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  Rogue Wave

  Boyd Morrison

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  A minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined to obliterate Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known—including his wife and daughter—unless he can save them from nature's most destructive force.

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  The Storm

  Kate Chopin

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  "The Storm" is Kate Chopin's most sexually charged story, and as such is quite exceptional for a work which was written in 1898. It describes a chance sexual encounter between Calixta and her former flame Alcée during a heavy storm in Louisiana when her husband Bobinôt and her son Bibi are absent.Chopin's description of the events of that day is refreshingly modern and free of the stifling morals of the day. The sexual liaison she presents as something inevitable, healthy, and as strong and natural as the storm that is raging outside.

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  Difficult Women

  Roxane Gay

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  The New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist shares a collection of stories about hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister’s marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind.  From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Roxanne Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America with her “signature wry wit and piercing psychological depth” (Harper’s Bazaar).

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  A Lead Pill

  R A Jacobson

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  My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. 
  A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. 
  Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes the only solution is a lead pill. 
  A life of stacked years never knowing that it was all in service to a memory in Service Up. 
  What do you do when life has outlived the reason to be alive in Tired of Living. 
  Finding love in the strangest places can lead to some strange results in Passing it Forward. 
  The desperate do desperate things that they soon come to regret in Haymaker. 
  She wanted the power, she just didn’t want to be used by it in The Refusal. 
  All your life you have wanted something but maybe you didn’t know what that was in The Touch. 
  His love of numbers led him to ask for something that turned out to be something else entirely in Adding it up.

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  Evening With Garrison Keillor...

  Garrison Keillor

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  What do Grammy winner Garrison Keillor, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Maya Angelou, acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, and National Book Award winner Tom Wolfe have in common? On a November night in 1990, this quartet of accomplished writers and performers united for a worthy cause—             to participate in readings to benefit the homeless. Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, the event was hosted by yet another luminary, James Thurber award-winning humorist Calvin Trillin. Among America's wittiest, most perceptive, and popular writers, these five united to create a memorable experience for listeners around the world—             and to make a difference in the lives of needy men and women.

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  Ghosts of Christmas Past and...

  Sam Kates

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  Christmas needn't only be about good cheer . . . 
  Four festive tales of the supernatural, apocalyptic and blood-sucking variety—an antidote for anyone who occasionally finds Christmas overly sentimental or commercialised and likes to escape to somewhere darker.

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