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“A life by inference is better than no life at all.”Dunn pushes his propensity for quirky to the limit, creating a full-length novel entirely upon the margins of a fictitious biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer–cum entrepreneur and humanitarian. When his editor loses the manuscript of this biography, he offers to publish the only text left: his footnotes.Dunn holds up a funhouse mirror to the pedestaled residents of the twentieth century and has a laugh at the expense of the events and luminaries of an era that perhaps took itself just a little too seriously.

When the body of seventeen-year-old Sheila Barnes is found on Lloyd Cotton’s dairy farm in 1941, nearly all the citizens of the quiet town of Zebulon, Mississippi, feel the effects of her murder. But those most deeply affected by the tragedy include her young husband, Stoney, and the Cotton family, who took Sheila in and grew to love and respect her.Though badly abused by her father, labeled “slow-witted,” and burdened with a physical deformity, Sheila approaches life with a natural, cheerful optimism and an unwavering belief in the healing powers of magic. She quickly becomes the Best Friend of eleven-year-old Annette Cotton, and subtly charms and changes those around her, proving to many that true wisdom often comes from unlikely places.Marshall has created a page-turner of stunning lyrical beauty that is impossible to forget. At the heart of this literary murder mystery is the powerful truth that love conquers all—even death.About:Bev Marshall, a native of McComb, Mississippi, lived as a nomadic military wife for many years. She has returned to her Southern roots and teaches English at Southeastern Louisiana University. She lives in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, with her husband. Walking Through Shadows is her first novel.

This collection of thirty Southern writers gathers some of the finest authors in the country—with stories, essays, and a poem. Demonstrating a range of styles, topics, and themes these stories display each writer’s craftsmanship and talent and together form a testament to the grand literary tradition of the South.About the EditorSonny Brewer owns Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. He was editor of the city magazine in Mobile, Alabama, associate editor of an Alabama weekly newspaper, and a feature columnist; he edited an anthology of Fairhope writers and artists called Red Bluff Review, and is the author of a parable on aging cleverly disguised as a children’s book, Rembrandt the Rocker, and a book of dime-store philosophy called A Yin for Change.Contributors:Marlin BartonRick BraggJill Conner BrowneC. Terry Cline, Jr.Pat ConroyTom CorcoranBeth Ann FennellyPatricia FosterTom FranklinWilliam GayJim GilbertW.E.B. GriffinWinston GroomMelinda HaynesFrank Turner HollonSilas HouseSuzanne HudsonDouglas KelleyTom KellyMichael KnightBev MarshallJennifer PaddockBarbara Robinette MossJudith RichardsRichard ShackelfordGeorge SingletonMonroe ThompsonSidney ThompsonBrad WatsonSteve Yarbrough

'Harry Potter didn't make it to class, instead, they were dragged off to save the world' ***** Amazon review! After what happened in France and the increasing pressure placed on the chosen seven, more and more attention is coming Michael's way. Even the Sirani Foundation is looking at the Irish lad, wondering what makes him so special... This is a question Michael continues to ask himself... His increasing notoriety in the eyes of the world, along with his fame within the Sirani Foundation and Mancini Corporation results in Michael becoming increasingly cocky, which has dire consequences in Spain... Has Michael proven himself unsuitable for leading such a task? Is he destined to fail? One thing is certain, the pressure is mounting and their experiences in Mexico and France will seem like a walk in the park in comparison to what's about to go down in Madrid.

She wanted a holiday. They needed a chosen one.Sally, Zander, and Blayde, accompanied by their new friend Nim, have only one request: no more bizarre distractions on their hunt for Earth.But before their cells can complete a single jump, the team is shoved off course and crash into a dreary old temple. Worse yet, there seems to be some confusion over Sally’s face, as it looks exactly like that the local deity, Selena, goddess of the moon and omniscient absentee. Sally’s ticking every box on the ancient prophecies checklist. Fresh off of her meds and riding the withdrawal, and Sally must choose between embracing the role of Goddess so as to protect the planet from mysterious Sky People, or being thrown in a Volcano. Not the best way to start a tropical vacation. It’s not going to be easy uniting warring factions, dealing with excitable whispering forests, or fighting both literal and figurative demons. Not to mention keeping up the appearance of divinity when all Sally wants is a nap. Armed only with some high school improv’ classes and a basic knowledge of foreign pop songs, Sally must save the planet – before everything goes up in flames.

Agency leaders spend the majority of their time on three areas – their people, clients and new business. These are all important levers for consultancy growth. But too often, agency owners forget two more essential tools for growth: attention to the numbers, and investment in their leaders. The consultancy leadership role can seem like an endless stream of fires to put out. It can leave leaders feeling as if their team, or their clients, are running their business rather than themselves. That's where this book comes in. Grow, Build, Sell, Live features practical and implementable advice and tools to address the day-to-day reality of running a successful agency. In addition to giving guidance on people, clients and new business, the book covers leadership and the numbers in detail to ensure leaders have the tools and knowledge to be in control. The content draws on proven approaches, helpful science and real-life examples to give practical recommendations to improve readers’ ability to achieve the controlled growth which is essential to agency success. If you are thinking about starting your own agency; have started one and hit your first round of growing pains, or are a veteran looking for an exit, this book is for you. It will appeal to current and aspiring agency owners who want to understand and be conscious of their choices and take control of their agency.

The Crimean war is raging a world away from London. Martha Lackland, Abel Lackland’s daughter, astonishes her family and friends by announcing her intention to go to the Crimea to work amongst the British soldiers. After the initial shock, her family rally round to help her raise money for food and medicines. Once in Scutari, Martha meets Florence Nightingale. She also meets a surgeon – the dashing Alexander Laurence and love grows between them amidst the devastation of war.

A moving fable about luck, persistence, and hope, grounded in the often tragic reality of modern-day immigration, by the winner of the 2004 Prix Goncort.Captain Salvatore Piracci has sailed along the Italian coast for the last twenty years, intercepting boats with clandestine African immigrants who have risked everything in the hope of reaching the new Eldorado. But when Piracci is confronted by a woman haunted by the death of her son, killed during an illegal crossing, he is forced to question the validity of his border-patrolling mission. Meanwhile, two brothers prepare to leave Sudan and make the dangerous passage to Europe. Separated mid-voyage, Suleiman, the youngest, vows to make it to the promised land and find the means to reunite with his ailing elder brother. At a time when debates over immigration and national identity dominate headlines in the United States and Europe, best-selling author Laurent Gaudé offers a unique portrait of the individuals who compromise their dreams and endanger their lives in search of a better existence.Laurent Gaudé is the author of Death of an Ancient King (winner of the Prix de Goncourt des Lycéens and the Prix des Libraires) and The House of Scorta (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award). His novels have been published in twenty different languages, and he is also an accomplished playwright.

The author who took readers into the strange and fascinating world of Salt Lake City escort services (in Calling Out) now returns to New York, where a single woman becomes inexplicably drawn to a college student accused of murder. Grace drinks alone in the same bar every night, confides in her longtime bartender, and observes New York City life from the sidelines. A copy editor in her mid-thirties, she is estranged from her family and, in many ways, from herself. But when a local coed is found dead, and a college student from Grace’s hometown is arrested for the murder, something within her stirs. Though the media has portrayed the boy as a spoiled rich kid who killed as revenge for a rebuffed sexual advance, Grace senses deeper layers to the story.Consumed by discovering the truth behind the case, Grace strikes up an unlikely friendship with the accused murderer, Charles. Barely sleeping and slipping further behind at work, she inadvertently dredges up dark parts of her own childhood, including the death of her younger sister twenty-five years earlier. And when Grace returns to her childhood home in Ohio, intending to chase the mystery surrounding Charles, she finds that the mystery she is chasing is actually her own.

Ten-year-old Iva Giles believes her father is lost. His checks, which once arrived every week, become sporadically-mailed wadded dollar bills, then simply stop coming altogether. She lives with her mother and little sister, half in her present world, where the scenery alters and reality is erased a little more each day; and half in her past world, that of her family foursome before it split apart.What Iva knows about her father is his obsession with water—his trips to lakes, rivers, and oceans searching for something—and that she was his favorite. He was always leaving, yet somehow Iva thinks of him as always coming back. For all these years, Iva has tried to stand still long enough for him to come to her. As their mother drives the two girls farther from where they last knew him, in a quick string of moves into smaller and smaller houses until there’s no house at all but only a motel room, Iva feels like she’s losing her grasp on their past.So she runs. She boards a Gulf-bound bus in the middle of the night, searching for what was pulling her father away. She confronts her mother’s limitations of the heart, her sister’s limitations of youth, and in the face of these, Iva chooses her own path back to the only thing she believes is real anymore, or was ever real at all. But what she finds in Pascagoula, Mississippi, isn’t at all what she expected—and so neither is she.From Publishers WeeklyA Southern girl watches her fractured family succumb to chaos as her father is consumed by mental illness in this evocative but rather monotonous first novel. Eleven-year-old Iva Giles, her seven-year-old sister, Mally, and their mother, Lilly, crisscross the South in perpetual flight from Iva's father, Jameson, who is depressed and unreliable, fixated on his brother's death in a drowning accident. Gracefully weaving flashback sequences into the family's helter-skelter journey, Reid reveals Jameson's dementia and strange obsession with lakes and rivers-he eventually becomes so unbalanced that he threatens his family. Iva initially resents her mother, Lilly, whom she views as the unstable parent-villain because of their peripatetic lifestyle and Lilly's disastrous affair with Iva's uncle, Davis. However, Iva discovers a darker side of her idolized father when she runs away and tracks him down in Mississippi. Reid sometimes strives too hard for lyricism ("I couldn't help giggling, so loud Mally woke and shot right to silk"), but she gets Iva's stubborn, innocent voice right. The Southern settings-from Texas to Tennessee-are warmly drawn, though the succession of travel scenes become redundant. Reid doesn't transcend the familiar tropes of the mother-daughter road-trip novel, but this is a richly imagined debut. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistIva Giles was 10 when her mother first packed up the house and her sister, Mally, and moved them away. When her father found them, they would pack and move again, each time farther away from their original home, and into smaller and smaller houses, and farther away from her father. Iva lives in a dream world that is part past, part reality, and part hope. All she knows is that she was her father's favorite and if she could be with him again, they would all be happy. But each time they move, Iva builds up more resentment toward her mother and loses more of her grasp on her dream of having a family again. So, in an act of desperation, Iva takes a bus back to Mississippi to find her father. But what she finds isn't what she hoped for and what she gains isn't what she expected. Reid, in her first novel, creates in Iva a narrative voice that is strong but scared, intelligent yet naive, jaded and still full of hope. Carolyn KubiszCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Spanish food is renowned for its fantastic tastes and textures, wonderful fresh ingredients and regional diversity. This beautifully designed and fully illustrated book is a showcase for over 130 delicious recipes from one of Europe’s best-loved cuisines. Fresh, bright and contemporary, it features Spanish national classics such as Sopa de Mariscos, Cocido, Paella Valenciana, Chorizo with Chestnuts, Patatas Bravas, Spicy Sausage and Cheese Tortilla, to name but a few. The recipes are easy to follow and each has a nutritional analysis to help you plan meals. With sections on tapas, soup and eggs, vegetable dishes, rice and pasta, fish and shellfish, poultry, meat and game main courses, and of course, delectable desserts and cakes, this book will help you create a complete Spanish menu and give you plenty of ideas for memorable dishes for special occasions. The book explores recipes and ingredients in the various regions that influence the distinctive local food traditions, and looks at not only what people eat, but also how and when. With an overall view on the cuisine, the culture and the social aspects of eating, this book is a perfect introduction to Spanish cooking. The author, Pepita Aris, is an authority on Spanish food and cooking, and has written many books on the subject. Pepita has had a house in Andalucia, Spain for 32 years and writes for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the American Bon Appetit! She is the founder editor of Taste magazine, has substantially contributed to the British Larousse Gastromomique, and has appeared on both radio and television to promote Spanish food and give cookery demonstrations.