Books with author Jennifer Eiss

Fourteen-year-old Tess is looking forward to spending the summer in London with the father she barely knows. But when the trip is canceled abruptly, she makes the fateful decision to get on the plane anyway and take her chances. With nobody to meet her, nobody to call, and nobody even aware that she’s missing, Tess makes her way to a tiny village in the Welsh countryside. There she discovers that danger can lurk anywhere for a young girl on her own.

Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs, never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly fifty years. A Visit from the Goon Squad is about time, about survival, about our private terrors, and what happens when we fail to rebound.

Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistA "New York Times Book Review "Best Book One of the Best Books of the Year: "Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, " and "Village Voice" Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, "A Visit from the Goon Squad "is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

Finding Brock’s Forever Home is about a big, white dog (a Great Pyrenees) that was rescued after being on its own, basically wild, the first 5 years of its life. His deeply-engrained, bachelor-life proclivities (like marking anything, anytime, anywhere with his urine and nocturnal guard-dog activities) did not bode well for a successful conversion to a house-dog. The book provides an informative and engaging romp through a real-world experience of fostering a rescue dog, with a heartwarming ending. Hopefully, the book will raise consciousness around the plight of homeless dogs, the need for volunteers to step up to foster, and the positive impact one person can have in a rescue dog’s life (and vice versa).

* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * New York Times Bestseller * A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 * A Time magazine and USA Today Top 10 Novel of 2017 * Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction * Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Immensely satisfying...an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer...Egan is masterly at displaying mastery...she works a formidable kind of magic." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. "A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft" (The Boston Globe), "Egan's first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you're reading historical fiction at all" (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.

When Jess’s mom dies unexpectedly, she goes to live with her beloved Grams. In Grams’s forest where Jess goes to hide her pain, she falls through a hole in a cave whisking her away to a mysterious and beautiful land. Danger abounds in this land, both for her and for the strange, talking creatures who reside there, in the form of Sorcerer Graygin and his demon wraiths. Who is this Sorcerer and why is he hunting Jess? With some help from Twilly, the sharp tongued lem-cat, Bernie, the gentle grizlon, and some other unlikely friends, Jess must discover her connection to this world and stop Graygin before he destroys the land and everything in it.

For use in schools and libraries only. Is there buried treasure at Summer Lake? Best friends Cora and Rayna can't wait to find out. The girls are opposites. But they both like to hike. The trip is a little risky with all the wildfires. But the idea of finding treasure is too good. It's all set. Then Rayna backs out. Cora decides to go it alone. Maybe not the best decision?

Bernie Bullfrog lives on the banks of Daffodil Dam on Farmer Fred's farm. It is also the place where all the animals come and drink water. Bernie has many animal friends there, but his best friends are Dinah Duck and Harry Hare. The three friends share many exciting adventures. In this book, Bernie saves his two best friends from a very hungry crocodile.

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. (Bestseller)