Grass

Grass
Author: Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307573486

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“One of the most satisfying science fiction novels I have read in years.”—The New York Times Book Review Here is a novel as original as the breathtaking, unspoiled world for which it is named, a place where all appears to be in idyllic balance. Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. Over time, they evolved a new and intricate society. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It, too, had developed a culture. . . . Now, a deadly plague is spreading across the stars. No world save Grass has been left untouched. Marjorie Westriding Yrarier has been sent from Earth to discover the secret of the planet’s immunity. Amid the alien social structure and strange life-forms of Grass, Lady Westriding unravels the planet’s mysteries to find a truth so shattering it could mean the end of life itself.

Mad

Mad
Author: Chloé Esposito
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101986018

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In this compulsively readable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life, but to keep on living it. Alvie Knightly is a trainwreck: aimless, haphazard, and pretty much constantly drunk. Alvie's existence is made even more futile in contrast to that of her identical and perfect twin sister, Beth. Alvie lives on social media, eats kebabs for breakfast, and gets stopped at security when the sex toy in her carry-on starts buzzing. Beth is married to a hot, rich Italian, dotes on her beautiful baby boy, and has always been their mother's favorite. The twins' days of having anything in common besides their looks are long gone. When Beth sends Alvie a first-class plane ticket to visit her in Italy, Alvie is reluctant to go. But when she gets fired from the job she hates and her flatmates kick her out on the streets, a luxury villa in glitzy Taormina suddenly sounds more appealing. Beth asks Alvie to swap places with her for just a few hours so she can go out unnoticed by her husband. Alvie jumps at the chance to take over her sister's life--if only temporarily. But when the night ends with Beth dead at the bottom of the pool, Alvie realizes that this is her chance to change her life. Alvie quickly discovers that living Beth's life is harder than she thought. What was her sister hiding from her husband? And why did Beth invite her to Italy at all? As Alvie digs deeper, she uncovers Mafia connections, secret lovers, attractive hitmen, and one extremely corrupt priest, all of whom are starting to catch on to her charade. Now Alvie has to rely on all the skills that made her unemployable--a turned-to-11 sex drive, a love of guns, lying to her mother--if she wants to keep her million-dollar prize. She is uncensored, unhinged, and unforgettable.

Mad Cowboy

Mad Cowboy
Author: Howard F. Lyman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001-07-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0684854465

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"The former cattle rancher whose appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" sparked a lawsuit against both him and Winfrey exposes the hazardous practices of the cattle and dairy industries."--BOOK COVER

Mad Merlin

Mad Merlin
Author: J. Robert King
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2001-08-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780812584271

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Drawing from Celtic and Christian myths, with influence from mythologist Joseph Campbell, the author shapes a new interpretation of the legend of Merlin, who is introduced in this Arthurian epic as a madman alleged to be cursed with the gift of prophecy. Summoned by Uther Pendragon, the legend of King Arthur is set into motion.

Grass Roof, Tin Roof

Grass Roof, Tin Roof
Author: Dao Strom
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2003-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547972830

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A Vietnamese family flees its war-torn home and resettles in California, in a novel that offers a “brilliant exploration of exile, loss, and identity” (Robert Olen Butler). Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance—but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family, as the children, for whom the war is now a distant shadow, struggle to understand the world around them on their own terms. In delicate, innovative prose, Strom’s characters experience the collision of cultures and the spiritual aftermath of war on the most visceral level. Grass Roof, Tin Roof is “an affecting study on the slippery nature of home” (Los Angeles Times). “[Strom] explores the mysteries of loss, culture and identity, with skill, poignancy and imagination.” —Detroit Free Press

Editor & Publisher

Editor & Publisher
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1296
Release: 1923
Genre: Journalism
ISBN:

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Mad Barbara

Mad Barbara
Author: Warwick Deeping
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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At the turn of the eighteenth century, a young woman Barbara Purcell discovers the body of her murdered father. She tries to make sense of why this charming man, loved by all, was struck down. Unlike her mother, Barbara cannot put the incident behind her and return to society. Her lack of interest in romance, the theatre, and gatherings convinces her mother and a family friend that Barbara is falling into madness. But Barbara is committed to revealing her father's murderer at any cost. 'Mad Barbara' is a perfect read for all murder mystery fans with a historical setting.

The Culinary Plagiarist

The Culinary Plagiarist
Author: Jason Peters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1532689810

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More than a collection of vignettes and stories from garden, grill, and kitchen, The Culinary Plagiarist is a sustained adventure in gustatory delight, an intensely private but candid account of desire and all its objects. Opinionated on the full range of human experience, from fasting to inebriety, from sports to politics, from religion to raunch, it is at once serious, humorous, ironic, reflective, grateful, allusive, and appetitive. Along the way it offers a defense of small-scale, local life, of family, of place, and of ""the bread we do not live alone by."" And also the drinks. Don't forget the drinks. This is a book for people who enjoy being alive, whether in the kitchen, the pasture, the library, the barn, the trout stream, the henhouse (or the doghouse), or the bedroom.