random books i found on here that i will eventually read

If There Be Thorns

Virginia Andrews • 2016

Petals on the Wind

V.C. Andrews • 2020

Flowers In The Attic

V.C. Andrews • 2011

<b>Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece <i>Flowers in the Attic</i>—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic. </b><br><br><i>At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives…</i><br> <br> They were a perfect and beautiful family—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother. A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, <i>Flowers in the Attic </i>is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga.<br> <br> The Dollanganger series includes: <i>Flowers in the Attic</i>, <i>Petals in the Wind</i>, <i>If There Be Thorns</i>, <i>Seeds of Yesterday</i>, <i>Garden of Shadows</i>, <i>Beneath the Attic</i>, and<i> Out of the Attic. </i>

just kids

patti smith

<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>

Tampa

Alissa Nutting · 2014