When her brother-in-law dies in a freak accident, Marcy Moon rushes to offer support & solace to her older sister Cleo. Their reunion opens the floodgates of family memory, & Marcy is forced to re-examine her childhood hero-worship for her older, glamorous sister, as well as her relationship with her strange, unassimilated mother, her own emotional affairs, & the cultural conflicts that arise from being first generation children of Korean immigrants. Like Amy Tan, Park conjures up her characters, & the clash of old & new cultures, with a faultless sense for where absurdity shades into heartbreak, & with perfect pitch for a whole range of wonderful voices. & there's a delightfully satisfying twist in the tail of the story, as we discover that our narrator
- now running from her past in Indian territory in the Nevada desert
- is less than reliable, & that her own weird ideas & easy sentiment are not the author's.

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Lowri was happier than she had ever been. A romantic weekend away with her br&-new fiancé Jon was proving just the break they both needed
- until he disappeared from their bedroom, leaving nothing behind but a terrifying mystery. For Lowri soon discovered that the man she thought she had known & loved was a very different person to the reality
- particularly when she met his wife, Sarah. & the police naturally treated Lowri as the prime suspect in what they assumed to be a murder case.

More evidence came to light of Jon



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'I just know this plane is going to run into turbulence & crash!'
' My mind will go blank when I give my presentation at work &
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'I just know this plane is going to run into turbulence & crash!'
' My mind will go blank when I give my presentation at work &
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Penny's friend Natasha Linnett is a minx, & when she's bad she's very, very good. When a dominant, wealthy American wine buyer takes an interest in Natasha, she realises she can pretend to secure for him some bottles of real Napoleon-era brandy. She doesn't realise, however, just how many are the bizarre & lewd sex acts in which she must collude to maintain the deception. Will Natasha manage to line her pockets as she wishes, or will she be caught out ignominiously like the bad girl she really is? ...

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded & ferociously moralistic young woman.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy & her hapless, childlike husb&, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning & discontent that is at once pitiless & compassionate.
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In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded & ferociously moralistic young woman.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy & her hapless, childlike husb&, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning & discontent that is at once pitiless & compassionate.
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When sheep cannot sleep, what do they do? One night a sheep called Woolly cannot sleep, so he decides to go for a walk to try to tire himself out. When that doesn't work, he tries climbing, then running, then jumping. But perhaps there is a more conventional way for Woolly to fall asleep... ...

When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter ...

When the Comics Went to War is an expansive, authoritative history of the British war comic book genre, from the first publications ...