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Brilliant, homeless and nearly invisible, a young man wanders through Boston, looking for meaning and hope. Extreme mood swings and an unusual outlook on life make it impossible for him to thrive in mainstream society. He finds comfort in laundromats, where he calms himself by watching clothes tumble round and round and round. And in the streets he finds other people like himself, below the radar, laboring to survive. Poignant and buoyant, <i>Spin Cycles</i> is a story of loss,...
| Автор | Charles Coe K. |
In Japan, nothing is more familiar than the neighborhood post office, with its big red box in front and bright, welcoming windows. The post office has been Siya’s favorite place since she was a child. Now a young woman, Siya is delighted to have a job at the Shindori Post Office in Shizuoka City, even though it is temporary. <br><br> But her boss is a jerk. Born in Japan of a Japanese father and an Indian mother, Siya looks just a little different. The boss won’t believe she is a...
| Автор | Greta Gorsuch |
Fans of the romantic hit Click: An Online Love Story will enjoy another voyeuristic dive into the lives of Renee, Shelley, Ashley, Mark and Ethan, as Double Click picks up with their lives six months later. Are Renee and Ethan soul mates? Does Mark ever go on a date? Has Shelley run out of sexual conquests in Los Angeles? Will Ashley's judgmental nature sabotage her budding relationship? Through a marriage proposal, wedding, new baby and unexpected love twist, Double Click answers these...
| Автор | Lisa Becker |
Southern California is ground zero for upwardly mobile middle-class Latinas. Matriarchs like Mercy Amado—despite her drunken, philandering (now ex-) husband—could raise three daughters and become a teacher. Now she watches helplessly as her daughters drift apart as adults. The Latino bonds of familia don't seem to hold. Celeste, the oldest daughter who won't speak to the youngest, is fiercely intelligent and proud. She has fled the uncertainty of her growing up in Los...
| Автор | Désirée Zamorano |
All stories start somewhere…<br><br>This one starts here and now, but really began an eternity ago in a forgotten place and time when a young man and a young woman made a promise to each other. <br><br>Now, an Old One desperately wants the two young people to remember their promise. He is master of the Travelers, a unique group of animals with whom he communicates mind to mind. While he has groomed the Travelers for a special destiny, he knows he will not see the task to...
| Автор | JT MDiv Brewer |
A three and a half year glimpse into the world of Rita Royale, an instinctive thirty-one year old unmarried, half Jewish, professional poker player. Free spirited mentally, physically and sexually. A woman entirely unconcerned with labels and purposely detached from any and all political worlds until a phone call from her sister changes everything.<br><br>Within six months of taking power, Canada's majority left wing coalition government has voted overwhelmingly for Sharia...
| Автор | Terry Jr. Anderson |
A book of short stories should well suit the busy American with 30 minutes here and there throughout the day and at bedtime. Such a book is especially appropriate for older readers whose short-term memory will not be challenged. The stories may be read in any order; many of the titles give a hint as to the content. <br><br>Like all fiction, these short stories are the resultant brew of the experiences of a lifetime. There is truth to be discovered here, coupled with signs pointing to...
| Автор | Dr. Donald D. Hook |
Can a mother's love heal the deepest wounds of a daughter's heart? <br> <br>That's the challenge for Dolly Devereaux, a thirty-something divorced mother from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Dolly has spent twenty years fighting tooth and nail to break free from the grasping tentacles of her poor, rural origins and work her way into the middle class. But can Dolly save April, her rebellious 18-year-old daughter, from the neglect of her absentee father and...
| Автор | Richard N. Côté |
IT STARTED WITH A DEAD LADY…<br>That chance discovery, on a dingy river bank in New Jersey, changed the life of 8-year-old Robert Galen forever. It propelled him into a lifelong study of medicine, beginning under the sage counsel of his mentor, Dr. Agnelli. In turn, his medical career led him to two ill-fated marriages and one would-be recaptured romance. Then, alone and in near despair, Galen found a new reason for being, in his old friend Bob Edison, along with his patient wife, Nancy,...
| Автор | R. A. Comunale M.D. |
"Requiem for the Bone Man" is a moving, compelling first novel, told with the assurance and skill of a born storyteller. It is also a meditation on the art of healing, as seen in the adventures of its unforgettable central character, Dr. Robert Galen. From his youth as a streetsmart son of immigrants, to his career as a gifted physician, Galen is tough-minded yet compassionate. Above all, he is deeply human, willing to risk the pain of loss and failure that inevitably comes to...
| Автор | R. A. Comunale M.D. |
The sequel to R.A. Comunale's highly praised first novel, "Requiem for the Bone Man," follows the continuing story of Dr. Robert Galen and his friends, Robert and Nancy Edison, as they adjust to semi-retirement on a mountaintop in northeastern Pennsylvania, raising and caring for the three orphaned Hidalgo children they rescued and adopted. Along the way, the six residents of the mountain interact with a variety of individuals–human and animal–who...
| Автор | R. A. Comunale M.D. |
77-year-old Bill Sullivan, on a whim, drove through Newton, Mass. and stopped at Boyd Park to visit the Green Box. <br><br>It was there, while WWII raged in Europe and the Pacific, that Sully and his friends waited eagerly for the park instructor to open the Green Box to the treasures of baseballs, gloves, bats, board games and a vast assortment of gems. <br><br>The Green Box was the meeting place where lessons were learned about prejudice, justice, life, death and the...
| Автор | James F. Murphy, Jr. |
Complex, densely textured literary novel, constructed somewhat loosely around a tornado, a mountain lion attack, and several alternative potentialities, set in Cathar County, Nebraska sometime in the recent past, or perhaps the present, or perhaps the future, rich in biblical allusions and many a pop-cultural reference not to mention the scientific method. Alternatively humorous, heartbreaking, and profound. Featuring characters named Faith and Arch and A. Jacks and Parrish and May and Hanratty...
| Автор | R.L. Sterup |
In this wry collection, Baroness Melody Von Smith explores our need for a place to call home, either literally or figuratively, and how this need is directly tied to our identity. <br><br>In "The Ocean doesn't Want Me Today", it is a physical place–Downeast Maine–that provides solace for the young woman contending with her mother's suicide by learning to be a lobsterman. In "The Snows of Jake Manjaro," it is...
| Автор | Baroness Melody Von Smith |
The Worcester Tornado of June 9, 1953 blew seven-year-old Edith Brynn out of her bedroom window and began a year of upheaval and change. All around her, things were happening that first-grade had not equipped her to understand. Her mother, Kitt, was having a nervous breakdown brought on by a third pregnancy, extramarital intrigues, and the conflicts between her career as a translator of Russian poetry, and motherhood. Edith's father, Arthur, a devoted Communist, and veteran of the Lincoln...
| Автор | Marian Birch |
Young Mandy tries her hardest to hide her sexuality from her homophobic father, Lee. <br />One day, Lee finds out about the secret his daughter Mandy had been hiding from him and he is not happy with her! Lee does everything in his power to try to make his daughter Mandy straight. <br />Mandy does everything in her power to try and fight off her father's attempts to make her who she is not! <br />WIll Mandy stay true to herself? Or will she give into her father's...
| Автор | Shannon Cook |
Imaginative but socially inept Jerrie Howard has always perceived herself as a moth surrounded by people full of beauty, color and light. Undeterred by lingering childhood struggles, she managed to achieve high academic honors and graduates from a prominent college by the age of 20.<br /><br />Now 23, she is co-founder and editor in chief of Lion Publishing Group. With her promising career, bewitchingly gorgeous boyfriend, Leo, and an endless bank account, her life is all figured out...
| Автор | Nadia Rexler |
Essence ® bestselling author Daaimah S. Poole introduces readers to a young woman with a hot voice and superstar dreams. . . Talented Kendra Michelle Thomas always dreamed of becoming a singing sensation. But when a broken childhood lands her and her siblings in foster care, there's not much opportunity for making dreams come true. Before she knows it, Kendra's twenty-five years old, a bartender, and trapped in a relationship going nowhere. . . Determined to finally give her dreams a...
| Автор | Daaimah S. Poole |
Meet Delilah Winchester. . . There was a time when the pedigrees of neither my fiancé nor my engagement ring would have mattered to my mother, as long as I was happy. That was then. Now she's a celebrity, and my wedding is the ultimate publicity stunt. . . Meet Carmela Cantano. . . The Queen of Queens. She cooks; she cleans; she dotes on Anthony, The World's Most Wonderful Son. My future mother-in-law has her own ideas about the proper matrimonial send off for her precious baby boy....
| Автор | Sharon Naylor |
When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who will she choose, the man she loves, or the man she's supposed to hate? Detroit hustlers Free and Six have been together seven years, but their relationship has been nothing but drama. Free hasn't been faithful and Six has taken out her hurt by physically hurting the other women. Free ends up in jail for three years, and when he's sprung, he's not happy to learn that Six has been living the high-life...
| Автор | Ashley |
In the scorching sequel to Yoshi's Taboo, Corrections Officer Sierra Howell is back and trying to put her past behind her. Her torrid affair with inmate Rasheed Gordon landed her in hot water with her supervisors—and also pregnant with Rasheed's child. Sierra's determined to move on and make a proper life for herself and her baby, but Rasheed's not letting go that easy. He insists that all he wants is to be a good father to Messiah, but Sierra's not so sure it's a...
| Автор | Yoshe |
Coventry, Texas bills itself as the «tiny town with the big heart.» Amid its picturesque storefronts and open-minded locals, one woman in search of a temporary hideaway might find much more than she hoped for. . .Jandy Taylor's grandfather always teased her about not being able to finish anything. So perhaps it's not a shock that a few days before her wedding to soap star Hudson Blake, Jandy postpones the ceremony and hitches a ride to Coventry, Texas, with a stranger named Sam, a dog...
| Автор | Becky Cochrane |
Peryferie Hawany, trzewia Szanghaju i mikrokosmos lokalnego oddziału Poczty Polskiej. Apetyt na miłość, COVID-19 i hot@16challenge. Zapiski z gwałtownie przekształcającego się świata. Zarówno z tego wielkiego, jak i ze wszechświatów małych, rzadko zauważanych. JPKNŚ 2 to drugi tom głośnych tekstów Doroty Masłowskiej, które na przestrzeni lat wyewoluowały w stronę autorskiego gatunku z pogranicza eseju, stand-upu i pamiętnika. Wyczulona na język ulicy i mediów Dorota Masłowska obiektem...
| Автор | Dorota Masłowska |
It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty-three-year-old first-year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas. October falls in love with an unhappily married handyman, James Wilson, but when she becomes pregnant, James deserts her. Stunned, and believing that James will eventually come back to her, October decides to have the baby. But he doesn’t come back. As her reputation suffers, and with...
| Автор | Maxine Clair |