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"Candice Wuehle's irresistibly weird debut novel Monarch is the kind of book that you want to start reading again immediately after turning the last page—not just to trace the conspiracy at its heart, but to appreciate how its kaleidoscope of beauty pageants, Y2K anxieties, famous dead girls, and deep state machinations synthesizes into an exploration of what makes up a self . . . Poetic, haunting."—Kristen Martin, NPR After waking up with a strange taste in her mouth and mysterious bruises, former child pageant star Jessica Clink unwittingly begins an investigation into a nefarious deep state underworld. Equipped with the eccentric education of her father, Dr. Clink (a professor of Bore...
The Man Who Came and Went, a novel of the new west, is a magically realistic story for the modern era that will tease your understanding and beliefs, and draw you into the mysteries of the universe, from the brilliant mind of Joe Stillman, acclaimed Academy Award nominated co-writer of “Shrek.” Fifteen-year-old Belutha Mariah, our storyteller, is the oldest of three kids from three different fathers. Her life’s goal is to keep her dysfunctional mom, Maybell, from procreating yet again and then to leave the coffin-sized town of Hadley, Arizona the second she graduates high school. Along comes the new grill cook at Maybell’s Diner, Bill Bill, a mysterious drifter with the ability to mi...
"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye."--
V místě, kde je nejmodřejší moře a kde voní rozmarýn, stojí opuštěný dům, který chce Melanie proměnit v penzion. V novém městě se seznámí s tesařem Joshem, který je přesně tím, koho pro rekonstrukci potřebuje. Ale on je rozhodnutý město opustit, a navíc slíbil své matce, že nepřekročí práh stavení, které může za neštěstí tolika místních obyvatel.
The Arizona desert is lovely in August. If you're a cactus. If you're not green and prickly it's like standing in the bottom of a volcano hoping your SPF 15 will do the trick. So how does Simone Greevey, a twenty something e-zine editor from San Francisco wind up wearing a duck costume in sweltering Seepwillow, Arizona? In Desert Desperate, Simone loses her job and her fianc in one fell swoop and runs to the arms of her eccentric aunt, owner of the Ruddy Duck trailer park, a hundred miles from nowhere. There she meets Chaz Tagliola, a guy who doesn't know Jimmy Choo from Jiminy Cricket, a man with a passion for God and the one thing Simone has tried to forget about for the decade since her father's death. Before her suitcase is unpacked; Simone's aunt disappears, leaving Chaz and Simone to lead a five day junior high school Bible study camp. Bug lightings? Hot dog roasts? Cactus jam recipes? It's a whole new world for a San Francisco girl. Throw in a mysterious park tenant and a breathtaking natural discovery and the stage is set for Simone to learn a divine lesson that will rock her world in a big way.
Jenny With A Why is the first book of a unique 3-book series detailing one woman's conflicts and victories as she navigates her way through a life influenced by poverty, trauma, abandonment, mental illness, neglect, and abuse. A story written more like a fiction book as the author's trials and triumphs seem almost unbelievable for one person to have endured. The first book of a three-book series, Jenny with a Why, introduces you to the struggles that she has faced through her teen years as she shares her experience with alcoholism, teen pregnancy, abandonment, abusive marriages, and surviving her dysfunctional family. Travel with her as she flashbacks to the memories that will give you insig...
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Anna K. is zeventien jaar oud en staat aan de top van de Manhattan en Greenwich society (alhoewel haar paarden en honden toch op nummer 1 staan). Alexander W. is haar perfecte, ietwat saaie vriendje, en haar bedwingende Koreaans-Amerikaanse vader is haar hele leven al trots op haar geweest. Ze lijkt het dus allemaal perfect voor elkaar te hebben. Terwijl haar vrienden het moeilijk hebben met hun alledaagse tienerlevens, lijkt Anna er altijd boven te staan. Totdat ze 'graaf' Alexia Vronsky op Grand Central ontmoet. Hij is een beruchte playboy die al jaren van kostschool naar kostschool hopt en alleen voor zijn eigen plezier lijkt te leven. Op papier is hij het tegenovergestelde van Anna. Maar...