"At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet's slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for - Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they are each other's world. Then, on a sweltering, terrible August night in 1928, an explosion rocks Lamb's Dance Hall in Possum Flats, Missouri, engulfing it...

When a shiny new convertible arrives for her twenty-first birthday, Hattie Beckett has had enough of her absent dad trying to buy a place in her life. It's time for him to face her--or get out of her life forever.She tosses some clothes in a bag, looks up her father's last known address, and sets her GPS for Silver Stand, California.When she arrives at a beach-bum paradise that's totally foreign to her New England upbringing and finds nothing but...

In the small town of Bellwether, where prejudice and judgment prevail, five harrowing life paths collide and a saga of survival, defiance, and unyielding human spirit unfolds.Winner of the Amity Literary Prize, 2023 Broughman has created an American epic, a grand story that stretches across land and water, time and race, gender and religion. ... as characters go off to war, flee to cities, and escape the terrors of slavery, we encounter the awesome...

Three New York City roommates struggle to deal with personal challenges, with Sadie and her brother confronting their shared traumatic past, Darcy trying not to slip into her old immature ways, and Rosanna wanting to establish self-confidence.

Une île en Méditerranée, trait d'union entre terre et ciel, lieu de l'exil et de tous les possibles. Certains natifs de génération en génération, perpétuent les traditions, les autres choisissent la liberté. Parallèlement, une autre île lointaine, parmi des milliers en jeux de miroirs éclatés, révèle la fragilité de l'existence. Vanina quelques décennies plus tt décidera de fuir l'héritage mortifère, tandis que Kimiko aujourd'hui...

The complete Sovereign Era story of Nate Charters! 162,000 words, including Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era Revised and Expanded Edition and Pilgrimage -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era.About The Books In This Omnibus CollectionBrave Men RunApril 18, 1985 – A startling revelation shocks a world already wound tight by the desperate tensions of the Cold War: super-humans exist... and they demand autonomy.Until that day, high school sophomore...

A touching debut novel chronicling the life a young Palestinian American woman between two cultures as she comes of age and as she settles into marriage. Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and White descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, Isra is encouraged...

Dralen never could leave well enough alone.He knows better than to go near the canyons. That's where the Logans live, wild men of the hills said to devour lone travelers in frenzied midnight feasts.But the mysterious cloaked figure he saw down by the canyons had to be there for a reason. And he can't get his Urpa's poem out of his head: something about "They of the West" and "Treasures buried in memory's mine."Folks used to mine for topaz in the canyons,...

Oscar, après un affrontement avec la bande de Virgile, se retrouve grièvement blessé et abandonné sur les pentes du Semnoz, non loin de la Basilique de la Visitation à Annecy. Cette confrontation laisse en lui des séquelles tant physiques que psychologiques, le plongeant dans une lutte intérieure contre ses propres démons, ses incertitudes et ses peurs. Malgré ces épreuves, sa passion pour la montagne et l'escalade devient un refuge, lui...

You must walk the darkness to find the light. Half-faerie Caoine has no control over the banshee lament she sings each night, predicting the death of others. A senior in a brand new high school, she expects the same response she's received at every other school: judgment from fellow students over her unusual eyes and unnaturally white skin and hair. However, when Caoine arrives at West Lincoln High, for the first time in her life she finds friends....