![]() ![]() Now, drawn together by tragedy, they’re forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn’t know they had. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be-but each has had her share of bad luck. But what can you do about it? Plenty…if you’re part of the Sisterhood. Using their own resources, expertise, and a network of allies around the globe, the members of the Sisterhood work to make every wrong right, especially when the victims are women.Įvery book in the Sisterhood series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other. In fact, the Sisterhood is a group of women from all walks of life bound by a quest for justice. Written by the prolific American author Fern Michaels, the Sisterhood series is about friendship and justice, but not the conventional one. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Enter the world of Jimmy-a tall, red-haired, homeless thirty-something ex-soldier, battered by PTSD-as he camps out on the streets of modern-day Montreal, trying to remember and reclaim his youth. Long-awaited, thrilling new fiction from Kathleen Winter, whose previous novel Annabel was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller, Governor General's Award, Writers' Trust and Orange prizes, was a Globe and Mail "Best Book" and a New York Times "Notable," and was a #1 bestselling Canada Reads selection.įrom one of Canada's most exciting writers comes a gripping, compassionate and stunning novel that overturns and rewrites history. ![]() ![]() It's great fun for any reader who secretly sneaks peeks at People magazine in the checkout line at the grocery store, and wonders, What if. "Alison Sweeney's novel is an entertaining, backstage glimpse at those who organize the lives of the Hollywood elite. But will a steamy make-out session in a restaurant alley with her big-name client cost Sophie her job? And does she really want an escape from her life and her loving, if imperfect, relationship with her investment banker boyfriend? The Star Attraction takes us on a wild ride through one woman's daytime soap come to life. ![]() She even scores her PR firm's most important actor client and every woman's dream-Billy Fox. Sophie is a Hollywood publicist who has a fabulous job, a fabulous boyfriend, and a fabulous life. ![]() "Can you blame a publicist for blurring the lines between what's real and what's a dream, when her client is a gorgeous actor?" -Jodi Picoult ![]() ![]() Figure One: Living Downstream Figure Two: Tom’s River Comparison of the film and the book Moreover, these charts will illustrate the connections between processes and stakeholders. It is possible to construct several diagrams that can identify the main processes and actors discussed by the authors. Overall, the discussion of these questions can be important for understanding the factors leading to changes in environmental law. Nevertheless, Sandra Steingraber and Dan Fagin construct different narratives which can tell how people’s attitudes towards this issue have evolved. Moreover, they evoke sympathy for people who can be affected by these problems. The authors try to raise people’s awareness about the danger of environmental pollution. Overall, these works throw light on the way in which the experiences of separate individuals are affected by the existent environmental practices. ![]() This paper is aimed at discussing the book Tom’s River by Dan Fagin and the movie Living Downstream which is based on Sandra Steingraber’s book. ![]() ![]() ![]() As only great history can, Egan's book captures the very voice of the times: its grit, pathos, and abiding courage. Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived, those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. ![]() ![]() ![]() How can she have a relationship with her sister based on lies and secrets? A crisis will force her mother to be the adult she needs to be and allow Hope and Grace the chance to be children together. They become friends, but Hope doesn’t know how to tell Grace the truth. There she finally meets Grace, who is all the things Hope wishes she could be. Hope’s hunt for her sister takes her and her mother to the tiny community of Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. Hope believes that finding Grace is the only way she can help her mother deal with her guilt. On her eleventh birthday, Hope is shocked to learn that Grace is a real person-her twin sister, who contracted polio and was adopted when they were toddlers. Growing up in the 1950s with a single mother and a mysteriously absent father, the letters she writes to her imaginary friend, Grace, help her cope with the difficult times in her life: her mother’s depression, their money worries, struggles to make friends at school and her grandmother’s death. Ten-year-old Hope is a bit of a loner with a wonderful imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keena Roberts's WILD LIFE, a fish-out-of-water memoir, pitched as Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls, about a young girl who comes of age spending half of each year in a primitive "baboon camp" in Botswana with her primatologist parents, the other half dropped into a ritzy private school in a Philadelphia suburb learning a very different kind of social hierarchy, to Millicent Bennett at Grand Central, by Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management (World). ![]() ![]() Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs Full Described by more than one person as a real life, Mean Girls or where the Crawdads Sing, Keena Roberts Wild Life chronicles her life growing up half the. ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, their adventure begins with the magnificent explorations they encounter during their travels.Ingo is set in Cornwall,England, it appears as though the world of Ingo is global however in this book Ingo is only mentioned being in Cornwall. The two people they meet are Faro and Elvira, Faro of whom took Sapphire on a travel underneath the world of Ingo. There they met the Mer, a group of people living underneath the sea in the world of Ingo. Ingo Chronicles: Ingo : Stunning reissue, in beautiful new cover-look, of this magical and award-winning novel - the first of the spellbinding Ingo. It was published by HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks and has a total of 432 pages in the book. This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of 9.25. This particular edition is in a Paperback format. ![]() However many girls render Sapphire's father as someone who deserted them for another life and another woman.Īs Sapphire and Conor, her brother decipher the reasons behind their father's disappearance, they soon encounter a world underneath the world, the sea, by the name of Ingo. Book Summary: The title of this book is The Crossing of Ingo (The Ingo Chronicles) and it was written by Dunmore, Helen. Sapphire's mum, Jennie Trewhella is worried that her husband, Mathew may never return back and is pronounced by many others as dead. This is tarnished when her father, Mathew Trewhella suddenly disappears on a calm, flat night at sea. She shares her experiences at the start of the book to the end of the tetralogy. Ingo is also the place of where the story leads to become reality. ![]() Ingo is the first book in the Ingo Chronicles. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the Young Adult side, Dangerous Girls does a brilliant job capturing the feelings of awkwardness and isolation, toxic friendships, all consuming first love, and teenage debauchery. This made me think of something Gillian Flynn would write if she wanted to do a YA novel. And that is a shame, because this is one of those books that I completely devoured. I read on the author's blog that it only managed to sell around 450 copies in hardback. I feel like this book has seriously flown under the radar. ![]() a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that is more than it seems." - Kirkus Reviewsįor fans of Gone Girl, We Were Liarsand Lying About Last Summer. "A compulsively readable, hair-raising snapshot of the 21st century legal spectacle. "A remarkable thriller that truly needs more recognition" - The Guardian "Told with the same "who can I trust?" tone of The Girl On the Train, Dangerous Girlsis the perfect mystery" . "The best teen thriller I've ever read" - Wondrous Reads And the truth is more shocking than you could ever imagine. To the rest of the world, Anna isn't just guilty, but dangerous. As she awaits the judge's decree, it becomes clear that everyone is questioning her innocence. Soon Anna finds herself trapped in a foreign country, fighting for her freedom. But paradise soon turns into a living nightmare when Elise is brutally murdered. Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?Īnna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise and a group of close friends set off on a debaucherous Spring Break trip to Aruba. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title of the book is also the title of a fictive film within the text. ![]() The daunting materiality of the text reflects the content of the novel perfectly. ![]() It requires three bookmarks in order to keep up with the plot and the timeline, but for the reader willing to engage it in this way, it is quite rewarding. ![]() Clocking in at 1079 pages with 388 endnotes, some of which contained irrelevant or even fake information and others of which contained crucial plot exposition, the novel was intimidating to the average reader. He wanted his readers to engage with the text on an emotional level-to, in his words, “feel less alone.” That goal was a tall order considering the nature of the text itself. Whereas classic postmodernism emphasized ironic distance and playful language in order to undercut unified meanings, Wallace employed those same techniques toward a more seemingly genuine end. However, Wallace did not necessarily think of himself as a postmodern author, but rather as an author using the tools of postmodernism to undermine this intellectual trend's usual message. Upon publication, the sprawling novel was almost immediately hailed as a postmodern masterpiece. David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, published in 1996, was written over a period of several years beginning in the late 1980s. ![]() |