Author: E. B. Alston
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 0974773557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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An eclectic and witty collection of short stories including a story about how an ordinary bridge game in a small south Texas town turns dramatic over the value of an emerald necklace.
Author: Amy Tector
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1684427592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best First Novel “Debut novelist Tector captures European life and her characters beautifully as she interweaves the perspectives of four women seeking fulfillment and success in this satisfying adventure. Keep an eye on this author.” —Booklist Alice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald necklace while interning at a struggling Parisian magazine, she is plunged into a glittering world of diamonds and emeralds, courtesans and spies, and the long-buried secrets surrounding the necklace and its glamorous former owners. When Alice realizes the mysterious Honeybee Emeralds could be her chance to save the magazine, she recruits her friends Lily and Daphne to form the “Fellowship of the Necklace.” Together, they set out to uncover the romantic history of the gems. Through diaries, letters, and investigations through the winding streets and iconic historic landmarks of Paris, the trio begins to unravel more than just the secrets of the necklace’s obsolete past. Along the way, Lily and Daphne’s relationships are challenged, tempered, and changed. Lily faces her long-standing attraction to a friend, who has achieved the writing success that eluded her. Daphne confronts her failing relationship with her husband, while also facing simmering problems in her friendship with Lily. And, at last, Alice finds her place in the world―although one mystery still remains: how did the Honeybee Emeralds go from the neck of American singer Josephine Baker during the Roaring Twenties to the basement of a Parisian magazine?
Author: The Writers Discussion Group
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 1934936669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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An eclectic variety of stories, articles, travelogues, commentary, life stories and poetry by 25 talented writers. This is the fifth book by The Writers¿ Discussion Group of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Author: Linda Rosen
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN: 1685131905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Three months after her husband's death in 1969, rosalee linoff is determined to jump back into life. For her, that means returning to her art. She deserately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again - and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, best-selling author Fran Barish. Fran has the recognition Rosalee craves. But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret - and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace. As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality - which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran. When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?
Author: Osama Alomar
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Wonderful short stories that sharpen awareness, from a brilliantly gifted Syrian refugee Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind’s creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate new realities and make us see our reality anew. Reading Alomar’s sly moral fables and sharp political allegories, the reader always sits up a little straighter, and a little wiser. Here is the title story: Some of the teeth of the comb were envious of the class differences that exist between humans. They strived desperately to increase their height, and, when they succeeded, began to look with disdain on their colleagues below. After a little while the comb’s owner felt a desire to comb his hair. But when he found the comb in this state he threw it in the garbage.
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780334648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
Author: E. B. Alston
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 0979620929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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You know women like these. They are strong women, who have what it takes to deal with life altering circumstances. Sometimes they have choices about what to do but other times, they have no other option. In Twilight for the Gods, Christina de La Rocha has risen from the impoverished slums of her small South American country to a position as personal confidant to the president. She has been working to change the political process in ways that benefit the poor and downtrodden in her country. Her crisis comes just when success seems to be within her grasp. She proves that ultimate courage is not the exclusive domain of men. In Colonial Justice fifteen-year-old Abigail Wagstaff must defy her violent Calvinist father to save the life of the man she loves.In Nowhere to Run, Lynn Pierce faces the kidnapping of one of her sons. How she turns the tables on the kidnappers is the stuff of legend. In A High Plains Christmas, Sarah Fitzgerald Montgomery is a refugee from a defeated Confederacy. The daughter of a wealthy planter, she grew up in aristocratic circumstances. But her way of life turns to dust after the defeat of the South. In 1866 she and her war-wounded husband moved west to Kansas to start over in a new place away from the ravages of war. When her husband dies from his wounds four months after their first child is born, Sarah is alone in snow-covered Kansas with a tiny baby to care for. But she is not a woman who will give up her dream.
Author: E. B. Alston
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 1934936448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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This is the eighth book of a nine-book series Hammer and his friends¿ opponents are a shadowy group who call themselves The Four Horsemen and their mission is nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization.
Author: Linda Rosen
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN: 1684336708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Housewife and mother with a loving husband to take care of her - that's all Liz, a Fifties gal, ever wanted. Over her father's objections, she drops out of college to marry Rick, who dreams of living off the land. They buy a farm on a verdant hillside in the Hudson Valley, but can't agree on what to plant. When they discover French-American hybrid grapes, Liz is confident they'll be happy. Grapes are classy. As the rich soil sinks into her soul and the vines begin to thrive, the marriage grows rocky. Refusing to disappoint her father again, Liz is determined to make her marriage work . . . until she discovers a photograph hidden in the old barn. Faced with impossible decisions, Liz is desperate. She has a vineyard ready to harvest and no idea how to accomplish the task. Does she have the moxie to flourish? Or will she and the land turn fallow?
Author: E. B. Alston
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 1934936189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Hammer Spade, private investigator and bail bondsman in Durham, North Carolina, is good at finding missing persons. This time a member of the British aristocracy has gone missing, only thing is that not only is she a socialite, she's a British Secret Service agent.--Source other than Library of Congress.
