Johnny's Girl
Johnny's Girl

Author: Kim Rich

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 1999-09-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 088240976X

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Johnny’s Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska’s underworld as the only child of gambler John F. “Johnny” Rich and exotic dancer, Frances “Ginger” Rich. It chronicles Alaska’s mean streets and her parent’s tragic lives that were cut short. Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of gamblers, pimps, and con men. She longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother, who suffered from mental illness, was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15, and Kim became a journalist, was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.

What You Wish For
What You Wish For

Author: Fern Michaels

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1420133357

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A woman’s dangerous past is never far behind her in this “gripping” romantic suspense novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). Everything She Lost If her abusive husband hadn’t tried to kill her and her beloved dog Lucie, Helen Ward might never have left her million-dollar home and run far away. Now Helen’s changed her identity and moved across the country, hopeful that she can be safe, happy, maybe even loved. And when she meets college professor Sam Tolliver, she begins to believe fairytales do come true. Gave Her Everything She Ever Wanted But even with love blossoming and her new online business venture taking off, Helen knows that the past is catching up with her . . . and her fear is growing. Wanting to flee, desperate to get away for good, she’ll soon face the biggest decision of her life, a decision that will determine her future and her very identity. “[Michaels’] direct style and breakneck pace keep it humming.”—Kirkus Reviews Praise for Fern Michaels “Prose so natural that it seems you are witnessing a story rather than reading about it.”—Los Angeles Sunday Times “Michaels’ Danielle Steel-like fun read has more plot twists than a soap opera, and will keep readers on tenterhooks for the next in the series.”—Booklist “Michaels just keeps getting better and better with each book . . . She never disappoints.”—RT Book Reviews