Warped Obsession

Warped Obsession
Author: Roxy Sinclaire
Publisher: Roxy Sinclaire
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1795297514

I wasn't expecting Adrien at the door. I was finally feeling safe after all that mess. What secrets was he hiding In any case, I didn't know how obsessed he was with me. I thought I was safe. I had no idea how wrong I was... Praise for Roxy Sinclaire's Warped Obsession "Roxy Sinclaire brings the characters to life, keeping you wanting to read on to see what happens!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Nail bitingly good" - Amy, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Lots of excitement and action" - Diane, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A well written and very entertaining story." - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A series you do not want to miss" - Heidi, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Very intriguing!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A dangerous suspense filled story" - Charleann, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Lots of suspense, action, drama, and obsession" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Dark, intense, suspenseful and emotional, this book and series will have you on edge and tense as you wait for that next shoe drop moment" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A five-star read that will astound you" - Sara, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "I’m just getting deeper and deeper!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "There's a bit for everyone with suspense, secrets, kidnapping and tons of action that keeps you reading to the last page." - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "I was totally captivated throughout this addictive page turner" - Wendy, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Roxy Sinclaire is definitely raising the bar with this Obsession series!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A powerful punch of edge of your seat intensity" - Judi, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Entangled in what had become a nightmare" - Dora, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Speechlees! A fantastic read that does not hold back" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★

Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir

Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir
Author: Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2015-01-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786482818

Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in the pulps and became the single most adapted writer for films of the noir period. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of a Woolrich story is Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Even today, his work is still onscreen; Michael Cristofer's Original Sin (2001) is based on one of his tales. This book offers a detailed analysis of many of Woolrich's novels and short stories; examines films adapted from these works; and shows how Woolrich's techniques and themes influenced the noir genre. Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also considered because of their relevance to Woolrich's plots, themes and characters. The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from Woolrich's noir classics.

The Journey

The Journey
Author: J K Rodriquez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499096666

Based on true events, the Journey crosses three decades, part one covering a time span of 17 years. After the sudden disappearance of her sister, Jacqueline determines in her heart to find her. She draws out a piece of paper from inside her bag and allows her pen to dance across the page making music with every stroke, but this was so not the sound of music as we know it ‘Dear Dad ...’ she begins, and after many words she ends with the full weight of the truth... ‘I love you, but I want to be with my sister.’ Join her as she recalls true experiences of her journey. This is her story.

I'm New Here

I'm New Here
Author: Ian Russell-Hsieh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2024-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1398522899

Set in the neon heat of a Taipei summer, Ian Russell-Hsieh’s I’M NEW HERE explores themes of split racial identity, relationships across cultural lines, self-sabotage, and self-determination, all in prose that is whittled to the bone, that is wry, direct and undeniably fresh. Told by a character in existential freefall, this novel propels you through its pages with a propulsive flair and a confidence that are truly exciting. Fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Taiwanese-British photographer Sean flies to Taipei to find oblivion. But instead of escape in his parents’ homeland, all he finds is alienation. He spends his first days sleeping feverishly in an anonymous hotel bedroom and his nights chugging cheap coffee and munching on crappy doughnuts at a strip-lit doughnut bar. A chance encounter with a mysterious older man draws him into a friendship whose terms of engagement are quickly blurred, and into a world whose underpinnings seem to be shaking loose. At the same time, Sean embarks on an affair with a local girl, all the while dreaming fretfully of his ex. For every step towards connection, it seems there is a loosening elsewhere in Sean’s sense of self, as the demands of the past and the present begin to take their toll. As Sean’s reality comes ever more unstuck, it’s clear that something’s got to give.

JULIA

JULIA
Author: Shannon Waverly
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459263979

CIRCLE of FRIENDS May the circle be unbroken… They'd been friends growing up on the small East Coast island of Harmony—Julia, Lauren and Cathryn, Amber and the others. Now one of them is dead, and Julia Lewis goes home for the first time in seven years. Julia's grief makes this a bittersweet experience. But coming home is also a chance to revive old memories and reconnect with her circle of old friends. And to fall—hard—for a Boston journalist named Ben Grant who now owns the island's weekly paper. Still, despite Julia's feelings for Ben, she can't accept his accusations about Amber's death—that is was murder, not suicide, and that Julia's friend, chief of police Charlie Slocum, ran a sloppy investigation. With his charming smile and awkward questions, Ben's causing all kinds of complications in Harmony's little world. And in Julia's…

Heiresses

Heiresses
Author: Laura Thompson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1250202744

New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife’s inheritance was the property of her husband, making her vulnerable to kidnap, forced marriages, even confinement in an asylum. And in modern times, heiresses fell victim to fortune-hunters who squandered their millions. Heiresses tells the stories of these million dollar babies: Mary Davies, who inherited London’s most valuable real estate, and was bartered from the age of twelve; Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress”, forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress who married seven times and died almost penniless; and Patty Hearst, heiress to a newspaper fortune who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of independence and achievement: Angela Burdett-Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who lived off her mother's fortune and became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; and Daisy Fellowes, elegant linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor. Heiresses is about the lives of the rich, who—as F. Scott Fitzgerald said—are ‘different’. But it is also a bigger story about how all women fought their way to equality, and sometimes even found autonomy and fulfillment.

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
Author: Frank Bruni
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145553269X

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, Frank Bruni explains why this mindset is wrong, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes. Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are students' efforts in and out of the classroom, not the name on their diploma. Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that--and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.

On Liturgical Theology

On Liturgical Theology
Author: Aidan Kavanagh
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814660274

Nearly everything that theologians write on liturgy, Father Kavanagh notes, is often called liturgical theology, although on closer examination such works appear to be either dogmatic theologies about the liturgy or systematic theologies making use of liturgical data. None truly reflects how liturgy shapes theology or is theology or even relates to theology. This work is Father Kavanagh's effort to substantiate the existence of a truly liturgical theology. It will raise almost as many questions as it answers, but it will also further insight into theology and liturgy as it assays their relationship.

The Girls In The Woods (The Annie Graham crime series, Book 5)

The Girls In The Woods (The Annie Graham crime series, Book 5)
Author: Helen Phifer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1474047432

‘Thriller lovers will be riveted by this novel. Beautifully written, good character description and that twist at the end... you’re gonna love it!’ – SerialReader on Goodreads Don’t go into the woods. Because you’re in for a big surprise...

The Thieves of Heaven

The Thieves of Heaven
Author: Richard Doetsch
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2006-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440336023

The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth. An explosive ancient secret. A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican. In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the most important treasure in the Vatican museum: two antique keys–one gold, one silver–that protect the secret of salvation…. But a surprise awaits Michael St. Pierre deep inside the Vatican, an ancient secret so explosive, it sends him running for his life—from the streets of Rome to a small stone church in Israel—with two stolen keys and a terrible realization: the consequences of his desperate, brazen act are far greater than he could ever have imagined. For the treasure he has uncovered—the gleaming prize buried within the most clandestine structure on earth—is about to bring him face-to-face with an enemy more shocking, frightening, and insidious than anyone can guess....