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Billie Girl
Vickie Weaver
"Honestly strange and strangely honest. . . . Remarkably compelling and powerful. Weaver's authenticity of characters, situations, and bygone eras emanates from sheer originality of style. This amazing novel is a stellar achievement—gritty, funny, fresh, and bold. It will make your eyes bug out and your pulse race. And how it shines, shines with humanity!"—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife"Southern Gothic to the core, suffused with a humor as dark as the bottom of a Georgia well. . . .Weaver has stepped forward for the benefit of anyone who reads American fiction."—Kirby Gann, author of Our Napoleon in Rags"Savagely funny, wildly ambitious. . . . A bawdy, brutal, and beautiful meditation on identity, sex, and mercy. Weaver has a fiercely distinctive vision."—K.L. Cook, author of The Girl from Charnelle"Darkly comic, deeply poignant. . . . Billie Girl is the adventurer through a long, strange trip...
Twice Round the Clock
Houston, Billie
“It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock.”
Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and ‘closed book’ even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am, following a dinner in honour of his daughter’s engagement. An ivory-handled carving knife rests between his shoulder blades as the houseguests gather round to witness the awful crime. The telephone line has been sabotaged – a calculated murder has been committed.
Rewinding twelve hours, the events of the afternoon and evening unfold, revealing a multitude of clues and motives from a closed cast of suspects until the narrative reaches 4am again – then races on to its riveting conclusion at 4pm as the reader is led twice round the clock.
First published in 1935, the sole novel from the actor and dancer Billie Houston is a lively country house mystery and a true lost gem of the Golden Age of crime writing.
Billie
Anna Gavalda
Literature & Fiction
Franck, il s'appelle Franck parce que sa mère et sa grand-mère adoraient Frank Alamo (Biche, oh ma biche, Da doo ron ron, Allô Maillot 38-37 et tout ça) (si, si, ça existe...) et moi, je m'appelle Billie parce que ma mère était jolie de Michael Jackson (Billie Jean is not my lover / She's just a girl etc.). Autant dire qu'on ne partait pas avec les mêmes marraines dans la vie et qu'on n'était pas programmés pour se fréquenter un jour...
Non seulement Franck et Billie n'étaient pas programmés pour fredonner les mêmes refrains, mais en plus, ils avaient tout ce qu'il faut en magasin pour se farcir une bonne grosse vie de merde bien ficelée dans la misère - misère physique, misère morale et misère intellectuelle. Vraiment tout. Et puis voilà qu'un beau jour (leur premier), ils se rencontrent.
Ils se rencontrent grâce à la pièce On ne badine pas avec l'amour d'Alfred de Musset. Billie a été tirée au sort pour jouer Camille et Franck, Perdican.
A un moment, dans cette scène qu'ils doivent apprendre par coeur et déclamer devant les autres élèves de leur classe, Camille lance à Franck : Lève la tête, Perdican ! et à un autre, un peu plus loin, Perdican finit par avouer à Billie : Que tu es belle, Camille, lorsque tes yeux s'animent ! eh bien voilà, tout est là et tout est dit : ce livre ne raconte rien d'autre qu'une immense histoire d'amour entre deux vilains petits canards, lesquels, à force de s'obliger mutuellement à lever la tête et à se rappeler l'un l'autre qu'ils sont beaux, finissent par devenir de grands cygnes majestueux.
En fait, on dirait du Cyrulnik, mais en moins raffiné. Là où Boris aurait employé les mots «gouffre» ou «résilience», Billie, quand elle est heureuse, lâche en ricanant : Et tac. Encore niquêe, la vie.
Bah... À chacun, ses maux et sa façon de les écrire...
A. G.
"Billie, ma Billie, cette petite princesse à l’enfance fracassée qui se fraye un chemin dans la vie avec un fusil de chasse dans une main et On ne badine pas avec l’amour dans l’autre est la plus jolie chose qui me soit arrivée depuis que j’écris".
Thick Skin: A Flashback Romance
Billie Knight
It was hate at first sight...Or was it?BeckI met Ruby in a ballet class.We were both outcasts there.I was the fit boy who chose dance over sports.She was the curvy tomboy, who didn't let that stop her from moving like an angel.I was in love with her, from the start.She couldn't stand me, from the start.Years passed, and the ballet studio closed.She turned into a prep, and I turned into a greaser.But my feelings never changed.And I'm about to learn that hers were never what they seemed.RubyMy first glimpse of Beck left me with feelings I had to fight.I didn't want to end up like my mother, who ruined her future for the wrong boy.But, as time passed, my feelings grew, becoming as intense as fantasies that the greaser always starred in.And eventually, daydreaming about him holding down my wrists—or bending me over his knee—isn't enough.I have to have more.I have to have Beck.Flashback to the 1950s with this steamy and timeless new adult romance.
Craved
Billie Bloom
Returning to Alaska was never part of the plan, but I can't walk away when my gran's beloved bed and breakfast is crumbling before my eyes. Sticking around definitely has NOTHING to do with the smoking hot firefighter renting my parents' guesthouse. (Especially not when I get to watch him paint shirtless). He's got a hard candy shell, but I'm determined to tease him until I crack it. Pretty soon he's chasing me through the hotel and straddling me on a bed to get his revenge... Not that it leads anywhere good, because West has the self-control of a monk. Sigh. He says it's because he's a single dad. He says it's because he's friends with my parents...but even a former marine has to give in to his desires sometimes. When West finally kisses me, I light up like a Times Square Christmas tree. He loses his restraint...I lose my shirt... But then his guard is back up before anything good can happen. Maybe I...
Why Are You So Sensitive?
Billie Lee
A lively, engaging, and honest look at microaggressions told from a variety of different perspectives—and what we can do about them."You look better than me, and I'm a real woman!" "You're so well spoken!""Act like a man." In her own life and activist work, Billie Lee has realized how painful microaggressions like these can be, even when they come from people whose intentions are good. As a trans woman in the public eye, Billie Lee has been on the receiving end of more than her fair share of microaggressions, but like most of us, she's been guilty of them too. In Why Are You So Sensitive?, Billie shares stories of microaggressions she's both received and committed, alongside an all-star list of contributors from different backgrounds including Brian Michael Smith and Jacob Tobia. Psychologist and microaggression expert Dr. Gina Torino provides analysis and advice to help readers better understand the underlying...
Wannabe More
Billie Dale
From Author Billie Dale comes a story of friendship spanning two decades. A life of loyalty, family and love tested by decisions made with the best intentions. With Dale's signature wit and a cast of characters you can't help but adore. Wannabe More, book one in Love in Seven Mile Forge, will prove second chances do exist. After years of friendship, that summer he was mine. With our futures waiting to take us down separate paths after graduation, we made a pact. To explore being more than friends.To indulge in all we'd been holding back. We couldn't have possibly known it would change everything. One careless night in the barn, seeking refuge from the rain, altered our destiny but I refuse to let the baby I'm carrying undo all his hard work. I'll sacrifice everything for him to live out his dream in the NBA. But when he finds out the truth, will he hate me for it?Book 1 in a new series of standalone's.
The Scorekeeper
Part #6 of "Reed & Billie" series by Dustin Stevens
Suspense / Sports / Contemporary
Adored
Billie Bloom
Coming down from his homestead in the mountains to the hustle of L.A. is the last thing widower and secret millionaire Henry Benson wants, especially since he unexpectedly has become the most eligible bachelor in the eyes of social media. Hiding from the world is his superpower, after all. Thankfully, his friend Chloe steps in as his fake girlfriend to take off the pressure as he faces a week of media scrutiny. Chloe may melt his icy walls, but Henry will need to jump heart-first into a future he ruled out long ago if he wants a chance at happiness.
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Billie Eilish, the Unofficial Biography
Adrian Besley
With number one albums in multiple countries and five Grammys under her belt, Billie Eilish has become a pop sensation. Billie was a promising young dancer until musical success came literally overnight in 2015. A song she uploaded to SoundCloud received a thousand plays in twenty-four hours. The thirteen-year-old's voice intoxicated listeners and the track went viral. Billie and her brother, Finneas, produced a series of eclectic but equally bewitching tracks, which drew fans from around the world. Follow her journey from singing in her bedroom to performing at huge arenas, and find out what makes Billie Eilish the most extraordinary teenage star in the world.
L.A. Hustle
Billie Trager
"Intelligently written...an engaging and gripping plot..."— Zack Lynn, Author of Undead Reckoning.Meet Digger Sharma, wisecracking half-Irish, half-Indian gumshoe. As he deftly patrols his usual beat in the City of Angels, Digger attempts to solve two seemingly innocuous, straightforward, and unrelated cases. But the deeper he dives, the more he realizes he's not only in over his head but also swimming with the sharks. He must unravel the mystery to protect his client, a sultry Latina, and himself with their very lives on the line.
Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance; Or, The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners
Janet D. Wheeler
Mystery
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world\'s literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Mortal Mistakes
Billie Doyle
A story of love and envy, suspense and certainty, human abasement and spiritual awakening, all interwoven with the consequences of faulty judging.Presumptions of innocence or guilt are closely tied to our relationship with the person being judged. The closer we're connected to someone, the more liberal we tend to be with our judging, unless our emotions get in the way.This story is not about legal aspects of our emotional presumptions. It’s about the real life consequences of the judgments that we all make about others. Sometimes, the smallest judgment can have tragic consequences. Perhaps that’s why we have been warned against judging.Karen Bronsky lived a enviable life with a successful devoted husband and a darling child. But something caused her to want just a little more from life. Karen must lose part of her life to find what’s really important to her.Jan Murray thought that she had everything that she needed for happiness. She has looks that most young women would envy. She knew it, and flaunted it. She never knew what it was like to be unnoticed by men. But she will learn that true happiness is not found in the adoration of physical appearances.Stan Bronsky is a good man and husband. He is hard driving and successful in business. But he will learn that success can be fleeting and very costly when he experiences a momentary lapse of judgment and character.Robert Louis Gatewood suffered tragic early life experiences and has carried scars that have shaped his thinking and behavior. He will find new direction in an unexpected moment of encounter.As the lives of these four people weave together through what they perceive to be chance circumstances, they will experience a plethora of emotional experiences and share the uncomfortable consequences of being misjudged, or of having misjudged another.
Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island; Or, The Mystery of the Wreck
Janet D. Wheeler
Mystery
Janet D. Wheeler wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
Justice
Part #5 of "Reed & Billie" series by Dustin Stevens
Suspense / Sports / Contemporary
On the second story of a low-rent apartment complex, two women are found murdered, the scene awash with blood. One, a young nun from the local school, seems to have had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other, a local celebrity for all the wrong reasons, someone that was recently ousted from public office and is trying desperately to claw her way back into the spotlight.
Called in to investigate are two people that could not be more different, in their approach or in the organizations they represent. To one side is Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner Billie, a duo that call the place where the crime took place home and are fast building a reputation for tackling the toughest cases in the city. Opposite them, Sydney Rye and her own canine sidekick Blue, a duo representing a government agency that few have heard about, their style one that operates free from the sphere of public opinion.
The only thing they do have in common? A deep-rooted desire to see justice served, no matter what form it eventually takes…
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Billie and the Russian Beast
Theodora Taylor
Romance / Paranormal
Cheslav Rustanov doesn't play to win. He plays to conquer. I'm a boring accountant who knows better than to make deals with the devil. But when Cheslav Rustanov demands five no-holds-barred days with my body in exchange for my brother's debt, that's exactly what I do. "You are stubborn," he notes. "This will be fun." "Maybe for you," I answer. "For both of us," he says. Then he steps closer. Way, way, too close. "This is my promise." Hmm, it looks like I'm in more trouble than I bargained for. Can I make it through these five days without losing my pride...or my heart? This Ruthless Fairytale is perfect for those who enjoy irresistible hockey players, good girls with a previously untapped wild side, and polar opposites who turn out to be perfect matches.
Never After
Billie Dale
When I walked down the aisle all those years ago, I thought I was about to begin a fairytale romance...Boy, was I ever wrong.Now my would-be Prince Charming is doing a stint behind bars, and my two kids and I have been dropped on our butts at the one place I never wanted to see again - the home of my witchy, bitchy, poisoned-apple-giving Wicked Stepmother.I've got to get my kids and I out of there, before she goes back to her old tricks. But it'll take more than the money I make playing Snow White and the Seven Slobs, ascleaning lady to the seven messiest brothers in history...But then Elsabeth Delle bursts into my life like a winter storm - with an idea that might get both of us damsels out of our distress.It starts with a bed, a webcam, and the promise of safe, sanitized anonymous cyber-sex with whichever Internet strangers are willing offer up their golden coins.What could go wrong?As it turns out, it's not a what. It's a who.Royal Princeps.He seems almost too good to be true - all radiant green eyes, perfect scruff and a body that's just made for sin. Even better, it doesn't take a magic mirror to tell me he thinks I'm the Fairest of Them All.I've got to figure out if this handsome hunk is my Knight in Shining Armor, or the Big Bad Wolf in sheep's clothing; ready to eat me all up (and not in the good way.)Or, as I'm starting to suspect, maybe he's a bit of both...Never After is a Snow White-inspired, curse-word infused bedtime story for adults only - exploring what happens when your fairytale "happy ending" is actually just the beginning...
Daisies and Denim
Billie Daddario
Lucy is living a happy normal life in Boulder Colorado when her life is turned upside down with the news of her estranged father's death. She lets it carry her away changing every part of her life and it turns out wonderful.
All In
Billie Jean King
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.“A story about the personal strength, immense growth, and undeniable greatness of one woman who fearlessly stood up to a culture trying to break her down.”—Serena WilliamsIn this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career—six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women's movement, the assassinations and anti-war protests of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, and, eventually, the LGBTQ+ rights...
The Partnership
Part #4 of "Reed & Billie" series by Dustin Stevens
Suspense / Sports / Contemporary
Billie's Bounce
Claudia Hall Christian
Fantasy / Fiction / Suspense
Ava and her lab have received a grant to solve ten cold cases in rural Colorado using modern forensics techniques. The director of the CBI was irritated by the irregularities of their last case (see "Little Girl Blue"). He assigns Ava and her team the coldest of cold cases — an unpopular Senator was killed by RPG shot under his limousine after he left Aspen, Colorado. The perpetrator shot the RPG and slipped into the forest never to be seen again. The fire burned for more than an hour, destroying all forensic material. To make matters worse, the case is thirty years old.While Seth is in the hospital, Ava and her team work their way through a bounty of useless forensics until they begin to work their way through the crime to find the killers. Seth and Ava solve mysteries in Denver, Colorado.Claudia Hall Christian writes great stories about good people caught in difficult times. She specializes in complicated mysteries, page-turning thrillers, and the longest...
Tempted
Billie Bloom
From New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan and the up-and-coming dynamo Billie Bloom comes an all-new romance with sizzling heat, found-family and what it means to truly be happy. Being trapped all winter in a remote Alaskan off-grid town sounds horrible, until you meet the lumber-hunks that offer to share their space with us. You wouldn't suspect a group of L.A. women are capable of hacking it here, but you'd be wrong. Turns out, we have just what this group of former military operatives need in life, and it's so much more than any of them want to admit.
Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall; Or, Leading a Needed Rebellion
Janet D. Wheeler
Mystery
Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall - or, Leading a Needed Rebellion is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Janet D. Wheeler is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Janet D. Wheeler then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Today My Name Is Billie
Neile Parisi
Every Year thousands of educators are accused of physical abuse. Some are guilty and are prosecuted, but hundreds who are innocent are forced to surrender their licenses. This is what happened to Billie. Deceit and betrayal threatened her survival, extinguished her life's dream, and erased her sense of self worth. She wondered if she could ever trust again. Rejected by family and friends, she was forced to reinvent every aspect of her entire life. When a catastrophic fire crippled her community, and individuals grappled with personal tragedy, she gained a deeper understanding of the gift of forgiveness and the power of hope. Her brave struggles saved not only her life but also the lives of others. At times brutally painful, at other times hugely positive, Today My Name Is Billie reveals how a single lie can spread like fire and destroy all that it touches.
The Cowboy's Secondhand Heart
Billie Daddario
Joseph has been a widower for five years and can't seem to get over his wife until he meets Lisa his daughter's kindergarten teacher. The two don't have a smooth relationship thanks to Heather a rival who thinks she has a claim on Joseph and plans to protect it at any cost and the cost could be deadly.
Summer Fling
Billie Rae
Lorraine has found the perfect summer diversion...Scott. But walking away is sometimes never as easy as it seems when summer is over.
The Midwife's Tale
Billie Hunter
Nicky Leap was born in 1948 and grew up in the West Country, England. She became a National Childbirth Trust (NCT) teacher in the 1970s and was a youth and community worker in London before training to be a midwife. For more than 30 years Nicky has worked in a variety of roles in midwifery practice, education and research. She is an Adjunct Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology, Sydney and Visiting Professor of Midwifery at Kings College London. Nicky divides her time between living in Bristol (UK) and Sydney (Australia).
Out of Darkness
Billie Turner
Cursed to an immortal life, Kai is bound by honour to protect the mortal world for eternity. A loner, he avoids humans but that changes when he rescues a university student from a brutal attack. Without sight and alone, she seems virtually helpless and Kai is disgusted by his intense reaction. Irresistibly drawn to her, he is determined to resist the attraction, yet compelled to protect her when he learns she has no family. To shelter her from his enemies, he whisks her to a secluded cabin in the mountains to recover from her injuries. When university student Emma Carlisle wakes up from a brutal assault, she is unable to see. The sexy-voiced stranger taking care of her is determined to remain by her side and keep her safe regardless of her feelings on the matter. Fiercely independent, Emma struggles to maintain some control of her life while she indulges in the instant attraction they share and dares to tempt the reluctant immortal. Unfortunately, being with Kai puts her in...
One Good Hustle
Billie Livingston
Fiction / Cultural / Canada
From award-winning writer Billie Livingston, an unsparing novel of loyalty and survival that is fierce, sharp and funny even when it's breaking your heart.The child of 2 con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed into a corner. After a hustle gone dangerously wrong, her mother, Marlene, is sliding into an abyss of alcoholic depression, spending her days fantasizing aloud about death--a goal Sammie is tempted to help her accomplish. Horrified by the appeal of this, Sammie packs a bag and leaves her mother to her own devices.With her father missing in action, she has nowhere else to go but the home of a friend with 2 parents who seem to actually love their daughter and each other--and who awkwardly try to extend some semblance of family to Sammie. Throughout a long summer of crisis among the normals, Sammie is torn between her longing for the approval of the con-man father she was named for and...
Wildfire
Billie Green
Category Romance / Harlequin / Romance / Contemporary Romance
TANNER--An Irresistible Outlaw with Desperado Eyes...He'd spent his life breaking the rules, a few noses, and more than a few hearts--but Tanner West made Rae Anderson feel unsettled, exposed, and all woman! The pretty small-town Texas lawyer ached to find a man who'd care for her and give her children, but instead found herself responding to the restless hunger in a rebel's gaze... and rising to his teasing challenge to walk on the wild side. He Branded Her with Words and Set Her Body AflameShe knew that tangling with Tanner might be tempting fate, but Rae wanted to taste the erotic pleasure of his wicked mouth, to explore the sensual magic he promised to ignite beneath her satin skin. He was moody, unpredictable, a rogue who made being bad seem awfully good, but could Rae make Tanner believe she saw beyond his sexy wildness and wanted to share his secret dream of forever?
Listening to Billie
Alice Adams
Contemporary / Fiction / Humor and Comedy
“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life.We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentatively begins a new life, with new lovers, new interests, new strength, even a new, more comfortable identity.
Billie the Wild Child
Hannah Shaw
From New York Times bestselling author Hannah Shaw—also known as Kitten Lady—comes the fifth book in an exciting and heartwarming chapter book series! Three little ducklings arrive in Fosterland, but one is not like the others! Though Billie looks like Marlie and Charlie, he isn't a domesticated duck—he's a white mallard. Billie likes being in Fosterland with his friends, but he longs to eat sky raisins (also known as flies) and be free. With one webbed foot in each world, he has to choose where his heart lies.
Billie B Brown, Collection 1
Sally Rippin
Billie has one new tutu, six sparkly pens and fifteen freckles. Do you know what the B in Billie B Brown stands for? Find out in this collection of ten favourite stories!
Mexican Kimono
Billie Jones
Samantha knows what she wants from life – and she's got it! 1.A loving family. OK, her Mum's plan to marry her off to the world's most metrosexual man might not be ideal... but it's only because she cares! 2.A great job. Or at least: a job that leaves plenty of time to update Twitter and shop for designer bargains online... 3.A credit card, with a very generous limit. So generous that she's just spent over $10,000 on an antique kimono... But suddenly Samantha's charmed life starts to fall apart! From a hair-related fire to losing her job, Sam's facing bad karma – and it all started when she bought that kimono... Sure, it's ridiculous. How could a piece of silk ever bring bad luck? But it can! Because, whether Samantha likes it or not, someone wants to teach her a lesson: it's what's inside that counts. But will Samantha slow down long enough to listen?
Snake Typhoon!
Billie Jones
Move over Lara Croft, there's a new action hero in town! When unseasonable weather hits the sunshine city of Brisbane, a freak typhoon terrorizes the citizens. It's not just any typhoon though, it's a snake typhoon! And the deadliest snakes in Australia, with venomous fangs are flying straight for Kez. Kez is the new girl in the office and she's desperately fighting to prove herself, but what's a girl to do when faced with a typhoon of snakes coming straight for her helicopter? These flying diabolical snakes will stop at nothing to kill their victims and Kez only has one option: Figure out how to stop a snake typhoon and save the world... or die trying!
Saving Billie
Peter Corris
Australia's favourite PI, Cliff Hardy is back in a story set against the backdrop of a Federal election campaign.When journalist Louise Kramer hires Cliff Hardy to find Billie Marchant, Hardy heads for unfamiliar territory of the far south-western suburbs of Sydney. Billie claims to have information about media big-wheel Jonas Clement - the subject of an incriminating expose by Kramer. Clement doesn't want Billie found and Clement's enemies want to find her first. Hardy tracks Billie down, but saving Billie' means not only rescuing her, it means saving her from herself. Billie, ex-stripper, sometime hooker and druggie, is a handful. Hardy gets help from members of the Pacific Islander community and others, but the enemies close in and he is soon fighting on several different fronts. Clement and his chief rival, Barclay Greaves, have heavies in the field, and Hardy has to negotiate his way through their divided loyalties. Some negotiations involve cunning but...
The Crooked Heart of Mercy
Billie Livingston
Fiction / Cultural / Canada
Ben wakes up in a hospital with a hole in his head he can't explain. What he can remember he'd rather forget. Like how he'd spent nights as a limo driver for the wealthy and debauched . . . how he and his wife, Maggie, drifted apart in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy . . . how his little brother, Cola, got in over his head with loan sharks circling.Maggie is alone. Again. With bills to pay and Ben in a psych ward, she must return to work. But who would hire her in the state she's in? And just as Maggie turns to her brother, Francis, the Internet explodes with a video of his latest escapade. The headline? Drunk Priest Propositions Cops.Francis is an unlikely priest with a drinking problem and little interest in celibacy. A third DUI, a looming court date. . . .When Maggie takes him in, he knows he may be down to his last chance. And his best shot at healing might lay in helping Maggie and Ben reconnect—against all odds."The poignant story of broken...
Billie's Kiss
Elizabeth Knox
Literary Fiction / Fantasy; Science Fiction / Young Adult
Billie's Kiss
Cease to Blush
Billie Livingston
Fiction / Cultural / Canada
Billie Livingston's fine second novel leads us to consider the nature of our hidden lives and desires -- and to question whether the sky would really fall if we admitted our true needs and ceased to blush.As Cease to Blush opens, Vivian is late to her own mother's funeral. Wearing a tight red suit, Vivian stands out like a pornographer's dream amongst the West Coast intellectuals mourning the death of prominent feminist Josie Callwood. But for all of her bravado, Vivian finds herself emotionally numb and spiraling downward. Vivian and her mother were in constant conflict, with Josie disapproving of her daughter's lifestyle; her inclination to use her body instead of her brain, and her so-called acting career, which has amounted to little more than playing prostitutes and the odd dead body. For her part Vivian has been invested in antagonizing her mother's feminist ideology. As the story opens Vivian's career, as well as her relationship with boyfriend Frank, is...
Billie Holiday
John Szwed
Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talentWhen Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in ?twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele.Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life—her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships—or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage.Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the...
Banished
Billie Sue Mosiman
Mystery & Thrillers / Horror / Literature & Fiction
Ed Gorman, award winning author of BAD MOON RISING, says: "Banished by Billie Sue Mosiman is one of the most provocative and compelling fantasies I've read in a long time. Storytelling that is both page-turning and stunning." When the Queen of the Fallen Angels came to earth again she took the dead body of a ten-year-old native girl on an island. It was the 1200s and life was primitive, but Angelique managed to rule the people for two hundred years until Columbus arrived. Escaping her island home, the little angel with her malevolent intent, wandered through the world using humans to do her biding as her parents and guardians. Then she brought down Nisroc, an angel she trusted to be her partner and helpmate. The problem was, Nisroc wasn't like Angelique. Nisroc learned to love. And he had to flee from his life with the terrible child before he lost what soul he had left.
To See The Daises ... First
Billie Green
Category Romance / Harlequin / Romance / Contemporary Romance
To See the Daisies...First(Loveswept #43)One moment Ben Garrison felt that his life was headed nowhere; then a woman wearing only an oversized trenchcoat, who had no idea who she was or where she belonged, changed everything! Ben named her Sunny for the open, loving way she faced the world head on, and he basked in her reflected light, warming himself in her sparkling laughter. She freed his heart from its confinement, and most of all she opened his eyes. But the lovers weren't lost to an uncaring world... for Sunny's life was threatened by a man from the past she couldn't recall....
A Dad for Billie
Susan Mallery
Romance / Fiction / Chick Lit
New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery's beloved story about how the hardest mistakes can sometimes lead to the best surprises
From the moment a baseball smashes through his window, banker Adam Barrington's life is never quite the same. The guilty party, an eight-year-old tomboy, soon turns his household upside down. But that shock is nothing compared to when Adam discovers who Billie's mother is
Jane Southwick knows that coming back home won't be easy, and that living next door to Adam again will be sweet torture. But it's pure joy to see the delightful bond growing between him and her daughter—despite the guilty secret that clutches at Jane's heart.
Shoot the Moon
Billie Letts
From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WHERE THE HEART IS - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years. In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek, everyone feared that he, too, had been killed, although his body was never found.Nearly thirty years later, Nicky Jack mysteriously returns to DeClare, shocking the town and stirring up long-buried memories. But what he discovers about the night he vanished is more astonishing than he or anyone could have imagine. Piece by piece, what emerges is a story of dashed hopes, desperate love, and a secret that still cries out for justice...and redemption.From BooklistA man's desperate search for his identity drives this riveting offering from the author of best-sellers Where the Heart Is (1995) and The Honk and Holler Opening Soon (1998). No one in sleepy DeClare, Oklahoma, has forgotten the 1972 murder of pretty Cherokee Gaylene Harjo and the abduction of her infant son, Nicky Jack. Hard-nosed deputy sheriff Oliver "O Boy" Daniels pinned the blame on local preacher Joe Dawson, but few in town believed the kindly Joe was capable of such an act. Powerful emotions resurface 30 years later, when Nicky Jack, adopted and raised by a rich couple in Beverly Hills, mysteriously reappears, determined to learn about his mother and the circumstances surrounding her death. Veteran short-story writer Letts peppers her prose with a cast of quirky characters, including a quartet of nosy, domino-playing senior citizens and a perky pool-hall owner who bakes peanut-butter pies. Readers of Sue Miller and Wally Lamb are sure to embrace this memorable tale of love, loss, humanity, and hope. Allison BlockCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedReview'A great story...a little bit of mystery, a small piece of romance, and a whole lot of Billie Letts's special touch' - Oklahoman 'Letts's writing shines.' - San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle 'Riveting... powerful... readers are sure to embrace this memorable tale of love, loss, humanity, and hope.' - Booklist
With Billie
Julia Blackburn
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.Billie Holiday's life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. Volatile, unpredictable, Billie Holiday remained, even to her friends, an elusive and perplexing figure.In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people--piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling...
That Boy From Trash Town
Billie Green
Category Romance / Harlequin / Romance / Contemporary Romance
PAST... When a tough fourteen-year-old rescued a lost little girl, friendship was inevitable. Wealthy Whitney Grand didn't care that he was "that boy from trash town." Dean Russell was her hero, and no one could ever break them up! PRESENT... The impossible had happened. Something was breaking them up, but even Whitney couldn't have predicted...hormones! What else could make her fantasize about Dean's kisses? Certainly not the L word! FUTURE... Dean knew there was no escape. But Whitney seemed bent on showing him that he was the only man for her. And he was beginning to believe her...
Billie B Brown, Collection 2
Sally Rippin
Billie has one pair of goggles, three pink bandaids and a brand-new suitcase on wheels. Do you know what the B in Billie B Brown stands for? Find out in this collection of ten favourite stories!
A Special Man
Billie Green
Category Romance / Harlequin / Romance / Contemporary Romance
Greenleigh Acres was a refuge for the rich and famous, and it was there that Amanda first saw the man she knew only as "Danny." Her heart ached at seeing him confined, and she vowed to let him taste freedom.Away from Greenleigh, "Danny" became Daniel Phillips, wealthy leader of industry. Someone wanted him out of the way so badly that they'd kept him drugged and imprisoned--and now Daniel was out for revenge. Amanda stayed with him, her heart breaking as he delved into the past--because all her dreams were of the future.
Made in the U.S.A.
Billie Letts
Lutie McFee’s history has taught her to avoid attachments . . . to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy’s old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.
MADE IN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
Going Down Swinging
Billie Livingston
Fiction / Cultural / Canada
A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter.Razor sharp and darkly funny Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans. Eilleen Hoffman has just told Danny, her con-artist lover and father of her youngest daughter Grace, to get out — for good. Once a teacher, Eilleen lived a middle-class life, but her taste in men coupled with a predilection for pills and booze has brought her down. Desperate to prevent her family from sinking deeper into poverty, Eilleen reluctantly goes on welfare. Eventually she turns to the only friends she has left, hustlers and hookers, to learn how a woman makes fast money, no investment necessary.With Eilleen on welfare and her older daughter Charlotte a teenaged runaway, child welfare authorities descend on the Hoffmans. As Eilleen trails through several attempts at drying out, the well-intentioned Children's Protection Society finally intervenes to apprehend Grace. With the threat of prolonged separation now a stark reality, Eilleen and Grace must rally to confront their demons with grit, determination and humour. Unblinkingly observed and brilliantly written, Going Down Swinging is about the powerful bond between mother and child. And with her skilful narrative interplay, Billie Livingston illustrates poignantly how the truth of our stories lies not so much in the black and white, as it does in the grey.