My Kirsty - End of the Fairytale
Title | My Kirsty - End of the Fairytale PDF eBook |
Author | Jean MacColl |
Publisher | Kings Road Publishing |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1784182591 |
Kirsty MacColl led a dazzling life - tender, creative, heroic and full of love. This book, by her mother Jean MacColl, charts with moving insight Kirsty's early years, and celebrates her brilliant career at the front rank of the music business in the 1980s and 1990s, with such hits as the Pogues collaboration 'Fairytale of New York'. It mourns her tragic and untimely death - killed by a speedboat in Mexican waters in December 2000. It also tells, with heartfelt truth, the shocking story of the elaborate cover-up and gross miscarriage of justice that followed and appeals for justice to be done in her name.'A MOVING AND BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT.' The Daily Mail
Undead
Title | Undead PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsty McKay |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0545473462 |
Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby.The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back. But they've changed. And not in a good way. Straight up, they're zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round and round freakin' fast, because that's the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates' next meal. It's kill or be killed in these hunger games, heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late.Combining the chill of THE SHINING, the thrill ride of SPEED, the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, and the angst of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Kirsty McKay's UNDEAD is a bloody mad mash-up, a school-trip splatter-fest, a funny, gory, frighteningly good debut!
The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke
Title | The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsty Applebaum |
Publisher | Nosy Crow |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2021-05-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1788005252 |
Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. But he pays a price for this gift - by lengthening the creature's life, he shortens his own. So Lonny has to be careful, has to stay hidden in the forest. Because if people knew what he could do, Lonny would be left with no life at all... A brilliant novel from the author of The Middler about family, secrets and a terrible power.
The Harpy
Title | The Harpy PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Hunter |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2020-11-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802148174 |
Part revenge tale, part fairy tale—an electrifying story of marriage, infidelity and power by the author of the #1 Indie Next Pick, The End We Start From. A MILLIONS Most Anticipated Book of the Month A Best Book of Fall for ESQUIRE A VOGUE Novel Editors Recommend for Fall A LITERARY HUB 20 books that are laced with sinister magic Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy’s husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make a special arrangement designed to even the score and save their marriage—she will hurt him three times. As the couple submit to a delicate game of crime and punishment, Lucy herself begins to change, surrendering to a transformation of both mind and body from which there is no return. Told in dazzling, musical prose, The Harpy is a dark, staggering fairy tale, at once mythical and otherworldly and fiercely contemporary. It is a novel of love, marriage and its failures, of power, control and revenge, of metamorphosis and renewal. “A beautiful, poetic account of [a] marriage, and also an insightful character study . . . And when it borders on a dark fairy tale, The Harpy soars.” —NPR
The Gracekeepers
Title | The Gracekeepers PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsty Logan |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-05-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0553446630 |
For readers of The Night Circus and Station Eleven, a lyrical and absorbing debut set in a world covered by water As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. In a world divided between those inhabiting the mainland ("landlockers") and those who float on the sea ("damplings"), loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives--offering them a new understanding of the world they live in and the consequences of the past, while restoring hope in an unexpected future. Inspired in part by Scottish myths and fairytales, The Gracekeepers tells a modern story of an irreparably changed world: one that harbors the same isolation and sadness, but also joys and marvels of our own age. — Finalist, Lambda Literary Award
Hannah the Happy Ever After Fairy
Title | Hannah the Happy Ever After Fairy PDF eBook |
Author | Daisy Meadows |
Publisher | Franklin Watts |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2009-07-03 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9781408307885 |
Join Hannah the Happy Ever After Fairy for an exciting fairy adventure! Hannah the Happy Ever After Fairy is very upset. Jack Frost has stolen her Magic Quill Pen! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Hannah find it and save the Happy Ever Afters...?
TrooFriend
Title | TrooFriend PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsty Applebaum |
Publisher | Nosy Crow |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2020-04-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1788003489 |
Imagine having the perfect friend, one who never steals, lies or bullies. Now you can, with the TrooFriend 560, the latest in artificial intelligence! What can go wrong with a robot buddy? Especially one that's developing human characteristics and feelings, and who has just run away with her human?