Kill Me Tender
Author: Daniel Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-01-07
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780312981952
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Tender Is the Flesh
Author: Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1982150920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
The Line Tender
Author: Kate Allen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0735231613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning and connection within it. Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water--thanks in large part to a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white--and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother's unfinished research on the Great White's return to Cape Cod. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she'll finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's left to be discovered. ★"Confidently voiced."—Kirkus Reviews, starred ★"Richly layered."—Publishers Weekly, starred ★"A hopeful path forward."—Booklist, starred ★"Life-affirming."—BCCB, starred ★"Big-hearted." —Bookpage, starred ★“Will appeal to just about everyone.” – SLC, starred ★"Exquisitely, beautifully real."—Shelf Awareness, starred
Kill Me Tender
Author: Joseph Valentinetti
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781591132578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Private Detective Vincent August thought he understood love. But the Elvis case brings love into sharp, terrifying focus. Is love an honest thing in itself or just an excuse for other desires, jealousies, obsessions, lies, and murder?
Kill Me Now
Author: Timmy Reed
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-01-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1619025639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018 (Big Other) "Timmy Reed writes like a whacked–out angel." —Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and May We Shed These Human Bodies Miles Lover is an imaginative but insecure adolescent skateboarder with an unfortunate nickname, about to face his first semester of high school in the fall. In Kill Me Now, Miles exists in a liminal space—between junior high and high school, and between three houses: his mother's, his father's, and the now vacant house his family used to call home in a leafy, green neighborhood of north Baltimore. Miles struggles against his parents, his younger identical twin sisters, his probation officer, his old friends, his summer reading list, and his personal essay assignment (having to keep a journal). More than anything, though, he wrestles with himself and the fears that come with growing up. It's not until Miles begins a mutually beneficial friendship with a new elderly neighbor—whom his sisters spy on and suspect of murder—that he begins to find some understanding of lives different than his own, of the plain acceptance of true friends, and, maybe, just a little of himself in time to start a whole new year. When you're green, you grow, he learns. But when you're ripe, you rot. With tenderness and tenacity, Timmy Reed's prose—written in a confessional tone via Miles's journal—captures the anguish and grit of adolescence, and the potential of growing up.
Love Me Tender
Author: Susan Fox
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1420135767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Dave Cousins, owner of the Wild Rose Inn, is known throughout Caribou Crossing as the nicest--and loneliest--guy in town. He's had his heart broken more than once, and he's determined not to let it happen again. So it's no wonder he's wary when a free-spirited drifter leaves him longing for more than just a steamy fling"--P. [4] of cover.
The Tender Land
Author: Kathleen Finneran
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2003-06-11
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0547349289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extraordinary memoir of a family haunted by tragedy: “I’ve read very few contemporary novels that can rival Finneran’s nonfiction.” —Jonathan Franzen A superb portrait of family life, this “absorbing and thoughtful” memoir is a love story unlike any other (Library Journal). The Finnerans—Irish Catholic parents with five children in St. Louis—are a seemingly unexceptional family whose lives are upended by a catastrophic event: the suicide of the author’s fifteen-year-old younger brother after being publicly humiliated in junior high school. A gentle, handsome boy, Sean Finneran was a straight-A student and gifted athlete, especially treasured by every member of his family. Masterfully, the book interweaves past and present, showing how inseparable the Finnerans are, and how the long accumulation of love and memory helps them survive their terrible loss. “Unforgettable in its restraint and quiet beauty,” The Tender Land is a testament to the always-complicated ways in which we love one another (Publishers Weekly). In quietly luminous language, Kathleen Finneran renders the emotional, spiritual, and physical terrain of family life—its closeness and disconnection, its intimacy and estrangement—and pays tribute to the love between parents and children, brothers and sisters. In doing so, she “reminds us of how complicated, unique, and fragile an organism the family is” (The Boston Globe). “[Great writers] change us. Kathleen Finneran fits in this niche. . . . Her prose sings.” —USA Today “Beautifully written . . . Like life itself, this memoir evokes both sadness and joy.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Diet to Die For
Author: Joan Hess
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-01-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0312981376
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Murder on the Mauretania
Author: Conrad Allen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-01-07
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780312977887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Liverpool to embark on the "Mauretania's" maiden voyage, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are again working undercover as private detectives. Soon after the ship leaves port, severe weather confines passengers to their cabins. When one of them vanishes and is believed to have gone overboard in the storm, Dillman and Genevieve realize he was murdered.
Reflecting the Sky
Author: S. J. Rozan
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-01-07
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780312981341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's a great honor when Grandfather Gao, a family friend and elder in New York's Chinatown community, asks Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith to go to Hong Kong to deliver the ashes of an old friend for burial, a letter from that friend to his brother, and a vauable jade figurine for the friend's seven-year-old grandson.
