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Yearning for the Unattainable: Y.F.T.U. Kindle Edition

by L.L. Eadie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Yearning for the Unattainable
By: L.L. Eadie

Eadie’s gift for understanding the adolescent heart is on full display … in this delicious witch’s brew of southern gothic, paranormal romance and realistic contemporary. The town of Wiregrass is a character in itself with its whispers, horrors and secrets. And at the heart of it all is Gentry, the newcomer, who innocently looks for love, but instead is drawn into a portal that nearly takes her life. -Joyce Sweeney on Yearning for the Unattainable

Eadie’s work stands out from the usual teen novel. Written in a light, easy style Tuesday’s story of emotional emancipation is one that any teenager can appreciate. -Kirkus Reviews on Mistaken Identity

A love story mixed with tragedy and humor. Secrets and broken promises from the author’s youth (and from all teenagers’ lives) prompted Eadie to write this story. She hopes her readers will see themselves in her characters and be able to feel their emotions—recognize them—relate to them—laugh and cry with them.

About the Author

L. L. Eadie is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Florida Writers’ Association. She has been rewarded with the FWA’s Royal Palm Literary Awards for her unpublished young adult novels. It was not until she left teaching that she rediscovered her passion for writing. In 2013 her first young adult novel was published by Cricket Cottage—Mistaken Identity. Eadie resides in Florida, where she enjoys the beaches, college football and her family.
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Eadie's work stands out from the usual teen novel. Written in a light, easy style Tuesday's story of emotional emancipation is one that any teenager can appreciate. -Kirkus Reviews on Mistaken Identity

Eadie's gift for understanding the adolescent heart is on full display ... in this delicious witch's brew of southern gothic, paranormal romance and realistic contemporary. The town of Wiregrass is a character in itself with its whispers, horrors and secrets. And at the heart of it all is Gentry, the newcomer, who innocently looks for love, but instead is drawn into a portal that nearly takes her life. -Joyce Sweeney on Yearning for the Unattainable

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A love story mixed with tragedy and humor. Secrets and broken promises from the author's youth (and from all teenagers' lives) prompted Eadie to write this story. She hopes her readers will see themselves in her characters and be able to feel their emotions--recognize them--relate to them--laugh and cry with them.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07XKFKCWZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc. (September 6, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 971 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 615 pages
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L L Eadie

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L. L. Eadie is passionate about writing and reading – especially for young adults. Before she was published her works earned her a couple Florida Writers’ Association’s Royal Palm Literary Awards. She credits her success not only for being an active member of both FWA and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, but also belonging to several critique groups over the past ten plus years she’s been writing.

She is a proud Gator graduate of the University of Florida – holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education. She taught numerous years, grades, subjects, and children.

She is inspired daily and often nightly when her muse wakes her with a fabulous new idea or pressing story to be written.

She is currently in the process of republishing all of her backlist of books, working on new material every day as well as working with a writer’s group called the Lively Literary Ladies through video conferencing.

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Linda McGinnis
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2019
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Good read ! Would recommend this if you are a person who likes to curl up with a good book !
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Jodi Turchin
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely read and interesting characters
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019
Gentry is a high school sophomore. She, her father, her father's girlfriend, and her older brother Rawson have just moved in with her great-aunt Tom in small town Wiregrass, Georgia. And oh, yeah - she's haunted by her dead cousin Sylvie, who, rumor has it, jumped off a bridge when SHE was a teen. And to make matters MORE complicated, Gentry is the spitting image of Sylvie.

Florida writer L. L. Eadie spins Gentry's story in a delightful web that spirals plots and subplots all over the place (in a good way). While Gentry is trying to figure out how to help Sylvie move on, she is also trying to figure out her own place in Wiregrass. The popular kids, aka the Sirlons and the Sirens, aren't her place. But her brother Rawson has met a classmate, who Gentry adores and calls The Legend Wallace. Legend, also a senior with Rawson, takes a liking to Gentry and introduces her to a circle of friends through his cousin Dinah.

But when Gentry learns a secret about Legend, it sends her world reeling on its axis. And all the things she's trying to deal with are starting to cause a parallel to dead cousin Sylvie . . .

With lots of great details and a big dollop of Southern, Eadie brings the reader into Gentry's troubled life and takes us along to an ending that ties up all the subplots. Nothing is left hanging here. I laughed, I cried. I know what it's like to yearn for the unattainable - and if you do as well, you'll enjoy this book.
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Joyce Sweeney
5.0 out of 5 stars How a Girl Feels
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019
I loved this story so much! The language is so sassy and fresh, the humor is spot on, but sneaking up on you is a powerful story about how we yearn for and love things we aren't meant to have. Gentry is longing for the most gorgeous guy she's ever seen, who seems to belong to everyone and no one. By the time she understands it all, it's too late. Characters and relationships are genuine and honest, there's a great ghost story and most of all, this book really tells it like it is on how girls really think and feel about boys.
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