From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later. Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets a fire in the school’s auditorium. Ginny’s best friend Gray Marsden’s father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe a notoriously troubled local teen set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their friendship. Over the next two decades, Ginny puts aside her wanderlust and her dreams. She marries a quiet man after college, and they move back to her hometown, where she raises their daughter, Avery, and cares for her tyrannical, ailing mother, Adela. She distances herself from the past and from nearly everyone she knew. But when Ginny’s husband, Harris, becomes embroiled in a scandal, her carefully controlled life crumbles, and, just when Ginny believes she is regaining her bearings, the secret she’s kept for twenty years emerges and threatens to destroy her hopes for the future. With the help of fifteen-year-old Avery and of friends both old and new, Ginny must summon the courage to confront old lies and hard truths and to free herself and the people she loves from the mistakes and regrets that have burdened them for so long.

This work of contemporary poetry captures glimpses in the life of the author. The reader comes face-to-face with the simplicity of African life, and complexities of the emotions of an African man as he struggles with the clash of cultures, religion, and western romance. The nostalgic feeling of home lives in his poems. Not only do they bemoan the disappointments and tribulations of his people but also celebrate the rich and proud cultural heritage of his race.

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the Irish writer James Joyce. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. This book contains the following writings: Novels: Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Short Story Collection: Dubliners. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Ernest Hemmingway favorite books. Famous author recommends his favorite fiction books that cater for all ages and tastes. Ernest Hemmingway collect: "Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy, "The brothers Karamazov", "The red and the black" and novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Explore book recommendations of great thinkers, entrepreneurs, pioneers and visionaries with Aegitas collections.