When sixteen year-old Beatrice Robinson sought escape from her demons down the barrel of a gun, she didn't count on coming face to face with them in the afterlife. In City of Ash, Beat enters an eerie world of the dead and damned where reminders of her disturbing past lurk around every corner. In death, Beat must come to grips with her troubled life or risk sacrificing herself and her humanity to it.
4-year-old Beatrice is on a self-proclaimed mission from God to rid the Earth of all annoying people. As an amazingly effective and devout serial killer, she's doing her job quite nicely-a little too nicely, in fact. Though the Devil is thrilled with her fine work, Hell is at maximum occupancy and soon he is forced to combine forces with God to end Beatrice's reign of terror. Can these two ultimate powers end the righteous, mass-murdering pre-schooler? Heaven knows, it's going to be a hell of a time...
BONUS: This edition contains a Beatrice and Virgil discussion guide. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a Bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a family—now in paperback! Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One is an atmospheric, original, and deeply moving novel about family, freedom, and how true love might survive impossible odds. Julia Lindqvist, a woman unhappily married to a famous Swedish playwright, leaves her husband to begin a passionate affair with a female tailor named Eve. The pair run away together and settle in the more liberal haven of Vienna, where they fall in love, navigate the challenges of their newfound independence, and find community in the city’s Jewish quarter. But Julia’s yearning for a child throws their fragile happiness into chaos and threatens to destroy her life and the lives of those closest to her. Ada Bauer’s wealthy industrialist family have sent her to Dr. Freud in the hope that he can cure her mutism—and do so without a scandal. But help will soon come for Ada from an unexpected place, changing many lives irrevocably. Through the lives of her queer characters, and against the changing backdrop of one of the greatest cities of the age, Hitchman asks what it’s like to live through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Moving across Europe and through decades, Hitchman’s sophomore novel is an intensely poignant portrait of life and love on the fringes of history.
Beatrice Zinker's top-secret plan, Operation Upside, is finally in full swing! And she's REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT! But when Beatrice impulsively awards her teacher, Mrs. Tamarack, an UPSIDE of her own-with the words Most Strict lettered in gold-the team has to put the entire mission on hold to avoid suspicion. Lying low isn't exactly Beatrice's strong suit . . . and her classmate Wes desperately needs to be recognized. When Wes's certificate falls into the wrong hands, Beatrice and her best friend, Lenny, must find a way once again, to save Operation Upside-and themselves-from big trouble.
Story of a legendary woman who painted 3,000 works, including 1,000 self-portraits, a woman whose life's work was almost entirely destroyed in a bonfire 50 years ago -- Exploitation of Turner by a sensationalist media -- The search for original Turner paintings missing for 50 years -- Unlocking hidden doors for clues to the Turner mystery
