Author: Ciaran Carson Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780865475311 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 220
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Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.
Author: Lynne Zarek Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479745952 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 291
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After growing up in a small town in Missouri, Lynsey decided to venture west to try to unravel an enigma that she has known about since she was five. After settling to Idaho, Lynsey saw herself struggling with her sexuality and with the religious beliefs that she grew up with. Coupled by abusive relationships, the unimaginable happened on a hot August night in 1990. A deep knife wound to the back placed Lynsey on the witness stand with an unusual case for a jury to deliberate in Boise. A trial that not only was a first for Idaho, but was also historic in nature nationwide.
Author: Kristin Hannah Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1429927844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 532
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From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
Author: Cathy Cole Publisher: Inglenook Press ISBN: 1916043917 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 360
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Where There’s Smoke is a dark psychological thriller with a kick-ass heroine and a killer you won’t see coming. Firefighter Jo Woods’ life stopped the night her husband and daughter died. Discovering they were murdered just kick-started it again. Jo Woods is struggling to hold on to her job and her sanity. Banished to the backwater town of Mourne Lough she vows to stop making waves, admit her family’s death was an accident and the guilt she feels is just plain old survivor guilt. Then she finds the roses and everything changes. The killer hasn’t stopped. He’s here. In the same town. Stalking her. And once again no one believes her. After seven years of avoiding family and friends, Jo is alone and friendless in a strange town. In order to survive and, more importantly, bring the killer to justice, she must overcome her fears and embrace her new life. And she must do it quickly, because the killer has his sights set on her and he’s willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. Enter Ian “Coop” Cooper, who sets Jo's pulse fluttering and her antenna into overdrive. Does she dare trust him? One thing Jo is clear about: This killer destroyed her past once before. No way is she going to let him destroy her future. No matter what it takes! What readers are saying about WHERE THERE’S SMOKE: “This intricate ‘whodunit’ mystery is rich with vivid scenery descriptions, gorgeous dialogue, multifaceted characters, and superb mastery in detailing the world of firefighting.” Wiggins “Fans of kick-ass heroines, suspense and mystery will want to check out Where There's Smoke. Highly recommend.” Ttly Addicted 2 Reading “If you like a suspenseful crime thriller, with a new twist waiting after each plot point, pick up Where There's Smoke.” CathleenT. "Cole unfolds the layers of the story with deft strokes, taking us into the heart of raging fires and the mind of a psychopath with razor-sharp focus. "Jennifer L " I took this book on holiday with me thinking I'd pick it up now and then for a short read. Once I started I couldn't put it down. Well researched and the story has an easy flow. The characters are strong, charismatic and memorable and the dialogue was comfortingly familiar with its Irish nuances. An easy 5 stars. " Mary M "Where There's Smoke was a fantastic read. A great crime thriller that kept me guessing right to the very end! An exciting book that I couldn't put down. Well worth a read. Can't wait to read her next book. "Gabriel B "Gripping story, I was hooked from the beginning. So engrossed reading it on way to work that I missed my stop!! Fast moving plot leading to satisfying conclusion. Highly recommended. "KA.
Author: Molly Prentiss Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501121065 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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“An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale…As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.” —Booklist (starred review) A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s. Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason—a small town beauty and Raul’s muse—and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost. As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
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