![]() Lily: I love you so much I’m going destroy everyone in your life that matters and force you to depend and love only me. Harper: I love you so much that I am going to sneak out of detention to pay that guy from Craigslist $100 to cut off all your hair for my secret collection. With high school just around the corner, casual-cool Cali girl Harper and awkward, always-costumed Lily make sure to text each other every day about their bond: Whatever you want to call them, Harper and Lily were born to be besties. Perfect for fans of Kody Keplinger's The DUFF and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone, the delightfully funny debut novel A TALE OF TWO BESTIES is full of giggles and surprises.īest friends. ![]() *Featuring a foreword by 'New Girl' star Zooey Deschanel* ![]() “Plumbing the depths of friendship and cliques, this debut novel will speak to fans of Rossi’s popular website, HelloGiggles, as well as all girls trying to discover their own identity while learning what it means to really be friends.” - Booklist Only an ultimate BFF like Sophia could create the super-special bond that Harper and Lily have in A TALE OF TWO BESTIES. ![]() “If there’s one thing Sophia Rossi understands completely–it’s besties. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Returning to New York, Barris began pulling his material together for a feature. ![]() It was the last image he ever took of her. "This is just for you." She leant forward and blew a kiss to the camera. ![]() As the day went on, it became increasingly cold. In other shots she was swathed in a large green towel, or clad in a thick-knit woollen jumper that emphasised the smallness of her wrists. One session took them to Santa Monica beach, where she enjoyed champagne and paddled in the sea. "She never looked more beautiful, nor was she ever so talkative." "She was wonderful to work with the entire time," Barris recalled. A well-heeled friend in the North Hollywood Hills lent them his house for longer conversations and elaborate backdrops. From June 9 until July 18, therefore, he and Marilyn Monroe began a series of interviews, shoots and shopping sprees.īarris went to Beverly Hills to buy Monroe some slacks, a beach jacket and a bikini. ![]() The title of her latest film, Something's Got To Give, struck Barris as apt readers, he told the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, would be anxious to know what the future held. Her marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller had collapsed. She had spent six months of the previous year being treated for health problems including severe depression. Credit: Baronīarris was aware that not all the headlines had been positive. Actress Marilyn Monroe poses for George Barris in 1954 in Palm Springs, California. ![]() ![]() Things get even murkier when Robbie shows up at V.I.'s house and the PI is arrested and herself shipped off to Coolis to await bail. Then one of Lacey's childhood friends is found drowned. Vic gains access to the Baladine enclave-where no one but the Baladine son, Robbie, seems concerned about Nicola's death. Nicola was serving time for stealing a $50,000 necklace from her employers, the Baladines, owners of Carnifice Security, which operates state prisons. A hostile cop barges in the next day to question Vic about the ""hit-and-run"" of Nicola Aguinaldo, who seems to have escaped from the medical ward of Coolis, a privately operated prison in northwestern Illinois. swerves to avoid hitting an injured young woman, who later dies. ![]() ![]() Warshawski's first outing in five years begins with a party celebrating the TV debut of her reporter friend Murray Ryerson and attended by Lacey Dowell, Chicago native and star of Mad Virgin films. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cat's own tortured past has caused her to withdraw from the world for three years, but she begins to return by taking the criminal investigation into her own hands. Cat feels guilty for having become recently estranged from Patrick due to unrelated personal trauma, though she now vows to find his attacker, knowing the police will do little to help. In Black Creek, North Carolina, 16-year-old Cat Robinson's gay best friend, Patrick Truman, is left temporarily comatose from a brutal and discriminatory act of violence. Shine won the 2012 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award and is on the ALA's "YALSA Reader’s Choice" and "Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults" lists for 2012. ![]() The book was published on May 1, 2011, and follows a teenage girl investigating a hate crime involving the beating and near-death of her best friend in a small, North Carolina town. Shine is a 2011 young adult mystery novel by Lauren Myracle. ![]() |