From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful-at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost...

Sometimes I feel frantic. And I feel like everything has just spun out of control, out of my hands? I don?t know. I feel a bit like for a while I have been carrying ten balls of wool. And one ball fell, so I dropped another to catch it, but still didn?t catch it. Then two more started to unravel and in trying to save those I lost another one. Do you know what I mean? Meet Queenie Jenkins: Journalist, catastrophist. Expressive, aggressive. Funny, dramatic....

A picture hides a thousand words... On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she has been offered a job as a typist under the tutelage of the glamorous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick. But though Quick takes Odelle into her confidence, and unlocks a potential...

Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes�ever more�reckless as she�struggles to accept�her�new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world,�she�must be stronger than ever? because�more shocking choices�and sacrifices lie ahead. Praise for DIVERGENT: ?The next big thing. ? (Rolling Stone ) ?If you like Hunger Games...

Teenage Johanna lives with her aunt Solveig in a small house bordering the forest on the outskirts of a remote coastal town in Finland. She leads a lonely existence that is punctuated by visits to her privileged classmate, Ulla B�ckstr�m, who lives in the nearby luxury gated community. It isn?t until Ulla tells her the local lore about the American girl and the tragedy that took place more than thirty years before that Johanna begins to question...

I wasn?t running from the darkness at the edge of nowhere - I was running toward the light at the heart of the empire. Sylvie has always known she deserves more. Out in the permanent twilight of the Dusklands, her guardians called her power to create illusions a curse. But Sylvie knows it gives her a place in Coeur d'Or, the palais of the Amber Empress and her highborn legacies. So Sylvie sets off toward the Amber City, a glittering jewel under a...

In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and intellectual formation. As she comes of age in an America whose freedoms are distorted by race and gender, she finds herself reflected in a cast of others - jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes and stars. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author?s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive...