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Escape from Paradise
When college sophomore Angela Birch sneaks from Texas to Mexico for Spring Break, she believes the worst that can happen is her parents finding out. Wrong. The worst is falling for the ruse of handsome, alluring Fernando. One spontaneous choice whisks Angela across the world to the pseudo paradise of Spain's Mediterranean Riviera where she has another choice to make: live cooperatively as one of billionaire Marco Ruiz's slaves, or die. * * * Colin Douglas's future was seized and choked when deliberate tragedy struck his Scottish family at the age of sixteen. He spent his remaining youthful years infiltrating the U.K.'s crime world, seeking power, control, and revenge, all leading to a position as an undercover agent. With nothing to lose, Colin accepts the seemingly impossible job of rescuing America's famous missing girl, Angela Birch. Colin knows that to enter a snake lair, one must become a snake. It turns out to be a mission which will put his desire for control to the ultimate test, and make him wish for things he never knew he wanted.
The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism
Politics and culture are at once semi-autonomous and intertwined. Nowhere is this more revealingly illustrated than in urban design, a field that encompasses architecture and social life, traditions and modernization. Here aesthetic goals and political intentions meet, sometimes in collaboration, sometimes in conflict. Here the formal qualities of art confront the complexities of history. When urban design policies are implemented, they reveal underlying aesthetic, cultural, and political dilemmas with startling clarity. Gwendolyn Wright focuses on three French colonies--Indochina, Morocco, and Madagascar--that were the most discussed, most often photographed, and most admired showpieces of ...
Their Gilded Cage
Author Hutto presents the quintessential stories of America's oldest money. Readers will meet Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt, and other members in the parlors of the Jekyll Island Club, a pristine Georgia retreat.
Edge of Dystopia: Wroth
Darlene Coopersmith’s world is falling apart. What makes it worse, is that she’s to blame. Because of an ill-conceived plan she set in motion that has torn Uprising apart, she might lose Alicia, the only person that’s mattered to her since her family's deaths. With Alicia’s life hanging by a thread, Darlene’s mind is spiraling. If the kid dies, there’s no saying what Darlene would do in her grief. A monster lurks under her skin, and the barest hint of self-control is keeping it a bay. Just when all is surely lost, it’s discovered that there might be a way to save Alicia. The journey will likely be wrought with danger and one of her companions despises her as much as she does him, but there are no lengths Darlene won’t go to, to save Alicia. The whole world could, and might, burn if it means the kid lives.
Trespassing
“A striking memoir of a gifted black woman’s lonely, difficult, and unsatisfying climb to the heights of American power and prestige.” —Kirkus Reviews Parker’s compelling memoir offers a revealing glimpse inside corporate America through the eyes of a black woman “intruder.” From a nurturing childhood in a middle-class black community, Parker rose in the ranks on Wall Street only to discover that racism and sexism still prevail at the top. Full of both outrage and regret, Trespassing is frank and unflinching but leavened with humor and compassion. “An important, keenly observed work that should be read by everyone who is interested in a good story, as well as by those intrigu...
A Very Romantic Murder
Jeffery Bruster is driving his 1933 Hispano-Suiza J12 cabriolet along a West Country road on a wicked night of rain and fog when he sees a woman in a satin dress at the side of the road. He offers her a lift which she neither accepts nor rejects. He gets out and urges her to let him take her somewhere warm. She is crying. How did Gwendolyn de LaRoux come to be there? Why is she silent? What has happened back at Lady Lea-Maskerville's estate? When Jeffery finds out, Gwendolyn misses one important detail; her husband Vincent has been murdered, shot through the chest. Here's a classic English tale of mystery and murder with side trips to France, Belgium, Australia and the Congo. Fall in love with Gwendolyn and Jeffery and a tale of murder and marriage.
Building The Dream
For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly disappear from middle-class houses at the turn of the century? How did the federal highway system change the way millions of Americans raised their families? Building the Dream introduces the parade of people, policies, and ideologies that have shaped the course of our daily lives by shaping the rooms we have grown up in. In the row houses of colonial Philadelphia, the luxury apartments of New York City, the prefab houses of Levittown, and the public-housing towers of Chicago, Wright discovers revealing clues to our past and a new way of looking at such contemporary issues as integration, sustainable energy, the needs of the elderly, and how we define "family."
USA
Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account the evolution of American architecture, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first.
Paradise
Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of its American citizens with astonishing clarity. It is through their eyes we see the clashes that have defined a nation. 'When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose' Hilary Mantel, Spectator 'Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception' Caryl Phillips, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED **Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
Tourniquet
The world is in a struggle amongst those who have faith. An organization known as the Agnostic Alliance, or the Double A, has tested the faithful enough to make ninety percent of the world's population Agnostic. Gwendolyn Anderson, a peaceful yet ambitious journalist and devout Christian, is the strongest voice of the remaining ten percent of the people holding onto their faith as she tries to uncover flaws and contradictions in the methods of rationalization that the Double A has implemented on all faith. The Double A has proposed one of the biggest projects yet that will expand the entire globe. Gwendolyn must figure out their real agenda. She visits the numerous buildings known as "Palaces of Scientific Theory" newly built around the world seeking the truth behind the mask of the Double A, even if it means going face to face with the ruthless and psychopathic leader of the Double A, Eliza Roark. The Alpha Jan describes the extreme view known as agnosticism along with the understanding of true belief through a dystopian tale of a world that chooses to abandon faith for instant gratification with temporary results.
