![]() ![]() As she grapples with not only grief but also her gender fluidity, Clare wonders where she’ll belong if she sheds her carefully constructed image and embraces her true self. Tired of being seen as different from her neurotypical peers, Audrey’s determined to switch to the public high school, rebuild her friendship with Clare, and atone for Adam’s death…but she’ll need to convince her parents, and her therapist, first.Ĭlare knows her sister thinks she’s the perfect twin, but Audrey doesn’t realize that Clare’s “popular” status is crumbling-she’s begun to question old friendships, dress in Adam’s clothes, and wonder what feelings for a nonbinary classmate, Taylor, might mean. ![]() Now, Audrey’s attending an alternative school where she feels more isolated than ever. But as they got older, they grew apart, and when their brother Adam died, Clare blamed Audrey for the accident. Audrey’s best friend was always her twin, Clare. ![]()
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The question is worth posing. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to scholars, the novel's main themes are nature versus nurture, rebirth, and the differing experiences of what society constructs as polar opposites-such as those found between men and women. Primarily a coming-of-age story ( Bildungsroman) and family saga, the 21st century gender novel chronicles the effect of a mutated gene on three generations of a Greek family, causing momentous changes in the protagonist's life. The author decided to write Middlesex after reading the 1980 memoir Herculine Barbin and finding himself dissatisfied with its discussion of intersex anatomy and emotions. ![]() It is not an autobiography unlike the protagonist, Eugenides is not intersex. Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides' life and observations of his Greek heritage. The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its publication. Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having Tiffany and Vid's larger than life personalities there will be a welcome respite. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don't hesitate. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. ![]() Clementine and Erika are each other's oldest friends. If there's anything they can count on, it's each other. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. ![]() ![]() "What a wonderful writer-smart, wise, funny." -Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. "The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. ![]() ![]() After Carl comes home, Amanda and he manage to work together on the farm and parent Ruth, but their arrangement is strained: Amanda has a breakdown and recuperates at a sanatorium. But then Mattie drowns in the lake that surrounds the sisters' island house and, in a rush of confusion and anguish, Amanda assumes care of Ruth. Mattie's ebullient welcome convinces Amanda she can mend there. Amanda journeys home to the family farm in Nagawaukee, where her sister, Mathilda (Mattie), lives with her three-year-old daughter Ruth, awaiting the return of her war-injured husband, Carl Neumann. She convinces herself that her daily exposure to the wounded soldiers in the Milwaukee hospital where she works is the cause of her hallucinations, fainting spells and accidents. By March 1919, Nurse Amanda Starkey has come undone. ![]() In Schwarz's debut novel, brutal Wisconsin weather and WWI drama color a tale of family rivalry, madness, secrets and obsessive love. ""Ruth remembered drowning."" The first sentence of this brilliantly understated psychological thriller leaps off the page and captures the reader's imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() In some fantastic way, the night belongs to me. This comforted me…I felt embraced, enveloped, held secure. The night had its own language….At such times I could hear the night think, and feel the night feel. When there was no moon, the stars hung like lanterns, so close I felt that one could reach up and pluck them from the heavens. ![]() The nights in Florida, as I grew up, seemed to have certain dominant characteristics. (From Howard Thurman’s book Disciplines of the Spirit) My response to the sense of Presence always had the quality of personal communion. There would come a moment when beyond the single pulse beat there was a sense of Presence which seemed always to speak to me. It was a time of watching and waiting for what I did not know-yet I always knew. There were times when it seemed as if the earth and the river and the sky and I were one beat of the same pulse. Reared by his Grandma Nancy, who had been a slave and was a young woman during the American Civil War Found the protective fold of his neighborhood and nature his “windbreak against existence.”Īs a child I was accustomed to spending many hours alone in my rowboat, fishing along the river, when there was no sound save the lapping of the waves against the boat. Born November 18, 1899, in Daytona Beach, Florida ![]() ![]() ![]() No doubt she had dreamt of the romance of space from the safety of her university library now she faced the hellish reality of the infinite void. ![]() The woman’s puffy spacesuit made her appear even more petite than she probably was. The director gestured to the large screen in front of us as he handed me a pair and introduced me to the eyes’ owner, a young woman who appeared to be fresh out of university. The eyes were stored in a small room at the end of a corridor. I accepted, and he took me to pick them up from the Control Center. He agreed, but only on the condition that I take a pair of eyes along with me. I asked my director for a two-day leave of absence so that I could go on a short trip and clear my mind. Two months of nonstop work had left me exhausted. Please enjoy this excerpt of The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, on sale 10/12/21. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu’s stories show humanity’s attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos. ![]() Liu’s fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale–the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Tijan has created a new world that is addictive, and has many players involved so we will be seeing more from these characters. They both know it’s safer to stay away, but the temptation is too hard to resist-no matter how great the danger. She’s an absolute spitfire, and he wants to stoke that flame. Especially when it’s a brunette bombshell with attitude and legs for days. The last thing Trace needs is a romantic anything with law enforcement, and parole officer Jess has trouble written all over her. And forgetting is exactly what she wants to do when she learns he’s not just a successful Wall Street suit but the heir to one of New York’s biggest Mafia families. What she does know is there’s an instant attraction that’s impossible to ignore-or forget. ![]() When Jess Montell meets Trace West at a hockey game, she doesn’t know his name or occupation. Published by Montlake Genres: Mafia Romanceįrom New York Times bestselling author Tijan comes a raw, tempestuous romance between the criminal underworld and a parole officer that paints a thin line between right and wrong. New Releases, Reviews New Release: A Dirty Business by Tijan A Dirty Business (Kings of New York #1) by Tijan ![]() ![]() The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will be struck with wonder at these beasts, that the dragons are perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong. ![]() ![]() Cassandra Jane “CJ” Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing findings within the greatest zoo ever constructed.Ī small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see these fabulous creatures for the first time. They have proven the existence of dragons-a landmark discovery no one could ever believe is real, and a scientific revelation that will amaze the world. It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. Now in mass-market-the action-packed thriller in the blockbuster and bestselling tradition of Jurassic Park from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly! ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many moments of brilliant, farcical comedy. ![]() She must make us see all the things that Aroon doesn’t see. Keane has set herself a technical challenge. Keane’s brilliant sleight of hand is to allow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development from neglected child, to ungainly debutante, to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing, yet she reveals all. In the pages that follow she will make her case, reminiscing about her youth among the hunting-and-fishing classes of Ireland, a faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle. “All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,” says Aroon soon after. In fact, a single whiff of the stuff is enough to knock the old lady dead. ![]() Charles prepares to serve her invalid mother a splendid luncheon-the silver gleams, the linens glow-of rabbit mousse, a dish her mother despises. Is it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane’s Booker Prize–short-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge. May 2021 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club. ![]() |