 | Gifted: A Novel
Release Date: September 11, 2007Rumi Vasi is 10 years, 2 months, 13 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 6 seconds old. She’s figured that the likelihood of her walking home from school with the boy she likes, John Kemble, is 0.2142, a probability severely reduced by the lacy dress and thick woolen tights her father, and Indian émigré, forces her to wear. Rumi is a gifted child, and her father, Mahesh, believes that strict discipline is the key to nurturing her genius if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. Four years later, a teenage Rumi is at the c...
 |  | School of Fortune
Release Date: June 26, 2007A fun, fresh frolic of a novel starring a spoiled but lovable Texas heiress out to reclaim her fortune Pippa Walker's wedding was to be huge--Texas huge--complete with twelve bridesmaids under contract from Pippa's mother to stay lean and long-haired, gondolas flown in from Venice, A- and B- guest lists. But when Pippa finds out her handsome husband-to-be isn't what she thought, she bolts from her own wedding, shocking society and getting herself disinherited. The only way she can get a piece of the family fortune back is to earn a degree from a sc...
|  | Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s
Publication Date: September 14, 2011"Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers, eh?" said First Sergeant Wilford H. Buford. "That yer real name or one you picked up out there in fairyland Cally-forny?" Over 650 Vietnam War novels have been published, mostly dark tales from the war zone. In Wild Blue Yonder, Airman Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers goes not to Vietnam but Germany, straight into a military Catch-22. His assignment: writing stories for the Stars and Stripes newspaper which will never see print. Nate's adventure deepens as he...
|  | The Candlestickmaker
Publication Date: January 19, 2011Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young American sailors form an unlikely bond. Each has fled an America they were raised to love but somehow no longer understand. When forced to choose whether to face combat or stay and fight the war in the streets, they sign up for a war that reflects the conflict that raged inside each of them. The one thing of which they were certain was that the only people in the world they could depend on were each other.As their friendship deepens in the bars and brothels from ...
|  | The Badlands Saloon: An Illustrated Novel
Release Date: July 14, 2009A one-of-a-kind, fully-illustrated debut novel about one rest- less and curious young man’s summer spent in a small North Dakota town—a meditation on a time in life when you don’t so much unfold the map as start to draw it. As written and painted by Jonathan Twingley, this beautifully illustrated semi-autobiographical novel is a paean to the America that Jack Kerouac explored and Joseph Mitchell and Walt Whitman celebrated. Set in a small town nestled in...
|  | Butterfly Jar
Publication Date: April 26, 2012With all the rhythm, poetry, and pain of a Black girl's childhood in South Central LA, Jalondra Davis tells the story of Tanis Sutton, a 10 year old girl who dreams of having happy parents, straight hair, and an ice-cream colored house on the west side of town. Mischievous and attention-seeking, Tanis struggles with playground romance and schoolyard cliques in the midst of her family's bitter betrayals, which threaten to unravel them as a city explodes. ...
|  | The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years (Ross O'Carroll-Kelly)
Publication Date: March 12, 2003| Series: Ross O'carroll-Kelly So there I was, roysh, enjoying college life, college birds and, like, a major amount of socialising. Then, roysh, the old pair decide to mess everything up for me. And we're talking totally here.Don't ask me what they were thinking. I hadn't, like, changed or treated them any differently, but the next thing I know, roysh, I'm out on the streets. Another focking day in paradise for me!If it hadn't been for Oisinn's apartment in Killiney, the old man paying for my Golf GTI, JP's old man's job offer and all the goys wanting to buy ...
|  | Believe Me: A Novel
Release Date: January 27, 2009In the tradition of Jodi Picoult?a fresh, smart, and deeply moving novel about the power of faith, love, and family Thirteen-year-old Nic Delano has a lot of questions. Like why does he have a babysitter at his age-and where did she get such long legs? But mostly, what exactly is the meaning of life? His mother, Lucy, an astrophysicist and atheist, has always encouraged Nic to ask questions. But lately she doesn?t like the answers he?s getting. Nic has been hanging out with a group of devout Christians and is starting to embrace the Bible?and a very different vi...
|  | Randy's Ride
Publication Date: October 27, 2009Randy never felt like he fit in.Adopted when he was young, he never found his place within his family.Because of this disconnected feeling, Randy decided to set out on his own.Author Barbara Blomquist invites readers to come along on Randy's Ride, a touching story of one young man's journey to self-discovery.During his travels, Randy meets interesting people who teach him many life lessons.There's Ellie, a hard woman struggling with the death of her mother; Bill, the teacher who encourages Randy to make something of himself; and Mindy, a young girl who touch...
|  | Little Green: A Novel
Publication Date: May 11, 2010In Little Green, Loretta Stinson’s stunning, redemptive first novel, tragedy leaves Janie Marek orphaned. The action begins in 1976, with Janie a runaway and stranded on the freeway outside a Northwestern town after hitchhiking. Janie ends up working at a strip club called "The Habit" and falls for Paul Jesse, a drug dealer who spirals into addiction and becomes physically abusive. As the violence escalates, Janie finds a job in a bookstore and her independence begins. After a brutal beating she must make the most difficult and dangerous choice she’...
|  | Great Neck
Release Date: August 10, 2004In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear.From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol’s New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground,...
|  | Fame and Fortune
Publication Date: November 1, 2007Fame and Fortune is the long-awaited continuation of Frederic Raphael’s best-selling novel The Glittering Prizes, which followed a generation of Cambridge graduates into the academic and media world of the 1960s. In this new book, Successful novelist and screenwriter Adam Morris, now in his late forties, remains the central character, but many of his contemporaries continue to feature in his life. These include the ambitious and endlessly scheming movie director Mike Clode; the Australian-born TV star Alan Parks, who now seems to front every other ser...
|  | Organizing to Collaborate
Publication Date: November 15, 2002This book focuses on the terms "collaborative learning," "cooperative learning," and "learning community" in which they have been bandied about in American higher education with great frequency and enthusiasm. One primary purpose of this monograph is to provide a more precise delineation of postsecondary practices that are subsumed or assumed to be embraced by the umbrella terms, collaborative learning, cooperative learning, and learning community, and organize these practices into a coherent classification system or taxonomy. ...
|  | Rebel
Publication Date: October 11, 2011Rebel is the story of Jess Evans, a rebellious eleven year-old boy, who is tortured by a dark secret of his past.Orphaned at an early age, Jess is destined for rejection and neglect, but when a young couple agrees to foster him temporarily, Jess is invigorated with hope.B.J. and Cathy Cole welcome Jess into their home and attempt to provide him with love and security, but Jess remains timid and closed off.As the story unfolds, Jess slowly begins to trust and love B.J. and Cathy, causing Jess to question if he can ever come to terms with the secret haunting h...
|  | Escaping Darkness
Publication Date: October 29, 2011In the tradition of such stellar writers as Cormac McCarthy, Harry Crews and James Agee, Escaping Darkness is the haunting tale of Donny Wayne Gavin, a young man driven to the edge of insanity by divorce and his brother's death in Vietnam. Neglected by an alcoholic father, tormented by his pious mother’s sexual escapades and oppressed by the mountainous region in which he lives, Donny attempts suicide by jumping off a hotel’s seventeenth floor ledge. However, at the last moment his attempt is stymied by a homeless woman named Mary, who helps Do...
|  | Serpent Box: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 26, 2008| Series: P.S.In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly serpents and drinking lye in front of large gatherings of the faithful. Believing his ten-year-old son Jacob—called Toad or Spud—to be a prophet, Charles, the patriarch, takes the boy down a long and arduous path as they travel the back roads of the postwar Deep South in search of God and plumb the depths of their unorthodox brand of faith. But sudden, shocking tragedy will shatter Charles's cherished dream o...
|  | Sparks Off You
Publication Date: July 13, 2012Alienated and full of fire, two sisters navigate a chaotic world of sex, drugs, and dissolving identities. The younger sister, Julie Randeria, discovers that her assimilation into the world of Silicon Valley's teenagers only works when she lets go of her personality. But where does personality end and madness begin? When the mythology that barely holds her family together unravels, Julie is driven to the edge of unreality. Meanwhile her father and sister struggle with the limits of empathy. Beautiful, unusual language sweeps readers into the conscious...
|  | The Kids
Publication Date: February 6, 2012A humorous look at coming of age - a mini epic in every chapter which will keep you going with a knowing nod! In a wry look backwards to a childhood of mischief and adventure, the author proves that boys never change, no matter their circumstances. Reminiscences ramble between the neighborhood, neighbors, siblings, dogs, secret forts, camping, cars, getting into trouble, getting out of trouble, and all the turmoil and joys of trying to live long enough to grow up. This story could happen in any age, in any part of the country or the world. Technology and fas...
|  | Swiss Chocolate
Publication Date: January 28, 2011Life in a Swiss boarding school is idyllic for Drew Smith. Captivated by the beauty of the Swiss Alps, he is also in love with the girl of his dreams, Alexandra Cavalletti, a young aristocrat from Rome.His world is ripped apart when he and Alexandra are expelled from school after being caught making love in the woods one night. Drew goes home to a broken family, and all that he has come to expect out of life is swept away. He spends the next thirty years trying to recapture all that was lost, including the love of his life. ...
|  | Waiting for Zoe
Publication Date: August 5, 2011"A sweeping novel of love and loss, city and country, growing old and staying young. Waiting for Zoë is a thoughtful look at the ability of grown men and young women to confront change and absorb life's most challenging moments," writes Mark Stevens, author of Antler Dust: An Allison Coil Mystery. Waiting for Zoë is a genre-bending character driven, mainstream novel that explores a person’s ability to endure in the face of tragedy—and love. James R. Ament says, “It’s a love story, but it’s not a romance. There are u...
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