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Now You Access A Cigarette Lit BackwardsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she?ll go to find acceptance ? Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then?a dream come true for Kat?her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic?s?A Cigarette Lit Backwards?is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest novel about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a novel that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and .Book Details :Author : Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Now You Access In My Dreams I Hold a KnifeMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they?ve been hiding from each other?and themselves?for a decade.Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see?confident, beautiful, indifferent?not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather?s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she?d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life?and her relationship with the one person she wasn?t supposed to love. But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather?s .Book Details :Author : Ashley Winstead

Now You Access What We Kept to OurselvesMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese?s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee returns with a timely and surprising new novel about a family?s search for answers following the disappearance of their mother.1999: The Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children, Anastasia and Ronald, than ever before. But one evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of a stranger in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever about the stranger?s history and possible connections to their mother.1977: Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her aloof and often-absent husband. America is not turning out the way she had dreamed it to be, and the loneliness and isolation are broken only by a fateful encounter at a bus stop. The unexpected connection spans the decades and .Book Details :Author : Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Now You Access The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Bombay?s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey?s Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award?winning series.Bombay, 1920s. At a lavish fundraiser party for the launch of a new women?s hospital, the grandson of Lord Bhatia, an influential aristocrat, is badly burned in an accident?but a young servant, Sunanda, rushes to save him. Instead of being lauded as a hero, Sunanda is dismissed from the household, and simultaneously, suspiciously charged with ?child murder??also known as abortion. Perveen Mistry, Bombay?s only female solicitor, cannot stand by while this heroine is mistreated and takes her on as a client. Perveen goes as far as inviting Sunanda to live with the Mistrys, as Sunanda?s family has put her out of the house in shame at her supposed crime. The Mistry home is full of tension, as Perveen?s sister-in-law, who .Book Details :Author : Sujata Massey

Now You Access Pirate Girls (Hellbent, #2)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Fall Away spin-off story. .Book Details :Author : Penelope Douglas

Now You Access The Leaf ThiefMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A humorous and captivating picture book about autumn and the changing of the seasonsSquirrel is so perplexed. Yesterday there were loads of beautiful leaves on his tree, but today? Today, some are missing! Squirrel is convinced that someone has stolen them. There must be a leaf thief on the loose!A delightfully funny story about autumn that helps explain the changing of the seasons. .Book Details :Author : Alice Hemming

Now You Access A Merry Little Meet CuteMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone?a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with.Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn?t ask for more. But when Bee?s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he?s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee?s career is about to take a more family-friendly direction.Forced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than done. Though it all becomes worthwhile when she discovers her co-star is none other than childhood crush Nolan Shaw, an ex-boy band member in desperate need of career rehab. Nolan?s promised his bulldog manager to keep it zipped up on set, and .Book Details :Author : Julie Murphy

Now You Access The Many Daughters of Afong MoyMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington?s former poet laureate, that?s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful .Book Details :Author : Jamie Ford

Now You Access Poverty, by AmericaMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The Pulitzer Prize?winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus ReviewsThe United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and .Book Details :Author : Matthew Desmond