![]() ![]() She loves to hear from young readers, so don’t hesitate to contact her. Kathryn has a degree in journalism, but prefers writing fiction to non-fiction. Horses have influenced her writing from a young age and are often featured in her stories. ![]() ![]() Kathryn began horseback riding at the age of seven and began writing at about the same time. Butler grew up in a small town in Tennessee. Can Sidney find out who is behind the strange occurrences before Blue Moon Stables is forced to shut its doors? Fitzpatrick, is distraught and considering closing the stables forever. Someone seems determined to ruin the stables, and the owner and instructor, Mrs. As the summer progresses and Sidney’s love for horses grows, the events become more sinister and a riding student is injured. ![]() Odd things have been happening and according to Bryan, the riding instructor’s less than charming son, the stables are cursed. But after their first lesson, it’s clear something is very wrong at Blue Moon Stables. When Sidney Sinclair and her best friend and neighbor, Jane Abbot, find out they will be taking lessons at the new riding stable across the road, they are looking forward to meeting their lesson horses and riding for the first time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital.Īt Nora’s house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. ![]() Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations.Īt the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has lectured at Yale, Columbia, New York University, Wesleyan University, and University of Chicago, as well as many community and synagogue groups. She has taught at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and is on the faculty of the New York Writer’s Workshop. She has contributed essays and articles to The New York Times, O, Real Simple, and many other newspapers and magazines. Sally is the former editor-in-chief of McCall’s Magazine. Her books have been published in a dozen countries. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham the international bestseller THE LATE, LAMENTED MOLLY MARX THE WIDOW WALTZ WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE and LITTLE PINK SLIPS. ![]() Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Today’s recommendation comes from Sally Koslow, author of the novels ANOTHER SIDE OF PARADISE, a historical novel about the shocking love affair of F. The Widow Waltz By: Sally Koslow Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins 4.0 (27 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. And the reviews and recommendations make me eager to read every single one! One of the joys of putting together this #read99women series has been learning about books I hadn’t heard of before. ![]() ![]() A furious power ballad about never giving up, even in the face of overwhelming odds, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul…where only a girl with a guitar can save us all. It’s a journey that will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a Satanic rehab center and finally to a Las Vegas music festival that’s darker than any Mordor Tolkien could imagine. This revelation prompts Kris to hit the road, reunite with the rest of her bandmates, and confront the man who ruined her life. ![]() Everything changes when she discovers a shocking secret from her heavy metal past: Turns out that Terry’s meteoric rise to success may have come at the price of Kris’s very soul. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western – she’s tired, broke, and unhappy. In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success - but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls About ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer DeLucy has created a unique, enchanting tale of destiny and the ageless power of love in her debut novel, Seers of Light. She must learn the truth about who she is, the powerful beings that wish to destroy her, and the two men who would die to protect her. Before it’s too late, Lillian is ripped from the only existence she’s ever known and thrust into a reality that she always suspected, but could scarcely believe. But some things-disappearing strangers, tangible dreams, and visits from malevolent creatures-cannot be ignored. Always sensing more to the world than is easily perceived, she fears that her instincts are stubborn flights of fancy, or worse, mental instability. Goodreads Summary: Lillian Hunt has never truly lived. You can find Seers Of Light on goodreads, and you can find Jennifer DeLucy on Twitter, Facebook and her blog Published February 2010 by Omnific Publishing|372 pages ![]() ![]() ![]() fans of Yoon’s first novel, Everything Everything, will find much to love-if not, more-in what is easily an even stronger follow up." - Entertainment Weekly ![]() "A book that is very much about the many factors that affect falling in love, as much as it is about the very act itself. ![]() The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store-for both of us. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.ĭaniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Her mother would lock her in her room and not give her dinner, if she got angry at her,” said Andrew Neiderman, author of the new biography, which will be published on Thursday. ![]() The book claims that when Andrews – who spent most of her adult life housebound in a wheelchair – was disobedient, her “controlling” mother would imprison her in her bedroom and deprive her of a meal as a punishment. Now, startling parallels between the lives of the children imprisoned in the attic and Virginia Andrews’s own life as a severely disabled woman are to be laid bare for the first time in a forthcoming biography, The Woman Beyond the Attic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolitzer spends the rest of her masterly novel filling in the details of lives merged and separated through the decades. "Just by being here in this tepee at the designated hour, they all seduced one another with greatness, or with the assumption of eventual greatness," says the narrator of the Meg Wolitzer novel.īy the third chapter, hints of that greatness - and inevitable disappointments - are revealed with a glimpse into the future 35 years after that summer night in Massachusetts. The half-dozen: Ash Wolf, a beauty her magnetic brother, Goodman Cathy Kiplinger, a dancer comfortable in the body of a non-dancer good-hearted Ethan Figman, an unattractive but prodigiously talented animator Jonah Bay, the guitar-playing son of a famous folk singer and Julie Jacobson, "an outsider and possibly even a freak" who is invited into the circle and takes the name Jules. When the Interestings are introduced, on the night of their ironic self-naming, the six confident teenagers - gathered in a tepee at a summer camp for artistic types - are impressed by themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over five years, nine publishers rejected the draft. It is a rhythmical story of Australia's varied landscapes and the animals in them.įox wrote her first draft for Possum Magic in 1978, during a course in children's literature at Flinders University. The story details the duo's adventures as they tour Australia searching for the secret to Hush's visibility. Hush has been made invisible by Grandma to protect her from Australian bush dangers. The two main characters are Grandma Poss and Hush. In 2001, a film was made by the American company Weston Woods and narrated by the author. ![]() It concerns a young female possum, named Hush, who becomes invisible and has a number of adventures. Possum Magic is a 1983 children's picture book by Australian author Mem Fox, and illustrated by Julie Vivas. ![]() ![]() Mrs Gamart's nephew, a member of parliament, sponsors a bill that empowers local councils to buy any historic building that has been left uninhabited for five years. She is opposed by the influential and ambitious Mrs Gamart, who wants to acquire the Old House to set up an arts centre. ![]() After many sacrifices, Florence manages to start her business, which grows for about a year, after which sales slump. The location she chooses is the Old House, an abandoned, damp property said to be haunted by a "rapper" ( poltergeist). The novel, set mainly in 1959, follows Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk (a thinly-disguised version of Southwold). ![]() ![]() The novel was made into a film by Isabel Coixet in 2017. The Bookshop is a 1978 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. ![]() |