A New York Times Editors’ Choice and a blazing and authentic new literary voice, Peter Nathaniel Malae’s raw and powerful, bullet-fast debut novel looks at contemporary America through the eyes of one disillusioned son.What We Are follows twenty-eight-year-old Samoan-American Paul Tusifale as he strives to find his place in a culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Within San Jose’s landscape of sprawling freeways and dotcom headquarters, where the plight of migrant workers is ever-present, Paul lives outside society, a drifter who takes a personal interest in defiantlyeven violentlydefending those in need. As he moves through the lives of sinister old friends, suburban cranksters, and septuagenarian swingers, Paul battles to find the wisdom he desperately needs, whether through adhering to tradition or casting it aside.A dynamic addition to America’s diverse literature of the outsider, What We Are... Views: 68
Lured out of retirement, super-spy Alan 'Mac' McQueen is on a mission to prevent the ambitions of one man to overthrow the Chinese government and reduce Asia to radioactive ashes. With action sequences to rival the most expensive Hollywood blockbuster, Counter Attack is an explosive thriller - sure to keep you up all night.Australia's super-spy, Alan McQueen, has been lured out of retirement. Any dreams Mac has of a cosy office job are shattered when he's dispatched to Singapore to oversee a covert mission. And when things go disastrously wrong, he not only has to defend his reputation in Australia but also stay out of jail in Vietnam.From the leafy suburbs of Singapore to the mean streets of Saigon, from the political infighting of Canberra to the old killing fields of Northern Cambodia, Mac has to use all his cunning - and a few unusual alliances - to get to the bottom of a conspiracy that could throw the world into a thermo-nuclear showdown. When nothing is... Views: 68
Stick Dog and his four
friends - Stripes, Mutt, Poo-Poo and Karen - will do anything to steal
some sweet-smelling hamburgers from a family at Picasso Park. Their
plans to do so are both devious and wacky. Illustrated with bold
pastels, this story breaks the conventions of the traditional picture
book: The narrative is conversational, the illustrations are loud and
accessible and the story is longer (about 6,000 words) and aimed at
slightly older readers of seven and up. Parents who read aloud will
enjoy the story - and the laughs. Views: 68
Scholar Venise Stewart has come to Norway to interview a retired professor who has interesting ideas on Scandinavian folk tales. When she arrives at the woman's house, though, she gets an odd feeling that something isn't quite right. When she's pushed into a chair, and lands in a snow bank, she's not sure what's going on except that some crazy bald man is now chasing her through a forest.
Rugoff, the oldest son of the greedy King Gunnmarr, has been banished to another realm by a witch whom the king betrayed. Rugoff has spent hundreds of years by himself, and he's amazed when a woman lands outside his dwelling. Now all he has to do is capture her, convince her that he means her no harm, and then take her to his bed. How hard can it be to capture the willing? Views: 68
It’s been years since Mitch has seen any of his family, but when his estranged father dies he finds himself back at a home he swore he’d never visit again, cleaning out pieces of a past he’d rather forget with three sisters he barely knows. As they empty the rooms of their dead father's home, Mitch begins to realize that his sisters may not be exactly the same as how he chose to remember them. Views: 68
Coming home to Crystal Lake was supposed to be a weekend pit-stop for NHL goalie, Travis Blackwell. But a run in with his ex-wife makes him think twice. And though it’s probably not a good idea considering their history—married way too young, he’d been gone before the ink had dried on the divorce papers—he decides to stick around for the summer. Things are different now. He’s older. Not as wild. Some would say, even settled. He knows she was the one that got away, so he’s willing to overlook a few things. Like the fact she hates his guts and has every reason to. Call him crazy, but this hot shot goalie has just begun the game of his life. And losing isn’t an option.Ruby Montgomery is living the dream. Born on the wrong side of town, she now lives on the lake and owns a successful business. So what if it all sprang from blood money she’d gained in a divorce? From the outside it appeared she had everything,... Views: 68
The bleak landscape of midlife disillusionment and excess permeate this brooding novel about a husband and wife, a teenage girl, and the erotic and mundane details of daily existence. Views: 68
