The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman

The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman
Author: Robin Gregory
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1942545010

Having won 21 awards, The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman is being lauded as a classic. A haunting, visionary tale spun in the magical realist tradition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the profoundly unique voice and heart-stirring narrative recall great works of fiction that explore the universal desire to belong. Early 1900s, Western America. A lonely, disabled boy with a nasty temper and miraculous healing powers, Moojie is taken by his father to live at his grandfather's wilderness farm. There, Moojie meets otherworldly outcasts and wants to join them. Following a series of trials—magical and mystical—he is summoned by the call to a great destiny ... if only he can survive one last terrifying trial.

Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015

Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015
Author: Julia Rios
Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1922101516

Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists. Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise “adult” anthologies and magazines, and bring them together in one accessible collection. Table of Contents Songs in the Key of You - Sarah Pinsker Blood, Ash, Braids - Genevieve Valentine Mosquito Boy - Felix Gilman The Rainbow Flame - Shveta Thakrar The Sixth Day - Sylvia Anna Hivén For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply) - Chesya Burke Kia and Gio - Daniel José Older Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of ll Mankind - Erica L. Satifka Function A.save (target.Dawn) - Rivqa Rafael Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine - Sean Williams Forgiveness - Leah Cypess Probably Definitely - Heather Morris I'm Only Going Over - Cat Hellisen The Ways of Walls and Words - Sabrina Vourvoulias Reflections - Tamlyn Dreaver Entangled Web - E C Myers Blue Ribbon - Marissa Lingen Bodies are the Strongest Conductors - James Robert Herndon Pineapple Head - Joel Enos Grass Girl - Caroline M. Yoachim The Birds of Azalea Street - Nova Ren Suma

Memoirs and Misinformation

Memoirs and Misinformation
Author: Jim Carrey
Publisher: Random House Canada
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0735280606

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "None of this is real and all of it is true." --Jim Carrey From movie star Jim Carrey and novelist Dana Vachon, a fearless and semi-autobiographical novel about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, destruction of persona, our "one big soul," Canada, and apocalypses within and without. Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege--but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddlin' with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the advice of his best friend, actor and dinosaur skull collector, Nicolas Cage, isn't enough to pull Carrey out of his slump. Then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And thanks to auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself. Finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up. But the universe has other plans. Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul," Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world--apocalypses within and without.

The Sublime Transformation of Vera Wright

The Sublime Transformation of Vera Wright
Author: Rea Nolan Martin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557074959

This book challenges the notion that great saints and prophets have disappeared from the earth. The spiritual awakening of a quirky sixty-plus beautician named Vera Wright, in a quiet New Jersey town, surprises not only Vera herself, but everyone she knows and meets, including the Pope. This is an inspiring and entertaining account of how one person's astonishing transformation can transform the world.

Mystic Tea

Mystic Tea
Author: Rea Nolan Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2013-11
Genre: Female friendship
ISBN: 9780991032211

A community of quirky, mismatched, and endearing women struggle to find meaning and purpose on a ramshackle monastery in upstate New York. Having spent their lives in service to a church that seems to no longer serve them, they are confused about their own futures and the future of the entire monastery. Led by Mike, the practical no-nonsense prioress, and Augusta, the grand ancient mystic hermit, they are joined by Gemma, a self-punishing novice, and Arielle, a firebrand jailhouse conversion who was sent there out of rehab by a "sort of angel." The personalities, commitments, philosophies and beliefs of these and all the characters conflict and converge in ways at once perilous and enlightening. Throughout the tempestuous journey, Augusta's magical sacred teas draw the inevitable closer and closer. Mystic Tea is a contemporary love story between young and old, franchised and disenfranchised, pedestrian and mystic. Most of all, it is a story of female empowerment as the women find the courage to confront epic challenges, creating a surprising future from the oppressive ashes of the past. It will make you smile as much as it will make you think.

Tall Oaks

Tall Oaks
Author: Chris Whitaker
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 048682845X

Nothing is as it seems in Tall Oaks, a small California town where everyone knows each other and violent crime is unheard of. The community's idyllic façade is shattered when a kidnapper in a clown costume snatches three-year-old Harry Monroe from his own home. Despite sensational media coverage and dogged police investigations, the abduction remains a mystery. Three months later, Harry is still missing and most people have moved on, except for Jessica, Harry's distraught mother, and Jim, the local sheriff. Anyone in Tall Oaks could be a suspect: Jerry, the loner with a secret that only his mother knows; Jared, the roving lothario; teenage Manny, an aspiring gangster; and even Jessica's Aunt Henrietta and Uncle Roger, who are clearly hiding something. Chris Whitaker’s debut novel, with its striking blend of tragedy and offbeat humor, was awarded the U.K. Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger Award. The Guardian praised this beguiling novel as "a pleasingly unusual mixture of a psychological thriller and screwball comedy," noting that "the combination of verve, humor, and pathos make it well worth a read."

Inn Lak'ech

Inn Lak'ech
Author: Eleyne-Mari Sharp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780965258937

Elm Sunday goes with the flow. Her father is the mayor of Little Blessing, her mother owns a mermaid gift shop, and they live happily together with seven dogs at Sunday's Marina, overlooking beautiful Creation Cove. But the tide turns when Elm's sailor boyfriend is murdered and her beloved father is swallowed by the sea. During a Halloween sailing party, a drugged-out Elm causes the boat to capsize and her 18-year-old body is never found. She "awakens" to find herself rescued by a mysterious old woman who takes her to a remote luxury inn. After enduring a series of inn-lightening treatments, Elm receives an important assignment. If she succeeds, it could advance her soul level. But is she ready to face the traitor element of Water to help the one person she vowed never to forgive?

Drowning Fish

Drowning Fish
Author: Billy Bob Buttons
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523346813

THE HUNTER Sinjin Fury, a power-crazy wizard with a horrifying army of VERY crazy Glumsnappers. THE HUNTED Simon Spittle, a Star Trek-obsessed loner with the IQ of a chemistry professor, the temper of a monster with tooth rot and the gift to kill with a wish. HIS PROTECTOR Isabella, a street-wise Seeker who knows Simon's the key to, well, SAVING THE WORLD! The follow-up to the fantastic I THINK I MURDERED MISS 'Sweet, funny and totally unputdownable.' YA Book News

The Anesthesia Game

The Anesthesia Game
Author: Rea Nolan Martin
Publisher: Wiawaka Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991032228

40-something Hannah, 50-something Mitsy, and 60-something Pandora, indulge in a creative assortment of addictions that obscure the mysterious connection to a common past that haunts them all. The link to their recovery is Sydney, the child among them, and the stake they all share in her perilous condition and unlikely cure. As Sydney submits to weekly treatments for an illness she refuses to grace with a name, she plays 'The Anesthesia Game', a game that ultimately leads her to the origin of her disease and a way out of the struggle that binds them all.