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First World Problems

By: Rea Keech

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This contemporary take on Flaubert’s Emma and Charles Bovary quickly becomes a satire of suburban American life. Emma Bovant has lost her job but struggles to keep up appearances even though her family can’t match the pampered lifestyle of her friends from “the Estates.” Her dissatisfaction with her position in society, like Emma Bovary’s, is caused partly by reading—in this case of articles like “Exotic Vacation Getaways to Enrich Your Life” and “Designing the Perfect Second Home.” Emma’s simple, naïve husband Charles is no help. As long as there are no preservatives, pesticides, or growth hormones in his food, he is content. He has no ambition and believes no ill of anyone, which causes trouble when the glamorous real estate developer Bea hires him as a life coach and lures him away to New York, leaving Emma to care for their third-grader Todd by herself. For solace, Emma turns to their unmarried, eccentric friend Andre. He is gay, attractive, and totally unconcerned with what he calls Emma’s "first-world problems." Partly under his influence, Emma abandons her struggle to meet the expectations of wealthy neighbors, begins tutoring an immigrant family, and comes to their aid when the corrupt county executive stages an Immigration raid as a political ploy. When Emma uncovers a conspiracy by Bea and her pastor Mitch Rainey to defraud Andre and his neighbors of their property in order complete their Riverside Paradise development, it is up to her to stop it.

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Real Nice Books

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ISBN 10

0998380563

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9780998380568

Shady Park Panic

By: Rea Keech

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Shady Park Panic

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A school shooting and groundswell of demand to arm teachers moves the satire of suburban America into the Trump era in Book 2 of this series. Anthony, the reporter from First World Problems, becomes the focus. When he submits his report that it was unarmed teachers who subdued the assailant while two parents who had claimed to be armed for personal protection fled the scene, his publisher deletes those details. It’s not what the public wants to read, and, besides, as Anthony finds out, the Ledger publisher is lending his support to a pro-gun, anti-immigrant politician in return for a favor. The assailant had aimed his gun at a parent in a hejab. But a mystery develops when it is discovered that, although a teacher was wounded, it was not the assailant’s gun that fired the shot. Bea, an evangelistic School Board member, falsely claims she saw the woman in the hejab fire the shot, and it’s up to Anthony to prove the woman’s innocence and find out who actually shot the teacher. The publisher’s daughter leaves the paper—and Anthony—to take up with a TV news anchor and starts broadcasting false reports that stir up fear of terrorism. Anthony falls in love with her replacement, the beautiful Pari, who encourages him to keep reporting the truth despite the publisher’s threats to fire both of them. Together they reveal how Bea and her cronies have worked to cash in on the fear of terrorism they helped to spread.

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099838058X

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9780998380582

A Hundred Veils

By: Rea Keech

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A Hundred Veils

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A young American professor at the University of Tehran falls in love with an Iranian artist and is thwarted by social, political, and religious forces that seem beyond his control. Set in the time of the Shah, this is a heart-warming picture of the Iranian people who befriend, guide, love, and laugh at Marco, the naive foreigner whose love for Mastaneh seems hopeless and doomed.

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0983699046

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9780983699040

Uncertain Luck

By: Rea Keech

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Uncertain Luck

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Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils. In 1969 Japan, Emiko's father has gone to Tokyo to support students protesting the Vietnam War—but hasn't come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. Alone and in despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father. To survive in Tokyo, she stays at a hostel in the seedy Sanya neighborhood and takes a job as hostess in a bar where she’s required to “talk cute,” which goes against her grain. She’s previously refused an offer to become the second wife of the rich Genji, twice her age, who had been in love with her mother. But when she’s fired and out of money, in desperation she goes to Genji’s office, hoping for a loan. Genji has something else in mind. Emiko nearly gives up finding her father when she meets Juan, an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now she's in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years. Uncertain Luck provides a vivid picture of the persistence of love at a time of political conflict in Japan.

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173559380X

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Uncertain Luck

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Uncertain Luck

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1733052496

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A Hundred Veils

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Nebulous Enemies

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Nebulous Enemies

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From the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils- Nebulous Enemies is a suspenseful story of love and intrigue in Afghanistan as aid workers fear the looming withdrawal of American forces protecting them from the Taliban. In Baltimore, Roger's wife suddenly disappears, and although their relationship was never normal, he leaves the States to pursue her in Afghanistan, suspecting she has run off with Lyle, a U.S. contractor working there. In Kabul he is shocked to find out the horrible crimes his wife and Lyle have committed. Lyle threatens Roger's life, and Roger finds that Lyle is also a danger to Sophie, a Belgian aid worker who teaches Afghan women. For them, Lyle is an even more immediate threat than the Taliban bombings plaguing the city, and Roger's goal is now to save Sophie and himself. Nebulous Enemies is a condemnation of the corruption of some mercenary overseas military contractors and a testament to the bravery of the idealistic aid workers who remained there to the last minute trying to help the Afghan people.

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Shady Park Panic

By: Rea Keech

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The Shady Park Chronicles

The Complete Trilogy

By: Rea Keech

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The Shady Park Chronicles

The Complete Trilogy

By: Rea Keech

This is the complete text of The Shady Park Chronicles series, including First World Problems, Shady Park Panic, and Shady Park Secrets. The series follows a suburban mother, a newspaper reporter, and a high school teacher as they work to fight the corruption and xenophobia of their town.

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1733052437

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First World Problems

First World Problems

Shady Park Panic

Shady Park Panic

A Hundred Veils

A Hundred Veils

Uncertain Luck

Uncertain Luck

Uncertain Luck

Uncertain Luck

A Hundred Veils

A Hundred Veils

Nebulous Enemies

Nebulous Enemies

Shady Park Panic

Shady Park Panic

The Shady Park Chronicles

The Shady Park Chronicles

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