Melanie Marsh is an American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their two young children. The Marshes’ orderly home life is shattered when their son Daniel is given a devastating diagnosis. Resourceful and determined not to acceptt what others, including her husband, say is inevitable, Melanie finds an ally in the idealistic Andy, whose unorthodox ideas may just prove that Daniel is far more “normal” than anyone imagined. Daniel Isn’t Talking is a moving story of a family in crisis, told with warmth, compassion, and humor.
It’s 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first women correspondents in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work to the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, after narrowly escaping death, Susan and Son find themselves the prisoners of three Vietcong soldiers. Helpless in the hands of the enemy, they face the jungle, living always with the threat of being killed and the slow realization that their complicated relationship is the only thing sustaining them both.
From the author of Daniel Isn’t Talking and Dying Young comes a shattering new novel, a page-turner about a sexual relationship between a grown man and a newly teenaged girl. June was a young widow with ahopeless crush on Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station. To her surprise, the two struck up a friendship that seemed headed for something more. But it was June’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Bobbie, whom Craig had wanted all along. Bobbie thought her secret life—the sex, the drugs, the illicit relationship itself—could remain safely buried in the past. But thirty years later, when Bobbie discovers Craig’s attentions to her had been repeated with any number of girls, she returns home with one purpose in mind: to bring Craig to trial. Her decision is greeted with mixed feelings. Some people think that bringing charges against someone for a crime committed so many years ago is unjustified. She’s called a “middle-aged woman with a vendetta.” She’s accused of waging war against her own family. But the past has a way of revealing itself, and some relationships lie dormant through the years, ready to stir to life at the slightest provocation. June remembers things differently from the way Bobbie does. Craig insists he has done nothing wrong. As their traumatic history is relived in the courtroom, Bobbie and June must come to terms with the choices they made and face the truth they have long refused to acknowledge. Told with warmth and compassion, this is a moving, deeply absorbing story of a family in crisis.
In this spellbinding thriller and YA debut from bestselling author Marti Leimbach, Kira Adams has discovered a cure for death—and it may just cost her life. Things aren’t going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she’s awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out if she doesn’t stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing she’s good at . . . very good at. When she wins a prestigious science contest she draws the attention of the celebrated professor Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsome assistant), leading to a part-time job in a top-secret laboratory. The job is mostly cleaning floors and equipment, but one night, while running her own experiment, she revives a lab rat that has died in her care. One minute it is dead, the next it is not. Suddenly she’s the remarkable wunderkind, the girl who can bring back the dead. Everything is going her way. But it turns out that science can be a dangerous business, and Kira is swept up into a world of international rivalry with dark forces that threaten her life.
While caring for Victor, a brilliant and witty young man who is dying of leukemia, Hilary falls in love with her patient, but her unexpected love for Gordon fills her with guilt.
From the author of DYING YOUNG, this is the funny and poignant story of Meg and Andy. They seem like a happy couple, but then Andy leaves Meg when she is seven months pregnant, and she is left to reflect on the reasons he left.
A haunting and lyrical novel from the bestselling author of Dying Young Rebecca and James live in a strange, insular world and have a relationship so unusual it is on the verge of destroying them. The ties that bind them to each other are twisted and rigid with memories from the past, and at every turn they are haunted by the spectre of Lea, James's beautiful and talented first wife. Rebecca's story begins with an early childhood in sunny America, followed by an embarrassing adolescence spent in rainy South London, living with her Aunt Rose and battling with her endlessly glamorous - if slightly unreliable - mother. As a naive, uncertain teenager seeking refuge from her unconventional, sometimes bizarre family, she meets James and Lea and they introduce her to a whirlwind world of grown-up parties and cigarettes. But life moves on and with it James's dependence on Rebecca. For, years after Lea's untimely death, Rebecca has become James's wife and takes on board a whole array of memories and complications she could never have imagined. Bestselling novelist Marti Leimbach has crafted a moving tale that explores the demands imposed by impossible and idealized love.
Visiting his family after a four-year separation, Sam Haskell is surprised to find his mother on the verge on insanity and his sister romantically involved with an unsavory character.
Et si découvrir comment tromper la mort vous coûtait la vie ? Surdouée, Kira brille davantage dans les matières scientifiques que par sa popularité au lycée. Lauréate d'un concours prestigieux auquel elle s'est inscrite dans l'espoir de pouvoir payer les frais médicaux de sa mère, elle s'envole pour la Suède. À la soirée de remise des prix, vêtue d'une robe somptueuse brodée de libellules, elle devient pour la première fois le centre de toutes les attentions. Notamment celles du célèbre Dr Munn et de son séduisant assistant... Bientôt recrutée au sein de leur laboratoire, Kira fait une découverte prodigieuse, qui suscite toutes les convoitises. La voilà alors précipitée au coeur de jeux de pouvoir internationaux qui l'entraînent dans un voyage haletant au péril de sa vie...
Thirty years ago, June was a young widow with a hopeless crush on Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station. To her surprise, he struck up a friendship with her that seemed headed for something more. But it was June’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Bobbie, whom Craig had wanted all along. Now an adult, Bobbie has tried to keep the illicit relationship buried safely in the past. But when she discovers that Craig had similarly targeted other young girls, she returns home after a long absence with a singular purpose: to bring Craig to trial. Her efforts are greeted with hostility: June remembers things differently than Bobbie, and Craig insists he has done nothing wrong. As their traumatic history is relived in the courtroom, Bobbie and June must face the choices they made and try to make sense of the pain they endured while seeking justice at long last.
It’s 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first women correspondents in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work to the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, after narrowly escaping death, Susan and Son find themselves the prisoners of three Vietcong soldiers. Helpless in the hands of the enemy, they face the jungle, living always with the threat of being killed and the slow realization that their complicated relationship is the only thing sustaining them both.
Melanie Marsh is an American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their two young children. The Marshes’ orderly home life is shattered when their son Daniel is given a devastating diagnosis. Resourceful and determined not to acceptt what others, including her husband, say is inevitable, Melanie finds an ally in the idealistic Andy, whose unorthodox ideas may just prove that Daniel is far more “normal” than anyone imagined. Daniel Isn’t Talking is a moving story of a family in crisis, told with warmth, compassion, and humor.
Visiting his family after a four-year separation, Sam Haskell is surprised to find his mother on the verge on insanity and his sister romantically involved with an unsavory character.
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