Drowning in Stars

Drowning in Stars
Author: Debra Anastasia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-08-07
Genre:
ISBN:

**TOP 40 Amazon Bestseller**... he walked a tightrope five stories up just to hold my hand.Gaze: I moved into the building next to Pixie when I was eleven. She blew bubbles through my window. I shot my Nerf gun through hers. We both had secrets, but one of us was fated to get hurt. I wanted it to be me. Pixie: When I was afraid of the dark, he would shine a light in my window. We shared our popsicles and I taught him how to get a good swing on the playground. I never imagined I'd have to decide who got to live and who didn't. I chose him --and he could never know.She walked a tightrope five stories up just to save my life...

Drowning to Breathe

Drowning to Breathe
Author: A. L. Jackson
Publisher: A.L. Jackson Books Inc.
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1938404904

The danger in pretending is it becoming real... Sebastian Stone, Sunder front man and guitarist with a rap sheet about ten miles long, escaped to Savannah, Georgia, to get away from the trouble he’d caused. Not find more of it. The moment he saw Shea Bentley, he saw beneath all her sweet and innocence to something that went deeper. Darker. Their relationship was built on secrets; their love built on lies. Sebastian never imagined how deep her secrets went. When the past and present collide, Sebastian and Shea find themselves fighting for a future neither believed they deserved. Their passion is consuming and their need unending. Now, holding the truth in his hands, Sebastian is faced with sacrificing everything he’s come to love to protect Shea and his family. Two pasts intertwined. Two lives bound. Will their demons drown them or will Shea and Sebastian finally learn to breathe? Drowning to Breathe is Book 2 of 2 in Sebastian and Shea's passionate love story. If you haven't read A Stone in the Sea, please begin there for full reading experience.

Land of Love and Drowning

Land of Love and Drowning
Author: Tiphanie Yanique
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698168801

Recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award A major debut from an award-winning writer—an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic, set against the emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world. Uniquely imagined, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and the author’s own Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language and rhythm that evoke an entire world and way of life and love. Following the Bradshaw family through sixty years of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs, curses, magical gifts, loyalties, births, deaths, and triumphs, Land of Love and Drowning is a gorgeous, vibrant debut by an exciting, prizewinning young writer.

Drowning in Desire

Drowning in Desire
Author: Kirstie Goode
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre:
ISBN:

It all started with one kiss. One amazing and slightly forbidden kiss. Lexie Ashworth is a beautiful fashion designer from California with her heart set on NYC.Carter Graham is a lawyer with a playboy reputation he just can't shake. No matter how hard he tries.Their friends say they aren't right for each other. He would ruin her without even meaning to do it, and she won't allow anything to stand between her and her dreams. Does it really even count if you don't label it, though? What happens when the friend lines are blurred?It must be true what they say... Opposites really do attract.

Drowning on Air

Drowning on Air
Author: Heidi Henning
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499086490

This is a story that tests the boundaries of regular fiction. Time and narrative curve to accommodate a story where fact and supposition, instinct and intuition become blurred; sequence does not matter, past and present have a genesis apart from time.

Ruin of Stars

Ruin of Stars
Author: Linsey Miller
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1492647535

The thrilling conclusion to the Mask of Shadows duology that weaves a tale of magic, shadows, and most importantly, revenge. As one of the Queen's elite assassins, Sal finally has the power, prestige, and permission to hunt down the lords who killed their family. But Sal still has to figure out who the culprits are. They must enlist the help of some old friends and enemies while ignoring a growing distaste for the queen and that the charming Elise is being held prisoner by her father. But there's something terribly wrong in the north. Talk of the return of shadows, missing children, and magic abounds. As Sal takes out the people responsible for their ruined homeland, Sal learns secrets and truths that can't be forgotten.

Blanket of Stars

Blanket of Stars
Author: K.K. Allen
Publisher: K.K. Allen
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2023-02-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

All Cayson Bexley ever wanted was to fly…⁣ Until a near-fatal crash clipped his wings, sending the injured military pilot back to his hometown and living right next door to me.⁣ ⁣ From the moment our eyes meet, the attraction is undeniable.⁣ I mean who wouldn’t fall for that achingly gorgeous face, his clean-cut demeanor, and sweet, small town charm?⁣ ⁣ Other than our mutual love of music, we’re as opposite as two people can be.⁣ Which is precisely why I friend-zone him the moment he shows interest.⁣ But as time goes on, my heart softens to this man who once had it all—a literal hero floundering to find his purpose.⁣ ⁣ In the midst of my own struggles, I could certainly use a friend.⁣ Heck, I could use more than that.⁣ And I’m not afraid to let Cayson know it.⁣ ⁣ When I discover my hunk of a neighbor is as shy as he is inexperienced, I offer him a distraction he can’t possibly refuse.⁣ We already share a very thin wall.⁣ Why not a bed too?⁣ ⁣ There’s only one catch: he’ll have to promise not to fall in love with me…⁣ ⁣ A no-strings hook-up is every man’s dream, right?⁣ What could possibly go wrong?⁣

Drowning in Fire

Drowning in Fire
Author: Hanna Martine
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101621834

Hidden in the Hawaiian islands, there is magic pure enough to heal a broken heart… In his last audience with the Senatus, Griffin hoped to establish a connection between his water-wielding race and the other elementals. Instead, he found himself drawn into a forbidden affair with the Chimeran general Keko. When it ended in a storm of fire and ice, Griffin was banned from the Senatus and Keko was stripped of her status. Just as Griffin is given a second chance to prove himself worthy of a Senatus seat, he gets a call from Keko. Despite how it ended between them, she wants to hear his voice one last time before embarking on a suicide mission to save her people and redeem her name. Despite her good intentions, members of the Senatus want her stopped—and Griffin volunteers to go after her. As he tracks his former lover through the untamed Hawaiian wilderness, she leads him straight to the source of all fire magic. But will the intense power they discover draw them back together or destroy them both?

The Black Period

The Black Period
Author: Hafizah Augustus Geter
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593448669

Acclaimed poet Hafizah Augustus Geter reclaims her origin story in this “lyrical memoir” (The New Yorker)—combining biting criticism and haunting visuals. “Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the truth.”—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage Winner of the PEN Open Book Award • Winner of the Lambda Literary Award • A New Yorker Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Brittle Paper Notable African Book of the Year • Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize “I say, ‘the Black Period,’ and mean ‘home’ in all its shapeshifting ways.” A book of great hope, Hafizah Augustus Geter’s The Black Period creates a map for how to survive: a country, a closet, a mother’s death, and the terror of becoming who we are in a world not built to accommodate diverse identities. At nineteen, she suddenly lost her mother to a stroke. Weeks later, her father became so heartsick that he needed a triple bypass. Amid the crumbling of her world, Hafizah struggled to know how to mourn a Muslim woman in a freshly post-9/11 America. Weaving through a childhood populated with southern and Nigerian relatives, her days in a small Catholic school, and learning to accept her own sexuality, and in the face of a chronic pain disability that sends her pinballing through the grind that is the American Dream, Hafizah discovers that grief is a political condition. In confronting the many layers of existence that the world tries to deny, it becomes clear that in order to emerge from erasure, she must map out her own narrative. Through a unique combination of gripping memoir, history, political analysis, cultural criticism, and Afrofuturist thought—alongside stunning original artwork created by her father, renowned artist Tyrone Geter—Hafizah leans into her parents’ lessons on the art of Black revision to create a space for the beauty of Blackness, Islam, disability, and queerness to flourish. As exquisitely told as it is innovative, and with a lyricism that dazzles, The Black Period is a reminder that joy and tenderness require courage, too.

Global 1979

Global 1979
Author: Arang Keshavarzian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108982697

The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from the personal to the global and from the provincial to the national, it draws attention to the multiplicity of spaces of the revolution such as streets, schools, prisons, personal lives, and histories such as the Cold War and Global 1960s and 70s. With a broad range of approaches, Global 1979 conceives of the Iranian Revolution not as exceptional or anachronistic, but as an uprising constituted by multiple, interwoven geographies and histories, which disrupt static and bounded notions of the local, national, regional, and global.