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Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing...

"Maricruz and Papá drive through a ranch in Mexico on their way to the grocery store, and Papá shows her the many ways love can be expressed and received"-- Provided by publisher.

"Gerry Sass is not who he appears to be. On the surface, he is the proud owner of a local country music station outside of Mystic, Iowa. Beneath it, he's a mob-connected hitman-for-hire who launders money through the station WIOA. One morning in 1986, his life of crime catches up to him when two men march him out into the woods and shoot him in the back of the head. Plunged into purgatory, he's doomed to a painful examination of his life. Unbeknownst...

A cheeky and colorful debut picture book about a father-daughter birding adventure--illustrated by Coretta Scott King Honoree Raissa Figueroa. Can you spot two early birds EARbirding on a father-daughter nature walk? With each chirp and cheep, Honeybird ticks off a color on her birding adventure list: Yellow. Tick! Green. Tick! But where's Blue? Honeybird has never seen Blue. Not ever! With her budding outdoor skills, a bit of patience, and encouragement...

"Beautiful, brilliant Lora defies the wishes of her affluent middle-class family when she quits college and elopes with Henry Brier, an upstart medical student, on the eve of his departure for the war in the South Pacific. Twelve years later, Henry and Lora are Dr. and Mrs. Henry Brier, admired and respected in their tight-knit community in Youngstown, Ohio, with three children, a gorgeous, well-appointed house on a tree-lined street, with a Buick...

"Daphne dreams of Mr. Darcy. Finn serves up pints and rock music. Can opposites attract when a tea shop princess meets her pub-owning rival?"-- Provided by publisher.

"Arthur Connoway desperately wants to free himself from the monster inhabiting his mind. Instead, he is rapidly losing control of it following his mother's death. In a last-ditch effort to feel whole again--and to lay his mother's memory to rest--Arthur decides to return to the quiet bee farm he once called home, hoping their sacred honey can heal him in more ways than one. Eight years ago, Eva Moreau's flora magic caused a terrible accident, harming...

"I think it's safe to say that my father was probably always an abomination of nature. It's 1974 in London and Connie Costa's already pitiful life has gone off the rails. She's spiraling from the loss of her mother and younger brothers in a tragic accident. And the man responsible is her Dad-otherwise known as "The Fat Murderer." Kept at home under his increasingly tyrannical rule, Connie is an outcast who spends her nights conversing with the David...

¿De cuántas maneras Papi puede decir te quiero sin decir exactamente esas palabras? Con grandes y pequeñas acciones, su amor resalta durante todo el viaje. Una conmovedora celebración del lazo entre padre e hija, ideal para quienes quedaron encantados con Mi papi tiene una moto. Un libro ilustrado muy atractivo para lectores de 3 a 7 años Cuando papi, que siempre está muy ocupado trabajando en el rancho, le pide a Maricruz que se suba a la...

"Neelu Pillai makes a last-minute decision to fly to Scotland for her estranged father's wedding with one goal: to get through it with as little conflict as possible. But when her tipsy tirade at the rehearsal dinner is the reason her father gets left at the altar, she agrees to help him track down his runaway bride. There's just one problem: The third member of this road trip through the highlands is Jacob, the hot desi bagpiper from the wedding...