![]() For her the worlds of language and life are one and the same: ``Lorenzo, I forget what's real. We meet again a powerful, fiercely independent woman of Mexican heritage, though this time innocence has long been lost. Readers of Cisneros's coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street (which Knopf is reissuing in hardcover) will recognize the almost mythic undertow of her voice it never weakens. You bring out / the primordial exquisiteness in me.'' As if breaking all the rules (``Because someone once / said Don't / do that! / you like to do it''), she delves with urgency into things carnal-sequins, cigars, black lace bras and menstrual blood. ![]() ![]() The three parts of this spirited collection address the heart, ``spangled again and lopsided.'' In her second book of poems, Cisneros ( My Wicked Wicked Ways ) presents a street-smart, fearlessly liberated persona who raves, sometimes haphazardly, always with abandon, about the real thing: ``I am. ![]()
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After all, he has so much to offer…but does he really deserve what he gets? Zanth Claims Treasure, Yes, the southern estate smells great, even better smelling is the glass orb full of magic that he finds, and will fight to keep…īaccat Chooses His Person, Life on the streets in the winter isn’t what Baccat deserves, and he’s determined to find a good person to take care of him. He’s determined to make the leap from cat to Fam, but didn’t realize exactly what that meant… Pinky Becomes A Fam, Pinky is a smart enough cat to know that there is a difference from being a regular cat and a Familiar Companion Cat, and bonding better with his boy. Zanth Gets His Boy, Zanth’s meeting with a noble boy running from evil people changes both their lives in ways he couldn’t imagine Peaches Arrives on Celta, Plenty of problems for Peaches to fix: challenges to his status people lying about Peaches’ human companion and Peaches himself Grandma’s acting mean.and there’s that very real concern that the Ship just might not land safely, fear he must overcome… These stories are seen from the cat’s very own eyes, and are six never before published Cat Stories, including the first Top Cat of Celta, Peaches as well as a trio of stories about that favorite Fam, Zanth. ![]() ![]() They can be Familiar Animal companions, bonded with a person. 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Two rookie cops, an Irish immigrant named Francis Gleeson and his partner, Brian Stanhope, are on foot patrol in the Bronx when they answer a call about an armed robbery in progress at a nearby bodega. Books about the dilapidated New York of the '70s and '80s have been having "a moment" ever since Patti Smith's memoir, Just Kids, was published in 2010 and, though Keane's novel, which takes place far away from Smith's punk hangouts, goes on to span 40 years, its opening scene of a city gone haywire sets the emotional mood for the story that follows. ![]() It's one of those delicate titles that instantly goes poof! into the air but that's the only strike there is against Keane's novel which is, otherwise, one of the most unpretentiously profound books I've read in a long time.Īsk Again, Yes opens up in 1973 in New York City. That's what everyone I've raved to about this book has said to me a couple of minutes after I've told them the title. Mary Beth Keane's new novel is called Ask Again, Yes. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ask Again, Yes Author Mary Beth Keane ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems as if everyone in "Haunted Ground" wrestles with family issues of one sort or another – a marriage in trouble, a lost love, a tragic disappearance, middle-age crisis, family shame, revenge, and more. When asked to stay around in order to complete an archeological survey for Osborne, Maguire agrees and devastating secrets from the modern era are revealed. Yes, there is more than one puzzle to be solved. The policeman continues his own, mostly single-minded, investigation. There is no sign of Osborne’s wife, but Maguire and Gavin get caught up in the mystery of discovering who the centuries old red-haired woman was and how only her perfectly preserved head came to be there. ![]() The unique properties of the bogs have been known to preserve artifacts, bodies, and even food for centuries and they hold a fascination for archeologists. And so are the police, who are looking for a missing woman married to a local landowner, Hugh Osborne. Nora Gavin, an American lecturer with Irish roots, has a special interest in bog bodies and is also notified. ![]() He is used to finding odd bits of pottery, but this day, he finds a woman’s head buried in the bog.Ĭormac Maguire, a Dublin archeologist helping out the National Museum, is asked to oversee the excavation in order to preserve this rare find. Erin Hart’s debut novel, "Haunted Ground ," opens with Brendan McGann digging for peat to use as winter fuel, a ritual his ancestors have practiced in that very spot in East Galway as far back as anyone can remember. ![]() |