The Ruins Of Us
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Author |
: Keija Parssinen |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2012-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062064493 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062064495 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins of Us by : Keija Parssinen
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying powerful Abdullah Baylani, American-born Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. That discovery plunges their family into chaos as Rosalie grapples with leaving Saudi Arabia, her life, and her family behind. Meanwhile, Abdullah and Rosalie’s consuming personal entanglements blind them to the crisis approaching their sixteen-year-old son, Faisal, whose deepening resentment toward their lifestyle has led to his involvement with a controversial sheikh. When Faisal makes a choice that could destroy everything his embattled family holds dear, all must confront difficult truths as they fight to preserve what remains of their world. The Ruins of Us is a timely story about intolerance, family, and the injustices we endure for love that heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in contemporary fiction.
Author |
: Scott Smith |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2006-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307266040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307266044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins by : Scott Smith
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today
Author |
: Catharina Maura |
Publisher |
: Ichara Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2020-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 988753191X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789887531913 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins Of Us by : Catharina Maura
What do you do when the one that got away comes back? Carter I thought I was doing right by those Emilia and I both love when I let her go. So why has not a single thing in my life felt right since she left? Emilia is back now, and I'm ready to fight like hell for her. But how do I convince Emilia to give me another chance when she keeps going out of her way to avoid me? Emilia It's been years since I've been back in Woodstock. Had it been up to me, I'd never have come back at all. I don't want to be here - I don't want to be around Carter. So why does life keep pushing me back to him? Author's Note: The Ruins Of Us is the final book in the Mayhem trilogy that followed Emilia Parker and Carter Clarke through high school, college and adulthood. Emilia and Carter will definitely have their well-deserved HEA in this book, and this will conclude their story.
Author |
: Martha Sherrill |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2007-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101118023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101118024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins of California by : Martha Sherrill
For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie, a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves, at once bold and innocent, creative and chaotic, obsessed and liberating.
Author |
: Camilo J. Vergara |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015047430015 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Ruins by : Camilo J. Vergara
Photographer and sociologist Camilo José Vergara has spent years documenting the decline of the built environment in New York City; Newark and Camden, New Jersey; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Chicago; Gary, Indiana; Detroit; and Los Angeles.
Author |
: Kevin Powers |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316556484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316556483 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Shout in the Ruins by : Kevin Powers
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation outside of Richmond, Virginia. When war arrives, the master of Beauvais, Anthony Levallios, foresees that dominion in a new America will be measured not in acres of tobacco under cultivation by his slaves, but in industry and capital. A grievously wounded Confederate veteran loses his grip on a world he no longer understands, and his daughter finds herself married to Levallois, an arrangement that feels little better than imprisonment. And two people enslaved at Beauvais plantation, Nurse and Rawls, overcome impossible odds to be together, only to find that the promise of coming freedom may not be something they will live to see. Seamlessly interwoven is the story of George Seldom, a man orphaned by the storm of the Civil War, looking back from the 1950s on the void where his childhood ought to have been. Watching the government destroy his neighborhood to build a stretch of interstate highway through Richmond, he travels south in an attempt to recover his true origins. With the help of a young woman named Lottie, he goes in search of the place he once called home, all the while reckoning with the more than 90 years he lived as witness to so much that changed during the 20th century, and so much that didn't. As we then watch Lottie grapple with life's disappointments and joys in the 1980's, now in her own middle-age, the questions remain: How do we live in a world built on the suffering of others? And can love exist in a place where for 400 years violence has been the strongest form of intimacy? Written with the same emotional intensity, harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in the Ruins cements Powers' place in the forefront of American letters and demands that we reckon with the moral weight of our troubling history.
Author |
: Catharina Maura |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1955981000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781955981002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stolen Moments by : Catharina Maura
A single kiss changes everything for two lifelong rivals in this best friend's brother romance.It was hate at first sight for Emilia and Carter. Neither remembers how their feud started - yet every day, their war intensifies.Until one night. One unexpected kiss blurs the lines between love and hate, and their lives are forever changed.The stakes have never been higher. Carter is Emilia's best friend's brother, after all.
Author |
: Walker Percy |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2011-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781453216200 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1453216200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Love in the Ruins by : Walker Percy
DIVDIV“A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless.” —Chicago Sun Times/divDIV/divDIVIn Walker Percy’s future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The country’s one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose “lapsometer” is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictions—anxiety, depression, alienation—driving everyone’s destructive and disastrous behavior./divDIV /divDIVBut such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed./div /div
Author |
: Juan Gabriel Vasquez |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735211162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735211167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shape of the Ruins by : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
Author |
: Phoebe Wynne |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250800695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250800692 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ruins by : Phoebe Wynne
A suspenseful, contemporary Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of the French Riviera.