Goodbye Lemon
Title | Goodbye Lemon PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Davies |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Domestic fiction |
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Against his better judgment, Jack succumbs to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Should he walk away and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember?
Goodbye Lemon
Title | Goodbye Lemon PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Davies |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2006-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1440624216 |
Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother’s guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffers from “locked-in syndrome,” a condition that leaves him fully intact mentally but unable to speak or move, save for blinking his eye. Jack’s do-gooder girlfriend believes that this trip is a chance for Jack to achieve peace with his family. But Jack’s no fool: He knows better—and he knows there’s a lot his girlfriend doesn’t realize about the Tennant family. She doesn’t know about Jack’s alcoholic brother, Pressman. And she doesn’t know the truth about his brother Dex, who drowned when Jack was very young—and about whom his parents have never said a word. With his family teetering on the brink, Jack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to make a decision he’s avoided for years. Should he walk away from his past and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember? Jack has a lot of choices to make—and fast. If he doesn’t, he runs the risk of losing everything, including the woman he loves. “Adam Davies has a delicious command of the English language.”—St. Petersburg Times
Mine All Mine
Title | Mine All Mine PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Davies |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2008-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781594483141 |
A dazzling and funny romantic comedy from Adam Davies, the author of The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon. Otto Starks is a "pulse"—a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide. Otto was once a rising star but then he was rolled three times by the notorious Rat Burglar. Now, demoted and dangerously in debt to a loan shark, all he has left is Charlie Izzo, the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is also the Rat Burglar's zealous advocate. That's bad enough. But then Otto gets robbed yet again and the cops pronounce him the prime suspect. When Charlie disappears and Otto becomes a fugitive, he realizes that the Rat Burglar has stolen much more from him than art. And to get it back he must break the law he has devoted his life to upholding. Mine All Mine is a nail-biting thriller about deception, betrayal, and ownership—in art and in love.
Grief Girl
Title | Grief Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Vincent |
Publisher | Delacorte Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Bereavement in adolescence |
ISBN | 0385733534 |
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she and her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
The Frog King
Title | The Frog King PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Davies |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2002-08-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101126868 |
Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living"). His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not). His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?). His publishing job is entry level (with no exit in sight). BUT... Harry Driscoll has a dream (if you call an unfinished manuscript hidden in the closet a "dream"). Harry Driscoll has a girl (although intercourse is out of the question). Harry Driscoll even has feelings. (He asked this girl, one day in the park, to be in his life forever--and meant it!) And the other girls? They're not the problem. (The problem is, Harry Driscoll cannot allow himself to say the word "love.")
Crossing Space
Title | Crossing Space PDF eBook |
Author | Angel Favazza |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2019-04-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0359516815 |
Crossing Space is an arresting collection of science fiction poetry by best-selling author, Angel Favazza. Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes no concessions to political correctness or the industry of consolation. Instead, Favazza fearlessly explores outer space and the human condition through her own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually hide from others and even ourselves. Favazza pushes the boundaries of traditional science fiction and can't keep herself from going right to those dark edges, whether she is writing about the entanglements of human life, the challenges of our place within the universe, or, as she so deftly does in several poems, both at once. The result is a poetry collection that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny.
The Publishers Weekly
Title | The Publishers Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 750 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | American literature |
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