![]() ![]() Maybe there's a way out, a rational explanation, and a fighting chance against the dangers to come. If she has to lead, she will make sure they survive. Whatever the truth is, she is determined to find it and confront it. Now, if they’re to have any chance, she must get them to trust one another. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin-yet she finds herself in charge. She knows only one thing about herself-her name, M. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people…and no answers. Fighting her way free brings little relief-she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors. She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. No, not a board…a lid.Ī teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. ![]() ![]() There is a board right in front of my face. I lift my head…it thumps against something solid and unmoving. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. ![]() Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson's life and family. It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. ![]() Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful-a secret realm only they inhabited. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. ![]() ![]() ![]() After her first marriage, which produced three children, ended in divorce, Duncan moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to teach journalism at the University of New Mexico, where she also earned a BA in English in 1977. During this time, she continued to write and publish magazine articles over the course of her career, she has published more than 300 articles, in magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest. Duncan started writing and submitting manuscripts to magazines at the age of ten, and when she was thirteen succeeded in selling her first story.ĭuncan attended Duke University from 1952 to 1953 but dropped out, married, and started a family. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Sarasota, Florida. Duncan's parents were the noted magazine photographers Lois Steinmetz and Joseph Janney Steinmetz. Lois Duncan (born Lois Duncan Steinmetz) was an American writer and novelist, known primarily for her books for children and young adults, in particular (and some times controversially considering her young readership) crime thrillers. ![]() ![]() ![]() These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.īig Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. ![]() Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. She’s funny, biting, and passionate she remembers everything and forgives no one. STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPįrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.Ī murder.A tragic accident.Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. ![]() DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES ![]() ![]() ![]() Most plays in the series weighed in at, on average, around 75 minutes, longer than the normal 60-minute TV drama but shorter than most feature films. At under 50 minutes, "The Land of Green Ginger" is relatively short for a "Play for Today". The company she works for want to transfer her to a job abroad, and Sally is not keen, largely because this would mean longer separations from her family and from her boyfriend Mike, all of whom still live in Hull. A young woman named Sally Brown returns to her home town of Hull from London, where she has been working. Plater was born in the north-east, but his family moved to Hull when he was only three years old, and this play is set in the city. ![]() It has lent its name to at least three works of literature a novel by the East Yorkshire writer Winifred Holtby, a children's story by Noel Langley and this play by Alan Plater, broadcast as part of the BBC's "Play for Today" series. The Land of Green Ginger is a street in the old town of Hull how it acquired that name has long been disputed. ![]() ![]() It’s the most revealing glimpse of Jean-Michel Basquiat I know of – he, the product of Haitian and Puerto Rican parentage who all-too-briefly stalked this earth, crashing the white world of the white cube, only to be toasted with champagne like an over-performing circus animal.Īn idiosyncratic collaboration between the poet Jennifer Clement and Mallouk, a Palestinian-Canadian ingenue and Basquiat’s first great love, Widow reads and feels like a prose poem. ![]() Widow Basquiat (2000) is an irreverent animal, a hybrid text, at once a collage and an opera. They’re two wounded souls moving through the gentrifying streets of downtown New York in the company of hobos and bohemians and hungry art dealers named Anina, Mary, Larry. So is her sinewy, coke-addled lover, Jean-Michel. Even before her father threw her down the stairs, she was bathing in it. ‘If you’d never hit me, I wouldn’t know my skeleton.’ Suzanne Mallouk knows that the other side of eros is pathos. ![]() Jean-Michel Basquiat with Suzanne Mallouk, 1981. Part of frieze magazine’s 200th issue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its no secret Im a huge fan of Keira Andrews and this book is just one of the many. 209 in Sea Adventure Fiction 602 in LGBTQ+ Romance (Audible Books & Originals) 810 in Gay Romance (Books) Customer reviews. The crew has been promised the ransom Nathaniel will bring, yet as danger mounts and the time nears to give him up, Hawk's biggest battle could be with his own heart. Kidnapped by the Pirate (Audio Download): Keira Andrews, Cornell Collins. As a pirate's prisoner, he is finally free to be his true self. Nathaniel realizes the fearsome Sea Hawk's reputation is largely invented, and he sees the lonely man beneath the myth, willingly surrendering to his captor body and soul. It's not as though Hawk would ever feel anything for him besides lust. ![]() Although Hawk knows he must keep his distance, the desire to teach Nathaniel the pleasure men can share grows uncontrollable. Yet as days pass in close quarters, Nathaniel's feisty spirit and alluring innocence beguile and bewitch. He has a score to settle with Nathaniel's father-the very man whose treachery forced him into piracy-and he's sure Nathaniel is just as contemptible. Then pirates strike and he's kidnapped for ransom by the Sea Hawk, a legendary villain of the New World.īitter and jaded, Hawk harbors futile dreams of leaving the sea for a quiet life, but men like him don't deserve peace. Under the thumb of his controlling father, the governor of Primrose Isle, he's sailing to the fledging colony, where he'll surrender to a respectable marriage for his family's financial gain. Nathaniel Bainbridge is used to hiding, whether it's concealing his struggles with reading or his forbidden desire for men. Will a virgin captive surrender to this pirate's sinful touch? ![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, was published in 1976, and since then, he has published over 200 novels. Since then, he has devoted most of his time to writing. Walter Thompson until 1996 when he retired. ![]() However, he held an advertising position at J. in English at Manhattan College and an M.A. The family was of Irish descent and working-class. His father, Charles Patterson, was an insurance broker, while his mother, Isabelle (Morris), was a teacher and homemaker. James Patterson was born in 1947, in Newburgh, New York. ![]() In 2015, he received the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation for his efforts to promoting books and reading culture in the United States.Īpart from writing, Patterson is also involved in philanthropy, supporting universities, teachers’ training colleges, independent bookstores, college students, and libraries with millions of dollars in grants and scholarships to encourage Americans to develop a reading culture. ![]() Patterson is estimated to earn about $700 million every decade. In 2016, he topped Forbes’s list of the highest-paid authors for a third consecutive time, with an income of $95 million. He has also written numerous standalone thrillers, non-fiction, and romance novels. Some of his best works include the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch and Wizard, Women’s Murder Club, and Private series. James Patterson is one of the world’s best-selling authors alive. ![]() ![]() But now his father is missing and his mom is dead, and his father's massive fortune-if found dead- is going to go to a lizard. She runs into his son, Davis, which she had met years ago, but hasn't been in contact with him since. But one thing keeps her occupied for a little bit- the Pickett missing person case. It is always a battle for her, between what she wants as a person, and her anxiety and thoughts keeping her from that. ![]() To the point where she drinks hand sanitizer after kissing somebody. ![]() She has an inherent fear of mostly bacteria and germs or infections. She falls down into what she calls 'thought spirals', and it is hard for her to come back. This story is about Aza, who suffered from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder at an extreme level. He has a way of coming up with stories-difficult stories, that may touch on harder topics-and making them powerful and emotional, to the point where you can't put it down, and can't wait to pick it up again. John Green is a powerful author, and I especially enjoyed his book "The Fault in our Stars". ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 3 describe the meteoric rise of the Inca over the 15th century, its leaders (each titled "The Inca"), and their conflicts and contributions. The Inca are, to Charles Mann, an empire akin to its contemporaries in Eurasia. Throughout the chapter, Mann emphasizes the "imperial" character of the Inca-the centralization of rule, their incorporation of different cultures and communities, and the sheer scale and scope of their territory. The third chapter of 1491 describes the dramatic rise and fall of the Inca Empire. Mann highlights how traditional accounts of the story tend to ignore the convoluted politics of the tribes of the region, as well as Tisquantum's own complex motivations. Mann's account of this aid provides the political significance behind Tisquantum's act, as well as how his own personal story influenced his motives. "Billington"-the surname of a settler and an ancestor of Mann himself-survives only because of Tisquantum's aid to the colony. ![]() ![]() Mann expands the historical context of Squanto’s story. Chapter 2, "Why Billington Survived" tells the story of Tisquantum, also known as "Squanto," and his aid to the Pilgrims. ![]() |