Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody's perfect -- perhaps too perfect -- lover; and Wayne, the father who left Will without warning and now sees his infrequent visits as a crimp in his bedhopping. Beattie shows us how these lives intersect, attract, and repel one another with dazzling shifts and moments of heartbreaking directness.
Raven Dexter chose to pursue midwifery the moment she helped a teen friend deliver her baby. Fed up with unconcerned physicians, she studied until she could open her small practice in a moderately sized town. Her practice was slowly growing until the night a strange man demanded she come with him to attend a birth. Her introduction to the paranormal society was in the venue of delivering a small goblin baby that quickly took a chunk out of her arm. The elf that took her to her first delivery moves in without even asking, taking care of everything from her appointments to making her meals, Eyleno Miz rapidly becomes indispensable and then becomes something more.
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This shopping trip is endless. During a quick trip to his local shopping mall to get his phone fixed, Luke Chesterfield is thrust into chaos when a nuclear bomb is detonated over his hometown. Thanks to Cold War era defenses, Luke and a handful of shoppers survive the ordeal but are trapped inside the mall, isolated with only the resources available within the various retailers to navigate their new existence. Jack Jay, a handsome and confident electronics store technician, catches Luke’s eye, but their budding attraction is put on hold when Luke unearths a conspiracy among the mall’s higher-ups to pick off those who remain trapped inside. Luke, Jack, and a ragtag team of other survivors, including a department store cashier with a proclivity for weaponry, band together to uncover the secrets and eliminate the threat. But the clock is ticking…and not everyone in their newfound group of friends will survive.
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