"Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant’s veneer starts to crumble. Weirdly funny, Whiteout Conditions tracks Ant and his friend Vince as they make their way through Chicogoland’s suburbs, which, in Shah’s telling, are as harrowing as any arctic climate." —Wendy J. Fox, BuzzFeed '15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 ...
Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flea Paris in the midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the Reign of Terror. Fearing further persecution from his 18 maddening years of imprisonment in the Bastille of Paris, Doctor Manette hurriedly leaves France to be with the daughter he’s never met. Opening with the famous lines, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens’ , A Tale of Two Cit ...
1946, Манхэттен. Грейс Хили пережила Вторую мировую войну, потеряв любимого человека. Она надеялась, что тень прошлого больше никогда ее не потревожит. Однако все меняется, когда по пути на работу девушка находит спрятанный под скамейкой чемодан. Не в силах противостоять своему любопытству, она обнаруживает дюжину фотографий, на которых запечатлены молодые девушки. Кто они и почему оказались вместе? Вскоре Грейс знакомится с хозяйкой чемодана ...
Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can’t protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite:<br><br> Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a self-taught piano player by night. The love story that ensues propels t ...
Assigned to write an expose on Richmond Hew, one of the most elusive and corrupt figures in the conservation world, a journalist finds himself on a plane to the Congo, a country he thinks he understands. But when he meets Sola, a woman looking for a rootless white orphan girl who believes herself possessed by a skin-stealing demon, he slowly uncovers a tapestry of corruption and racial tensions generations in the making.<br><br> ...
A Commonwealth Prize Winner and often featured in “Best of” lists for writing from Australia and New Zealand, author is well positioned to break out with his first work to be published outside of his region Expecting blurbs from Eowyn Ivey ( The Snow Child ), Eleanor Catton (Man Booker prize winner), with a likely blurb from Jim Shepard A literary title, that contains universal questions about the ego, imitation, and the artistic process, but al ...
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting, fishing, and trading. And yet, though he idolizes the indigenous hunters who have taught him how to survive, ...
Immediately captivating, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles introduces readers to Finley, an investigator of indiscernible origins and prowess who is assigned to a mysterious Professor Uppal and his puppets. The nature of the investigation isn’t clear, but Finley nonetheless forges ahead, with occasional assistance from her colleagues Murphy, The Lamb, and Binelli, as well as the professor’s beautiful daughter and her ...
Champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters. Unsure of what else to do, he retires to the panoramic family ranch, Wolfcreek, to mend.Claire Hartley and her fifteen-year-old son Aiden have nearly been torn apart by abusive boyfriends and an unjust world when a friend sends them to the Wolfchild ranch. Thro ...
