Recensori in anteprimaTamara Marston

Pagina LibraryThing dell'autore

September 2011 Pacchetto

Omaggio terminato: 26 settembre alle 06:00 pm EDT

Birds of Paradise AUDIO EDITIONOcchiata veloce
Audiolibro digitale
Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She’s about to turn 18. Soon all of the Muirs will be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. And Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, then face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.Set against the vibrant backdrop of contemporary Miami, Birds of Paradise is filled with piercing insights into the politics of food and sugar, teen culture, and of the ebb and flow of marriage. The writing is sumptuous, the story moving, and the descriptions of food (one of Abu-Jaber’s specialties) are mouth-watering.“Narrator Tamara Marston portrays the main characters—mother, father, daughter, and son—with feeling and sensitivity. Her reading recognizes that the city of Miami, where the novel is set, is also a character, and she infuses the descriptions of the landscape and urban setting with meaning.”      —AudioFile“Nuanced and deftly drawn. . . . Will [also] draw teens.”      —Booklist
Formato
Audiolibro digitale
Generi
General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
Offerto da
HighBridge (Editore)
Collegamenti
Informazioni sul libroPagina LibraryThing dell'opera
pacchetto chiuso
15
copie
338
richieste

June 2011 Pacchetto

Omaggio terminato: 30 giugno alle 06:00 pm EDT

After a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District. According to Drew Campbell, the well-suited corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Drew assures Alice that the owner will be hands off, allowing her to run the gallery on her own. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees a perfect opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial film maker.Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone—the space stripped bare as if it had never existed—and Drew Campbell’s dead body on the floor. Overnight, Alice’s dream job has vanished, and she finds herself at the center of police attention with nothing to prove her innocence. The phone number Drew gave her links back to a disposable phone. The artist whose work she displayed doesn’t seem to exist. And the dead man she claims is Drew has been identified as someone else. When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows she’s been set up. Now she has to prove it—a dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family . . .  secrets that could cost Alice her life.
Formato
Cartaceo
Generi
General Fiction, Mystery, Suspense & Thriller, Fiction and Literature
Offerto da
HighBridge (Editore)
Collegamenti
Informazioni sul libroPagina LibraryThing dell'opera
pacchetto chiuso
15
copie
494
richieste