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A Thirst for Rain
Myra, a proud, sensuous, hardworking woman who finds blessed release in her own restless desires; Odile, Myra's defiant teenage daughter who risks her one chance to leave the family's poverty; Sebastian, Myra's senile father who has begun to follow his fantasies into a world of trouble; Slim, Myra's worthless street vendor boyfriend who spends as much time seducing young women as he does selling trinkets; Jacob, the once-famous West Indian stickfighter who thought the hero in him was long dead until he meets Myra. And Rory, whose need for Odile's love may prove very dangerous.
The Prince and The Pirate 2
Reunited at last, Daya and Alastar know their love is too strong to give up because of things that are beyond their control. They spend days together, the heat of it devouring their every worry. Alastar is anxious to get to New Day and meet his mother, but wants to say goodbye to the people who’d taken him in, showing him the family he’d always wanted. He takes Daya to the schoolhouse, getting Sarah’s fast approval, and letting them know that the pirates were coming back, set on revenge. While there, Daya gets sick and wants nothing more than to go home, so Alastar takes him there, where they discover that, because of the fact Daya is female when he shifts, he and Alastar made a baby. ...
The Prince and The Pirate
A mother's secret pain. A son's need to break free. Two decades after a virus raged through the world and took most of humanity, Daya, the prince of the settlement his mother founded, longs to break out of the fences that have kept him safe his entire life and explore the new world. Taught to fight and survive by his parents, Daya wanted to use his skills, but he was sheltered, protected. Then one day, his parents let him go. Using the training he'd received, Daya set out on his own to discover the harsh world the virus had left in its wake. Warnings of pirates and marauders rang in his mind as he hunted and camped, ever wary. A father's crimes. A son's need to break free. Alastar, raised wi...
Dead of Night
The continuing story of Mateo Luna, or Luna Matias, as he’d learned his real name is, picks up with him confused and hurt that he’d been kidnapped by his beloved mother. Her passing without explanation leaves him with many unanswered questions. Why would the dear woman he’d loved and cared for all those years have taken him? Meeting his new family may hold some of the answers. His father, a slave to his work at the winery the family owned. His mother, obsessed with attention, tells a tale of people who might have had little time for the toddler he was when he was taken from them. Missing Trevor, though trying to move on, Mateo starts a casual affair with the handyman, but could that be a mistake? Things start to happen, accidents in the bungalow on the estate where he’d chosen to live. Then, he gets gravely ill, and like his sister before him, could die. Life with money and power was no better than when he was poor and struggling, but Mateo finds he knows nothing about the people he was born to, or those he’d clung to in his life…
The Character of Rain
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), t...
Stealing Teardrops from the Rain: The Forbes Trilogy: Part Two
On a routine assignment, Art Loss Register investigator, William Forbes discovers a famous painting in the possession of a struggling artist. As he back tracks through the provenance a link is discovered to an owner who simply gave it away. As Forbes endeavors to discover why; it appears that Vladimir Chekov, Russia's president elect holds the secret to the mystery. Forbes's investigation takes him to Dubai, where a veil of secrecy is drawn ever closer.And then to Bangkok where Forbes discovers the past is not always history
Hard Rain Falling
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Wild Milk
A genre-expanding collection of stories that Publishers Weekly calls “perplexingly captivating” and “astonishing.” Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything else you’ve read.
Surrealism and Women
These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and the unconscious reveal some of the least inhibited masculine fantasies. The first resistance to the male surrealists' projection of the female figure arose in the writings and paintings of marginalized woman artists and writers associated with Surre...
