 | Give Us a Kiss: A Novel
Publication Date: June 19, 2012"My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place." And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a family errand back in his boyhood home of West Table, Missouri--the heart of the red-dirt Ozarks. The law wants his big brother, Smoke, on a felony warrant, and Doyle's supposed to talk him into giving up. But Smoke is hunkered down in the hills with his partner, Big Annie, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Niagra, mak...
 |  | Skinny Legs and All
Release Date: November 1, 1995An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations…It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it’s the axis around which spins Tom Robbins’s gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative new novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine—while the illusions that obscure humanity’s view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome’s veils. ...
|  | Home to Big Stone Gap: A Novel (Big Stone Gap Novels)
Release Date: October 30, 2007| Series: Big Stone Gap Novels Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope.Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan Machesney and her family for generations. She’s been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her...
|  | Trainspotting
Publication Date: June 17, 1996Trainspotting is the novel thatfirst launched Irvine Welsh's spectacularcareer—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangelyexhilarating episodic group portrait of blastedlives.It accomplished for its own time andplace what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit toBrooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy,Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker areas unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring EwanMacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (ShallowGrave). ...
|  | Oxygen: A Novel
Publication Date: June 9, 2009With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, Oxygen is a riveting new novel by a real-life anesthesiologist, an intimate story of relationships and family that collides with a high-stakes medical drama.Dr. Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospital. Marie has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-a...
|  | Midnight in Austenland: A Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park, a Jane Austen-themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out, this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts are racing and stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues-real and pretend, sinister and romantic-increasingly tough to sort out. It's midnight in Austenland, and Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine worthy of Austen herself. ...
|  | Sunset (Sunrise Series-Baxter 3, Book 4)
Release Date: September 23, 20082009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!As John Baxter makes plans to marry Elaine, one of the Baxters enters into the most trying season of all. During a time of renewed love and hope for the future, the Baxters try to come together to establish the sacred ground of marriage and to chart a course for the future. Memories of times gone by meet with the changes of today in a story that proves only the support of faith and family can take a person into the sunset years of life. ...
|  | Valley of Dreams (Wild West Wind)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Wild West Wind (Book 1) Exciting New Series by Beloved Author Lauraine SnellingAddy Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Addy traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley.When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go.Now Addy has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left.Devastated, Addy decides to try to find the hi...
|  | More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Complete & Unabridged
Publication Date: November 19871991: by Douglas Adams.You would not believe what can happen to a pennyless hitchhiker. ...
|  | Wonderland Creek
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Lynn Austin Will Delight Readers with Her Winsome HeroineAlice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book.But happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend, Gordon, breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real world.Then to top it off, Alice loses her beloved job at the library because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression.Fleeing small-town gossip, Alice heads to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the library in the tiny co...
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