Moth to a Flame
Moth to a Flame

Author: Ashley Antoinette

Publisher: Urban Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1599832577

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In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the city's drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter, Raven, was secluded from the grit that the city had to offer. But when Raven's young heart gets claimed by Mizan, a stick-up kid in search of a come-up, there's nothing Benjamin can do about losing her to the streets. She chooses love over loyalty and runs off with Mizan, but her new role as wifey soon proves to be more than she can handle. Puppy love always feels right, but things turn stale, and she soon finds that everyone she loves has disappeared. All she has is Mizan, but when hugs and kisses turn to bloody lips and black eyes, she realizes that Mizan is not who she thought he was. Raven becomes desperate for a way out, but this time, Daddy can't save her. Every time she finds the courage to leave, fear convinces her to stay. Like a moth to a flame, Raven is drawn to Mizan, even though she knows he'll be the death of her. When the hood life she chose becomes unbearable and the only way out is in a coffin, what will she do?

A Moth to a Flame
A Moth to a Flame

Author: Stig Dagerman

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241400739

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'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction 'A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian atmosphere of shadowy menace in his brief, intense novel, A Moth to a Flame... This moody, death-haunted novel is well worth reading' Evening Standard In 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother's memory, but he soon finds himself drawn into a fevered and forbidden affair with the very woman he set out to destroy . . . Written in a taut, restrained style, A Moth to a Flame is an intense exploration of heartache and fury, desperation and illicit passion. Set against a backdrop of the moody streets of Stockholm and the Hitchcockian shadows in the woods and waters of Sweden's remote islands, this is a psychological masterpiece by one of Sweden's greatest writers. 'Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion' Graham Greene 'Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence' Colm Tóibín 'There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of this type is the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman' Times Literary Supplement 'This searing tale of bereavement and loathing feels all too relevant today' Guardian

The Moth & the Flame
The Moth & the Flame

Author: Renée Ahdieh

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0399547738

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It started as playful, if barbed, banter before rising to a fateful wager with a most notorious rake—the Captain of the Guard, Jalal al-Khoury—who may have finally met his match in a lovely, if haughty, handmaiden, Despina. But she, too, seems to have met her match in the handsome Jalal. What begins as a tempestuous battle of will and wit in short order becomes a passionate affair spurred on by tragedy of the worst kind.

Moth to a Flame
Moth to a Flame

Author: K Webster

Publisher: K Webster

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1502392240

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All I’ve known is heartache and pain. Everyone I’ve ever cared about has left me. I’m a lonely man living an empty, dead life. It’s hard to imagine a future where I begin to feel again. But I do. I meet her—a woman full of secrets and pain that mirrors my own. Together we find solace in each other. She’s guarded and cautious. Her past has left her completely terrified. All I want to do is hold her and keep her safe. But the past doesn’t stay there. It’s ugly and cruel and will hunt her down with a vengeance. I’ll do anything to save her from those nightmares come to life. Even if she hates me for it.

A Moth to the Flame
A Moth to the Flame

Author: Connie Zweig

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780742552432

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In the first historical novel about the bestselling Sufi poet Jelaluddin Rumi--based on original sources in Farsi and English--readers discover the key moments that shaped his poetic genius.

Holy the Firm
Holy the Firm

Author: Annie Dillard

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0061871656

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"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." — Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book Review A profound book about the natural world—both its beauty and its cruelty—from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard In 1975 Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound, in a wooden room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider, and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice, death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm, she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things—rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire. Here is a lyrical gift to any reader who has ever wondered how best to live with grace and wonder in the natural world.

Moth to a Flame
Moth to a Flame

Author: Michael Omer

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781514657539

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I was almost killed by a delusional murderer five months ago. Since then, the recurring nightmares, creepy hallucinations and overpowering fear are gone. That's good, right? I mean, no one in their right minds wants to feel like that. I am starting to wonder if I'm in my right mind anymore... When a lady in my neighborhood died, I couldn't help but stick my nose in, to see what happened. I should just get on with things-I've got some new friends, and a cool boy named Chris has taken an interest in me. Everyone is telling me to just leave this weird murder alone. But I can't stop myself. The more I find out about her death, the more twisted everything is. I think there's a predator in Narrowdale. And now it's hunting me...What have I gotten myself into?

Moth To A Flame
Moth To A Flame

Author: Cambria Hebert

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9781946836298

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Danger isn't Zoey's middle name. But it is something she can't forget, something she's reminded of every time she looks in the mirror. For those reasons, Zoey has become an expert at creating the perfect illusion. Her ability to fool the eye, to create truth where there was previously none makes her the best in the business. Working as a makeup and special effects artist for Hollywood combines her two life must-haves: her passion for makeup and hiding in plain sight. It also doesn't hurt that she's safe within the heavily secured and secret studio sets, away from the public eye. Then her perfect job becomes her perfect nightmare. Not only does her illusion slip with the blast of icy water, but it does so in front of the country's biggest action hero and the gossipiest of celebrity TV shows. At first, Zoey thinks danger hasn't caught up to her and the worst thing about her mishap is the world's most perfect man sees her in all her not-so-perfect glory. Until a series of unexplained "accidents" begins on set. That's when Zoey knows. Danger has caught up to her... and this time she fears death has, too.