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The School of Beauty and Charm
In her vividly drawn, bitingly satiric first novel, the Whiting Award-winning young author immerses readers in the wrenching poignancies and comic grotesqueries of one fractious, flamboyant family in contemporary Georgia.
The Ghost of Milagro Creek
"Devastating . . . [Ghost of Milagro Creek] simmers with metaphysical tension."—Time Out Chicago The story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys, Mister and Tomás, she raised to adulthood unfolds in a barrio of Taos, New Mexico—a mixed community of Native Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Now deceased, Ignacia, a curandera—a medicine woman, though some say a witch—begins this tale of star-crossed lovers. Mister and Tomás, best friends until their late teens, both fall for Rocky, a gringa of some mystery, a girl Tomás takes for himself. But in a moment of despair, a pledge between the young men leads to murder. When Ignacia falls silent, police reports, witness statements, and caseworker interviews draw an electrifying portrait of a troubled community and of the vulnerable players in this mounting tragedy. Set in a terrain that becomes a character in its own right, The Ghost of Milagro Creek brilliantly illuminates this hidden corner of American society.
Polite Society
The follies of a Peace Corps woman in Africa. She is Louise Daren Parkman, an unemployed lady from Tennessee who gets herself a job teaching English in Senegal, knowing little of either. A tragicomic tale of incompetence, cultural conflicts and interracial romancing.
How to Write a Novel
Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12.5 years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father’s death, however, she’s been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane’s floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor. Not to mention co-parenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money. Luckily, Aris has a plan. Following the advice laid out in Write a Novel in Thirty Days! she sets out to pen a bestseller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material. If the Mom-character, Diane, would ditch online dating and accept that the perfect man is clearly the handyman/nanny-character, Penn MacGuffin, Aris would have the essential romance for her plot (and a father in her real life). But when a random accident uncovers a dark part of Thibodeau family history, Aris is forced to confront the fact that sometimes in life—as in great literature—things might not work out exactly as planned.
After O'Connor
Georgia has produced some of the major figures of modern literature, including Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell and, most notably, Flannery O'Connor. While such writers are firmly established in American literary history, all too few readers are aware of how the state's tradition of literary excellence persists in the present day. The thirty stories in After O'Connor were written during the past fifteen years by authors who were born in Georgia or spent a significant part of their lives and careers in this state. Embracing the social, cultural, and ethnic variety in today's Georgia, After O'Connor both advances and helps redefine the great southern storytelling tradition.
Long Story Short
Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina s Finest Writers"
Voices of the Xiled
Writers aged under 35 describe life in the twenty-something generation. The stories range from Tamara Jeffries' Black Tea, whose protagonist is an unborn baby, to Dean Albarelli's Winterlude, in which an amoral man concludes there is a limit to amorality.
Melanie's Magic
The people of Nod are spinners of fine silks and every little girl dreams of spinning silk for the King and Queen. Melanie is no different. She dreams of touching rainbows, of flying over Nod until she finds her perfect spot. But something is stopping her from taking that leap of faith. Can Melanie overcome her fears and take the leap, or is she destined to swing and dream forever? Written by Kelly J Blackwood, illustrated by I.L.Jackson, digital colourization by Pine Lake Books.
Living on the Edge
Stories by members of the Peace Corps, recounting their adventures in the Third World. Typical is Ma Kamanda's Latrine by Marla Kay Houghteling, in which an African chief turns down the heroine's request for a latrine, suggesting she use the bush like everyone else. "After years of British, we do not need Americans telling us how to do things."
One Kid's Trash
From the acclaimed author of Roll with It and Tune It Out comes a funny, moving, and “not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about a boy who uses his unusual talent for decoding people’s trash to try to fit in at his new school. Hugo is not happy about being dragged halfway across the state of Colorado just because his dad had a midlife crisis and decided to become a ski instructor. It’d be different if Hugo weren’t so tiny, if girls didn’t think he was adorable like a puppy in a purse and guys didn’t call him “leprechaun” and rub his head for luck. But here he is, the tiny new kid on his first day of middle school. When his fellow students discover his remarkable talent for garbology, the science of studying trash to tell you anything you could ever want to know about a person, Hugo becomes the cool kid for the first time in his life. But what happens when it all goes to his head?
