Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker's young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times. So does the protagonist of her intense new novella, Walks with Men. It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules for a life well lived: If you take food home from a restaurant, don't say it's because you want leftovers for "the dog." Say that you want the bones for "a friend who does autopsies." If you can't stand on your head (which is best), learn to do cartwheels. Have sex in airplane bathrooms. Wear only raincoats made in England. Neil's certainties, Jane discovers, mask his deceptions. Her true education begins. "One of our era's most vital masters of the short form" (The Washington... Views: 21
When Dr. Drew Hamilton, the beloved surgeon who saved Anabelle Scott's daughter's life more than ten years ago, has a heart attack, much of the staff at Hope Haven Hospital is visibly shaken. But he is so stubbornly assured of his own prognosis and eager to get back to work that he pushes himself too hard. Can Anabelle convince the good doctor to rest long enough to recover? Is there a way to show him how much his health means to those he's saved?As Anabelle organizes a Parade of Patients for Dr. Hamilton, Candace Crenshaw's mother encourages Candace to join a support group to cope with her longstanding grief over the death of her husband. Elena Rodriguez receives a surprise phone call from Sarah, her granddaughter's mother, who hasn't been heard from since the birth of Isabel, while James Bell works to ease the tension at home over his fifteen-year-old son's desire to join the military.Meanwhile, a terrible storm hits Deerford, causing accidents all over town. As throngs... Views: 21
Where romantic comedy meets Weird Science! After a visualization exercise gone wrong, a naked man lands in Katie's driveway who proclaims he's been created just for her. As antics and romantic gestures commence, Katie will begin to question herself about love and loyalty. How do you know when the perfect man is not really perfect? And when does Mr. Wrong begin to look like Mr. Right? Views: 21
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image. Though Jackie had a reputation for avoiding publicity, she willingly courted controversy in her books. She was the first editor to commission a commercially-successful book telling the story of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his female slave. Her publication of Gelsey Kirkland's attack on dance icon George Balanchine caused another storm. Jackie rarely spoke of her personal life, but many of her books ran parallel to, echoed, and emerged from her own experience. She was the editor behind... Views: 21
A bored young housewife, Yolanda is smitten by her new pal, Psyche_#@ — a random recreational chatbot she meets on an app. Psyche_#@ suggests they meet in person. Somehow, the request gives her a sense of purpose. She assemblies the robot. Transfers and uploads Psyche_#@ live into the neural network hardware. Views: 21
Wendy Warner is a bit of an oddball. Raised in an orphanage, she has found solace and friendship by watching the television show, Space Adventures, and participating in fan clubs related to the show. Every month, on the second and third Friday, Wendy comes to work dressed in a costume from the show that she wears to charity events. This has earned her the disdain of many of her coworkers but not from her boss, the president of the company, Draco Powers, who rather likes the way the uniform hugs all her curves in the just the right places.Draco Powers is a real-life Superhero who told the world that, yes, Superheroes do exist, but, no, we won't work for free or without health insurance. Some people refer to him with derision as the "Capitalist Superman." Draco is being hunted by an organization called the Organization, whose motives are unclear and yet still cause death and destruction wherever they go.The Organization has decided that Draco's biggest weakness is the way he cares about his employees and has picked Wendy out as their next target. To save her, Draco will have to come to terms with his real feelings for Wendy and why it is that he has so long resisted complicated relationships. But he's running out of time . . . . Views: 21
When Disney Imagineers installed hologram guides for the Magic Kingdom,
using teenage models they had no idea the technology might backfire.
But backfire it did: some nights when the kids go to sleep, they wake up
in one of the Disney parks as a hologram.With the adventures
set forth in the first books now behind them,Kingdom Keepers 3: Disney
In Shadow follows the five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and
Maybeck as they search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer
who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned Wayne has been abducted by
the Overtakers - Disney villains, who along with other Disney
characters, take over the parks when the turnstiles stop spinning, and
want desperately to steer the parks to a far darker place - the five
kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams
(nightmares, really) often accurately predict the future. The
very few clues from Jez's dream lead the kids into Disney's Hollywood
Studios and Epcot--through imaginary worlds that become real, by
imaginary kids who are real. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with
the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a
fight for their lives. Through a transparent paper box, a quest for a
sword, rides on Soarin' and Maelstrom, life-and-death encounters with
giant snakes, and a devious Maleficent, the Kingdom Keepers not only
begin to decipher deeper meanings to the clues, but discover new truths
about themselves and their ever-growing friendships. Views: 21
