Books with author Anne Edwards

Sixteen-year-old Wendy Wyman is bereft over the death of her best friend, Peter Preiss, whose body has been found at the bottom of the town lake. She blames herself because she allowed him to go back to his family’s lakeside boathouse late at night where they had just made love for the first time. She wonders what she could have done differently to stop Pete from being killed, and thinks back to the beginning of the school year when her whole life changed forever. Wendy will stop at nothing until she finds out the person responsible for killing Peter, who was bullied by most of the students in their junior class. She is in for even more of a shock when she finds out that not only did Pete keep dark secrets from her, but a few of her close friends are hiding ones as well. This also includes Dylan Mayone, the new popular boy at school, who wants her for his own, and may have had a hand in Pete’s death. “A startling unique spin on Peter Pan with mystery and romance, and staying true to yourself.” – # 1 NY Times Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout "Real and honest, sweet and heartbreaking, WHAT IF is an excellent YA read."- NY Times Bestselling author Monica Murphy

Someone is the story of a rock star who performed for five years under an alias and who attained several consecutive worldwide number one albums. However, at the height of his fame, Someone vanished mysteriously in New York during the middle of a concert series, never to be heard from again. Eighteen years later a former fan now a journalist, decides to revisit the circumstances of Someone's disappearance and solve a mystery that has evaded previous investigators. The story of Someone is told through two perspectives, one being the retrospective investigation pieced together by the journalist, who examines potential candidates for Someone and the circumstances of his disappearance. While the other perspective is a first person view of Someone's experience growing up within a fractious family environment, his musical development and rise to stardom.

he Adventures of a Trapper Boy is based on the true story of the amazing life of Harold Gus Edwards who went from a trapper boy in the coal mines of Nova Scotia to being head of the Royal Canadian Air Force Overseas during World War II.Gus was born in Chorley, England. When his father lost his job as a miner there, he moved his family to Nova Scotia where they needed miners badly. While still a boy, Gus began to work underground as a trapper boy for ten hours a day, six days a week. Each night, he would study for two hours, then sleep for a while before he got up to study for another three hours before going off to the mines. Gus believed if you have a dream and want something badly enough, you will work to reach your goal.Flight was brand new in the early days of the last century, and Gus wanted to learn to fly more than anything. He read everything he could about it. When World War I began, he joined the British navy as an aviator cadet. During the war, as a fighter pilot, he was shot down, taken prisoner, escaped, and was recaptured. After the war, he flew airplanes again as part of the aerial mapping project to take pictures of vast areas of Canada. By the third year of World War II, Gus was an air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force. No one else before him had risen so rapidly through the ranks. He was now the leader of thousands of men and women serving overseas.Gus s life was full of adventure. You are invited to join in his adventures as you read The Adventures of a Trapper Boy.

Seventeen-year-old Alex Longfield is on the verge of fulfilling his life-long dream of being a professional baseball player, but he must hide his achievements and accolades from the one person whose praise and encouragement he desires the most: his father. Dead set against his son making a career of baseball, he insists that Alex continue his education at Cornell University. Faced with a home life of perpetual study and intimidation, Alex decides to take matters into his own hands and pursue his dream. He secretly travels away from Ithaca for the first time via bus to New Jersey. Despite failing to impress the Jackals coaches at his trial with his batting, they spot his potential as a pitcher and offer him another chance. But when a family secret is revealed and his father finds out what Alex has been doing, will the eve of Alex’s greatest victory also be the eve of his greatest defeat? Can he avoid paying the price for his deception long enough to make his longshot pay off and win a starting spot with a professional baseball team? As Alex fights for the chance to achieve his dreams; it is truly a longshot for Longfield.

Evelynn Faust suffers from horrible insomnia and paranoia. The summer before her senior year of high school should be one of the best summers of her life. But she’s tormented by guilt and an addiction that haunts her every waking moment. Evelynn is a drug dealer who also craves the drug she sells. The money and the popularity that come with it aren’t bad either. But when she’s caught dealing on school property by Eric Wagner, the respected and admired police chief’s son, the game is over. He won’t snitch on her, unless she gives him whatever he wants – her. She’s being blackmailed. Evelynn has no one to turn to for help. Not her parents who don’t understand her rebellious nature or her circle of friends who only care about partying and getting high. When Adam Tristen moves in across the street, and he wants to get to know her better, it all seems too good to be true. She must make a pact with the devil. Evelynn now looks over her shoulder wherever she goes, waiting for Eric to act on his threats. But Adam, the charming college sophomore, sees something special inside Evelynn, and he wants to help her fix mistakes. In order to do that she must confront a dark secret from her past that could destroy her family…her life…and her entire world as she knows it. She’ll need to take a leap of faith.

Excerpt from Susan FieldingAnd this yearly dining-out was the solitary dissipation, the one act of social intercourse that broke Mr. Fielding's lonely existence. During the lifetime of his wife, whom he tenderly loved, he had been brought, perforce, if not into friendliness, into some degree of contact with his neighbors.Mrs. Fielding, a quiet-tempered little woman, unrivalled in her pastry and damson-cheese, and regarding books much as the wife of an ironmonger would regard stoves or saucepans, made it a point of faith to air her best cap and hear the village gossip whenever opportunity offered; and on rare occasions would prevail upon her husband, very miserable in his dress-clothes, and with his song-books and violin under his arm, to accompany her to some of the village tea-parties. After her death, which happened when Susan was six years of age, he fell back at once and forever upon his own society. The morose nature of the man showing itself, said the village people among whom he lived, and yet from whose companionship he held himself so utterly, so suspiciously aloof.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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