Beach Read

Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593336127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION! "Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling."--Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

The Delilah Duffy Mystery Series Boxset

Author: Jessica Sherry
Publisher: Jessica Sherry
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1244

Book Description
Running a successful bookstore in a small seaside town can be murder! Meet Delilah Duffy. A gutsy but error-prone book nerd starting over as manager of Beach Read Books on the island she loved as a child and hoping to disappear into the anonymous folds of a small tourist town. But home to her flighty Duffy relatives and first love and heartbreak, Sam Teague, her second chance is no vacation. When a murder happens the night before her grand opening, Delilah must unravel the mystery to save herself and her business, propelling her into an unexpected role as an amateur sleuth. Follow Delilah’s puzzling cases in this five-book series as she battles murderers, arsonists, thieves, and her high anxiety in her ultimate quest for love, family, and a quiet beach life. Get the small-town mystery and romance series that readers describe as “funny,” “thrilling,” and “suspenseful.”

Journal

Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1090

Book Description

Lexicon

Author: Max Barry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101604905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King “Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Stick and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words. They'll live to regret it. They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember. Now they're after him and he doesn't know why. There's a word, they say. A word that kills. And they want it back . . .

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65)

Author: United States. Surgeon-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1220

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The Debates, Resolutions, and Other Proceedings, of the Convention of Delegates, Assembled at Portland on the 11th, and Continued Until the 29th Day of October, 1819, for the Purpose of Forming a Constitution for the State of Maine

Author: Maine. Constitutional Convention
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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The Nautical Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 922

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Antiquarian Researches

Author: Epaphras Hoyt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines

Author: Andrea McDonnell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745684556
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture’s celebrity mania. After a decade of diets and dates, breakups and baby bumps, celebrity gossip magazines continue to sell millions of issues each week. Why are readers, especially young women, so attracted to these magazines? What pleasures do they offer us? And why do we read them, even when we disagree with the images of femininity that they splash across their hot-pink covers? Andrea McDonnell answers these questions with the help of interviews from editors and readers, and her own textual and visual analysis. McDonnell’s perspective is multifaceted; she examines the notorious narratives of celebrity gossip magazines as well as the genre’s core features, such as the "Just Like Us" photo montage and the "Who Wore It Best?" poll. McDonnell shows that, despite their trivial reputation, celebrity gossip magazines serve as an important site of engagement for their readers, who use these texts to generate conversation, manage relationships, and consider their own ideas and values.