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Literature & Fiction

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Genre Fiction

Delphinium

Homestead

In a series of twelve stories, each told from a different character's perspective, a saga follows the sweeping passions and fortunes of three neighboring families living in a tiny remote village in the Austrian Alps from 1909 to the late 1970s.

HOMESTEAD

Lippi, Rosina

United States

The story of two men, Antonio Bernal and Guillermo Longorio, who are haunted by memories of tragedy in Guatemala and whose lives intersect in Los Angeles

TATTOOED SOLDIER

Tobar, Héctor

At eighty, Jenny is the baby, the youngest of four surviving sisters of a large Jewish family, the Witkovskys. She has reluctantly left New England, which she loves, to travel to Miami (she thinks of it as "Their-ami"), summoned by her eccentric sister Flora, who at eighty-five still chases men. Their sister Naomi is dying of cancer at ninety, and Eva is fading away simply because she is ninetyfive. The sisters quarrel as they always did, railing at and forgiving each other. Even so, "Why can't we live forever?" one of them asks.

Girls

Yglesias, Helen

"It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening." So begins the story of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa. The Fishes' older daughter, Colleen, wants no part of their exuberant faith, but Roxy longs to be saved even as she fears her sinful desires, such as marrying Elvis Presley when she grows up. If she grows up. Roxy lives in a world populated by demons who follow her around whispering "God doesn't like you" and sinners who fortunately are easy to identify by their makeup and knowledge of television programs. Her soul's journey through this wicked world to her own particular salvation -- with an assist from the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin -- is unforgettable.

Hallelujah Side

Huffey, Rhoda

Belle Prokoff is the formidable widow of the tormented Clay Madden -- an alcoholic, Montana cowboy who blazed through the New York art world and revolutionized it. Blunt, fierce, and scornful of the world's hypocrisy, Belle, a painter herself, has passionately protected her husband's memory since his death in a car accident three decades earlier.
Full of vivid characters and intense confrontations, this highly charged tale moves towards its startling conclusion as Belle battles Madden's would-be biographer and changes forever the lives of the people in her orbit. Inspired by certain principal events in the lives of the artists Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, this beautifully written novel imagines dialogue, events, and characters in a fictional universe.

Modern Art

Toynton, Evelyn

When Martina Satriano, a university professor in New York City, returns to Italy for her mother's funeral, memories she has pushed down for years begin to resurface. Winner of the 1998 Rapallo Prize.

Left Handed Dreams: none

DURANTI, Francesca

The House on Moon Lake

To further his career as a translator, Fabrizio Mila creates a translation of a novel by an imaginary Viennese author. Reprint.

Literary

Marian Thurm, whose two earlier books of short stories dazzled the literary world, has returned with a stunning volume of short fiction remarkable for its insight, narrative drive, and most of all, for uproarious humor spun from the threads of poignancy. With a vast understanding of human nature, Thurm writes from the point of view of a rabbi whose wife has announced to the congregation that she is leaving him; a gay man facing his best friend's wedding; an adolescent girl riding around with her taxi-driver mother; and a young woman teaching in a rough, inner-city school. Hard-bitten, contemporary dialogue, and an uncanny choice of emotional and atmospheric detail will most certainly rank Thurm among the best contemporary practitioners of the short story and have resonance within a broad spectrum of readership.

What's Come Over You: (none)

Thurm, Marian

On a humid evening on the streets of New Orleans, Albert Fitzmorris thinks he sees an angel - a woman in a pale dress with a shimmering halo of golden hair. Watching as she floats up the steps of a French Quarter hotel, Albert imagines a new life, free from loneliness and yearning. He envisions the path to his redemption. Albert's life is deceptively simple. He lives with his widowed mother. He plays poker every week with his deceased da's aging cronies. He sells fish in a market in the Quarter. But Albert's inner world is complex: convincing himself that he is protecting the people he loves, Albert lives by half-truths and deception. When Albert's ex-girlfriend, Eileen - the mother of his nearly three-year-old daughter - moves on to a new boyfriend, his inner life is set in turmoil. Afraid he is being displaced in his daughter's heart by another man, that his mother considers him a disappointment, that his dead father would see him as a failure, at thirty-five years old Albert plunges into doomed romantic fantasy. He pins his hopes for salvation on elusive, illusionary Chelsea, the blond woman - the angel - whom he tracks down and who, against all odds, just might help set him free.

ALBERT HIMSELF: (none)

Biographies & Memoirs

Bens, Jeff.w

Arts & Literature

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