Cathy Gillen Thacker. MENAFWORK 1. HOODWINKED — AITI 26. STARK LIGHTNINGDiana Palmer Elaine Barbieri 2. MACKENZIE'S LADY - 3 27. THE PRINCE & THE SHOWGIRL_ + Dallas Schulze JoAnn Ross 3. AN IRRITATING MAN 28.
Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” ...
It is the least I can do," he said and took the water jug from her hands. He not only wanted to assist her, but he also wanted to keep her attention as long as possible. "Haven't I seen you at the gatherings when the Master teaches?
In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before ...
In this new collection, which includes both early and later stories, unforgettably vivid characters are captured in all of their forceful presence and singularity, their foolishness and their wisdom, their venality and their nobility, while ...
I can't afford to get sucked into his high-powered family’s treachery. But the closer I get to Callan, the more layers I find beneath those expensive clothes. Though I can’t forget this is temporary. He’s temporary.
Original. 20,000 first printing. Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
Jack Cabot doesn't want the mural his mother has commissioned for his office ceiling. But before long, Jack finds he does want something after all -- the distracting and amusing woman painting his mural.
Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession.
This is why novels matter.” —Susan Hans O’Connor, Penguin Bookshop (Sewickley, PA) “Deepak Unnikrishnan uses linguistic pyrotechnics to tell the story of forced transience in the Arabian Peninsula, where citizenship can never be ...
Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.