Author: Dana Johnson
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Following her prize–winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues –love, class, race – and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed–race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the promised land of consumption; in "Rogues," a young man on break from college lands in his brother's Inland Empire neighborhood during a rash of unexplained robberies; in "She Deserves Everything She Gets," a woman listens to the strict advice given to her spoiled niece about going away to college, reflecting on her own experience and the night she lost her best friend; and in the collection's title story, a man setting down roots in downtown L.A. is haunted by the specter of both gentrification and a young female tourist, whose body was found in the water tower of a neighboring building. With deep insight into character, intimate relationships, and the modern search for personal freedom, In the Not Quite Dark is powerful new work that feels both urgent and timeless.
In the Not Quite Dark
Author: Dana Johnson
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Following her prize–winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues –love, class, race – and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed–race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the promised land of consumption; in "Rogues," a young man on break from college lands in his brother's Inland Empire neighborhood during a rash of unexplained robberies; in "She Deserves Everything She Gets," a woman listens to the strict advice given to her spoiled niece about going away to college, reflecting on her own experience and the night she lost her best friend; and in the collection's title story, a man setting down roots in downtown L.A. is haunted by the specter of both gentrification and a young female tourist, whose body was found in the water tower of a neighboring building. With deep insight into character, intimate relationships, and the modern search for personal freedom, In the Not Quite Dark is powerful new work that feels both urgent and timeless.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Following her prize–winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues –love, class, race – and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed–race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the promised land of consumption; in "Rogues," a young man on break from college lands in his brother's Inland Empire neighborhood during a rash of unexplained robberies; in "She Deserves Everything She Gets," a woman listens to the strict advice given to her spoiled niece about going away to college, reflecting on her own experience and the night she lost her best friend; and in the collection's title story, a man setting down roots in downtown L.A. is haunted by the specter of both gentrification and a young female tourist, whose body was found in the water tower of a neighboring building. With deep insight into character, intimate relationships, and the modern search for personal freedom, In the Not Quite Dark is powerful new work that feels both urgent and timeless.
60,001+ Best Baby Names , 2E
Author: Diane Stafford
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140226027X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Presents thousands of classic, traditional, and modern names along with information on the meanings, origins, and derivations of each name; tips for making the right selection; name trends; popular names of the past and present; and ethnic names.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140226027X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Presents thousands of classic, traditional, and modern names along with information on the meanings, origins, and derivations of each name; tips for making the right selection; name trends; popular names of the past and present; and ethnic names.
Right Around the Corner
Author: Steven Traylor
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595308414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
One weekend. Five people. Chance meetings. One fateful outcome. Sometimes the people you accidentally meet are destined for much more... Upset and disturbed, Rick Harbring said some things he probably shouldn't have said. His wife, Jennifer, now feels like she doesn't know him, and that she's missing out on something. She knows it, because she just had a wonderful experience with-- --Charles Devereaux. His loving wife, Dana, and their prosperous life is picture perfect. That is, until devastation knocks on their door, and Dana eventually finds herself seeking assistance from one of the most unlikely sources in-- --Adrian Molina, an unstable cop with an even shakier past. Looking for answers that have eluded him throughout life, his dilemmas begin after he makes a routine traffic stop. The offender...Jennifer Harbring. But what appear to be coincidental meetings begin to link these five people together in ways they never imagined, cultivating a weekend full of betrayal, surprises, and shocking revelations. And before it's all over, they'll see that what's right around the corner in their lives could be more than they ever bargained for!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595308414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
One weekend. Five people. Chance meetings. One fateful outcome. Sometimes the people you accidentally meet are destined for much more... Upset and disturbed, Rick Harbring said some things he probably shouldn't have said. His wife, Jennifer, now feels like she doesn't know him, and that she's missing out on something. She knows it, because she just had a wonderful experience with-- --Charles Devereaux. His loving wife, Dana, and their prosperous life is picture perfect. That is, until devastation knocks on their door, and Dana eventually finds herself seeking assistance from one of the most unlikely sources in-- --Adrian Molina, an unstable cop with an even shakier past. Looking for answers that have eluded him throughout life, his dilemmas begin after he makes a routine traffic stop. The offender...Jennifer Harbring. But what appear to be coincidental meetings begin to link these five people together in ways they never imagined, cultivating a weekend full of betrayal, surprises, and shocking revelations. And before it's all over, they'll see that what's right around the corner in their lives could be more than they ever bargained for!
Youth's Companion and Sabbath School Recorder
Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream
Author: Dana Cree
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0451495373
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
With more than 100 recipes for ice cream flavors and revolutionary mix-ins from a James Beard-nominated pastry chef, Hello, My Name is Ice Cream explains not only how to make amazing ice cream, but also the science behind the recipes so you can understand ice cream like a pro. Hello, My Name is Ice Cream is a combination of three books every ice cream lover needs to make delicious blends: 1) an approchable, quick-start manual to making your own ice cream, 2) a guide to help you think about how flavors work together, and 3) a dive into the science of ice cream with explanations of how it forms, how air and sugars affect texture and flavor, and how you can manipulate all of these factors to create the ice cream of your dreams. The recipes begin with the basics—super chocolately chocolate and Tahitian vanilla—then evolve into more adventurous infusions, custards, sherbets, and frozen yogurt styles. And then there are the mix-ins, simple treats elevated by Cree's pastry chef mind, including chocolate chips designed to melt on contact once you bite them and brownie bits that crunch.
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0451495373
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
With more than 100 recipes for ice cream flavors and revolutionary mix-ins from a James Beard-nominated pastry chef, Hello, My Name is Ice Cream explains not only how to make amazing ice cream, but also the science behind the recipes so you can understand ice cream like a pro. Hello, My Name is Ice Cream is a combination of three books every ice cream lover needs to make delicious blends: 1) an approchable, quick-start manual to making your own ice cream, 2) a guide to help you think about how flavors work together, and 3) a dive into the science of ice cream with explanations of how it forms, how air and sugars affect texture and flavor, and how you can manipulate all of these factors to create the ice cream of your dreams. The recipes begin with the basics—super chocolately chocolate and Tahitian vanilla—then evolve into more adventurous infusions, custards, sherbets, and frozen yogurt styles. And then there are the mix-ins, simple treats elevated by Cree's pastry chef mind, including chocolate chips designed to melt on contact once you bite them and brownie bits that crunch.
Cast in Firelight
Author: Dana Swift
Publisher:
ISBN: 0593124219
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Adraa and Jatin are royal heirs of their respective kingdoms, masterful with magic, and their arranged marriage will unite two of Wickery's most powerful territories--except, they don't get along. Now, with the criminal underbelly suddenly making a move for control, the pair must learn to put their trust in the other if either is to uncover the real threat"--]cProvided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0593124219
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Adraa and Jatin are royal heirs of their respective kingdoms, masterful with magic, and their arranged marriage will unite two of Wickery's most powerful territories--except, they don't get along. Now, with the criminal underbelly suddenly making a move for control, the pair must learn to put their trust in the other if either is to uncover the real threat"--]cProvided by publisher.
The Dana Twins and Related Matters
Author: Richard Stein
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493122118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
During a thirty-year career in medicine, Melvin Aaron encounters many talented individuals including an ER clerk whose gender kept her from becoming a physician, a former rock star who became a doctor almost by accident, and the kindly woman in a blue sweater whose approach to problem solving involves thinking well outside the box. When the Aaron family moves to Nashville, they encounter a different type of talent, a Music City promoter who seems able to create something out of next to nothing. As the fortunes of the Aaron family become intertwined with the career of The Dana Twins, a country-pop singing group, Dr. Aaron must deal with the friction between his wife, Tina, and his teen-aged son, Jonah, who intends to become a private investigator.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493122118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
During a thirty-year career in medicine, Melvin Aaron encounters many talented individuals including an ER clerk whose gender kept her from becoming a physician, a former rock star who became a doctor almost by accident, and the kindly woman in a blue sweater whose approach to problem solving involves thinking well outside the box. When the Aaron family moves to Nashville, they encounter a different type of talent, a Music City promoter who seems able to create something out of next to nothing. As the fortunes of the Aaron family become intertwined with the career of The Dana Twins, a country-pop singing group, Dr. Aaron must deal with the friction between his wife, Tina, and his teen-aged son, Jonah, who intends to become a private investigator.
Stone Arabia
Author: Dana Spiotta
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857863754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Growing up wild in the 1970s, Nik was always the artist, always in a band. His beloved sister Denise was his most passionate fan. But now Denise watches as Nik retreats into a strange and private world of his own creation, leaving her to navigate the real world on her own. When her daughter, Ada, decides to make a film of Nik's life and work, and tragedy strikes very close to home, Denise must try to make sense of what it means to be a sister, a daughter and a mother. Evocative, honest and fiercely original, Stone Arabia is about how we become the adults we are. It's a story of family, obsession, memory and the urge to create, no matter what.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857863754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Growing up wild in the 1970s, Nik was always the artist, always in a band. His beloved sister Denise was his most passionate fan. But now Denise watches as Nik retreats into a strange and private world of his own creation, leaving her to navigate the real world on her own. When her daughter, Ada, decides to make a film of Nik's life and work, and tragedy strikes very close to home, Denise must try to make sense of what it means to be a sister, a daughter and a mother. Evocative, honest and fiercely original, Stone Arabia is about how we become the adults we are. It's a story of family, obsession, memory and the urge to create, no matter what.
Vanity Fair
Kindred
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807083704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807083704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.