Dreamworld
10 best books like Dreamworld (Jane Goldman): Thin Skin, Mercy, Unbound, Nothing, Rainbow Party, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, Everything She Wants, Brave New Girl, Tomorrow, Maybe, Floating, Fake Liar Cheat
| Author | Emma Forrest |
| ISBN | 0743464818 |
From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper...
| Author | Kim Antieau |
| ISBN | 1416908935 |
Mercy O'Connor is becoming an angel. She can feel her wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. They itch. Sometimes she even hears them rustling. And angels don't need to eat. So Mercy has decided she doesn't need to either. She is not sick, doesn't suffer from anorexia, is not trying to kill herself....
"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm." For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend--one misstep,...
Rainbow Parties. Are they real? Who's going?
GIN and SANDY
One's been with all the guys, one's terrified of them.It's Gin's party; she invited everyone.
ALLISON
President of the Celibacy Club. What's she thinkin'?
HUNTER and PERRY
Friends...with benefits.
JADE
Hanging on to it for the...
| Author | Jen Sincero |
| ISBN | 0743453913 |
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...
| Author | Beth Killian |
| ISBN | 1416521682 |
In the second book of Beth Killian's juicy 310 series, Hollywood newcomer Eva Cordes starts to unravel her family's dark secrets -- and creates some scandals of her own.
Aspiring actress Eva feels like she's finally on her way to the big time -- she's got new friends, a new life, and a starring...
| Author | Louisa Luna |
| ISBN | 0743407865 |
A fourteen-year-old trying to find her way in the world, Doreen is as much an outcast at school as she is at home. Marginalized by her peers, misunderstood by her parents, and mourning the loss of her older brother who disappeared when she was just a child, Doreen finds solace in her fierce love of music...
| Author | Brian James |
| ISBN | 0606296115 |
There is a girl named Chan, she lives on the streets in New York. She ran away from home because of her step-mother. While living on the streets, Chan met a young 6 year old girl that ran away from her home because her father abused her. They took care of each other as if they were sisters. They had a problem raising...
| Author | Robin Troy |
| ISBN | 0671024493 |
Winner of the MTV Fiction Contest
Marking the debut of a vibrant new voice in American fiction, Floating is a poignant and sharply original novel about the fragile boundaries between desire, love, and betrayal. For most people, Whitticker, Arizona, population 641, is just a rest stop on a highway...
| Author | Tod Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0743400569 |
Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, boring, and even worse, ordinary life. Sucked into the...
| Author | Keith Lowe |
| ISBN | 0743423526 |
Andy's obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing the entire map will Andy retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding...
| Author | Arthur Nersesian |
| ISBN | 0671775421 |
mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.
other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was...
| Author | Stephen Chbosky |
| ISBN | 0671001957 |
MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces.
This unique short-story collection is more than a good read—it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's "Write Stuff" competition share their voices and visions in tales that are endearingly...
| Author | Sabrina Bryan |
| ISBN | 1416570659 |
Who knows better than Sabrina Bryan of The Cheetah Girls what it's really like to be famous? In this addictive new novel, Sabrina teams up with popular author Julia DeVillers to tell the story of an ordinary girl with an extraordinary secret....
Life in southern California is not at all...
| Author | Alex McAulay |
| ISBN | 1416525734 |
From the author of Bad Girls comes another dramatic novel of survival and suspense. It's Laguna Beach meets Cape Fear when a rich girl from California confronts murder and isolation on North Carolina's stormy Outer Banks.
When Caitlin Ross's mother takes her and her brother to an island in...
| Author | Kerry Cohen |
| ISBN | 1416914250 |
Easy. At the ripe young age of fourteen Jessica has discovered that getting the attention she wants is just that—easy. It’s not the attention of a divorced mother who spends all of her time grieving over a broken marriage. Nor is it that of a father with a new girlfriend who’s moving on with his life....
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0805063161 |
"Out at the city limits there's this sign that says WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and if you'd believe that, you'd believe anything."
Sixteen-year-old Carol Patterson is a girl in the middle: in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, in the middle of her family's...
| Author | Michael Hornburg |
| ISBN | 0802134564 |
Bongwater is a novel that wavers along the solar eclipse of the American Dream, a neo-Beat, grungeoisie love story that has all the authenticity and none of the pretension of its forerunners, a book that will be for the slacker generation of the nineties what Bright Lights, Big City was for the wannabe...
Confetti Covered Quicksand
Fresh from the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Amy Asbury is at a crossroads. The grunge scene took over and left her hair band crowd in the dust. Where to go? What to do? It was as if a three year long party had just been broken up and no one remembered where they lived. Everyone was left with an identity crisis....
Punk Rock: An Oral History
| Author | John Robb |
| ISBN | 0091905117 |
'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our hair and bought skinny trousers. It was year zero. That was...
| Author | Thorn Kief Hillsbery |
| ISBN | 0812973097 |
“Why am I a punk? Because I wasn’t anything before, except different. And now it’s like I’m different, but with a vengeance.”
It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked out on the same day John Lennon was shot:...
Lit Riffs: Writers "Cover" the Songs They Love
| Author | Matthew Miele |
| ISBN | 0743470265 |
Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected...
The Bitch Goddess Notebook
| Author | Martha O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0752867393 |
Set in a small-town high school in Illinois in 1988, three misfit girls join forces with devastating consequences. Rennie, the stunningly attractive straight-A student, finds herself way out of her depth when she embarks on an affair with her married teacher. Cherry builds a shrine to Princess Diana...
| Author | Arne Svenson |
| ISBN | 0972211179 |
Photographers Arne Svenson and Ron Warren--co-authors of the popular Sock Monkeys--here turn their attention to those masses of slobbered-over yarn, remnants and stuffing that ordinarily go the way of all pet toy casualties and get discarded without a second glance. Before their lenses, once-plush...
