The Road Builder [Jul 02, 2002] Hershenow, Nicholas ...

The Road Builder

Literature & Fiction

Hershenow, Nicholas

United States

Blue Hen Trade

In fourteenth-century France, Bonne Mirabilis, a woman born "God's bastard" and the wet nurse to the wealthiest woman in town, discovers that she alone holds the key to saving the desperate, starving inhabitants of a village under siege. Reprint.

Mirabilis

Cokal, Susann

Contemporary

"Wes Hingler lives in the shadow of his eccentric, fiercely opinionated cook parents, whose separate kitchens and shared bedroom spontaneously combust into battlegrounds at the flip of a spatula. Argument and habanero chile are the dominant spices of Wes's life, permeating the ever-tense atmosphere of Kansas City's Tsil Café (his father's Southwestern/Native American restaurant) and the kitchen of Buen AppeTito (his mother's eclectic catering business). Professional rivalries, romantic triangles, and assorted betrayals all make for a volatile upbringing...A lovingly written coming-of-age gem." (Library Journal) "Sex...heartbreak and habaneros...Averill's sure hand in the culinary department keeps this Café simmering." (San Antonio Express-News) "Completely satisfying...It may be made only of words, but the great tastes of this novel linger like honey and burn like chili." (Calgary Herald) "In a time when one of our food groups is 'fast,' there is something genuinely nourishing about the banquet that Averill prepares." (USA Today) "Compelling." (Kansas City Star) "Voluptuous." (Booklist)

Secrets of the Tsil Café: A Novel with Recipes

Averill, Thomas Fox

The Deadwood Beetle

A stirring novel follows Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist and aging recluse, who stumbles upon a long-lost family heirloom in a New York antique shop and must deal with the painful memories it carries with it. By the author of The Medusa Tree. Reprint.

Dressler, Mylène

Romance

When a modern New England town is wracked by accusations of child abuse at a local preschool, bankrupt small-town journalist Terry Mathers must climb out of his middle age torpor to scoop the national media on the story. By the author of St. Burl's Obituary. Reprint.

The Webster Chronicle

Akst, Daniel

Literary

Reminiscent of the legendary tales and fables told by travelers who encountered strange and otherworldly creatures that profoundly impacted their lives, a powerful collection of twenty-six vignettes details the fragility and wonder of love in everyday life. Reprint.

Any Small Thing Can Save You

Adam, Christina

Short Stories & Anthologies

Unable to forgive her sister, Amanda, for her unmerciful manipulations or for the role she once played in their father's mentally damaging games, Molly finds herself powerfully attracted to Amanda's lover, and uses her own skills of manipulation, deceit, and betrayal to steal him away from her sister, which ultimately forces her to confront her own loneliness. A first novel. Reprint.

In My Sister's Country

Haines, Lise

Genre Fiction

Abandoned by their mother after their father's suicide, Lily and Mabel live on their own in their grandmother's old junk shop in rural Nebraska. They are bonded by their loyalty to each other-and by their urgent desire to reconcile their own versions of the past. In what she means to be a rebellious act, Lily steals a car with her boyfriend and heads southwest to confront her mother. Mabel stays behind, hoping to commune somehow with her father's ghost...in a textured, eccentric, and redemptive tale as spare and compelling as the Nebraska landscape.

Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters

Schaffert, Timothy

Dreaming of both escape and belonging on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the 1940s, Louise White Elk, a determined and beautiful young woman, comes of age as she is pursued by three dangerous men who will do anything to possess her--police officer Charlie Kicking Woman, the charismatic Baptiste, and Harvey Stoner, who owns nearly everything around him. A first novel. Reprint.

Perma Red

Earling, Debra Magpie

The Metal Shredders

After a painful separation from his wife, John Bonner is not certain he will continue running the family scrap metal business, but the discovery of thousands of dollars stashed in the trunk of a car will shake him from the doldrums. A first novel. Reprint.

Zafris, Nancy

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