![]() ![]() “Flynn’s well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.” - The New Yorker “ nerve-fraying thriller.” - The New York Times As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron. ![]()
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As he writes in the poignant foreword, included with this edition: ‘I am not a character in this novel I am the novel.’ In a nod to the tête-bêche binding style popular with early pulp publishers, the two titles are bound upside down relative to each other, and each features a different illustrator. ![]() His twin sister died when only a few weeks old, and his characters often find themselves at odds with ‘phantom twins’ and multiple identities, while his habitual drug use inspired A Scanner Darkly. Both novels, written with Dick’s trademark energy and prescience, explore many of the author’s personal obsessions. ![]() ![]() He soon finds himself trapped between protecting his above-reproach reputation and searching for a way to help a woman he is coming to admire. Upon arriving at his DC apartment, however, Ben is shocked to find Maya–his sister’s friend, who he hardly knows–in residence. 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In this immersive debut novel, Whitney Scharer has brought a brilliant and pioneering artist out of the shadow of a man's story and into the light. ![]() The Age of Light is a powerfully sensuous tale of ambition, love, and the personal price of making art. ![]() Man is an egotistical, charismatic force, and soon their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined.Īs Lee begins to assert herself, and moves from being a muse to an artist, Man's jealousy spirals out of control, and their mutual betrayals threaten to destroy them both. Gorgeous and talented, she catches the eye of renowned Surrealist artist Man Ray and convinces him to hire her as his assistant. One cool day in 1929, Lee Miller arrives in bohemian Paris to pursue her dream of being an artist, having left behind a successful modelling career at Vogue. "Scharer captures the thrill of artistic creation and the swirling hedonism of Paris's beautiful people." 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The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed audiobook sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa’s mission is finally complete. ![]() ![]() ![]() Followed the woolly sound of the cable in the hawse-hole a grunt and squeal of the windlass a yaw, a punt, and a kick, and the “We’re Here” gathered herself together to repeat the motions. He could hear the flaring bows cut and squelch, and there was a pause ere the divided waters came down on the deck above, like a volley of buck-shot. ![]() Up and up the fo’c’sle climbed, yearning and surging and quivering, and then, with a clear, sickle-like swoop, came down into the seas. The black bulk of the cook balanced behind the tiny galley over the glare of the stove, and the pots and pans in the pierced wooden board before it jarred and racketed to each plunge. HARVEY waked to find the “first half” at breakfast, the fo’c’sle door drawn to a crack, and every square inch of the schooner singing its own tune. ![]() |