Katja's fairy tale romance with her dentist comes to an abrupt end when she learns that he is having an affair. Just when it seems that things can't get any worse, her husband is killed in a car accident. Filled with grief, Katja thinks she is going crazy, but then two mysterious men enter her life: Dr. Frederich Blank and Armin the fireman, whose uniform looks like it came from a costume shop. Armin cannot see Blank, who is recently deceased and has only returned to haunt the neighborhood in hope of visiting his wife one last time. Katja begins a relationship with Armin, which leads to serious consequences, just as holes begin appearing in Dr. Blank. When the doctor starts to fade away, Katja desperately applies bandages to patch his holes. In one moving scene, Blank visits his wife's apartment and Katja, lifted up in the cherrypicker of Armin's fire engine, watches the visit through the upper-floor window. But Katja quickly realizes that Blank's wife cannot see him; she merely continues to kiss her new lover. Blank spends his remaining days easing Katja into her new role as a soon to be mother.

The Gentlemen's Tailor

Literature & Fiction

Leky, Mariana

Hayworth, Eugene

Genre Fiction

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Sixteen-year-old Benny Foushee, deemed by his father as going-nowhere-fast, embarks on a trip from North Carolina across the United States with his 84 year old Aunt Lucy, his dog Polar and his 1965 GMC pickup. Benny's quest, a challenge both overwhelming but irresistible, is to deliver Aunt Lucy to the big cactus, the giant saguaro in Arizona that she had dreamed of seeing since her own daddy put images of the American West into her teenage brain. Benny's roadway adventures with Aunt Lucy and her on-again, off-again mind, become intensified when he rescues a beautiful young runaway heiress who calls herself Tennessee, stranded alone beside the road with her father's broken Porsche. The foursome, stuffed in the cab of Benny's old pickup, push onward to the cactus: Aunt Lucy with hopes to bring home a story to overrule her braggart brother, Tendall; and Benny, smitten with first love, fearful he cannot bring home alive the old woman he left with.

Big Cactus

Wilkinson, Sylvia

Humor & Satire

The Freshman Year at an HBCU documents the lives of four freshmen from their first week of classes their freshmen year to their last. Along the way readers experience with these four freshmen what freshman life is all about—the triumphs and successes, as well as the confl icts and failures. Ulti mately, the purpose of this book is to guide readers in what it takes to survive the freshman year (and beyond).

The Freshman Year at an HBCU

Education & Teaching

DeLong, Kelly

Schools & Teaching

A sixth grade field trip to the local planetarium provides more questions than answers for Thomas Adkins Johnson, a twelve-year-old going on thirteen, whose head begins to spin as he contemplates the vastness of the heavens projected on the dome above him. The field trip marks Tommy’s transition from sixth grade, where his major concerns centered on school and vacation, sports and gaming, to a more complex world where questions of identity and belief take hold of the imagination. Tommy and his friends—Micky Boonaling. Kareem Brooks, Mignon Eubanks, and others—tackle the challenges of seventh grade with a mixture of humor and bewilderment. When Tommy’s uncle Aaron dies unexpectedly in a motorcycle accident, the boy’s questions about life take a deeper, more complicated form, and Tommy begins to search for a way to create meaning in his life, a search encouraged by his friend, Mignon. The solution they create takes the two of them on a heart-warming adventure, tinged with the bitter-sweet desires of young romance.

The Time Box

Capetanos, Leon

(Original title: DAS GL CKSB RO) Translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt .Albert Happy is a strange fellow. He is just over fifty, a little dry, meticulous, and he works at the Agency for Administrative Affairs. Forms, stamps, and service regulations are the world in which he has established himself as an exemplary employee. Literally speaking, because Albert not only works in the agency, he also lives there. Unknown to any of his co-workers, he has set up a small room in the basement for himself and is happily devoted to the same day-to-day routine, lived out fully within the agency's four walls. But one day Albert's carefully arranged order hits a snag. On his desk, he discovers an application which should not really exist. Its officially designated number is not part of the bureaucratic system, and the applicant has not applied for anything specific. Albert does everything he can to get rid of this unfortunate request, but in vain. It reappears morning after morning on his desktop. And so he has no choice but to make his way out of the building, which he has not left in years, to locate the applicant. On his journey, Albert meets Anna Sugus, a pretty, wild artist who turns Albert's world upside down ...

The Happiness Bureau

Izquierdo, Andreas

Literary

Max Caruthers, a born-again Christian with a hard-living past, tracks his father, Norman Caruthers, who abandoned him decades before to the lawless wilds of present-day Guatemala. All Norman wants is to be left alone to drink away his remaining days undisturbed in the little bar that serves as home. Up north in California, Vicki Valle, former girlfriend of a recently assassinated Los Angeles gang leader, is deported over a triviality into Tijuana. She decides to bring the skills she learned in L.A.--both in the gang and in business classes attended at City College--back to her roots in El Salvador, where she meets Caruthers at a drop-off in the capital city. He's been roped into delivering a busload of Mayan girls, en route to lives of prostitution in the United States. Intrigued by the gringo trafficker and the potential of expanding her gang's territory into largely untapped Guatemala, Valle catches a ride with Caruthers back to his home base in Panajachel, just in time to crash his reunion with his earnest son, Max, who has come to the country on a religious mission, as well as his personal mission to find his father. Max, his father, Vicki, and Max's new local girlfriend Karma, eventually become entangled in a gun-running operation that ends in a shootout between an anti-gang vigilante group and Vicki's crew of criminals. Vicki, the sole survivor of her gang's massacre, is now known as Itzel, a Kekchi Mayan displaced far from home in a dusty little town in extreme southwest Guatemala. Having arrived suddenly, this silent, solitary woman in traditional clothes is a mystery to the townspeople, but soon they will come to better understand her story.

A Candle for San Simón

Daniels, Kelly

A gifted but naïve sculptor from Canada settles in Lake Worth, a neighborhood near Palm Beach, attracted by the palm trees and content to sell his work at a nearby flea market. He's joined by his brother, who is attracted to Palm Beach by the money. The brother sells three of the sculptor's pieces through a local art dealer, who creates a market for the work among his wealthy clientele at absurdly inflated prices. When a claim is filed after one of the pieces is stolen, the insurance company's investigation threatens to expose the dealer's questionable tactics and his clients' gullibility.The artist resists temptation and maintains the integrity of his work. He also refuses to create sculptures to order, even if they might fetch far more money than he receives for the pieces he creates for himself. But in an insular world of sordid corruption, where contacts matter more than friendship, money buys acquiescence to corruption, and everything and everyone has a price, he questions the value of his integrity and wonders if he hasn't deluded himself into thinking that there are more important things in life than money.

The Lizards of Palm Beach

McDougall, Bruce

In The Suffering of Lesser Mammals, Greg Sanders draws the reader into a world of believable absurdity, as individual crises meld with those of the age. In these thirteen stories, a young father's anxiety throws the Earth out of orbit; a bachelor breaks up with his car; a "multivariate correlator" conjures a lonely deity; and two sisters are abducted by a cadre of immortal alewives. Wildly inventive, morally wise, and achingly funny, this is the short story as reimagined by a fearless—and fearsome—voice.

The Suffering of Lesser Mammals

Sanders, Greg

American Wasteland

Joseph, Alexander Shalom

Carrie Knowles’ collection of informal essays, written for her Psychology Today column, draws on a lifetime of self-reflection and people watching. A collection of delightful stories and quick insights into everyday life, Shifting Forward is a book that begs to be shared, ideally out loud, with those you love. Each piece stands alone; taken together, they have the power of memory and hope. Knowles puts a totally different spin on things that kicks us from complacency to joy and insight.

Shifting Forward: Fifty Reflections on Everyday Life

Knowles, Carrie Jane

Parenting & Relationships

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