Search Results


Showing 1 - 20 of 117 query time: 0.04s
Book cover for "A madness of sunshine".
Rate this title:
Star rating for A madness of sunshine
Publisher:
Berkley
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Anahera Rawiri left New Zealand at twenty-one, fleeing small-town poverty and the ghosts of her childhood with no plans to look back. But eight years later, she returns, seeking familiarity as respite from the shattered remains of her new life. And despite the changes brought on by a bump in tourism--the shiny new welcome sign at the town line and a decidedly less shiny new police presence--Golden Cove appears much as it ever was: a small settlement...
Book cover for "Hurry down sunshine".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Hurry down sunshine
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
"This international bestseller is an extraordinary family story and an exceptionally powerful memoir about coping with bipolar disorder, now with a new afterword for the ten-year anniversary edition. Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the...
Book cover for "Sunshine and Madness".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Sunshine and Madness
Publisher:
Green Spark Publishing
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
I'M NOT READY TO FALL IN LOVE BUT LUCAS DOESN'T GIVE ME A CHOICE.JuliaI literally ran into the man at a bar. He threw his drink on me and was completely unapologetic about it. That obnoxious, yet incredibly hot rock star awoke something in me. It terrifies me. But I stand firm in my motto; you can't lose something you never had. The only problem is the universe keeps bringing us together.LucasThe woman came crashing into my life, fire in those gorgeous...
Book cover for "The house of the seven gables".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The house of the seven gables
Lexile measure:
1320L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its...
Book cover for "The King in Yellow".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The King in Yellow
Language:
English
Description:
Ten twisted tales that have haunted generations of readers and writers from H. P. Lovecraft to the creators of the hit TV series True Detective Nightmare imagery courses through these stories like blood through the veins. In "The Repairer of Reputations," a Lethal Chamber stands at the edge of Washington Square Park, open to all who can no longer bear the sorrows of life. A Parisian sculptor discovers a liquid solution that can turn any living thing-a...
Book cover for "Hurry down sunshine".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Hurry down sunshine
Language:
English
Description:
Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months.
Book cover for "Wuthering Heights".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Wuthering Heights
Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
Book cover for "Sons of Anarchy".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Sons of Anarchy
Publisher:
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
Description:
Members of a California biker gang try to balance family life with their gun-running business.
Book cover for "A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong".
Rate this title:
Star rating for A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong
Publisher:
Valiant Entertainment
Language:
English
Description:
GET SMASHED...OR BE SMASHED! Meet Armstrong: Since the ancient city of Ur, this immortal adventurer has spent the last 7,000 years drinking and carousing his way through history alongside some of the greatest merrymakers the world has ever known. Meet Archer: A sheltered teenage martial arts master and expert marksman that was raised for a single purpose - to kill the devil incarnate. Little did he know that this undying evil was actually Armstrong...
Book cover for "The Wangs vs. the world".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The Wangs vs. the world
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go...
Book cover for "My family and other animals".
Rate this title:
Star rating for My family and other animals
Lexile measure:
1240L
Language:
English
Description:
My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is...
Book cover for "Coconut cowboy".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Coconut cowboy
Author:
Series:
Serge Storms volume 19
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Channeling his inner Easy Rider, Serge Storms saddles up for his most epic, lethal, and hilarious road trip ever as he revvs off to find the lost American Dream . . . starting in the Florida Panhandle. Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, encyclopedic Floridaphile, lovable serial killer, and movie buff extraordinaire Serge A. Storms devises his wildest plan yet: finish the journey begun by his freewheeling heroes, Captain America and...
Book cover for "Sunshine State".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Sunshine State
Language:
English
Description:
Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.
Book cover for "Nuclear jellyfish".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Nuclear jellyfish
Author:
Series:
Serge Storms volume 11
Language:
English
Description:
Serge A. Storms, Florida's resident madman and serial killer, continues to dispense his own variety of justice against society's evildoers--this time he and his pal Coleman are out to get an assortment of skinheads and shysters as well as a particularly nasty thug called Jellyfish.
Book cover for "Presidential Deal".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Presidential Deal
Language:
English
Description:
As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated Benteen County seat of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, Sheriff English encounters a doll and a dead baby. Their bodies have been switched, but by whom? And why? The elderly coroner disclaims any knowledge, but seems uneasy when a swastika is revealed on the tiny corpse. Meanwhile, the sheriff's part-Cheyenne half-brother, "Mad Dog" Maddox, has collected a naked body from the Sunshine Towers retirement...
Book cover for "One bite per night".
Rate this title:
Star rating for One bite per night
Language:
English
Description:
Vincent Tremayne, the reclusive "Devil Earl," has been manipulated into taking rambunctious Lydia Price as his ward. As Lord Vampire of Cornwall, Vincent has better things to do than bring out an unruly debutante. American-born Lydia Price doesn't care for the stuffy strictures of the ton, and is unimpressed with her foppish suitors. She dreams of studying with the talented but scandalous British portrait painter, Sir Thomas Lawrence. But just when...
Book cover for "Thicker than water".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Thicker than water
Author:
Pub. Date:
2014
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Description:
"Max Segrado and the S.P.I.E.S. are on a mission to steal a powerful mind control device and to keep the Merry Sunshine Orphanage from closing"--
Book cover for "Truly, Madly, Deeply".
Rate this title:
Star rating for Truly, Madly, Deeply
Author:
Series:
Language:
English
Description:
This old flame just might set them on fire. Conceited, unattainable, and downright delicious, renowned Michelin-starred chef Ambrose Casablancas has one passion in life: food. Women are a distraction, and he doesn't do those. Especially Cal Litvin, his baby sister's best friend. Her entire existence is a complication; she's awkward, eccentric, infuriating… And, much to his chagrin, hotter than his kitchen. Ambrose has a lot on his plate: a new restaurant...
Book cover for "The Solitary Protector".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The Solitary Protector
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Hefner A woman determined to discover her past…Adelyn, daughter of Lila and Latimus, has never felt quite whole. Although she loves her parents immensely, the origin of her lavender irises always remained a mystery. When she overhears rumors of a secret species of immortal who share the rare trait, she's compelled to journey into treacherous territory to find them. A man destined to protect her…Leo, son...
Book cover for "The enchanters".
Rate this title:
Star rating for The enchanters
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Description:
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....