All That is Behind Us Now
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Two ordinary people met and fell in love. After some hesitation and nearly a decade together, they married and moved across the country. In Seattle, Washington, they bought a house and a Subaru. All clouds were nines.
Sexy, smart, gregarious Liz approached Abby, who wandered art museums, managed a restaurant, and otherwise led a solitary life. Older, Abby found herself buoyed by Liz’s verve. Liz, for her part, desired Abby from the start and fell deeply for her solicitude.
A high school shooting dismantles their long years of predictability and security. Their attunement—their marriage—is tested as Liz convalesces and each tries to comprehend and move past the inexplicable.
All That is Behind Us Now takes into rich account the unexpected tragedies that go on in the modern world. In Abby and Liz, we find two characters teeming with personality, passion, and perseverance.
Sexy, smart, gregarious Liz approached Abby, who wandered art museums, managed a restaurant, and otherwise led a solitary life. Older, Abby found herself buoyed by Liz’s verve. Liz, for her part, desired Abby from the start and fell deeply for her solicitude.
A high school shooting dismantles their long years of predictability and security. Their attunement—their marriage—is tested as Liz convalesces and each tries to comprehend and move past the inexplicable.
All That is Behind Us Now takes into rich account the unexpected tragedies that go on in the modern world. In Abby and Liz, we find two characters teeming with personality, passion, and perseverance.
Youth at Risk
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Betrayed by her girlfriend and stalled in her career, Lee Bauer takes to the road to revitalize her sense of purpose. But west-coast hookups, fights with street kids, and misguided vision quests fail to invigorate her, and she must ransack her personal and workplace relationships for new ways to flourish.
Youth at Risk rejoins psychologist Lee Bauer (Factory, 2017), now in her thirties, as she continues her practice with troubled teens and struggles to reclaim herself, others, and life's potential writ large.
Youth at Risk rejoins psychologist Lee Bauer (Factory, 2017), now in her thirties, as she continues her practice with troubled teens and struggles to reclaim herself, others, and life's potential writ large.
Factory
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Nineteen-year-old Lee Bauer has flunked her way out of college and is moving back in with her parents and younger sister. Her father presents her with a bill for her wasted tuition--and a demand that she repay it immediately. With limited employment options for a college dropout, Lee takes a job at a local ice cream factory. The work is monotonous but strangely comforting. Days are filled with aimless gossip and hanging out with equally aimless coworkers.
Then she meets Kris, a coworker unlike anyone Lee has encountered, and she feels a growing attachment that inspires comparable amounts of excitement and confusion. As Lee wrestles with her feelings and identity, family and friends, and struggles to find her place in an uncertain world, she is torn between the freedom of youth and the responsibility of adulthood.
Then she meets Kris, a coworker unlike anyone Lee has encountered, and she feels a growing attachment that inspires comparable amounts of excitement and confusion. As Lee wrestles with her feelings and identity, family and friends, and struggles to find her place in an uncertain world, she is torn between the freedom of youth and the responsibility of adulthood.
Above an Abyss
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Two contrasting tales of suspense anchor Above an Abyss: Two Novellas, Ryan Masters's debut collection of fiction. In Trampoline Games, all is not well among the sharply defined suburbs of Salt Lake City in the summer of 1986. A 12-year-old boy arrives in a land of "mountains, Mormons, crickets" to find baffling prejudice, but also intoxicating freedom, lust, moments of heaven and, in the end, a terrible violence. In The Moth Orchid, a woman embarks on a desperate quest into her past in hopes of finding answers when a hereditary form of early onset dementia begins to ravage her mind. Set against the noir backdrop of a sub-zero Alaskan winter, The Moth Orchid is a gripping tale of one woman's struggle with the inevitability of oblivion.
Elm and North
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Elm and North explores the life of Morris Proot, a school bus driver who is slowly turning to bone. With his girlfriend gone and his best friend dead, Proot sinks into isolation after a fight on his school bus forces him into a mind-numbing job as a crossing guard. Seeking comfort, he reaches out to an enigmatic University of Pennsylvania genetics professor, the foremost researcher of his disease. But when Proot's attempts at communication go unanswered, he downspirals into frustration and wretchedness. In an act of final despair, he travels to Philadelphia for a face-to-face confrontation with the one man he feels owes him answers, solace, and maybe even a little hope. The story of a lonely man's battle against a horrific disease, Elm and North is of course a comedy.
The Canyons
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The Canyons unfolds through the perspective of Harlan Baxter, a functionary tasked by his New York-based company to investigate deteriorating conditions at a Colorado coal mine. While Baxter struggles to orient himself in the pressurized coalfields, a mine shaft explodes, killing several miners and precipitating a strike. The company imposes harsh countermeasures which Baxter must oversee, but when provocation leads to murder, Baxter allies himself with the miners to fight alongside them in the most violent labor insurrection in American history.
Votives: From the Daybooks of Gertrude Tate, 1898-1952
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Gertrude Tate lived with her intimate friend, Alice Austen, on Staten Island in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Given a camera at the age of eleven, Alice took over 1,000 photographs of life in Lower Manhattan and of her immediate surroundings on Staten Island. Her acute artistic and social sensibilities seal her passion for the art form. Gertrude was a dance instructor and devoted companion. The two women lived together for over fifty years until a fire forced them apart.
Votives are selections from Gertrude's private daybooks.
Votives are selections from Gertrude's private daybooks.