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A dazzling family saga about the coming of age in 1970's Los Angeles. Their story is one of bloody murder and sizzling sex, riotous adventure and heart-wrenching tragedy. It's also a comical road trip where everyone “inhales” and one character almost gets drowned by a Spanish-speaking horse. This is in-your-face story telling, visceral yet sublimely poetic.
A fictional account of modern childbirth and a romantic novel rolled into one.
Birth in Suburbia follows the experiences of three heavily pregnant women, Debbie, Helen and Liz, taking the reader through the final weeks of their pregnancies.
It is filled with information about pregnancy and labour with strategically placed helpful tidbits of information throughout the story, although the story drives the novel so that it doesn’t feel like a data-laden textbook on pregnancy.
The story slowly builds and culminates with all three women going into labour within a 48 hour period, tied together by the midwifery student Gemma traveling to each birth and learning new things along the way. Each pregnancy and labour is very different and described in detail: a caesarean section in a hospital bed, a natural home birth on a futon, and an uncomplicated hospital delivery in an alternative position.
Expectant mothers may find plenty of information on what to expect in childbirth by reading this novel, while feeling entertained rather than slogging through a more straight-forward nonfiction text.
Renee, a teenage vampiress, was tossed aside. Forbidden, by her blood mother, to stray from the ancient laws. She feared death even though for her life was already over. For a year, Renee, was at her trainers leash until one day she discovered the peace they had been "keeping" was actually a lie. The peace was sending others to kill humans, rogue vampires, witches, and werewolves.
But with the help of a few others, Renee began the Rebellion. With the species Renee had been trained to kill and destroy the rebellion flourished. It was home to any rejects from the other high powers. Renee was discovered, by her blood mother, as the leader. Renee was captured and taken away.
After a year in captivity, Renee was pumped with drugs. The drugs forced her to forget all memories after she had became a rebel and all thoughts before were locked away in her mind. Even when she could recover them, they were foggy and had to relive.
Kayla had succeeded in changing Renee's thoughts ut Kayla didn't foresee one final aspect, the thoughts of Renee's Rebellion. It was only a matter of time before they would recover her. Without worry, Kayla sent Renee back to her home in Ogden, Utah.
Can Renee regain her memory? Will Ivy, and the Rebellion make her see her past and future? When given the opportunity to become human, by Dr. Vensle, will she leave her vampiric life? Will Renee choose her newly found freedom or give it all way for a human?