Drinking the Rain

Drinking the Rain
Author: Alix Kates Shulman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004-07-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780865476974

At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman left a city life dense with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to stay alone in a small cabin on an island off the Maine coast.

After the Rain

After the Rain
Author: Alexandra Elle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1797202200

In After the Rain, celebrated self-care storyteller Alexandra Elle delivers 15 lessons on how to overcome obstacles, build confidence, and cultivate abundance. Part memoir and part guide, Elle shares stirring stories from her own remarkable journey from self-doubt to self-love. This soulful collection is filled with illuminating reflections on loss, fear, bravery, healing, love, acceptance, and more. • Readers follow along her journey as she transforms challenging experiences—a difficult childhood, painful romantic relationships, and single parenting as a young mom—into fuel for her career as a successful entrepreneur and author driven by purpose and pasion • Filled with Elle's signature candor and warmth • Includes empowering affirmations and meditations for readers to practice in their own lives After the Rain is a soulful guide to help you embrace all the beauty, love, and opportunity life has to offer. • Presented in luminous package with a foil case and gold accents • A beautiful gift for anyone on the path to self-discovery, and an uplifting reminder that there is always sunshine after the rain • Perfect for the friend who loves meditating, self-care, journaling, or seeking personal transformation and empowerment • Great for those who loved Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist, 100 Days to Brave by Annie F. Downs, and anything written by Brené Brown, Rupi Kaur, Rachel Hollis, and Elizabeth Gilbert

Father of the Rain

Father of the Rain
Author: Lily King
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802197086

A New York Times Editors’ Choice—“a gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness” (Entertainment Weekly). Gardiner Amory’s life is reeling—Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when the pair divorces, Gardiner’s basest impulses are unleashed in a deluge, the chasm between all of them widens, and Daley is stretched thinly across it. As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world of her father’s prejudices and embarks on her own life—until Gardiner hits rock bottom. Returning home to help her father get sober, Daley risks everything she’s found beyond him, including a chance at love, in an attempt to repair a trust that was broken long ago . . . In this Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, Lily King pulls readers into “a brilliant exploration of the attraction of martyrdom, the intoxication of playing savior. . . . An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line” (Washington Post).

The Long Rain

The Long Rain
Author: Peter Gadol
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312263546

While speeding in his car, California wine grower Jason Dark kills a boy. A car thief is arrested and police obtain a confession. Dark, a lawyer by profession, takes the man's defense for free, but will that be sufficient to salvage his conscience?

After Rain

After Rain
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307367401

Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks of chance that make up the texture of our lives. In the rain-washed Italian hills, a forgotten artist's Annunciation brings light to a heartbroken woman; insidiously, in her struggle for love, the second wife of a blind piano tuner distorts his memories of the first; two children, survivors of divorce, mimic their parents' dramas and passions; a mother, tied through love and fear to her son, watches with helpless dread as she realizes the monster he has become.

Rain Song

Rain Song
Author: Alice J. Wisler
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0764204777

C.1 GIFT. 12-02-2010. $12.99.

Rain

Rain
Author: Sam Usher
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763692964

It's raining, but one little boy can't wait to go outside for an adventure with his granddad.

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Author: Alix Kates Shulman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374530793

A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.

Rain Gods

Rain Gods
Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439137366

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller. In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens—women and girls, killed execution-style—are unearthed in a shallow grave. Haunted by a past he can’t shake and his own private demons, Hack attempts to untangle the grisly case, which may lead to more bloodshed. Damaged young Iraq vet Pete Flores, who saw too much before fleeing the crime scene, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives. Sorting through the lowlifes who are hunting down Pete, and with Preacher Jack Collins, a Godfearing serial killer for hire, in the mix, Hack is caught up in a terrifying race for survival—for Pete, Vikki, and himself.