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Author: Lisa Mangum
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Published: 2010-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781606416792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante, a prisoner sent from fifteenth-century Italy into the present time as punishment, meets and falls in love with Abby, a high school senior who may be the only one who can save him.
Author: Dani Shapiro
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0451494482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become."
Author: Lisa Mangum
Publisher: Hourglass Door
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609080709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second book in the Hourglass Door trilogy. Dante was unlike anyone Abby had ever met. Now he's gone, and Abby will do anything to get him back . . .
Author: Lisa Mangum
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609070175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbby travels back in time to attempt to save Dante and defeat the wicked designs of Zo.
Author: Lucy Ribchester
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1681771101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the drama of the suffragette movement in Edwardian London, the disappearance of a famous trapeze artist in the middle of her act leads a young Fleet Street reporter to an underworld of circus performers, fetishists, and society columnists. London, 1912. The suffragette movement is reaching a fever pitch, and Inspector Frederick Primrose is hunting a murderer on his beat. Across town, Fleet Street reporter Frances “Frankie” George is chasing an interview with trapeze artist Ebony Diamond. Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly-laced acrobat and follows her to a Bond Street corset shop that seems to be hiding secrets of its own. When Ebony Diamond mysteriously disappears in the middle of a performance, Frankie and Primrose are both drawn into the shadowy world of a secret society with ties to both London's criminal underworld and its glittering socialites. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory? From newsrooms to the drawing rooms of high society, the investigation leads Frankie and Primrose to a murderous villain with a plot more deadly than anyone could have imagined.
Author: Amy Waldman
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2019-08-27
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0316451584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling author of The Submission: A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) novel. Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation. When she arrives, however, Crane's maternity clinic, while grandly equipped, is mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And Crane's memoir appears to be littered with mistakes, or outright fabrications. As the reasons for Parveen's pilgrimage crumble beneath her, the U.S. military, also drawn by Crane's book, turns up to pave the solde road to the village, bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal ambush occurs, Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers -- and she must determine her own relationship to the truth. Amy Waldman, who reported from Afghanistan for the New York Times after 9/11, has created a taut, propulsive novel about power, perspective, and idealism, brushing aside the dust of America's longest-standing war to reveal the complicated truths beneath. A Door in the Earth is the rarest of books, one that helps us understand living history through poignant characters and unforgettable storytelling.
Author: Zachary Hyman
Publisher: Tundra Books
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 1770498966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis action-adventure picture book featuring a grandfather and grandson duo celebrates the power of imagination and the magic of make believe. Charlie loves when Grandpa comes to babysit because he always brings his magical imagination. Grandpa was a magician who knows the most amazing tricks; he can pull a rabbit from a hat and make a coin disappear. But what Charlie loves most are his wonderful adventure stories, and they all begin with something his grandfather has saved in his Magic Story Chest. An hourglass is a reminder of how he defended the treasure in King Tut's tomb from raiders. A long white scarf inspires the story about Grandpa's dogfight with the notorious Red Baron, the great First World War fighter pilot. A coconut shell heralds the story about his encounter with a nasty Tyrannosaurus Rex. Charlie's parents, though, aren't too sure they like Grandpa's stories and warn Charlie that they're just "tall tales." What is Charlie to believe? How can his grandpa convince him that all you need to do is believe and a dream can be turned into something real?
Author: Lisa Magnum
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
Published: 2015-09-28
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1614753539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRed. The color of blood, of war, of passion—and of a new unicorn herd. Game of Horns: A Red Unicorn Anthology has gathered 21 original stories about red unicorns from famous and soon-to-be-famous authors, including New York Times best-selling authors Jody Lynn Nye and David Farland. Some stories feature physical unicorns; most do not. Some unicorns are kind; most are not. From a battlefield to a candy store, from zombie unicorns in rural America to telepathic unicorns on the dark side of Europa, from the fantastical past to the possible future, no creative avenue or conflict remains unexplored by these talented storytellers. Pick a story. Take a chance. And play the Game of Horns. All profits benefit the Superstars Writing Seminar Scholarship Fund.
Author: William J. Peters
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-01-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1982150440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “brilliant and fascinating” (Eben Alexander, MD, author of Proof of Heaven) exploration—rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research—of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife. In 2000, end-of-life therapist William Peters was volunteering at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco when he had an extraordinary experience as he was reading aloud to a patient: he suddenly felt himself floating midair, completely out of his body. The patient, who was also aloft, looked at him and smiled. The next moment, Peters felt himself return to his body…but his patient never regained consciousness and died. Perplexed and stunned by what had happened, Peters began searching for other people who’d shared similar experiences. He would spend the next twenty years gathering and meticulously categorizing their stories to identify key patterns and features of what is now known as the “shared crossing” experience. The similarities, which cut across continents and cultures and include awe-inspiring visual and sensory effects, and powerful emotional aftershocks. The book is filled with “moving and tender” (Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart) tales of spouses seeing their loved ones reach the other side after decades together and bereaved parents who share their children’s entry into the afterlife. Applying rigorous research, Peters digs into the effects of these shared crossing experiences impart—liberation at the sight of a loved one finding joy, a sense of reconciliation if the relationship was fraught—and explores questions like: What can explain these shared death experiences? How can we increase our likelihood of having one? What do these experiences tell us about what lies beyond? And, most importantly, how can they help take away the string of death and better prepare us for our own final moments? How can we have both a better life and a better death?
Author: Garrett Schroeder
Publisher: Liberty Hill Publishing
Published: 2022-02-07
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781662840739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo intrepid teenagers seek to survive a perilous world in which the risk of death is an everyday reality. While residing within a structure called the Mansion, the first young girl grows ever more restless as her heart longs for meaning and freedom outside of her present life. The oppressive walls of the Mansion form the only home she's ever known, but for her and the several hundred occupants within the Mansion, their fortified existence is as suffocating as it is vital. Grotesque creatures roam outside their fortress, haunting their every step and promising a fate worse than death. The second teenager travels with a ragged party of survivors across an unforgiving wilderness after their own walled compound is destroyed. The teen's uncle leads them on their journey to discover a new life while avoiding the relentless beasts hunting them. Despite palpable threats at every turn, the second teen finds the most pressing harm to be her father's smothering, protective shadow, which threatens her quest for independence at every turn. As the danger grows and more deaths toll, both girls will face their own unique realities head-on. In Hourglass, author Garrett Schroeder takes you on this exhilarating journey, where you will confront two timeless questions: first, what makes a monster, and second, what should be feared more, a monster at your door or a monster within?
