everything you need to know is presented here: a short history of girl power, collection development guidelines, library programming ideas, and issues regarding girls and technology, volunteering, collaboration, and outreach. An introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and index complete the book.
Extension Service Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description