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Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.

Holden Henry is every girl’s dream—kind, funny, outgoing. A catch in every sense. Despite my wrong-side-of-the-tracks upbringing, he’s been my friend forever. He has no idea I’ve had more-than-friends feelings for him for years, and I intend to keep it that way. When I’m forced to return to the small town where we grew up, I’m faced with a big, fat problem. Being a good pal, Holden offers me a too-tempting solution: a marriage of convenience. It’s a crazy plan...but I’m desperate enough to try it. Besides, he’s not just saving me; we’ll be helping each other.

A female author's poems about experiences of prenatal, childhood, adult, and ghostly love. "Co" means together and "morbidity" means suffering from a disease or condition—love and longing, pain, loss, visions and mental illness. In J.J. Brown's new book of love poems in free verse, sections are: Mother's Love, Women's Voices, Ghostly Love, Comorbid Love, Family Ties, and Meetings.

Caroline Carlyle has finally shed the heavy shackles of grief and rediscovered her heart's song. Between her return to making music and a budding relationship with the charming Roderick Adair, Caroline's life is full of fresh inspiration and hope. But just as she begins to experience this freedom, Caroline finds out one of her piano students is carrying a painful burden of her own. Bella, a prodigious musical savant living with autism, and her grandmother, Gretchen, share a dark, hidden past—more dangerous and complex that Caroline ever anticipated.

L'histoire bouleversante d'une famille qui lutte pour raviver l'espoir et la justice dans une société qui a cédé à la peur. États-Unis d'Amérique, dans un futur pas si lointain. L'existence de tous est rythmée par des lois liberticides. Tout citoyen de culture étrangère est considéré comme dangereux pour la société.

Dragonfly Lake is the perfect place to hide while I find myself after years of being told who to be and who to love. The whole world has an opinion, and this once, I need to drown it all out before I lose myself completely.

From "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" (The Atlantic Monthly) comes the powerful tale of Sonia Kurisu, a young woman who grew up troubled in working-class Hawaii and struggles to raise her young son alone. Alternating between the present and the past, Yamanaka depicts Sonia's difficult childhood, her addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her string of bad lovers. As she tries to gain control of her life, she is haunted by the ghosts of three children she never had.

Thomas Jerome Newton ist ein geheimnisvoller Mann. Wie aus dem Nichts taucht der seltsame Fremde in Kentucky auf und scheint eine Mission zu haben. Mit neuartigen Technologien verdient er in kurzer Zeit Millionen und zieht dabei viel Misstrauen auf sich – aber auch das Interesse des Wissenschaftlers Nathan Bryce und der jungen Betty Jo. Während sie schnell Gefühle für Newton entwickelt, fragt sich Nathan, ob hinter dem Unbekannten mehr steckt, als auf Anhieb zu erkennen ist.

Japan, 1709. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichiro has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Lord Ienobu has left him puzzled and wary. Then a harrowing, almost inconceivable crime takes place. In his own palace, the shogun is stabbed with a fan made of painted silk with sharp-pointed iron ribs.

God Pours Salt on Slugs is drunkaloneagain's first collection of writings and poetry selected from notebooks kept while wandering the United States. This book covers the months of July through September.

We see this erupting world through the eyes of a seasoned warrior as he is pushed to the edge of his humanity. Simple Machines takes us deep into the life of the American Army Ranger as he must navigate a combat zone. This is a war novel with the rush of battle, agony of loss, and courage of the undefeated.

El color de la piel: Heredia investiga aquí la repentina desaparición de Alberto Coiro, un joven peruano que ha llegado a Chile en busca de trabajo y que reside en los alrededores del popular barrio Mapocho. Para la pesquisa, Heredia cuenta con los habituales consejos de su gato Simenon y la ayuda de un anciano que lo introduce en el mundo de los vagabundos y cartoneros que cada noche invaden la ciudad.

These are the words of a prolific man, one who has left footprints and will create many more. A man who still burns, not surface fire, but coals that smolder purposeful.

Seven Tones of Time travels the themes of sonic transformation and the harmonies of the spheres. It is the second volume in Prisms, the illuminating second series of Lauren Coyle Rosen’s selected poetic works. Prisms as frame refers to the ways in which the light of spirit or consciousness is refracted through various forms in our inner and outer realms—through prisms of the mind, heart, and soul, and through prisms of culture and nature, music and words, and much else.

Poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.

As romance blooms in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range, a mysterious skull is found in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The reconstructed face leads forensic artist and investigator Julia Rawson through an unhappy history of the Japanese American internment camps in the United States as she attempts to solve her latest thrilling crime case.

Birdie Fuller's new year is off to a bad start. Her husband has mysteriously disappeared, leaving Birdie to cope with their unmarried daughter's unplanned pregnancy. Birdie and Hannah disagree about the baby. Birdie urges her daughter to consider abortion, but Hannah is determined to see the pregnancy to term. When Hannah returns for her last semester in college, Birdie must face her demons, the problems in her marriage that drove her husband to clean out their bank accounts and run off with another woman.

Setting out to create a collection of J. Frank Dobie’s writing that brings him to life and makes him relevant to current generations, Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie’s most vital writings. Dobie’s stories and essays here are meticulously edited to prune away some of the brushy undergrowth and bring Dobie’s folksy, erudite voice bounding back to life.

Una mujer baja los escalones que llevan a la orilla del río Garona, donde hace un tiempo vive un joven harapiento con un perro. Cuando se acerca, ella le toma la cara entre las manos y lo mira. La escena es extrañamente conmovedora. ¿Qué llevó a Thierry a abandonarlo todo para convertirse en vagabundo? Isabel y su esposo, cada uno a su manera, intentan descifrar los motivos de su hijo.