![]() “I had a general idea early on how it would end,” she said, but her characters developed as she wrote. Fairchild’s goal was much less ambitious. That attracted AmazonEncore, a publishing arm of Amazon, which contracted with Fairchild to re-release the book early this year in both Kindle and paperback with a redesigned cover and professional editing.Īmong Kindle eBooks, “In Search of Lucy” is in the top 10 on the fiction/drama best seller list, a remarkable achievement for a first-time author. Completed in just under a year, “In Search of Lucy” was self-published on Amazon Kindle in early 2011 and attracted a number of positive reviews. The book has succeeded beyond her imagination. “Maybe some of the personality and sarcasm, and wanting to help people in need,” she said. A medical emergency that brings them together unmasks years of resentment and anger that is resolved only at the end of the 299-page book.įairchild, 42, is sometimes asked how much of Lucy is Lia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “In Search of Lucy” follows the physical and emotional odyssey of 30-year-old Lucy Lang, whose dysfunctional family includes an alcoholic mother and an ungrateful half-sister, all three living far from each other. Lia Fairchild of Murrieta is one of those rare writers who not only finished her first novel but is actually receiving checks from the publisher. ![]()
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![]() What is special about Blackburn's naturalistic ethics is that it does not debunk the ethical by reducing it to the non-ethical. Many philosophers have wanted a naturalistic ethics a theory that integrates our understanding of human morality with the rest of our understanding of the world we live in. ![]() ![]() ) also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions he draws (. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love Where the Watermelons Grow for so many reasons. Will Della be able to hold her family together as her mother’s symptoms worsen by the day? RELATED: Looking for more tween books? Happily Ever Elephants has you covered! With her Dad distracted by trying to save the family farm and her mom spinning out of control, Della decides she is the only one that can heal her mama and save her family – and she refuses to let others in for help. The book opens with Della’s mother digging seeds out of a watermelon in the middle of the night, talking to people only she can see, and Della at once knows her mother is being tugged back down a dangerous road that once landed her in the hospital for months. This beautiful book tells the story of Della Kelly, a tween girl whose mother suffers from schizophrenia. ![]() How can we help these children feel less alone and more understood? One answer is to give them books in which they can see themselves and their stories.Įnter Where the Watermelons Grow, a powerful new middle grade novel by Cindy Baldwin. And the fact that there are so many adults afflicted means there are children struggling to make sense of a parent’s disease. What do these staggering statistics tell us then? Mental illness is not taboo. Of these, 1 in 100 American adults live with schizophrenia. The National Alliance on Mental Illness notes that 1 out of every 5 American adults experience mental illness in a given year. I have read so few middle grade books touching upon a parent with mental illness, yet it affects an astounding number of adults in the United States. ![]() ![]() BUT if you were looking for a good one, this would be a great story to start with. In other words, I've not read many re-imaginings of stories for fear of being let down either way. I was hoping it would both stick-to and break the traditional Christmas Carol format so I wouldn't experience anything that was too copy 'n pasted or too alien. Obviously, this was a re-envisioning of A Christmas Carol which I have seen film adaptations of time and time again. What other book might you compare The Afterlife of Holly Chase to and why? I watch A Christmas Carol in its various formats every year and this book, I believe, had the same type of annual 'replayability' vibe as any other adaptation. ![]() ![]() The characters were unique and intriguing, I've never read/listened to such a selfish main character such as Holly Chase and I loved every minute of it. The story was light, meaningful, and completely unexpected. Yes! I could easily slide this into my personal yearly Christmas traditions. Would you listen to The Afterlife of Holly Chase again? Why? ![]() ![]() This well-read girl spent her childhood studying warfare and international diplomacy and has the skills to lead both a war party and a country. Despite the Godstone marking her as a once-in-a-century prophesied heroine, Elisa must save the day with her “only lasting power,” her smarts. ![]() The Inviernos, tall, fair-skinned and not-quite human, believe that generations ago, Elisa’s people came to this land and destroyed their magical birthright now they want revenge. ![]() Slowed by the need to protect a helpless child, trained in magic by a failed sorcerer, threatened even by the weather-she’s traveled so far ice falls from the sky!-Elisa knows her first priority is to protect her country from the invading Invierno animagi. All she has left is the Godstone in her navel, and it’s brimming with more power than ever before. Queen Lucero-Elisa né Riqueza de Vega-Elisa to her friends-has lost her throne, her bodyguard/nurse and her beloved ( The Crown of Embers, 2012). A queen can defeat the conde who stole her throne, but it means nothing if her land is destroyed by fire-throwing invaders. ![]() ![]() ![]() At UC, Santa Cruz and on her own for the first time, Reyna faces new struggles and learns to forge ahead toward her dreams despite the alienation and estrangement from her family and her new community. ![]() Against all obstacles, Reyna’s love of reading and writing propelled her to rise above all challenges and ultimately be accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz.Ī Dream Called Home tells the story of Reyna’s pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree and to find her place and a home in her adoptive country. ![]() What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that didn’t honor her heritage. When she was nine years old, Reyna made her own journey across the U.S.–Mexico border in search of a home. ![]() In that book, Reyna recounted the pain and poverty she experienced growing up in Mexico without her parents, who had immigrated to the U.S. An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.Ī Dream Called Home is the follow up to Reyna Grande’s national bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Take every cliche you’ve ever read about English boarding schools - outgrown clothes, family sacrifice to buy required cap and blazer, sadistic prefects, social snobbery, cruel mockery, best friends acquired in an instant, slippering and caning, dreadfully important examination results, petty crime blamed on Our Hero, nobility of character leading to brink of disaster, wise advice from strange old man - and here it is, rendered in a series of declarative sentences stripped of nuance and dimensionality. The first half of the book is pretty much “ Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” as written by Ernest Hemingway on an off day. We then take up Harry’s life from the age of 6, when he escapes the working-class misery of his family life by getting a scholarship to boarding school. She marries Arthur Clifton shortly thereafter, hopes for the best, and Harry shows up eight months later. Harry’s life might or might not have begun when his mother had a lapse of judgment while on a works outing to Weston-super-Mare. You keep watching, but you don’t know why. ![]() Reading this book is like watching TV when you’ve lost the remote. It covers the life and times of Harry Clifton, an English boy who first appears as a zygote and then goes on to (slightly) more interesting things. “Only Time Will Tell” is the opening volume in a new series from best-selling author Jeffrey Archer. ![]() ![]() Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read In Between the Sheets. The seven stories composing In Between the Sheets cast a magical spell around audiences, veiling the mundane in an ethereal mist that. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. One of literary fiction's most compelling voices, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has crafted masterful depictions of the human condition in classics such as Amsterdam and Atonement. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. In Between the Sheets - Ebook written by Ian McEwan. ![]() A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. An in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. ![]() A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. Read 296 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. ![]() A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. ![]() ![]() In his later fiction, exemplified by Dolores Claiborne, King departed from the horror. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary.including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own. Carrie was Kings fourth novel, but it was the first to be published. ![]() Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen-pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. With a stunning new cover look, Kings classic thriller about a young girl with a terrifying gift. ![]() But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them-manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller-now a major motion picture!Īndy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. ![]() ![]() She also provides Cathy with some rags to clean up some of the mess with. ![]() Henrietta is a mute, but introduces herself to the children by writing them a note. Her name is Henrietta Beech and the size of her heart is as mammoth as the rest of her body. Then fate steps in to lend a helping hand and a huge, black lady strides up the aisle and comes to the children’s aid. Some of the passengers are less than sympathetic for the poor, sick child and it looks likely that the miserable, Sunday-hating driver will put them off the bus. After so long shut away from the world some sunlight would probably do them all the world of good, but the surviving twin, Carrie, is unwell and starts to throw up in the bus. The three surviving Dollanganger children, freshly escaped from the confines of their grandmother’s attic, are on a bus and headed for sunny Florida. Petals on the Wind picks up the story exactly where Flowers in the Attic left it and once again the story is written in the first person and told from Cathy’s viewpoint. I also get the impression that the next book in the series, If There Be Thorns, is quite a dark story. I only reviewed it for this site because it is a continuation of the story started in Virginia Andrew’s first novel, Flowers in the Attic. Although I have seen Petals on the Wind categorized as being a ‘gothic horror’, I don’t really consider the book to be a horror novel at all. ![]() |