![]() ![]() Rants, insults and death threats – Isabel has seen it all. It seems the entire world seem to be turning against her. But after a particularly daring, full-nude shoot on Wall Street, it’s not only the media that has spiraled into a frenzy. Controversy has always followed superstar Isabel Morales. It seems life can’t get much better for Amy… until the sound of tortured weeping starts echoing through the thin walls of her dorm room each night, leading her to stumble upon a horrifying secret Liam had hoped to keep hidden forever.īare Girl is the first Detective Erin Bond novel by Bella Forrest. Or that he’d personally start teaching her drama lessons. ![]() Never in Amy’s wildest dreams could she have imagined this God of acting would go on to accept employment at her local boarding school. Not even the most persistent reporter can fathom the reason behind Liam’s decision. He seems unstoppable as his talent and beauty send him hurtling toward becoming a Hollywood legend… Until one day – in what appears to be a fit of madness – he stuns the world by throwing it all away. She’s seen his face a thousand times on the screen and in magazines. Liam Swift is a young man Amy has always admired from afar. ![]() If You Like Bella Forrest Books, You’ll Love…īella Forrest Synopses: Beautiful Monster is the first book in the series of the same name by author Bella Forrest. ![]() This series is not currently available for purchase on Amazon.įinch Merlin and The Legend of the Luminary ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He can compress the basic meaning of life - its pathos or its tragedy, its bravery or the quality of its love––into one small scene or a few moments of dialogue. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house ( The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable traveling salesman ( The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) or of delinquent children ( This Property is Condemned) his insight into human nature is that of the poet. Only one of these plays ( The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams’s finest and most powerful work. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton Theater by Tennessee Williams ![]() ![]() ![]() As she writes, I could not be a poet without the natural world. ![]() ![]() Emphasizing the significance of her childhood friend Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, a place to enter, and in which to feel, and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine s Ten Best Books of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() Few people in the world can claim, the kind of adventurous and thrilling life which the author has lived.Things that stood out to me while I read Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Imagine rewriting a 933-page long book, again and again thrice, while you see the fruit of your labor, the story of your life, and the current situation you are in being destroyed. Even editing short blog posts like this is a grindingly difficult and cumbersome task every single time. The first two versions were trashed and destroyed by the prison guards, while they worked on him frequently as well.Ī testimony to his willpower and a desire to express. The author Gregory David Roberts wrote this book in prison. ![]() ![]() I won’t be exaggerating if I say, in some instances, it’s even life-like. Each paragraph and each sentence is as gripping as the one before and as vivid as a motion picture. “A literary masterpiece…it has the grit and pace of a thriller.”Īpart from being the obvious international bestseller, this book to me is a literary work of art. Like the Daily Telegraph said it and I quote Shantaram is a book of its own kind, one in a class of its own. ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother's murder had left him with a fascination of violent crime, much of it centered around the similar murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, popularly known as the "Black Dahlia" case. However, his true passion became writing. ![]() After spending some time in jail he began to turn his life around by quitting drugs and getting a job as a caddy. From there he dropped out of school and became a homeless, drug-addicted thief. The crime was never solved and Ellroy went to live with his father, who died seven years later. The key event in his life happened when he was just ten years old, when his mother was raped and murdered. ![]() One of the quintessential Mad Artists of the 20th century, Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) had a troubled childhood due to his parents' highly dysfunctional relationship that ended in their divorce. ![]() ![]() Voya Magazine: Wouldn’t You Like to Know. PAGE SIX of the NEW YORK POST: Sightings…Įntertainment Weekly: See the trailer for Tonya Hurley's 'Passionaries' Publishers Weekly: Once More With "Passion" USA Today: Need help thawing out this weekend? Try a new romance The New York Times: It’s Mourning in America: The Bizarre, The Liminal, and the Beautiful ![]() Hollywood Reporter: Matthew Vaughn's MARV Films to Adapt 'ghostgirl' YA Seriesĭeadline: Matthew Vaughn Acquires YA Novel Series ‘Ghostgirl’ ![]() Variety: Matthew Vaughn Buys ‘Ghostgirl’ Movie Rights USA Today: Exclusive cover reveal: 'Hallowed' by Tonya HurleyĮxaminer: Bestselling author Tonya Hurley discusses her new book PassionariesĮntertainment Weekly: 'ghostgirl' YA books resurrected for the big screen by 'Kick-Ass' filmmaker ![]() Passionaries is nominated for a Bram Stoker Award ®for Superior Achievement in Young Adult Novel : The Twin Sisters Bonded by Their Death Obsession (Interview with Tonya Hurley and Tracy Martin) Lit Thursday: Necessary Novels (Featuring Ghost Girl) BBC: Tonya Hurley and Tracy Hurley Martin talk Morbid Anatomy Museum, Prince, ghostgirl and NYC on The BBC 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross New York Special ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the past several days, Professor Sartwell had launched accusations at his blog that his work had been plagiarized or at least had gone wrongfully uncited by Alexander Nehamas (Princeton. The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. Crispin Sartwell, associate professor of philosophy at Dickinson College, reports today that he has been removed from campus for posting a video of Miranda Lambert’s song, Time to Get a Gun. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seeks to convey the practical value of many of Warren’s ideas, their continuing relevance. This volume presents, out of the welter of bewildering writings left by Warren, a reading text designed for today’ readers and students. Moreover, they often appeared in a bizarre experimental typography. This will be the first chance for many readers to encounter Warren’s writings, and in many cases their first publication since their original appearance in obscure, self-published periodicals, including The Peaceful Revolutionist (1833), the first American anarchist periodical. By the same author(s) The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren. Devoting his life to showing the practicality of an astonishing ideal, Warren devoted equal industry to the question of how to make a pair of shoes and how to remake the social world into an individualist paradise. The Practical Anarchist brings to light the work of Josiah Warren, eccentric American genius. ![]() ![]() ![]() But can he finally put out their flame without getting burnt again? Three years later he storms back into her life, determined to punish the she-wolf who got away for her crimes against his heart. But their attraction is undeniable, and he can't stay away.even after they go down in a blaze of lies and regrets. The truth is, Mag Lonewolf has no business going after a girl like Janelle. Two hot nights neither of them can forget. Two shifters from opposite sides of the tracks. But now she’s a DIY domestic goddess, and engaged to the hottest alpha in Colorado–-that is until a sexy, time-traveling Viking werewolf shows up to claim her as his fated mate.Wait, what?!?! When Chloe Adams was four her shiftless shifter parents abandoned her on the side of the road. ![]() LIMITED EDITION BUNDLE (normally 5.99 each)ĥ Crazy Hot Shifter Novels PLUS a special preview of Theodora Taylor's most epic shifter story yet, HER DRAGON EVERLASTING! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. Suskind’s international bestseller a try…Īn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder. I read the blurb, and though I was a little scared (“realistic” literary fiction can do that to me!), I was also very excited to give Mr. Ana picked Perfume: The Story of a Murderer for me, a literary fiction novel about a man born with a superhuman sense of smell. Why did I read this book: Ana and I decided that we had gone too long without a Dare, so we cracked down. Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Publication Date: 1985 (Germany) / February 2001 (US) Publisher: Diogenes-Verlag (Germany) / Alfred A. ![]() Author: Patrick Suskind, Translated by John E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they’re about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. ![]() The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra’s mother left her: “Find the babysitters. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme’s babysitters club? She’s Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria food. Let’s just say she owes some people a new tree.Įnter Cassandra Heaven. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she’s good at it.Īnd lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. She knows it’s kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. ![]() Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil. ![]() |