Out of the Darkness Samantha's Story

Out of the Darkness Samantha's Story
Author: Samantha Simon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1477143890

OUT OF THE DARKNESS Samantha's Story is the story of a small town Midwestern girl next door who bravely faces the passing of her grandmother -her best friend. This changes her life forever. She battles a deep depression and is comfronted with the epidemic of America-over medication. This inspirational story takes you through her epic journet of finding herself by learning about the disastrous plague of the mental healthcare system. This book also delves into an interview with one of Miami's top experts from the field of psychiatry.

Darkness Has Fallen

Darkness Has Fallen
Author: Samantha Cook
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1617398535

My name is Ethan Turner and I was thrust into this life by no will of my own, and now I am what I am...I am not perfect-I never have been-but I will fight evil whether it lives within me or I come face-to-face with it. The changes a teen goes through are tough. And as a senior, I stressed over planning my future. But that was nothing compared to what I would face and the future that waited for me. Whether by chance or fate, the change happened suddenly. I woke burning with thirst and a desire to understand the impossible. A girl, a very intoxicating girl, was there to help. Tabitha had saved my life. She fed me, taught me, but had to send me out on my own, without friends, without family, and worst of all, without her. My life was cursed and my body marked. Those were the things that brought others to me, others like myself-vampires. But although I rejected what I had become and the desires that came with it, I knew I had to accept their help. I have a wedding to stop. The family of my seductive angel intends for her to marry a power-hungry German with unchecked ambitions. That will happen over my dead body, or rather, my ashes. And my plan will turn this crazy world upside down when "Darkness Has Fallen."

The Dark Dark

The Dark Dark
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: FSG Originals
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374282137

The acclaimed novelist Samantha Hunt’s first collection of stories blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge—girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more

The Snow Globe Family

The Snow Globe Family
Author: Jane O'Connor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524738921

Oh, when will it snow again? wonders the little family who lives in the snow globe. They long for a swirling snowstorm—if only someone in the big family would pick up the snow globe and give it a great big shake. Baby would love to. She alone notices the little family. She gazes longingly at their snowy little world, but the snow globe is up way too high for her to reach. Then, when a real snowstorm sends the big children outside sledding in the moonlight, Baby finds herself alone in the parlor. . . . Will the snow globe family at last get a chance to go sledding too? As readers follow the parallel adventures of both families, big and little, they will take special pleasure in the miniature world of the snow globe, where the skating pond is the size of a shiny quarter and a snowman is no bigger than a sugar cube.

Out of Darkness

Out of Darkness
Author: Ashley Hope Pérez
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1467776785

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine."—The New York Times Book Review "Pérez deftly weaves [an] unflinchingly intense narrative....A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism."―starred, Kirkus Reviews "This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory....Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez...gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history."―starred, School Library Journal

The Seas

The Seas
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941040969

National Bestseller "The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you’re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." ?Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction) A Most Anticipated Book of Summer at BuzzFeed, NYLON, and more. Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She’s often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior.The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend. With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls readers into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.

For Your Own Good

For Your Own Good
Author: Samantha Downing
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593100980

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Witty and macabre.”—Caroline Kepnes "Slick and chilling."—Megan Miranda “A perfect summer book.”—NPR USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school—complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson… Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the elite Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn’t be more proud—though no one has seen her in a while. Teddy really can’t be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus that are looking more and more like murder, or with the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential. All he wants is for his colleagues—and the endlessly meddlesome parents—to stay out of his way. If not, well, they’ll get what they deserve. It’s really too bad that sometimes excellence comes at such a high cost.

Mr. Splitfoot

Mr. Splitfoot
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544526724

The strange odysseys of two young women animate this “hypnotic and glowing” American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Paris Review Staff Pick Ruth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able to talk to the dead. Enter Mr. Bell, a con man with mystical interests who knows an opportunity when he sees one. Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth’s face. Decades later, Ruth visits her niece, Cora. But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now doesn’t speak at all. Even so, she leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot. Where is she taking them? And who—or what—is hidden in the woods at the end of the road? “[A] gripping novel…The narratives, which twist together into a shocking dénouement, are marked by ghost stories.”—The New Yorker

Astrid Sees All

Astrid Sees All
Author: Natalie Standiford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982153679

This “vivid portrait of a seedy, edgy, artsy, and seething New York City that will never exist again” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author)—the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s—follows a smart, vulnerable young woman as she takes a deep dive into her dark side. Essential reading for fans of Sweetbitter, Fleabag, and books by Patti Smith. New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village, disappearing into an underworld haunted by artists, It Girls, and lost souls trying to party their pain away. Carmen juggles her junkie-poet boyfriend and a sexy painter while, as Astrid the Star Girl, Phoebe tells fortunes in a nightclub and plots her revenge on Ivan. When the intoxicating brew of sex, drugs, and self-destruction leads Phoebe to betray her friend, Carmen disappears, and Phoebe begins an unstoppable descent into darkness. “A new wave coming-of-age story, Astrid Sees All is a blast from the past” (Stewart O’Nan, author of The Speed Queen) about female friendship, sex, romance, and what it’s like to be a young woman searching for an identity.

Digger

Digger
Author: Clifford Beck
Publisher: Clifford Beck
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2023-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Witnessing a terrible car accident on Portland's Congress St., Ryan becomes inspired to help others. The victim of an abusive father, he rises above his demons and earning a premed degree is accepted into UNE's medical program. All goes as planned, until the ghosts of his past return. And his subsequent instability results in his dismissal from school. But, Ryan has a plan to get back into the good graces of UNE and be readmitted. He will create his own anatomy lab. Retreating to a cabin in the woods near Maine's Lake Sebago, Ryan continues his medical education. But, even the best laid plans don't always work out as intended. And Ryan slips into the spiral of delusion, led by his newfound fascination with death. But, some things are beyond escape. And as Ryan's mind marches down the road of deepening insanity, what he has referred to as 'work' becomes a gruesome act of control. Now, death has reached out a vengeful hand, arriving in a form not only unexpected, but utterly terrifying.