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General fiction, Lifestyle, United States travel and geography
<P>Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago's south side: a study in… the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. <P>It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. <P>Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school's segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.
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General fiction, Erotic fiction, Lifestyle
Lauded as the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for her landmark novels of the 1950s, Ann Bannon defined lesbian fiction for… the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press’s new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman finds sorority sister Laura Landon leaving college heartbreak behind and embracing Greenwich Village’s lesbian bohemia. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.
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General fiction, Humourous fiction, Lifestyle, United States travel and geography
The Failure is a picaresque novel set in Los Angeles about two guys who conceive and badly execute a plan… to rob a Korean check-cashing store in order to finance the prototype for an impossibly ridiculous Internet application James Greer one of the nimblest and most multilayered American fiction writers has with his latest novel The Failure pulled off a sublime and shivery-smooth literary hat-trick-cum-emotional-gotcha I defy anyone to come up with an equation to explain how this book s first impression as a ridiculously clever funny crime story can gradually disclose a metanovel built from far more encyclopedic scratch only to reveal upon its conclusion a central overriding thought so heartfelt literally it trembles your lower lip This is one stunning piece of work --Dennis Cooper author of Ugly Man James Greer s The Failure is such an unqualified success both in conception and execution that I have grave doubts he actually wrote it --Steven SoderberghJames Greer is the author of the novel Artificial Light Akashic Books which won a California Book Award for Best Debut Novel and the nonfiction book Guided By Voices A Brief History Grove Press a biography of the band for which he once played bass guitar He is currently working with director Steven Soderbergh on a rock musical about Cleopatra starring Catherine Zeta-Jones He lives in Los Angeles
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General fiction, Family stories, Parenting
Evoking William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy Meno s suspenseful mordantly incisive many-layered tale can also be read… as an equine Moby-Dick As he tracks the bewildering seismic shifts under way in America Meno celebrates everyday marvels including the hard-proven love between grandfather and grandson --Booklist Starred review Faulkner-ian epic for the contemporary age Meno draws on the grave themes and austere styles of writers like Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell to offer a mix of biblical allegories tinder-dry prose and noble characters trying to survive in a wretched world The novel s prose is marvelous is its spare convincing grit while the story s themes of family redemption sacrifice and faith echo the plays of Sam Shepard at times A grandiose atmospheric portrait of Middle America in all its damaged glory --Kirkus Reviews The latest by Meno is a compelling mash-up of magic and the absurd with the grittiness of a world inhabited by punks thieves and losers as a grandfather and his grandson take a road trip through 1990s rural America in search of their stolen horse This is a provocative reflection on the lives of the disenfranchised in the waning days of the 20th century with a bittersweet resolution that will resonate with readers --Publishers Weekly Winner of the Discover Great New Writers Award and the Nelson Algren Award among other honors Meno can be entertainingly outr This story of a man and his grandfather hunting for their stolen horse is also affecting --Library Journal Barbara Hoffert s Prepub Alert Marvel and a Wonder is such a tender love story The love of an irascible grandfather for his baffling grandson the love for a mysterious horse the love for a country that no longer seems to love us back Joe Meno writes with poise and wit and stunning amounts of empathy What a beautiful story What a lovely book --Victor LaValle author of The Devil in Silver Both sprawling and intimate Marvel and a Wonder is a vivid portrait of Heartland America and infuses its array of characters with humor empathy and insight I ve long been an admirer of Joe Meno s work and this is his most ambitious book yet --Dan Chaon author of Await Your ReplyPraise for Joe Meno A beguiling and slyly disquieting storyteller Meno transforms wintery Chicago into a wondrous crystallization of countless dreams and tragedies while telling the stories of two derailed young artists poignant and funny --Kansas City Star on Office Girl The wisest most humane and transcendent novel on the contemporary family since The Corrections A marvelous book --Irvine Welsh on The Great PerhapsMarvel and a Wonder is a darkly mesmerizing epic and literary page-turner set at the end of the twentieth century In summer 1995 Jim Falls a Korean War vet struggles to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson Quentin on a farm in southern Indiana In July they receive a mysterious gift--a beautiful quarter horse--which upends the balance of their difficult lives The horse s appearance catches the attention of a pair of troubled meth-dealing brothers and after a violent altercation the horse is stolen and sold Grandfather and grandson must travel the landscape of the bleak heartland to reclaim the animal and to confront the ruthless party that has taken possession of it Along the way both will be forced to face the misperceptions and tragedies of their past Evoking the writing of William Faulkner and Denis Johnson this brilliant deeply moving work explores the harrowing often beautiful marvels of a nation challenged by its own beliefs Ambitious expansive and laden with suspense Marvel and a Wonder presents an unforgettable pair of protagonists at the beginning of one America and the end of another
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General fiction, Short stories, Serious and literary fiction, Lifestyle
Trinie Dalton s voice is so charming in these stories and they fly right by so it takes a… little time to realize how deftly she is talking about death and sex and fear and love and fur and slumber parties how lightly she touches upon heaviness making an imprint so gentle you don t know it s there until later when the story floats back up in your memory light as a butterfly or a blood-oil lilypad in the bath --Aimee Bender Trinie Dalton is as radically original a young writer as I ve ever come across a post-punk post-apocalyptic post-everything sensibility casting spells of willed innocence against the powers of darkness she knows terrifyingly well --David Gates These charming stories vibrate with innocence and awe Trinie Dalton is an effortless purveyor of wonder strangeness and love She is a writer of high spirits and unguarded vision and this debut collection is an absolute pleasure to read --Ben Marcus In Wide Eyed a wonderfully eccentric and vibrant collection Trinie Dalton showcases her ability to put a fresh spin on the world leading the reader into places never explored--sometimes dreamlike sometimes nightmarish always riveting Her vision is wholly unique and memorable --Jill McCorkleIn Trinie Dalton s tweaked vision of reality psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger The Flaming Lips Marc Bolan Lou Reed and Pavement are daily occurrences Animals also populate this book beavers hamsters salamanders black widows owls llamas bats and many more are characters who befriend the narrator This collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets fantasies and obsessions with native Californian animals glam rock icons and horror movies among other things With a setting rooted in urban Los Angeles but colored by mythic tales of beauty borrowed from medieval times Shakespeare and Grimm s fairy tales Wide Eyed makes the difficulties of surviving in a contemporary American city more palatable by showing the reader that magic and escape is always possible Stories include Hummingbird Moonshine in which the narrator s frustrated hunt for authentic religion in botanicas and science books culminates in a spiritual connection made with a hummingbird In Oceanic she resolves to marry a manatee after a drunken pre-party for her best friend s wedding In Tiles four vignettes about bloody accidents in tiled bathrooms intermingle with scenes from Dalton s favorite scary movies Featuring oddball prose in the traditions of Dalton s literary heroes--Denton Welch Robert Walser and Jane Bowles--these stories have a dreamy imaginative quality that reveal a peculiar state of mental ecstasy To be inside the mind of Trinie Dalton is to be escorted into bliss
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General fiction, Native peoples fiction, Short stories, Native peoples history
Internationally acclaimed as a playwright, screen-writer, comic and sardonic commentator on the endless gaffs, absurdities and the profound and painful… misunderstandings that continue to characterize social interactions between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples, Taylor's stories in Fearless Warriors are a full frontal assault on stereotypes of all kinds and an edifying affirmation of humanity unlike anything else in fiction.
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General fiction, Biography of persons with disabilities, Journals and memoirs, Parenting, Lifestyle, Disabilities, Self help, Women biography, Medicine, Health and medicine
<P>Aged 15, Jordan Bone got into a car with friends. She would never walk again. Paralysed from the chest down,… her life was changed forever. Becoming depressed and feeling like life wasn't worth living, these weren't the teenage years that Jordan had envisaged. <P>However, slowly but surely, she began to get herself out of the darkness. With a little help from the internet, Jordan started to embrace positive thinking and embarked on a personal journey to get her confidence - and her life - back. Eleven years on from the accident, Jordan creates her own beauty tutorials on YouTube and has a range of successful brand partnerships. She has reclaimed her life and her independence and now wants to share her inspirational story with others and is telling it through different aspects of beauty. This isn't a book about looking good on the surface, this is a story of inner strength, believing in yourself and finding motivation when you feel like all hope is gone.
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Gentle fiction, General fiction, Parenting
The groundbreaking #1 bestseller is sure to turn nightly bedtime battles into a loving and special end-of-day ritual. This child-tested,… parent-approved story uses an innovative technique that brings a calm end to any child’s day.<P><P> Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep?<P> Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine.<P> When Roger can’t fall asleep, Mommy Rabbit takes him to see Uncle Yawn, who knows just what to do. Children will join Roger on his journey and be lulled to sleep alongside their new friend.<P> Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s simple story uses a unique and distinct language pattern that will help your child relax and fall asleep—at bedtime or naptime.<P> Reclaim bedtime today!
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General fiction, Parenting, Humour
Finally, a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice—all… from three guys who make comics instead of children. This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don't love them anymore, and making out with your kid's best friend's dad. Cartoonists Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine all their knowledge and experience—or lack thereof—for a laugh-out-loud, labor-inducing look into the world of parenthood through the sick and twisted lens of Cyanide & Happiness comics.
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General fiction, General non-fiction, Lifestyle, Social issues
This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in… different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Representing Acts of Violence in Comics raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, and discusses the ways in which individual moments of violence develop, and are both represented and embodied in comics and graphic novels. Contributors consider the impact of gendered and sexual violence, and examine the ways in which violent acts can be rendered palatable (for example through humour) but also how comics can represent trauma and long lasting repercussions for both perpetrators and victims. This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.
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General fiction, General non-fiction, Lifestyle
This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in… different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they take place. It analyzes how structures and organising principles, be they cultural, historical, legal, political or spatial, might encourage, demand or prevent violence. It deals with the issue of scale: violence in the context of war versus violence in the context of an individual murder, and provides insights into the context of war and peace, ethnic and identity-based violence, as well as examining issues of justice and memory. This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.
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General fiction, General non-fiction, Lifestyle
From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called &“otaku&” develop intense fan relationships with &“cute girl&” characters from… manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with &“otaku&” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate &“otaku&” culture into its branding of &“Cool Japan.&” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of &“otaku&” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of &“otaku&” and &“cute girl&” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (&“the Holy Land of Otaku&”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding &“otaku&” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, &“otaku&” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.
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General fiction, General non-fiction, Lifestyle
This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for… describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and multimodal communication. The approach is based largely on the work of Michael Halliday, drawing also on the pragmatics of Paul Grice, the Text World Theory of Paul Werth and Joanna Gavins, and ideas from art theory, psychology and narratology. This brings a broad Hallidayan framework of multimodal analysis to comics scholarship, and plays a part in extending that tradition of multimodal linguistics to graphic narrative.
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General fiction, School stories, Parenting
Willow has everything: a rich daddy, a pony and a place at a prestigious boarding school. Everything except the one… thing she really wants: a father who cares enough to find her when she runs away from home. On the eve of her father&’s wedding, Willow runs again into the unknown. Her mother was a circus performer and Willow longs to follow in her footsteps. But when all of her money is stolen and her only friend, a street performer called Suz, betrays her, Willow is left penniless and alone. So begins a gripping, exhilarating journey. Will Willow ever make it to the big top and find a place she can truly call home?
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General fiction, Family stories, Humourous fiction, Parenting
In this brilliant, laugh-out-loud satire, image-conscious parents on a Beverly Hills junior soccer team struggle to keep up appearances as… their private lives careen out of control. "You'll wince, laugh out loud, relate to, and relish this unsparing satirical send up."---Wednesday Martin, New York Times bestselling author Coach Randy is working mightily to keep it together, and not simply with his vaguely unhappy wife, distant child, and a new boss who's eliminating half the sales force. This season's soccer parents are a demanding bunch. Diane's wine-fueled group e-mails are almost unintelligible; team mom Jacqui's enthusiasm for the league verges on manic; a divorced couple can barely conceal their murderous rage at each other; and another mom is laser-focused on schooling everyone on what constitutes a healthy snack option. All the secrets and lies bubbling below the surface of their membrane-thin civility threaten to combust when Alejandro, a young, foreign assistant coach refuses to play by the Beverly Hills code, which is to mind your own business and don't look too deeply into anyone's soul. Especially your own. Brett Paesel brings hilarity and huge heart to a world that looks enviable and shiny on the outside but is, in truth, filled with aching for connection on the inside. In the vein of Perotta and Semple, everyday life in Paesel's deft rendering is anything but.
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Gentle mysteries, Mysteries and crime stories, General fiction, Parenting
When granddaughter Sarah learns that her grandmother Opal and niece Jessica are missing, she decides to search for her. When… the car is found with two flat tires, Sarah and her boy friend from college, travel up and down the rural roads and creeks of southern Iowa to look for her missing relatives. Because of the storm that Saturday night, would they seek shelter in an abandoned barn, house or maybe even a coal mine whose opening has been uncovered? Were they abducted? Who would have a grudge against the gentle woman who only tried to help people through her church's SPARKLE Club?
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General fiction, Gentle romance, Romance, Parenting, Christianity
'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley. Meet the Reading Group: six… women in the seaside village of Little Sanderton come together every month to share their love of reading. No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red!Grace knows that the holiday season is going to be different this year. No turkey, no tinsel, no gorgeously wrapped gifts under the tree . . . how on earth is she going to break it to her little boys that Christmas is effectively cancelled? And can she bear to tell anyone her embarrassing secret? Enter the Reading Group: Grace's life might have turned upside down but there's no problem they can't solve.
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Family stories, General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Parenting
The celebrated author of Montana 1948 (over 400,000 copies sold) returns to the American West in this riveting tale of… familial love and its unexpected consequences.Dalton, North Dakota. It's September 1951: years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James when he was thrown from a horse; months since his widow Lorna took off with their only grandson and married Donnie Weboy. Margaret is steadfast, resolved to find and retrieve her grandson Jimmy - the one person in this world keeping James's memory alive - while George, a retired sheriff, is none too eager to stir up trouble. Unable to sway his wife from her mission, George takes to the road with Margaret by his side, traveling through the Dakota badlands to Gladstone, Montana. When Margaret tries to convince Lorna to return home to North Dakota and bring little Jimmy with her, the Blackledges find themselves entangled with the entire Weboy clan, who are determined not to give up the boy without a fight. From the author who brought us Montana 1948, Let Him Go is pitch-perfect, gutsy, and unwavering. Larry Watson is at his storytelling finest in this unforgettable return to the American West.
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General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Parenting
Kate Gray takes an unblinking look at bullying in her debut novel, Carry the Sky. It's 1983 at an elite… Delaware boarding school. Taylor Alta, the new rowing coach, arrives reeling from the death of the woman she loved. Physics teacher Jack Song, the only Asian American on campus, struggles with his personal code of honor when he gets too close to a student. These two young, lonely teachers narrate the story of a strange and brilliant thirteen-year-old boy who draws atomic mushroom clouds on his notebook, pings through the corridors like a pinball, and develops a crush on an older girl with secrets of her own. Carry the Sky sings a brave and honest anthem about what it means to be different in a world of uniformity.
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General fiction, Parenting, Politics and government, General non-fiction
This is the untold story of the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, told by a woman who lived it. It… is the story of the ordinary women of South Africa who, forced to scratch a living from the land, still found the strength to ask for respect and, in the process, made a revolution.