A Horse Named Sorrow

A Horse Named Sorrow
Author: Trebor Healey
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0299289737

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"When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the enigmatic Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may finally be taking off. But the ensuing romance proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise: "Take me back the way I came," Jimmy had asked. And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck drivers, waitresses, Native Americans, college kids, farmers, ranchers, and Marines--each one giving him a new perspective on his own life and on Jimmy's death. When he falls in man whose mother has also recently died, Seamus's grief and his story become universal and redemptive. Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and '90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant, and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, mystifying."--Publisher's description.

Faun

Faun
Author: Trebor Healey
Publisher: Lethe Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590213858

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One morning Gilberto Rubio wakes up with a five o'clock shadow. Puberty. But why are his legs getting so furry? And what are these little horn nubs pushing out of his scalp? What's that nub of a tail that's making it so hard to sit on anything but couches? His peers begin to treat him like a freak, while his anxious mother Lupita crosses herself and worries about his eternal soul and what might be happening to it. When his mere presence begins to stir the hormones of anyone nearby and the pregnancy rate suddenly skyrockets at Buenaventura High, Gilberto panics, and hopping aboard his skateboard vanishes into Hollywood before hitchhiking out of Los Angeles to find a mysterious stranger he met online who just might have some answers. Award-winning author Trebor Healey has written a new fairy tale for Los Angeles.

The Horse Killer

The Horse Killer
Author: Joe Kilgore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781633633148

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Southwest Texas. 1883. A Texas Ranger comes upon a horse that has been savagely beaten and killed. Soon he learns of the murder of another horse in a nearby town-another white horse. Setting aside other duties, he commits to finding the killer.

A Sword Named Sorrow

A Sword Named Sorrow
Author: Kara Dalkey
Publisher: Eerie River Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781990245466

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Author of the acclaimed fantasy novel "Little Sister", Kara Dalkey has created a new, epic historical fantasy novel that takes us on a harrowing journey through heart-breaking discoveries in a haunted, mysterious land. How far would you go to find out the truth? Erculeo Salamago, the finest sorcerous swordsmith in all of Alta Califia, has vanished. His young apprentice Filipo, and Coraza, who may be Salamago's daughter, find their fates bound together in a land drenched in dark magic. Guided by the blacksmith's last and most mystifying creation, a sword named Sorrow, they travel the countryside in search of the truth, in search of Erculeo. But the road to truth is not an easy one. While evading the holy servants of the Mariana church, and battling demons called tzinn, they are pulled into a war of forbidden magics, one in which Coraza and Filipo must risk their lives to discover their destiny, save their county and each other.

A Mercy

A Mercy
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030737307X

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A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

House of Salt and Sorrows

House of Salt and Sorrows
Author: Erin A. Craig
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 198483195X

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get swept away by this “haunting” (Bustle) YA novel about twelve beautiful sisters living on an isolated island estate who begin to mysteriously die one by one. This dark and atmospheric fairy tale inspired story is perfect for fans of Yellowjackets. "Step inside a fairy tale." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Be careful who you dance with... And don't miss Erin Craig's Small Favors, a mesmerizing and chilling novel about dark wishes and even darker dreams.

The Girls Who Chased Away Sorrow

The Girls Who Chased Away Sorrow
Author: Ann Warren Turner
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439555395

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The diary of Sarah Nita, a thirteen-year old Navajo girl, which describes the Navajos' forced 400-mile walk from their ancestral homeland to Fort Sumner in 1864.

The Fire Horse Girl

The Fire Horse Girl
Author: Kay Honeyman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545532248

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A fiery and romantic adventure, perfect for fans of Grace Lin, Kristen Cashore, or Lisa See! Jade Moon is a Fire Horse -- the worst sign in the Chinese zodiac for girls, said to make them stubborn, willful, and far too imaginative. But while her family despairs of marrying her off, she has a passionate heart and powerful dreams, and wants only to find a way to make them come true.Then a young man named Sterling Promise offers Jade Moon and her father a chance to go to America. While Sterling Promise's smooth manners couldn't be more different from her impulsive nature, Jade Moon falls in love with him on the long voyage. But America in 1923 doesn't want many Chinese immigrants, and when they are detained at Angel Island, the "Ellis Island of the West," she discovers a betrayal that destroys all her dreams. To get into America, much less survive there, Jade Moon will have to use all her stubbornness and will to break a new path... one so brave and dangerous, only a Fire Horse girl could imagine it.

One for Sorrow

One for Sorrow
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1328699021

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Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie makes other friends and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie. Elsie dies from influenza, but then she returns to reclaim Annie's friendship and punish all the girls who bullied her. Young readers who revel in spooky stories will relish this chilling tale of a girl haunted by a vengeful ghost.

Chimichanga: Sorrow of the World's Worst Face

Chimichanga: Sorrow of the World's Worst Face
Author: Eric Powell
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1630085197

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Come one! Come all! Behold the marvel of THE WORLD'S WORST FACE! Joing artist Stephanie Buscema, Eric Powell returns to his all-ages creation, Chimichanga, the story of a bizarre monster and the little bearded girl who guides him through life in the sideshow. Now they've met another misfit--a boy so ugly he hide's behind the world's longest bangs! He is hunted and in the run--can he find peace and even happiness at the carnival? Praise for the first volume of Eric Powell's Chimichanga: "Chimichanga is full of that youthful vigor that makes The Goon such a delight." -Broken Frontier "... a strangely wonderful graphic narrative." -Publishers Weekly