They say politics makes strange bedfellows...Elated to secure her first paid political staff position, Bijal Rao is eager to focus her efforts on the election of her candidate to U.S. Congress. However, Bijal's first unforeseen obstacle is her profound and unexpected attraction to their opponent—incumbent Congresswoman Colleen O'Bannon¬—who is outspoken, charismatic, and openly lesbian.An even greater hurdle is the subterfuge and pretense that pervades the climate in Washington, D.C., where small missteps are readily painted as major gaffes, and lies are explained away as "in the public's best interest." During the heated campaign, both Bijal and Colleen struggle not to cross the lines of propriety—and perhaps more importantly, their party lines.

Unknown

Didier VAN CAUWELAERT

Michael, Joseph

Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Unknown is a fast-paced tale of one man's desperate attempt to reclaim his existence--even at the cost of his own life. Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he's a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person--family, colleague, or doctor--can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax or of his own paranoid delusion? In his high-powered new novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Blackstone Audiobooks

"Simply thrilling. Its surprising denouement works a retrospective magic." - New York Times Book Review "Van Cauwelaert has assembled his plot perfectly, like an intricate timepiece, and we are amazed by the precise ticking that sounds at every twist in the tale. The book reads like a close cousin of Philip K. Dick, the acknowledged master of doubting what's real." - Olivier Delcroix "A devilishly well-oiled plot, which grabs the reader with both hands, drags him along, and twists him around." - Le Spectacle du Monde Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he's a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person—family, colleague, or doctor—can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax, or of his own paranoid delusion? In his high-powered new novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation. Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Out of My Head is a fast-paced tale of one man's desperate attempt to reclaim his existence—even at the cost of his own life.

Out of My Head: A Novel

Mark Polizzotti

Other Press

Winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt, shosen as one of the Best Books of 2003 by The Seattle Times. One-Way recounts the comic, absurd, and all-too-believable adventures of Aziz Kemal, a young Frenchman raised as an Arab by Marseille gypsies. Arrested for a crime he did not commit, Aziz becomes the target of a government campaign to repatriate illegal immigrants and finds himself en route to Morocco, despite the fact that he is not Moroccan. Accompanying Aziz is a touchingly naïve and neurotic "humanitarian attaché" named Jean-Pierre Schneider, who drowns his own personal woes in his zeal to build a new life for his charge in a land neither one has ever seen.

One-Way

Humor & Satire

On dirait nous (French Edition)

Contemporary

French and European Publications Inc

Avec ses enquêtes minutieuses, tout son humour, sa passion du merveilleux et sa distance critique, Didier van Cauwelaert nous livre une aventure à couper le souffle. Un véritable jeu de piste qui nous entraîne du savoir sans fin des civilisations disparues aux dernières découvertes de la physique, du mode d'emploi de l'espace-temps aux secrets d'une énergie inépuisable, non-polluante et gratuite qui, demain, pourrait être mise à la disposition de l'humanité. C'est toute notre vision du monde et de l'avenir qui bascule enfin dans le sens de l'espoir, au fil des confidences et des révélations en provenance (apparente) d'Albert Einstein et Nikola Tesla deux esprits toujours libres que ni la censure des vivants ni le silence de la mort n'auront réussi à faire taire.

Au-delà de l'impossible (French Edition)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

L'éducation d'une fée

Ed. France Loisirs

Das Evangelium nach Jimmy

Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag

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