Showing results for "Played!" in Genre Fiction

It's a blindingly hot summer. International visitors surge into Sydney's Darling Harbour. Two-year-old Tommy is sailing his toy boat in the park there with his mother Phoebe. Tommy vanishes into thin air. The following winter, taunting notes written as nursery rhymes begin arriving at his parents' home. Little Boy Blue, where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know.

In the third book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s Rusk University series, a good girl is about to find out what happens when she creates the ultimate college bucket list and she sets her sights on a jock. First person in her family to go to college? CHECK...

In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent’s last taste of innocence and first taste of real life - dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one’s own destiny.

Un roman surprinzător, emoţionant şi plin de umor care explorează, prin ochii inocenţi ai Rădiţei şi cei ai mamei sale, un fenomen ce a marcat profund România postcomunistă: emigraţia temporară. Pentru a-şi scoate familia din impas financiar, Letiţia hotărăşte să plece la muncă în străinătate pentru cîteva luni. Prin intermediul unei cunoştinţe ajunge la Roma, în Italia, unde face menaj şi îngrijeşte de bătrîna familiei Bosse, Nona.