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The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done

Author: Sandra Newman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-08-08

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0062834169

When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother, Eddie, inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles. But something else is happening. Through Chrysalis's reunion with her brother, she begins to discover her adoptive father's secret past, causing her own identity to unravel. As Chrysalis lays down the facts of her life, she gambles her identity against the contradictions, half-truths, and fables of her past, leading her ultimately to question what it is we can truly know and whether it is fate or chance that dictates our lives.

The Country of Ice Cream Star

Author: Sandra Newman

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 0062227122

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In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent. My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . . In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies—a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect the only world she has ever known. Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

The Designated Mourner

Author: Wallace Shawn

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2010-12-21

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1559366567

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A major work in the writings of Wallace Shawn.

Book Reports

Author: Robert Christgau

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1478002123

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In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.

Family Wanted

Author: Sara Holloway

Publisher: Random House Trade

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0812975472

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A compilation of candid, often moving narratives, essays, and memoirs by adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees answers questions about what it means to be a parent and a family, the search for origins, love, and belonging, in pieces by A. M. Homes, Bernard Cornwell, Tama Janowitz, Martin Rowson, Jonathan Rendall, Paula Fox, and many others. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Eros the Bittersweet

Author: Anne Carson

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1628974117

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.

Granta 145

Author: Sigrid Rausing

Publisher: Granta

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1909889199

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This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts - the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine. André Aciman remembers Rome Ahmet Altan on his life sentence Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating Maggie O'Farrell on damaging her 'sacred' joint Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore PLUS NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni

My Mate’s Curse

Author: Alex McAnders

Publisher: McAnders Publishing

Published: 2023-04-05

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13:

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‘He slipped his hand between my legs. I froze. I was throbbing. What would happen if he touched it?’ Imagine if you asked your wolf shifter best friend to pretend to be your fiancé and one night while sharing a bed, your naked body reacted to his touch. ______ I’m not a wolf shifter but all of my friends are. The only thing magical about me is the chemistry I had with the hot football player from our university who asked to marry me. We dated for two weeks before he popped the question... and then broke my heart a week later. After that d-bag ripped my heart out, it was my wolf shifter best friend, Titus, who came to the rescue. I needed someone to pretend to be my fiancé at a family event and asked him. You ever share a bed with a wolf shifter? When he’s sleeping half naked next to you, it’s impossible not to think about him using your virginal body to break your headboard. But he’s my best friend and means everything to me. I couldn’t ruin things with him. Besides, he’s in the middle of a fight for the life of his pack. The last thing he needs to worry about is the suspicious circumstances behind my ex-fiancé’s actions and how they relate to a supernatural legacy I didn’t know my family has. It’s enough to make me think there was more to my grandmother’s death than anyone is telling me. Maybe if I help Titus defeat the fae that’s suppressing his pack, he could help me figure out why people have died over my family’s land. And if his chiseled wolf shifter body finds itself wrapped around mine in the meantime, maybe I’ll get everything I ever wanted. The question is, how do I do it without again breaking my heart?

His Cursed Mate: MM Wolf Shifter Romance

Author: Alex McAnders

Publisher: McAnders Publishing

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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‘He slipped his hand between my legs. I froze. I was throbbing. What would happen if he touched it?’ _____ The best thing about wolf shifters is how hot they are… wait, I meant how loyal. I would never see Titus, my wolf shifter best friend as hot, no matter how tight his end is. When I agree to marry a guy I have only known for two weeks and the whole thing implodes, it’s Titus who pretends to be my gay fiancé so I can save face with my family. But could us sharing a bed night after night on a trip home change things between my straight best friend and me? What about discovering my family’s secret? Or is it a curse? Maybe there’s a reason I’m drawn to shifters, and why my ex won’t leave me alone. Can my wolfie best friend protect me from all of this? I’ll sleep pressed against his rippling half-naked body as many times as it takes to find out. ‘His Cursed Mate’ is a steamy MM wolf shifter romance with crackling tension, humor, and enough spicy sizzle to leave you satisfied at its HEA ending.' Note: This book is a part of the author's 'Love is Love Collection', meaning that it is available as a spicy romance in 'My Best Friend', a wholesome romance in 'I Don’t Date My Best Friend', a steamy wolf shifter romance in ‘My Mate’s Curse’, a Male/Male romance in 'Best Friend Trouble', and a Male/Male wolf shifter romance in ‘His Cursed Mate.’

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Publisher: RateABull Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13:

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