[PDF] Rachel And Annie eBook

Author : Paul Seifert
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595193587

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The front was rapidly approaching. Without batteries, the engine could not be started. Tom grasped his granddaughter's diminutive shoulder and drew her closer. "You saved my life. You know that, don't you?" Rachel said nothing. She seemed content with renewed contact with him. They both slept for a time, a consequence of sheer emotional and physical exhaustion. Tom awoke to find Rachel sitting propped against the mast pulpit watching him. Her face was no longer that of a young girl. A careworn, haggard pair of eyes peered from that face. Tom berated himself for inflicting such a brutal loss of innocence upon his granddaughter. Although his chest felt like it was filled with jagged glass, he was gratified to find he had much more strength in his right arm. He was now also able to move his legs. The time was late afternoon. A strange eerie quiet had descended upon the sea. The soft soughing of the wind in the rigging was gentle, almost harmonious in quality. The sky was overcast, but the fog had dissipated to wispy patches that seemed to waft over the boat like filaments of gossamer cotton. From his vantage point, Tom could see the swells receding into the distance like the hillocks of a Yorkshire moor. He thought about the ending of "Wuthering Heights," remembering the quiet sleepers there in the quiet earth. He envied them, for he sensed that the tranquil sea would not remain quiet long.

Author : Rachel Harrison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593202031

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A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She’s stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. More importantly, she wants Annie to stop apologizing and start living for herself. That’s how Sophie lives. Annie can’t help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, wanting to spend more and more time with her, despite the fact that the rest of the townsfolk seem…a little afraid of her. And like, okay. There are some things. Sophie’s appearance is uncanny and ageless, her mansion in the middle of the woods feels a little unearthly, and she does seem to wield a certain power…but she couldn’t be…could she?

Author : Annie Cole
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2012-12-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781481049160

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SOME THINGS SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED.Hades likes seeing people suffer. He wants Atlantis and the power it holds.He wants Raven's soul.And Hades plans to destroy everything Raven cares about to get what he wants.The Children of Atlantis series takes mythology and blends it with science fiction for a unique twist on traditional mythology

Author : Betty Miles
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Death
ISBN : 9780394820439

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Twelve-year-old Annie is unwilling to face some major changes in her life.

Author : Annie Rachel Cole
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2012-07-21
Category : Atlantis (Legendary place)
ISBN : 9781478195061

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DESTINY COMES WITH A PRICE.Raven Weir has never been a normal teenager. She has a destiny-a destiny that makes itself known on her sixteenth birthday, when she receives a mysterious necklace containing the key codes to the legendary Atlantis and the power hidden there. Whoever controls Atlantis has the power to rule the world, and Zeus will stop at nothing to gain control of it, but he's not alone in his quest for the powers hidden there. Others want Atlantis too, and are willing to do anything to get it.Raven quickly discovers being the Guardian of Atlantis is least of her problems. Her mom has disappeared, her history teacher and a crazed Hell Hound are trying to kill her, she's being chased by government agents, a trio of nymphs has sworn to protect her, and then Raven discovers the truth about her parents.The Children of Atlantis series takes mythology and blends it with science fiction for a unique twist on traditional mythology.

Author : Annie Sprinkle
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 145296579X

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The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth What’s sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely—or, perhaps, broadly—what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art, exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, materialist, exuberant, and steeped in humor. Assuming the Ecosexual Position tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of ecosexuality—for Annie, in her family swimming pool in Los Angeles; for Beth, savoring forbidden tomatoes from the vine on her grandparents’ Appalachian farm. The book describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory, which involved influential performance artists Linda M. Montano, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and feminist pornographer Madison Young. Stephens and Sprinkle share the process of making interactive performance art, including the Chemo Fashion Show, Cuddle, Sidewalk Sex Clinics, and Ecosex Walking Tours. Over the years, they celebrated many more weddings to various nature entities, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. To create these weddings, they collaborated with hundreds of people and invited thousands of guests as they vowed to love, honor, and cherish the many elements of the Earth. As entertaining as it is deeply serious, and arriving at a perilous time of sharp differences and constricting categories, the story of this artistic collaboration between Sprinkle, Stephens, their diverse communities, and the Earth opens gender and sexuality, art and environmentalism, to the infinite possibilities and promise of love.

Author : Rachel Kadish
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544866673

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WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph." Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink is about women separated by centuries—and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.

Author : Rachel Searles
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1466856955

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This is what the boy is told: - He woke up on planet Trucon, inside of a fence line he shouldn't have been able to cross. - He has an annirad blaster wound to the back of his head. - He has no memory. - He is now under the protection of a mysterious benefactor. - His name is Chase Garrety. This is what Chase Garrety knows: - He has a message: "Guide the star." - Time is running out.

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374712360

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A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people's motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years. A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail

Author : Mary Ann Shaffer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2009-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408803313

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The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.