This life-affirming novel&nbsp;explores marriage, community, and the power of dignity for a fifty-seven-year-old woman forced to rebuild her life, unexpectedly and alone, in 1960s Texas--perfect for readers of Elizabeth Strout, Paulette Jiles, and Anne Tyler. &nbsp; It's 1964 and Eliza Kratke is mostly content. Married thirty years, she is long settled in Bayard, Texas with two grown children, a nice house, a little dog, and a routine. But her husband has a secret, and Eliza has not been brave enough to demand to know what it is. &nbsp; So when her husband dies suddenly, the ground doesn't just shift under Eliza's feet--it falls away entirely, revealing that she has known nothing true about her life. How should she come to terms with all that has been a lie? &nbsp; What emerges from this wreckage is a profoundly compelling portrait of a wonderfully nuanced woman, worn down like a gemstone to a core of durability and self-reliance as she fights for her own path forward. By taking business classes and moving into a hotel filled with aspiring young people, The Sweet Vidalia, Eliza gathers new friends and new possibilities. But with each of these, she finds that it isn't so simple to leave the past behind. Sweet Vidalia not only explores what it means to be honest with ourselves and with one another, but asks: what will we do with the truth when we find it?

Sweet Vidalia

Literature & Fiction

Sandlin, Lisa

Genre Fiction

Little. Brown and Company

"A wonderful addition to the literature of the Southwest." -Rudolfo Anaya 
"Canterbury comes to Chimayo. Sandlin lays claim to a part of the world so infused with beauty it startles people awake, a world where miracles still happen, where the divine isn't taken for granted, where each moment is poised on the knife edge of change. Storytelling at its finest."-Jonis Agee 
Lisa Sandlin's third collection centers around the daily lives of characters in northern New Mexico who interact with saints literally or metaphorically. Several of the stories take place on the annual Good Friday walk to Chimayo and incorporate traditional elements of pilgrimage: storytelling and chance. 
"A prose poem to New Mexico that will endure to become a classic."-John Nichols

In the River Province

United States

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

"These are wonderful stories--passionate, fierce, reckless, and scrupulously written... Sandlin's characters are flawed and broken people, but their stories are not a lament. They're about the power to create beauty and healing from loneliness and pain."--Rick DeMarinis

The Famous Thing About Death: And Other Stories

Cinco Puntos Press

1960s. Gulf Coast Texas. A white high school girl tinkers with the invisible pieces of her life.

Message to the Nurse of Dreams: A Collection of Short Fiction (Hell Yes! Texas Women Series)

Most saints began as children, as all humans do. Martin de Porres’ white father abandoned him; Dymphna fled an incestuous father. Rosa de Lima threw her mother into despair. Brendan built a boat from leather and butter; Francis of Assisi talked to animals. Teresa de Ávila wielded a wry sense of humor, and Catherine of Alexandria argued fifty master philosophers into cowering silence. A few, though, did not know childhood or death. Archangel Michael’s name was a battle cry; shining Gabriel calmed the terrified before delivering his messages. Desperate for the powers associated with Librada (relief from bad husbands and boyfriends) and Expeditus (exceedingly swift help), people conjured these saints from relic and desire. Catherine Ferguson and Lisa Sandlin have combined their exceptional talents to create a beautiful book of retablo paintings of saints, accompanied by biographies that draw on ancient sources, poetry, and literature. You Who Make The Sky Bend relates the saints to stages of the human condition, thus placing them into the wheel of life. For they touch lives. The saints remain on call, as if their form is a kind of ethereal transmitter tube lit by their filament souls. Many people talk to them, daily, weekly, or on the unforeseen morning when misfortune pushes past their threshold. And many people believe they are heard—by the saint, their better selves, their own hearts.

You Who Make the Sky Bend: Saints as Archetypes of the Human Condition

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Pinyon Publishing

Houses That Work for Life!: A Guide to Creating Homes That Provide Security, Comfort and Enpowerment for All Generations

Arts & Photography

Architecture

BookSurge Publishing

The Bird Boys: A Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery (Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery, 2)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

HighBridge Audio

Winner of the 2015 Dashiell Hammett Prize and 2016 Shamus Award 1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she’s out. It’s 1973, and nobody’s rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company-why? Searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the weird lair of a serial killer. And Delpha on a weekend outing looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away. The novel's conclusion is classic noir, full of surprise, excitement, and karmic justice. Sandlin's elegant prose, twisting through the dark thickets of human passion, allows Delpha to open her heart again to friendship, compassion, and sexuality.
 Lisa Sandlin's story "Phelan's First Case" was anthologized in Lone Star Noir and was later re-anthologized in Akashic's Best of the Noir series, USA Noir. The Do-Right is her first full-length mystery. Lisa was born in Beaumont, currently lives and teaches in Omaha, Nebraska, and summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Do-Right

NOMINEE―EDGAR AWARDS "BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK" Best Crime Novels of the Year, New York Times Starred review from Publishers Weekly Starred review from Kirkus Reviews Starred review from Booklist Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019, CrimeReads 
The new novel from award-winning author Lisa Sandlin catches up with the almost-murdered secretary Delpha Wade (The Do-Right, 2015, set in 1973) as she’s released from a hospital in order to be tucked into the back seat of a police cruiser. Her boss, P. I. Tom Phelan, sets out to spring her. He needs her back in his investigation business, where he’ll soon be chasing a skulking grand larcenist and plotting how to keep a ganjapreneur out of the grabby hands of a brand new agency, the D.E.A. Delpha digs through old records and knocks on strange doors to unravel the dangerous case of two brothers with beaucoup aliases―verifying that sometimes truth is not true, but murder is always murder.

The Bird Boys (A Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery)

Ein Job für Delpha

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

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