Off balance by lucia franco6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to stand by as Adrianna continues to jeopardize herself, Kova surrenders to what she needs most. With boundaries set and lines defined, the beautifully anguished man who's been at Adrianna's mercy giving her everything she's demanded, has no choice but to walk away.įighting for a dream becomes only half the battle when Adrianna's fate is sealed, leaving them both with their biggest challenge yet. ![]() With his devastating betrayal lingering, Adrianna must become her own champion and place her dream ahead of all else. In doing so, she ignores the warning signs as both the extreme training and unending heartbreak begin to take their toll. Though the dynamics shift between coach and gymnast, nothing can prepare them for the agonizing truth. There is no atoning for what Kova did. The one place where they should never feel alive is where they find complete absolution. Adrianna and Kova let caution fly for love despite the odds. ![]()
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Wayward by blake crouch6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And what lies on the other side of the fence is a nightmare beyond anyone's imagining. He's sheriff, and one of the few who knows the truth-Wayward Pines isn't just a town. Everyone secretly dreams of leaving, but those who dare face a terrifying surprise. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His novels include Upgrade, Recursion, Dark Matter, and the Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Others think they're trapped in an unfathomable experiment. Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry. None of the residents know how they got here. Nestled amid picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden.except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture. ![]() Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Night Shyamalan, Wayward Pines returns May 25th, 2016 and airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on FOX. ![]() The second book in the international runaway bestselling series that inspired the most watched summer show of 2015. ![]() What i mean joan didion6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() All reveal the author’s shrewd, acerbic critical eye. The experience, she recalls, was “not unlike training with the Rockettes.” Several pieces were originally published in magazines, and two were introductions: one, to a volume of photography by Robert Mapplethorpe another, to a memoir by director-and Didion’s friend-Tony Richardson. ![]() Although Didion portrays herself as a diffident, unconfident writer as a college student, she learned “a kind of ease with words” when working at Vogue, where she was assigned to write punchy, concise copy. ![]() In an appreciative introduction, New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als praises Didion as “a carver of words in the granite of the specific.” Stylistic precision (“Grammar is a piano I play by ear,” she writes) and the “energy and shimmer” of her prose are fully evident in this volume of previously uncollected pieces, written from 1968 to 2000. A dozen pieces of nonfiction from the acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. ![]() Civilwarland6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “George Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice. ![]() “Saunders’s satiric vision of America is dark and demented it’s also ferocious and very funny.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “It’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.” - The Wall Street Journal Praise for George Saunders and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. ![]() The story of my life casanova6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Peter Wickham was born in New Zealand and studied for the theatre at the Rose Bruford College in England. ![]() Volume 1 contains the first two sections: ‘1: Venetian Years’ and ‘2: To Paris and Prison’.ĭownload PDF booklet More product details ISBN: His appetite for life is voracious for him, a life lived close to the precipice is the only life worth living. The book is divided into six sections. He holds a verbal duel with Voltaire, a pistol duel with a Polish noble, and finds himself hauled before the court multiple times, including in London, where the judge in question turns out to be none other than Henry Fielding. He falls madly in love, has wild flings and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, Louis XV and Benjamin Franklin. Intense and scandalous, Casanova’s extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe – from France to Russia, Poland to Spain and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart. The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. Audio Sample Giacomo Casanova The Story of My Life, Volume 1 ![]() Natsuo kirino goodreads6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() When her parents abscond from the family home, she is left in the care of an uncle and his family. The heroine of Anonymous on the Streets is Mayu, a 16-year-old in her first year in high school. A sequel will be serialized in the Shūkan Asahi from next spring. In her 2018 novel Rojō no X (Anonymous on the Streets), she depicts female high school students who have lost their moorings and are exploited in the shady world of “subsidized dating” and the “ JK industry” (JK stands for joshi kōsei, or “high school girls”). Her novels portray heroines in difficult circumstances, and reveal the dark side and structural problems of Japanese society today. For more than quarter of a century, Kirino Natsuo’s bestselling novels have depicted women in a variety of desperate situations: housewives working the night shift at a food factory who get embroiled in murder, an employee at an elite company who finds fulfilment by selling herself on the streets at night, and a former member of the United Red Army who has kept her past a secret. ![]() Goodbye to berlin isherwood6/27/2023 ![]() Adapted to the stage in the postwar years, the latter became the 1951 Broadway play I Am a Camera. Norris (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939). He published two novels based on his experiences, The of Mr. Isherwood experienced Berlin during a period of political tension and violence that was, at the same time, a period of cultural experimentation and artistic energy. This period saw the curtain come down on Germany’s first parliamentary democracy, the Weimar Republic, when the constitution and the political culture proved unable to withstand the continual attacks from both the Nazi Party with its uniformed cohorts on the right of the political spectrum and the communists on the left. In 1929 he went to Berlin, where, like his novel’s narrator, he remained for four years. ![]() Over a three-year period he becomes deeply involved with a number of memorable Berlin characters and observes the disintegration of the German political system that leads to Hitler’s rise to power.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was WrittenĬhristopher Isherwood (1904-86) was born in High Lane, Cheshire, England. ![]() ![]() A semi-autobiographical novel, set In Berlin at the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Hmi era first published In 1939.Ĭhristopher, a young Englishman, lives in Berlin in the early 1930s and earns a small income from teaching English in private homes. ![]() Franc kafka amerika6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The Trial and The Castle, yet different in significant measure as well. The unfinished semi-comic novel which follows is both similar to Kafka's other two unfinished novels, A family house maid seduced him and threatens a paternity suit. Which is beyond even the surrealistic scenes in The Trial.įifteen year old Karl Rossmann immigrates to New York under duress. Little about the United States of the period and there is an air of fantasy The early part of the twentieth century, Kafka seemed to know that worldĪnd could describe it with power for me. Further, perhaps because I know so little about Prague of I found virtually none of these things in my other There is a tone of lightness,Īiriness, even comedy. This book seems on the surface to be so different. Prior acquaintance with Kafka is with The Trial, The Castle and Metamorphosis. I found this to be a difficult novel to think of as by Franz Kafka's. New York: New Directions Paperbacks, 1946 ![]() ![]() Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. They all try to make it through their shifts- and maintain their sanity- under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat. ![]() Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. ![]() Esha" "longs to be a model but discovers it's a horizontal romp to the runway. Priyanka's domineering mother has arranged for her daughter's upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Yet behind the headsets, everybody's heart is on the line. Skilled in patience- and accent management- they help American consumers keep their lives running. ![]() Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. ![]() The horseman christina henry6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Is this the work of the fabled Horseman, who Brom maintains is not real, or is there someone else prowling the woods?Īuthor Christina Henry brings Katrina and Brom back to life with a love story for the ages, and a grandchild who admires the brutish Brom in a way we’d never expect. ![]() Ben is drawn to the forest and would rather do some investigating, especially after another victim is found. But after the decapitated body of a local boy is found there, Brom warns Ben to stay out of the area, much to the younger Van Brunt’s dismay. ![]() To the 14-year-old, there’s nothing better than adventuring in the nearby woods playing Sleepy Hollow Boys, a game glorifying Brom’s youthful exploits. Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow picks up with Katrina and Brom more than 30 years after Crane’s mysterious disappearance, but is told from the perspective of their sole grandchild, Ben Van Brunt. No one knows what became of the schoolteacher after that, but Katrina went on to marry Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, her childhood sweetheart and Crane’s rival for her affections, and the legend of the Horseman prevailed. Instead, his stay is cut short after a terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman who haunts the quiet New York village. In the Washington Irving classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, schoolteacher Ichabod Crane relocates to Sleepy Hollow, where he tries but fails to woo Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of the town’s wealthiest landowner. ![]() |