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A 672 page, award-winning biography of country music singer Jim Reeves based on hundreds of interviews and Jim's private diaries. Virtually a day by day account of the life of this internationally renowned star.
Under the Moss follows the relationship of troubled Ben and the enigmatic Sophie. After their whirlwind romance, Sophie begins a mysterious obsession with moss which takes over their lives. And in Ben’s attempts to calm an increasingly erratic Sophie, he discovers something which changes the entire meaning of their relationship. Why is Sophie hiding her past? Who is spying on the house? And what’s growing beneath the moss in the garden? Finalist – 2021 Page Turner Writing Award
ACCLAIM FOR PAGE-TURNER "Brings alive almost every tough issue a writer of fiction must confront . . . friendly and fun to read." - Albert Zuckerman, founder of Writers House literary agency "Kyle knows her stuff. She breaks down both the art and the craft of writing in a way that is entertaining and easy to understand." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong ABOUT THE BOOK What makes a page-turner? What mysterious literary essence holds a reader so hard they feel they must keep reading? And then tell friends, "I couldn't put it down!" And what do literary agents and publishers really look for in a manuscript? Internationally acclaimed author and story coach Barbara Kyle rev...
Oliver is small, from footprint to glasses. He gets an old bike for his birthday and loves it, but not everyone does. Challenged to a race by the meanest bully in school, will Oliver be big enough to prove heroes come in all sizes?
What happens when you have to deal with something devastating you cannot change? In Graham Bullen's The Broch, we follow the moving journey of a man running away from answers and towards the realities of his own mortality in the wilds of the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Martin, locked inside the prison of his recently acquired alcoholism, is on a quest to fulfil the promise of a holiday booked weeks before his wife’s sudden death. He stays in the reconstruction of an Iron Age dwelling overlooking the white-sanded fringes of the North Atlantic. Twenty miles to his north lies The Clisham, a coastal peak from which he plans to end his life. We wrestle with the destruction of Martin’s life plan;...
Society often tells us to expect the worst yet hope for the best. In the breakout new book by HGTV star and real estate (mogul), Page Turner, she shares how she learned to expect only the best while seizing every opportunity that would propel her business and create a lasting legacy for her family. She was able create the lifestyle of her dreams by re-writing her story and creating her own blueprint as a single mom with three daughters (and no child support). Page strives to share her purpose plan and keys to execution on how you too can seize your greatest opportunities by living The G.O. Life! Page believes that if she can do it, so can you! With the G.O. Life, your next move, will be your best move!
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2019 A New York Times 2019 Notable Book 2019 BOOK OF THE YEAR: Oprah Magazine, Time, Vulture, and Entertainment Weekly 'The Need is a profound meditation on the nature of reality, a fearless examination of parenthood, and also somehow a thriller. This is an extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers' Emily St. John Mandel She crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them. The baby in her right arm, the child in her left. There were footsteps in the other room... Molly is exhausted, anxious, losing her grip on reality. Her husband is away and she is running between her childr...
New York Times "An elegant page-turner ... Charges forward with the momentum of a bullet."--New York Times Book Review For fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz's two grown children, flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and her author's children conspire to solve the mystery of Yagoda's curious disappearance and staunch the colorful demands of her various outstanding affairs: the rapacious loan shark with a zeal for severing body parts, and the washed-up and disillusioned editor who launched Yagoda's career years earlier. Idra Novey's exhilarating debut is both a novel of ideas and a novel of intrigue, an innovative combination of mystery, noir, and humor
When their island kingdom falls under siege, royal brothers Noa and Dagan must follow a magical map and confront the legendary one-eyed pirate before evil takes over their world.