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2009: A 40th High School reunion marks more than a passing of time for Tom Kelleher as he seeks rejuvenation and answers in facing the question of his own mortality. In Nina, who owns the early chapter of Tom's life, he thinks he might have found an answer. After standing in her own personal fires, Nina Hassel, whose brilliance and beauty mirror her self-destructive and self-doubting nihilism, looks to the reunion to reconnect with him across time in the millennial age of instant time-travel; one which is far more technological and socially networked than the one in which they first discovered one another. As the reunion nears and their respective spouses stand unknowingly by, Tom and Nina use their past with its conflicts and entanglements to write and re-write their lives together and apart. Together, they spontaneously road trip to an iconic monument to lost youth, discover their narrative, and evolve a new trajectory at the place where James Dean transitioned into eternity, Polonio Pass.

Painting a graphic, realistic picture, Letters, presents the Civil War through the eyes of two teenaged soldiers fighting on opposing sides...for different reasons.Behind the Confederate lines, we watch James Durrett, a young recruit of the 18th Alabama Volunteer Regiment, transform from a naïve, green recruit into a bitter, deadly, but staunch defender of his homeland. Across the battle lines, the drama unfurls through the story of one Harry Morgan, a loner with a reputation as the coldest and deadliest sniper in the Union's 96th Regiment, who didn't care who he shot...as long as he could carve another notch into the stock of his Sharps rifle. In the end, the final destiny of each young man crosses on the battlefield of Spanish Fort, Alabama...with only one walking away alive.

Uno suele creer, al menos en la fe cristiana, que en cuanto termina la vida terrestre, si se tiene méritos suficientes, comienza la vida celestial. Tal vez alguien nos habló en algún momento de un lugar de tránsito llamado Purgatorio, pero seguramente no le prestamos demasiada atención. De la misma manera en que sólo asimilamos la parte más interesante de un relato para desechar los detalles poco atractivos, nuestra mente imprime un sello romántico al proceso de transformación a la vida eterna. Desde luego los medios de comunicación tuvieron también mucho que ver, ¿quién no recuerda haber visto la imagen de un angelito encantador con alas y vestido blanco? ¿Quién no ha escuchado hablar de la luz al final del túnel, de las imágenes de nuestra vida viajando a alta velocidad? Lo que sucede, de hecho, es más de lo que podemos imaginar. ¿Y qué pasa cuando la posibilidad de regreso se nos presenta?

Con Iwana, el poeta chileno Álvaro Leiva consolida una obra que viene gestándose desde 1987 para instalarse en una suerte de intersticio de la nueva lírica panamericana. Además de alter ego, la iguana es también un tributo a los varios desplazamientos lingüísticos y territoriales del autor: liróforo bilingüe que adopta la lengua de la metrópolis norteamericana al castellano chileno para hacerla transitar de la urbe en decadencia al paisaje utópico de la anarquía verde, pasando por la ciénaga del manglar y la transformación espiritual camaleónica donde "yo, tú y el camaleón somos todos". In Iwana, the Chilean poet Alvaro Leiva consolidates a work that has been brewing since 1987 to settle in a sort of gap in the new pan-american lyric . Besides being a an alter ego, the iguana is also a tribute to various linguistic and territorial displacement of the Author: bilingual bard who adopts the language of the Castilian- Chilean-American metropolis to make the city move from declining to utopian landscape of green anarchy, through the mangrove swamp and spiritual transformation of a chameleon where "me, you and the chameleon are all." Jesus Sepulveda Chilean Poet and author of Correo Negro and Escrivania

On April 22, 2010 I was single with no responsibilities. On April 23, 2010, I kissed Amy, a single mother of two. That night, we fell in love. Less than six months later we were engaged and living together and I became a father of two. A few weeks later, our third child was conceived. The man with no responsibilities suddenly had limitless responsibilities. I began keeping a weekly journal of my journey into fatherhood. This is my story. Sometimes it is funny. Sometimes it is sad. Sometimes it is touching. Sometimes it is offensive. But it is ALWAYS 100 percent honest.

Murder, mayhem, militias, marijuana, mafia and The Mons.A criminal history of Tampa focusing on its most infamous people and events of the past century. Historians seem to love painting a picture of Tampa's past as one of immigrants happily working side-by-side to create a utopian society that became the cigar capital of the world and later a destination hailed as one of "the nation's next best cities." While this is true to some extent, Tampa also has a dark side.Tampa's history can be divided into three dark eras - the early years of danger, where the greatest fear was the nightmarish individuals who were allowed to roam the nights in a city without a proper law enforcement organization in place; the mid-1900s when one of the most power criminal syndicates in the nation made its home in Tampa and when a another nation's revolutionary war affected the city's residents; and the late 1900s to early 2000s when Tampa became a sexual playground. Each flows effortlessly into the next, one always passing the torch to the next.Some of the names associated with these eras are well known in all corners of Tampa -Santo Trafficante, Fidel Castro and Joe Redner. While others are either less known or completely unknown - Charlie Wall, Tampa's first godfather; Robert Anderson, one of the nation's first serial killers; and Bobby Rodriguez, owner of Tampa's first GoGo bar. Whether known or unknown, good or bad, each of the individuals explored in this book had an impact on Tampa's history.These are their stories.

In the first volume of the Commandment trilogy, we left Zachary, the failed hermit, as he began to expiate his sins in the interior desert of fourth-century Egypt. This second volume links his story with that of Leila, the peasant girl whom the bandit Darion saved from rape at the hands of his gang. While Zachary goes through a series of bizarre experiences in a lost desert oasis, Leila travels to the White Monastery, ruled by the ruthless Shenoute, where instead of the holy calm she expected she finds only lesbian practices and spiteful intrigue. When Zachary falls mortally ill he is rescued by an unexpected savior, and recovers to find himself a peasant in the Nile valley. There he meets Leila, who has been expelled from the White Monastery, and slowly, cautiously, almost unwillingly these two "Casualties of the Life", as they call themselves, begin to fall in love.Once again, with exemplary research and evocative writing, Derek Bickerton brings to life an exotic but little-known period of history, and sheds a unique light on the early development of Christianity-both its good and its bad sides.

The Surreal Adventures of Dr. Mingus/Las aventuras surreales de Dr. Mingus is an adventure of the mind, inspired by Fellini, classical theatre, Dante, and the Mexican drug wars. The dreams of the eccentric doctor will carry readers from the chaos of the third world through the nightmare of middle class America. Félix Rodriguez has created a tapestry of modern life unlike anything you have ever read. This book contains both English and Spanish versions of this one of a kind story from one of Mexico's newest, boldest artists.

Derek Fisher is a teenage vagrant with a troubled past. The Scotts are a well-to-do suburban family. Their worlds couldn't seem any further apart, but when Derek takes refuge from the streets and secretly moves into the crawl space under the Scotts' home their paths are set on an explosive predestined collision course.