The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way

The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way
Author: Frances Metzman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578591537

Would you move a dead body for the sake of your best friend? Ask cha-cha babe Celia Ewing, a sixty-five-year-old widow who has just settled into Boca Pelicano Palms, the Florida retirement community of her dreams. When Celia's best friend Marcy calls her and their friend Deb for help in the middle of the night, they find a naked Marcy trapped under the body of her beau, the community's board president, Melvin. And he's dead. The three friends secretly move Melvin back to his apartment setting off a chain of events that will threaten to tear their community apart and send them to jail. Melvin is one of a number of residents who are dying under suspicious circumstances; and soon Celia becomes an amateur sleuth in an attempt to identify what she suspects is a serial murderer.Filled with humorous, witty observations about retirement communities, the realities of getting older, and the promise of new love, the Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way celebrates the deep bonds of female friendships, the desire for companionship at any age, and shows us that it's never too late to learn how to cha-cha through life.

The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China

The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China
Author: Chun Mei
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-01-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004195939

The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West. This study focuses on the concept of “the theatrical” to read those novels and their commentaries. Imbued with performances, playacting, spectacles, and spectatorship, the early modern theatrical novel borrowed heavily from theater to conflate the theatrical and the real, juggle theatrical roles, persons, and identities, and contest orthodoxies by challenging and appropriating sites of control and authority. This study showcases the theatrical novel’s unique position as a new form of literati self-representation in response to the destabilizing social and political forces of early modern China.

The Promise of the Pelican

The Promise of the Pelican
Author: Roy Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1956763090

For fans of Harper Lee and Rita Mae Brown, Roy Hoffman's new novel is steeped in a sense of place--coastal Alabama--with its rich tapestry of characters caught in a web of justice not for all. Early Praise for The Promise of the Pelican: "Roy Hoffman has written a fast-paced, mesmerizing and incredibly moving contemporary novel about human and civil rights,"-- bestselling author Lee Smith "A thrilling novel, with characters as memorable as those of Shakespearean tragedy...I could not put it down." --Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your immigration status. Hank Weinberg is a modern day Atticus Finch, recently retired as a defense attorney in Mobile, Alabama, and a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis as a young child. With his daughter in rehab, he's now taking care of his special needs grandson. Mourning his dead wife, spending mornings fishing on the pier with other octogenarians, he passes the rest of his days watching over his sweet grandson with the help of Lupita, a young Honduran babysitter. When her brother Julio, an undocumented immigrant, is accused of murder, Hank must return to the courtroom to defend him while also trying to save his daughter and grandson's life from spinning out of control. The Promise of the Pelican takes its title from the legend that a pelican will pierce its own breast for blood to feed its starving chicks, a metaphor for one old man who risks all to save the vulnerable. In a crisp prose style Harper Lee called "lean and clean," Hoffman writes from an enormous well of compassion. He fills his new novel with a cast of finely drawn characters of all ages and abilities facing life's harshest challenges and rising to meet them with dignity.

Dictee

Dictee
Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520231122

This autobiographical work is the story of several women. Deploying a variety of texts, documents and imagery, these women are united by suffering and the transcendance of suffering.

Bratwurst and Bridges

Bratwurst and Bridges
Author: Susan M. Baganz
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1943104948

Pastor Dan Wink has suffered his greatest loss. His best friend, Sharon, died a year ago. He's ready to walk away from ministry...and life. But the men he's ministered to over the years won't let him. Sometimes accountability stinks! And the redhead next door, with her precocious, adorable children, brings up desires he thought had died with his wife. Skye O'Connell has given up much to rescue herself and her kids from her ex-husband's drug abuse. With a new career, she's come to the Milwaukee suburbs to start over...but something about the enigmatic pastor who lives across the hall has her asking uncomfortable questions. A man stuck in grief is challenged by a woman who is lost...can both find their way to life and love?

Billboard

Billboard
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1971-12-04
Genre:
ISBN:

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.