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One of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for January One of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in January One of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025 One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in January The extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, and survive-it-all, opposites-attract love Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs. Through ...
Who does your life belong to anyway? You, your family, the government, or God? Miles, his girlfriend, Colleen, and his brother, Mel, confront all these questions by walking a slippery line between personal ethics and the law. But events really ramp up when the police find Mel's body and a suicide note under dubious circumstances, with Miles and two of Mel's friends treated as suspects. The resulting cloud brings in Mel's embittered ex-wife and their two sons, and when his will confirms that Gina, Mel's girlfriend, Miles' son Jason, and Miles himself are the only heirs, his ex goes ballistic and pressures the DA for a murder indictment. Miles, meanwhile, remains haunted by his wife's death from cancer five years earlier.
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THE STORIES: The cycle is epic in style when the plays are performed together, yet each individual play tells a powerful story on its own. (The character breakdowns shown here reflect the individual plays, but, together, a minimum of 20 actors can
A true picture of relationships between the Indians of northern New England and the European settlers.
"Donna Siegel has written an engaging account of remarkable people-our grandparents, parents, and their siblings. Our family's immigrant experience mirrors those of an entire generation. Recalled with poignancy and humor in these stories, they all seem to live again." -Paul R. Schulman, author of Large- Scale Policy Making and High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge, with Emery Roe. "Memoirs have the power to bring the felt reality of the past to life. This is what happens in Donna Siegel's On the Doorposts of All Our Houses. Her memoir is fresh, touching, and full of pungent details. This heartfelt and humorous memoir retrieves a precious piece of American Jewish history." -Emily...
Japanese Now is a popular four-year learning program used in numerous American secondary schools and universities. The first two years emphasize oral-aural skills; the third and fourth years offer reading selections while expanding vocabulary and grammatical patterns through conversation and discussion of Japanese culture and appropriate styles of speech in various social setting. Tapes may be copied by an educational institution for classroom use but not for resale.