May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry “Gold Mountain men” who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when [...]
Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into “Bree” after she “shakes hands with the monster.” Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, “convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I’d want to be.” [...]
Kristina Snow was a 17-year-old with high grades and a loving family. In Crank (S & S, 2004), one summer in California with a meth-addicted boyfriend destroys her life. Glass picks up a year later. She lives with her mother and works at a 7-11. Depressed about her post-baby figure…
Taken by force from his home, Garrett is placed in a disciplinary boot camp. Not quite sure why he has been placed there, Garrett under goes unbelievable abuse, torture and humiliation. Will he be able to leave before his eighteenth birthday, if he submits to the brainwashing? Will a plot to escape succeed? Do his [...]
