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Waiting for Bojangles : a novel
\"A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door, the bird acts like a member of the family, and his parents dance to Nina Simone's mellifluous classic \"Mister Bojangles.\" As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into mental illness, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gichigami
An eerie coming-of-age story of a young girl’s
quest for her absent mother across the frozen terrain of Lake
Superior One December evening, when 13-year-old Marta
crosses the frozen Lake Superior and reaches the home she
shares with her father, she finds a woman standing at their
door. As Marta approaches, she realizes the woman, who looks
like a tropical bird caught in the snow, is her mother
who’d abruptly left them six years before. Marta hopes
this is a turning point, that her mother will stay this
time—despite hating this town, this island, and their
creaky, towering Victorian house. But not everyone in town is
thrilled with her mother’s arrival, least of all her dad.
Almost as soon as she arrives, however, Marta’s mother
abruptly vanishes again, nowhere to be found, leaving Marta
with more questions than answers. Her father denies her mother
was ever there and Marta is left with the mystery of her
mother’s homecoming. She begins to wonder if he is lying,
or if there is a deeper secret being kept from her by the
entire tight-knit community. As Marta delves into her mother's
sudden reappearance and subsequent disappearance, she seeks
answers, visiting places that were significant to her mother
and questioning people she knew. Desperate for answers that
will shed light on the mystery, this quest leads her to uncover
a web of secrets that threaten to unravel everything she
thought she knew about her family and herself.
Gichigami is an eerie coming-of-age novel, weaving
between Marta and the person desperately trying to keep Marta
and her mother apart. This poignant exploration of the lives of
women and girls of the Midwest shines a light on the struggles
of absent mothers, runaway daughters, and those who yearn for
more than life has offered them. With rich prose and vivid
imagery, Lindsey Steffes spins a tale of loss, longing, and
betrayal set against the backdrop of the harsh yet beautiful
landscape of Lake Superior.
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Intensely Alice
During the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, Maryland teenager Alice McKinley volunteers at a local soup kitchen, tries to do \"something wild\" without getting arrested, and wonders if her trip to Chicago to visit boyfriend Patrick will result in a sleepover.
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Young once
\"Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Deaf Heart
Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and
letters home during the early 1980s, The Deaf Heart
chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey \"Max\" McCall, a Deaf
biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the
island of Galveston, Texas. Max strives to become certified as a
Registered Biological Photographer while straddling the deaf and
hearing worlds. He befriends Reynaldo, an impoverished Deaf
Mexican, and they go on a number of unusual escapades around the
island. At the hospital, Max has to contend with hearing doctors,
nurses, scientists, and teachers. While struggling through the
rigors of his residency and running into bad luck in meeting women,
Max discovers an ally in his hearing housemate Zag, a fellow
resident who is also vying for certification. Toward the end of his
residency, Max meets Maddy, a Deaf woman who helps bring balance to
his life. Author Willy Conley's stories, some humorous, some
poignant, reveal Max's struggles and triumphs as he attempts to
succeed in the hearing world while at the same time navigating the
multicultural and linguistic diversity within the Deaf world.
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Wins and Losses
In Makuck's fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday lives to reveal compassionate characters who are unexpectedly vulnerable. The stories inWins and Losses are set in a car, a courtroom, a university English department, a sports bar, a jetliner, a laundromat. Characters struggle with regret, desire, expectations, and a need to win when loss is inevitable. A high school student whose father was killed in a car crash and who can speak openly only to his girlfriend delivers prescriptions for a pharmacy and learns much about people and values in the course of his deliveries. A lawyer recalls a dubious family friend, an undercover cop, who pressured him as a young boy toward guns and football. A recent widow finds a cardboard box on her front porch only to discover it contains the body of her dog. A young woman takes her mother to a cardiologist and, while in the waiting room, gets into an argument with a wealthy political conservative at great cost to both of them. In the tradition of Cheever and Updike, Makuck's stories give us characters struggling with questions of what really matters.
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A shattered empire
\"In the epic conclusion to the series that began with the award-winning A CRUCIBLE OF SOULS, Mitchell Hogan combines the wonder of classic sword-and-sorcery fantasy with the grit of the modern masters to create something at once familiar and unique for readers of all ages\"-- Provided by publisher.
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