In a fit of panic, she stuffed her new born into a trash bag outside her house and left her there to die. The baby is discovered and a murder trial begins. The book seemed very realistic and I found that the plot and characters all seemed genuine. I feel like the book could have been shorter and I hated the ending which really Want to see more bookish things from me? I feel like the book could have been shorter and I hated the ending which really lowered my rating of the book overall. I will say that it is a thought provoking book and it was an interesting read, I just don't think it was for me.
Mar 02, Sheena rated it really liked it. I literally just finished the book and the ending completely blew it for me. I wasn't expecting it at all and I wish it didn't end where it did. However, I will say that I actually really enjoyed this book and I found myself feeling really bad for Devon even though what she did was horrible.
I did like the writing style as well as the characters. I don't understand how someone could've been in such denial over pregnancy and also have hidden it for nine months. I find that nearly impossible. Over I literally just finished the book and the ending completely blew it for me. Overall, it was a good read that made me genuinely upset for Devon and I found myself tearing at a few parts as well. I would give this book 3. Jan 31, Rebecca McNutt rated it really liked it Shelves: After reminded me very much of the episode of Cold Case titled 'Family' - same sort of plot and character types.
It was gripping, sad, honest and very well-written. I was so sure this book was going to be bad. It dealt with such a difficult subject and took such a challenging approach that I just couldn't help but expect it to fail. But then it didn't. And then it left me shaken and thoroughly stirred.
I started reading this book at a very random and, I confess, inopportune moment: See, I couldn't sleep that night. So usually when that happens I pick out a potentially boring or bad book, read a few chapters and generally that makes me go r I was so sure this book was going to be bad. So usually when that happens I pick out a potentially boring or bad book, read a few chapters and generally that makes me go right to sleep. But, fatefully, that night I happened to pick this book. And it didn't make me go to sleep.
Ohh no, no, no It sucked me in so deeply and gripped me so tightly that I ended up reading the entire thing in 4 hours straight without enough of a break to pee or even breathe. Because After certainly did not pull punches. Do absolutely not get me wrong: No, it is a deep and true exploration of a subject that is incredibly under-explored in fiction: But then, let's be honest, we all know why this is such an unexplored area. I mean, who wants to read the first-person account of a woman, or teen, who threw her baby away?
Better to read the inspirational story of a Dumpster Baby who grew up to be a wonderful and happy person, right? Who the hell cares about his or her despicable mother? I'm not even going to try to pretend that I was in any other state of mind when I started reading. I was all geared up and ready to hate and judge Devon. That was a huge part of why I was expecting this book to fail: I didn't think it could possibly succeed in making me feel sympathetic toward its MC.
But then it did. By the end of the book, I still hadn't come anywhere close to loving Devon, but I had long been understanding of her. And that alone so far exceeded my expectations that I've actually gone ahead rated this 5 stars and added it to my keepers shelf.
Because, somehow, I got it. This book made me understand why a woman, or rather, a year-old girl with huge issues concerning parents and self-image, would commit such an utterly unforgivable crime when there're people like me who have no greater fear on this earth than losing a child. There were just a few relatively important things that bothered me a little: I would have liked a deeper exploration of the supporting characters' issues and of Devon's relationships with them; throughout the book I was waiting for Devon to face her heartbreak over the baby's father and she never did, she never even said his name ; and I was not happy with the ending, which I get was supposed to be cliffhanger, but just felt uncomfortable and abrupt.
Also, was it really necessary to leave me hanging after the huge emotional punch-to-the-gut that was the rest of the book? There's a very fine line between upsetting and unsatisfying. Not that satisfying and unsatisfying are at all in question here. In this kind of novel, the question is never how well the book treats you but instead how well the author treats the subject. And this author treated her subject brilliantly. I'd recommend After to anyone looking for a book that will make them think truly and deeply over a subject that is usually very difficult to contemplate rationally.
I plan on re-reading this book at some point because I think it is deserving of being thoroughly considered and something more than a random, emotional midnight-read. Oct 16, Ashleigh rated it did not like it Shelves: Another disappointment, courtesy of NPR. I have got to stop choosing books based on NPR reviews. I was attracted to the concept of this YA novel. The author takes the idea of a baby found in a trashcan and the inevitable question, "how could someone do this? In this case, a teen girl Devon was in such denial about the fact that she'd had sex that she couldn't even allow the possibility of pregnancy to enter her mind.
When a baby suddenly Another disappointment, courtesy of NPR. When a baby suddenly popped out, she went into a complete, deranged panic, basically couldn't even acknowledge to herself that it was a baby, and desperately shoved it away from her into the trash. I like this idea overall, and think it's ripe for exploration in novel form. Unfortunately, other than the concept, the whole thing pretty much stunk. Every single character in this novel is a cliche.
The slutty, flaky mom who had Devon when she was Devon herself, smart and hardworking, who pretty much raised herself and is driven to be nothing like her mother. The heart-of-gold, tough love soccer coach. The whip-smart female attorney with a soft side. The mean girl Devon meets in juvy shocker, she cuts herself! And on and on and on. The courtroom stuff is WAY overdone. Too many pages are devoted to Devon's court proceedings. Every single one of those pages reads like a Law and Order script. Some sentences don't even make sense.
Now, I will grant that the whole thing is written in the present-tense, which is very difficult to do. However, as an author, you need to understand your own abilities. The handling of Devon's emotions comes off as trivial, superficial, and immature. Nothing is very well explained. There is no real depth. The author missed a big potential opportunity in devoting more time and thought to Devon's sessions with the psychiatrist. Her psychological state is very central to the book, so this is a big problem.
Gratuitous use of gore. How many times to I need to read about blood in the underwear, milk squirting out all over the place, or "pulsating umbilical cord"s? I get that birth is a messy process and that the trauma of it severely affected Devon, but as much time and attention as is devoted to the yuck factor is completely unnecessary.
Finally, the end was a joke. It was not properly built into and it did not resolve anything. It's like the author got tired of writing, so with no forethought she suddenly launched into a swell of good and redemptive emotions, ending with the clincher, "She'd won. It didn't feel like a win at all, but surely that's the appropriate sentence for ending a story like this one. Nov 15, Annemarie rated it liked it Shelves: Im definetly going to be judgemental on the contents of this book, like the author said at the end how she can't fathom what desperation would lead a woman to throw away her baby?
Efaw failed for me to feel any sympathy towards Devon, the constant pointing out how smart she was, AP honor roll, leader of her soccer team. Not sexually active, just a 1x thing and she was so disgusted she'd be like her mother that she denied being pregnant? She was 5'8 slim, athletic!! Sh Im definetly going to be judgemental on the contents of this book, like the author said at the end how she can't fathom what desperation would lead a woman to throw away her baby? She was however a victim of neglect but purposely excluded herself from society when she started feeling"something"..
If the authors purpose was to make me feel disgust, enraged then I guess she did her job. FYI I would not recommend this as a YA book, the birth scene is very descriptive and had me skimming: Mar 15, Sandra Alonzo rated it it was amazing. I loved the writing in this book. I was able to connect with the characters, which is something I've had difficulty doing in recent reads.
Great subject matter teenage pregnancy handled in a most appropriate and empathetic manner by Amy Efaw. A few reviews I've read have had issues with AFTER's ending, and without creating a spoiler, let me say that I did not find it to be weird or out of line at all. I highly recommend this book to YA fans, teachers, teens, and librarians.
A depressing subject matter is made poignant and engaging in this book. A definite thumbs up read!! View all 4 comments. Sep 01, Hannah rated it it was ok. Stopped about fifty pages from the end when I just got too bored. Little, if any, character development, irritating pacing, and extremely repetitive storytelling. Two stars because I see the effort the author made, I just think she may need a lesson in subtlety. Devon is a soccer player, we know, and we don't need two soccer metaphors a page to remind us it's important to her. Her issues with her mother would have been much more poignant if they weren't so heavy-handed.
This premise made it vita Stopped about fifty pages from the end when I just got too bored. This premise made it vital for the reader to sympathize with Devon, and I didn't find her to be a sympathetic character, just a whiny one. This was an extremely hard book to listen to. It had nothing to do with the author's writing or the narrator. Both are wonderful, but the actual story itself is one of those stories that makes you squirm a little and question everything.
There were often times that I just needed to turn it off and listen to some bubble gum pop just to wipe my mind of this story. The whole time I listened to this book my head raged with different opinions. They changed so often during the story that I'm still not This was an extremely hard book to listen to. They changed so often during the story that I'm still not sure what I think about the situation. Amy Efaw has a way of turning your previous thoughts and reactions to a situation completely upside down. My first thought about this book was that this young girl must have been so ridiculously terrified and my second thought is how could she?
There were parts where I despised Devon and other parts that I felt sorry for her. I'm not sure if I'm exactly comfortable with the fact that Amy Efaw manipulated my emotions like Play-Doh, but I guess that is testament to her skill as a writer. Throughout the novel you discover more about Devon's journey and her complete and utter denial of her pregnancy.
I'm am no psychologist, so I don't really understand the whole denial to the point of not realize you were pregnant until giving birth. I'm sure this happens, but for me it is not something I can truly grasp. There were also times that Devon seemed so naive that it just baffled me. I found myself feeling very protective of her one minute and horrified by her the next. After is the type of novel that will stick with me for a long time. I'm not really sure what I think about the situation and I'm hopeful that I never have to serve on a jury dealing with this issue.
Part of me wishes I was ignorant about situations like these so I don't have to deal with the emotions and trying to figure out my thoughts. All I know is I'm glad I read this novel, but I definitely need a light and fluffy book in my future. Oct 01, Karen rated it liked it. After tells the tale of a teenage girl jailed after dumping her baby in a trash can. Deep in denial, soccer star, Devon, can barely even admit that she was pregnant at all. She refers to the baby as IT a tactic that grows a little old throughout the course of the novel and wants to know when she can go home.
Charged with attempted murder, Devon enters the juvenile court system while her attorney fights to keep her client from being prosecuted as an adult. An interesting topic, ripped from the After tells the tale of a teenage girl jailed after dumping her baby in a trash can. An interesting topic, ripped from the headlines. How does this kind of situation happen? The author spends a great deal of time establishing Devon's denial. Too much for my taste, in fact.
I think the book could have benefitted from some serious editing in the first half. I grew very impatient with Devon who I couldn't help but think was awfully dumb for a supposedly smart girl. I understood she was in denial, but I wanted the pace to pick up a bit. Devon's slowness to answer even the most rudimentary question,instead delving into flashbacks or ruminations on minutiae wore on me fairly quickly.
Right about the point I reached maxmimum frustration, more interesting characters saved the day the defense attorney for one; Karma, a fellow juvenile offender with an eye-rollingly bad name, for another and suddenly Devon got it together or more together than she'd had it and the story grew more compelling by leaps and bounds. Nothing, nothing can excuse this line: Nonetheless, this author has promise. Jan 20, Sarah rated it really liked it Shelves: At 15, Devon Sky Davenport was a high school soccer star, she volunteered with youth soccer and held one-on-one training sessions with young players, she worked as a babysitter, and she maintained top grades and took honors classes.
She also hid an unwanted pregnancy, gave birth in her bathroom, and threw the baby away in a garbage bag that she put in the trash can behind her apartment. The baby was found alive and Devon was found, barely conscious, bleeding on her living room couch by the polic At 15, Devon Sky Davenport was a high school soccer star, she volunteered with youth soccer and held one-on-one training sessions with young players, she worked as a babysitter, and she maintained top grades and took honors classes. The baby was found alive and Devon was found, barely conscious, bleeding on her living room couch by the police investigating the crime.
She was taken to the hospital, then a juvenile detention center to await a hearing to determine if she should be tried as an adult for multiple charges, including attempted murder. Everyone has heard stories of young mothers, unable to cope with motherhood, who give birth and leave their newborn babies in dumpsters, etc. This book offers a realistic and graphic story that offers insight into just how someone might be driven to these actions.
Devon at first represses everything that happened then slowly begins to deal with the choices she made and the consequences of her actions as she meets with her lawyer and adjusts to life in the juvenile detention center. Her development throughout is powerful and believable. It is a tough read, but one that will resonate.
Oct 20, Angie rated it really liked it. Social media has given people the ability to share their opinions about news stories. Whenever I read the comments under the stories, I find without fail harsh ethical judgments by other people. No one ever tries to get into the mind of a person who would do something like this. But people like me, people who have lived lives unbearably full of silent suffering, look around the world almost dissociated, apart from it, amazed that no one around us notices the struggle inside.
You tell yourself wha Social media has given people the ability to share their opinions about news stories. You tell yourself what you have to to get through it. The psyche is the most fragile bone in your body and your mind can do remarkable things to keep that bone from breaking. Devon's reaction to her first institution is spot on, disturbingly real. All of these people around her are going through their regular days, expecting her to comply and she is still struggling to put herself together emotionally.
Fifteen is so young, so very very young, and your heart breaks for Devon. This was a fantastic book. Like Monster, it gives you a punch in the gut look into the mind of someone so many people would judge before walking a single step in his or her shoes The rest of the kids are sent to the person who literally puts them in holes before Eating each of them. The kids escape the orphanage and run somewhere. I have been searching for a book I read a long time ago. It's a Christmas time romance clean. A woman loses her daughter one Christmas and the following Christmas the child is looking down from heaven wishing her mother would smile again.
The mother leaves the city to get away from Christmas. Wrecks her car in a storm and is rescued by "Santa Claus" his name is Nick and he rescued her in a horse drawn sleigh. He takes her back to his place which is called the north pole. During her stay she learns that in his barn he is part of a group doing a Christmas play with some kids. I read the book so many times I can picture many points but it got lost in a move and I cannot remember the name.
Any help is great! Thank you and Merry Christmas! I am searching for a book I read in that was about a young girl looking for her father or he may have died. He was an inventor who left behind a lot of inventions that she used to find people. There was a character who would drain the blood of his enemies from their wrist in order to get them to be his mutations.
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Looking for an early 70's book- autobiography. Looking for an autobiography from the early '70's. Talks about her experiences training and showing her dog. Was available through scholastic. Hi there as a 90s slacker a friend if mine told me about a comic novel he was reading about a producer making a film about the Wreck of the Deutschland. I think there was some problem with the nuns' costumes being too racy, or maybe safety issues, but I can't be sure. Happy times in Hammersmith pubs and semi derelict houses.
I'm looking for a children's book from either the 's or late 70's. It was an illustrated storybook that was accompanied with an audio cassette of a man telling the story along with sound effects. As I was only a child when I had it I can't remember much about it apart from there was a young person with a small wooden dog possibly that was on wheels and they head into a dark forest covered in snow. Sorry I know those details are very sketchy but thats all I can remember! I do remember loving the story so much and would love to get my hands on it again after all these years to read with my own children!
If anyone can help I'd be forever grateful!! Kaung4life Thirteen Days to Midnight sounds like the last book you described, good luck in finding all your books!! Kaung4life the last book you described sounds like Thirteen Days to Midnight, hope you find all your books! The events of this urban novel focuses on the husband after his wife kills herself in front of him and his mistress. Has anyone heard of this story? Hi I've been looking for this book hoping its not a figment of my imagination because the same year I checked it out from my middle school library, I went to go back to look for it and there was no record of it.
I can't remember BIG details but its a girl and her best friend who want to train to become soldiers for their town? And there also exist healing magic that everyone looks down upon. She visits a healing doctor in which she becomes somewhat interested in magic. I believe this magic involves talking to plants. The cover of the book, the print is a girl holding a leaf to her chest.
The hard copy of the book is just a brown book with the outline of a leaf in gold. I'm looking for a book that I read in Middle or High school about a girl who draws her own comics and gets bullied a lot for it so she retreats to an online RPG to meet a guy on it who helps her feel better and then later finds out he's a guy who goes to her school and is one of the most popular guys in school.
The cover is white and has a drawing of 2 girls meeting in the middle of the book at the waist and are opposite to each other horizontally. One girl has long blonde hair and is an Elf and the other girl I think has brown hair. It is probably a teen novel. I am looking for a book that I read in highschool around This boy found a book or a box of some sort that allowed him to go to this like spirit world. There he learned about this prophecy that he was involved in. Come to realize it was him and his sister that were needed to defeat the evil immortal.
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I think the sister had this blossoming relationship with one of the knowledge immortals or something like that. I have a hard time remembering the author, titke, and basic ploy of the book but I would really love to read the series again. I think it was like 3 or 4 books.
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I'd appreciate any help from the very vague description lol. I am looking for a book about these girls that live in a time where people are all broke and oppressed and like this girl and her best friend who pretended to be her sister to got to the same like boarding school and like the one girls parents had money and the friends didn't and so like they trick the school with like fake id bracelets and they like have their entire lives on like technology and the school takes it away from them and they go in to some remote place in the woods and they learn survival skills and like how to use guns but it turns out the school is really an enemy like spy training school and so they escape and like they meet some boys spend the night in a cabin that is also the enemy's and so they run away that's all I know tho so.
I need help finding a book I believe its a short series, maybe 2 or 3 books total. Its about a boy that was born and mother was killed while he was young. A man took him in and raised him. He grew up and had powers many people in the book have a particular power but most keep secret. He gets arrested and has to help a King's youngest son get landed or face execution. One of the King's advisors is also someone with powers and is trying to kill and take all other powers from those that have them.
This is a fantasy series and for the life of me cant remember the name or author. It's a harlequin romance book. Hero and heroine are in love and heroine becomes pregnant. Hero's father tries to pay her off. So heroine leaves hero and have the baby. Hero meets his son. I need help with a title and author of a book i read in the last year or so.. Female teacher possibly named Holly who is dumped before Christmas holiday break and a male teacher a widower possibly named Simon invites her to go to a cabin in Scotland with him.
It is a novel I believe it's called believers or something of the sort. The author I believe is a native American, and the book is very complex I didn't get far enough to find the underlying plot. It's filled with underworlds and corrupt cops and murder and there's a scene where children are in hell and helping each other survive while a corrupt god tortures them. In the scene with the kids in the beggining of the book, they escape from the back of a cop car and run for hours while they're epoxied zombies bodies fall apart.
The book bounces around a timeline and different settings, making it like a puzzle. There's a scene where the cop talks about how his dad would show him a crop circle or something which led to the underworld, and another scene where they find the pieces of children sewed together in the back of a native Americans car that the cops framed or something. It sounds fucked up but it's a great book and it's been years and I am unable to find it. I thought I'd take a shot and ask around.
I don't believe it's a very famous author. And the cop had took a young girl to prom and killed her. The cop could smell a storm coming. I read this book when I was younger. It's about a woman who is in a relation ship with a singer, but they fell apart because she fell in love with another man. I know the woman had a small animal. I am pretty sure the Title had the word diva in it, but I'm not completely sure. I read a book when I was younger It's about a woman in a relationship with a singer, but they drifted apart after a while.
The woman fell in love with another man, but he left her because she couldn't make up her mind at first over which man to choose in the end she chose the second man. I know she had a little dog. I'm pretty sure the title had to word diva in it, but i'm not entirely certain. I read a book maybe years ago about an older gentleman whose wife had died and he was just existing. The wife had a beautiful garden that was just overgrown and neglected and I think a college student or grandchild - maybe - came and was trying to get him to reconnect to life. Seems there was a flood towards the end.
I might be mixing books, but would love it if someone could help me remember this book. I read a book series in the early 's called Seven. There were seven books in the series, each titled the name of the main character I believe. I cannot find a mention of this series anywhere. The characters are all former childhood friends that share a secret and have drifted apart because of it, yet believe their ill-fortune all stems from the secret they each feel responsible for shooting a friend at a birthday party when they were 8, even though it was an accident. I can't remember what all they go through, but I do remember a few of the books plot points: One girl was an Asian adopted as a baby by a white couple and is assaulted by a friend of her parents, one boy is half-black and paralyzed in an accident, another boy whose parents run a shelter and is a sports star at the high school struggles with being gay, another girl that is a cheerleader tries to hold onto her romance with her boyfriend that went to college but he uses her instead, the other boy is trying not to outdo his brother in football, but ends up playing and stealing his brother's scholarship or maybe just gets a better one.
I would like to get this book series to hold onto for my daughter when she is in high school because it did help me and others I knew that read it get through certain traumas and hardships in school. Trying to find a book where starts of with a young lad on his way to school and on his way be picks up random objects. These were used then at school. The elastic band to keep some artwork together and the safety pin was used to help pin a girls broken dress strap. I read it when I was at school in the 90s. I read a book about 6 years ago, it was so good. Theres this book i read about 5 years ago and i cant remember the title or anything but it was about this boy who felt like he was being watched by these strange people.
He starts having these dreams of horrid scenes and his best freind whom he has a crush on later finds out they are moments in history like when he had a dream of being on a slave ship. Later on in the story the people who watch him reveal that they along with him have live basically foreverbut in different bodies and by different names. Well thats all i can remember about it at the moment but ide like to know what its called so i can read it again. I was reading a book i was admitted in a children's hospital back in And when I was there they had a LOT of books to read. There was a particular book I keep rememb but not a lot of details of it.
The book was about a kid who lived in a zoo. He never went to school, I think, and mer this kid that became his friend. She would play games with him and stuff. She tells him about a event of this big ball of knots that no one is able to until. And he comes along to try to untie it. That's all I can remember of it. I'm hoping someone here can help me find the book again. I believe there was a story about this blind person going on a blind date with someone who was not blind, a character had two different eye colors, and another thing I remember are these two characters a guy and a girl who met in a church and there was this electric connection between them.
Anything would be helpful, thank you. I partially read this book in college, someone had suggested, but never had the chance to finish it before returning it. I forgot the title, but I think the title was a double entendre. The book is a story being told by a primate, chimpanzee or ape. The primate is discussing where we are heading as humans, a kind of warning about how we are impacting the environment.
I do recall a metaphor where the primate describes a person believing they were flying a pedal powered craft, and the primate said, from the pilot's point of view they may believe they are flying even as we can observe they are falling, and until impact they may maintain their belief; something to that affect. I wish I could remember the name of this book as I was enjoying it before I returned it. I read a short story in college as part of Southern gothic literature course. Story is from perspective of adolescent black boy who lives with his grandmother in Jim Crow south. I read a southern gothic short story in college that has always stuck in my mind except for the title.
The girl has nothing but disdain for her uneducated poor family and neighbors. She wants the items to decorate her city dwelling and to impress her intellectual circle. When a dog gets hydrophobia he becomes convinced that there are only bones. The dog becomes jealous when his mistress acquires a male admirer.
I am looking for a romance book, I do not know the name or what year it was published just that I read it before Here is what I know. The heroine is from England and the hero is not English or American. She had a child with him, that he did not know about. The heroine was hit by a car while walking across the street, she is very sick, has pneumonia, but the hero thinks she is a drug addict because when DFS was called on her to check on the child, because they live in poverty the heroine, the DFS person noted a white powder on the counter top, which was actually flu powder, the heroine also had a knife because she was cutting carrots.
The hero hires a nurse to take care of the heroine also. My boyfriend read a book when he was about 15, he said it had the word game in the title. He does these things for money and the price increases with every new task he is given. Samantha - I don't know the title of the children's ghost story book you're looking for, but I do know the story about the marble knight is called Man Size in Marble, by Edith Nesbit.
The one about the artist may be Schalken the Painter, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - the artist paints a portrait of a young woman called Rose. Sorry I couldn't be more help! I'm trying to remember the name of this horror book my brother had in the 90's, i can vaguely remember the plot and the cover and nothing else. I don't know why i'm thinking font in the title was like goosebumps but this was from what i remember it was way to dark and graphic for that series.
I am looking for a book I read a few years ago. I remember there being a unicorn somewhere. Looking for a book I read a while ago about a blind woman who was raped while in college after the ordeal she isolates her self. One day a doctor shows up at her door about a surgery that could help her regain her eyesight.
She's hesitant to trust him at first but eventually does. Some of its a haze but I believe her sister was getting married and while preparing she discovers the man her sister is about to marry is the man that raped her. Looking for novel I read years ago about a man who is on a ship, does something wrong and is penalized to sail on ship after ship through many many years sailing with some of the most famous captains of all time and I believe some pirates.. Would love to read again if I could remember what book it was!!!
Looking for a book that I read in the 70s about a Native American girl. It was basically about her life but what I remember is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save a sibling's life. Looking for a book that I read in the 70s. It might have been a Scholastic book. It was about a young Native American girl and her life with her tribe.
What I remember best is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save the life of her sibling. American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland when the plane crashes. The sole survivor is the baby, who is rescued and taken to Ireland. Story ends with the baby's brother meeting her and falling in love.
American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland. Plane crashes en route to Ireland, only the baby survives. American brother meets her years later and falls in love. Small book - Christmas theme - daughter becomes sick and a male visitor appears and acts as an angel to save the child. Twin sisters from the same coven, one is really without a soul as a bad woman who was murdered by a demon centuries bf, who betrayed him, split the soul of two sisters The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant but she has a vision of what the end will be.
The bad woman who is working with another, end up dying and only one of the two sisters can survive, as there is only one soul. Also, the coven is murdered, her sister is taken to hell, where she is impregnated by the devil or another demon, who is the one working with the bad woman. The 2nd sister is glamored into not remembering she had a twin during that time.
It ends with the 2nd sister and her baby dying as she gives the remaining soul to her sister. Some details may be a little mixed up. Twin sister comes home to join her coven, after a death in the family, and there are strange neighbors with powers, who murder someone, bury and glamor all evidence away.
They take an interest in her and she ends up falling in love with the main male character, who I believe is part demon or something.
There is a prophecy that this demon tries to prevent, which is by killing each woman reborn, of the love of his life who betrayed him and he inturn killed her, after she cursed him. Lucifer or another demon, r working with this woman, and they entwines and split a soul between two sisters to hide the evidence of her rebirth, kill a lot of the coven and then steal and impregnate the other sister.
She becomes preganant and the bad lady tries to kill her and the only way to save herself and her sister, is to sacrifice her life and that of her child, so her sister gets the good soul. I think it somehow was entwined with the baby but some areas are vague. What is the name of book where girl is taken in by bird people and raised in a library and threatened by dragon people I know she had a friend that clung to her hair and her shoulders a lot.
Please help with the name of the book? I cant remember the title if someone could please help i would appreciate it!! This may be a short story and it's about two young boys that are twins. The "bad" twin does bad stuff and the "good" twin tries to cover it up or be helpful But in the end there is a twist and you find out it's only one boy.
I read this in an English high school class in the late 80's. For some reason I think of Ten Little Indians but not sure if that's part of it. I read a book in when I was a 6th grader about a guy who is struck by lightening and wakes up in a war. The war had Japanese or Vietnamese soldiers I forget which.
I believe the story begins with him in the attic or basement of his house and looking through old war items his father had because he was a veteran. He is struck by lightening when he is riding his bike. I am not sure of anything else but I remember this book being short.
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I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago when I wasn't quite a young adult. I remember that it had like a pink and green cover, it was a young adult novel. The summary of it is that there were 2 girls who were best friends but the best friend of the main character was getting "too popular" for the main character and they split ways because of that. She became a bully towards her. Then our main character went to visit her dad at work and met his new assistant and they clicked. He brought her to parties and such without the dad knowing.
They had a secret relationship. But then at the end, when it was her school dance, her former best friend was trying to take away her man because she didnt deserve someone so hot. But main character just laughed and her bf asked the former best friend to dance, knowing that former best friend was way to insecure and main character knew that he loved her for her and not because shes hot or unpopular. It was an illustrated childrens' book in the library of the small private Catholic school I attended til I was 10 and I can still remember the pictures so clearly, and have searched for almost two decades with no luck.
It has several short stories and there's faint blood splatter on nearly every page. There was a story about a couple who moved into a cottage in a small town -- the husband is warned about the stone knights in the church coming to life on a certain night and he goes to see if all is well, but only notices two fingers broken off one statue. When he returns home, his wife is dead but in her clenched hand are the stone knight's fingers. There's one about a cowboy set to be hanged but his neck stretches crazy long and he runs around terrorizing everyone with his eyes bulged out until someone shoots him dead.
There's one about a painter who meets this young woman and something about a rose and he paints her portrait and at the end finds out she was actually a ghost. And one about a homeless? They move into a castle her aunt and some cousins are in but is maybe really supposed to belong to her and her sister now I think. She meets a handsome land owner, Adrian who has a black stallion. And then in the end they find out it was the crazy aunt the whole time trying to make her think the place was haunted and to drive her away. I am looking for a book It's about a woman who owns a civic center for her neighborhood trying to keep kids off the streets.
She teaches pole dancing classes to elderly women to. He is the leader of a rock band and is known as the dark prince. He chooses her as his mate when he is a child and now other races are hunting her to get to him. Because if they kill her they can weaken him. That is the basics of the story I remember way more than that but I can't seem to find the book anywhere now. Can someone please help me? A short story about a Native American? After the week her brother and her are brought back home and while her brother is in bad shape after spending the week eating crickets and berries, she's healthy as ever.
They ask how they did it and after she explains they don't consider it cheating since she did survive the week in the woods. She works at a marketing firm and rarely goes home to visit her father and step mom on the farm. She gets laid off and goes home to the farm to regroup. She ends up using her skills to help her parents create a vacation spot out of the farm.
Her brochure gets the attention of the high powered executive she had worked for and eventually gets her an even better position at the marketing firm. There's this book that I've been looking for. I remember a phrase on the front cover but not the title itself or the author. The phrase is something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love.
In both lives, she looks exactly the same but her lives are very different. In one, she's really rich and has the ideal family and boyfriend. In the other, she's really poor and only lives with her mom. Whenever she turns 18, her parents throw her a huge birthday party at her house. She's afraid that the party is going to last past midnight and experience the switch herself, which she's never done before. She's also met another guy in her other life where shes poor and starts to fall in love. She starts contemplating what life she wants to stay in and plans to kill one of her selves just to stop the cycle.
I don't remember the author or the title, just a phrase on the front cover. The phrase says something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. She switches at midnight every night while she's sleeping. Her 2 bodies are exactly the same, but her lives in each are very different. In the first one, she's really rich, has the ideal family, and has the perfect boyfriend. In the second, she is poor and only lives with her mom. In the life where shes poor, she's also met a man that she's starting to fall in love with.
One day, in her second life, she injures her ankle. She's worried that she'll wake up in her other life with an injury as well, but the injury doesn't transfer over. She starts to contemplate what life she wants to live in and starts experimenting on her body. She starts off by cutting herself to see if the injury transfers over. She dyes her hair to see if it also changes when she switches back and forth. She ends up in a mental hospital because her mom thinks she's suicidal from all the injuries and changes and stays there for a while. The man that she likes works there and she tells him about her switching.
He doesn't believe her at first but she ends up proving it to him. A girl gets in trouble for partying. Gets in trouble with drugs. Judge sentences her to Africa to help at an orphanage. The kids get kidnapped sometimes to either be used for soldiers or sold. A favourite book of mine 35 years ago Two sisters? One is grateful for life's basics. One wants the best of everything even though it is beyond her means and she loses it all. The poorer sister is the happier of the two. The book alternates between her perspective and the perspective of an alien living on the same planet.
The alien finds her hiding in a cave, approaches her, and they tentatively eventually become mutuals. There was this one part I remember about the difference in a smile between species — humans smile by showing their teeth, which the alien viewed as threatening, and the aliens smiled by sticking out their tongues, which the girl didn't initially recognize as a smile.
Theres this book, that has a lot of short stories in it, and I remember reading it when i was in 5th grade. An example of one of the short stories was about this kid who wore shoes for a few months straight without taking them off to fend off bullies from killing a turtle. Another one of the short stories was about a boy who wanted to whiten his teath with whitneres, but in the end, his teath had liquified because he kept them on for too long.
I am looking for a book with a sub plot of a dad working extra hard to buy his son a coat he wanted, that all the cool kids had. Poor family, dad not one to show affection. Boy was all excited to wear it to school, Dad was quietly proud. Kids made fun of boy because jacket was a knockoff and he got in a fight over it, I think the coat was torn, he never wore it again, and dad never mentioned it. I've been looking for a children's book that my siblings and I enjoyed around and my brother, eight years my senior also loved..
Grouchy retired sea captain, irritated by a rainbow, captures it, rolls it up and stows it in a hatch in his little home. Neighborhood boy frees the rainbow which unfurls into the sky. Beautiful and fun water color illustrations. Sea captain sees the error of his ways! I have been looking for a book I read in the nineties written by an American journalist who lived and worked as a reporter in Africa. He wrote about his life in Africa including some funny experiences.
I think he worked for The York Times. Some American paper for sure. Thanks I have been trying to find it, but difficult without title or author! Looking for a book I read in the nineties about an American Journalist living and working in Africa. Cannot remember title or author. Some funny experiences he had in Africa. I think he worked for the New York Times? But was based in Africa. Thank you for helping me!
I've been looking for an R rated book, I am an adult, about a woman with two daughters, works at a dentist office, and meets a man with a bad past. The woman is also battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband.
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The book is about a woman with two daughters who works at a dentist, eventually meeting a man with a bad past who moves in next door. She's battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband. Things escalate with her and the man eventually. R rated book, I am an adult. I believe the series is titled "Class A. He has a pocket sized computer that he runs programs on written in BASIC, I believe and each book had programs you could run on your computer after typing them in.
I remember in one book, The protagonist meets the president, who calls him a "Class Act", and our hero wonders if the President knows what he does on the side. Another adventure has our hero paired up with a dog in a secret base in i believe the Alaskan wilderness. Protagonist goes through a series of emotions like fear, anxiety, etc because an alien ship has landed. Protagonist describes the ship and the creatures coming out of the ship, as having hair "all over their head" - as if that was crazy weird. Big reveal at the end is that the protagonist is an extra-terrestrial and the aliens are humans from Earth.
Really great story on perspective and looking at things egocentrically. And a kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player. But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son that he knows nothing about I need help finding this book!! But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son.. This is a book where the woman works for a company that helps kids with disabilities or illnesses.
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And this autistic kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player. The hockey player happens to be her Ex and the father of her son. Can some on help me find this book i read it years ago its a young teen book that has a boy that has magic boots that grow with him he doesn't know where he came from all of his past he remembers about his mothers or some family member singing a line to him he starts off as a thief and meets a girl as they run him and the girl fall in love along the way he discovers that he can sing a few lines and make what he wants true but at a cost to him he will lose something as great of the value of what he wants to be done at the end of the book he trades his life for his girl companion but he comes back for he is not human so he is reborn and gets to live with his family that he thought he lost yet he found again Along the way in the middle of the book he a quires a dagger that has a string attached to his wrist that he can throw and pull back and his dagger will come back to him.
There's a fantasy book that my cousin forced me to read when I was younger and I didn't like it because it was confusing but now I want to read it it's about these people or creatures and they live in trees I think and I believe they're forced to go to war I have a memory of a scene where there in like a restaurant in one of the tree like they all live in the trees or like in the forest and they have to go to war and there's like a girl warrior there's a black group of friends and they go on and then I remember there's two brothers and they go to another dimension in one scene and when they come back one of the brothers is completely change then something happened to him like part of him died or something.
And then in the end I think that they come back after all of this and I remember like an engagement between two of the characters. I know this is very vague but I know it's a fantasy book. In this book there is a mexican girl who lives in the USa with her mother. She is made fun if at school and her only friends are two brothers they are twins. When they grow up she gets pregnant by one of the brothers, and the other one dies. She gives birth to the baby but after a while she leaves cause she can't handle everything.
After a year or so she comes back and after a row of events she lives happily ever after woth the father of her child and the love of her life. In this book a city girl quits her job to move to a farm with a man she just met. Can somebody help me find a book. It starts with a girl trying to find her twin sister in a garrage or some shady place. It is a fantasy paranormal book maybe involves farie world non mages.
In this book a girl is surgically given the face of a princess in order to be her double. The mother is leading a rebellion the king kills both mom and real princess thinking that the princess is the double. Two of my favorite children's books Sgthartman you're thinking of the book called Harrison Bergeron. Can somebody help me find this book? She ends up helping the little girls father find his daughter. The woman and the father end up falling for each other. I think this is romantic suspense. I think I read it yrs ago I dont think it was that old but I'm not sure.
When he gets out of prison he looks for his missing sister and finds out that she was involved with some sort of mafia or something similar. To find and save her he has to work with the mafia people and was forced to blow up a train station. Can somebody pls help me with this?! When I was younger I read this great book that I just remembered and cant get out of my head. It was this book about these two foster girls whos "aunt" who was a hippie had suddenly died in the bathroom one day and the girls had buried her in the backyard and pretended to live on like nothing happened surviving by cleaning rent cabins until they fighr about whether to tell the authorities or not and one of them wants to run away.
He fell in love with an Israeli girl named Nada, however she was shot. Before she died, she wrote him a letter saying how she felt like there was somebody back home that he loved. He realized she meant Vicki. He proposed to Vicki after his return, and they marry about a year before the Glorious Appearing, where he and Vicki are both in Jerusalem. Vicki grew up in a trailer park, and hated it because people regularly made fun of her and the others who lived in Prospect Gardens, calling them names such as "Trailer Trash".
Her parents smoked, drank, and fought constantly. Every Friday, Vicki would usually have to baby-sit her sister Jeanni, however, occasionally she would ditch her and run off to smoke, drink or do dope with her friends. When Vicki was twelve, a man asked to speak at the dance. Everyone was first irritated, and then quiet as he told all present that Jesus had loved them enough to die for them and He wanted everyone to accept His gift of grace and eternal life.
Vicki's parents and her sister all accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, along with her brother Eddie in Michigan, while a defiant Vicki refused. Following her parents' conversion, Vicki became even more rebellious and continued to refuse to convert. One night she came back from partying to find the house quiet and was under the impression that they had fallen asleep waiting for her. When she woke up the next morning, all her family were gone because they had been raptured.
Though her best friend Shelley wondered what happened, Vicki knew the truth — Christ had come back for His own. She spent the next seven years proselytizing, which included interrupting a concert by Z-Van lead singer of the Four Horsemen and one of Nicolae Carpathia's false messiahs and speaking to the crowd of thousands. She fell in love with Judd early in the series and the two were married around a year before the Glorious Appearing, shortly following Vicki's twentieth birthday.
His whole family were the most devout Christians he knew, and he pretended to go along with them. Lionel became a Christian and acknowledged that Jesus had raptured his church. He spent the next seven years proselytizing, spending most of his time with Judd and Bruce Barnes. He had to amputate his left arm after it was crushed in a rock slide while he and Judd were traveling back to the rest of the Young Tribulation Force from their adventures in the Middle East, but gained it back when Jesus returned at the end of the series.
He came to stay in Petra after the marriage of Judd and Vicki where he was best man. At the end of the series he went to Jerusalem with the other believers. His mother and father, unbelievers, died because of the events after the rapture. He was the last one out of the four to become a believer. He was best friends with Rayford "Raymie" Steele Jr. Ryan finds a dog and names it Phoenix early on in the series. He and Lionel often clashed to the point of a brawl, yet they were still very close. Ryan died a couple days after the Wrath of the Lamb earthquake, having had a chunk of debris fall on him, causing his legs to become paralyzed and a wound in his back to become badly infected, from which he died soon afterward.
These books were written from to and are still in print today, with over 11 million sold in series. Unlike the adult series, Left Behind, they have no prequels or sequels and, as LaHaye is now deceased, none will be written , but are a set of 40 books focused on the Tribulation. The series was originally due to have 48 books, but was cut to 40 as the huge 2 year jump in Ominous Choices cut out a lot of possible material.