The Scandal
Author: Nicola Marsh
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781538734742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"First published in 2019 by Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire Ltd."--Copyright page.
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The Scandal: A Gripping Emotional Page Turner with a Breathtaking Twist
Author: Nicola Marsh
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781838880439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy life is like one of those cheap snow globes my twins collected when they were younger. Shiny and pretty on the outside, blurred beyond recognition when shaken. Ever since her twin girls left home, Marisa has felt there's something missing from her life. Her sprawling mansion is no longer filled with laughter and chaos, and she's desperate to feel needed... and to be distracted from the secret she's been hiding from her husband for all these years. Coffee with her best friends might be the only thing holding Marisa together. But Claire and Ellyhave their own secrets. Like why Claire hasn't been to work in weeks, or why Elly won't tell anyone who's buying her flowers. When Jodi, a pregnant young girl, turns up at Marisa's doorstep, Marisa is quick to come to her aid. She sees herself in Jodi and she knows how devoting yourself to looking after others can take up all your time in the most marvellous way. But Jodi's arrival quickly pushes everyone's lies to the surface. The father of her unborn child is someone the women know very well, and Marisa starts to wonder if her obsession with helping Jodi might come at a devastating price... The Scandal has a twist that will take your breath away. An emotionally charged novel about secrets, affairs and perfect small towns that will be devoured by fans of Kerry Fisher, Big Little Lies and The Other Woman. What readers are saying about The Scandal: 'This book has it all!!!!!!!!!!! Scandal, secrets, lies, murder, mystery, love. You think you have figured out, but do you?... My first book by Nicola Marsh, won't be my last.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'INCREDIBLE!... I was convinced multiple times that I had it figured out when I never actually did... It will stick with me for a while afterwards and I don't think I've ever read a thriller quite like this one before.' Goodreads reviewer 'This is the first book I read by Nicola Marsh and boy I can't wait to read another one... I just absolutely loved it... I can't say enough good things about this book. Between the plot, characters and all the twists in this book it made it an easy and fast read. I would definitely recommend it.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'A thrill ride that keeps you guessing and is full of surprises... Just when it appears that the story is drawing to a close there pops out another shock. It will keep you guessing till the last page and does not disappoint.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'The Scandal is an engrossing thriller that I could not put down.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Holy smokes that whole episode with Jodi will rock you to the core... it's not just a scandal it's a gut-wrenching sucker punch that literally takes your breath away... I never seen that shocker coming towards me. Nicola's books are amazing and I can't wait to see what she's brewing up next! I'll take two please!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I thought I had the plot figured out quite a few times but this story twists and turns at a rapid pace and I loved it!' Crafty Fox, 5 stars
Theodore Boone: The Scandal
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0147510198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheodore Boone returns in this sixth adventure from international and worldwide bestseller John Grisham! Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and his future on the line, Theo must follow his keen instincts to do what’s right in the newest case for clever kid lawyer Theo Boone. "Not since Nancy Drew has a nosy, crime-obsessed kid been so hard to resist."—The New York Times "Smartly written."—USA Today "Edge-of-your-seat drama, sophisticated plotting, and plenty of spunk."—Chicago Sun-Times "Classic Grisham."—The Los Angeles Times
The Scandal of Susan Sontag
Author: Barbara Ching
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0231149174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature--the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects--theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness--and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars revisit Sontag's groundbreaking life and work. Against Interpretation, "Notes on Camp," Letter from Hanoi, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, I, Etcetera, and The Volcano Lover--these works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself. Debating questions raised by the thinker's own images and identities, including her sexuality, these works question Sontag's status as a female intellectual and her parallel interest in ambitious and prophetic fictional women; her ambivalence toward popular culture; and her personal and professional "scandals." Paired with rare photographs and illustrations, this timely anthology expands our understanding of Sontag's images and power.
The Scandal of Holiness
Author: Jessica Hooten Wilson
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1493435345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year's resolutions, vision boards, thirty-day plans, and self-help books often fail to compel us to live differently. We settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy. Award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson explains that learning to hear the call of holiness requires cultivating a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Learning to read with eyes attuned to the saints who populate great works of literature moves us toward holiness, where God opens up a way of living that extends far beyond what we can conjure for ourselves. Literature has the power to show us what a holy life looks like, and these depictions often scandalize even as they shape our imagination. As such, careful reading becomes a sort of countercultural spiritual discipline. The book includes devotionals, prayers, wisdom from the saints, and more to help individuals and groups cultivate a saintly imagination. Foreword by Lauren F. Winner.
Anatomy of a Scandal
Author: Rebecca L. McMurry
Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough research with new sources and technology, the McMurrys seek out the origins and the historical development of the longest running presidential scandal in American history.
Notes on a Scandal
Author: Zoë Heller
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2006-12-12
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1429912170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal ("A deliciously perverse, laugh-out-loud-funny novel." --Vogue) is a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense--and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own.
The Great Post Office Scandal
Author: Nick Wallis
Publisher: Bath Publishing Limited
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1838439056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Gladiators in Suits
Author: Simone Adams
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2019-08-21
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0815654685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes’s production company, is ABC’s political drama Scandal (2012–18)—a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as “the show that Twitter built” and Time magazine to name its protagonist as one of the most influential fictional characters of 2013. The series portrays a fictional Washington, DC, and features a diverse group of characters, racially and otherwise, who gather around the show’s antiheroine, Olivia Pope, a powerful crisis manager who happens to have an extramarital affair with the president of the United States. For seven seasons, audiences learned a great deal about Olivia and those interwoven in her complex world of politics and drama, including her team of “gladiators in suits,” with whom she manages the crises of Washington’s political elite. This volume, named for both Olivia’s team and the show’s fans, analyzes the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences. The essays range from critical looks at various members of Scandal’s ensemble, to in-depth analyses of the show’s central themes, to audience reception studies via interviews and social media analysis. Additionally, the volume contributes to research on femininity, masculinity, and representations of black womanhood on television. Ultimately, this collection offers original and timely perspectives on what was one of America’s most “scandalous” prime-time network television series.
The Scandal of the Century
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 052565643X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe.” --Dwight Garner, The New York Times From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."
