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"One of our greatest living authors."—Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not in glory, but into their Jim Crow communities. A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to his army pals because he’s a wise guy. But underneath that surface, he is a true self-educated intellectual and a clas...
Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too realbut not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate (or Katherine, or Kate of the Prairie, or Katrina) is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated.
Clandestine lives up to its name-it's all about secrets. The children who grew up in the tiny mountain town have a limited understanding of life before the war. Kate Morgan's brother, however, uncovers a family secret and their lives are suddenly sent spinning out of control. Not only is Kate forced to deal with bullies, rumors, and everyday challenges of life, now she must find a way to protect her family from threats she never knew existed. Everyone in Clandestine is affected by the choices of Kate's grandfather, especially the Bucannans. And when Riley Bucannan leaves Clandestine for the big city, he finds that the repercussions are even felt there. Together with their families, Kate and Riley will discover a lot about family and freedom and what they may be required to sacrifice for both.
13th century France: One holds a secret. One will murder to claim it. The last will discover his sacred destiny.1290, France, Renier de Beynac, the Papal Inquisitor ruthlessly hunts down heretics and a legend. India Serras, is the last and protects a treasure so precious that Renier will stop at nothing to obtain it. Jourdain LeTardif, a merchant wounded in the dark streets of Carcassonne, collapses at India's doorstep. Against all odds, she realizes who he really is, the untold circumstances of his birth and the events that will ultimately change both their lives.
Ashleigh Bennett had decided to leave the past behind once and for all when she took a job working with Trevor O'Donnell and his task force in South Florida. Unfortunately, the past has a way of following you no matter how far you go to escape it. For Ashleigh, her past was littered with losses. First, the loss of her parents, and then her sister, Ellen. Ellen's was the most painful however, as the circumstances surrounding her death left her with many unanswered questions. Could she have relapsed into the world of drugs and put her unborn child in harms way like the police had assumed and did she have a reason to kill her husband? Ashleigh was certain that she didn't. But, after several yea...
Clara Bennett lives a quiet life as the owner of a modest bookshop in Glastonbury, UK, the empty chapters in her life as yet unwritten—especially every New Year’s Eve. But fate is about to play her hand in the form of an antique blue leather book. From the moment she reads the dedication, her life will change in ways she could have never predicted. To Klara, My heart enchanted, has loved you through endless lifetimes before, and will search for you again, for a hundred lifetimes more. In life after life, in age after age, I will find you and love you, from the past, to the present, through lifetimes evermore. Michael H. Chamberlain II, 1868 ‘Love is a Leap’ is a romantic tale of reincarnation that will take Clara Bennett back in time to 16th Century Scotland, the 1860’s in Florence and WWII, France in a journey of self-discovery, twin-flames and a promise she made lifetimes ago.
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As a forensic anthropologist, Dr. Kate Riley spends her time dealing with the dead. A career that is more gruesome and intense than most people can handle, it has been her driving passion ever since her partner disappeared in college years ago. Nothing is more important to her than her job. Nothing, that is, until she meets ex-college basketball star and passionate kindergarten teacher, Lisa Sorenson. Lisa Sorenson adores her students’ relentless enthusiasm. Light-hearted and intent on celebrating life, she’s intrigued by Riley’s cerebral aloofness. Drawn to each other, an unlikely romance blossoms and begins to thrive. But when their professional worlds begin to collide in a most unlikely manner, a wedge is driven between them and threatens to push them apart. Can the love they feel for each other overcome such a gulf and can they find their joie de vivre—their zest of life—together before it’s too late?
Kate Dillon has never met a man worth his weight in packing peanuts.
In partnership with Dutton Books, Amazon Literary Partnership, and Feminist Press, Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology is a multi-genre showcase of the best writing from today’s next-gen voices and leaders. Do you know what it’s like to communicate with your family across a salty ocean’s divide? Do you want the sun and moon to enter your home with stories written in embers? Do you seek voices that will shatter expectations? Welcome to the other side of everything. It’s the other side of silence, the other side of childhood, the other side of hate, the other side of indifference, it’s the other side of sides, where the binary breaks down. It’s a new paradigm, a destination, a different perspective, a mindset, a state of openness, the space between the endless folds in your forehead, hopes for tomorrow, and reflections on the past. This anthology of diverse voices is an everything bagel of literary genres and love songs, secrets whispered in the dark of night, conversations held with ancestors under the sea.