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Tina Jones is glad to be away from her controlling Aunt Gillian. Gillian has always had something to say about Tina's job, her love life, her weight problems; all have been fair game for Gillian's sniping at one time or another. Now, however, things have changed. Gillian has Alzheimer's and can no longer live alone. She moves in with Tina, and Tina makes a shocking discovery: a birth certificate proving that Gillian has a daughter. Tina sets out to discover the truth about her past, and along the way learns not only about the ties of family, but also that love rarely comes in the form you expect.
Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the country to avoid the scandal she has created by sleeping with one of her students. She steals her sister’s passport and boards the ferry to Shanghai. Then, careful to impersonate her sister, she is quiet, docile and discreet... Meanwhile, on the last stretch of a fraught and tiring mission to find a wife, an Englishman also boards the ferry. Rebuffed in Tokyo, Ralph hopes that on the Chinese mainland he will meet a gentle, beautiful girl to return home with. When these two meet, suppressing at first their secrets and obsessions on this long and claustrophobic journey, we enter a desolate, emotional landscape as Runa’s journey begins to turn into a surreal and terrifying nightmare . . .
The story of two very different lives...and one Hollywood murder. It's 2019 and Lily Jones is living her dream in L.A....sort of. It hasn’t quite turned out as she planned and instead of working as a movie producer, she is cleaning at the prestigious Beverly Hills Hotel. At least she gets to work in the renowned Paul Williams suite—site of the brutal murder of Honey Black 70 years ago, shrouded in rumor and dark glamor. It's also 1949, and Honey Black is about to hit the big time. She may have started out a country girl from Hicksville, but now she's a star and Hollywood had better watch out! After an accidental bump to the head, Lily finds herself in Old Hollywood, 1949. Like a dream come true, she's rubbing shoulders with Tinseltown's greatest...including Honey Black. Horrified, Lily realizes that the actress has only two weeks left to live before she will be murdered. Could this be why Lily has found herself in 1949? Can she find the killer and stop them before it's too late?
From controversial cryptozoologist and explorer Dr. Veronica Wigberht-Blackwater, The Compendium of Magical Beasts is a definitive field guide that explores the history, biology, and anatomy of mythological creatures. Approaching the fantastic with a scientific eye, Dr. Wigberht-Blackwater explains the history, habits, and biology of each creature's existence with equal attention to detail. Her research is accompanied by stunning scientific illustrations of each specimen's anatomy, providing a comprehensive view of creatures most often dismissed as pure fantasy. Combining biological fact with folklore, cultural studies, and history, this volume is crucial to science both fringe and mainstrea...
Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing, the book resists any triumphalist reading of Morrison's achievement in order to allow the meditative, unsettled, and unsettling questions that arise throughout her long labor at the nexus of language and politics, where her fiction interrogates representation itself.Moving between close reading and critical theory, Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics reveals the ways in which Morrison's primary engagement with language has been a search for how and what language is made to communicate, and for how and what speaks in and from generation to generation. There is no easy escape fromsuch legacy, no escape into a pure language free of the burdens of racialized agendas. Rather, there is the example of Morrison's commitment to writerly, which is to say readerly, wakefulness.At a time when sustained study devoted to single authors has become rare, this book will be an invaluable resource for readers, scholars, and teachers of Morrison's work.
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