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MERIDIAN is 'heteroglossia' which pulls none of its punches. It is
as comfortable delivering a disquisition on the semiotics of
architectural absence as it is relaying the dialogue between the
builders of the conservatory next door. It is truly not glibly,
multi-layered, and in its concerns asks much of its readers and by
extension, of the literary forms available to the writer in the
21st. century. In a literary landscape of conformity and ardent
replication, MERIDIAN is undoubtedly and confidently 'stand alone.'
It also manages to be a lot of fun.
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan
favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this
long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1
New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil
coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas,
again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once,
time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her
on a date.
But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though
they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her
life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his
ex-wife and daughter’s life.
Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us
picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding”
(Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It
Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following
Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a
jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read
like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).
A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man
undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The
Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie
literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
. . You don't want to read this book right before bed. --Sarah
Lyall, The New York Times Book Review "This intense cosmic horror
with a touch of Mexican American folklore is incredibly creepy and
moving." --Margaret Kingsbury, BuzzFeed It was Vera's idea to buy
the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't
interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them
amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made
things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird
enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house--who
ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd
hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty
room. It was funny and strange right up until Vera was killed, and
Thiago's world became unbearable. Pundits and politicians all
looking to turn his wife's death into a symbol for their own
agendas. A barrage of texts from her well-meaning friends about
letting go and moving on. Waking to the sound of Itza talking
softly to someone in the living room . . . The only thing left to
do was get far away from Chicago. Away from everything and
everyone. A secluded cabin in Colorado seemed like the perfect
place to hole up with his crushing grief. But soon Thiago realizes
there is no escape--not from his guilt, not from his simmering
rage, and not from the evil hunting him, feeding on his grief,
determined to make its way into this world. A bold, original horror
novel about grief, loneliness and the oppressive intimacy of
technology, This Thing Between Us marks the arrival of a
spectacular new talent.
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R.i.c.o.
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C J Hudson
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Rain Gods
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James Lee Burke
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Bitterroot
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James Lee Burke
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In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives
and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution
of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and
conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight,
midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths in learning who
they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those
paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and
wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our search for
connection and all the ways we undercut it, unwittingly and
intentionally, when we do find it. How do we hold ourselves
together-to function, work, and survive-while endlessly yearning to
be undone, unraveled, and laid bare, however untenable and
excruciating? How Other People Make Love contains nine stories.
"Win's Girl" features a single woman who works at an Iowa
slaughterhouse and uses the insurance money from a car accident to
update the electric system in her dead parents' old house, only to
be unwittingly embroiled with a shady electrician who ultimately
forces her to stand up for herself. In "Home Is Where the Heart
Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass," a young woman flees after
cheating on her husband and winds up at a Nebraska roadside motel
populated by participants in a regional dog show who help her
decide what to do next. In "Unity Brought Them Together," a young
man heads to his favorite New York coffee shop intending to finish
the Christmas cards his vacationing fiancee insists on sending, but
winds up meeting another displaced young midwestern man there and
going home with him instead. All these stories explore the
question, "how do we love?" as well as the answers we find,
discard, follow, banish, and cling to in all our humanness and
desperation. How Other People Make Love asserts that there aren't
right and wrong ways to love; there are only our very complicated
and contradictory human hearts, minds, bodies, and desires-all
searching for something, whether we know what that is or not. These
are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved.
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The
Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and
a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of
Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially
glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore
in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but
wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that
surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of
American literature from the period following the First World War
and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
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Wild
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Kristin Hannah
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From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The
Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a
remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph
of hope and the promise of new beginnings.
In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic
National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and
impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious woodland, a
six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as
to her identity, no hint of her past.
Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in
ruins, child psychiatrist Dr Julia Cates begins working with the
extraordinary little girl. Naming her Alice, Julia is determined to
free her from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation, and discover
the truth about Alice’s past. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test
the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make
a home for Alice – and find a new one for herself.
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