Still Summer

Still Summer

Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2007-08-23

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 044619915X

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Mitchard's 'Still Summer' plunges into terror By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY Secure your life preserver. Tie yourself to the mast. It's late August, but it's still summer, and Jacquelyn Mitchard is taking you on a thrill ride you won't forget. Mitchard made her mark in the literary world in 1996 when TheDeep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first pick for Oprah Winfrey's now-legendary book club. Since then, she has written six other novels, but none matches the suspenseful pitch of Still Summer. It's a tale of terror on the high seas, but this is no Pirates of the Caribbean wannabe. Readers know something terrible is going to happen, but Mitchard ratchets up the suspense by allowing her story to unfold at a leisurely pace. She painstakingly fleshes out her characters, because as readers will discover, their temperaments and personalities are as crucial to the story as the mounting disasters. Tracy Kyle, Holly Solvig and Olivia Montefalco, lifelong friends in their early 40s, charter a yacht and two-man crew for a sailing vacation that will take them from St. Thomas to Grenada. The trip starts out as an innocent adventure in paradise until two accidents in quick succession strand the women without their crew. What else can go wrong? In a word, everything. The engine conks out, the sails are torn, lack of electricity spoils their food and limits their drinking water - and then there's the injury to Holly's leg. Nature's fury, murderous drug dealers and, possibly most deadly of all, their own frailties and secrets are added to the list. Readers will wring their hands with frustration, weep with sadness and second-guess the choices these women make. But since characters must do the bidding of the authors who create them, we can only sit back - or sit on the edge of our seats - and let Mitchard's terror-filled tale wash over us.


We'll Always Have Summer

We'll Always Have Summer

Author: Jenny Han

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1416995595

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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.


Nobody Has to Know

Nobody Has to Know

Author: Jessica Marie Ross

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1546263608

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When Jamie and Summer first started dating, they were the perfect couple. They got married and did their honeymoon in Europe. When the honeymoon was over, Summer quickly got bored with the settled-down life. When Summer became boss to an old fling, she was faced with temptations that could have the worst of consequences that couldn’t be undone. Would she risk everything for a moment of bliss? The story is fun, quirky and filled with lies and unexpected consequences mixed with passion and true love. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”


Three Lines in a Circle

Three Lines in a Circle

Author: Michael G. Long

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1646981960

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One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all—just three lines in a circle. This bold picture book tells the story of the peace symbol—designed in 1958 by a London activist protesting nuclear weapons—and how it inspired people all over the world. Depicting the symbol's travels from peace marches and liberation movements to the end of apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Three Lines in a Circle offers a message of inspiration to today's children and adults who are working to create social change. An author’s note provides historical background and a time line of late twentieth-century peace movements.


This Is the Place

This Is the Place

Author: Margot Kahn

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1580057586

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A thought-provoking collection of personal essays about home What makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In this collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, geography, and more. Contributors -- including Amanda Petrusich, Naomi Jackson, Jane Wong, and Jennifer Finney Boylan -- lend a diverse range of voices to this subject that remains at the core of our national conversations. Engaging, insightful, and full of hope, This is the Place will make you laugh, cry, and think hard about home, wherever you may find it. "This collection, encompassing a spectrum of races, ethnicities, religions, sexualities, political beliefs and classes, could not be timelier . . . open this book, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we are a nation of individuals, bound to each other by our humanity." -- The New York Times Book Review " . . . an honest portrait of the U.S., pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this." -- BUST


Desirae's War

Desirae's War

Author: Author Jack Sorenson

Publisher: Michelle Lundy

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0557022592

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The origins of vampire beliefs, porphyria and vampire folklore were all tricks of involved magic. Thereâs no end to his evil. Jack took six men with him, but the sorcerer called up darkness, and the darkness came to his command. He kept the unnatural darkness around him like a cloak, and all the good men who came into his path came to grief because they couldnât see. The grim came. Even his love, Desirae herself, was struck down by one of the sorcerer's minions, but fortune preserved their lives. What held them tighter, true love for the real folklore or the love of magic?âLet the dance of the dark ones beginâ¦â


Images and Shadows

Images and Shadows

Author: Iris Origo

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1681373653

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An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.