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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
Candacy Taylor
Genre: Travel | Politics & Social Sciences | Teen & Young Adult
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Counter Culture celebrates the well-seasoned waitresses who race to our tables, argue with the cooks and bring humor and culture to the American roadside dining experience. It’s a window into the lives of career waitresses who have worked in diners for up to sixty years. They do more than serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. This book takes a moment to honor and recognize these American icons and their contribution to our communities.
In large cities and small towns across the country the best diners are more than restaurants, they are neighborhood institutions that bring communities together. From the Gold ‘N Silver in Reno, Nevada, to the Sip ‘N Bite in Baltimore, Maryland, these places are not defined by their menus or decor but by the waitresses who have established bonds with their customers and their communities over decades of service.
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Soul of the Blade
Brenda J. Pierson
Genre: Fantasy
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Aeo, assassin for the king of Arata, thought wielding the legendary Bok’Tarong would be the ultimate show of power. Instead, his soul has become trapped inside the enchanted sword, and his only means of contact with the world is a new bearer who despises him for his crimes. They are humanity’s only defense against the mind-eating parasites preying upon mankind, and the key to possibly destroying them forever. Doing so would mean putting their trust in new, dangerous allies … but if they fail, they’ll have to watch the world fall to the Coming Madness.
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The Snowden Avalanche
Derek Swannson
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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In the very near future, only the rich and the devious have privacy. The Snowden Avalanche has revealed the private transgressions of ordinary US citizens in such astonishing numbers that the whole aggrieved nation seems to be coming to the collective decision that the Puritan prudery of America’s first settlers finally, and forever, has to be kicked to the curb.
Manhattan-based iAesthetician Sabina Hrafnsson has made a lucrative career out of buffing up the images of those who got caught in the Snowden Avalanche with their pants down. Aside from her sucky luck at romance, she’s happy with the way things have turned out. But when Sabina agrees to do some PR work for a secretive Wall Street billionaire—“the Thomas Pynchon of high-frequency trading firm CEOs”—the complications in her life suddenly go viral.
Sabina becomes entangled in a web of conspiracies so vast and bizarre that it soon feels like she’s living a sequel to Orwell’s 1984. Only this time Big Brother faces a more formidable foe than Winston Smith: a wily and gleefully foul-mouthed New York City blonde who looks “like that intrepid Alpine waif, Heidi, all grown up into a high-strung slut wearing see-through yoga pants from Lululemon.”
If Big Brother has any plans for slut-shaming, he’d better watch his f#@king back…
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American Aliens: A Collection of Short Stories
Patrick J. Power
Genre: Literary Fiction | Short Stories | United States
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This collection of stories, of America, conveys a raw intensity allied with a keenly observant eye. A narrator, whose work is both powerful and personal, Patrick J. Power is startlingly original. He creates highly visual portrayals of below-the-radar, seldom-documented American immigrant experiences. There is intensity and sometimes darkness in stories that span the seventies, eighties and nineties; stories of life and death; love and loss; sometimes humorous, sometimes bleak and troubled.
Two teens acquire an automobile and drive across America without a driving permit. They experience thought-provoking encounters with locals along the road, problems crossing the border into Mexico.There is the humorous and yet sad tale of four friends vain search for whiskey on Christmas Day, the stark portrayal of a man sinking into drug addiction having fallen in with the wrong crowd, the young Polish immigrant enticed into running a marathon of desire, an Irish immigrant who feuds with two Iranian work colleagues over immigration rules and regulations. These are undeniably stories of heartbreak and joy, from the depths of despair to the dizzy heights of life itself.
The story of immigration is the story of America itself. These eighteen short stories paint a picture of how American Aliens survive and strive to evade the anxiety of their dilemma on a daily basis. The reader is challenged to think about life on the outside, the struggle of those that do not belong yet conversely keep a country alive.
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A Chance Meeting: Desolate Road Book 1 (Desolation Road)
Billy Hutsell
Genre: Action & Adventure | Contemporary Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
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A small house stands beside a desolate road. A small girl loses her family. A lone wanderer takes shelter from a storm. Can these two survive in a desolate land?
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