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A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of "many delights" (Atlanta Journal Constitution).
A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career-if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers...
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Der neue Thriller von Bestseller-Autorin Karin Slaughter. Ein neuer Fall für Will Trent und Sara Linton Zwei gewaltige Explosionen reißen Gerichtsmedizinerin Sara Linton und ihren Partner, Special Agent Will Trent, aus der sommerlichen Idylle. Sie sind geübt darin, in Notsituationen zu helfen. Doch als sie an diesem Tag den Sirenen folgen, führt ihr Instinkt sie mitten hinein in das dunkle Herz einer mächtigen Neonazi-Gruppierung. Zu spät erkennt...
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With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been called from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.
The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples...
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Debra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble, "that one incident you zero down to and everything bad that happens afterward happens because of it." The illusion that every problem has a clear-cut cause and discernible solution is apparently her gateway drug. It Takes a Worried Woman explores the outer limits of her faith that all past hardship could have been prevented and all future hardship might still be.
Yet one person's trouble...