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The Crane Wife

A Memoir in Essays

By: CJ Hauser

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A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.

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Family of Origin

A Novel

By: CJ Hauser

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Family of Origin

A Novel

By: CJ Hauser

A novel by the author of the viral essay sensation "The Crane Wife": When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's Island, he calls on Elsa, his estranged older half-sister, to help. This, despite the fact that it was he and Elsa who broke the family in the first place. Elsa and Nolan travel to their father's field station off the Gulf Coast, where a group called the Reversalists obsessively study the undowny bufflehead, a rare duck whose loss of waterproof feathers proves, they say, that evolution is running in reverse. On an island that is always looking backward, it's impossible for the siblings to ignore their past, and years of family secrecy threaten to ruin them all over again. Yet, despite themselves, the Greys urgently trek the island to find the so-called Paradise Duck, their father's final obsession, all the while grappling with questions of nature and nurture, intimacy and betrayal, progress and forgiveness.

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The Crane Wife

A Memoir in Essays

By: CJ Hauser

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Family of Origin

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The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

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The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

The quest for a broader reform of the current political regime and for equitable redistribution of Angola's wealth constitutes the most surmountable challenge this country faces since the end of civil war in 2002. State power has become a personalized affair to the extent of perpetuating an entrenched, centralised and overly bureaucratic structure of governance. To understand these dynamics, this book explores the role of the 'public' in post-war Angolan politics. The reality mimics the acti ...

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443866717

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Ice Age Southern Andes

A Chronicle of Palaeoecological Events

By: C.J. Heusser

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Ice Age Southern Andes

A Chronicle of Palaeoecological Events

By: C.J. Heusser

The Southern Andes, stretching from the subtropics to the subantarctic, are ideally located for palaeoenvironmental research. Over the broad and continuous latitudinal extent of the cordillera (-24˚), vegetation is adjusted to climatic gradients and atmospheric circulation patterns.Opposed to the prevailing Southern Westerlies, the Southern Andes are positioned to receive the brunt of the winds, while biota are set to record the shifting of incoming storm systems over time. Sequential, latitudinally-placed, sedimentary deposits containing microfossils and macroremains, as archives of past vegetation and climate, make possible the detection of equatorward and poleward displacement of plant communities and, as a consequence, changes in climatic controls. No terrestrial setting in the Southern Hemisphere is so unique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction during and since the last ice age. Twenty radiocarbon-dated fossil pollen and spore records chosen to place emphasis on the last ice age include high-resolution, submillennial data sets that also cover the Holocene, thus providing contrast between present interglacial and past glacial ages. From a refined data base, the records constitute the foundation for interpreting factors responsible for vegetation change over >50,000 14C years, glacial-interglacial migration and refugial patterns for a diversity of taxa, and the extent of intrahemispheric and polar hemispheric synchroneity versus asynchroneity.

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0080534384

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9780080534381

Dominion

By: C.J. Sansom

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Dominion

By: C.J. Sansom

C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule -- the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints. But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights. C.J. Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned Sansom comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway. Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn't just recreate the past -- he reinvents it. In a spellbinding tale of suspense, oppression and poignant love, Dominion dares to explore how, in moments of crisis, history can turn on the decisions of a few brave men and women -- the secrets they choose to keep and the bonds they share.

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0316254924

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9780316254922

The Cruise

By: Chris CJ Jones

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The Cruise

By: Chris CJ Jones

Millie Dunbrook—a young and unproven private investigator badly in need of steady work—has been hired to perform some exploration into a few strange yet minor incidents aboard a Caribbean cruise liner. Jack Hauser—a man still stinging from the recent departure of his wife and daughter—is simply another passenger trying to enjoy a relaxing cruise while searching for some personal answers in hope of finding new meaning to his life. Two other passengers have a completely different agenda, however. Neither Millie nor Jack, in their wildest dreams or nightmares, ever expected this cruise to be the ultimate target of an improbable plot, devised to completely destroy the boat and everyone aboard if the ransom demands aren’t met. What results is an amazing nautical game of terror as the ship and passengers sail unknowingly toward an approaching death.

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146708235X

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Advances in Nitrogen Heterocycles

By: C.J. Moody

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Advances in Nitrogen Heterocycles

By: C.J. Moody

This volume contains a range of topics such as the activation and manipulation of pyrroles, the synthesis of annelated pyrroles using acylation reactions and the synthesis of kainoids, a family of highly biologically active nitrogen heterocycles.

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0080560768

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The New Voices in Fiction Sampler

Summer Selection

By: Joshilyn Jackson,Hazel Gaynor,Mary McNear,Nadia Hashimi,Emmi Itäranta,CJ Hauser,Katherine Harbour,Rebecca Rotert,Holly Brown,M. P. Cooley,Carrie La Seur,Sarah Creech

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The New Voices in Fiction Sampler

Summer Selection

By: Joshilyn Jackson,Hazel Gaynor,Mary McNear,Nadia Hashimi,Emmi Itäranta,CJ Hauser,Katherine Harbour,Rebecca Rotert,Holly Brown,M. P. Cooley,Carrie La Seur,Sarah Creech

New York Times bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson presents The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection. This free e-book sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and upcoming titles by debut fiction authors you'll want to get familiar with early on. The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection includes: An Introduction from Joshilyn Jackson and an excerpt from her latest novel, Someone Else's Love Story, on sale now. And excerpts from: The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta The From-Aways by CJ Hauser Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert Don't Try to Find Me by Holly Brown Ice Shear by M.P. Cooley The Home Place by Carrie La Seur Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson

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Harper Collins

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0062348795

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9780062348791

Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice #2

By: C. J. Henderson

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Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice #2

By: C. J. Henderson

Several tales feature women wronged seeking the ultimate revenge, empowered by the spirit of Lady Justice. In "Control Freak," Brigitte Diamond (formerly Brigitte Dyson) is on a quest for justice that leads her to the man who taught her to kill-her lover! It's steel against steel as she fights the final battle for her sanity and her soul. "Woman About Town" features two ex-cons with a new score planned-but there's betrayal in the air. When the smoke clears, there's going to be a price to be paid, and the new Lady Justice will be there to collect it. Plus: Slow Death," "Disliked and Feared," and the origin of Lady Justice is finally revealed in "The Highest Bidder.

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1629915173

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The Governance of Energy Megaprojects

Politics, Hubris and Energy Security

By: Benjamin K. Sovacool,C. J. Cooper

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The Governance of Energy Megaprojects

Politics, Hubris and Energy Security

By: Benjamin K. Sovacool,C. J. Cooper

ÔBenjamin Sovacool and Christopher Jon Cooper have produced an astonishing and well-written book, based on extensive original research in twelve countries. They explore the technical, social, political and economic dimensions of four energy megaprojects. The large scale of megaprojects always appears to complicate the decision-making process and often causes failures. Megaprojects may even reinforce corruption and erode democracy. It highlights that todayÕs experiences can be explained by statements by Aristotle and Einstein who argue, both in their own way, that is always wise to take the limits of size into account and to reduce the size of projects, wherever this is possible. For everybody involved in megaprojects, this book must be read!Õ Ð Hugo Priemus, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Based on extensive original research, this book explores the technical, social, political, and economic dimensions of four Asian energy megaprojects: a regional natural gas pipeline network in Southeast Asia, a series of hydroelectric dams on the island of Borneo, an oil pipeline linking Europe with the Caspian Sea, and a very large solar energy array in the Gobi desert. This book investigates why energy megaprojects fail to deliver their promised benefits. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of the complicated dynamics driving Ð and constraining Ð megaprojects initiated in the rapid scramble for energy resources and efforts to improve energy security. The authors approach the assessment of megaprojects from a socio-technical angle, emphasizing broad issues of political leadership, regulation, financing, interest group opposition and environmental impact, as well as conventional technological factors such as engineering design and project management. The Governance of Energy Megaprojects will prove insightful for academics concerned about energy policy, energy security, environmental impact and technology assessment. But the book should prove equally compelling to those engaged in the practical management and implementation of large-scale energy projects anywhere in the world.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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178195254X

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NEITHER MIND NOR BRAIN

An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

By: CJ ROY

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NEITHER MIND NOR BRAIN

An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

By: CJ ROY

This book is an interdisciplinary theoretical effort to explain the mind-body problem. Conscious mind is the hard problem to be explained and is the utmost existential question for any scientific mind. Neither a reductionist identity theory nor a commonsense-religious dualism can answer the problem. Human cognitive system can have a natural explanation rather than a religious description. To reduce the mind as what the brain does is too premature and to separate the mind and brain as two independent realities is too trivial. The hypothesis of the book identifies the conscious mind with the emergent functionality of the human brain. And, this is definitely an approximate guess. This informed guess is a challenge to many previously established theories and is an invitation for further research. It demystifies the age old homunculus mind and does not explains it away. To elaborate the theme, the author has incorporated themes such as complex system dynamics, evolution, cosmology, thermodynamics, information and emergence. The philosophical discussion on the first three chapters govern as an intuitive background for the theoretical development in further chapters. It affirms that the mind and brain are neither two dichotomized substances nor are they one and same substance. Chapters from four to eight deal with various themes from natural science with respect to the theme of mind-brain. they involve system dynamics, cosmology, thermodynamics, evolutionary theory and information model. Last chapter assimilates the discussions of previous chapters to propose the key hypothesis of the book viz. mind-brain is the emergent functionality of the human brain which is the matter-energy-information complex system. The universe, which itself is a matter-energy-information system, at least in one occasion, becomes conscious of itself through humans.

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The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®

26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

By: Edward M. Lerner,Richard A. Lupoff,Clifford F. Simak,Damien Broderick,Reginald Bretnor,William F. Nolan,John Gregory Betancourt,James H. Schmitz,C.J. Henderson,Darrell Schweitzer

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The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®

26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

By: Edward M. Lerner,Richard A. Lupoff,Clifford F. Simak,Damien Broderick,Reginald Bretnor,William F. Nolan,John Gregory Betancourt,James H. Schmitz,C.J. Henderson,Darrell Schweitzer

Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best. TIME OUT, by Edward M. Lerner THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald Bretnor PROJECT MASTODON, by Clifford D. Simak 12:01 P.M., by Richard A. Lupoff TIME CONSIDERED AS A SERIES OF THERMITE BURNS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, by Damien Broderick TIME AND TIME AGAIN, by H. Beam Piper TRY, TRY AGAIN, by John Gregory Betancourt THE ETERNAL WALL, by Raymond Z. Gallun THE MAN FROM TIME, by Frank Belknap Long OF TIME AND TEXAS, by William F. Nolan THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE, by H. Beam Piper THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (10), by Grendel Briarton TIME BUM, by C.M. Kornbluth NEBOGIPFEL AT THE END OF TIME, by Richard A. Lupoff UNBORN TOMORROW, by Mack Reynolds LOST IN THE FUTURE, by John Victor Peterson THE WINDS OF TIME, by James H. Schmitz ARMAGEDDON -- 2419 A.D., by Philip Francis Nowlan THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE, by Edmond Hamilton A TRAVELER IN TIME, by August Derleth THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (71), by Grendel Briarton FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW, by H. Beam Piper IN THE CRACKS OF TIME, by David Grace SWEEP ME TO MY REVENGE!, by Darrell Schweitzer THE SOLID MEN, by C.J. Henderson THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (Epsilon), by Grendel Briarton And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see many more entries in this series, covering westerns, mysteries, science fiction, pulp fiction, and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434446301

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The Detective Megapack ®

28 Tales by Modern and Classic Authors

By: Vincent Starrett,Jacques Futrelle,Johnston McCulley,Arthur Conan Doyle,C.J. Henderson

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The Detective Megapack ®

28 Tales by Modern and Classic Authors

By: Vincent Starrett,Jacques Futrelle,Johnston McCulley,Arthur Conan Doyle,C.J. Henderson

The Detective Megapack presents 28 choice mysteries, spanning the Victorian age through modern times. From Dashiell Hammet to Arthur Conan Doyle, from Vincent Starrett to Johnston McCulley -- there is something for every fan of detective tales! IT TORE THE LAUGH FROM MY THROAT, by Meriah L Crawford THE TAGGART ASSIGNMENT, by Vincent Starrett TOMORROW'S DEAD, by David Dean THE FLAMING PHANTOM, by Jacques Futrelle MESSAGE IN THE SAND, by John L. French ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, by C.J. Henderson THE RED THUMB MARK, by R. Austin Freeman MONSIEUR LECOQ, by Emile Gaboriau THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, by Edgar Allan Poe HELL-BENT FOR THE MORGUE, by Don Larson DEATH OF THE FLUTE, by Arthur J. Burks OH FANNY, by Raymond Lester CLANCY, DETECTIVE, By H. Bedford-Jones THE TATTOOED MAN, by William J. Makin TRIGGER MEN, by Eustace Cockrell BUTTERFLY OF DEATH, by Harold Gluck MY BONNIE LIES..., by Ted Hertel THUBWAY THAM, FASHION PLATE, by Johnston McCulley THE MURDER AT TROYTE'S HILL, by Catherine Louisa Pirkis THE AFFAIR OF THE CORRIDOR EXPRESS, by Victor L. Whitechurch SECRET SUGGESTION, by Vincent H. O’Neil THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle BLACK SUNRISE, by Jack Halliday THE LION'S SMILE, by Thomas W. Hanshew THE NAIL, by Pedro de Alarçon THE ROME EXPRESS, by Arthur Griffiths IN THE FOG, by Richard Harding Davis OFFICER DOWN, by Robert J. Mendenhall If you enjoy this volume of stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

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147940800X

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Feline Medicine and Therapeutics

By: E. A. Chandler,R. M. Gaskell,C. J. Gaskell

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Feline Medicine and Therapeutics

By: E. A. Chandler,R. M. Gaskell,C. J. Gaskell

Knowledge of the cat has advanced rapidly in the 9 years since the second edition of Feline Medicine and Therapeutics was published. The primary object of this book remains the same however - to help veterinary surgeons and students to practise the art and science of feline medicine.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470680458

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A Delta-man in Yebu

By: A. K. Eyma,C. J. Bennett

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A Delta-man in Yebu

By: A. K. Eyma,C. J. Bennett

A collection of papers from the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (http: //welcome.to/EEF) on a variety of Egyptological topics, of interest to both professionals and laypersons. Five broad themes may be discerned: royalty in ancient Egypt, scarabs and funerary items, archaeology and early Egypt, Egyptology - past, present and future, and ancient Egyptian language, science and religion

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Universal-Publishers

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158112564X

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The From-Aways

A Novel

By: CJ Hauser

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The From-Aways

A Novel

By: CJ Hauser

Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine and Richard Russo’s Empire Falls. Two women come to Maine in search of family, and find more love, heartbreak, and friendship, than they’d ever imagined one little fishing town could hold. When Leah, a young New York reporter, meets Henry, she falls in love with everything about him: his freckles, green thumb, and tales of a Maine childhood. They marry quickly and Leah convinces Henry to move back to Menamon. As Leah builds a life there, reporting for The Menamon Star and vowing to be less of an emotional screw-up, the newlyweds are shocked to discover that they don’t know each other nearly so well as they thought they did. When Quinn’s mother dies, she tracks down the famous folk-singer father she’s never known, in Menamon. Scrappy and smart-mouthed, Quinn gets a job at the local paper, an apartment above the town diner, and tries to shore up the courage to meet her father. But falling in love with her roommate, Rosie, was never part of the plan. These two unruly women’s work relationship at The Star deepens into best-friendship when they stumble onto a story that shakes sleepy Menamon—and holds damaging repercussions for Leah’s husband and Quinn’s roommate both. As the town descends into turmoil, both women must decide what kind of lives they are willing to fight for.

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