When do you know the most important decision of your life is the right one? Reaping the seeds from what she's sown; Cheney Reynolds moves into a historic neighborhood in Missouri, and becomes a reclusive. But two annoying won't give her peace. One is Parke Kokumuo Jamison VI, a direct descendant of a royal African tribe. Complete opposites do attract. Unwittingly, they are drawn to each other. Views: 67
She ripped his heart apart…
Vic Vargas
planned to marry Delaney West, but when she suddenly left town—and him—behind,
she turned from the love of his life to the woman who’d torn his world
apart. Now, twelve years later, she’s back, and the walls protecting his
heart are crumbling.
He betrayed her trust…
The night
she and Vic were supposed to meet at the Chain Tree and elope still haunts
Delaney. He left her there, at the mercy of someone else. Coming
home to San Julio was supposed to help keep her sleepwalking at bay. Instead, it’s
opened up old wounds, and put her in the path of the so-called legendary
monster tormenting San Julio.
Now time is running out…
With a
killer on the loose, will Vic and Delaney learn to trust each other again, or
do the roots of betrayal run too deep?
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Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas. In "An Opening: Twelve love stories about art", Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments. "Art wants to enter our lives, yet it is a rare art writer who lets it do that. Writing with full personal disclosure, Stephanie Radok lets us in on her secret. Art can inspire love, and a whole host of other unruly emotions. 'An Opening' is a confession, a provocation, a celebration - a highly original, much-needed book in a field that too often prefers to be offputting and hermetic. A revelation, a gem." - Nicholas Jose. "In 'An Opening' Stephanie Radok engages sensuously and poetically with the art she has seen from her place in the suburbs of... Views: 67
An article in a random travel magazine - about coyotes freely roaming the banks of the Rio Grande right in the middle of the city of Albuquerque - compels talented but socially-isolated artist Margaret Shaw to pack up and move from New York City to New Mexico. she quickly settles into a Chicano/Mexican barrio near the river, spending long days at local junkyards attempting to satisfy another recent obsession - her determination to move her art from two dimensions to three. As she collects rusty parts from obsolete machinery, she imagines welding them into sculptures, and she never looks back at the sorrowful past she left behind in the east.Her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Rico Garcia, a car mechanic known locally as "El Rey," the king of low-rider welders, and impulsively asks him to teach her to weld. Unlike Margaret, whose lifestyle is completely solitary, Rico lives with his wife, three daughters, a granddaughter, and his mother. There is no common ground between the two, but once they begin welding lessons at Rico's shop, a deep, instantaneous friendship spakrs, igniting intense, chaotic self-reflection and driving them both to confront the damage they have suffered in their individual pasts.Against this backdrop of emotional unpredictability, Margaret and Rico embark on an odyssey, both grounded and mystical, that carries them through the silent, wide open spaces of the high desert to the edge of healing, and perhaps beyond.From BooklistStarred Review Set in the magnificent, stark desert landscape of Albuquerque, Mars’ third novel (after Anybody Any Minute, 2008) resonates with the lives of outwardly unsophisticated yet inwardly complex, radiant characters traveling intersecting journeys. Questing artist Margaret Shaw pulls up stakes from New York City and heads to Albuquerque because of a single article mentioning coyotes that run on the riverbanks right through the city. Drawn by this evocative image, she lands in the dusty new place accompanied only by her dog and the pervasive feeling that “she had somehow gotten in her own way just by being born.” Margaret immediately commences learning how to weld so that she can create sculptures fashioned out of what used to be junk. Her chosen teacher is Rico Garcia, a busy mechanic surrounded by family yet almost unbearably alone. Always just behind life, he watches each moment “pass, on its way to rust,” while he concocts the perfect response a step too late. As Margaret and Rico dance around one another and attempt to evade their personal demons, their stories flow in quietly rhythmic cadences of poignant writing, exquisite pacing, and deeply introspective, slice-of-life plotting that allows readers to easily slip in and enjoy. --Julie Trevelyan ReviewAs Margaret and Rico dance around one another and attempt to evade their personal demons, their stories flow in quietly rhythmic cadences of poignant writing, exquisite pacing, and deeply introspective, slice-of-life plotting that allows readers to easily slip in and enjoy. --Booklist Starred ReviewMars (Anybody Any Minute) taps a potent fantasy and writes prose that captures moments observed in closeup; she turns a smile into a reverie and then a kind of celebration. This makes her writing very poetic... Mars makes insightful observations on the nature of friendship and intimacy. - Publishers WeeklyMars focuses on the new start: a woman's rediscovery of herself after she moves, rather impulsively, to a new place. Along the way the author writes of the dusty landscape as well as the almost-barren emotional landscape of her two main characters. At times the tone is stilted, almost formal, but the overall effect is incantatory, transforming the hard-luck story of two ordinary people into something magical. An inspiring, offbeat story of an artist who trusts her instincts and finds herself regaining her life. --KirkusIt isn't very often that I m moved to tears at the end of a book, but this one definitely did it for me. Ms. Mars has crafted a fine and satisfying conclusion actually I wish it had a little more, but understand its construction and intent, and accept it. Well, accept is far too passive a term for my feeling about this book and its conclusion. It s a compulsive page-turner with sympathetic characters and tense, carefully-balanced plot; I embrace it and the plainspoken truths about how rust accumulates on its characters hearts and emotions. A superior piece of storytelling, this novel will pull you along with its tone, its perfect pace, and its emotional truth. As satisfying as its payoff is, you will assuredly enjoy the journey just as much. --Basso ProfundoIt isn t very often that I m moved to tears at the end of a book, but this one definitely did it for me. Ms. Mars has crafted a fine and satisfying conclusion actually I wish it had a little more, but understand its construction and intent, and accept it. Well, accept is far too passive a term for my feeling about this book and its conclusion. It s a compulsive page-turner with sympathetic characters and tense, carefully-balanced plot; I embrace it and the plainspoken truths about how rust accumulates on its characters hearts and emotions. A superior piece of storytelling, this novel will pull you along with its tone, its perfect pace, and its emotional truth. As satisfying as its payoff is, you will assuredly enjoy the journey just as much. --Basso ProfundoMars (Anybody Any Minute) taps a potent fantasy and writes prose that captures moments observed in closeup; she turns a smile into a reverie and then a kind of celebration. This makes her writing very poetic... Mars makes insightful observations on the nature of friendship and intimacy. Publishers WeeklyMars focuses on the new start: a woman's rediscovery of herself after she moves, rather impulsively, to a new place. Along the way the author writes of the dusty landscape as well as the almost-barren emotional landscape of her two main characters. At times the tone is stilted, almost formal, but the overall effect is incantatory, transforming the hard-luck story of two ordinary people into something magical. An inspiring, offbeat story of an artist who trusts her instincts and finds herself regaining her life. --Kirkus Views: 67
When Yuvi's wife finds him in his underwear, standing on top of his desk, she isn't particularly impressed with his writing habits. But Yuvi worries. He has a wife who wants things he can't give her, an editor who wants a book he can't deliver, a brother-in-law whose gastrointestinal disease may lead him to a morbid end, and dead parents who, well, they don't really want anything, but that doesn't stop the memory of them from haunting him.As the structure of Yuvi's novel falls apart, so do his life and marriage.His novel and his life blend together as Yuvi struggles to pull out of the mess. He travels from his suburban Jewish childhood in Atlanta to the North Carolina mountains of his father's youth, to several hospital waiting rooms, to the living room of a grieving Palestinian man, and even to Uranus (and back, of course).Heartbreaking and hilarious, A Brilliant Novel in the Works is the utterly original debut novel from Yuvi Zalkow, praised by Cheryl Strayed as... Views: 67
National bestselling author James LePore’s searing, intense novel SONS AND PRINCES riveted readers with its epic depiction of a man caught between crime and conscience. Reviewers were understandably awed:LePore had me hooked from the very first line, which is not hard to do when you’re asked to envision body parts showing up in a suitcase... . An absolute must-read!” The Celebrity CaféLePore writes a captivating story nearly impossible to put down. His characters are both memorable and frightening... . This is an outstanding book, destined to be a classic.” Pick of the LiterateIf you have not read a book from Mr. LePore you are missing out...hard-hitting characters, a strong story line, and a craving for more!” Cheryl’s Book NookNow LePore returns with a sequel to SONS AND PRINCES. It is eight years later and life has changed overwhelmingly for Chris Massi and... Views: 67
Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight.While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home.Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband--™s return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead? Views: 67
Lizzie doesn't mean to do the wrong thing . . . she's just misunderstood. Lizzie has a history of misunderstandings, but the latest one is bad enough to get her expelled from Our Lady of the Sacred Wimple College. So now she's going to be homeschooled. That's right -- from now on her mum will be her teacher. No friends, no playground, nothing but homework. What will Lizzie have to do to prove that she's mature enough to be allowed back to Sacred Wimple? She's prepared to give almost anything a go, but will it end up the same way it usually does -- with her being misunderstood all over again? Miss Understood is a warm, funny and moving story by award-winning author James Roy. Views: 67
