Consolation Prize

Consolation Prize
Author: Linda Kage
Publisher: Linda Kage
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Don’t you just hate it when someone destroys all your carefully made plans? I mean, I had goals: college to graduate in one semester, a future I was working hard to reach, and an image of myself I wanted the world to see. My life was stacked into these precisely placed blocks. But then Colton Gamble came along and knocked them all askew. I hated how he messed everything up, how he could hog all my attention whenever he was around, how he made my pulse quicken—but only because he ticked me off...not because I was attracted to him. Oh! And I hated how he knew how attractive he was too, the shallow, full of himself, doesn’t take no for an answer, too flirty, too cocky, extremely irritating jerk. The boy had all the qualities that turned me off. Or so I thought. One night he wasn’t quite the brainless, overconfident jerk I assumed he always was. One night, he took care of me when I was at my lowest. He opened up to me and made me open up to him. Now I’m learning maybe he’s not what I first thought he was. And maybe I’M not what I first thought I was. Maybe it’s okay to rearrange a couple of my perfectly set blocks. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll stop worrying about what I’m afraid everyone else will think and finally reach for something I really want. It’s possible some of my plans need to be destroyed, and Colton Gamble is exactly the kind of mess I need in my life. What do you think? Should I give him a try? Desperately seeking your advice, Julianna Radcliffe

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

Love and Other Consolation Prizes
Author: Jamie Ford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804176752

A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.

Someone Knows

Someone Knows
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525539654

Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent. Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret. Twenty years earlier, a horrific incident shattered the lives of five teenagers, including Allie. Drinking and partying in the woods, they played a dangerous prank that went tragically wrong, turning deadly. The teenagers kept what happened a secret, believing that getting caught would be the worst thing that could happen. But time has taught Allie otherwise. Not getting caught was far worse. Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't punished by the law, Allie has punished herself, and it's a life sentence. Now, Allie stands on the precipice of losing everything. She's ready for a reckoning, determined to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming--and neither will the reader. A deeply emotional examination of family, marriage, and the true nature of justice, Someone Knows is Lisa Scottoline's most powerful novel to date. Startling, page-turning, and with an ending that's impossible to forget, this is a tour de force by a beloved author at the top of her game.

Sad Girls

Sad Girls
Author: Lang Leav
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1449487823

School is almost out for Audrey, but the panic attacks are just beginning. Because Audrey told a lie and now her classmate, Ana, is dead. Just as her world begins to spin out of control, Audrey meets the enigmatic Rad – the boy who could turn it all around. But will their ill-timed romance drive her closer to the edge?

On Consolation

On Consolation
Author: Michael Ignatieff
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1250810086

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.

Consolation

Consolation
Author: Michael Redhill
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2008
Genre: Historians' spouses
ISBN: 0099466252

With the help of her daughters, widow Marianne Hollis sets out to make her husbands last dream a reality by uncovering a treasure trove of missing glass negatives that represent the earliest pictures ever taken of Toronto, in a novel that moves back and forth between the present and the past, into the life of the photographer who took the pictures more than a century and a half earlier.

Joe Cinque's Consolation

Joe Cinque's Consolation
Author: Helen Garner
Publisher: Picador Australia
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2007-11-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1742623875

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder. Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as 'evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care. It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005 Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year 2004 PRAISE FOR JOE CINQUE'S CONSOLATION "Garner's book is a writer's profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as at precise moments" The Age "This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness..." Australian Book Review

Consolation Prize

Consolation Prize
Author: Laurie J. MacDiarmid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615480251

Poetry. CONSOLATION PRIZE, a poetry collection by Laurie MacDiarmid, is the inaugural offering of the Georgetown Review Press. The press is an offshoot of the Georgetown Review, a literary magazine that has been publishing since 1993. CONSOLATION PRIZE explores a father's early death from cancer, charting the ripples and amendments his absence creates in the web of connected lives he leaves behind, disturbances that echo into past and future. Long after the father's death, the poet dangles in this web, spinning a life for herself from the threads he's left behind, hoping to capture his presence and, at the same time, transcend his loss. "CONSOLATION PRIZE builds in momentum, each poem well plotted, emotionally adept, energetic, and full of music." Denise Duhamel "MacDiarmid gives us the clear, frank, emotional truths never sentimental, never hysterical. Like the best poets she knows when to hold back and when to let go." Jim Daniels "CONSOLATION PRIZE depicts with unflinching accuracy the ways in which life goes wrong when love is replaced by bad choice after bad choice.... Readers will want to kneel down in front of children everywhere and beg forgiveness for us all." Claudia Keelan "CONSOLATION PRIZE brings us to an understanding of family life through a young woman's growth of consciousness in poems that sear us with their tension. This is honest writing, honed and crafted, sharpened to make its many points through poetry's slant approach." Patricia Clark"