The Chalk Girl

Author : Carol O'Connell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0755385403
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Girl written by Carol O'Connell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect - except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. Poor child, people thought. And then they found the body in the tree. For NYPD detective, Kathy Mallory, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, but she can tell a kindred spirit. And this one will lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes; murders stretching back fifteen years, blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognise. In the next few weeks, Kathy Mallory will deal with them all ... in her own way.

Author : Kirsty Paxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1684460964
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Giraffe written by Kirsty Paxton and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published by The Imaginary Collective (PTY) Ltd., ...2018"--Copyright page.

Author : Carol O'Connell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101565802
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Girl written by Carol O'Connell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York’s Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy—except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months’ lost time, spent she will not say where, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, dangerously unstable, but she can tell a kindred spirit when she sees one. And this one will ultimately lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes, to murders stretching back fifteen years, to blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that perhaps only someone with Mallory’s history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all…in her own way.

Author : C. J. Tudor
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524761001
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Man written by C. J. Tudor and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Want to read something good?. . . If you like my stuff, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King • WINNER OF THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • WINNER OF THE STRAND MAGAZINE AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT NOVEL A riveting psychological suspense debut that weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry, and will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending In 1986, Eddie and his friends are on the verge of adolescence, spending their days biking in search of adventure. The chalk men are their secret code, stick figures they draw for one another as hidden messages. But one morning the friends find a chalk man leading them to the woods. They follow the message, only to find the dead body of a teenage girl. In 2016, Eddie is nursing a drinking problem and trying to forget his past, until one day he gets a letter containing a chalk man—the same one he and his friends saw when they found the body. Soon he learns that all his old friends received the same note. When one of them is killed, Eddie realizes that saving himself means figuring out what happened all those years ago. But digging into the past proves more dangerous than he could have known. Because in this town, everyone has secrets, no one is innocent, and some will do anything to bury the truth. Praise for The Chalk Man “Wonderfully creepy—like a cold blade on the back of your neck.”—Lee Child “An assured debut that alternates between 1986 and 2016 with unpredictable twists. The Chalk Man fits well with other stories about troubled childhoods such as Stephen King’s novella Stand by Me. . . . Tudor never misses a beat in showing each character as both a child and an adult while also exploring the foreboding environs of a small town.”—Associated Press “Utterly hypnotic. The Chalk Man is a dream novel, a book of nightmares: haunted and haunting, shot through with shadow and light—a story to quicken the pulse and freeze the blood. A dark star is born.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window “If you can’t get enough of psychological thrillers with sharp twists and turns, you need to read The Chalk Man”—Hello Giggles “I haven’t had a sleepless night due to a book for a long time. The Chalk Man changed that.”—Fiona Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow

Author : Allegra Goodman
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0679605045
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Artist written by Allegra Goodman and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender affair and the redemptive power of art are at the core of this compelling novel from National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman, “a romantic realist who dazzles with wit [and] compassion” (The Wall Street Journal). Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk. Collin’s art captivates passersby with its vibrant colors and intricate lines—until the moment he wipes it all away. Nothing in Collin’s life is meant to last. Then he meets Nina. . . . The daughter of a tech mogul who is revolutionizing virtual reality, Nina Lazare is trying to give back as a high school teacher—but her students won’t listen to her. When Collin enters her world, he inspires her to think bigger. Nina wants to return the favor—even if it means losing him. Against this poignant backdrop, Allegra Goodman paints a tableau of students, neighbors, and colleagues: Diana, a teenage girl trying to make herself invisible; her twin brother, Aidan, who’s addicted to the games produced by Nina’s father; and Daphne, a viral-marketing trickster who unites them all, for better or worse. Wise, warm, and enchanting, The Chalk Artist is both a finely rendered portrait of modern love and a celebration of all the realms we inhabit: real and imagined, visual and virtual, seemingly independent yet hopelessly tangled. Praise for The Chalk Artist “The virtual world Goodman conjures is as feverishly vivid as it is mysterious and alluring. Not since I pushed my way through C. S. Lewis’s fusty mothballed wardrobe and stepped out into the frozen, pine-scented forests of Narnia can I remember being so effectively transported into a viscerally, sometimes terrifyingly plausible alternate universe. . . . This is a novel full of wit and spark. . . . Irresistible and arresting.”—The New York Times Book Review “Enjoyably sharp dialogue and convincing portraits of multiple mindsets and terrains . . . One can’t help but marvel at how Goodman has captured the atmosphere of this virtual fantasy land so effectively in words.”—NPR “Mesmerizing depictions of virtual-reality landscapes of ‘Neverwhen’ and ‘Underworld’ make the games’ dangerous power over one of Nina’s students very real.”—People “Goodman’s latest combines fantastical flourishes (an imagined video game called ‘Underworld’) and realistic Cambridge details . . . in a narrative about art and ambition.”—The Boston Globe “Allegra Goodman creates suspense where you might least expect to find it.”—The Atlantic

Author : Berthe Amoss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618829972
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Cross written by Berthe Amoss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl living in 19th-century New Orleans struggles between her growing familiarity with voodoo and the precepts of the church in this haunting novel, now available in paperback.

Author : Iris van der Heide
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932425796
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Chalk written by Iris van der Heide and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara is bored, but none of the toys or other objects she gets in trade from other children is quite right for her, until she gets back the piece of chalk she started with and uses it to play with her friends.

Author : Jennifer A. Ericsson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596430570
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Piece of Chalk written by Jennifer A. Ericsson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl creates a colored chalk drawing on her driveway.

Author : Jennifer Trafton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998311265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry and the Chalk Dragon written by Jennifer Trafton and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To vanquish the threat of a rampaging Chalk Dragon, Sir Henry Penwhistle, Knight of La Muncha Elementary School, is going to have to do more than just catch his art--he's going to have to let his imagination run wild. And that takes bravery.

Author : Carol O'Connell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110146593X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mallory's Oracle written by Carol O'Connell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Kellerman says Mallory's Oracle is "a joy." Nelson DeMille and other advance readers have called it "truly amazing, " "a classic" with "immense appeal." It is all of that, and more: a stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in New York's Gramercy Park and the singular woman who makes them her obsession. At its center is Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City policewoman. Adopted off the streets as a little girl by a police inspector and his wife, she is still not altogether civilized now that she is a sergeant in the Special Crimes section. With her ferocious intelligence and green gunslinger eyes, Mallory (never Kathleen, never Kathy) operates by her own inner compass of right and wrong, a sense of justice that drives her in unpredictable ways. She is a thing apart. And today, she is a thing possessed. Although more at home in the company of computers than in the company of men, Mallory is propelled onto the street when the body of her adoptive father, Louis Markowitz, is found stabbed in a tenement next to the body of a wealthy Gramercy Park woman. The murders are clearly linked to two other Gramercy Park homicides Markowitz had been investigating, and now his cases become Mallory's, his death her cause. Prowling the streets, sifting through his clues, drawing on his circle of friends and colleagues, she plunges into a netherworld of light and shadow, where people are not what they seem and truth shifts without warning. And a murderer waits who is every bit as wild and unpredictable as she.... Filled with deep, seductive atmosphere and razor-sharp prose, Mallory's Oracle is gripping, resonant suspense of tantalizing complexity—a genuinely unforgettable novel.