The Turner House
Title | The Turner House PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Flournoy |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0544303164 |
A novel centered on the journey of the Turner family and its thirteen siblings, particularly the eldest and youngest, as they face the ghosts of their pasts--both an actual haint and the specter of addiction--the imminent loss of their mother, and the necessary abandonment of their family home in struggling Detroit.
Angela
Title | Angela PDF eBook |
Author | James Moloney |
Publisher | Univ. of Queensland Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780702230844 |
Angela and Gracey were going to be "best friends forever" and make it into the same university as carefree first year students. But for Gracey, her Aboriginal heritage takes on a new significance. While Angela falls in love for the first time, Gracey is drawn into black politics and their friendship drifts apart. Then Angela discovers that she too has a heritage - one her family would sooner deny. The conflict of the past possesses the power to draw the friends together but it could as easily blow them apart forever. This novel concludes the trilogy, which began with award-winning Dougy and Gracey. James Moloney yet again shows why his novels are so much in demand as powerful narratives of contemporary Australian society.
Gracey
Title | Gracey PDF eBook |
Author | James Moloney |
Publisher | Univ. of Queensland Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780702226106 |
A sequel to Dougy, Gracey continues the story of Gracey and her two brothers, young Aboriginals in a small country town.
Folklorn
Title | Folklorn PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Mi Young Hur |
Publisher | Erewhon |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1645660168 |
A New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families. Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow—comes to claim her at last. Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate: the mental illness and generational trauma that run in her immigrant family, a sickness no less ravenous than the ancestral curse hunting her. When her mother breaks her decade-long silence and tragedy strikes, Elsa must return to her childhood home in California. There, among family wrestling with their own demons, she unravels the secrets hidden in the handwritten pages of her mother’s dark stories: of women’s desire and fury; of magic suppressed, stolen, or punished; of the hunger for vengeance. From Sparks Fellow, Tin House alumna, and Harvard graduate Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn is a wondrous and necessary exploration of the myths we inherit and those we fashion for ourselves.
Silent Scream
Title | Silent Scream PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Marsons |
Publisher | Bookouture |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2015-02-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1909490911 |
The Novelist
Title | The Novelist PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Hunt |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2006-07-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1418525707 |
From the author who taught you to expect the unexpected...an intriguing tale about families, fiction, and what to do when life veers wildly off script. It begins...when a smug college student challenges a best-selling novelist to write something "more personal." It begins...when a mother finds her troubled son slumped unconscious outside her house. It begins...when fiction and reality blur, and the novelist finds herself caught somewhere in the middle of it all. Where does it end? That all depends on who is telling the story...
The Buccaneers
Title | The Buccaneers PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 1994-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 144062139X |
Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—soon to be an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.