I am Rosie Miller and at the age of ten, I was cursed.Because of my parents' debt, I was forced into silence and now every word, every laugh, was a weapon used against me.?By nineteen I had come to understand that I would have no choice but to follow in my parents' footsteps. Get a soul-sucking job reserved for low-levels like me, keep my head down, and die alone. ?That was until I got a letter one day welcoming me to the most prestigious demon academy in the entire country. I knew that when I opened that letter, it was too good to be true. There was no way after thousands of years of separation between high-levels and low-levels that I would ever be given such a golden opportunity.?Meeting them only proved my suspicions to be correct.?A bloodthirsty gangster.A child of a high-ranking demon official with a penance for blackmail. And last but not least a witch who seems to be called by the power my curse exudes.??Becoming tangled with them will probably be the most reckless thing that I have ever done in my life, but will it be worth finally breaking my curse after nine years?
So all-encompassing is their four-hundred-page complaint that I'm surprised Alexander Graham Bell wasn't listed as a defendant: if he had never invented that darned telephone contraption, the players would never have been able to dial ...
No one--not even the police--appears particularly concerned. When Todd looks deeper into the story, she discovers that five other girls have "run away" from Brindle under strange circumstances over the past twenty years.
Emma takes An-ling, a young Chinese artist, under her wing, but finds herself on trial for the girl's murder, and as her trial progresses she finds things were not what they seemed and that even her husband and son have dark secrets.
Is there ever a time to lie? And what happens when the truth is dangerous? The three friends, trapped in a code of silence, must face the consequences of choosing right or wrong when both options have their price.
I am Rosie Miller and at the age of nineteen I found out my entire life had been a lie.
Price of Honor brings to life a world in which women have become pawns in a bitter power game, and gives readers a provocative look inside Muslim society today—in their own words.
"Do you have a favorite sound?" little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, "The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence." But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city.
More than a history or travel journal, however, this beautiful short book is a meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude for modern life.
In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence.
The unraveling is her journey through blistering consequences and incredible successes, joys mixed with deep sorrows that began with a single assault on a college campus in 1962.