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The Broken World: Matthew Ulland: 9780615588469: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: March 23, 2012

Luke Citrine’s grandfather is dying…and he and his family have come to the farm to help his grandmother and to keep vigil. Along with his older brother Stephen and cousin Simon, Luke spends his days seeking adventures in the farm’s fields, caves, and lake, doing anything to avoid the aura of death that fills the house. His adventures take an unexpected and harrowing turn when a tragedy occurs that shakes the very foundations of his family and changes Luke forever.In this austere and meditative story, a young man grows to face the truth about himself and his family. The hope he finds as his quest unfolds is quietly inspiring—and not to be dismissed. Richly evocative of the fleeting time in life when youth must be abandoned and a deeper knowledge mined, The Broken World asks the reader to examine life’s most serious existential questions, while tempering the journey with grace and humor. Readers who seek out nuanced, finely spun novels will relish this thought-provoking tale of crisis and self-discovery. The story’s sharply drawn characters and textured narrative will linger in the reader’s mind long after the last page. This lean and compelling novel reveals a new and important writer at work on the American literature of tomorrow. Matthew Ulland has published essays and poems in numerous literary journals. He is the author of the novella, The Lights Must Never Go Out, and is currently at work on a young adult fantasy novel. The Broken World is his first novel.

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• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Ulland Press (March 23, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615588468
• ISBN-13: 978-0615588469
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
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Life After Genius: M. Ann Jacoby: 9780446199711: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: October 29, 2008

Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university.And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on the verge of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified academics for almost 150 years. But only days before graduation, Mead suddenly packs his bags and flees home to rural Illinois. What has caused him to flee remains a mystery to all but Mead and a classmate whose quest for success has turned into a dangerous obession.
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Product Details:

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1st Printing edition (October 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446199710
• ISBN-13: 978-0446199711
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
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Love in Tennessee: John Bowers: 9781597094566: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: September 1, 2009

Love in Tennessee is a fictional memoir of the author’s growing up in a small town set in the mountains of EastTennessee in the 30’s, 40’s, and early 50’s. Although the period is before cell phones and jet travel, it is a universal tale that could have happened anywhere, nearly anytime. Some essentials never change. It could have happened today in Des Moines or the Catskills. It could have happened in 19th Century England in the provincial town of Middlemarch, as George Elliot so elegantly presented it.

 

From the earliest the author dreams of the larger world outside, especially the glowing, beckoning lights of New York, but the lessons he learned, essentially in the varieties of love – its sorrow, dramas, and ennoblements – he learned in his long lost hometown from observing fellow dwellers and on his own. He felt the first stirrings of sexuality that often precedes love while crawling as a baby among silken legs of women. He found the intoxicating pleasure of exchanging views of hidden parts of the anatomy with a young neighborhood girl before either were six in his dilapidated backyard barn. In fact, the first chapter of the book, Secrets of the Barn, introduces much of the erotic that follows in the book.

 

 Subsequent chapters show others in town coping with love and desire – the solid citizen,  who abandons family and friends to run away with a mulatto, secretary to a sadistic urologist; the sexy single school teacher who teases and excites the narrator almost beyond endurance, and takes him up on his first scary plane ride; the star football player who loses his leg and his wife stays suffocatingly with him while he spirals downward; the narrator’s best friend who may be gay; an extremely fat neighbor who may or may not be the father of his young bride’s child; and several others caught in the maelstrom of desire and obsession and their aftermath. In this way, the patchwork narrative resembles Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. It is laced with humor but finally with a bitter-sweetness.

 

The final part of the work, after a culmination of observations and first hand experiences, the narrator is hit with a thunderbolt when he stumbles into the arms of his first true love. In a way, she stands for what Tennessee has taught him about love and what Tennessee mean to him. When he leaves her, he is not only leaving her physical presence but Tennessee itself. The inevitable ending may be preordained, but it is devastating and complete.

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• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Red Hen Press; 1st Edition edition (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597094560
• ISBN-13: 978-1597094566
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Release Date: February 6, 2007

Her on daughter...one of the popular girls?

On the first day of middle school, Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. Lydia has always thought of popular girls as ambitious little manipulators who enjoy being cruel. But Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after all.
Then a new student ruthlessly targets Erin to boost her own popularity, and Lydia helplessly wonders what to do when her daughter's phone stops ringing. And the uneasiness among the girls begins to affect the friendship of the mothersÂ--even though they are all grown women who should know better. Has their driven energy, once directed toward their careers, turned into an obsession with the social lives of their daughters?
A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity is a delightful novel of manners, an unabashed chronicle of the rules, rituals, and pitfalls of raising a daughter.

 

 

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• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312333277
• ASIN: B0048EL8XW
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• Listening Length: 2hours and 10 minutes
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Publication Date: May 12, 2012

Gioia Rinaldi is the star pitcher of Tusky Valley's Girl's Softball Team, but she wants more. She wants to play professional baseball, but everyone around her says it's impossible for a girl. When her brother is recruited to the majors, she wonders why he can have her dream and she cannot. Audrey Dawson has been thrown for a loop as she learns that now her beloved father is sick with ALS. The only constant thing in her world is baseball. In order to keep sports in her life, she decides to become a journalist covering baseball for her college newspaper, but it's not as easy as she would like. Soon, the girls find themselves fighting for their dreams and a little help from old stadium ghosts certainly won't hurt matters any.

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 12, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 147508224X
• ISBN-13: 978-1475082241
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	Children in Heat Publication Date: November 15, 2011Over the course of one manic night in the late 80s, a 15-year-old boy struggles to control the tiny dramas of his small-town punk clique as well as his own blossoming sexual desires. Narrated in the boy’s profane (although occasionally profound) jargon, Children in Heat unveils the funny, painful, and often insightful thoughts of a troubled teen. ...
	The Body's Perfect: A Novel in Stories Publication Date: July 17, 2012"Meet Irv, Dorna, Junior, Jackie and Angelo, the Miller family of Petaluma circa 1956 and in the two decades that follow. Who better to introduce you than Chris Riebli who has known them all his life, who is intimately familiar with their work and their dreams, their desires, fears and regrets. Here are twelve unsentimental tales told with loving attention and perfect pitch. These Millers of Petaluma belong to Chris Riebli in the way that Winesburg, Ohio belongs to Sherwood Anderson, or as the Salinas Valley belongs to John Steinbeck." Daniel Coshnear, author o...
	The Queens of K-Town Publication Date: August 17, 2007Twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon comes back to Manhattan s Koreatown after an absence of ten years. The vision of a girl standing on the edge of a building hurtles Cora back into memory to her first summer in K-town, where along with her new friends, she got lost in the maze of nightclubs and room salons, mini-marts and private dining rooms behind rice-paper doors. The novel alternates between two worlds, as she relives her past and drifts through her present, in which she begins an affair with a stranger she callsThe Monk.They playpsychiatristin his living room...
	The Farm Publication Date: February 7, 2011Sue, Ethan and Anna arrive in Oregon to find Sue's organic farming community devasted. Most barely made it through the winter. Sue's farm is overgrown and it's doubtful that she will be able to plant this spring. No one has cash to buy equipment or plant their crops. Livestock is selling below cost. Many are auctioning off their farms and moving away. Ethan has cash that he earned in Alaska and it might be enough to purchase some equipment and supplies. Their only hope is to construct a farm market where they can all sell directly to the public. The entire c...
	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. ...
	Spencer's Pond Publication Date: August 29, 2011SPENCER'S POND is the story of Jules, a smart-mouthed teenager from Manhattan who discovers her sexuality one summer at a rural pond. Launching into a relationship with a neighboring boy, Jules is caught in a downward spiral which explodes in an unpredictable act of violence. Even as her world is shattered, Jules finds strength in the unlikely family of eccentrics who love her. In the wry, wise-cracking voice of adolescence, Jules describes her mother, Judith, a libidinous hack writer with a mysterious past, her mother's boyfriend, Shiva, a manic-depressive s...
	A Hero For Our Time Publication Date: June 21, 2010Jamie Tarnowski, a sweet bright kid returns to Amherst, the town of his birth, to attend college.Here's what it's like at an elite school encountering its egos, structures, and plans for the future.He finds himself caught between two worlds, one overseen by his father, a professor, that represents the true meaning of a liberal arts education, the other guided by fitting in to the professional world of lawyers, doctors and bankers.In a class taught by his mentor about Hamlet, Jamie is informed that certain people can 'see ghosts.'Jamie, a maverick, intends to ge...
	Skye Object 3270a Publication Date: February 12, 2011In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a s...
	Student Publication Date: December 6, 2011It’s the second semester of her senior year in college, and before she is thrown into the uncertain abyss of the real world, Jaye is desperately trying to cram in every delirious moment of university life.Her days are spent forging closer bonds with friends, watching grisly horror movies in her Film Theory class, applying to graduate school, and considering calling off the safe and secure long-distance romance she has been a part of for perhaps far too long. Her nights are spent forming attractions to fraternity boys and guitarists in local bar bands....
	Her Father's Daughter Publication Date: June 6, 2008HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER (1921) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of Linda Strong, the titular heroine, a determined and opinionated young woman growing up in California in the 1920s.What could have been a typically charming and heartfelt story of personal discovery, loves and relationships by the beloved naturalist author is unfortunately marred by the strongly pronounced racist and anti-immigrant mindset of the heroine and several other characters. It must be pointed out that the racial prejudice portrayed here is typical of its time and must be viewed in a ...
	Where Wolves Dream: A Novel by Armand Nassery Publication Date: September 27, 2011In the fictional town of Balluria, the evil Sheik Jawad takes in the Gypsy Barrya as a love slave, preventing her from ever dancing again. The childless mystic Gypsy becomes the surrogate mother for the many children in Balluria; one of them is the mayor’s son Salam. Barrya mesmerizes the young boys and girls with her stories mixing myths, legends and history and the secrets of the mystic town. Salam and his best friend Hamid spend countless days together. Salam and Hamid’s sister Amel form special bond through poetry and love songs. Unable t...
	Truth Be Told Publication Date: July 7, 2012Caught in the midst of an emotional and an unexpected break up, a move from home and a start of a new life at university, Jack Beckett isn't having a fun time. The love of his school years, Lisa Linton, confessed that she has been cheating on him over the past few months.Now, in a new life, she's left Jack for him and left Jack tortured by her lies. Determined to move on but apprehensive of the realities, he and his fellow reclusive friends decide, purely for a laugh, to attend a speed dating event. An opportunity for him to prove to himself and to Lisa that he'...
	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...
	In Last Night's Clothes Publication Date: July 14, 2012Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Villa Valle, In Last Night's Clothes, chronicles the misguided adventures of Colin Prescott. Presented as a charming, witty, anti-hero, Colin narrates in the form of letters to a mysteriously unnamed friend. The story takes several dark and exciting turns as he depicts navigating through his first two years in college, battling heavy family and relationship issues, and struggling to understand himself; all while having to maintain his presence as apart of the town's trend-obsessed social scene. ...
	Lilacs in the Snow: A Novel Publication Date: July 21, 2011Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill University and the University of British Columbia. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona faced her own devastating illness. Out of her resolve to survive emerged a story about courage, a compelling tale of a young Jewish girl, Caasi Lichman, born in Montreal. Lilacs in the Snow chronicles Caasi’s passage from desolate childhood to impetuous adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is...
	Preacher's Kids: Secrets & Salvation Publication Date: April 19, 2009Mia Griffin's dark humor and quirky looks don't fit the mold of most PK's. Knowing the twisted and sometimes alarming secrets of church members generates more enemies than friends. But, as long as her free thinking best friend is by her side, Mia can laugh her way through anything. Mia's young faith will be tested when she suffers the greatest betrayal imaginable. As she begins to ask hard questions you will be astounded by the answers and perhaps learn something about the tests that God brings us through. ...
	MacGregor Tells the World: A Novel Release Date: June 12, 2007The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel–at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story–capturing a young man’s impossible and heroic first love.Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother’s untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware, where he encounters the writer’s beautiful an...
	Concrete Rose Publication Date: February 23, 2012An epic entrenched within fundamentals of forgiveness and redemption, follows the tragic and tumultuous life of Diedra Brown. Raised in 1990’s Detroit, by an alcoholic, neglectful mother and soon-to-be absentee father, Diedra endures an onslaught of unimaginable trials that eventually compel her to flee home at sixteen. Mentally and emotionally scarred by her childhood, Diedra dredges through life semi-present and filled with resentment. Harboring hurt inflicted on her by those of her unfortunate childhood, Diedra’s current relationships are g...
	Running with the Moon Publication Date: December 13, 2010Yano's adventure takes place in western New Mexico circa 1100 A.D. among what would today be called the pueblos. Life for the young warrior is exciting enough, what with hunting with his friends on the beautiful mesas, exploring mysterious caves, and falling in love. But there is also tragedy in Yano's world, and the treachery that spawns it. Marauders have been raiding the pueblos in their valley, and the brutality of recent attacks has escalated. When all-out war breaks out, Yano is forced on a dangerous mission of vital importance to their survival, one ...
	Apples: A Novel Publication Date: June 10, 2008Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and her mother’s progressing cancer, Eve’s adolescent eyes are opened to a multicolored life of fumbling one-night stands, drug-fuelled clubs, endless varieties of candy-flavored cheap b...

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One Foot Wrong: Sofie Laguna: 9781590513163: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: August 18, 2009

“The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark . . .” A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive, religious parents. Hester Wakefield has never spoken to another child, nor seen the outside world. Her one possession is an illustrated children’s Bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic, real-life connections.Her companions at home are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and Tree, and they all speak to her, sometimes telling her what to do. One day she takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbidden outside, at the behest of Handle, and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine is a marvel to her.From this moment on, Hester learns that there are some things she cannot tell her parents, and she keeps this secret to herself. Hester buries it among her other secrets, the ones that take place in the shadowy corners of her insular world, and she keeps them all locked inside her as they multiply and grow, waiting until she can find other ways to be free.
One Foot Wrong challenges the boundaries of right and wrong, sanity and madness, love and justice, poetry and life. The story told by Hester is often dark and harrowing, but the affecting impact of her distinctive voice and her way of seeing the world illuminates every page and makes this novel an exhilarating, enlightening and, ultimately, an uplifting and transformative experience.

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• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Other Press; 1 edition (August 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590513169
• ISBN-13: 978-1590513163
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 8.2 inches
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	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. ...
	Where Wolves Dream: A Novel by Armand Nassery Publication Date: September 27, 2011In the fictional town of Balluria, the evil Sheik Jawad takes in the Gypsy Barrya as a love slave, preventing her from ever dancing again. The childless mystic Gypsy becomes the surrogate mother for the many children in Balluria; one of them is the mayor’s son Salam. Barrya mesmerizes the young boys and girls with her stories mixing myths, legends and history and the secrets of the mystic town. Salam and his best friend Hamid spend countless days together. Salam and Hamid’s sister Amel form special bond through poetry and love songs. Unable t...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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’...
	The Queens of K-Town Publication Date: August 17, 2007Twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon comes back to Manhattan s Koreatown after an absence of ten years. The vision of a girl standing on the edge of a building hurtles Cora back into memory to her first summer in K-town, where along with her new friends, she got lost in the maze of nightclubs and room salons, mini-marts and private dining rooms behind rice-paper doors. The novel alternates between two worlds, as she relives her past and drifts through her present, in which she begins an affair with a stranger she callsThe Monk.They playpsychiatristin his living room...
	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 ...
	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. ...
	Children in Heat Publication Date: November 15, 2011Over the course of one manic night in the late 80s, a 15-year-old boy struggles to control the tiny dramas of his small-town punk clique as well as his own blossoming sexual desires. Narrated in the boy’s profane (although occasionally profound) jargon, Children in Heat unveils the funny, painful, and often insightful thoughts of a troubled teen. ...
	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...
	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,...
	Lilacs in the Snow: A Novel Publication Date: July 21, 2011Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill University and the University of British Columbia. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona faced her own devastating illness. Out of her resolve to survive emerged a story about courage, a compelling tale of a young Jewish girl, Caasi Lichman, born in Montreal. Lilacs in the Snow chronicles Caasi’s passage from desolate childhood to impetuous adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	MacGregor Tells the World: A Novel Release Date: June 12, 2007The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel–at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story–capturing a young man’s impossible and heroic first love.Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother’s untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware, where he encounters the writer’s beautiful an...
	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...
	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. ...

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Ghosts of El Grullo: Patricia Santana: 9780826344090: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: March 16, 2008

Having left her much-loved San Diego barrio, Yolanda Sahagún is now living in the university dorms when a series of events--her mother dies and her father sells their home--forces her to re-examine her life. Yolanda visits her parents' hometown of El Grullo, Mexico, struggling to understand the ghosts in her life--her mother, her father, and her seemingly idyllic childhood. She fears losing herself in the disintegration of the family. For Yolanda, her father is her enemy (or so she thinks), and in the course of the novel we see him at his best and worst, and we see Yolanda at her best and worst.

This is a story of Yolanda's initiation into womanhood and about her fierce struggle to make sure her family does not dissolve. Family and sexual politics; love, death, and abandonment; the struggle to resolve a personal identity in the context of a shattered, first-generation immigrant American family--these are the hugely painful obstructions Yolanda must surmount or incorporate into her own being as she makes her life's journey.

Ghosts of El Grullo is a sequel to Santana's critically acclaimed and prize-winning Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility.

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• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press (March 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826344097
• ISBN-13: 978-0826344090
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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	Concrete Rose Publication Date: February 23, 2012An epic entrenched within fundamentals of forgiveness and redemption, follows the tragic and tumultuous life of Diedra Brown. Raised in 1990’s Detroit, by an alcoholic, neglectful mother and soon-to-be absentee father, Diedra endures an onslaught of unimaginable trials that eventually compel her to flee home at sixteen. Mentally and emotionally scarred by her childhood, Diedra dredges through life semi-present and filled with resentment. Harboring hurt inflicted on her by those of her unfortunate childhood, Diedra’s current relationships are g...
	Running with the Moon Publication Date: December 13, 2010Yano's adventure takes place in western New Mexico circa 1100 A.D. among what would today be called the pueblos. Life for the young warrior is exciting enough, what with hunting with his friends on the beautiful mesas, exploring mysterious caves, and falling in love. But there is also tragedy in Yano's world, and the treachery that spawns it. Marauders have been raiding the pueblos in their valley, and the brutality of recent attacks has escalated. When all-out war breaks out, Yano is forced on a dangerous mission of vital importance to their survival, one ...
	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...
	In Last Night's Clothes Publication Date: July 14, 2012Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Villa Valle, In Last Night's Clothes, chronicles the misguided adventures of Colin Prescott. Presented as a charming, witty, anti-hero, Colin narrates in the form of letters to a mysteriously unnamed friend. The story takes several dark and exciting turns as he depicts navigating through his first two years in college, battling heavy family and relationship issues, and struggling to understand himself; all while having to maintain his presence as apart of the town's trend-obsessed social scene. ...
	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. ...
	Student Publication Date: December 6, 2011It’s the second semester of her senior year in college, and before she is thrown into the uncertain abyss of the real world, Jaye is desperately trying to cram in every delirious moment of university life.Her days are spent forging closer bonds with friends, watching grisly horror movies in her Film Theory class, applying to graduate school, and considering calling off the safe and secure long-distance romance she has been a part of for perhaps far too long. Her nights are spent forming attractions to fraternity boys and guitarists in local bar bands....
	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. ...
	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...
	Children in Heat Publication Date: November 15, 2011Over the course of one manic night in the late 80s, a 15-year-old boy struggles to control the tiny dramas of his small-town punk clique as well as his own blossoming sexual desires. Narrated in the boy’s profane (although occasionally profound) jargon, Children in Heat unveils the funny, painful, and often insightful thoughts of a troubled teen. ...
	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...
	Her Father's Daughter Publication Date: June 6, 2008HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER (1921) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of Linda Strong, the titular heroine, a determined and opinionated young woman growing up in California in the 1920s.What could have been a typically charming and heartfelt story of personal discovery, loves and relationships by the beloved naturalist author is unfortunately marred by the strongly pronounced racist and anti-immigrant mindset of the heroine and several other characters. It must be pointed out that the racial prejudice portrayed here is typical of its time and must be viewed in a ...
	MacGregor Tells the World: A Novel Release Date: June 12, 2007The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel–at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story–capturing a young man’s impossible and heroic first love.Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother’s untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware, where he encounters the writer’s beautiful an...
	Skye Object 3270a Publication Date: February 12, 2011In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a s...
	A Hero For Our Time Publication Date: June 21, 2010Jamie Tarnowski, a sweet bright kid returns to Amherst, the town of his birth, to attend college.Here's what it's like at an elite school encountering its egos, structures, and plans for the future.He finds himself caught between two worlds, one overseen by his father, a professor, that represents the true meaning of a liberal arts education, the other guided by fitting in to the professional world of lawyers, doctors and bankers.In a class taught by his mentor about Hamlet, Jamie is informed that certain people can 'see ghosts.'Jamie, a maverick, intends to ge...
	Lilacs in the Snow: A Novel Publication Date: July 21, 2011Arona Henderson, a Canadian born author, attended McGill University and the University of British Columbia. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. After a forty-year career as a beloved family practitioner, Arona faced her own devastating illness. Out of her resolve to survive emerged a story about courage, a compelling tale of a young Jewish girl, Caasi Lichman, born in Montreal. Lilacs in the Snow chronicles Caasi’s passage from desolate childhood to impetuous adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is...
	The Farm Publication Date: February 7, 2011Sue, Ethan and Anna arrive in Oregon to find Sue's organic farming community devasted. Most barely made it through the winter. Sue's farm is overgrown and it's doubtful that she will be able to plant this spring. No one has cash to buy equipment or plant their crops. Livestock is selling below cost. Many are auctioning off their farms and moving away. Ethan has cash that he earned in Alaska and it might be enough to purchase some equipment and supplies. Their only hope is to construct a farm market where they can all sell directly to the public. The entire c...
	Preacher's Kids: Secrets & Salvation Publication Date: April 19, 2009Mia Griffin's dark humor and quirky looks don't fit the mold of most PK's. Knowing the twisted and sometimes alarming secrets of church members generates more enemies than friends. But, as long as her free thinking best friend is by her side, Mia can laugh her way through anything. Mia's young faith will be tested when she suffers the greatest betrayal imaginable. As she begins to ask hard questions you will be astounded by the answers and perhaps learn something about the tests that God brings us through. ...
	Spencer's Pond Publication Date: August 29, 2011SPENCER'S POND is the story of Jules, a smart-mouthed teenager from Manhattan who discovers her sexuality one summer at a rural pond. Launching into a relationship with a neighboring boy, Jules is caught in a downward spiral which explodes in an unpredictable act of violence. Even as her world is shattered, Jules finds strength in the unlikely family of eccentrics who love her. In the wry, wise-cracking voice of adolescence, Jules describes her mother, Judith, a libidinous hack writer with a mysterious past, her mother's boyfriend, Shiva, a manic-depressive s...
	Where Wolves Dream: A Novel by Armand Nassery Publication Date: September 27, 2011In the fictional town of Balluria, the evil Sheik Jawad takes in the Gypsy Barrya as a love slave, preventing her from ever dancing again. The childless mystic Gypsy becomes the surrogate mother for the many children in Balluria; one of them is the mayor’s son Salam. Barrya mesmerizes the young boys and girls with her stories mixing myths, legends and history and the secrets of the mystic town. Salam and his best friend Hamid spend countless days together. Salam and Hamid’s sister Amel form special bond through poetry and love songs. Unable t...
	The Queens of K-Town Publication Date: August 17, 2007Twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon comes back to Manhattan s Koreatown after an absence of ten years. The vision of a girl standing on the edge of a building hurtles Cora back into memory to her first summer in K-town, where along with her new friends, she got lost in the maze of nightclubs and room salons, mini-marts and private dining rooms behind rice-paper doors. The novel alternates between two worlds, as she relives her past and drifts through her present, in which she begins an affair with a stranger she callsThe Monk.They playpsychiatristin his living room...

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Publication Date: March 9, 2012

Through the life and death of her grandfather, 12-year-old Oli receives a pouch that holds the lives of abandoned, but unique coins, coins adopted by her grandfather-and now hers.Bearing their mint inscription, In God We Trust, Oli's coins entrust their lives with hers as she searches for the matters of the heart.Set in Northern Idaho, near the Clearwater Mountains,Oli's Uncommon Cents takes readers on unique journeys.These journeys introduce Oli to people who live in the back woods until winter snows drive them out, like the wildlife, all driven by hunger; these journeys introduce Oli to those who count on the charity found in Cardboard City -and journeys among ordinary people, people with scars, some hidden, some visible, and others revealed, especially after their lives become intertwined. Despite the tensions with her controlling, and egotistical father, she manages to venture on an exploration of her own, and what she discovers are people that her father scorns.Oli's explorations lead to life-changing lessons, and her most profound discovery is that some things in life have greater value than they're worth. Deborah Allen and Sophie Mattinson team up to create their first children's novel.Two newcomers to the publishing world join their gifts and offer readers lessons from the heart as money talks as never before, discovering the real value of others by learning to listen.

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• Paperback: 138 pages
• Publisher: Xulon Press (March 9, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1619966107
• ISBN-13: 978-1619966109
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	Skye Object 3270a Publication Date: February 12, 2011In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a s...
	God's Snake Release Date: December 29, 1998In a world charged with the enchantments of fable, the reader will experience here a passionate revelation of love and cruelty as portrayed through the inventive interaction of people and animals, as seen through the eyes of a young girl and set against the background of a Greece wounded by war. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
	Night Sky Publication Date: June 13, 2012After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honesty become addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her. As he spends time with Sky and learns about her village, her totems, and her friends with drums - she's way more than distraction. Jameson's falling for her fast. But Sky’s n...
	A Hero For Our Time Publication Date: June 21, 2010Jamie Tarnowski, a sweet bright kid returns to Amherst, the town of his birth, to attend college.Here's what it's like at an elite school encountering its egos, structures, and plans for the future.He finds himself caught between two worlds, one overseen by his father, a professor, that represents the true meaning of a liberal arts education, the other guided by fitting in to the professional world of lawyers, doctors and bankers.In a class taught by his mentor about Hamlet, Jamie is informed that certain people can 'see ghosts.'Jamie, a maverick, intends to ge...
	Dear Diary, 15: Revival Publication Date: November 12, 2009Revival is the third book in the Dear Diary, 15 Series. Revival is jam packed with all of the drama that you've become accustomed to with the Dear Diary, 15 Series.LeeAnnaand her friends have seen a lot of heartache in the previous books and the drama isn't over yet! LeeAnna's best friend has just lost her baby. Can LeeAnna see her friend through her grief?Plus there is new love on the horizon for LeeAnna but it's not Andy.Will LeeAnna be able to keep her friend even though she haschosen another over him? Also in this edition, tragedy strikes Kendra, Lisa's...
	Her Father's Daughter Publication Date: June 6, 2008HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER (1921) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of Linda Strong, the titular heroine, a determined and opinionated young woman growing up in California in the 1920s.What could have been a typically charming and heartfelt story of personal discovery, loves and relationships by the beloved naturalist author is unfortunately marred by the strongly pronounced racist and anti-immigrant mindset of the heroine and several other characters. It must be pointed out that the racial prejudice portrayed here is typical of its time and must be viewed in a ...
	Second World Publication Date: September 20, 2011Clare, the youngest in her dysfunctional family, cannot connect with her explosive father, her emotionally stunted mother, or her bossy big sister. She separates herself from them and discovers that she is a supernatural link. Along with her grandfather’s ghost and Horus, the talking dog, she connects to the spirit realm, filled with supernatural creatures both good and grim, that lies within her world. Relying on the support of friends new and old, Clare journeys toward understanding the unnatural rules that govern both worlds and her destiny. When...
	Preacher's Kids: Secrets & Salvation Publication Date: April 19, 2009Mia Griffin's dark humor and quirky looks don't fit the mold of most PK's. Knowing the twisted and sometimes alarming secrets of church members generates more enemies than friends. But, as long as her free thinking best friend is by her side, Mia can laugh her way through anything. Mia's young faith will be tested when she suffers the greatest betrayal imaginable. As she begins to ask hard questions you will be astounded by the answers and perhaps learn something about the tests that God brings us through. ...
	In Last Night's Clothes Publication Date: July 14, 2012Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Villa Valle, In Last Night's Clothes, chronicles the misguided adventures of Colin Prescott. Presented as a charming, witty, anti-hero, Colin narrates in the form of letters to a mysteriously unnamed friend. The story takes several dark and exciting turns as he depicts navigating through his first two years in college, battling heavy family and relationship issues, and struggling to understand himself; all while having to maintain his presence as apart of the town's trend-obsessed social scene. ...
	Truth Be Told Publication Date: July 7, 2012Caught in the midst of an emotional and an unexpected break up, a move from home and a start of a new life at university, Jack Beckett isn't having a fun time. The love of his school years, Lisa Linton, confessed that she has been cheating on him over the past few months.Now, in a new life, she's left Jack for him and left Jack tortured by her lies. Determined to move on but apprehensive of the realities, he and his fellow reclusive friends decide, purely for a laugh, to attend a speed dating event. An opportunity for him to prove to himself and to Lisa that he'...
	Apples: A Novel Publication Date: June 10, 2008Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and her mother’s progressing cancer, Eve’s adolescent eyes are opened to a multicolored life of fumbling one-night stands, drug-fuelled clubs, endless varieties of candy-flavored cheap b...
	The Kitchen Table Publication Date: May 3, 2011Father O'Malley pulled up a chair and sat close to Anna. As he pressed his lips together, Anna's heart started to race. Something was wrong, very wrong. The next few minutes would be with her the rest of her life, and she recalled every word of what Father O'Malley said as though she were having a terrible dream. 'There's been a plane crash.' From that moment, Anna's Abbott's life is changed forever as she learns the devastating truth that her parents have been killed in a plane crash. In other parts of the state of South Carolina, Michael Bennett and Ragan Carte...
	Student Publication Date: December 6, 2011It’s the second semester of her senior year in college, and before she is thrown into the uncertain abyss of the real world, Jaye is desperately trying to cram in every delirious moment of university life.Her days are spent forging closer bonds with friends, watching grisly horror movies in her Film Theory class, applying to graduate school, and considering calling off the safe and secure long-distance romance she has been a part of for perhaps far too long. Her nights are spent forming attractions to fraternity boys and guitarists in local bar bands....
	Loving Emily Publication Date: November 17, 2011This book has been reissued, with the content unchanged, under the new title Any Other Night. Please go there to place an order. ...
	The Body's Perfect: A Novel in Stories Publication Date: July 17, 2012"Meet Irv, Dorna, Junior, Jackie and Angelo, the Miller family of Petaluma circa 1956 and in the two decades that follow. Who better to introduce you than Chris Riebli who has known them all his life, who is intimately familiar with their work and their dreams, their desires, fears and regrets. Here are twelve unsentimental tales told with loving attention and perfect pitch. These Millers of Petaluma belong to Chris Riebli in the way that Winesburg, Ohio belongs to Sherwood Anderson, or as the Salinas Valley belongs to John Steinbeck." Daniel Coshnear, author o...
	The Farm Publication Date: February 7, 2011Sue, Ethan and Anna arrive in Oregon to find Sue's organic farming community devasted. Most barely made it through the winter. Sue's farm is overgrown and it's doubtful that she will be able to plant this spring. No one has cash to buy equipment or plant their crops. Livestock is selling below cost. Many are auctioning off their farms and moving away. Ethan has cash that he earned in Alaska and it might be enough to purchase some equipment and supplies. Their only hope is to construct a farm market where they can all sell directly to the public. The entire c...
	The Chester Chronicles Publication Date: February 1, 2010Chester "Chet" Patterson, the protagonist-narrator of Kermit Moyer's first novel,is an Army brat who grows up in the 1950s and comes of age in the 1960s. He has a high-strung knockout of a mother who may be drinking her way into alcoholism, an Army-officer father he both resents and admires, and a younger sister whose high-school popularity he can only envy. Moving every two or three years, Chester is a perennial new kid as well as a bookishand movie-besotted romantic who at the age of thirteen falls in love, he thinks, with his own first cousin, Frenchi...
	Concrete Rose Publication Date: February 23, 2012An epic entrenched within fundamentals of forgiveness and redemption, follows the tragic and tumultuous life of Diedra Brown. Raised in 1990’s Detroit, by an alcoholic, neglectful mother and soon-to-be absentee father, Diedra endures an onslaught of unimaginable trials that eventually compel her to flee home at sixteen. Mentally and emotionally scarred by her childhood, Diedra dredges through life semi-present and filled with resentment. Harboring hurt inflicted on her by those of her unfortunate childhood, Diedra’s current relationships are g...
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	Spencer's Pond Publication Date: August 29, 2011SPENCER'S POND is the story of Jules, a smart-mouthed teenager from Manhattan who discovers her sexuality one summer at a rural pond. Launching into a relationship with a neighboring boy, Jules is caught in a downward spiral which explodes in an unpredictable act of violence. Even as her world is shattered, Jules finds strength in the unlikely family of eccentrics who love her. In the wry, wise-cracking voice of adolescence, Jules describes her mother, Judith, a libidinous hack writer with a mysterious past, her mother's boyfriend, Shiva, a manic-depressive s...

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Fifteen Fragments: Service is a Learning Story: Mara Truslow: 9781461033028: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: April 6, 2011

Alexis Coston is perfect: 4.0, flawless resume, put together 24 hours a day. On the other side of Fayetteville is Lina Dorsay, the beautiful mystery who no one understands. They know nothing about each other and rarely exchange words, despite attending Fayetteville Prep together.Until one typical spring day when Lina opened the car door in her driveway to find Alexis pale and about to pass out. This was the moment that changed everything she knew about Alexis. The two girls who never thought anyone could understand their worlds came together to give each other exactly what they needed, and never knew they wanted.All book profits pay for service projects featured in the book and the printing of more books.

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• Paperback: 234 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 6, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461033020
• ISBN-13: 978-1461033028
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	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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A Tinker's Damn: Darryl Wimberley: 9781592641826: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: April 1, 2007

In this powerfully affecting novel, Darryl Wimberley explores the relationship between Tink and Carter Buchanan, a father and son whose differences have always been outweighed by a grudging mutual respect and fragile loyalty.

But when a brutal murder and a generations-old feud threaten the tenuous balance of their relationship, Carter must soon decide for himself where--and with whom--he belongs. His is a violent world, mired in corruption and racism, a place more inclined to take an eye for an eye than to turn the other cheek, a place where betrayal can seem a lesser evil.

Until one betrays oneself.

Set in the swamplands and tobacco fields of 1940s Florida, rich in imagery and character, A Tinker's Damn is a forcefully moving novel of revenge, redemption, and the blurred distinction between the two.

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• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Toby Press (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592641822
• ISBN-13: 978-1592641826
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An archetypal American story of self-discovery, setagainst the turmoil of post – Civil War America, Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own — and passing for white. Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloon keepers, musicians, businessmen, thugs, freedom loving idealists and malevolent racists — a vivid panorama from America’s past. This tender, raw, provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we’ve come from and who we are.

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• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Booktrope Editions (December 15, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935961063
• ISBN-13: 978-1935961062
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
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