Alligator : a Novel

Literature & Fiction

Moore, Lisa

Contemporary

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In The Company Of The Courtesan

DUNANT, SARAH

Literary

Educations of a Woman Gloria Steinem

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Biographies & Memoirs

Motherland

Politics & Social Sciences

Ann McFerran

Social Sciences

<p>Bena Johnssen believes in omens, good and bad. She has come to see her destiny in the simple arithmetic of everyday life -- every random arrangement of numbers (on road signs, calendars, number plates) holds the power either to condemn or console. Yet Bena's life has been anything but simple since she arrived in Pueblo, Colorado -- a bleak, dusty town caught in the grip of the Great Depression. At home, she measures her ailing baby with a tattered hair ribbon -- and watches as her marriage crumbles around her. From her office window, she sees a pregnant prostitute with an enigmatic cowboy -- and begins to question her deepest beliefs about good and evil. And in the depths of a decaying monument to the local mining industry, she confronts a terrifying secret -- and finds that the things she can't measure are the most frightening of all.</p>

The Mineral Palace

JULAVITS, Heidi

An Empty Room

'So lucent, so resonant, so exquisitely written and above all, so engaging' Tim Lott After months away, Emily returns to London and to a family on the verge of disintegration. She spends nights in cramped bars, drinking and smoking with her beautiful but damaged boyfriend Tom and his friends. It is a lifestyle that leaves her feeling directionless and jaded. In her search to believe in something or someone, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Simon, Tom's complex and charming cousin. But Simon is married, and as he and Emily become closer and the summer draws to an end they are forced to make decisions that will have a devastating effect on both families. 'Its denouement ought to surprise none but Emily herself, cast adrift in her own love stories, yet An Empty Room echoes with the dreamy unreality of a hot summer night' Observer 'Written with honesty and an element of wistfulness which combine in a voice that is clear and true' Raffaella Barker

Stevenson, Taliyha

Alistair Langford, a high-powered lawyer, has at long last achieved 'almost all' his immense ambitions. But in the course of just one evening, he recklessly destroys it all. The scandal threatens his marriage and his family and even his own identity. Quite suddenly a secret he has kept hidden all his adult life is exposed. Meanwhile his son Luke is obsessed with a beautiful actress and refuses to believe that love has ended. His ideals in tatters, he seeks a kind of redemption by helping two Kosovan asylum seekers. But illegal night shifts merge uneasily with the parties of the young and wealthy and the collision of the two worlds proves dangerous. Desperate and in the unlikely possession of a gun, Luke is being led down a dark and violent path. Talitha Stevenson's second novel is a highly suspenseful story about sexual obsession, identity and the dangers of self-deceit. An exploration of the nature of love - in long married couples, the young, parents, between siblings and friends - it is also a morality tale for our times by one of the finest young writers at work today.

Exposure

Stevenson, Talitha

Genre Fiction

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