Author: Alison McGhee Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312425920 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
In McGhee's strange and powerful novel, a small band of tough kids turn the myth of the super hero inside out as they face down the shadows of childhood, responsibility, and life in a quiet town.
Author: Melissa Jensen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101478047 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Catherine Vernon has been stranded in London for the summer-no friends, no ex-boyfriend Adam the Scum (good riddance!), and absolutely nothing to do but blog about her misery to her friends back home. Desperate for something-anything-to do in London while her (s)mother's off researching boring historical things, Cat starts reading the 1815 diary of Katherine Percival her mom gives her-and finds the similarities between their lives to be oddly close. But where Katherine has the whirls of the society, the parties and the gossip over who is engaged to who, Cat's only got some really excellent English chocolate. Then she meets William Percival-the uber-hot descendant of Katherine-and things start looking up . . .
Author: Rachel Lyon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 139853336X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
Rachel Lyon's first novel – soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it. Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success. ‘Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘A sparkling debut’ New York Times Book Review
Author: Kate Gordon Publisher: Rhiza Press ISBN: 9781925563528 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Do you ever look at the sky and think that's where we belong? Like maybe the world is the wrong way around and we're meant to be up there, floating? Girl Running, Boy Falling is a raw read about a girl and boy-who are beautifully flawed.
Author: Sungju Lee Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 161312340X Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 299
Book Description
Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Author: Lisa Schroeder Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442443995 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 355
Book Description
Very good friends, her poetry notebooks, and a mysterious "ninja of nice" give 17-year-old Rae the strength to face her mother's neglect, her stepfather's increasing abuse, and a new boyfriend's obsessiveness.
Author: Glenna Maynard Publisher: Glenna Maynard ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
He’ll rock more than her heart. My only goal as soon as I graduate is leaving this small town and everyone in it behind but then he happens. Kai Cooper is broody and mysterious. He’s everything I said I didn’t want. A bad boy musician on the road to stardom. A complication I never saw coming. He’s got secrets that not only rock my heart, they shatter my world and change everything. This is a new adult high school romance about first time love and falling for the bad boy with a good heart.
Author: Lili Valente Publisher: Self Taught Ninja ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Since when do bad boy tattoo artists do the nice-guy thing? Isn’t that a rulebook violation or something? Here I was, perfectly oblivious about never having been truly hot and bothered before. Then Nick goes and kisses me, effectively making every paltry lip-lock I’d ever had in the past utterly forgettable in comparison. But what does he do after learning I still have my v-card? He locks us in the friend zone. Maddening, really, since no safe, tame guy even registers for me anymore. Seems it’s intense, rumbly-voiced swooniness or nothing for this girl. So, do I go to Nick’s shop and ask him to ink me as part of a big master plan? Nope. It just happens. Admittedly, the liberating request comes out a little dirtier than I intend. Which just makes it doubly perfect. * * * For such a nice, good girl, Melody sure knows how to be all kinds of trouble for me. Seriously, what the hell had I been thinking kissing her? It’s been a month now and I still can’t get it—or her—out of my head. There are too many reasons I shouldn’t get close to her. And she makes me forget every single one. Her town sweetheart status and innocence aside, she’s also my boss’s sister. Until my new tattoo shop takes off, I can’t afford to lose my day job. But, it’s no use. Fact is, no other woman is going to do it for me anymore. It’s cute, funny, beautiful-inside-and-out sweetness or nothing. That said, I need to keep my distance. At least until I can make something of myself. A guy like me co-owning a business? That’s something. This thing with Melody, on the other hand? It could be everything. Previously titled Virgin Seeks Bad Boy. Same swoony, feel-good story, just with a fresh title and cover makeover. The Bliss River Series - Falling for the Fling (Lark & Mason) - Falling for the Ex (Aria & Nash) - Falling for the Bad Boy (Melody & Nick)
Author: Jenny Jaeckel Publisher: ISBN: 9781684337194 Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Harboring a grave secret, Gerard purses a dream that leads him from New York City to Jazz Age-Paris, only to be drawn back by the family he has left behind.
Author: Alison McGhee
Author: Melissa Jensen
Author: Rachel Lyon
Author: Kate Gordon
Author: Sungju Lee
Author: Lisa Schroeder
Author: Glenna Maynard
Author: Lili Valente
Author: Tedd Arnold
Author: Jenny Jaeckel