![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t let me hear this, but it’s too late. “So she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee. In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia’s descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend’s restless spirit. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. Source & Format Purchased from Chapters, Paperbackįind It On Goodreads Genre & Keywords Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Eating Disorders, Mental Illness Published March 19th, 2009 by Viking Juvenile ![]()
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![]() Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Here’s a description from Amazon:įinally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. The 76-minute special will play this Sunday night, January 1st, at 9PM on the primary HBO channel.įisher’s story was also published as a book in 2009. To help celebrate the life of Fisher after her untimely passing earlier this all-around terrible week, HBO has announced that they will be re-airing Wishful Drinking this weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() HBO’s special combined the stage show with interviews with family and friends as well as archival footage. Back in 2010 HBO aired a filmed documentary of Wishful Drinking, the late Star Wars star Carrie Fisher‘s autobiographical one-women stage show in which she talks about her life and career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But That Was Then - is only superficially Now. Still superior to most of the contemporary anti-drug novels, this one will be popular with The Outsiders' many fans. In contrast, the acid trip and its effects are overdone and the whole hippie scene unconvincing. A friend is killed protecting the narrator-protagonist from two tough Texans, and the fight scenes still contain Hinton's most effective writing. And though the lights with the Socs are said to have "slacked off," greasers manage to get beaten up and sent to the hospital with the old regularity. and the Socs tried to look poor." Changes in the young author's style are similarly skin-deep: there is a bit more philosophizing of the "give a damn and you get blasted" variety, but the same sentimental, heavy-handed treatment of illustrative incident. Now the greasers wore their hair down over their foreheads instead of slicked back. Now, "it was hard to tell a Soc from a greaser. The 'greaser' territory of The Outsiders is the scene of an updated novel in which Ponyboy Curtis is a minor character and gang fights have given way to drugs as the major youth problem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Prize for her first story to appear in print. She has published award-winning short fiction and was the recipient of a 2007 O. Jan Ellison is a graduate of Stanford and San Francisco State’s MFA Program. This debut novel is sure to have you reading through the night, reminding you of your own intense youthful desires and secrets. Annie returns to London seeking answers, but she must first piece together the mystery of her past. Decades later, living in San Francisco with a family and a career, she receives a photograph in the mail, setting off a chain of events that threaten to overturn her family's hard-won happiness. ![]() ![]() What happens when our youthful mistakes come back to haunt us? When our indiscretions come to light and violently interfere with the success of our established careers and our families?Īt nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking and abandon. But it wasn't me who was about to hang" - and eloquence - "It was a photograph innocent enough to anyone unacquainted with its history, its treacherous biological imperatives, its call for reparations left unpaid," Ellison has written a riveting debut novel that fixes an unflinching eye on the power of desire and the danger of obsession. It was tied around my neck like a choker, like a noose. With a stunning combination of tension - "The scarf I was wearing had been hand-colored a blunt red. LAUNCH: Jan Ellison in conversation with Ann Packer ![]() ![]() ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. ![]() ![]() However, the longer he knows Mattie, the deeper his feelings become. It’s not a life well-suited to the inclusion of even a part-time prostitute, so he resolves to keep his relationship with Mattie casual. Simon Castle's life is complicated, built around his career and a son who requires a lot of time and attention. Mattie wants more than to pour Simon’s coffee and make his lunch, but he’s sure Simon is out of his league-until suddenly he’s not. Every day the quiet, sophisticated Simon Castle comes by to work on his latest book. Mattie’s legitimate job isn’t without perks. ![]() Until he can, he’s stuck working at the diner and selling himself on the side. ![]() But to make this a reality, he needs to get his GED-not easy, since he can’t read or write. Sandwich-maker Mattie Green has one goal: escape San Diego, move to New York, and attend art school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's associate, Doctor Watson, to whom he bears a marked resemblance. Moreover, when Christie expanded The Submarine Plans (1923) as The Incredible Theft (1937), she removed Hastings. Of the twenty-two Poirot novels published between 19, he appears in seven. He is not a character in either Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express, the two best-known Poirot novels. In Christie's original writings, however, Hastings is not in every short story or novel. A few were stories into which he had been adapted (for example, Murder in the Mews). Many of the early TV episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot were adaptations of short stories, in most of which he appeared in print. ![]() Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, due more to the television adaptations than to the novels. ![]() ![]() He is also the narrator of several of them. He is first introduced in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (originally written in 1916) and appears as a character in seven other Poirot novels, including the final one Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975), along with a play and many short stories. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a previously published cover edition of ASIN B00IPDVGKW. Read 7,492 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. 'Armentrout works her magic with swoon-worthy guys and a twist you never see coming.' - No. Read 5,071 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() She's offered a tantalizing taste of what has always been forbidden, finally getting what she has always wanted, but with hell literally breaking loose and the body count piling up, the price may be higher than Layla is willing or able to pay. ![]() Rock bottom is only the beginning once Layla's powers finally start to evolve. And she can barely think about Roth, the forbidden demon prince who understood her in ways no one else ever could. Suddenly, the Warden clan that has always protected her is keeping dangerous secrets. Her best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to her mysterious power of a soul-stealing kiss. Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. From the author of From Blood and Ash, one touch can heal in book two of the Dark Elements series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this riveting follow-up to The Plantagenets, celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. The crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. ![]() The author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflix’s Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard IIIĭiscover the real history behind The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, the PBS Great Performance series of Shakespeare's plays, starring Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sofie Okenedo and Hugh Bonneville. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. ![]() For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. ![]() Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane. The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. ![]() |