Beyond the Flare. Life is a Story - story.one

Beyond the Flare. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: S. N. K
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710830354

They used to be inseparable in the past. Now she wants to kill her. As the narrator finds out the true identity of her so-called "sister", she's faced with struggles of a teenager's life. Will she actually end up killing a former bestfriend?

Leave the World Behind

Leave the World Behind
Author: Rumaan Alam
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062667653

Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?

Moon Rising. Life is a Story - story.one

Moon Rising. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Saskia Steinert
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710841372

In a world torn apart by hatred and fear, Selene finds herself involved with a group of outcast mages on a mission to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Desperate to end the power imbalance between mages and fae, Selene takes part in their plans to kidnap the evil fae kings heir, Atlas - the moon mage foretold by the prophecy. As they flee through the lands, emotions boil over when both Selene and Atlas are forced to confront what they think they know and start toeing a fine line between hatred, mutual understanding, and attraction. When time starts running out and they uncover more about their powers and each other, they are soon forced to accept that maybe not everything is as they believed.

Dark Matter

Dark Matter
Author: Blake Crouch
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101904232

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • COMING SOON TO APPLE TV+ • A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

One Story, One Song

One Story, One Song
Author: Richard Wagamese
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1553656431

A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life. Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in which they are joined to him and to consider how they might be joined to others.” In this new book, Richard Wagamese again invites readers to accompany him on his travels. This time his focus is on stories: how they shape us, how they empower us, how they change our lives. Ancient and contemporary, cultural and spiritual, funny and sad, the tales are grouped according to the four essential principles Ojibway traditional teachers sought to impart: humility, trust, introspection and wisdom.

Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy
Author: J. D. Vance
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0062872257

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

The Curator. Life is a Story - story.one

The Curator. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Xenia S.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2024-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711565433

In the fog-drenched heart of London, Dr. Valerian Bane offers a unique therapy. Women haunted by unspeakable traumas seek him out, desperate for the solace he offers. "Hysteria," they called it, a disease of the female mind. But for the women of Victorian London, it was an imprisonment of their bodies. They say he can mend a broken spirit, banish the shadows that cling to a woman's soul. Yet Dr. Bane's methods are unorthodox, his cures unsettling, and his thirst for justice runs deeper than anyone could imagine. His treatment? Unconventional. His success rate? Undeniable.

Dark Roses and Laughing Lilies. Life is a Story - story.one

Dark Roses and Laughing Lilies. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Blessy Rajan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2024-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711562345

This book is a compilation of 12 stories, though the majority have a Dark undertone, nonetheless, there also are stories that are lighthearted, funny, sometimes mixed with horror, and even romantic. Thus, giving a perfect blend of all possible emotions. As you dive into this sea, you will witness the turbulence of loss, pain, and emotional turmoil. Nonetheless, at the same time, there will be pearls of Joy, along with the reflective light of reality, with the bubbles of fun and the fragrance of love. It will be a read that will help you pass the time and provide insight and thought-provoking ideas. The book is a window that would give a glimpse into the Life of Sarah, the tales of Nina, the loss of Rebekah, the epistle of love of Issac, the struggle of Alisiya, and many more. Get ready! Not just to laugh, but also to experience the redefinition of Love and to feel the pain of the stories written in black ink. These may be just stories, but for these characters, it's a whole universe.

A collection of peculiar things. Life is a Story - story.one

A collection of peculiar things. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Sophie Dwars
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2023-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710856604

A collection of peculiar things contains an assortment of curious stories diving into fantasy worlds and everyday mysteries, exploring thoughts and emotions. Some stories are dark, others are more mysterious. Some are full of wonders and others more romantic.

Soliloquy of Pneuma. Life is a Story - story.one

Soliloquy of Pneuma. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: AIGANOS
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2023-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710831830

Will you ever be able to find out who lives inside your house of thoughts? Do you claim to be alive by the criteria of existence or do you merely breathe? Reframe of Mind: Ennui opens doors to discourses on the perception of reality, the idea of interweaving threads of life and, primarily, the myriad thalassic layers of the ocean of our very own consciousness. This "true" version of the original work not only includes an extra chapter, but also features a completely revamped story that adds depth and intrigue. Additionally, readers will be delighted to find vibrantly designed coloured pages interspersed between each chapter.