The Fall Before the Rise
In this book, first-time author Abhishek Mukherjee provides us with a fresh take on romance and relationships. The book unfolds as the protagonist tries to break free from her mediocre life and is ready to trade her life for a deal on her dreams. But she soon finds out that everything is not as it looks like when she starts living with her rescuer and discovers the mighty walls of the mansion whispering secrets about her rescuer's political family. Friendships are made along the way as she starts trusting those around her. But how long will her trust sustain! The Fall before the Rise is a fast-paced novel that will keep its grip on your attention as the protagonist takes you through her journey in her own words as she discovers relationships budding in the most barren of situations. A story of love and blood, hate and white lies, dreams and reality, it surprises you when you least expect it. Full of unexpected twist, it provides for an exhilarating read.
After the Rising & Before the Fall
This is a special edition of Orna Ross's first two novels. For a limited time only, get two books in one.
After the Fall
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted – a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed. In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down. After the fall, we must determine what it means to be American again. In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outwards. Over the next three years, he travelled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spends time with is poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he comes to know see their movement snuffed out, and America itself reaches the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance. After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. Throughout, Rhodes comes to realize how much America's fingerprints are on a world it helped to shape: through the excesses of the post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism, post-9/11 nationalism and militarism, mania for technology and social media, and the racism that shaped the backlash to the Obama presidency. At the same time, he learns from a diverse set of characters – from Obama to rebels to a rising generation of leaders – how looking squarely at where America has gone wrong only makes it more essential to fight for what America is supposed to be – for itself, and for the entire world.
Lovers' Hollow
Writer Jo Devereux returns home to Wexford for her mother's funeral with very mixed feelings. After all, she hadn't seen Mrs D for years ''¬" and for good reason. So when Jo finds herself agreeing to her mother's dying request to write a family history, her motives for doing so aren't clear even to herself. Family pride has caused Jo nothing but heartache ''¬" and cost her Rory, the only man she ever truly loved.But maybe because her life as a sex columnist in San Francisco has become rackety and empty, and because a pregnant woman of thirty-eight needs to face her demons, Jo settles down to a long hot summer of excavating the past.In unearthing undreamt of family secrets ''¬" of love and revenge in a time of war, of the conflict between happiness and duty, and even of a murder that has haunted three generations ''¬" Jo begins to understand certain truths, not only about her mother and her grandmother, Peg, but also about herself and Rory, who is still lurking at the edge of her life.Could a reluctant mission to redeem the past actually offer the key to Jo's future?
After The Rising & Before The Fall
A death in the present-a killing in the past--a possible new future. After twenty years away, Jo Devereux flies home to Ireland for her mother's funeral -- the mother she hasn't spoken to for more than two decades. Every minute there reminds her of all the reasons she left and she has no desire to reacquaint herself with her home village. Or with Rory O'Donovan, the only man she ever loved, who still lives in the village. Then, she reads her mother's will. Her inheritance is a chest full of letters and diaries, written by her grandmother and great-aunt. In them, Jo discovers a legacy of poison and hatred that has laid waste to the lives of four generations of women. Facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo must now find out the ultimate truth: Who really killed her great uncle? What secrets and lies lay under her mother's and grandmother's unshakeable silence? Could her mission to uncover the truth about her foremothers be the key to a future with Rory? Or will it be their undoing? Read this haunting, heartbreaking saga of love, loss, and secrets in a country and a family ravaged by all kinds of intimate war.
