The Couples Trip: A Nordic Noir Thriller of Murder and Survival on a Couples Trip in the Wilderness by Ulf Kvensler
I really enjoyed the thriller, survival story, but was thrown off by the ending/no ending. I was about to give it 5 stars, but deleted one because it ended too abruptly.
Nic is a heroin addict. It started in middle school with drinking and weed. He liked the way it made him feel, so he moved to harder drugs. He ruined relationships as he stole from, dissapointed and left his family in constant turmoil. He sold his body to get money for the drugs he needed to calm his wild thoughts and satisfy his growing thirst for the tweak.
This is the raw and explicit story of Nic's decent into drug addiction, and the sex trade, and his struggle toward recovery.
This is the raw and explicit story of Nic's decent into drug addiction, and the sex trade, and his struggle toward recovery.
Young British woman's adventures riding her motorcycle alone from Alaska to the tip of south america.
Brison shares his experiences growing up in the 50's with his usual mix of information, exageration and humor.
newberry award
Lucky is a 10 year old orphan, whose guardian is her father's ex-wife. She has a job cleaning up outside a building where "anonamous people" meet tell about hitting rock bottom and finding their higher power. Lucky is searching for her higher power so her life will turn around.
Lucky is a 10 year old orphan, whose guardian is her father's ex-wife. She has a job cleaning up outside a building where "anonamous people" meet tell about hitting rock bottom and finding their higher power. Lucky is searching for her higher power so her life will turn around.
It is 1896, and teenager Megan Bartlett travels from her family farm in Nebraska to join her sister on her Mississippi River boat for the summer. Megan's adventures help her grow up and clarify her dream of becoming a photographer.
Brothers Elijah and Danny haven't been friends since they were small. Elijah is a senior in boarding school and Danny, 7 years older, is a successful advertising agent. Their parents have paid for a vacation to Italy, and ask the boys to take their place, hoping that it will be an opportunity for them to get to know each other.
Vince Luca, 17, has a problem. His wealthy family runs the, uh, vending machine business in New York, and Vince is determined not to be part of it. Especially after a hot date is ruined when he finds that his older brother Tommy has conducted some business with Jimmy the Rat and hidden the messy and temporarily unconscious body in the trunk of Vince's car. His dad, the King of the Mob, is reasonable, sensible, lots of fun, gives great presents to his kids--and his name strikes the hearts of other mobsters to stone.
Although Vince keeps a low profile at school, his family connection brings him unwanted advantages, like the birthday Porsche that gets him arrested on stolen vehicle charges, or the football game in which he makes touchdown after touchdown because word has gotten around and nobody is willing to tackle him. Even private conversations at home have to be carried on in the basement because the FBI has bugged the house and an agent is always listening. Vince's life is inextricably tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he tries to stay out of it. How can he show them he's serious? Then he meets Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent--that FBI agent--it's a match made in heaven. He thinks.
Although Vince keeps a low profile at school, his family connection brings him unwanted advantages, like the birthday Porsche that gets him arrested on stolen vehicle charges, or the football game in which he makes touchdown after touchdown because word has gotten around and nobody is willing to tackle him. Even private conversations at home have to be carried on in the basement because the FBI has bugged the house and an agent is always listening. Vince's life is inextricably tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he tries to stay out of it. How can he show them he's serious? Then he meets Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent--that FBI agent--it's a match made in heaven. He thinks.
told entirely through e-mails. Melissa Fuller, celebrity-gossip columnist for the New York Journal, lives a relatively shallow existence until her elderly neighbor is attacked and sent to the hospital in a coma, leaving behind her Great Dane and two cats. Melissa gets help in caring for them from the man who is supposedly Mrs. Friedlander's playboy nephew Max, but who is actually his college buddy doing him a favor, and it all becomes a bit complicated when Melissa falls in love with "Max." Every loose plot thread comes into play in the highly satisfactory conclusion, with just enough twists on the way for a fun ride.
started to read it 4/24/07 and realized that I have already read it, although I don't remember the plot. It must not have been memorable for me.
