Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Knucklehead
Ashley Rosco works as a bouncer at the only nightclub in a small town, spending his off-hours training as a bodybuilder. He occasionally acts as muscle for his best friend, Darren, a small-time drug dealer whose business is growing under the influence of his criminal father. Darren’s girlfriend, Chass, short for Chastity, has had her…
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Birdie
Bernice Meetoos will not be broken. A big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Bernice (”Birdie”) has left her home in northern Alberta to travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged…
Read MoreI See You
The author of the smash bestseller, I Let You Go, propels readers into a dark and claustrophobic thriller, in which a normal, everyday woman becomes trapped in the confines of her normal, everyday world… Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the…
Read MoreThe Astounding, The Amazing and The Unknown
Warm Bodies
Alienated from his fellow zombies because of his dislike of having to kill humans and his enjoyment of Sinatra music, “R” meets a living girl who sharply contrasts with his cold and dreary world and who he resolves to protect in spite of her delicious appearance. A first novel. Reprint.
Read MoreThe New Hunger
“The prequel to zombie love story WARM BODIES, THE NEW HUNGER depicts Julie and R’s lives in post-apocalyptic America before they met”–
Read MoreFall On Your Knees
“What a wild ride — I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough,” Oprah Winfrey told her viewers as she announced Fall on Your Knees as her February 2002 Book Club selection. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s dark, insightful and hilarious first novel…
Read MoreThe High Mountains of Portugal
With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel. The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and…
Read MoreSloppy Firsts
Devastated when her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling feels isolated at school and at home, as she struggles to deal with her father’s obsession with her track meets, her boy-crazy peers, and her own nonexistent love life.
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