LeFavour’s fiction debut is an upmarket literary crossover book with a ton of beach-read potential. Will appeal to fans of marriage-gone-awry novels such as The Vacationers by Emma Straub, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, and the work of Nora Ephron, Anita Shreve, Meg Wolitzer, and Anna Quindlen. A renowned memoirist and James Beard award-winning cookbook author, LeFavour has a burgeoning readership and many fans in the literary world. Her ...
Writers & Lovers is the highly anticipated new novel following King’s 2014 bestseller Euphoria , which was a New York Times ’ Top Ten Book of the Year and sold over 400,000 copies in North America It was a top ten book of the year in Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon , and New York , won the Kirkus Prize and New England Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award In ...
Wie ware es, wenn wir in das Bewusstsein eines anderen schlupfen konnten? Was sahe ich, wenn ich die Welt durch deine Augen sahe? Um diese Fragen kreist dieser spannende Roman von Peter Hoeg, mit dem er auf sehr personliche Weise an den Bestseller «Der Susan-Effekt» anknupft . «Von meinem ersten Buch an habe ich versucht, ein Fenster in eine andere Wirklichkeit aufzusto?en. Immerzu habe ich nach Bildern dafur gesucht. Zuvor waren es der Schnee, ...
The team has to come to grips with a killer being allowed to live. The alien has to deal with the threat of paperwork. Will this effort to allow Juntto to redeem himself work? Or will Katie need to figure out how to kill him for good, when even the angels from above could only place him on ice before? Juntto is used to getting his way, but has he met his match with Angie? He wants to be Emperor of his own country. How can she convince him being ...
One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly's shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly's closest friends in high school – and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: he's had a plastic surgeon perform &ap ...
On a rocky, beautiful hilltop stands Ma'aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling community flying under the radar. According to the government it doesn't exist; according to the military it must be defended. On this contested land, Othniel Assis – under the wary gaze of the neighboring Palestinian village – installs his ever-expanding family. As Othniel manipulates government agencies, more settlers arrive and the outpost takes root. One of the set ...
<P>Native Tributes is a sequel to Blue Ravens by Gerald Vizenor, a historical novel about Native Americans in the First World War published by Wesleyan University Press in 2014. Basile Hudon Beaulieu, a native writer, his brother Aloysius, an abstract artist, travel by train from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota to Washington, D.C. where they protest with thousands of other military veterans in the Bonus Army, and their cou ...
<P>Gerald Vizenor creates masterful, truthful, surreal, and satirical fiction similar to the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. In this imagined future, seven natives are exiled from federal sectors that have replaced federal reservations; they pursue the liberty of an egalitarian government on an island in Lake of the Woods. These seven narrators, known only by native nicknames, are related to characters in Vi ...
<P>Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing historical portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens is set at the start of the twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at Ch&#226;teau-Thierry, Montbr&#233;hain, and Bois de Fays. The novel contains many of Vizenor's recurrent cultural themes—the power and irony of trickster stories, the p ...
