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Author: john hart book title: the last child fresh off the success of his edgar® award-winning, new york times bestseller down river, john hart returns with his most powerful and intricately-plotted novel yet. thirteen year-old johnny merrimon had the perfect life: happy parents and a twin sister that meant the world to him. but alyssa went missing a year ago, stolen off the side of a lonely street with only one witness to the crime. his family shattered, his sister presumed dead, johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown in a last, desperate search. what he finds is a city with an underbelly far blacker than anyone could've imagined – and somewhere in the depths of it all, with the help of his only friend and a giant of a man with his own strange past, johnny, at last, finds the terrible truth. detective clyde hunt has devoted an entire year to alyssa's case, and it shows: haunted and sleepless, he's lost his wife and put his shield at risk. but he can't put the case behind him – he won't – and when another Girl Goes missing, the failures of the past year harden Into iron determination. refusing to lose another child, hunt knows he has to break the rules to make the case; and maybe, just maybe, the missing Girl will lead him to alyssa… the last child is a tale of boundaries: county borders and circles on a map, the hard edge between good and evil, life and death, hopelessness and faith. perfectly blending character and plot, emotion and action, john hart again transcends the barrier between thrillers and literature to craft a story as heartrending as it is redemptive..
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Author: shan sa book title: the Girl who played go “explosive… poignant and shattering… while [the] climax is inevitable and the stories lead directly toward it, a reader is still shocked and horrified when it occurs.” -the boston globe “shan sa creates a sense of foreboding that binds the parallel tales of her protagonists. her measured prose amplifies the isolation amid turmoil that each character seems to inhabit.” – san francisco chronicle “dreamy… powerful… this unlikely love story… is beautiful, shocking, and sad.” – entertainment weekly “compelling… emotionally charged chapters evoke the stop-and-start rhythms of adolescence… sa handles the intersection of the personal and the political quite deftly.” – the washington post book world “what makes sa’s novel so satisfying is the deceptive simplicity of her narrative strategy.” – san jose mercury news “an awesome read… shan sa describes the story so well that you almost forget you’ve never visited the places in her book… this book is truly for every reader.” -the decatur daily “entrancing… [with] an ending that you won’t predict.” – austin american-statesman “it has the sweep of war and the intimacy of a love story… shan sa is a phenomenon.” – the observer (london) “spellbinding… sa’s language is graceful and trancelike: her fights are a whirling choreography of flying limbs and snow, her emotions richly yet precisely expressed.” – the times (london) “one is struck by the economy of the tale, its speed, and the brutality of its calculations. there is never an excess word or a superfluous phrase: each paragraph counts… fine literary work.” – le figaro magazine (france) “an astonishing book… ends up taking one’s breath away… Goes straight to our hearts.” – le point (france) “gripping… a wrenching love story… [the protagonists’] shared sense of immediacy and the transience of life is what in the final analysis makes this novel so strong, so intelligent, so moving… you’ll have to look far and wide to find a better new novel on an east asian subject than this finely crafted story, satisfying as it is on so many different levels.” – the taipei times *** in a remote manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old Girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their japanese occupiers. while still a schoolgirl in braids, she takes her first lover, a dissident student. the more she understands of adult life, however, the more disdainful she is of its deceptions, and the more she loses herself in her one true passion: the ancient game of go. incredibly for a teenager-and a Girl at that-she dominates the games in her town. no opponent interests her until she is challenged by a stranger, who reveals himself to us as a japanese soldier in disguise. they begin a game and continue it for days, rarely speaking but deeply moved by each other's strategies. as the clash of their peoples becomes ever more desperate and inescapable, and as each one's untold life begins to veer wildly off course, the Girl and the soldier are absorbed by only one thing-the progress of their game, each move of which brings them closer to their shocking fate. in the Girl who played go, shan sa has distilled the piercing emotions of adolescence Into an engrossing, austerely beautiful story of love, cruelty and loss of innocence..
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Author: douglas coupland book title: girlfriend in a coma amazon.co.uk review in this latest novel from the poet laureate of gen x—who is himself now a dangerously mature 36—boy does indeed meet Girl. the year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "karen and i deflowered each other atop grouse mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. it was a december night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the moon—lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski wax, and karen's strawberry shampoo." are we in for an archetypal '80s romance, played out against a pop-cultural backdrop? nope. only hours after losing her virginity, karen loses consciousness as well—for almost two decades. the narrator and his circle soldier on, making the slow progression from debauched vancouver youths to semi-responsible adults. several end up working on a television series that bears a suspicious resemblance to the x-files (surely a self-referential wink on the author's part). and then … karen wakes up. her astonishment— which suggests a 20th-century, substance-abusing rip van winkle—dominates the second half of the novel, and gives coupland free reign to muse about time, identity, and the meaning (if any) of the impending millennium. alas, he also slaps a concluding apocalypse onto the novel. as sleeping sickness overwhelms the populace, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a universal yawn—which doesn't, fortunately, outweigh the sweetness, oddity, and ironic smarts of everything that has preceded it. —this text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. synopsis girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear — all served coupland-style. karen, an attractive, popular student, Goes Into a coma one night in 1979. whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, rip van winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all gone through all the normal marital, social and political traumas and back again…this tragicomedy shows coupland in his most mature form yet, writing with all his customary powers of acute observation, but turning his attention away from the surface of modern life to the dynamics of modern relationships, but doing so with all the sly wit and weird accuracy we expect of the soothsaying author of generation x, shampoo planet, life after god, microserfs and polaroids from the dead..
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Year: 2008 ripping tool: eac artist: lights comment: my name is lights. i'm a small Girl who dwells in toronto and makes music. most of what you hear comes out of my bedroom. when i write songs i think about how it makes people feel, and i hope that when it Goes Into your ears you feel happy too. not sexy happy but apple pie happy. when i do shows i suppose i would do everything myself if i were a squid, but i only have two arms. so, there are two lovely musicans that join me on stage named maurie and ad.
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Author: jenna black book title: glimmerglass publisher: st martin's year: 2010 isbn: 978-0-312-57593-9 it's all she's ever wanted to be, but it couldn't be further from her grasp... dana hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. when her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, dana decides she's had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in avalon: the only place on earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of faerie intersect. but from the moment dana sets foot in avalon, everything Goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage Girl — she's a faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic Into the human world and technology Into faerie. soon, dana finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of fae politics. someone's trying to kill her, and everyone seems to want something from her, from her newfound friends and family to ethan, the hot fae guy dana figures she'll never have a chance with... until she does. caught between two worlds, dana isn't sure where she'll ever fit in and who can be trusted, not to mention if her world will ever be normal again....
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Author: lois bujold book title: legacy publisher: harpercollins publishers year: 2007 isbn: 978-0-06-144851-5 fawn bluefield, the clever young farmer Girl, and dag redwing hickory, the seasoned lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, have been married all of two hours when they depart her family's farm for dag's home at hickory lake camp. having gained a hesitant acceptance from fawn's family for their unlikely marriage, the couple hopes to find a similar reception among dag's lakewalker kin. but their arrival is met with prejudice and suspicion, setting many in the camp against them, including dag's own mother and brother. a faction of hickory lake camp, denying the literal bond between dag and fawn, woven in blood in the lakewalker magical way, even Goes so far as to threaten permanent exile for dag. before their fate as a couple is decided, however, dag is called away by an unexpected—and viciously magical—malice attack on a neighboring hinterland threatening lakewalkers and farmers both. what his patrol discovers there will not only change dag and his new bride, but will call Into question the uneasy relationship between their peoples—and may even offer a glimmer of hope for a less divided future. filled with heroic deeds, wondrous magic, and rich, all-too-human characters, the sharing knife: legacy is at once a gripping adventure and a poignant romance from one of the most imaginative and thoughtful writers in fantasy today..
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Author: Говард Голдблатт book title: chairman mao would not be amused - fiction from today`s china [редактор Говард Голдблатт] from publishers weekly in contrast to the utopian official literature of communist china, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers Into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "the brothers shu," by su tong (raise the red lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named fragrant cedar street. that story's earthiness is matched by wang xiangfu's folksy "fritter hollow chronicles," about peasants' vendettas and local politics, and by "the cure," by mo yan (red sorghum; the garlic ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (li rui's "sham marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (chen cun's "footsteps on the roof"). comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "a string of choices," wang meng's tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in li xiao's "grass on the rooftop." editor goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors' biographies or elaborate on the collection's post-tiananmen context. he lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively. from library journal the 20 authors represented here range from wang meng, the former minister of culture, to su tong, whose raise the red lantern has been immortalized on screen. *** chinese literature has changed drastically in the past thirty years. during the cultural revolution (1966-1976) arts and literature of all sorts were virtually nonexistent since they were frowned upon by official powers so that attempts to produce any were apt to cause one’s public humiliation and possibly even death by the red guards and other unofficial arms of the government. after 1976, in the wake of mao’s death, literature slowly regained its importance in china, and by the mid-1980s dark, angry, satirical writings had become quite prominent on the mainland. in the wake of tiananmen square, dark literature faded somewhat, but never vanished. now howard goldblatt, a prominent translator of chinese fiction and editor of the critical magazine modern chinese literature, has compiled a representative collection of contemporary chinese fiction entitled chairman mao would not be amused. even with my limited knowledge of modern china i feel certain the title of the book is fairly accurate. mo yan is one of my favorite contemporary writers. his dark, no-holds-barred satires red sorghum and the garlic ballads detailed what he sees as the failings of both chinese peasants (of which he was born as one) and the chinese leaders. his short story "the cure" is in the same vein, detailing how a local government representative-probably self-appointed during the cultural revolution, although that is never made quite clear in the story-leads a lynching of the village’s two most prominent leaders and their wives. but, as in most mo yan stories, the bitterness directed at the lyncher is double-edged with the bitter look at a local peasant who sees the deaths of the two village leaders as a desperate chance to possibly rescue his mother from impending blindness. the story is coldly realistic and totally chilling in the rational way it treats the series of events. su tong is the author of the novella "raise the red lantern", the basis of the wonderful movie. his "the brothers shu" is a bitter look at some traditional character weaknesses of chinese people, and particularly how they affect family life. the shu family is incredibly dysfunctional. the father nightly climbs up the side of his two-family house to have sex with the woman upstairs until her husband bolts her windows shut. so the woman sneaks downstairs to have sex in the younger son’s bedroom while the son is tied to his bed, gagged and blindfolded. meanwhile the elder son abuses the Girl upstairs until she falls in love with him. when she becomes pregnant, they are both so shamed they form a suicide pact, tie themselves together and jump Into a river, where the boy is rescued in time but the Girl dies. the younger son so hates his older brother-somewhat deservedly considering the abuse heaped on him by the brother-that he pours gasoline through his bedroom and sets it ablaze. and so on, complete with beatings and torments worthy of the most dysfunctional american families. while not a particularly likeable cast of characters, the story is strong and thoughtful. perhaps the most moving part about "first person", by shi tiesheng is in the brief author description in the back of the book. shi is described as “crippled during the cultural revolution”. so many lives were needlessly destroyed during that tumultuous decade, it is easy to feel that the arrest and subsequent conviction of the notorious gang of four was not nearly sufficient punishment for them. "first person" tells the story of a man with a heart condition-shi frequently writes about the lives of handicapped people, according to his description-who is visiting his new 21st floor apartment for the first time. while climbing the stairs very slowly, taking frequent rests, he notices a cemetery separated from the apartment building by a huge wall. on one side of the wall is sitting a woman, while on the other side stands a man. as the man climbs the stairs he fantasizes about why the couple are there, and why they are separated by the wall. perhaps the man is having an affair, and the wife is spying on him as he rendezvous with his lover? but then the man notices a baby lying on a gravesite, being watched from a distance by the man, and he realizes that the couple is abandoning the child. an interesting story about the fanciful delusions a person can have, but with no real depth beyond that. two stories involve fear of dentists in completely different ways. wang meng’s "a string of choices" is a very funny story that combines a bitter look at both eastern and western medicine with perhaps the most extreme case of fear of dentists imaginable. chen ran’s "sunshine between the lips" tells of a young Girl whose adult male friend exposes himself to her. if that were not traumatic enough, after he is arrested for exposing himself to a complete stranger, he sets his apartment on fire and dies a brutal death. this event, combined with a near-fatal bout of meningitis, creates in the Girl a deep fear of phallic objects such as needles and penises. so imagine her trauma when she develops impacted wisdom teeth at the same time as she gets married. while this description might sound a bit ludicrous, this story is very serious and very well-executed. a strong satire on how history can be rewritten to suit the writers’ needs is li xiao’s "grass on the rooftop". when a peasant’s hut Goes on fire, he is rescued by a local student. the rescue is written up for an elementary school newspaper by a local child, but the story is picked up by other papers, changing radically with each reprinting until the rescuing student becomes a great hero of the maoist revolution because of his supposed attempt to rescue a nonexistent portrait of mao on the wall of the hut. while this story is uniquely chinese in many ways, it resonates in all societies in which pride and agenda is often more important than the truth. anybody interested in a look at contemporary chinese society should enjoy this collection immensely..
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Author: timothy hallinan book title: breathing water: a bangkok thriller behind every great fortune is a great crime… for american ex-pat writer poke rafferty, a late-night poker game delivers an unexpected prize: an "opportunity" to write the biography of khun pan, a flamboyant, vulgar, self-made billionaire with a criminal past and far-reaching political ambitions. the win seems like a stroke of luck, but as with so many things in vibrant, seductive, contradictory bangkok – a city of innocence and evil, power and poverty – the allure of appearances masks something much darker. within a few hours of folding his cards, rafferty, his wife, rose, beloved adopted daughter, miaow, and best friend, arthit, an honest bangkok cop, have become pawns in a political struggle among some of thailand 's richest, most powerful, and most ruthless people. a hero to the poor and dispossessed, pan is like a bone in the throats of the beautiful, sophisticated "good" people who own and control every facet of thailand and want more. there are many who would prefer that a book, especially a sympathetic book, stay unwritten. and there are others who want to expose pan's darker secrets, information useful in a preemptive strike against this profligate billionaire who can threaten their hold on power – a situation they will go to murderous lengths to prevent. damned if he does, damned if he doesn't, rafferty is breathing water and sinking deeper in a sea of intrigue with each passing hour. the trouble multiplies when a missing young street friend of miaow's reappears, needing rafferty's help to protect an innocent village Girl trapped in a baby-selling ring. pushed ever closer to the abyss, rafferty has one chance to get them all out alive. but to succeed, this foreigner must do the impossible – keep a cool thai heart. set in the thailand of today's headlines – a nation of unrest, political uncertainty, corruption, and tradition, where the future looks dangerously precarious – breathing water is the story of a deadly game in which the stakes are enormous and life is literally cheap. the most compelling poke rafferty thriller yet, it is a journey that Goes beyond the illusion of order and stability Into a world where a wrong turn can lead to chaos, and where love and courage may not be enough to hold back the darkness..
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Author: michele martinez book title: the finishing school michele martinez, author of the critically acclaimed most wanted, which usa today called "a breakout," brings back savvy, sexy federal prosecutor melanie vargas in a new case that pits her against a very clever, very scary killer in a glittering penthouse high above park avenue, two beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive manhattan girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances. feeling pressure from the top to solve the high-profile case fast, melanie breaks all the rules and Goes undercover. teamed with dan o'reilly, a hard-to-resist fbi agent with a talent for making her pulse race, melanie embarks on a wild chase from the rarefied world of new york 's elite private schools to the darkest recesses of the city's nightlife. and, ultimately, Into a fight for her life against a devious killer who has no intention of getting caught..
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Author: andrei makine book title: a hero's daughter early works of an author who has hit the big-time are often reissued for reasons more venal than literary. none of the pre- and post- publications of tracy chevalier come anywhere near the standard of the Girl with the pearl earring, but that didn't stop them being rushed Into instant print once best-sellerdom was declared and the film came out. andrei makine gained international recognition only when his fourth novel, le testament francais, won two prestigious prizes. famously, the refugee from the soviet union who wrote in french hadn't been able to get his first novel published until he pretended it was translated from "the original russian" by the mythical "francoise bour". it's a cute story, but why has that one, a hero's daughter, suddenly come out in english 14 years after publication? are the translator and/or publishers jumping on a bandwagon in the light of later prizes awarded to them both? at 163 elegant pages, and featuring only two central characters – that is, "without the bewildering patronymics or the excessive length" of most russian novels (a grab on the back cover) – a hero's daughter lightly realises huge moments in recent russian history. starting with the atrocious encounters between germany and russia in world war ii, when existence was a frozen trench and the lads are kept going with vodka and blind loyalty ("for stalin's sake it all made sense…"), it skips over 40 pretty good years to bring the eponymous hero Into the '80s, the era of gorbachev and perestroika. life starts changing in ways incomprehensible to an old soldier, if 53 can be called old. ivan feels old because he is a veteran, and because, by great good luck, he was made a hero of the soviet union for simply surviving the battle of stalingrad. the real act of heroism that he did commit, no one ever saw. but ivan has a precious gold star to prove the benevolent idiocy of the authorities, and he will never sell it, not even to numb his misery with vodka after his wife dies in their backwoods village, when life holds nothing for him. well, not nothing. although their son died, ivan and tatyana had a daughter, olya, a model child who studied hard and went away to moscow to become a translator. by now, western snouts are poking greedily Into russian troughs and there is plenty of work for a Girl who knows a language or two. and who is prepared to go the extra mile – the businessmen staying in the huge hotels expect more than mere translation. the valuta they pay for services rendered means that olya can shop at the beriozki shops for luxury goods only available in western currency. deep down she doesn't approve of this lifestyle, although perhaps it is justified by the small-time espionage she can engage in while her drugged clients are snoring. it all makes sense for the new russia's sake. though it would kill her father if he were to find out. she'd drop it all anyway, the moment she found a nice boy to marry. while olya is ambivalent about her compromises, ivan gets some real shocks. for the first time he is no longer trotted out to speak to local schoolchildren about his role in the great battle; and in moscow one of his old mates spills the beans on what translators really do. ivan gets drunk and Goes berserk. the damage he does in a beriozka becomes a radio news item, and grounds for olya's rich russian "fiance" to give her the flick, even though she's just survived an abortion with complications. all she wants to do is to shuck off her sordid life and take her father back to the village, where she can look after them both. unfortunately, he dies suddenly of a heart attack. olya sleeps with a man one last time, in order to raise the money for the coffin – flogging the gold star doesn't do it. the stories of ivan and olya are truly tough, but strangely uplifting. life in the soviet union was never easy, and whatever benefits rampant capitalism might be about to provide lie outside the novel's time-frame. meanwhile, the penury, shortages and brutal hardship that drive ordinary citizens to alcoholism and prostitution are countered by some kind of irreducible humanity. olya emerges as an innately good Girl who will one day find her proper level; ivan is moved by an untutored morality based on vague but sound instincts. their friends are all pals to them and to each other. the human face of soviet society may have been covered with warts, but virtue of a sort shone out of it, as it also does from this deceptively slight, excellently translated, and deeply involving first novel..
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Author: tim lebbon book title: berserk publisher: dorchester publishing co., inc. year: 2006 isbn: 0-8439-5430-2 those who go for cold, queasy horror will embrace the latest shocker from stoker-winner lebbon (fears unnamed). when a dangerous military experiment on england's salisbury plain Goes fatally awry, the authorities hastily and secretly bury the bodies of a dozen soldiers and a few other victims. the body of one soldier, steven, is supposedly returned to his parents, but the coffin is empty. ten years later, steven's still grieving father, tom, locates the place of burial. but when tom excavates the site, he discovers not his son's remains but the moldering corpse of a little Girl animated by a peculiar form of life. lots more nastiness follows. fans who prefer their horror to have a sense of humanity should look elsewhere. the dead thing slithered toward him as he pulled, connected to the first headless body by the thick metal chain, and then another, smaller corpse followed it up. tom stood and backed away, only partially realising that he still had a hold of the first body's mummified legs. he was about to drop the legs, back away, run away, when he saw that the chain was wrapped around another corpse. this one still seemed to have its head attached. he pulled again and it popped free of the ground, wet and filthy and yet obviously whole. it was chained to the three headless corpses, the metal wrapped around its chest, under its armpits and between its legs, thoroughly entangled. tom faltered only for a second before moving slowly down Into the pit again. the first skull stared at him as he reached over the two adult bodies, grabbed the child's skeleton and pulled it across to himself. the child was as light as a pillow, its body seemingly whole and yet dried out and desiccated. the only thing that gave it weight was the chain. tom placed the corpse gently between the headless adults, clasped the chain and pulled. he lifted, grunting with the effort, tears and sweat blurring his vision as he tried to make out what was wrong with this thing's head, why it was shaped like that, why it was turning.... and then the tiny corpse reached out and grabbed tom's arm..
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Author: cormac mccarthy book title: all the pretty horses in all the pretty horses, cormac mccarthy begins his border trilogy with a coming of age tale that is a departure from the bizarre richness and mysterious violence of his early novels, yet in many ways preserves the mystery and the richness in a more understated form. like blood meridian, this novel follows a young man's journey to the regions of the unknown. john grady cole, more heroic than the protagonists of mccarthy's earlier novels, confronts the evil that is an inescapable part of the universe as well as the evil that grows out of his own ignorance and pride. his story is told in a style often restrained and simple, embedded with lyrical passages that echo his dreams and memory. in the spring of 1948 on a small texas ranch, sixteen year old john grady cole attends the funeral of his grandfather, with whom he has lived since his parents' separation. the grandfather's ranch has been left to john grady's mother, a small-time actress who has no interest in it and will sell it. john grady's father, psychologically damaged by world war ii and now physically ill as well, tells his son goodbye. with no apparent future in texas, and sensing the threat of the new era to the traditional life he values, john grady urges his old friend rawlins to accompany him to mexico. there, john grady will find that his innocence, or ignorance, will ultimately lead him close to destruction. before reaching the border they meet jimmy blevins, a dangerous young boy on a magnificent horse. even though cole and rawlins do not trust blevins and are sure his horse is stolen, they allow him to join them despite their doubts. as they ride Into mexico, they realize that they are no longer in a world that they can understand. when blevins' clothes and horse disappear during a thunderstorm, they search a nearby mexican town, where they find the clothes and finally the horse. in spite of rawlins' voiced forebodings, blevins steals the horse back, and as john grady and rawlins flee the town blevins gallops past them, pursued by armed men. john grady and rawlins ride south, coming at last to a ranch, the hacienda de nuestra senora de la purisima conception. as they talk with the vaqueros about the possibility of employment, john grady sees a beautiful Girl on a black horse, alejandra, the daughter of hacendado don hector rocha y villareal. the heir of an aristocratic family, don hector is avidly interested in breeding wild mountain horses with his own stock, so john grady and rawlins join the vaqueros; john grady amazes everyone with his ability to break the wild horses quickly and gently. when don hector questions cole about his past, he omits the episode with blevins and the fact that he and rawlins may now be wanted as accomplices in blevins's horse theft. concerned about his blossoming relationship with alejandra, duena alfonsa, don hector's aunt and alejandra's godmother, warns john grady away from the rebellious Girl, and informs him that don hector will never allow her to marry an american, especially a poor one. but alejandra comes to him one night and they become lovers. a few days later john grady and rawlins are arrested and taken to a jail in encantada, where blevins is already imprisoned for the murder of three men. while the three americans are transported to the state prison at saltillo, blevins is taken from the group and shot. at the prison, they are questioned and beaten, and rawlins is injured seriously. john grady, attacked by another prisoner, whom he must kill, learns that evil exists not only in the world but in himself. when he and rawlins are suddenly released as mysteriously as they were arrested, rawlins returns to texas. but john grady Goes back to la purisima to search for alejandra, who is not there. once again duena alfonsa makes clear to him the impossibility of the match. she tells her own story of the power of ignorance and evil (her love for a man who was killed by a mob after helping depose the dictator diaz) and of her determination to protect alejandra. although john grady does meet alejandra one last time at a hotel in zacatecas, it is only as a farewell: she chooses her family's approval (and perhaps their money). in pain, cole returns to encantada where he finds blevins's horse, innocent like all animals and yet the cause of much death and loss. john grady captures both the horse and the brutal police captain who shot blevins, and heads homeward. en route, the captain is seized by brigands with a score to settle with him, and john grady finally returns to texas. he finds even less there than before: his father and his childhood nurse are both dead. he rides on with the stolen horse, seeking to restore it to its rightful owner. john grady has learned, but not yet enough; he has left home and returned a changed man, but there is no home to receive him. all the pretty horses is a hero's quest without a neat resolution, a book in which the strange light of mythic struggles shines through the quick-paced adventure. the border trilogy continues with volume two, the crossing, and concludes with the third volume, cities of the plain..
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Author: tana french book title: the likeness the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the new york times bestselling psychological thriller in the woods six months after the events of in the woods, detective cassie maddox is still trying to recover. she?s transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with detective sam o?neill, but she?s too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. then sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside dublin. the dead girl?s id says her name is lexie madison?the identity cassie used years ago as an undercover detective?and she looks exactly like cassie. with no leads, no suspects, and no clue to lexie?s real identity, cassie?s old undercover boss, frank mackey, spots the opportunity of a lifetime. they can say that the stab wound wasn?t fatal and send cassie undercover in her place to find out information that the police never would and to tempt the killer out of hiding. at first cassie thinks the idea is crazy, but she is seduced by the prospect of working on a murder investigation again and by the idea of assuming the victim?s identity as a graduate student with a cozy group of friends. as she is drawn Into lexie?s world, cassie realizes that the girl?s secrets run deeper than anyone imagined. her friends are becoming suspicious, sam has discovered a generations-old feud involving the old house the students live in, and frank is starting to suspect that cassie?s growing emotional involvement could put the whole investigation at risk. another gripping psychological thriller featuring the headstrong protagonist we?ve come to love, from an author who has proven that she can deliver. *** tana french's second novel, the likeness, is a suspenseful and extremely enjoyable read. like her first (Into the woods), it is set in and around dublin, ireland. the story entails an investigation of a homicide (it is a mystery, after all), but it also has something more: an inquiry Into the nature of human selfhood. cassie maddox used to be a detective on the murder squad but transferred to domestic violence (dv) about six months ago. murder investigation is not the only thing she's left behind; she also spent time as an undercover agent. in her mid-twenties at the time, she was young enough to pass for a college student and had spent nine months posing as an undergraduate named lexie madison, investigating a drug ring. unfortunately, cassie's career as lexie came to an abrupt end when she was stabbed. cassie is getting ready to head to dv one day when she gets a call from her boyfriend sam, who still works in murder. could she come to a crime scene, right away? puzzled, cassie Goes to an abandoned two-room house in the rural town of glenskehy, where a body was found. frank mackey, with whom she had worked on the undercover case, is there as well. cassie is startled by what she finds: the victim could have been her twin sister. what's worse, the girl's id says her name is lexie madison. here is a mystery twice over: who killed this Girl, and who is she, really? lexie madison never existed except as an undercover front. whoever the Girl was, she had constructed a life for herself as lexie, a graduate student in english. with four fellow students, she shared the "big house" in town (a mansion that one of the students inherited), and judging from the videos found on her phone, they were as thick as thieves. brought in for questioning, the four say they were together the night lexie died and hadn't left the house. lexie had gone on her customary nightly walk and simply never returned. stymied in the investigation, frank convinces first sam and then cassie that the only way to find out what happened is to send cassie undercover as lexie. it is a once-in-a-career opportunity for undercover work but very dangerous. frank concocts a story that lexie survived the stabbing and, now recovered from being in a coma, is returning home. they drop her off at the house, with the four friends waiting, and the perilous charade begins. cassie must work to find out what happened without giving herself away by the things she doesn't know..
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Author: lisa see book title: the interior the interior, lisa see's gripping follow-up to her best-selling novel flower net, follows liu hulan and david stark Into china 's remote countryside on a heart-pounding journey that begins as a favor to an old friend- and ends with a shocking revelation of murder, betrayal, and greed. after a hit and run accident that leaves a close friend dead, david accepts the job opportunity of a lifetime when he's asked to open a law office for phillips, mackenzie stout in hulan's home city of beijing. meanwhile, hulan has received an urgent message from an old friend imploring her to investigate the suspicious death of her daughter. the scent of trouble wafts up almost immediately as david and hulan realize their separate cases have a surprising element in common: the dead Girl worked for knight international, the toy company about to be sold to david's new biggest client, tartan enterprises. in spite of david's protests, hulan Goes undercover, transforming herself from red princess to peasant Girl, to gain entry Into the knight factory compound. once inside, rather than finding answers to the girl's death, hulan unearths more questions, all of which point to possible crimes committed by david's client- ranging from corruption to child labor to unsafe manufacturing practices to far worse. suddenly hulan and david find themselves on opposite corners: one of them is trying to expose a company and unearth a killer, while the other is ethically bound to protect his client. their independent activities collide when a female worker, who gets seriously wounded on the factory floor where hulan is working, later winds up dead- her body discovered close to where david is finalizing the details of the merger with knight and tartan executives. as the body count rises, the "accidents" and "suicides" begin to look more and more like cold-blooded murders, with the possible suspects ranging from an old peasant farmer to a popular government official to the genius inventor behind knight international's wildly popular action figure toys. hulan's trip Into the countryside to help piece together clues about her friend's daughter's life brings her back to the past she's long been running from- and forces her to face some ugly truths about herself. at the same time, david sees that his deep desire to overlook the truth- about hulan's feelings concerning his move to beijing, about his colleague's death, about his new client's activities- could possibly cost him everything, both professionally and personally. deftly weaving her plot from the affluent streets of los angeles to the teeming city of beijing to the primitive culture of china's country villages, lisa see reveals the striking contrast between eastern tradition and western beliefs, the privilege and betrayal of the ruling class, the poverty and desperation of peasant life, and the pull of professional duty and the power of "true heart love." an enthralling story that keeps you guessing until the end, the interior takes readers deep Into the heart of china to reveal universal truths about good and evil, right and wrong- and the sometimes subtle lines that distinguish them. *** "lisa see is one of the classier practitioners of that ready-for-hollywood genre, the international thrillerÖ she draws her characters (especially her chinese heroine, liu hulan) with convincing depth, and offers up documentary social detail that reeks of freshly raked muckÖ seeís china is as vivid as upton sinclairís chicago." the new york times "[seeís] true ambition is not simply to entertain (which she does) but to illuminate the exotic society that is contemporary china, and to explore the consequences ‚ present and future ‚ of its growing partnership with the united statesÖ see paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures." the san diego union tribune "sophisticatedÖ.seeís writing is more graceful than is common in the genre, and she still has china passionately observed." the los angeles times "the interior is packed with well-researched and nuanced reporting on todayís chinaÖhulan is an insightful guide to both chinese corruption and those who resist it." washington post "immediate, haunting and exquisitely rendered, a fine line drawing of the sights and smells of the road overseas." san francisco chronicle "[an] unflinching portrait [of] modern-day china." booklist "the novel eschews any cheap exoticism to plunge the reader Into the puzzle that is china today as seen through the eyes of outsiders. a unique read, whose credible protagonists make this a thriller with a heart." the saturday review "a cracking good story." the good book guide "the strength of seeís work here is her detailed and intimate knowledge of contemporary china, its mores, its peculiar mixture of the traditional and the contemporary, and its often bedeviled relationships with the u.s. " publishers weekly "a must-read for those looking for foreign intrigue." rocky mountain news "a well-written book with a complex plotÖshines a harsh and revealing light on the modern-day chinese interior and on beijing, the real china beneath the postcard imagesÖshe explores themes of old china and new china, and how the more things change the more they remain the same. she illuminates tradition and change, western and eastern cultural differences, and the real politics behind the system. all this in the middle of her thriller which is also about greed, corruption, abuse of the disadvantaged, the desperation of those on the bottom of the food chain, and love." nashville tennessean "a unique readÖa thriller with a heart." the guardian.
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Author: lisa scottoline book title: lady killer from publishers weekly philadelphia attorney mary dinunzio, last seen in killer smile (2004), agrees to help her high school nemesis, trish gambone, at the start of this less than convincing thriller from bestseller scottoline. trish, whom mary used to regard as the quintessential mean Girl, has turned in desperation to the lawyer, the all-around most likely to achieve sainthood at st. maria goretti high school, because she wants to escape from her abusive, and possibly mafia-connected boyfriend, bobby mancuso. trish rejects mary's practical suggestions for dealing with bobby, but once trish disappears, mary finds herself under pressure from other high school classmates as well as people from her old neighborhood who blame her for not doing enough. mary unwisely hides a connection with bobby from the feds, who then shut her out of the search for trish when they learn of it. scottoline fans will cheer mary as she stumbles toward the solution, but others may have trouble suspending disbelief. from the washington post most mysteries have at least two plots: the murder or heist or conspiracy that gets things going, and the quest for a solution. merging these two lines of action isn't always easy, and bad mystery-writing is often marred by coincidences that strain credulity. in lady killer, lisa scottoline finesses this problem by setting her tale in italian-american south philadelphia, where her protagonist, mary dinunzio, grew up and where the victims and suspects still live. if someone pops up at a convenient moment, the reader doesn't wince: everybody knows everybody else in this tightly knit neighborhood. mary herself is one of the nabe's success stories: a lawyer who represents injured and wronged parties from families just like her own. she may be a bit chary of standing up for herself (as her best friend at the firm points out, mary is enough of a rainmaker to deserve a partnership, but she can't seem to persuade the boss of her worth). in the courtroom, however, she's a tiger. having come a long way (figuratively) from south philly, mary is not pleased when the mean girls stop by her office: first trish gambone and later her acolytes, giulia, missy and yolanda, all of whom made life hard for nerds like mary in their years together at st. maria goretti high. they're the ones who dated the big men on campus and mocked the kids who studied and took part in square activities like debate and student journalism, but they're now stuck in low-paying jobs and still wearing the miniskirts and excess makeup of their youth, while mary flourishes. even so, seeing them makes mary wonder if she is "the only person who had post-traumatic stress syndrome – from high school." trish drops in on mary to plead for help in dealing with bobby, one of those former big men, now trish's boyfriend. except he has grown up to be a mobster who's in the habit of belting trish when he gets angry and jealous; he does it craftily, though, giving her blows to the body rather than the face so that she's not a walking billboard for his brutality. trish is scared that bobby will carry out his recent threats to kill her, and mary recommends going to court for a restraining order. trish vetoes that idea because bobby has been skimming money from his drug deals, and the notoriety of a court appearance could lead to his being whacked. when mary can't think of any other solution, trish walks out of her office in despair. shortly afterward, she Goes missing, and the other mean girls blame mary for stiffing their friend in her time of need. to make things right, mary neglects her law practice while chasing leads all over south philly and beyond. in the meantime, mary is getting to know anthony, a handsome bachelor whose only drawback is that he's gay. this leads to some good quips: "mary had been on so many blind dates that it was a pleasure to be with a man who had a medical excuse for not being attracted to her." but then new information develops. as mary and anthony find themselves having more and more fun together, only the dimmest reader will fail to guess that anthony's gayness, like mark twain's reported death, is greatly exaggerated. scottoline brings her characters to vivid life, the two strands of her plot mesh seamlessly, and her sharp sense of humor makes an appearance on almost every page. about the only ingredient missing from her book, however, is a crucial one: suspense. it's a given, of course, that the protagonist/detective will survive in the end, but mary never runs Into any appreciable danger, and her creator fails to impart a sense of menace to the lives of any other characters. lady killer ends up being funny and stylish, but almost as cozy as an agatha christie novel. that's a hell of a complaint to have to make about a tale of the south philly mob..
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Author: allison brennan book title: fear no evil in cyberspace, no one can hear you scream. instead of preparing for her high school graduation, lucy kincaid is facing a vicious execution. lured by an online predator, she’s destined to die horribly-live on the internet-while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote on the method of her slaughter. her family’s only hope rests with kate donovan, an fbi agent who took on the same sadistic killer once before… and lost. blamed for another girl’s gruesome murder, kate’s been fighting to clear her name. but she agrees to join the hunt for lucy-and reluctantly steps back Into her worst nightmare. with time running out before the bloody webcast airs, kate teams up with forensic psychiatrist dillon kincaid to get inside the head of her twisted quarry, zero in on his chamber of horrors, and reach lucy before grim history repeats itself and another innocent’s brutal death Goes hideously live. face the fear. speak its name. see its face..
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Author: annie wang book title: the people’s republic of desire those who know little to nothing about chinese culture will receive an eye-opening experience of how china was and how china is now through annie wang’s novel the people’s republic of desire. wang takes readers on a journey with four cosmopolitan women learning to live life in the new china. niuniu, the book’s narrator, is a chinese american woman, who spent seven years living in the states obtaining her degree in journalism. in the book, niuniu is now considered a “returnee” when she Goes back to china to get over a broken heart. what she meets upon return to her homeland is not the traditional confucian values she left, but a new modern china where western culture seems to have taken over – to an extreme. niuniu, the narrator of the book, is called a “jia yangguiz” which means a “fake foreign devil” because of her westernized values. her friend beibei is the owner of her own entertainment company and is married to a man who cheats, so beibei deals with his infidelity by finding her own young lovers. lulu is a fashion magazine editor who has been having a long-term affair with a married man, and thinks nothing of having several abortions to show her devotion to him. cc, also a returnee, struggles with her identity between chinese and english. in the people’s republic of desire the days of the 1989 idealism and the tiananamen sqaure protests seem forgotten to this new world when making a fast yuan, looking younger, more beautiful, and acting important seems to be of the most concern to this generation. wang uses these four woman to make humorous and sometimes sarcastic observations of the new china and accurately describes how western culture has not only infiltrated china, but is taken to the extreme by those who have experienced a world outside the confucian values. what was once a china consumed with political passions, nepotism, unspoken occurrences, and taboos is now a world filled with all those things once discouraged – sex, divorce, pornography, and desire for material goods. it’s taken the phrase “keeping up with the joneses” to an all-time high. wang offers a glimpse of modern day beijing and what it would take for any woman – returnee or otherwise – to move forward and conquer dilemmas in the fast-moving chinese culture. the characters joke that “nowadays, the world is for bad girls” and all the values of their youth have been lost to this new modern generation of faking their identity, origin, and accent. it seems that such a cultural shock would be displeasing to those who knew the old china, but instead these young women seem to be enjoying the newfound liberties. if you’re looking for a quick read with a plot, you won’t find it in the people’s republic of desire. each of the 101 chapters read like individual short stories, separate stories about friends, family, and other individuals who niuniu is acquainted with or meets and through which wang weaves a humorous and often sarcastic trip Into beijing, china. the book is filled with topics of family, friends, internet dating, infidelity, rich, poor, and many of the same ideals most cultures worry themselves about. many of the chapters end with popular phrases that give the reader an insight Into chinese culture and language. wang does seem to use niuniu’s journalistic background to intertwine the other characters and come to a somewhat significant conclusion. as the press release states, “wang paints an arresting portrait of a generation suffocating in desire. for love. for success. for security. for self actualization. and for the most elusive aspiration of all: happiness.” with the people’s republic of desire, wang does just that. she speaks not only of the new culture but also of the old ways and how china used to be. she may have educated readers about the new china with her knowledge of the western and chinese culture, but also wang hits the nail on the head when it comes to showing most people’s needs. after all, aren’t most human beings striving for many of these same elusive dreams? joanne d. kiggins *** from publishers weekly as wang reveals in intimate detail, today's affluent beijing women – educated, ambitious, coddled only children enamored of all things western – are a generation unto themselves. the hyperobservant narrator of this fascinating novel (after lili: a novel of tiananmen) is 20-something niuniu, a journalist who was born in the united states but grew up in china and returned to america for college and graduate school. now she's back in beijing nursing a broken heart and discovering "what it means to be chinese" in a money- and status-obsessed city altered by economic and sexual liberalization. supporting niuniu – and downing a few drinks with her – are her best buddies: entrepreneurial entertainment agent beibei, sexy fashion mag editor lulu and oxford-educated cc. sounds like the cast of sex in the forbidden city, but the thick cultural descriptions distinguish the novel from commercial women's fiction. a nonnative english speaker, wang observes gender politics among the nouveau riche in careful, reportorial prose. though niuniu's romantic backstory forms a tenuous thread between the chapters, and the novel – based on wang's newspaper column of the same title – doesn't finally hold together, this is a trenchant, readable account of a society in flux..
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Overdrive mediamarkers: chapter 100:00.000 artist: (c) 2005 by johansen publishing lllp comment: for eight years, single mother grace archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of tallanville, alabama. watching frankie grow Into a talented and confident young Girl has made grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. happy enough, even, to forget the past. but the past never quite goe.
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Overdrive mediamarkers: "from the studios of books in motion in spokane, washington..."00:00.000 artist: rusty nelson comment: flap tucker, a zen private eye with a knack for finding missing things, Goes to the eerie town of lost pines to help find a young Girl that has gone missing. he soon discovers that this isn't the first little Girl to vanish Into the appalacian backwoods. 50 years ago another young Girl disappeared & was never found. th.
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Overdrive mediamarkers: "from the studios of books in motion in spokane, washington..."00:00.000 artist: rusty nelson comment: flap tucker, a zen private eye with a knack for finding missing things, Goes to the eerie town of lost pines to help find a young Girl that has gone missing. he soon discovers that this isn't the first little Girl to vanish Into the appalacian backwoods. 50 years ago another young Girl disappeared & was never found. th.
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