Beautiful Shadow

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159691968X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Beautiful Shadow written by Andrew Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-07 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery. For Beautiful Shadow, the first biography of Highsmith, British journalist Andrew Wilson mined the vast archive of diaries, notebooks, and letters she left behind, astonishing in their candor and detail. He interviewed her closest friends and colleagues as well as some of her many lovers. But Wilson also traces Highsmith's literary roots in the work of Poe, noir, and existentialism, locating the influences that helped distinguish Highsmith's writing so startlingly from more ordinary thrillers. The result is both a serious critical biography and one that reveals much about a brilliant and contradictory woman, one who despite her acclaim and affairs always maintained her solitude.

Author : Sarra Cannon
Publisher : Dead River Books
ISBN 13 : 1624210007
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Beautiful Demons written by Sarra Cannon and published by Dead River Books. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peachville, even the cheerleaders have a dark side... Harper Madison isn’t like other girls. She has extraordinary powers, but her inability to control them has gotten her kicked from so many foster homes she’s lost count. Shadowford Home is her last chance, and she hopes Peachville High will be the fresh start she needs. But when evidence ties her to the gruesome murder of a Demons cheerleader, Harper discovers this small town has a big secret.

Author : Cory D. Hiles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781478265955
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Lovely Shadow written by Cory D. Hiles and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping childhood without some kind of issues is a major accomplishment for most people. For Johnny Krimshaw, escaping alive was enough of an accomplishment to satisfy him.When Johnny's unstable mother came completely unhinged, Johnny found himself in the care of an abusive lunatic until being rescued by his charismatic Aunt June. Not long after his rescue, however, he begins questioning his own sanity when mysterious events begin happening around him. Adding to his doubts about his mental anchorage is the fact that he is growing emotionally attached to the unseen perpetrator of the events.Love may hold the answers Johnny is looking for, but only if he can reconcile his feelings for a girl he has never seen, never spoken to, and isn't even sure exists. And if she does exist, the question remains: Just how long has she been dead?Matters of the heart, however, are not Johnny's only problems. He has developed a mysterious ability that June's housekeeper, Miss Lilly, calls “The Eye”. The Eye allows Johnny to see the spirits of the dead and, according to Miss Lilly, obligates him to help the dead whenever possible—whether he wants to or not.Coming to terms with torture, love, loss, mysterious abilities, and adolescence is not easy, and Johnny must somehow find enough light within himself to shine brightly in a dark world or else risk fading into blackness himself.

Author : Lucy Christopher
Publisher : Lantana Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913747085
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shadow written by Lucy Christopher and published by Lantana Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern fairy tale about overcoming our fears and reconnecting with those we love most. In our old house, Ma told me there was nothing to be scared of. No monsters hiding behind doors, or in wardrobes, or under beds. She said there were no dark places at all. But in the new house, under my new bed, that's where I found Shadow. “Beautiful. A really powerful exploration of a child’s experience of a parent’s depression. Big and brave” —Nicola Davies, award-winning author “This soft-spoken story can be anything from a simple, lovely, modern fairy tale to a stunning allegory about overcoming fear & how a parent's depression can affect a child”—ALA Booklist “Helpful to any family going through a challenging situation yet hoping for a brighter future”—Youth Services Book Reviews, 5 STARS

Author : Patricia Bracewell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606193
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shadow on the Crown written by Patricia Bracewell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich tale of power and forbidden love revolving around a young medieval queen In 1002, fifteen­-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown, Emma must defend herself against her enemies and secure her status as queen by bearing a son. Determined to outmaneuver her adversaries, Emma forges alliances with influential men at court and wins the affection of the English people. But her growing love for a man who is not her husband and the imminent threat of a Viking invasion jeopardize both her crown and her life. Based on real events recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Shadow on the Crown introduces readers to a fascinating, overlooked period of history and an unforgettable heroine whose quest to find her place in the world will resonate with modern readers.

Author : Radhika Jha
Publisher : Stephanie Plum
ISBN 13 : 9781914344176
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book My Beautiful Shadow written by Radhika Jha and published by Stephanie Plum. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers, but her secret sets her apart. She belongs to a kind of club, which involves luxury, beautiful clothes and accessories. The club makes it possible for Kayo to escape her tedious life, to become someone else and to embrace a dazzling new world. But it quickly becomes an obsession, a drug, the way to both paradise and hell. Can she find her way out of the dark underworld of debt, lies and prostitution? Or is she doomed to exchange one form of loneliness for another? A deeply absorbing novel about the "holes" that suddenly appear in women's lives, My Beautiful Shadow is a powerful cautionary tale about consumerism gone mad.

Author : Harry Collins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226113795
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Gravity's Shadow written by Harry Collins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the space-time continuum like ripples in a pond. But proving the existence of these waves has been difficult; the cosmic shudders are so weak that only the most sensitive instruments can be expected to observe them directly. Fifteen times during the last thirty years scientists have claimed to have detected gravitational waves, but so far none of those claims have survived the scrutiny of the scientific community. Gravity's Shadow chronicles the forty-year effort to detect gravitational waves, while exploring the meaning of scientific knowledge and the nature of expertise. Gravitational wave detection involves recording the collisions, explosions, and trembling of stars and black holes by evaluating the smallest changes ever measured. Because gravitational waves are so faint, their detection will come not in an exuberant moment of discovery but through a chain of inference; for forty years, scientists have debated whether there is anything to detect and whether it has yet been detected. Sociologist Harry Collins has been tracking the progress of this research since 1972, interviewing key scientists and delineating the social process of the science of gravitational waves. Engagingly written and authoritatively comprehensive, Gravity's Shadow explores the people, institutions, and government organizations involved in the detection of gravitational waves. This sociological history will prove essential not only to sociologists and historians of science but to scientists themselves.

Author : Edith Granger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An Index to Poetry and Recitations written by Edith Granger and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liana Liu
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062306693
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shadow Girl written by Liana Liu and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Memory Key author Liana Liu delivers a thrilling story of one girl struggling to claim her own identity while becoming an unwitting participant in the strange fate of a wealthy dynasty. The house on Arrow Island is full of mystery. Yet, when Mei arrives, she can’t help feeling relieved. She’s happy to spend the summer in an actual mansion tutoring a rich man’s daughter if it means a break from her normal life—her needy mother, her delinquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved. What she doesn’t know is that something is very wrong in the Morison household. Though Mei tries to focus on her duties, she becomes increasingly distracted by the family’s problems and her own complicated feelings for Ella’s brother, Henry. But most disturbing of all are the unexplained noises she hears at night—the howling and thumping and cries. Mei is a sensible girl. She isn’t superstitious; she doesn’t believe in ghosts. Yet she can’t shake her fear that there is danger lurking in the shadows of this beautiful house, a darkness that could destroy the family inside and out...and Mei along with them.

Author : Sarra Cannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781624210150
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shadow Demons written by Sarra Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peachville, there's a fine line between good and evil. That line is about to be crossed.