About a widower and his gay son. Jeff is in love with a young gardener he met in the local pub, but Greg is wary particularly when he meets dear old Dad. Meanwhile, Dad is developing a relationship with a woman he met through a dating service, but she is put off by Jeff's homosexuality and she pulls away just before he suffers a stroke.
While there's still an abrupt drop-off in population density from east to west, as there still is today, the wide, “unsettled” swathe is gone.71 But if we examine even later maps—an advantage Porter did not have—it is equally easy to ...
A Concise History of America Louis P. Masur. 8. CW, 2:461; 3:550. 9. CW, 4:45. 10. CW, 4:50. 11. CW, 4:150. 12. CW, 4:190, 193, 130. 13. CW, 4:270– 271. 14. Toombs quoted in Maury Klein, Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession and the ...
In this riveting story, Olga struggles to unearth memories from her childhood, and parallel identities—Olga at five years old, Olga at thirteen—come forth and demand to be healed.
Along the way, she turns to literature that illuminates how her inheritance shaped her notions of identity and purpose. The Sum of Trifles offers up dark humor and raw feeling, mixed with an erudite streak.
In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society “the aspirational class” and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class reproduces ...
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now.
... 1998 by David Farland All rights reserved Edited by David G Hartwell Maps by Mark Stein Studios Interior illustration “Frowth Giant” by Howard Lyon A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue New York, ...
This is the story of one woman’s lessons through years of bringing people together to create change.
Joe has been cursed.
He was greeted by God and a host of spiritual guides more than happy to provide answers. In this book, he acts as a messenger of God, sharing what he learned over the course of two years.