Author: Richard Dry
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: novel, leaving
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-04-09
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0312302878
ISBN-13: 9780312302870
Leaving is one of the most powerful and assured debut novels of the year: an epic story of three generations of an African-American family, whose members struggle to find a home in the embattled streets of urban America. In the words of National Book Award finalist Madison Smartt Bell, author Richard Dry ’has captured the African-American story from slavery time to the present, both in its panoramic scope and in its immediate and human detail.’
Author: Sergio Waisman
Publisher: Hurricane
Keywords: leaving
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0932367119
ISBN-13: 9780932367112
Leaving is a literary novel that traces the story of three migrations: a Jewish family’s move from Poland to Argentina (between the two World Wars); part of that family’s exit from Argentina to the United States (during the political upheavals of the 1970s); and the contemporary travels of the protagonist (the inheritor of all previous migrations) and his American girlfriend (and later fiancée) in the United States. The family memories take the reader to Buenos Aires, to the voyage from Leaving is a literary novel that traces the story of three migrations: a Jewish family’s
Author: Will Hobbs
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: protection, leaving
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0380733129
ISBN-13: 9780380733125
Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his dream -- until he discovers his mysterious captain’s dark secret. Tor is illegally searching the coastline for historic metal plaques buried by early Russian explorers. When Robbie learns the value of these hidden treasures, he fears he may know too much tosurvive. Tor’s wrath and a violent storm at sea put Robbie’s courage and wi
Author: Sandra Scoppettone
Publisher: Fawcett
Keywords: leaving
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-05-01
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0345382692
ISBN-13: 9780345382696
"The work of a fine writer coming into her own...Laurano is an appealing character whose most natural responses are warmth and humor."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this sequel to EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS MINE, Lauren’s closest friend Megan is killed hours after a hold up of her Greenwich Village jewelry store, and Lauren soon discovers how little she knew about her friend’s life. Hired by one of Megan’s many ex-husbands to investigate, Lauren takes a microscope to a life she thought she knew intimately and finds a secret world of deception and danger. As Lauren moves closer
Author: Anita Brookner
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: home, leaving
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400095654
ISBN-13: 9781400095650
At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited tendency toward melancholy. Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Fran?oise Desnoyers, a vibrant young woman who offers Emma a glimpse into a turbulent life so different from her own. In this exquisite new novel of self-discovery, Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner addresses one
Author: Olive Ann Bur
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: sassy, cold, leaving
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0618919805
ISBN-13: 9780618919802
Anyone who came under the spell of Olive Ann Burns’s classic novel Cold Sassy Tree will delight in Leaving Cold Sassy, which returns to the story of the unforgettable Will Tweedy. In 1917, twenty-five-year-old Will now faces the complexities of adult life. He grapples with the influences of the modern world on his cherished Georgia hometown, which has recently been renamed Progressive City, and he finds his wife-to-be in a feisty young schoolteacher named Sanna Klein.Olive Ann Burns had completed fifteen chapters of this novel by the time of her death in 1990, and she expressed her wish for
Author: Marlene, Winell
Publisher: Apocryphile Press
Keywords: fold, leaving
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2006-01-15
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1933993235
ISBN-13: 9781933993232
This book by psychologist Marlene Winell provides valuable insights into the dangers of religious indoctrination and outlines what therapists and victims can do to reclaim a healthier human spirit.... Both former believers searching for a new beginning and those just starting to subject their faith to the requirements of simple common sense, if not analytical reason, may find valuable assistance in these pages. -Steve Allen, author and entertainer
