Author: Harriet Cummings
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409169062
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
It's 1984, and summer is scorching the ordinary village of Heathcote. What's more, a mysterious figure is slipping into homes through back doors and open windows. Dubbed 'the Fox', he knows everything about everyone - leaving curious objects in their homes, or taking things from them. When beloved Anna goes missing, the whole community believes the Fox is responsible. For the worried residents, finding Anna will be difficult - but stopping the Fox from exposing their darkest secrets might just be impossible...
We All Begin As Strangers
Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renée Carlino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do
Author: Melinda Blau
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393338452
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Self-Help.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393338452
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Self-Help.
Strangers From The Sky
Author: Margaret Wander Bonanno
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743455622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The planets Earth and Vulcan experience a mysterious first contact in this fascinating Star Trek novel featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Years before the formal first contact between Earth and another planet’s inhabitants, a Vulcan space vessel crash landed in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise. Discover the astonishing truth about this heretofore unknown first contact and the nightmares that plague Admiral James T. Kirk. Dreams of his dead comrades, of his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743455622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The planets Earth and Vulcan experience a mysterious first contact in this fascinating Star Trek novel featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Years before the formal first contact between Earth and another planet’s inhabitants, a Vulcan space vessel crash landed in the South Pacific, forcing humanity to decide whether to offer the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. Complicating matters is a second visitation: a group of people from two hundred years in the future, who serve on a starship called Enterprise. Discover the astonishing truth about this heretofore unknown first contact and the nightmares that plague Admiral James T. Kirk. Dreams of his dead comrades, of his earliest days aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, and of a forgotten past in which he somehow changed the course of history and destroyed the Federation before it began.
Strangers
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book Review A writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare. A dark memory is calling out to them. And soon they will be drawn together, deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, where the terrifying truth awaits...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book Review A writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the same nightmare. A dark memory is calling out to them. And soon they will be drawn together, deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, where the terrifying truth awaits...
Goodbye Stranger
Author: Rebecca Stead
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448188075
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Bridge has always been a bit of an oddball, but since she recovered from a serious accident, she's found fitting in with her friends increasingly hard. Tab and Em are getting cooler and better and they don't get why she insists on wearing novelty cat ears every day. Bridge just thinks they look good. It's getting harder to keep their promise of no fights, especially when they start keeping secrets from each other. Sherm wants to get to know Bridge better. But he’s hiding the anger he feels at his grandfather for walking out. And then there is another girl, who is struggling with an altogether more serious set of friendship troubles... Told from interlinked points of view, this is a bittersweet story about the trials of friendship and growing up.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448188075
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Bridge has always been a bit of an oddball, but since she recovered from a serious accident, she's found fitting in with her friends increasingly hard. Tab and Em are getting cooler and better and they don't get why she insists on wearing novelty cat ears every day. Bridge just thinks they look good. It's getting harder to keep their promise of no fights, especially when they start keeping secrets from each other. Sherm wants to get to know Bridge better. But he’s hiding the anger he feels at his grandfather for walking out. And then there is another girl, who is struggling with an altogether more serious set of friendship troubles... Told from interlinked points of view, this is a bittersweet story about the trials of friendship and growing up.
Talking to Strangers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316535621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316535621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Connections...Volume 1
Author: Oliver Sudden
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453556710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Bick Sims was alone that day, on the sidewalk by the hospital. Sheena had simply left him standing there, holding her baby girl...got into a cab where her boyfriend was waiting, and drove away. Bick wondered about that as he looked at the newborn. She was beautiful and love entered in. He was so moved; he took her home to his bachelor’s pad. Months later, after some interesting time passes by, he begins to understand that he has developed new gifts and slowly comes to understand. Throughout most of the book Bick realizes he has been equipped to raise the little one; the mystery however, remains with only hints of why. But with the help of his friends and falling in love, he hangs in there and molds a new life with a baby girl, who becomes the love of his life. Along with action sequences and suspense, the story moves along at a satisfying pace and weaves in plenty of humor. There are other characters constantly moving into the story, sub plots that promise of exciting times yet to come, when new and interesting people begin to draw closer while new relationships blossom. At the heart of it all, is a man and his little girl.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453556710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Bick Sims was alone that day, on the sidewalk by the hospital. Sheena had simply left him standing there, holding her baby girl...got into a cab where her boyfriend was waiting, and drove away. Bick wondered about that as he looked at the newborn. She was beautiful and love entered in. He was so moved; he took her home to his bachelor’s pad. Months later, after some interesting time passes by, he begins to understand that he has developed new gifts and slowly comes to understand. Throughout most of the book Bick realizes he has been equipped to raise the little one; the mystery however, remains with only hints of why. But with the help of his friends and falling in love, he hangs in there and molds a new life with a baby girl, who becomes the love of his life. Along with action sequences and suspense, the story moves along at a satisfying pace and weaves in plenty of humor. There are other characters constantly moving into the story, sub plots that promise of exciting times yet to come, when new and interesting people begin to draw closer while new relationships blossom. At the heart of it all, is a man and his little girl.
The Little Black Songbook: Tom Waits
Author: Wise Publications
Publisher: Wise Publications
ISBN: 0857129228
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the lyrics and chords to a huge collection of songs from the legendary Tom Waits! This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to sit and muse with the beauty and poetry of this seminal artist. This little book includes: - (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night - Alice - Black Wings - Chocolate Jesus - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Cold Cold Ground - Dirt In The Ground - Fannin Street - Fumblin' With The Blues - Hang On St. Christopher - I Never Talk To Strangers - Invitation To The Blues - Just The Right Bullets - Jersey Girl - Long Way Home - Lucinda - Make It Rain - Ol' 55 - Road To Peace - Sins Of My Father - Soldier's Things - The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Trampled Rose - Warm Beer And Cold Women more!
Publisher: Wise Publications
ISBN: 0857129228
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the lyrics and chords to a huge collection of songs from the legendary Tom Waits! This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to sit and muse with the beauty and poetry of this seminal artist. This little book includes: - (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night - Alice - Black Wings - Chocolate Jesus - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Cold Cold Ground - Dirt In The Ground - Fannin Street - Fumblin' With The Blues - Hang On St. Christopher - I Never Talk To Strangers - Invitation To The Blues - Just The Right Bullets - Jersey Girl - Long Way Home - Lucinda - Make It Rain - Ol' 55 - Road To Peace - Sins Of My Father - Soldier's Things - The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Trampled Rose - Warm Beer And Cold Women more!
Until the Last Page
Author: Chantal Gadoury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1958607312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Discover what happens when a young woman unexpectedly finds herself inside a book of fairytales where she is charged with breaking a frog prince's curse and searching for a way home. Every good fairytale begins with "Once Upon a Time," or they're supposed to at least. But for twenty-five year old Josephine Hart, her "Once Upon a Time" began with her literally crash landing inside a book of fairy tales and nearly crushing a frog—who is actually a prince. An annoying, snarky frog prince named Aneurin, seeking the kiss of true love to break his curse. He vows that if Jo agrees to help him find his princess, he will get her home. With every turn of the page, their adventure leads them deeper into fairytales familiar to Jo. Through their journey, they discover that despite their initial clashing, they're both exactly what each other needs. It is only when they encounter a devious man with a talent for spinning straw into gold that they realize just how quickly their plot can take an unexpected twist.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1958607312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Discover what happens when a young woman unexpectedly finds herself inside a book of fairytales where she is charged with breaking a frog prince's curse and searching for a way home. Every good fairytale begins with "Once Upon a Time," or they're supposed to at least. But for twenty-five year old Josephine Hart, her "Once Upon a Time" began with her literally crash landing inside a book of fairy tales and nearly crushing a frog—who is actually a prince. An annoying, snarky frog prince named Aneurin, seeking the kiss of true love to break his curse. He vows that if Jo agrees to help him find his princess, he will get her home. With every turn of the page, their adventure leads them deeper into fairytales familiar to Jo. Through their journey, they discover that despite their initial clashing, they're both exactly what each other needs. It is only when they encounter a devious man with a talent for spinning straw into gold that they realize just how quickly their plot can take an unexpected twist.