Elena Vanishing

Elena Vanishing
Author: Elena Dunkle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 145213068X

Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder.

The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters: Moonsong

The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters: Moonsong
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780062017703

Evil never dies. . . . After escaping the horrors of the Dark Dimension, Elena and her friends can’t wait to attend Dalcrest College, the beautiful ivy-covered campus where Elena’s parents met. Life with Stefan is better than ever, and with her closest friends Bonnie, Meredith, and Matt by her side, Elena knows it will be their best year yet. Even Damon seems genuinely changed and is getting along with everyone. But for Elena, moving away from Fell’s Church doesn’t mean she has left her dark past behind. When students start to disappear from campus, every new acquaintance is suddenly a potential enemy. Panic soon spreads and the friends struggle to protect each other. Then Elena uncovers a long-hidden secret, one that shocks her to the core, and realizes tragedy may be unavoidable. Will Elena outrun her fate? And will it be Stefan or Damon who catches her if she falls?

The Awakening

The Awakening
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Brothers
ISBN: 9781444900712

Elena's discovers her exciting new boyfriend is actually a vampire.

A Mountain of Crumbs

A Mountain of Crumbs
Author: Elena Gorokhova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-01-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439135584

Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language—but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive. Through Elena’s captivating voice, we learn not only the stories of Russian family life in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose curiosity and determination finally transport her to a new world. It is an elegy to the lost country of childhood, where those who leave can never return.

Midnight

Midnight
Author: L.J. Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1444901915

Dark, gripping and romantic - read the books that inspired the phenomenal Netflix vampire series. Book 7 in the Vampire Diaries series from bestselling author L. J. Smith. In Midnight, golden girl Elena Gilbert is back from the Dark Dimension, having successfully freed her vampire boyfriend Stefan Salvatore from imprisonment. Saving Stefan had an unlikely consequence: his vampire brother Damon Salvatore has become a mortal. While the trio reels from this latest twist, they must still deal with the demons that have taken over Elena's hometown, Fell's Church. Midnight takes Elena, Stefan, and Damon to their darkest moments yet... Darker than Twilight, more punch than Buffy and bloodier than True Blood - enjoy this romance with real bite...

The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #1: Origins

The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #1: Origins
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062020404

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series by L.J. Smith. Origins is the first book in L.J. Smith’s bestselling Stefan’s Diaries series, which reveals the backstory of brothers Stefan and Damon from The Vampire Diaries series. This digital edition features cover artwork from the hit CW TV series The Vampire Diaries, starring Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder. Set in mid-19th century Mystic Falls, Virginia, three teenagers enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity. Brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore are inseparable until they meet Katherine, a stunning, mysterious woman who turns their world upside down. Siblings turned rivals, the Salvatores compete for Katherine’s affection, only to discover that her sumptuous silk dresses and glittering gems hide a terrible secret: Katherine is a vampire. And she is intent on turning them into vampires so they can live together—forever. Full of dark shadows and surprising twists, the first book in the New York Times bestselling Stefan’s Diaries series raises the stakes for the Salvatore brothers as they face new loves, old treacheries, and unimaginable threats. Fans of L. J. Smith’s New York Times bestselling Vampire Diaries series as well as the hit television show won’t be able to put the latest Salvatore adventure down.

The American Roommate Experiment

The American Roommate Experiment
Author: Elena Armas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1668002787

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more! From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

Unseen

Unseen
Author: Lisa J. Smith
Publisher: Vampire Diaries
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781477809679

Elena and Stefan have built a home for themselves in Dalcrest, and all of Elena's friends are as in love as she and Stefan are. Even Damon is enjoying visiting his favorite old haunts in Europe, and is more surprised than anyone that he's traveling with Katherine. But lately, Elena's Guardian senses are on edge, and she can't ignore the feeling that danger is coming. Soon, she and Stefan are battling a vicious Old One who is always just out of their reach. Their lives are hanging in the balance, and every moment they share could be their last.

The Sound of Things Falling

The Sound of Things Falling
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408825791

No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogot� than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.

Elena

Elena
Author: R E Shrubb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2010-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452093059

Elena - the bar girl who became an empress and transformed an empire __________________________________________________ HIStory - or should it be HERstory? As is the case in some societies today, for the fi rst 300 years of the Roman Empire, women were the possessions of men. Many women resisted, some dying horribly rather than obeying orders to marry men chosen for them. HIStory barely mentions them. Another example of HIStory is the conversion of the Roman Empire from pagan to Christian by Constantine the Great. He issued the decrees. But: - his early coins have the Unvanquished Sun as their religious symbol, - his victory arch in Rome bears pagan symbols.. - he was ruthless in destroying opponents. - he had his fi rst born son executed, - he had his wife murdered in her bath. - he was not baptised until his death-bed. His mother Elena nurtured him through the turmoils and dangers of the time and became an important fi gure at court. She founded churches around the empire and gained a reputation as a holy person. She is regarded by the eastern church as equal to the apostles. The HERstory of Elena tells of her life from bar girl to empress through the perils of the late empire and its savage religious persecutions. It relates her role in the martyrdom of St George, the dramatic escape of Constantine from hostage of the pagan Galerius and her hand in guiding her son to his conquest of Rome.