Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Rowman & Littlefield Strike Dog
Book SynopsisA serial killer is knocking off America's best conservation officersand Service learns he is next on the list. The FBI brings him on the case, but Service is also out for blood. The killer has murdered his girlfriend, Maridly Nantz, and his son, Walter. Service must navigate the terrain of his own grief as well as the killer's twisted mind. The fifth book in the Woods Cop Mystery series. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit the author's website.Trade ReviewPraise for Strike Dog “Heywood just keeps getting better and better. . . . Strike Dog is a page-turner in the grand tradition.”—Jerry Dennis, author of The Living Great Lakes"Engrossing stuff. Lots of well-plotted action and an offbeat, affecting love story."--Kirkus Reviews (for Running Dark)"Top-notch action scenes, engaging characters both major and minor, masterful dialogue and a passionate sense of place make this a fine series."--Publishers Weekly (for Chasing a Blond Moon)"A gripping plot, replete with memorable surrounds and spiky characters, makes this second in the series (after Ice Hunter) an excellent choice for most collections. A good pick also for readers who enjoy outdoor mysteries by such authors as Nevada Barr or Dana Stabenow."--Library Journal (for Blue Wolf in Green Fire)"Crisp writing, great scenery, quirky characters and an absorbing plot add to the appeal of the memorable first entry in a promised series of "woofs cop' mysteries."--Wall Street Journal (for Ice Hunter)
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Rowman & Littlefield Death Roe
Book SynopsisIn the sixth title in the successful Woods Cop Mystery series, another suspenseful who-done-it finds Grady Service with an unexpectedly complex, truly rotten, and important case on his hands. This time tainted eggs are showing up in caviar and Service must expose a ring of corruption in state government and perhaps within his own beloved DNR, one that could lead him all the way to the top. Making enemies at every level of the state, Service rousts out the people on the take. Can he get to the source of the contaminated eggs and prove it? Pitting corporate greed against the health of the general public isn't something Service takes lightly. He doesn't rest until there has been full exposure in a case that takes him from the wilds of the Upper Peninsula to the jungles of the state capital, into the maw of the Ukrainian mafia in New York City and onto distant beaches of Central America. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit the author''s website, www.josephheywooTrade Review“Top-notch action scenes, engaging characters both major and minor, masterful dialogue, and a passionate sense of place make this a fine series.”—Publishers Weekly “Heywood has crafted an entertaining bunch of characters. An absorbing narrative twists and turns in a setting ripe for corruption.”—Dallas Morning News “Joseph Heywood writes with a voice as unique and rugged as Michigan’s Upper Peninsula itself.” —Steve Hamilton, Edgar® Award-winning author of The Lock Artist
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Rowman & Littlefield Force of Blood
Book SynopsisLate spring, 2007. Michigan in economic freefall, state budgets being slashed, politics reduced to nastiness, state jobs being erased, and personnel furloughed without pay. Grady Service, detective for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in the Upper Peninsula, watches as his colleagues leave the department one by one. Upon being asked by an old friend to look into unspecified problems his son is facing on the shores of Lake Superior, Service has no idea how complicated his life is about to become. All he knows is that the situation involves something his friend calls bleeding sandand that his new partner, Conservation Officer Donna Jingo Sedge, is the oddest young officer he''s ever met. The story moves at breakneck speed as Service, nearing three decades as a Woods Cop, finds that expectations seem to be changing on all fronts, personal and professional, and he is not certain he can live up to them.Trade ReviewPraise for Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mystery series "Heywood is a master of his form." —Detroit Free Press "Top-notch action scenes, engaging characters both major and minor, masterful dialogue, and a passionate sense of place make this a fine series."—Publishers Weekly "Heywood has crafted an entertaining bunch of characters. An absorbing narrative twists and turns in a setting ripe for corruption."—Dallas Morning News "Crisp writing, great scenery, quirky characters, and an absorbing plot."—Wall Street Journal "Joseph Heywood writes with a voice as unique and rugged as Michigan's Upper Peninsula itself."—Steve Hamilton, Edgar® Award–winning author of The Lock Artist
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Rowman & Littlefield Killing a Cold One
Book SynopsisThe ninth Woods Cop Mystery, in which Grady Service, Detective for Michigan Upper Peninsula's DNR, investigates a series of bloody deaths tied to Michiganders' belief in a mythical beast called the Dogman, and taking place in some of the Upper Peninsula's harshest terrainTrade Review"Michigan's Upper Peninsula provides the rugged setting for Heywood's series featuring conservation officer Grady Service of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and its bewilderingly diverse population of Native Americans, long-established families, several waves of immigrants, and enough oddball characters for a freak show. Service's ninth case . . . may be his strangest and most dangerous yet.... Heywood knows his geography, history, flora, fauna, and mythology as well as he does the region's colorful, sometimes deadly inhabitants, and guides readers on an exotic and challenging journey." —Publishers WeeklyPraise for the fiction of Joseph HeywoodRed Jacket (A Lute Bapcat Mystery)"Joseph Heywood has long been a red-blooded American original and an author worth reading. With Red Jacket—a colorful and sprawling new novel with a terrific new protagonist named Lute Bapcat—he raises the bar to soaring new heights." —C.J. Box, New York Times bestselling author of Force of Nature"In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt recruits former Rough Rider Lute Bapcat to become a game warden on Michigan's Upper Peninsula in Heywood's absorbing first in a new series. Outsized characters, both real (athlete George Gipp before his Notre Dame fame, union organizer Mother Jones) and fictional (randy businesswoman Jaquelle Frei; Lute's Russian companion, Pinkhus Sergeyevich Zakov), pepper the narrative." —Publishers WeeklyJoseph Heywood's Previous Novels"Joseph Heywood writes with a voice as unique and rugged as Michigan's Upper Peninsula itself." —Steve Hamilton, two-time Edgar® Award winner and bestselling author of The Lock Artist and the Alex McKnight novels"A truly wonderful, wild, funny and slightly crazy novel about fly fishing. The Snowfly ranks with the best this modern era has produced." —San Francisco Chronicle"A magical whirlwind of a novel, squarely in the tradition of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato and Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall." —Howard Frank Mosher, author of The Fall of the Year and others"Heywood has crafted an entertaining bunch of characters. An absorbing narrative twists and turns in a setting ripe for corruption." —Dallas Morning NewsHard Ground (Woods Cop Stories)"Heywood displays uncommon storytelling versatility in this brilliant collection of . . . tales about the game wardens who patrol Michigan's Upper Peninsula.... This volume should be read for pleasure, but would do equally well as an instruction manual for aspiring writers."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Rowman & Littlefield Jessie
Book SynopsisJessie is the story of Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of explorer and politician John C. Fremontwho was instrumental in opening the west. Jessie helped demonstrate that by joining her husband in California to build a home at the time of the Bear Flag rebellion.Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Jessie Benton Fremont.
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Rowman & Littlefield Libbie
Book SynopsisLibbie is the life story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer. Libbie traveled the west with her famous husband, writing many books about their adventures. Her great achievement came in the years after Little Big Horn, when she burnished the reputation of her husband and his men through extensive public relations efforts. Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Elizabeth Bacon Custer.
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Rowman & Littlefield Sundance Butch and Me
Book SynopsisSundance, Butch & Me tells the story of Etta Placean outlaw woman whose original identity may never be known. She accompanied the leaders of the Wild Bunch as they ran rampant over the American West, traveled to New York City, and finally fled to South America.Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Etta Place.
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Rowman & Littlefield Cherokee Rose
Book SynopsisCherokee Rose tells the story of Rodeo cowgirl Tommy Joe Burns, an Oklahoma girl who earned the praise of Theodore Roosevelt for her daring and bravery as a rough-stock rider in the early years of the 20th century.Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Tommy Joe Burns.
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Rowman & Littlefield Mattie
Book SynopsisMattie is the tale of Georgia Arbuckle-Fix, a pioneering doctor on the Western frontier in Nebraska at the end of the 19th and into the early 20th centuries. Judy Alter's storytelling and impeccable historical research bring the era of the old west to life while highlighting the life of Georgia Arbuckle-Fix.
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Rowman & Littlefield Market Street Madam
Book SynopsisThe Beaten Territory tells the story of Annie Ryan, a woman who is running a second-rate brothel in 1890s Denver with an eye toward expansion. By chance she encounters Lydia Chambers, a society woman suffering from a laudanum habit and a bad marriage, who owns a prized property on the infamous Market Street. Annie''s fortunes at the brothel turn on her niece Pearl, a pretty young girl swept up in Denver''s underworld of jealousy, booze, and vice--until murder stalks the good-time girls and puts everyone''s future in doubt. A rollicking tale of blurred lines, flowing booze, played-out miners and upstairs girls, The Beaten Territory delivers a compelling look at the intrigues of the Wild West, where women were enterprising and justice could be had . . . for a price.
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Rowman & Littlefield Blue Wolf in Green Fire
Book SynopsisJoseph Heywood ratchets up the suspense in yet another WOODS COP MYSTERY!Upper Michigan Conservation Officer Grady Service has a case on his hands that doesn''t make sense. A series of protests and bombings by animal rights activists appears to have culminated in a double murder at a wolf lab, which releases into the wild an extraordinarily rare animal: a blue wolf. To the Ojibwa a blue wolf represents good luck, unless it is captured or killedand then it is an omen of Armageddon. Service suspects that the murders aren''t what they seem to be when the FBI takes over the investigation and reaches far beyond its jurisdiction. Meanwhile, an elusive poaching ring sets its sights on wolves. Once again, Service must defend his hallowed Mosquito Wilderness in a race against time when it becomes clear that its final target is the blue wolf. Full of memorable characters and steeped in the lives of woods cops, Blue Wolf in Green Fire is also a masterpiece of suspense. This seconTrade Review"A gripping plot, replete with memorable surrounds and spiky characters, makes this second in the series (after Ice Hunter) an excellent choice for most collections. A good pick also for readers who enjoy outdoor mysteries by such authors as Nevada Barr or Dana Stabenow."--Library Journal"This second Woods Cop procedural is well written, suspenseful, and bleakly humorous while moving as quickly as a wolf cutting through winter woods. In addition to strong characters and a compelling romance, Heywood provides vivid, detailed descriptions of the wilderness and the various procedures and techniques of conservation officers and poachers. The tricky, evasive behavior of federal officials recalls the atmosphere of The X-Files, while the police procedure and banter evoke K.C. Constantine's Mario Balzic series. Highly recommended."--Booklist"Compelling ideas and taut suspense distinguish the second in Heywood's series...When the action takes over, Heywood is incomparable. One hopes Heywood has a long writing career ahead of him."--Publishers Weekly
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Frankenstein
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University of Nebraska Press Forget I Told You This
Book SynopsisWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artist's residency at the world's largest social media company, Q. One ink-black October night, when the power is out in the hills of Oakland, California, a stranger asks Amy to transcribe a love letter for him. When the stranger suddenly disappears, Amy's search for the letter's recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Q's Library of Books That Don't Exist-and to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground. Amy's curiosity becomes her salvation, as she's drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city's abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artist's residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It's a dream come true-so long as she follows Q's rules. Trade Review"Confronting timely questions such as how to preserve free will in a data-driven society while also telling a humane tale about rising above tragedy and disappointment, Forget I Told You This is a memorable novel—an adventure through words and emotions."—Foreword Reviews, starred"I appreciate how Zaid—in addition to delivering a smart, surreal, and sexy thriller with a perfect ending—gets at the tensions between my generation's love of things we can hold in our hands and the increasingly overwhelming universe of digital media, Big Data, consumer surveillance, and AI—wherein we are fed things more often than we discover them."—Michael Mechanic, Mother Jones“Forget I Told You This sets our high-tech world of phones and apps vibrating against the beauty and history of pen and ink. Twisty and textured, rich and hyperreal, Hilary Zaid’s world is dense with mysterious invitations. In fact, her novel itself is exactly such an invitation—and I’m very glad I said ‘yes.’”—Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough and the New York Times bestseller Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore“Hilary Zaid has written a gorgeous delight, lush with things not often seen—a sexy midlife heroine, handmade magic, and love letters both as plot and to a certain time and place in San Francisco. I loved every word.”—Claire McMillan, author of Alchemy of a Blackbird“[Forget I Told You This is] not about Torah, exactly—although Amy reflects that ‘on calfskin curled around two wooden rollers had been tattooed the history of the world’—but anyone who resonates to the sacredness of text and the fragility of memory will feel those ideas being delicately and elaborately explored. Amy’s emotional touchstone is a ‘dark soferet’ [female scribe] she once saw working away in a Jewish museum, ‘murmuring over her sacred words. . . . Because the text was more important than the scribe. That was our tradition.’ Zaid’s first novel, Paper Is White, was about Holocaust historians and survivors, and in this novel, too, memory and forgetting become something absolutely central.”—Amy E. Schwartz, Moment magazine “Deftly weaving together elements of a futuristic thriller, a family drama, and an ode to illuminated manuscripts, Forget I Told You This follows lonely scribe Amy Black on her quest to discover the mystery behind tech giant Q, a local resistance group seeking her help, and ultimately, herself. The prose is gorgeous, the plot tense, and Amy is a wonderfully flawed and sympathetic character whose intense battle between her artistic ambition, the demands of her family, and her own need for love form the beating heart of this gripping and imaginative novel.”—Erin Swan, author of Walk the Vanished Earth“Forget I Told You This, Hilary Zaid’s portrait of the artist as a face-blind queer scrivener obsessed with ancient texts takes us to the back alleys of Oakland and the secrets rooms of a social media giant that is god-like in its omniscience and omnipotence—a world very much like the present. In this literary thriller made up of shifting identities and realities, where nothing and nobody is as they seem, one thing is a constant: the penetrating insight and elegance of Zaid’s prose.”—Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade
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Tyndale House Publishers The Shoe Box 25th Anniversary Edition
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Tyndale House Publishers Gods Not Dead 2
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Tyndale House Publishers Overcomer
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Tyndale House Publishers Vencedor
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Kensington Publishing The Gin Chowder Club
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Kensington Publishing Collateral
Book SynopsisWithin D.C.'s ruthless halls of power, the conspiracies are killer - and the endgame is anything but fake news...
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Kensington Publishing Hush Puppy
Book SynopsisMelanie Travis loves her teaching job at Connecticut''s elite Howard Academy, where plans are underway for a Spring Pageant to honor the school''s fiftieth anniversary. Immersed in the preparations, Melanie is hurrying to retrieve a painting of one of the illustrious co-founders when she comes upon a disturbing scene: Eugene Krebbs, the Academy''s elderly caretaker is arguing loudly with a girl half his size. Before Melanie can learn more than the girl''s first name—Jane—she disappears. It’s clear that Jane isn’t a student at Howard Academy, so what is she doing there? Melanie doesn''t have a chance to answer that question before more problems arise. Two days later, Krebbs is discovered stabbed to death right on the school grounds. Now Melanie is embroiled in a full-fledged homicide investigation as she tries to find out who’s added murder to the school’s curriculum. And when Melanie''s trail leads her dangerously closer to the truth, she mus
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Dafina Books Instant Attraction Wilder Brothers 1
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis introduces the charming little town of Wishful, California, the perfect place to start for a woman wanting more from life . . . LET THE DREAMS BEGIN Numbers cruncher Katie Kramer has been the good girl all her life and yet she’s still a fish out of water, still a square peg trying to fit into that round hole. So the real question is, can good karma be wished for? Because she’s wishing, damn it. Wishing hard. At wits’ end and rock bottom, she stares up at the night sky (barely visible past all the L.A. city lights) and falls asleep dreaming about a huge, twinkling, falling star, and makes three wishes on that star. One, to experience a real-life adventure complete with amazingly athletic feats and danger. Two . . . good sex. And three, to belong. Really belong somewhere. Anywhere. The next day she re
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Kensington Publishing Christmas Cookie Murder
Book SynopsisFor Lucy Stone, the best thing about Christmas in Tinker’s Cove has always been the annual Cookie Exchange. But the usual generosity and goodwill is missing from this year’s event which turns out to be a complete disaster. Petty rivalries and feuds that have long been simmering finally come to a boil, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of many guests, including Lee Cummings who accuses Tucker Whitney of stealing her recipe for low-fat, sugar-free cookies. But the icing on the cake is when Tucker is found strangled in her apartment the following morning. Who could’ve wanted Tucker dead badly enough to kill her? Despite all of the ingredients for danger, Lucy sets out on the trail of a murderer and soon uncovers a Christmas secret best left wrapped. “Reading a new Leslie Meier mystery is like catching up with a dear old friend.” —Kate Carlisle, New York Times bests
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Kensington Publishing The Long Flight Home
Book SynopsisA USA Today Bestseller Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather’s desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. Thousands of miles away i
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Kensington Publishing Get a Clue
Book Synopsis“Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.” —Susan Andersen When Breanne Mooreland gets left at the altar, she decides the best thing to do is to go on her honeymoon alone. Of course, she loses her luggage along the way and ends up snowed in at a Sierra mountains lodge run by a noticeably quirky staff. And before she can order room service, she finds a naked—and gorgeous—man taking a shower in her suite who refuses to leave . . . Vice cop Cooper Scott is in serious need of a vacation. He’s not about to give up the only available room to a stranger because of a mix-up. They’ll just have to make the best of it by sharing the bed. They’re mature adults after all. But when Cooper wakes up kissing the long, leggy Breanne, he wants to show her exactly what the honeymoon suite is intended for. That will have to wait, though, because a screaming Breanne has just stumble
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Kensington Publishing Killer Cruise
Book SynopsisWordsmith Jaine Austen''s ship has finally come in. Her new teaching gig on a fancy cruise line nabs her a free vacation--and access to a 24-hour buffet! But sooner than you can say bon voyage, Jaine''s all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera seems destined to be a wreck...Things are already off to a rocky start when Jaine discovers a stowaway amidst her luggage--her persnickety cat Prozac. Jaine''s sinking sensation grows stronger at dinner, where she meets chatty Emily Pritchard, a wealthy seventy-year-old who''s traveling with her two nephews. Jaine can''t help noticing the tension among them, especially when the cruise''s charming--and sleazy--British dancer, Graham, whisks Emily out onto the dance floor.Soon Emily is accepting Graham''s invitations to every social event on the ship. Two nights later the bubbly couple announces their engagement, but the news is quickly overshadowed the next morning by the discovery of Graham''s body with an ice pick pro
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Kensington Publishing Thug Matrimony
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Kensington Publishing The Guest List
Book SynopsisBeloved storyteller Fern Michaels, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sisterhood, Godmothers, and Men of the Sisterhood Series, masterfully blends adventure, redemption, and rich emotion in her unforgettable novel of healing and hope.Against all odds, Abby Mitchell has turned her life around. But in her crowning moment of celebration, dark clouds from the past threaten to undo everything she’s worked so hard for… For the first time ever, Abby Mitchell feels that the world is her oyster. Her first book has found a publisher, a daring new surgery is on the horizon, and there’s a new man in her life, a man who sees beyond any flaws…into her heart. Best of all, though, is that Abby has been reunited with her sister Mallory. Separated as girls after their parents died in a double tragedy, Abby always dreamed that, one day, they would be together again. But while
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Kensington Publishing Annies Rainbow
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood and No Way Out brings readers a pulse-pounding suspenseful and romantic tale of one woman’s journey to realize what matters most, and protect it at any cost.It came out of the blue. A half-million dollars on graduation day. For Annie Daisy Clark, it was the capital she needed to start a business and secure her future. Vowing to pay back every penny of it one day, she kept the bag of cash she’d found, and never looked back . . .Ten years later, Annie’s investment has paid off. The owner of a successful chain of elegant coffee bars, she is blissfully engaged and about to return triumphant to Boston for her ten-year college reunion. She also begins making good on her promise to pay back the money with anonymous monthly payments.But just as Annie’s life seems complete, the dark history of the money returns to haunt her. Someone is determined to solve the my
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Open Road Media The Traveling Kind
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Open Road Media Emperor and Clown
Book SynopsisWith Inos married to the wrong man and Rap dying in a dungeon, obviously the cause is hopeless. Only Aunt Kade refuses to admit defeat . . .
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Open Road Media Lens of the World
Book Synopsis A New York Times Notable Book: “A coming-of-age fantasy in a late-medieval alternate world . . . Possibly MacAvoy’s best work since the Damiano trilogy” (Kirkus Reviews). “In the absorbing, realistic world depicted in this first volume of a projected series, MacAvoy introduces Nazhuret who, looking back from middle age, tells of the adventures of his youth.” —Publishers Weekly An outcast of small stature and the offspring of unknown parents, Nazhuret is forced out of the military Royal School of Sordaling. He is soon taken under the wing of Powl, a mysterious mentor, madman, and master of optics, who pushes Nazhuret to his mental and physical limits while teaching him the arts of astronomy, languages, swordsmanship, and—most importantly—mind and body control. When Nazhuret take his leave of Powl, he embarks on a journey through war, darkness, and
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Open Road Media Tea with the Black Dragon
Book Synopsis In this “astonishing fantasy debut,” a mother and a mysterious Chinese man—who is more than he appears—search for her missing daughter in San Francisco (Locus). Offering “a deft blend of the oldest of magicks in a dragon, and the newest of sorceries in computers” (Anne McCaffrey), this is the incomparable novel that garnered Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick Award nominations, and earned its author the John W. Campbell Best New Writer award. Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter, Elizabeth, is in trouble—she just doesn’t know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact they've had for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her mother a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at the city’s most luxurious hotel. Yet, since Martha checked in, she still hasn’t been contacted by her daughter, and is feeling lonely
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Open Road Media Twisting the Rope
Book Synopsis The Campbell Award–winning author’s follow-up to Tea with the Black Dragon: “Wow! MacAvoy’s done it again” (Anne McCaffrey, New York Times–bestselling author). Mayland Long, aka the Black Dragon, has been enjoying a peaceful relationship with Martha Macnamara—but suddenly they face threats from seemingly every side. A wild psychic force is loose in the world; Martha’s three-year-old granddaughter has been kidnapped; and one of her Celtic musician friends has been found dead, hanging by a rope of twisted grass. Now the Black Dragon must use his wits to rescue the little girl and hunt for a killer . . . even if it brings him to a horrifying realization. In this novel, the author of The Book of Kells returns to the modern-day California of Tea with the Black Dragon, blending fantasy, mystery, Chinese lore, and a timeless love story as she so masterfu
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Lexington Books Nabokovs Mimicry of Freud
Book SynopsisIn Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science, Teckyoung Kwon examines the manner in which Nabokov invited his readers to engage in his ongoing battle against psychoanalysis. Kwon looks at Nabokov's use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and biology, characters that either imitate Freud or Nabokov in behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory, and consciousness in The Defense, Despair, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada. As Kwon notes, the transfiguration of biological mimicry and memory into an artistic form involves numerous components, including resemblance with a difference, contingency, the double, riddles, games, play, theatricality, transgression, metamorphosis, and combinational concoction. Nabokov, as a mimic, functions as a poet who is also a scientist, while his model, Freud, operates as a scientist who is also a poet. Both writers were gifted humorists, regarding art as a formidable vehicle for the repudiation of all forms of totality. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, literary studies, film studies, and philosophy.Trade ReviewOne of the intriguing mysteries of Nabokov scholarship is the novelist's well-known detestation of Sigmund Freud, the Viennese "witch doctor." Teckyoung Kwon casts much light on this question, reaching the surprising conclusion that Freud seems to play an "almost collaborative role" in Nabokov's art. A fascinating book. -- Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany, SUNY“Why did Nabokov, well-known for his rants against Freud and psychoanalysis, present Lolita as the parody of a psychoanalytic case history which details the passion of an adult for an underage nymphet, while Ada, the novel of his maturity, unpacks a tale of brother-sister incest? Reading Nabokov and Freud side by side with the help of Darwin, James, Ouspensky, and Lacan, Teckyoung Kwon astutely explains the Russian writer's antipathy toward the psychoanalyst as aggressive mimicry. Those rivals, both scientists and poets, work against each other and with each other, offering their reciprocal self-portraits in a distorting mirror. Nabokov’s uncanny proximity to psychoanalysis is analyzed with verve and subtlety by one of the masters of South Korean literary criticism. Her book, the first to present a systematic study of Nabokov and Freud, will revitalize our interest in Nabokov and deepen our understanding of the links between literature and psychoanalysis.” —Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of PennsylvaniaTaking the concept of mimicry as her Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinth of Nabokov’s work, Teckyoung Kwon traces the far-reaching affinities between his twin passions for lepidopterology and literature, and in the process exposes the hidden resemblances that lie beneath Nabokov’s loudly proclaimed antagonism to Freud. This deeply learned study is itself a feat of consilience that recalibrates our understanding of Nabokov by viewing his imaginative universe through the binocular lenses of art and science, philosophy and psychoanalysis. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of FloridaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Mimicry as a Form of Art 3. Memory as a Form of Fiction 4. Dream is not for Analysis: The Luzhin Defense 5. The Criminal as an Artist: Despair 6. Lolita: Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud 7. Pale Fire: Analyze me if you can 8. Ada: In Opposition to the Incest Taboo Conclusion
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Lexington Books Nabokovs Mimicry of Freud
Book SynopsisIn Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science, Teckyoung Kwon examines the manner in which Nabokov invited his readers to engage in his ongoing battle against psychoanalysis. Kwon looks at Nabokov's use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and biology, characters that either imitate Freud or Nabokov in behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory, and consciousness in The Defense, Despair, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada. As Kwon notes, the transfiguration of biological mimicry and memory into an artistic form involves numerous components, including resemblance with a difference, contingency, the double, riddles, games, play, theatricality, transgression, metamorphosis, and combinational concoction. Nabokov, as a mimic, functions as a poet who is also a scientist, while his model, Freud, operates as a scientist who is also a poet. Both writers were gifted humorists, regarding art as a formidable vehicle for the repudiation of all forms of totality. This book is recommTrade ReviewOne of the intriguing mysteries of Nabokov scholarship is the novelist's well-known detestation of Sigmund Freud, the Viennese "witch doctor." Teckyoung Kwon casts much light on this question, reaching the surprising conclusion that Freud seems to play an "almost collaborative role" in Nabokov's art. A fascinating book. -- Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany, SUNY“Why did Nabokov, well-known for his rants against Freud and psychoanalysis, present Lolita as the parody of a psychoanalytic case history which details the passion of an adult for an underage nymphet, while Ada, the novel of his maturity, unpacks a tale of brother-sister incest? Reading Nabokov and Freud side by side with the help of Darwin, James, Ouspensky, and Lacan, Teckyoung Kwon astutely explains the Russian writer's antipathy toward the psychoanalyst as aggressive mimicry. Those rivals, both scientists and poets, work against each other and with each other, offering their reciprocal self-portraits in a distorting mirror. Nabokov’s uncanny proximity to psychoanalysis is analyzed with verve and subtlety by one of the masters of South Korean literary criticism. Her book, the first to present a systematic study of Nabokov and Freud, will revitalize our interest in Nabokov and deepen our understanding of the links between literature and psychoanalysis.” —Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of PennsylvaniaTaking the concept of mimicry as her Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinth of Nabokov’s work, Teckyoung Kwon traces the far-reaching affinities between his twin passions for lepidopterology and literature, and in the process exposes the hidden resemblances that lie beneath Nabokov’s loudly proclaimed antagonism to Freud. This deeply learned study is itself a feat of consilience that recalibrates our understanding of Nabokov by viewing his imaginative universe through the binocular lenses of art and science, philosophy and psychoanalysis. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of FloridaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Mimicry as a Form of Art 3. Memory as a Form of Fiction 4. Dream is not for Analysis: The Luzhin Defense 5. The Criminal as an Artist: Despair 6. Lolita: Nabokov’s Memory War against Freud 7. Pale Fire: Analyze me if you can 8. Ada: In Opposition to the Incest Taboo Conclusion
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Love Volume 3 Crush
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Gallery Books The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
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Simon & Schuster The Homesman
Book SynopsisNow a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and co-starring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early frontier life through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.Now a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county’s men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs. Thus begins a trek east, against the tide of colonization, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, and
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Simon & Schuster The Perfect Neighbors
Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade ReviewPraise for The Perfect Neighbors:“Pekkanen deftly intertwines four stories into a tapestry depicting the frayed seams underlying small-town American domesticity. A mistress of women's fiction, Pekkanen transforms clichéd suburban troubles—from adolescent drama to infidelity—into a compelling, suspenseful tale.” * Kirkus Reviews *“A gossipy page-turner.” * Glamour *“Pekkanen uncovers the hopes, heartbreaks, and indiscretions that lurk behind a community’s carefully maintained façade in this engrossing novel reminiscent of Liane Moriarty’s suburban-set mysteries. Women’s fiction star Pekkanen’s latest novel will be energetically promoted as the perfect summer read.” * Booklist *Praise for Things You Won't Say:"Gripping reading" * People *"A standout among standouts." * Glamour *"A gripping story of racial profiling, PTSD, and the threads that hold people together. You'll forget it's fiction." * Marie Claire *"Fantastic and realistic." * Examiner.com *"Pekkanen tackles a timely topic." * Booklist *“Pekkanen reliably builds strong, interesting characters.” * Kirkus Reviews *Praise for Sarah Pekkanen:"Sarah Pekkanen writes with wit and warmth and a deep understanding of the way women—mothers, daughters, sisters, friends—make a place for themselves in the world." -- Jennifer Weiner * #1 New York Times bestselling author *“Ultimately, Pekkanen shows that relationships of any kind take work, expression of love, and the willingness to take risks in order to save them.” * New York Journal of Books *"Smart and soulful, Pekkanen explores the place where self and sisterhood intersect." * Redbook *"Pekkanen's wry voice and engaging characters keeps things fresh." * People *“Pekkanen offers a conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters." * Washington Post *"Sarah Pekkanen is one of my favorite authors of women's fiction." -- Lisa Scottoline * New York Times bestselling author *“Internationally best-selling Pekkanen writes novels that offer thoughtful examinations of how the past shapes adult relationships and the differences between men and women." * Booklist *
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Atria Books Punto de Equilibrio Point of Balance Spanish
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Simon & Schuster All the Missing Girls
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