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It's the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger and keep his drinking in check, keep his young marriage intact, and keep the nightmares away. Things get even more complicated when his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, is sent to live with Duane and his wife. Then Minor crosses the wrong man: John Varley, a criminal with a bloody history, who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. Minor and Julia follow his path of destruction from the gritty alleyways of 1970s Portland to the desolate highways of the Northwest and the snow-lashed plains of North Dakota- only to have Varley turn his vicious power back on them. |
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by Alameddine Rabih In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and "the neighborhood homosexual," Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, demands to know every detail of Raja's work life and love life, boundaries be damned. When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. But what seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to relive the very disasters and past betrayals he wishes to forget. Told in Raja's wickedly funny voice, the novel dances across six decades to tell the unforgettable story of a singular life and its absurdities. |
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by Josi S. Kilpack Five years ago, LuLu was in a car accident that left her with a traumatic brain injury and a gaping hole in her memory. Choosing to start over rather than return to a life she can’t remember, she moved to Sedona. But now her past might be coming after her. If she’s going to survive repeated attempts on her life, including a poisoned Snapple and an attempt to burn down her house, she’ll need to confront both what she can remember and what she’s managed to forget. In addition to finding who is trying to kill her, she has to wrestle with her neurodivergent brain that tells her to avoid conflict and blinking lights- to say nothing of the flamingos. Determined to find answers, LuLu must navigate clues and suspects, inching closer to the shadows of her former self. |
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Tess Bright is a C-list actress who just scored her dream role starring in a film adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. It's not just the role of a lifetime, but also her last chance to prove herself as a serious actress. But one thing is standing in Tess's way- Hugh Balfour. A serious British method actor, Hugh wants nothing to do with Tess. Hugh is a type-A, no-nonsense, Royal Academy prodigy, whereas Tess is big-hearted, reckless, and kind of a mess. When an electrical accident sends the two co-stars back in time to Jane Austen's era, with only each other to rely on, Tess and Hugh need to ad-lib their way through the Regency period to make it back home. The Austen Affair is a tribute to Jane Austen, second chances, and love across the space-time continuum. |
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by Lauren Morrow Layla Smart was raised to dream medium. But all Layla's ever wanted was a career in dance, which requires dreaming big. So when she receives an offer to be the choreographer-in-residence at Briar House in rural Vermont, she temporarily leaves behind her job, her friends, and her husband to pursue it. Layla has nine months to teach a career-defining dance to a group of Black dancers in a very small, very white town. She has help from a handsome composer, a neurotic costume designer, a witty communications director, and the austere program director who can only compare Layla to Black choreographers. It's an enormous feat, and that's before Briar House's problematic past comes to light, and before Layla finds out she's pregnant. |
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by Jyoti Mukharji Heartland Masala pairs 99 recipes from Indian cooking instructor Mukharji with cultural and historical essays by her son. Filled with rich storytelling, stunning visuals, and a blend of modern and traditional dishes, this book is both a heartfelt portrait of one Midwestern family and a practical guide to cooking incredible Indian meals at home. A celebration of Indian cuisine and the immigrant experience, this cookbook is playful, informative, and utterly original. A feast for curious readers and adventurous cooks, it is unlike any Indian cookbook you've seen before. |
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by Reality Winner Reality Winner was a translator for the NSA when she read a classified document revealing what she assumed would make headlines during a time of unprecedented leaking. In a breach of NSA protocol, she smuggled it out of the building and mailed it to The Intercept, which published it and then informed the NSA. For her crime, she spent over four years in federal prison. Now, Winner tells her own story: her unusual childhood in South Texas; her patriotism, which led her to enlist in the Air Force and join the NSA; and her life in the American prison system and how it nearly broke her. This is Winner's examination of the moral choices that compel us to act, and an account of the risks one young woman took to protect her country and the price she paid for it. |
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Cricut Craft includes 25 professional-looking projects. This book makes Cricut craft simple and accessible, containing projects for household and decorative items to keep, give to friends and family, or sell. Each is presented with photographs and clear text that can be adapted to any machine. Detailed information is provided on the machines, materials, tools, and software used to create the designs. Exclusively designed SVG files are included. Projects include tea towels, cushions, stickers, paper wreaths, and more. |
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CO2 isn't merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels- it is also fundamental to how our planet works. All life is ultimately made from CO2, and it has kept Earth bizarrely habitable for hundreds of millions of years. But how is it that CO2 is as essential to life on Earth as it is capable of destroying it? Award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen reveals how carbon dioxide's movement through rocks, air, water, and life has kept our planet's climate livable, its air breathable, and its oceans hospitable to complex life. Drawing on groundbreaking research and with a clear-eyed perspective, Brannen shows how a deep exploration of the carbon cycle can shed light on the way forward for humanity as we try to avert environmental catastrophe in the future. |
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by Stephen Greenblatt In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobbler’s son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry- a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty. What Christopher Marlowe did with it brought about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture, enabling the success of his collaborator and rival, William Shakespeare. With propulsive narrative flair and brilliant literary criticism, Greenblatt reconstructs the youthful involvement with the queen’s spy service that shaped Marlowe’s brief, troubling life and gave us his dramatic masterpieces on power and its costs. |
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