![]() ![]() Ng has crafted extremely human characters. Everything I Never Told You has a rich plot that will keep readers glued to the edge of their seats until they reach the last page. She explores depression, social anxiety, and suicide. Ng tackles some very heavy subjects in this stunning debut novel. How could their perfect daughter, and beloved sister, be dead? What was she doing in the lake late at night, alone, when she did not know how to swim? The Lee family is forced to look back and analyze what could have possibly happened. But their picture-perfect family facade begins to crumble when Lydia's body is found at the bottom of the lake in their neighborhood. Marilyn and James Lee have placed all of their hopes and personal aspirations on the shoulders of their middle child, Lydia. ![]() The Lees project the image of a perfect, happy family. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng follows a Chinese-American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. ![]()
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![]() Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her her husband, a physician, having died while she was yet a young and handsome woman. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abide-so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavement-these things pleased me well. The house and its inmates specially suited me. When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. ![]() ![]() Her husband's family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplace-Bretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had been a personage of sufficient importance to leave his name to his neighbourhood, I know not. ![]() My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roddy Doyle has also written the children's books The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures and contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker magazine and several anthologies. Doyle has also written for the stage and the screen: the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner, and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors the film adaptations of The Commitments )as co-writer), The Snapper, and The Van When Brendan Met Trudy (an original screenplay) the four-part television series Family for the BBC and the television play Hell for Leather. He is also the author of the novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize winner), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, and A Star Called Henry, and a non-fiction book about his parents, Rory & Ita. The Commitments was Doyles first book and was published in 1987. ![]() ![]() His first three novels- The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van-are known as The Barrytown Trilogy. Roddy Doyle is the author of The Commitments.Doyle was born in 1958 in Dublin, Ireland. Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() My face was split with pure joy as I read. This particular tale is dipped in ecstasy. What compels me with Roe’s stories is the profound feelings woven into the words. I knew Horvat would continue to wow me and I have eagerly pounced on anything they have released since. The story was phenomenal but the voiced that penned it was stunning. And if he’s lucky, maybe even love.Ī year ago I happened to stumble across a debut novella that felt like a winning lotto ticket. If Michał can step out of his overly safe shell, there might be not only chocolate, but sex, too. ![]() Beside his job at the chocolaterie, his main source of excitement is his online friend, Magnus, whom he stubbornly refuses to meet in person.Ī customer turns up at the chocolaterie one day-tall, shy, and charming. Luckily, he works surrounded by the most delicious, extravagant produce in Gothenburg. After a particularly bad hookup, he keeps mostly to himself. His sex life has been nonexistent for some time, though. Sex and chocolate are the two pleasures Michał enjoys most in life. “I could spend days listening to you talk about chocolate.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Would you kindly read an obscene amount of books? John Shirley story collections include BLACK BUTTERFLIES, IN EXTREMIS, REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES, and LIVING SHADOWS. John Shirley has written only one nonfiction book, GURDJIEFF: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS LIFE AND IDEAS, published by Penguin/Jeremy Tarcher. ![]() He is also a lyricist, having written lyrics for 18 songs recorded by the Blue Oyster Cult (especially on their albums Heaven Forbidden and Curse of the Hidden Mirror), and his own recordings. STORMLAND and other John Shirley novels are available as audiobooks. His new story collection is THE FEVERISH STARS. His most recent novels are STORMLAND and (forthcoming) AXLE BUST CREEK. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is out from TOR books his Halo novel, HALO: BROKEN CIRCLE is coming out from Pocket Books. He has been several Year's Best anthologies including Prime Books' THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, and his nwest story collection is IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY. ![]() He is also a screenwriter, having written for television and movies he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN', ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his newest novels STORMLAND and A SORCERER OF ATLANTIS. ![]() ![]() ![]() So in essence, I’m a music journo that works for a fashion magazine. Etiquette is…well, it’s a fashion magazine. Vicky is my boss and the owner of the magazine I work for-Etiquette. “Tru, it’s Vicky…get your cute little butt in my office ASAP, I need a word.” I pick my ringing phone up just as I’m sitting down at my desk, taking a quick sip of my first coffee of the day. Can their relationship withstand Tru hitting the road with rock and roll’s most notorious womanizer? Or will she risk it all for a second chance with the one who got away? Read more There’s just one problem: Tru’s boyfriend, Will. Now Jake wants Tru to join the band on tour, offering her a behind-the-scenes exclusive that any journalist would kill for. Tru vows to keep the meeting strictly professional-but nothing can prepare her for the sparks that fly the moment their eyes meet again. But then she receives the assignment of a lifetime: interview Jake before his band launches its highly anticipated world tour. Every woman, that is, except Tru.Ī successful music journalist, Tru knows better than to mix business with pleasure. ![]() Now twelve years later, Jake is the world’s biggest rock star, lead singer of The Mighty Storm and every woman’s bad-boy fantasy. ![]() Tru Bennett was just fourteen years old when her best friend and first love, Jake Wethers, moved from England to America and left her brokenhearted. the bad boy front man who broke her heart. a music journalist’s story of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey.Īllen Drury has penetrated the world's stormiest political battleground-the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate-to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President calls upon the Senate to confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winnerĪllen Drury's Advise and Consent is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, a seminal work of political fiction-as relevant today as when it was first published. ![]() ![]() ![]() Romantic Times Book Club presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. ![]() In 2007, her novel The Note was featured as a Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel. Her books have won the coveted Christy Award, several Angel Awards from Excellence in Media, and the Gold and Silver Medallions from Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. Books, she says, have always shaped her life- in the fifth grade she learned how to flirt from reading Gone with the Wind. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts, complete with VIP air travel and a stretch limo in which they toured New York City.Īfterward, the dog gave out pawtographs at the airport.Īngela admits to being fascinated by animals, medicine, psychology, unexplained phenomena, and “just about everything” except sports. This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards-one of their dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest canine in America. Now that her two children have reached their thirties, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Turner and Hooch and Sandlot too many times). With over five million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling author of more than 150 works ranging from picture books (The Tale of Three Trees) to novels. Christy-Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who have learned to expect the unexpected in novels from this versatile author. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence?Ĭhallenging conventional narratives of the mass violence of 1965–66 as arising spontaneously from religious and social conflicts, Robinson argues convincingly that it was instead the product of a deliberate campaign, led by the Indonesian Army. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions. The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.Īn expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. ![]() |