No matter what the cost. Lyrical, suspenseful, and emotionally shattering, SUCH A PRETTY GIRL is the compelling story of one young woman's painful fight for survival - and her journey back to herself.
A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target ...
Read this novel, and you will be changed forever” (New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice). They promised Meredith nine years of safety, but only gave her three.
Sweet girl, this one is a plea. It does not belong to me.” With that, he hands me the photograph. The print I had given my mother after the blackout, the one she'd handed over to a monster. I realized when she looked at me, ...
In a gripping romantic thriller from Tess Diamond, an FBI profiler becomes a killer’s deadly obsession… In Grace Sinclair’s bestselling crime novels, the good guys win and the bad guys always get caught.
Pretty Girl's first draft was written in a white-hotblast of terror, fury and despair. Once Meredith started talking, once I knew what ... I was with her all the way, and let me tell you; most times it wasn't such a good place to be.
... such anguish whenever they said “Che bella bambina! What a pretty little girl! Che peccato! What a shame!” The volunteer ladies who came to bring us candy had the same sorrowful looks on their middle-aged powdered faces. “You're such ...
This knotty story leaves readers reflecting on the limits of family obligations.” –Publishers Weekly
... Such a Pretty Girl because I wanted to tell the story of a girl becoming a woman too quickly. I wanted to examine how ambition can tilt one's moral compass. I wanted to write about a period in history when women were simultaneously ...
Such a Pretty Girl