The Part That Burns
The Part That Burns

Author: Jeannine Ouellette

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-04

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781952897061

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In her fiercely beautiful memoir, Jeannine Ouellette recollects fragments of her life and arranges them elliptically to witness each piece as torn and whole, as something more than itself. Caught between the dramatic landscapes of Lake Superior and Casper Mountain, between her stepfather's groping and her mother's erratic behavior, Ouellette lives for the day she can become a mother herself and create her own sheltering family. But she cannot know how the visceral reality of both birth and babies will pull her back into the body she long ago abandoned, revealing new layers of pain and desire, and forcing her to choose between her idealistic vision of perfect marriage and motherhood, and the birthright of her own awakening flesh, unruly and alive. The Part That Burns is a story about the tenacity of family roots, the formidable undertow of trauma, and the rebellious and persistent yearning of human beings for love from each other.

Pleasure Me
Pleasure Me

Author: Monica Burns

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1101478764

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From the author of Assassin's Honor, a bold and sexy new historical romance. Youth and beauty are a courtesan's greatest assets. Concerned, at forty-one, that she is no longer desirable, Lady Ruth Attwood is uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable-she falls in love...

Tea That Burns
Tea That Burns

Author: Bruce Hall

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0743236599

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Bruce Edward Hall may have an English name and a Connecticut upbringing, but for him a trip to Chinatown, New York, is a visit to the ghosts of his Chinese ancestors - ancestors who helped create the neighborhood that is really as much a transplanted Cantonese village as it is a part of a great American city. Among these Ancestors are missionaries and reprobates, businessmen and scholars. In Tea That Burns, Bruce Edward Hall uses the stories of these and others to tell the history of Chinatown, starting with the tumultuous journey from an ancient empire ruled by the nine dragons of the universe to a bewildering land of elevated trains, solitary labor, and violent discrimination. The world they constructed was built of backbreaking labor and poetry contests; gambling dens and Cantonese opera; Tong Wars, festivals, firecrackers, incense, and food - always food, to celebrate every conceivable occasion and to confound the ever-meddlesome "White Devils" as they attempt to master the mysteries of chop sticks and stir-fry.

Flashback Girl
Flashback Girl

Author: Lise Deguire

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781734932003

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At the age of four, Dr. Lise Deguire suffered third-degree burns over 65% of her body. In this memoir, she tells her story as a burn survivor and growing up in her dysfunctional family. Despite the seriousness of the subject, the tone of the book is positive, humorous, and inspiring.

Citizen Scientists
Citizen Scientists

Author: Loree Griffin Burns

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0805095179

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Shows young readers how a citizen scientist learns about butterflies, birds, frogs, and ladybugs.

Rope Burns
Rope Burns

Author: Robert Scott

Publisher: Pinnacle Books

Published: 2014-11-14

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0786038608

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The true crime story of a killer couple from California, their gruesome torture chamber on wheels, and the terror they left in their wake. The true story of one of the most notorious crime couples in recent American history is told. Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio forged a perverse alliance in late 1997. After customizing Michaud's minivan into a mobile torture chamber, the pair hit the road and began a nightmare spree of incest, kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder. Sixteen Pages of Shocking Photos! Michaud and Daveggio’s case was featured on Oxygen’s Snapped: Killer Couples.

The Dark Part of Me
The Dark Part of Me

Author: Belinda Burns

Publisher: Atlantic

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781843545019

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Rosie cannot help but lust after her ex-boyfriend, Scott, who has returned after two years abroad. Rosie's mum says Scott is a man, and deep down all men are rotten. But what does she know? She doesn't seem to have noticed that her teenage daughter is spiralling out of control with her increasing appetite for sex and drugs.

Tilt
Tilt

Author: Elizabeth Burns

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781402200410

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As a successful young urbanite, Bridget Fox experiences the typical joys and struggles of youthful New Yorkers, and she has happy expectations for her new family. But when her daughter Maeve is diagnosed with autism, Bridget's life as she knew it and her idealistic images of the perfect family are shattered. She tries to lean on her husband, her father, her best friend, but none can help her reconstruct her world as other tragic challenges begin to surface. But as she tries to choose between insanity and oblivion, Bridget discovers that matters are not nearly so simple-or so hopeless-as she once believed. Elizabeth Burns weaves the beauty and imagery of her poetic voice into a story of pain, humor, struggle and ultimate redemption. Bravely intimate, astonishing in its honesty, Tilt walks a path that most "normal" novels fear to tread as it follows the journey of a woman desperate enough to fall-and strong enough to survive.

No Bones
No Bones

Author: Anna Burns

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780393323030

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A shattering and blackly funny debut in the tradition of Roddy Doyle, "No Bones" follows a young woman growing up in a Belfast beset by the Troubles.