Author: Jane Wong Publisher: ISBN: 9781948579216 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 100
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"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"--
Author: Liane Moriarty Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101515376 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 497
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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES AND HERE ONE MOMENT A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?” Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over—she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over...
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 144246576X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 133
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Life, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment. Here she is, about to be a teenager and she doesn't know how. It's worse for her than for anyone else, she believes, because she has no role model. Her mother has been dead for years. Help and advice can only come from her father, manager of a music store, and her nineteen-year-old brother, who is a slob. What do they know about being a teen age girl? What she needs, Alice decides, is a gorgeous woman who does everything right, as a roadmap, so to speak. If only she finds herself, when school begins, in the classroom of the beautiful sixth-grade teacher, Miss Cole, her troubles will be over. Unfortunately, she draws the homely, pear-shaped Mrs. Plotkin. One of Mrs. Plotkin's first assignments is for each member of the class to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. Alice calls hers "The Agony of Alice," and in it she records all the embarrassing things that happen to her. Through the school year, Alice has lots to record. She also comes to know the lovely Miss Cole, as well as Mrs. Plotkin. And she meets an aunt and a female cousin whom she has not really known before. Out of all this, to her amazement, comes a role model -- one that she would never have accepted before she made a few very important discoveries on her own, things no roadmap could have shown her. Alice moves on, ready to be a wise teenager.
Author: J. Arlene Culiner Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc ISBN: 1509248544 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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Alice Treemont has no intention of falling in love. Living in Blake’s Folly, a semi-ghost town, she cooks vegetarian meals, rescues unwanted dogs, and protects the most unloved creatures on earth: snakes. What man would share those interests? Jace Constant is in Nevada, doing research for his new book, but he won’t be staying. He’s disgusted by desert dust on his fine Italian shoes and dog hair on his cashmere sweaters. As for snakes, he doesn’t just despise them: they terrify him. So why does the air sizzle each time Alice and Jace meet? A romance would entail far too many compromises.
Author: A.K. Albaari Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 145005286X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 101
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Claire Woods had the friends, the looks, and the status. She was at the top of the social ladder at Summit View High School. At Summit View, everyone respected the laws of High School Hierarchy. Claire and her entourage dominated the game for as long as anyone could remember. Claire truly had it all, or so she thought. Suddenly the tides shifted, changing Claire from top girl to public enemy number one. Her fall from grace stripped her of her friends, her status, and her identity. But then Alice Monroe moved into town. Alice was everything but socially acceptable at Summit View. She was eccentric, tough, and witty. Her style is something between scene and emo; all of which is the exact opposite of Claire. But through a peculiar sequence of events the two become very close. And Alice gives Claire a solution to all of her social problems: kill the competition. Anyone who crossed Claire or simply got in her way became fair game for the murderous duo. But as the bodies pile up Claire loses herself in all the carnage. As her conscious slowly returns she begins question Alices true motives. Is she simply trying to help a friend or is there something else Alice isnt telling her? When will the havoc become too much for Claire? With a rollercoaster ride of a story and with a twist that will leave you stunned . . . to say the least, Alice is a raw, gritty, and exciting tale of loyalty, death, morality, and the loss of innocence.
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