A "true crime" book about band The Shivers, the rise and then the big, tragic fall: from their early days, the blood soaked riots at their concerts, to the day, at the height of their fame, lead singer Lily Lawless confessed to a murder ten years before... The band agreed to finally break their silence …
(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …
This book of short stories, titled Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love is from the British Library Tales of the Weird series. It features 12 stories of doomed or dark romances from some best loved authors, from Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins to Angela Carter and Nalo Hopkinson. A nice snap shot of this …
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Clove lives the life of her dreams: A loving husband, two gorgeous children, a beautiful home with organic foods and a full closet, but the fears of her secret past coming to light or history repeating means she compulsively takes supplements and uses affirmations and impulse buying to keep the lies she's told in place. …
In the day's leading up to Agne's daughter's wedding, Uncle Malcolm decides to give Agnes a letter, written by her mother, that he's been holding on to since the war, while Joe anticipates seeing Agnes, whose therapist he was and who he has feelings for. Agnes, meanwhile, thinks back over her failed marriage and the …
The interconnected night time lives of different in habitants of Tokyo are explored in this slim book, with each chapter starting at 1AM. Mitsuki works at a movie prop warehouse and has to source loquat fruits in the middle of the night. Kanako works at a 24 hour advice call centre and has a brother …
Coco does not know anyone on Nantucket, when she follows wealthy newcomers the Richardsons to the island where they have just bought a huge house and hired her as a concierge. They are also new in town, and their wild ways and wealth have everyone talking, right up until one night after a party, their …
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest continual study of happiness inthe world, demonstrates that personal relationships are keys to emotional and physicalhealth (2023). By connecting to each other and to community, we in turn provide forourselves. Finding that true feeling of connection isn’t always easy. Introduction - Friends Of Friends Of Friends Friends …
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August goes to university as a track star poised for success, and hoping to get out from under his overbearing sisters influence. There he meets Segun, who is openly gay, which in Nigeria is illegal, and he can't stop thinking about him. While their love blooms, August feel unable to come out, under pressure from …
Continue reading And Then He Sang A Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
Jane Start is a music star who had a hit ten years ago, but who has had middling success since. When the writer of her original song, Jonesy, contacts her about performing at the Royal Albert Hall, she reluctantly gets on a plane, where she meets cute with a handsome Oxford English Professor. Soon they …
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