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Lucky

Lucky

Alice Sebold

In a memoir hailed for its searing candour and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus.
The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Delve into the intricacies of this wrenching story through these questions: How is Sebold's vision of heaven unique? Why have some readers criticized it? Why does Susie haunt her friends and family after her death? What is she looking for?
The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Alice Sebold

With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson.
The Almost Moon

The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold

. . The Almost Moon is a mature, salutary and timely novel’ Helen Dunmore, The Times ‘Exhilarating, unforgettable . . . This is a remarkable novel in which every word is vital, each nuance felt . . .
The Lovely Bones: Picador 40th Anniversary Edition

The Lovely Bones: Picador 40th Anniversary Edition

Alice Sebold

I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon.
Lucky

Lucky

Alice Sebold

Lucky is, quite simply, a real-life thriller. In its literary style and narrative tension we never lose sight of why this life story is worth reading.
The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international ...
Boo

Boo

Neil Smith

From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.
A Study Guide for Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

A Study Guide for Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

Gale, Cengage Learning

This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
The Digested Read

The Digested Read

John Crace

Philip Roth, Don Delillo, Margaret Drabble, Paul Auster, Alice Sebold, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton and Ian McEwan all emerge delightfully scathed in this book that makes it easy to talk ...
Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice

Anonymous

. . The 40th Anniversary edition of one girl's devastating true-life struggle Alice could be anyone - she could be someone you know, or someone you love - and Alice is in trouble ... Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seems fine.
Tot op het bot

Tot op het bot

Debbie Howells

Ze probeert koste wat kost de geheimen te onthullen van het idyllische Engelse dorpje waar ze woont. Tot op het bot is een verbluffende, schitterende psychologische thriller in de stijl van Gillian Flynn en Alice Sebold.
Looking Glass: A Special Edition of the Lovely Bones

Looking Glass: A Special Edition of the Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

In "The Lovely Bones," the spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder and her family's efforts to find the killer; and in "Looking Glass," Susie's story is integrated with cases of actual missing children.
The Alice: A Story of the Town and District of Alice ...

The Alice: A Story of the Town and District of Alice ...

Nathalie Gorey

Includes general account of lifestyle; Aboriginal settlements around Alice Springs.
The Story of Alice

The Story of Alice

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, the author examines the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred ...
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Mohammed Hanif

Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary .
Alice, I Think

Alice, I Think

Susan Juby

Especially not with a family like Alice’s. A hysterical account of high school that’s even funnier when you’re not in high school anymore, Alice, I Think. is certain to leave you laughing.
Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

Susan Juby

In this sidesplitting sequel to "Alice, I Think" and "Miss Smithers," Alice has finally discovered her purpose in life: screenwriting. This is the third hilarious novel from a #1 bestselling author in Canada.
El mundo de Alice: lecciones de vida de una superviviente ...

El mundo de Alice: lecciones de vida de una superviviente ...

Caroline Stoessinger

El mundo de Alice es la verdadera historia de la pianista Alice Herz-Sommer, una obra en la que destaca, por encima de todo, el poder del optimismo.
The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers

The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers

Australia. Parliament

48 32 22.5 Tennant Creek 52 42 30.7 Peko Mine(a) 21 21 15.4 Ida Standley, Alice Springs 127 64 34.4 Nathalie Gorey, Alice Springs 149 76 57.2 Church of the Ascension, Alice Springs (b) 56 20 18 1,313 665 499.5 (o) No Government ...
Paths of Life: Six Case Histories

Paths of Life: Six Case Histories

Alice Miller

In this, her eighth book, Alice Miller has given us yet another wise and profound study of the inestimable importance of childhood. "Alice Miller wrote the book on narcissistic parents and the havoc they wreak on children.
Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs

Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs

Alice Miller

“[Alice Miller] illuminates the dark corners of child abuse as few other scholars have done.”—Jordan Riak, NoSpank.net Since the landmark publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child, no one has been more influential than Alice Miller ...
L'essentiel d'Alice Miller

L'essentiel d'Alice Miller

Alice Miller

C’ est pour ton bien : Titre original : Am Anfang war Erziehung © Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1980. © 1983 by Alice Miller. © Aubier, 1984 pour la traduction française.
Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Carol Felsenthal

"First published in the United States by G.P. Putnam's Sons, under the title Alice Roosevelt Longworth"--T.p. verso.
Agony of Alice

Agony of Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Plotkin. One of Mrs. Plotkin's first assignments is for each member of the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. Alice calls hers "The Agony of Alice," and in it she records all the embarrassing things that happen to her.
The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

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7 Beverly J. Rasporich, Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1990), 77. 8 Alice Munro, Dear Life (2012; Toronto: Penguin, 2013) 255. 9 J. R. (Tim) Struthers, 'The Real ...
From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs: Adventures in Nursing ...

From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs: Adventures in Nursing ...

Anne Watts

They managed a cattle station close to Alice Springs and I met them when they were staying at the hotel. When I heard they were driving back to Alice Springs I offered to help with petrol costs and share the driving in exchange for a ride, and  ...

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