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Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A girl born a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed - or cursed - with the abilities to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by shapeshifting into a cloud. A girl reckons with the death of her father and her changing familial dynamics while slowly, mysteriously losing her physical senses. Infused with keen insight and presented in startling prose, the stories in this...
2) Mudflowers
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her mother's death, Sophie navigates a complicated dynamic between her oldest love, Alex, and newest love, Maggie. Dynamics unfold in surprising ways, leading Sophie back to her home in Newfoundland to reconcile her past and her future.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So beginsBessie.Drawing on biographical and historical sources,Bessiereimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Carnegie Wong's mother never approved of her son's marriage to an American, and when she arranges for a mainland Chinese nanny for Wong and Blondie's children, Blondie fears her mother-in-law had an ulterior motive--even from the grave.
Author
Series
Rosie Ferguson volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1998.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old tennis champion Rosie Ferguson, her mother Elizabeth, and her stepfather James, all struggle with their own heartbreaks along the road to becoming a united family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Persigo Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, raw from the death of his lover from AIDS, becomes involved with a young man who is murdered after spending the night with Rios. Rios becomes a suspect in the murder. In the process of clearing himself, he is drawn into the search for a serial killer who preys on young gay men in West Hollywood. He finds himself up against a homophobic cop, a hostile DA and a conspiracy that reaches into Hollywood's power elite....
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