Tough Luck

Tough Luck
Author: C.M. Stunich
Publisher: Sarian Royal
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2017-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1938623649

The Voice of the Butterfly

The Voice of the Butterfly
Author: John Nichols
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811839907

A dazzling, darkly comic novel by the author of "The Sterile Cuckoo, The Voice of the Butterfly" looks at chaotic relationships fraught with conservation efforts. Funny and touching, Nichols's novel is a wild ride through the lunacies of the postmodern age.

Web Of Deception

Web Of Deception
Author: Mia Rabb
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2013-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483654850

Sarah Cass, the first and only female consigliere in the organization, thrives on power and money. When she becomes a judge for the orphanage in Milan, all of Italy embraces her, making her even more powerful. She becomes a woman scorned, going through a nasty divorce from Rob, Anton s chief consigliere. Knowing all the tricks and secrets of the organization, Sarah sets out to slowly destroy it and the men involved. Dubbed the Black Widow , she embarks on a campaign to destroy Anton, the organization and anyone who stands in her way, enlisting the help of Anton s rich and powerful enemies. You can run, but you can t hide, threatens the organization as they are brought to their knees in this powerful web of deception of catch me if you can. Don t miss the next book, A Network of Assassins, as the saga continues.

How to Break Up with Your Phone

How to Break Up with Your Phone
Author: Catherine Price
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0399581138

This evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life. “I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book.”—Jonathan Haidt Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling—and failed? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up—and then make up—with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good. This engaging, user-friendly guide explains how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is increasing our anxiety and damaging our abilities to focus, think deeply, form new memories, generate ideas, and be present in our most important relationships. Next, it walks you through an effective and easy-to-follow 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people worldwide break their phone addictions and feel more fully alive. Whether you need help for yourself or for your family, friends, students, colleagues, clients, or community, How to Break Up with Your Phone is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. It’s guaranteed to help you put down your phone—and come back to life.

Days 1 to 4

Days 1 to 4
Author: Amy Cross
Publisher: Blackwych Books Ltd
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2022-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

One day, the power goes off and the world falls silent. And in two very different parts of America, two very different nightmares are about to begin. In Manhattan, Elizabeth and her brother Henry are all alone in their parents' apartment. Looking out the window, they can see the carnage slowly spreading through the city. But as hopes fade for their parents to come back, Elizabeth and Henry discover that dangers might already have entered the building. And a friendly neighbor might not be quite so friendly after all. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, Thomas and his family live on an isolated farm. They too have noticed that something has changed, and a chance encounter on a deserted road leads to a moment of pure horror. An infection is spreading, and soon more victims begin to fall. Family members turn on family members, and before long Thomas and his brother find themselves in a desperate fight for survival. This is the first book in the long-running Mass Extinction Event series. The book ends on a cliffhanger. Over thirteen books, this complete series tells the story of two young people trying to survive the first year of the apocalypse – leading to a shocking conclusion in the thirteenth and final volume.

New Voices

New Voices
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1955
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

The Cricket Choir

The Cricket Choir
Author: Patricia Signorelli
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647024854

The Cricket Choir By: Patricia Signorelli Our roles in life are temporary. Lydia knows this but was not ready to give up her in-touch parenting role when the time comes. This role has defined her for two decades. She loses her footing when her marriage also ends. Lydia journals her dilemma with candor and is surprised when fate steps in. A new role appears for her, adjusting her reality. She is needed again, but in a healthy way. Lydia’s approach to her new role is open—but she does not see the positivity coming when she opens up to her new surroundings and even learns to appreciate the song of the crickets. Love becomes new again. So much of her new life draws upon her past but she journals how she views it fully now.

A Bride by Morning

A Bride by Morning
Author: Katrina Kendrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1837931720

He is a heartbreaker. Gabriel St. Clair, the Earl of Montgomery, has a reputation for being the most charming gentleman in London. But to Miss Lydia Cecil, he is the man who shattered her heart. Gabriel would rather Lydia hate him than learn the truth: he's a British spy - and his enemies are closing in. She is a wallflower. Lydia has settled into a life as a companion for her elderly aunt. But when she witnesses Gabriel gather intelligence on a foreign enemy, she's suddenly thrown into his dangerous game of espionage. To save her life, Gabriel is forced to marry the girl he once abandoned. Their greatest threat may be their past. As husband and wife match wits, their greatest threat may not be the assassins on their heels, but learning to set aside their pasts or risk losing their love for good...

Essays One

Essays One
Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0374719241

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive.” Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.

Can't and Won't

Can't and Won't
Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374711437

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.