Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a school assignment, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother and the rest of her sometimes confusing life. Alice doesn't see how she can write her life story as a class assignment.. How can she fit nine years into a couple of pages? Her pets have died and the only family she has is her mother. Until recently she had a beloved interfering grandmother – Gene – but she's gone from Alice's life. Besides, Alice discovered ages ago she was born by accident, and that's the sort of private thing you don't write about for school. Alice does the assignment but she thinks it's boring, until she discovers a need to write about her true life – the exciting, complicated and private of her life. She writes how Gene came along, how she changed Alice's life, making it richer in experience but also more complicated. She records ongoing... Views: 71
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A solitary man in a diner on the coast of Maine. A tall beautiful stranger. A whip. A bronze heart. Hawaii. The Northwest ... How far will he go to face the truth about himself? ... This is a novel about borders: between sex and love, between life and death. John Wetterau grew up in Woodstock, N.Y., attended Hamilton College, and served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii and has studied in the Vermont College MFA program. "I was driving a taxi in Honolulu one rainy morning when a gorgeous ... I was painting the inside of a bar in Madison, Wisconsin with a guy named Louis the Fox ... You have your own stories," Wetterau says, "and the stories of others, given to you. You try to make sense of them--for yourself and for the reader. A novel is a re-telling, a working out in progress, a slow dance across a high wire to truth. There is no safety net." A printed copy is available from Fox Print Books. Views: 71
Three Christmas romances, spanning two centuries. Puddings, Pastries, and Thou - In 1818 England, Vivian is in search of good food and a good husband. A Midnight Clear - In 1878 Vermont, Catherine needs magical help to clearly see the man who will best bring her happiness. Return to Sender - In present-day Seattle, Tessa gets the best Christmas gift of all: a handsome Scot. Views: 71
When Charley Hunter goes to work as a summer intern at a prestigious Atlanta law firm, he has no idea that his passion for golf will come into play on the job. Stumbling onto a yellowed file containing correspondence between Beau Stedman, an astonishingly talented teenage golfer, and the legendary Bobby Jones (once a partner at the firm), Hunter finds himself embroiled in a decades-old murder case--and searching for an invisible champion who won nearly all his matches with the masters.As Hunter unravels the facts of Stedman's case, his hunger for the truth is matched only by his deepening reverence for the game, one that leads him to a heart-stopping courtroom showdown between golf's most powerful association and a family torn apart by buried secrets.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 71
Their spaceship destroyed by Cetan attack, Narisa and Tarik crash on an unknown, strangely beautiful planet. They don’t like each other, but must cooperate in order to survive. Slowly, they fall in love. Then the arrival of a Cetan ship threatens the entire Jurisdiction, for the Cetans have a new weapon, and the lovers must find a way to stop them. Views: 71
In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist.Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade's worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights. Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower, and when doctors are unhappy, their patients are apt to be unhappy as well. Blatant cronyism determines patient referrals, corporate ties distort medical decisions, and unnecessary tests are routinely performed in order to generate income. Meanwhile, a single patient in Jauhar's hospital might see fifteen specialists in one stay and still fail to... Views: 71
When Suzy James is sent to a special college designed to promote chastity to its teenage schoolgirl pupils, she little realises the price she must pay for being caught in the act - nor the mind-blowing punishment regime she will endure at the hands of the overly-handsome head-master. (8000 words) Views: 70
