Dead Girl Walking

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 080219141X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year: From Berlin to Barcelona, sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, and murder make for “tantalizing . . . fantastic thriller fare” (Booklist). Celebrated, beautiful, and talented, rock star Heike Gunn had everything . . . right up until she vanished. Meanwhile, Scottish journalist Jack Parlabane just watched his career and marriage vanish, along with his reputation, after landing himself on the wrong end of a scandal. But when he gets a call for help from Heike’s manager, Parlabane sees a shot at redemption. As Parlabane enters the backstage world of Heike’s band, he discovers each member has plenty to hide. Paranoia, jealousy, guilt, and obsession are getting the best of them. Just like they got to Heike. But as he pursues the superstar’s reckless past—from Milan to the Scottish islands—Parlabane is forced to confront his own dark history. As secrets start colliding, he’d better find Heike before it’s too late for both of them. Christopher Brookmyre’s prize-winning series continues with a “country-hopping plot [that] looks back to Graham Greene and John Buchan, but . . . [it’s] bang up-to-date” (The Sunday Times). “Fascinating . . . darkly humorous yet disturbing.” —Publishers Weekly “Good right to the final page.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Dead Girl Walking

Author: Chris Brookmyre
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 1408705605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
The sixth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike. Pursued by those who would punish him for past crimes, Parlabane enters the world of Heike's band, Savage Earth Heart, a group at breaking point. Each of its members seems to be hiding something, not least its newest recruit Monica Halcrow, whose possible relationship with Heike has become a public obsession. Monica's own story, however, reveals a far darker truth. Fixated on Heike from day one, she has been engulfed by paranoia, jealousy and fear, as she discovers the hidden price of fame. From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in on him...

Dead Girl Walking

Author: Linda Joy Singleton
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738722081
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
High-school senior Amber Borden wants to make a name for herself as the talent agent for the adolescent A-list. But after a near-death experience, there’s a cosmic accident and Amber returns to someone else’s body—the most popular girl in school who just tried to commit suicide. Hmm, maybe being queen bee isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Dead Woman Walking

Author: Anette Ballinger
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
This critical analysis of the lives, crimes, trials and punishments of the 15 women who were executed in England and Wales during the 20th century provides biographical details combined with academic analysis.

I Would Find a Girl Walking

Author: Diana Montane
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101477660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
An unflinching portrait of Gerald Eugene Stano, a man who fancied himself one of the greatest lady-killers of them all. In the shadows of darkness, a chilling tale unfolds. Through meticulous research and unprecedented access, Diana Montane delves deep into the mind of notorious serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano, a self-proclaimed master of his gruesome trade, leaving no stone unturned. From interviews with the lead investigator to heart-wrenching accounts from the victims' families, this haunting biography offers an unflinching portrait of a man consumed by his darkest desires. Experience the chilling reality of Stano's crimes, his twisted motivations, and the relentless pursuit of justice. For fans of true crime seeking a captivating and bone-chilling read, I Would Find a Girl Walking is a must-have addition to your collection.

Art is a Waste of Time

Author: Zarina Macha
Publisher: Zarina Macha
ISBN: 1916132650
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
Art is a Waste of Time is Zarina Macha’s debut poetry collection, first published in 2018. Macha has written extensively in styles of satire, confessionalism and free verse. This body of work contains poems Macha wrote between the years 2013 and 2018, capturing a teenage girl's growth into a young woman. A small segment of poems she wrote as a child in the year 2007 is included at the back of the book. Her debut fictional novel Every Last Psycho: A Collection of Two Novellas was released in 2018. Her second fiction novel, Anne, was released in 2019.

Author: Caroline Polk Palmer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595410170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
A young southern girl comes to live in the city to take advantage of all it has to offer and discovers the one man she was supposed to depend on begins to abuse her and create a rift between mother and daughter. Not only does she learn a hard but valuable lesson she continues to learn other hard lessons about the streets which can make most people have no emotions however, she continued to hold on to that part of herself that would not allow 16 years of streetlife to change her heart which was all she could hold onto. Dead Girl Walking is a story about living in constant paranoia and triumphantly gain peace back in your life through divine intervention.

A Long Walk

Author: Traverse Davies
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365195562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
When the dead rise a divorced father has to make his way through the zombie apocalypse to reach his daughter. He sets out with his loyal dog and a fast car. When the roads full of the undead prove to be impassable, the pair are forced to make their way on foot through hundreds of miles and thousands of the living dead. The backroads of Nova Scotia give him new companions including a meth head and a teenage girl with a chip on her shoulder. As they travel together they will face obstacles even more dangerous than the zombies.

From Africa

Author: Adele King
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803227583
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, C–te d?Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar, comes the polyphony of newøvoices aired in this volume. The collection brings together fourteen important contemporary authors with roots in sub-Saharan French Africa and Madagascar, a new generation now living in France or the United States, and introduces their remarkable work to readers of English. These writers? stories, unlike earlier African literature, seldom resemble traditional folk tales. Instead they are concerned with the postindependence world and reveal in their rich and complex depths the influence of modern European and American short-story traditions as well as the enduring reach of African myths and legends. This gathering of gifted writers tenders modern versions of myths; nostalgia for childhood in Africa; relations between the sexes in contemporary Africa; continuing political problems; and the life of the African diaspora in France?all related in new and familiar ways, in innovative and traditional forms. Their work, most of it little known outside France and their native African countries, revises our understanding of the lingering effects of colonization even as it celebrates the complexity, exuberance, and tenacity of African culture.

The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010

Author: Peter Dendle
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.