Tragedy Girl

Tragedy Girl
Author: Christine Hurley Deriso
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0738747866

Anne and Blake are perfect together. They both bring sob stories to the table: her parents died in a car wreck; his girlfriend drowned. But even as Anne starts to feel she’s finally found something good in all the tragedy, she can’t ignore signs that something’s not right with Blake.

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Author: Erin Dionne
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-01-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101155752

All Hamlet Kennedy wants is to be a normal eighth grader. But with parents like hers - Shakespearean scholars who actually dress in Elizabethan regalia . . . in public! - it's not that easy. As if they weren't strange enough, her genius seven-year-old sister will be attending her middle school, and is named the new math tutor. Then, when the Shakespeare Project is announced, Hamlet reveals herself to be an amazing actress. Even though she wants to be average, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she- like her family - is anything but ordinary.

A Lovely Girl

A Lovely Girl
Author: Deborah Holt Larkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1639362452

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy. Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga’s mother in-law—a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman—had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga and her son, Frank, prior to Olga’s disappearance. From a forged annulment to multiple attempts to hire people to “get rid” of Olga, to a faked excoriation case, Elizabeth seemed psychopathically attached to her son. Yet she denied having anything to do with Olga’s disappearance with a smile. But when Olga’s brutally beaten body is found in a shallow grave, apparently buried alive, a young DA makes it his mission to see that Elizabeth Duncan is brought to justice. Adding a wrinkle to his efforts is the fact that Frank—himself a defense attorney—maintained his mother’s innocent to the end. How does a young girl process such a crime along with the fear and disbelieve that rocked an entire community? Decades later, Larkin is determined to revisit the case and bring the story of Olga herself to light. Long overshadowed by the sensationalism and scandal of Elizabeth and Frank, A Lovely Girl seeks to reveal Olga as a woman in full. Someone who was more than the twisted family that would ultimately ensnare her. As we follow the heart-pounding drama of the case through Larkin's young eyes—her father was the court reporter—A Lovely Girl is by turns page-turning yet poingnant, and makes the reader reexamine how we handle fear, how we regard mental illness, and how we understand family as we carve our own path in a dangerous world.

Eternity Girl

Eternity Girl
Author: Magdalene Visaggio
Publisher: DC Comics
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1401296513

ÒA wild, visually engrossing journey.Ó ÑPaste Magazine ÒA surreal, deeply personal tale.Ó ÑA.V. Club ÒA smart and unforgettable book.Ó ÑSyFy Wire Caroline Sharp gave up her humanity to gain incredible shape-shifting abilitiesÑpowers she used to save the world time and time again as the superhero Chrysalis. But as the years wore on, she began to lose control of the elemental forces coursing through her body, making her dangerously unstable and forcing her removal from ALPHA 13, the covert government agency that created her. Now, although she can barely hold herself together, CarolineÕs unique condition also means that nothing can kill her. Isolated, alienated and profoundly alone, sheÕs determined to break the curse of her immortalityÑby any means necessary. Enter the villainous Madame Atom, with the offer of a lifetime: to end her suffering, all Caroline has to do is undertake one final, dimension-spanning mission, with one simple objectiveÑthe destruction of the entire universe. Written by Eisner and GLAAD Media award-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio and illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Sonny Liew, Eternity Girl collects the unforgettable six-issue miniseries from the groundbreaking DCÕs Young Animal imprint.

Pretty Girls

Pretty Girls
Author: Karin Slaughter
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 006242906X

Lee Child says it’s “stunning… certain to be a book of the year.” Kathy Reichs calls it “extraordinary… a major achievement.” Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: “I’d follow her anywhere.” Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.

The Tragedy of the Red Eyed Girl

The Tragedy of the Red Eyed Girl
Author: Beaux Taylor
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781477648131

Morisson Safford, Mori to her friends, has been having trouble sleeping. An insomniac since she was a teenager, she has never really worried about missing a few hours sleep, but now something is different. She has started seeing things. One of these visions particularly bothers her--a girl in the mirror. A girl with red eyes. Soon, Mori is pulled into a terrifying world where she must fight to survive horrors she could never have imagined as she searches for a way back home.

Kathy Fiscus

Kathy Fiscus
Author: William Deverell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781626400870

In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well--a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family's home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio's klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers, miners, cesspool laborers, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. The region, the nation, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well's proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. William Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.

The Girl in the Triangle

The Girl in the Triangle
Author: Joyana Peters
Publisher: Amaryllis Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-07-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1736937316

There are 740 Days left until the fire that changes industrial history forever. It's 1909. Seventeen-year-old Ruth survived the Russian Revolution and is now finally reunited with her lost love in the New World. All she wants is peace and a new life with her family in New York. But when an uprising of 20,000 women vows to take down a greedy factory owner, can Ruth possibly stay away? Who will survive? And will they ever be the same again? Join the hundreds of readers who are raving about Joyana Peters' perfect prose and calling this Jewish fiction book a masterpiece. Find out why The Girl in the Triangle was awarded the SCBWI Spark Award for Best YA Fiction, the IBPA Ben Franklin Award for Best Historical Fiction, and was named a Top Five Finalist for Shelf Unbound's Best Indie Book of the Year! Click the BUY button and get your copy of this gripping, immigration story book now! What Readers and Critics are Saying: ★★★★★ "The conversations among the characters led me to give this book 5 stars. They are raw and eye-opening even as the story buds. “The Girl In The Triangle” by Joyana Peters is simply a delight to read and will automatically tick the boxes of fans of historical fiction.” - Reader Views ★★★★★ "That is what historical fiction does for a reader, a slice of history wrapped up in a compelling story that teaches and makes us reflect on the words and our own lives in the stream of time." - Historical Fiction Press Awards ★★★★★ "Looooved this book! I've been suffering from "readers block" lately and have been unable to really get into a book...until now!! My nose was stuck in this book for 3 days straight. I truly enjoyed Joyana's debut book, and am looking forward to her next!"- Kimberly Hamilton ★★★★★ "THIS BOOK IS AMAZING! I want to go back to teaching social studies so I can share it with my students. Joyana Peters did an amazing job of bringing the immigrant experience to life. I loved this book!!!" - Alison Rager ★★★★★ "Historical fiction fans and fans of women's fiction will enjoy THE GIRL IN THE TRIANGLE. A well-researched, educational, difficult-to-put-down read."- Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews ★★★★★ "Because I love, LITERALLY LOVE this book.................well, as much as one can love a book based on a senseless tragedy." - Lactivist Anti-Vaccine Socialist Hippie ★★★★★ "This fast paced novel is about love in a family no matter the circumstances. It's also about the lives of immigrants, the fight for rights for women and the working class and freedom and justice for all. This debut novel was so well written that I'm looking forward to future books from this author." - Sue ★★★★★ "An immigration story at the finest level, revealing the depths of tragedy many went through leaving a country of unspeakable suffering to another country where hope fills their hearts, yet the same sorts of inhumanity exist." - D.K. Marley ★★★★★ "This is a well researched work and the author brings the era alive giving us a history lesson hidden within a gripping story of love, family, culture and the tragedy of the heartbreaking Triangle Shirt Fire. " - Douglas W. Murray ★★★★★ "I loved this book so much, I was so sad when it ended!" - Heaven Protsman ★★★★★ "A fascinating historical fiction. The feelings and emotions of the characters are vibrantly detailed." - Emmeline Everdeen

The Good Girls

The Good Girls
Author: Sonia Faleiro
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0802158218

On a summer night in 2014, Padma and Lalli went missing from Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh. Hours later they were found hanging in the orchard behind their home. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind. Slipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, The Good Girls returns to the scene of their short lives and shameful deaths, and dares to ask: What is the human cost of shame?

The Girl Who Came Home

The Girl Who Came Home
Author: Hazel Gaynor
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062316877

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants. Ireland, 1912. Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the lucky few passengers in steerage who survives. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror and panic of that terrible night ever again. Chicago, 1982. Adrift after the death of her father, Grace Butler struggles to decide what comes next. When her Great Nana Maggie shares the painful secret she harbored for almost a lifetime about the Titanic, the revelation gives Grace new direction—and leads her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago.