One Amazing Thing survival tails

One Amazing Thing survival tailsFrom the acclaimed author of The Palace of Illusions, nine strangers are forced to connect in the wake of a natural disaster in this emotionally thrilling novel. "Powerful and beautifully written." Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an

This is not at all what he learns

The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut

beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz

and James Madison

from the media-crazed build-up and intertwined careers of the three combatants to the tournament's final dramatic putts that would change the game of golf forever

Gabriel Roth gives us a hilarious and heartbreaking meditation on self consciousness

Is there a possible nuclear threat

uniform subdevelopments that promised all of the comforts of postwar technology

suppressed political opposition

Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect

in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador

Linked by the theme of a writer's "first time" -- usually the first time he got paid for his work