The Heart of Marriage

The Heart of Marriage
Author: Cathleen Rountree
Publisher: HarperOne
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1996
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780062508423

Why marriage? What is the heartfelt, deep urge to connect that draws couples together? And what is the magical connection that sustains some marriages in an era when so many couples have decided to go their separate ways? Acclaimed author Cathleen Rountree sets out to capture the elusive promise and eternal love in this uplifting collection of intimate conversations with couples who have made it work, creating lifetime partnerships that are both passionate and practical, exciting and deeply committed. Skillfully weaving her own poignant and humorous narrative through the revealing, personal stories of these men and womencouples of many ages and cultures, famous lovers and the couples-next-door - Rountree leads us on a fascinating journey into modern love to discover the promise, sum, and substance of today's happy marriages. Money, sex, work, time, and children: Rountree explores, through insightful and wise observations of her own life and the couples' experiences, the issues that can make and break marriages. And in their own lively, moving, funny, and wise words, these contented couples speak of marriage as a spiritual path and reveal that lifelong love is both a teacher and a healing force in the lives of everyone it touches.

American Stutter: 2019-2021

American Stutter: 2019-2021
Author: STEVE. ERICKSON
Publisher: Zerogram Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781953409102

As Jonathan Lethem put, Steve Erickson's journal of the last 18 months of the Trump Presidency "sears the page." Erickson, one of our finest novelists, has long been an astute political observer, and American Stutter, part political declaration, part humorous account of more personal matters, offers a particularly moving reminder of the democratic ideals that we are currently struggling to preserve. Written with wit, eloquence, and a controlled fury as event unfold, Erickson has left us with an essential record of our recent history, a book to be read with our collective breath held.* Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels and two books about American culture. For 12 years he was founding editor of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is the film/television critic for Los Angeles magazine and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement award.

The Tortilla Curtain

The Tortilla Curtain
Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101042605

T.C. Boyle’s “irresistible” (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream “A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” —The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented immigrants Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.

The Tortilla Curtain

The Tortilla Curtain
Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 0143119079

The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

Malibu Burning

Malibu Burning
Author: Robert Kerbeck
Publisher: Mwc Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781733470506

Blending investigative journalism and personal memoir, Malibu Burning brings you on the dramatic, life-threatening journey of real people fighting 2,000 degree flames to save entire neighborhoods.

World War Z

World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Broadway Books
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0770437400

An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival, in a novel that is the basis for the June 2013 film starring Brad Pitt. Reissue. Movie Tie-In.

The Pat Hobby Stories

The Pat Hobby Stories
Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1962
Genre: Hobby, Pat (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 0684804425

Seventeen episodes in the life of a Hollywood scenario hack in the late 1930's. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, publisher of "Esquire", in which the stories appeared from January 1940 to May 1941.

Chasing Darkness

Chasing Darkness
Author: Robert Crais
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409106616

'Crais is on top form in CHASING DARKNESS. It's a first-rate puzzle, with many twists and nothing quite as it seems' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Elvis Cole continues to be up there with the best of them ... the climax and denouement are terrific' THE TIMES Three years ago Elvis Cole's actions may have freed a killer. Now three more young women are dead... It is fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police and Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants, they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed, and could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years, their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the 'death album' there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but, with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire... and now the police are out for Cole...