Tragedy Girls

Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga’s mother-in-law—a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman—had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga and her son, Frank, prior to Olga’s disappearance.

1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future - until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her.

Our protagonist was an otaku and hid that fact from everyone. After he gave up hiding this fact, he was eventually scorned by his friends and his own family. After some time being despised, he was expelled from home because he had become a NEET. After that, he began to live alone and had to find a job to support himself. He worked a fucking job and was practically a slave. But one day when he opened the store by himself, he had a stupid accident, and since he had no one to help him He died right there in a pathetic accident. He thought it would be the end of his life, but suddenly he opened...

"Fans of Debbie Macomber, The Chesapeake Bay series and Elin Hilderbrand will love this series..." Kindle Reader "A story about friendship, sisterhood, mother-daughter relationships, finding your inner strength in the face of adversity, starting over, and the pursuit of true love..." Andi's Books "Best book of the year. I know it's only March, but it is....Ms. Keaton's storytelling is brilliant..." Harlie's Books She's 54, broken-hearted, and starting over.... High-powered New York attorney Ava Flynn finds herself without a job or a future. Unemployable at her age, and broken-hearted by a ...

When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face a harrowing punishment. Within twenty-four hours, Maureen was taken from her home and her beloved grandmother, and sent to the Magdalene Laundry in New Ross, Co. Wexford, run by the Order of the Good Shepherd nuns. She was told that she would receive an education there, but instead she was immediately stripped of her meagre possessions and thrown into ...

Two friends, a renovation project, and complex layers of history that are destined to repeat. Claire and Roxie team up to purchase an old house in the country in an attempt to leave the trials of their lives behind them. The women are both nursing fresh wounds from recent traumas and an unhurried fix-and-flip project represents an appealing change of direction. Eager to get the renovations underway, they start to peel away decades of wallpaper with the intention of bringing the house back to life. The project has barely begun when Roxie announces that she has invited her new boyfriend to ...

Hallie is having the time of her life working at the retreat. There, she meets Pete, a shy and overweight man who tugs on Hallie's heartstrings. Pete needs Hallie, which is very attractive to her. But she also has a thing for Conrad, her housemate. When she's given a choice between the two, who will she choose? Meanwhile, Fiona Kennedy, who is an acquaintance of Samantha's, and an A-List, Academy Award-winning actress, joins the group. She has everything in her life except a family. But she discovers she was adopted and her mother is Greer Davidson, who is a tarot reader and new friend of ...

A scream shatters the frigid silence of a desolate tundra. Panuches once thrived on the fruits of life, but an undead curse left him broken and unloved. While searching for a purpose in his misery, every prospect faded to dust . . . all except one: to find the end of the world. A place so inhospitable that only a monster such as he would dare travel there; a place to fade away. However, when centuries of travel reach their climax, a fateful encounter with a mortal leaves him questioning his path. Will a new purpose rise from the dust, or is Panuches destined for a monster’s fate after all?

When Prince Venice decides to throw a yacht party, he expects a bad press day but gets so much more than he anticipated. USA Today Bestselling Author Stephanie Fowers takes you on a romantic adventure to an island where Greek tragedies aren't things of the past and love often leads down dangerous roads. Now that the vile revolutionaries have been driven underground after years of waging a devastating civil war against his family, Venice reluctantly emerges from hiding. Despite his father's insistence that he take up his princely duties as heir, Venice only wants his freedom. His deranged ex...

En México, nada detiene la violencia contra las mujeres y lo más trágico es que los golpes, el abuso sexual y el asesinato ocurren también con las niñas, víctimas de la perversidad de los seres humanos, la complicidad—en muchos casos—de familiares y la indiferencia de las autoridades. #Con las niñas no y tampoco los niños es una investigación sin precedentes sobre el feminicidio infantil que devela cómo en la pandemia creció este delito, quiénes son los verdugos y cómo cruzan este infierno los padres de estas niñas y niños sacrificados.

Tess fights societal norms on big girls by day and craves love by night. Not finding it in her home country, she flies to the Caribbean in hopes of being seen for once next to her hot friend, Becky. But things don’t go as expected — or rather, they do. As usual, Becky scores all the guys. On the verge of giving up, Tess stumbles upon something she’d never thought she’d have: love. Now with Mark, a sweet-talking Rasta, leading her by the hand, she feels invincible. She feels sexy. But island living comes at a price and Tess doesn’t realise she’s gone into debt. MARK & TESS brings...

Brendella-The story you know, but the backstory you may not! Long before Brendella began to dream of a much better life, she had a family, a young daughter of the Ronson family, the daughter of Mario and Lucille Ronson. The Ronsons are a couple whose love for each other overcomes all obstacles, until an unexpected tragedy would alter their lives forever! Experience the backstory of the beginning of a child who would become the girl who would become a woman entangled in adbenture, and experience the uncovering of the Brendella legacy like never before!

In the Civil War, the government hired women and girls - some as young as nine - to make millions of rounds of ammunition. They worked 72-hour weeks with little training. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up, and burned beyond recognition. Gunpowder Girls is a story of child labor and immigrant hopes and the cruel, endless demands of an all-consuming war. A Junior Library Guild selection.

She has two dreams, but can't have it both ways. What will she choose, and what will she have to give up to get it? Will she find her prince, or sing her way to the top? Will she find happiness, or will it all blow up in her face? Will tragedy take it all away? Can she heal her wounds? Find the answers in this next Girls and I book while we read Brittany's story, Eleanor's youngest daughter.

Cecile has been raised to a life of privilege at Polruan House, by her widowed father and aunt. Now she's of age, they are determined that she make a proper match, but Cecile's heart belongs to their coachman, Sam - most definitely not suitable marriage material. When Sam turns to his friend, smuggler Zach Carver, for help eloping with Cecile, Zach tells of a recent encounter with Lise, a beautiful but poor girl in St Ives, who is the mirror image of Cecile.

"A romantic drama that pulls you in right from the beginning!" Amazon reviewer , ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ During her summer vacation, sixteen-year-old Californian surfer Dylan Rice thinks she has found the love of her life in gifted blond surfer Reef Taylor. But their fiery relationship is put on hold after her family suffers a tragic event, and when Reef finds love with Dylan’s best friend, Emmy, she understands that she must move on. But when Dylan and Reef lose Emmy in a terrible accident, they are pushed even further apart. Dylan leaves her hometown, hoping to put the past behind her. Eight ...

NEW COVER AND EDITION FOR SERENA MCLEEN'S FIRST BESTSELLER—AN INDEPENDENT AUTHOR WITH OVER 70,000 COPIES SOLD IN ITALY! Leonard Ross lives with his wife in New York, where he has run for many years an antique store he inherited from his family. His life goes by uneventfully until it is suddenly turned upside-down by the appearance of an elderly woman who hastily delivers an old box to him. A few days later, he receives other objects, so he begins to grow suspicious. Leonard has never seen these items, and there’s nothing familiar about them. Why were they given to him exactly? Could it ...

The Tragedy Paper follows the story of Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants - he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into the background, he finds himself falling for the quintessential “It” girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of Irving’s most popular boy. To Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, but she can kiss her social status goodbye if anyone ever finds out.

With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls - some as young as 10 - to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition.

'This heartfelt story is perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn' - Candis 'Gritty and moving story-telling' - Peterborough Telegraph Annie Murray's The Pearl Button Girl is book one in the Children of Birmingham series, starting in Victorian Birmingham and following the trials and...