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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After ten years, Jane's had enough of Edward Middleton. "You've let yourself go," she tells him. "So I'm letting you go too." Determined to get her back, Edward realizes he must learn how to make women want him again. But right now, he's the kind of man who puts the "ex" in "sexy." One thing is certain: if he's going to be Jane's Mr. Right, he needs to turn himself around. From Atkins to Waxing, Edward begins working his way through the makeover alphabet....
Author
Publisher
Lanternfish Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie" virus in sight, the young husbands begin to face the last months they have together before Lyle loses himself completely. Fond remembrances of young love meet the challenges of navigating a partner's terminal illness in this bittersweet tale that explores...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Wyatt falls asleep in 2020 as a 65-year-old man, only to wake up back in his life as a 15-year-old. After unsuccessful attempts to wake himself from what he can only perceive as a dream, he tries to figure out how he's going to find his way back to his life, and his family, in 2020. As his parents, his therapist, and others around him try to figuve out the change that came over Peter overnight, and what they see as his delusions, Peter tries...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men's rights protestors rage outside. All that once glittered now condemns. Sasha confides in...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with re-imagining the full story of the Learned Man--a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common. Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since she can remember, Aly has been fixing everything around her: her parents' marriage, her colleagues' work problems, and her friends' love lives. After a chance meeting with an ex who has gone from a living in his parents' basement to a married project manager in three years, she realizes she's been fixing her boyfriends, too... So, Aly decides to put her talents to good use and, alongside two work friends, sets up The Fixer Upper, an exclusive,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A cat culler in an Arizona trailer park community mulls his daily routine. An old mercenary explains the history of edible eel in New Zealand. A divorcé plays homewrecker across Finland and Russia while his worldly possessions sit in a full self-storage unit. The dark and stunning stories in Add This to the List of Things That You Are explore how we sustain relationships when everything goes sideways and how we find meaning when the old patterns...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street. We're All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend's wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn't technically his. But before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say good-bye...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives ... Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right. Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys"...
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Tyler es sexy, inteligente y seguro de sí mismo. Cabreado con el mundo, su carácter es impredecible. Los tatuajes de su cuerpo son el recuerdo constante de todo lo que ha perdido, de los errores que jamás podrá perdonarse y de los deseos que nunca logrará cumplir. Ha aprendido del peor modo posible que amar significa sufrir, y que el único modo de sobrevivir es regirse por sus propias reglas. Cassie es lista y divertida, un poco cínica, y...
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