Eddie and the Cruisers

Eddie and the Cruisers
Author: P.F. Kluge
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468303562

The classic novel that gave rise to a movie franchise. “A warm, entertaining, and highly evocative story of youth, music, and growing up in the 1950s.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer Eddie and his Jersey-bred band, The Parkway Cruisers, were going places. With an album and a few minor hits to their credit the future seemed bright until Eddie died in a fiery car crash. Twenty years later a British rock band turns their old songs into monumental fresh hits. With this comes a surge of interest in the surviving Cruisers and in a rumored cache of tapes that Eddie made before he died. That’s when the killing starts . . . “An excellently crafted book. The dialogue is sharp, the book is packed with exquisite description and a surprise ending.” —Sunday Journal and Star “Eddie and the Cruisers seems at first glance to be only a smartly written novel about nostalgia for the music of the late 1950s. It quickly proves, however, to be a remarkably good suspense story, full of vivid characters and some hilarious dialogue.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Sparkling dialogue, wonderful characterizations and a plot which dazzles.” —Enterprise Sun “[A] good mix of everyday blues with old-time bebop.” —Booklist

One Example

One Example
Author: Bee Smith
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 179600376X

Bee, who has a tendency of theorizing a bit too much on the hidden social experiment she is a part of, wrote this particular second book, One Example, in 2017. She developed quite an obsession with the group monitoring her and discovered more about what the experiment entails. She discovered that it’s a full-on social study, which is more than what she thought it was in her first book. Enjoy! The series of books written so far by Bee Smith are as follows: Book 1—Experimenting with Basic Tasks Book 2—One Example Book 3—The Crow Report Book 4—Queen Bee’s Party Book 5—The Diary’s in a Good Place But there’s more that might be on the horizon for which you should be on the lookout: Book 6—Picnic Blanket for One

The Girl Who Cried Monster

The Girl Who Cried Monster
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545820693

From the New York Times–bestselling Goosebumps series, a tween girl witnesses the librarian turning into a monster and everyone thinks she’s lying. She’s telling the truth . . . but no one believes her. Lucy likes to tell monster stories. She’s told so many that her friends and family are sick of it. Then one day Lucy discovers a real live monster: the librarian in charge of the summer reading program. Too bad Lucy’s told so many monster tall tales. Too bad no one believes a word she says. Too bad the monster knows who she is . . . and is coming after her next.

Circle of Three #9: Through the Veil

Circle of Three #9: Through the Veil
Author: Isobel Bird
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2001-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006447299X

As Annie, Kate, and Cooper prepare for Samhain, or Halloween, they are filled with anticipation. It is a time when the veil between the worlds is thin, and those who have passed into the spirit world may be more easily contacted. Those Annie holds dear dwell behind this veil already — will she find them on this eve of Wiccan celebration? Ages 12+

In Real Life

In Real Life
Author: Chris Killen
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782114440

STILL FRIENDS A DECADE ON? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan. The real world doesn't look quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be . . . For two of them it will mean a new beginning to an old love story. Hilarious and heart-breaking, In Real Life paints a searingly honest portrait of a generation and captures a world where human connection is easier than ever before but where relationships remain just as tricky.

No Longer the Victim

No Longer the Victim
Author: Debra Monroe-Lax
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467853712

Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mothers lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Police Department where she becomes a noted homicide detective. At the age of thirty-three, an unexpected occurrence triggers Jans suppressed memories of having been molested. Unable to cope, Jans childhood alter personality, Chris Hays, again manifests itself. In doing so, Chris sets out on a path of lustful revenge by luring lesbians from a gay club and later murdering them. She then displays their nude bodies in a public park on Beale Street, a thriving downtown tourist attraction. As the story unfolds, a private investigator, hired by one of the victims father to find the killer, is falsely arrested after being caught near the crime scene where the fifth and final victim is found. One week following the arrest, Jan is greeted at the office by a pair of local fishermen who discovered her badge inside of a trash bag while fishing. Unbeknownst to the fishermen, the bag also contained solid evidence of the murders.

The Victims of Lightning

The Victims of Lightning
Author: Bill Manhire
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0864736649

Building on previous themes and introducing some new techniques, this collection reveals a respected poet at the height of his powers. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, a bracket of songs, and complex emotions—all tempered by the use of humor.

Balancing Act

Balancing Act
Author: Joanne Bloch
Publisher: New Africa Books
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781869284183

In Balancing act: South African gay and lesbian youth speak out, twenty one young gay and lesbian South Africans from a wide range of social backgrounds speak candidly about their experiences, hopes and dreams.

The Long Delirious Burning Blue

The Long Delirious Burning Blue
Author: Sharon Blackie
Publisher: September Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2024-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1914613473

THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IF WOMEN ROSE ROOTED ' You and me against the world, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me against each other.' Cat Munro - who has never taken a day off in her working life - quits her corporate job and starts flying lessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only of death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village where she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat's abusive father. Though they are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them. From the excoriating heat of the Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie's soaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, and of storytelling, in women's lives. Above all, The Long Delirious Burning Blue is a story of courage, endurance and redemption. 'It is that rarity, a first novel that smacks of not merely confidence, but authority ... The ending is powerful, filmic, and achieving the kind of symmetry that novels often aspire to, but rarely reach.' The Scotsman

The 2nd Second

The 2nd Second
Author: Leonardo DeSanctis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2001-04-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781469107950

Imagine tomorrow that you packed everything you owned in a bag and just disappeared? You forgot about your family, a job, taxes, credit card bills, traffic and all the other headaches of life. You just split. Not giving a single thought to where you were going or what you were going to do when you got there. You lived completely by impulse. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well, what’s stopping you? That’s exactly what Nello Di Latio would say. Nello is twenty-two, likes looking at himself in the mirror, watching five movies in a row, drinking Rum and Diet Cokes and living his life by a coin toss. According to him, life on-the-go gives him “countless opportunities” in just under a second and, “It’s the 2nd second that really counts. That’s when you either go for it or you miss out forever.” Since he finished college the previous year, this fast-lane lifestyle has worked for him. He’s backpacked through Europe and the United States on about twenty bucks a day. “There’s never a minute when I pause and reflect because I’m always moving,” he says. “I bet you can’t wait to see where I’ll be next. Well, neither can I.” The only thing that fascinates Nello more than living his life by impulse, is his love of movies. He sees his life as one giant movie with a Classic Rock soundtrack and him as the star. But a movie has to have a point. Nello slowly begins to realize that he can’t float forever. But where will a guy end up that follows women from bus stops and that allows fortune cookies and traffic signs to dictate his future? This novel begins in on a deserted highway in Texas and ends in a hospital bathroom in New York City four days later. During this time, Nello learns that his traveling days are numbered. What makes this novel intriguing is Nello’s unusual journal entries that take him, “no more than two minutes. Life’s too short to waste time with bullshit details,” he says. Through his passages we get to know him and his Gen X culture and mentality. Aside from an occasional flash fantasy and a flashback, the story is all present action. The 2nd Second was written for anyone who ever got carried away with their imagination, their passion for travel and experience, and their own personal happiness.