Finding her mother dead at the hands of her father forever changed Sara, adding more devastation to her already poverty-stricken life. Just when she'd lost all hope, an honest hustla named Smooth came to her rescue. He took her from rags to hood riches. But little did they know, someone wanted to destroy the life they had created together--page 4 of cover.
Thick as Water: A contemporary fiction novel that will grab hold of the reader from start to finish. In the first week, the novel was ranked as an Amazon Hot New Release in several categories for all formats (eBook, hardcover and paperback). I would like you both to come in. For Agnes and Liam, life is never the same after these words. In one afternoon, every vow in their marriage is a challenge: For worse. For poorer. In sickness. Agnes and Liam must confront unexpected challenges and decide: Will they choose each other? Is their marriage worth everything they've worked for in this life? How private is information on the internet? Is technology stripping away life's mysteries a blessing or a curse? The story grapples with the ever-blurring line between privacy and the media. It tackles the big questions of the rising popularity of medical and DNA testing coupled with ongoing cybersecurity threats. If light is cast on their dark past, will it take away its power, or destroy their lives? ************** Editorial review: An intriguing observation of the dangers of advanced technology compromising privacy told through the lens of family, love and loss. - Reedsy Discovery Select reader feedback: One word... incredible! - It's hard to leave a review because I find myself speechless. I am a slow reader, slow slow slow, but I love it. This book took me two days. Unheard of for me. It was so riveting I found that when I finally made myself put it down I looked for reasons to pick it back up. An incredible page turner from Ava Page... Excellent prose and story line - Ava Page's first novel is a page turner for sure! It interweaves politics, medical ethics, family dynamics, and character development efortlessly. What specifically stood out to me was her descriptors and prose - it did not feel trite, but rather original and interesting to my readers' eye. Bravo - can't wait to see more from this author! (Note: I recieved an ARC for this objective review.) A must read! - An incredible read! Ava Page addressed so many current issues with multi-faceted insights about intrusion into privacy, the consequences of breached security, DNA testing, and familial bonds in times of unspeakable dispair. Both my brain and my heart were fully engaged. I have two copies of the book now, one on Kindle and the other paperback since I am definitiely getting the author to sign this book! Great story line - Liked the story idea. Kept me guessing right up until the end. I look forward to reading more by Ava Page. A good read that will tug on your emotions. This book had good character development and a good story. The story was gripping and kept me wanting to read more. I enjoyed every minute. For the latest from Ava Page please visit www.avapage.com or on Instagram at @AvaPageAuthor
Join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book about a king’s magical mishap! Bored with rain, sunshine, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green goo called Oobleck—which soon wreaks havock all over his kingdom! But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the stickiest problems.
With the stolen centrum recovered, Raven’s adventure with Zander is over. Or is it? Raven’s lingering fever worries the Dwellers, and Zander is set on returning her to Silver Glen, pushing her out of their plans to rescue Princess Rosaria. But even when the Hammel Forest seems quiet, a dangerous automaton is always around the next tree. After Raven finds herself in the midst of another rebel caravan, she has a choice to make. Will she return to life underground, find her way back to Zander and the mission, or get swept away on an exciting new journey?
I would like you both to come in. For Agnes and Liam, life is never the same after these words. In one afternoon, every vow in their marriage is a challenge: For worse. For poorer. In sickness.Agnes and Liam must confront unexpected challenges and decide: Will they choose each other? Is their marriage worth everything they've worked for in this life? How private is information on the internet? Is technology stripping away life's mysteries a blessing or a curse?The story grapples with the ever-blurring line between privacy and the media. It tackles the big questions of the rising popularity of medical and DNA testing coupled with ongoing cybersecurity threats.If light is cast on their dark past, will it take away its power, or destroy their lives?
This is a book about learning to be a pilot and the daily routine of flying. You begin on the ground, but leap immediately into the sky to soar gracefully with the eagles. Legal and medical requirements are spelled out clearly. An early chapter teaches you the names for new and exciting things in the world of aviation. Knowing the words will make you feel comfortable in this exciting and wonderful new world you are entering. Very soon you are in the middle of a typical lesson plan, where you progress in logical steps from pre-flight inspection to graduation. Diagrams and illustrations make you understand and enjoy learning how to fly airplanes. After graduating from the course and receiving your credentials, you find the next chapters are about the lives of aviators. Each episode teaches a very real lesson in aircraft handling and survival in the sky. This is a book for any person interested in becoming a pilot. It belongs in every public library. This is an invaluable guide to understanding an extremely difficult subject. There is no factual reference work like this. Here it is within one volume. It is the information you need to become a pilot. This book is filled with definitions and references. Arcane and esoteric subjects are clearly explained. All mystery is forever removed from the subject of aviation. Something unique sets this work apart. More than half the book is filled with exciting stories about working pilots in the real world of aviation.
The period from the late 1920s to the early 1940s was in Faulkner's career one of prodigious fertility, and the creative outburst on which it opens—from The Sound and the Fury (1929) through As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931) to Light in August (1932)—touches indeed on the miraculous. It is the four children of this miracle that André Bleikasten re-examines and re-evaluates in his substantial new book on Faulkner. But rather than approach Faulkner's fiction from a priori theoretical assumptions and process it through some prefabricated grid, he has concentrated on the text themselves: on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, on their various narrative protocols and the endless interplay of their tropes and codes, on their points of emphasis and repetition as well as their rifts and gaps. Brilliant in its thought and argument, drawing eclectically on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and other disciplines, and using modern critical theory without ever being arcane or trendy, Bleikasten's book is a highly personal performance and one of the most insightful and stimulating studies that Faulkner has received.
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
