To Room Nineteen

To Room Nineteen
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007143001

From To Room Nineteen, a study of a controlled middle class marriage grounded in intelligence, to the shocking A Woman on the Roof, where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this collection of stories bears witness to Doris Lessing's perspective on the human condition.

Room

Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2017-05-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 178682177X

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476729719

The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1992-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177089022X

In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061582484

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Through The Tunnel

Through The Tunnel
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007525729

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young boy’s coming of age.

The Fifth Child

The Fifth Child
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2003-03-20
Genre: Young adult fiction
ISBN: 9780007154395

Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..

The Day Stalin Died

The Day Stalin Died
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007525745

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young woman’s attempts to juggle her political beliefs with everyday life.

Nineteen

Nineteen
Author: Chelsea Krost
Publisher: Tvguestpert
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780981931166

In NINETEEN: A Reflection of My Teenage Experience in an Extraordinary Life: What I Have Learned, and What I Have to Share, nineteen-year-old author, Chelsea Krost, authentically shares the simplicity and complexity of her coming of age experience. In NINETEEN, she conjures the curiosity and flavor of a personal journal left open in a teenager¹s room. In its direct approach, NINETEEN reveals the key events that teenagers face at this monumental time in their lives as experienced by Chelsea Krost. While many teens are struggling with typical angst from cat fights to cliques, many others are dealing with the downside of the advanced technological world we live in. From sexting to cyber bullying, self esteem to depression; body image, mean girls and boy trouble, Chelsea sheds light on the millennial mindset and its ever changing challenges and lightning speed curve balls. Starting with the voice of a budding adolescent, to a 16-year-old who created her own radio talk show, Teen Talk Live, Chelsea evolves into the voice of reason for a generation of teens and beyond. Chelsea grows up from chapter to chapter, sharing her journey in poignant and playful scenarios. NINETEEN takes you on a humorous and insightful trip through her teenagehood, the intense final teen year, (the inspiration behind the book¹s title,) and into adulthood and the shift she undergoes to embark on a life fueled by service to others throughout the world.