A searing literary memoir of a disconnected childhood, a multigenerational upbringing and incest- from the daughter of legendary jazz pianist Stan Kenton Leslie Kenton was the only child of Violet, a stunning Hitchcock blonde, and the legendary jazz giant Stan Kenton. The story takes place on the road in 1950s America and in the mania of Hollywood-a world of jazz clubs, dance halls and onenighters, where lives were lived on a razor's edge. Love...

The Golden Bowl comes in the first years of the 20th-century: the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, decided never to serialise it and published it in New York in December 1904 in two volumes. After just a few months, in February 1905, also Methuen published the novel in London in a one-volume edition. In 1909, a revised edition appeared as volumes 23 and 24 of the New York edition, and James this time also prepared the preface, in which he reflected...

Nationally-known birth-order expert Dr. Kevin Leman knows that every child has unique traits that should be celebrated. If you are an only child, you probably exhibit traits like organization, self confidence, and ambition. With this creative and heartwarming book, Dr. Kevin Leman and his artist son, Kevin Leman II, conclude their popular birth-order series for children. Written specifically for the only child and similar in style to the first three...

A girl's climb up the social ladder in 1960s England. She is Carmel McBain from Lancashire, whose low-class mother pumps her with ambition. The novel follows Carmel through a convent school to university, describing her ups and downs integrating in her new milieu, and the price she pays for it. By the author of A Place of Greater Safety.

Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe presents the bizarre and riveting true story of how the chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals was brought down by sexual obsession He was the top justice of New York's highest court. She was a stunning socialite and his wife's step-cousin. In 1993 Sol Wachtler was convicted of blackmail and extortion against Joy Silverman, his former mistress. How did a respected jurist and one of the most prominent...

Grace was born ready to live up to the title that would one day be hers. As the only child of the Angel of Death, Grace knows the importance of "the end" and is ready to prove herself. When tasked with her first solo assignment on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Grace is ready and eager to show her doubters that she is ready. The one factor that she didn't account for… love. Will Grace be able to see her assignment through to the end or will...

Life is hard when you're the only child of globe-trotting explorers. And don't you just hate it when a random prophecy expects you to fight evil? Resigned: Being the only child of globe-trotting explorers is the worst thing ever. It's a nightmare of home-school, missed dates, and being dragged to Brazil so often there's zero chance of ever breaking the curse called Never Been Kissed. I'm Jenna Masters, sixteen, and the Patron Saint of Lost Causes....

"A highly ambitious and stylish literary debut set against the 1960's Chicago jazz scene about a talented but troubled singer's heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter"--

Despite being a scaredy-cat and crybaby, high schooler Tetsu finds himself working at the eerie estate on the hill, where Shizu-the only child of the Karasawa family-is secreted away. However, his friendship with Shizu quickly turns to fear when several spirits of the dead appear before him, borrowing her appearance. As he struggles to find the humanity in her supernatural condition, Tetsu must also face a question at once terrifying and heartbreaking:...

At eighteen years old, the only child of a wealthy Texas cotton rancher feels that circumstances beyond her control have stymied the dreams she once coveted, and that her life holds no promise for true happiness or love. Caught in a web of depression and grief, she cannot imagine a path forward, and she surrenders to the notion that nothing will ever change. However, she has no idea of the roads that lay ahead, the paths she will cross, or the secrets...