Susan Straight's Books

Mecca

A Novel

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

One of The Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2022. Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize. One of the New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2022 and one of NPR's Best Books of 2022. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. "A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an essential voice in American writing and in writing of the West." —The New York Times Book Review From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and land Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny’s moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming. In Mecca, the celebrated novelist Susan Straight crafts an unforgettable American epic, examining race, history, family, and destiny through the interlocking stories of a group of native Californians all gasping for air. With sensitivity, furor, and a cinematic scope that captures California in all its injustice, history, and glory, she tells a story of the American West through the eyes of the people who built it—and continue to sustain it. As the stakes get higher and the intertwined characters in Mecca slam against barrier after barrier, they find that when push comes to shove, it’s always better to push back.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

287

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published Date

ISBN 10

0374604525

ISBN 13

9780374604523

In the Country of Women

A Memoir

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In the Country of Women

A Memoir

By: Susan Straight

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self–proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close–knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post–slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother–in–law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.” “Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned–together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” ––Los Angeles Times

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

385

Publisher

Catapult

Published Date

ISBN 10

164622020X

ISBN 13

9781646220205

The Gettin Place

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Gettin Place

By: Susan Straight

Susan Straight's most powerful novel yet is framed by two race riots: the little known Tulsa riots of the 1920s, in which white Tulsa burned down the town's black enclave; and the notorious L. A. riots of the 1990s. Straight's brilliant story of the effects of violence in America on three generations of a family is told through the lives of the Thompsons, a large clan who live in Treetown, above downtown Rio Seco, California, and operate a car towing and repair business. Patriarch Hosea is a proud man, and a hardened one, whose father was killed in the violence that erupted in Tulsa many years earlier. All Hosea's memories come flooding black with ferocious force when the bodies of two white women are found engulfed in flames in an abandoned car on his property. These are the first signs that someone wants Hosea off his land; it is up to his son Marcus, the only one of the six children of Hosea and his half-Mexican wife who can negotiate with the white world, to help the family hold on to their home and their livelihood. But it is only when Marcus' nephew Motrice-a young man infatuated with guns and the power that they bring- comes back to Rio Seco from gang-ridden Los Angeles that the real secrets of the bodies found on Thompson land are revealed, as Rio Seco erupts in the same wave of trashing and looting that has engulfed the nearby metropolis. The Gettin Place is a powerful portrait of a family struggling to defend its turf in a changing world, to hold on to the gettin place, the source from which they derive the tools for survival.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

497

Publisher

Anchor

Published Date

ISBN 10

0385486596

ISBN 13

9780385486590

Between Heaven and Here

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Between Heaven and Here

By: Susan Straight

Glorette Picard is dead. Her body was found in the alley behind a taqueria, half-hidden by wild tobacco trees, but no one—not Sidney, who knew she worked that alley, not her son Victor who memorizes SAT words to avoid the guys selling rock out of dryers in the Launderland, not her uncle Enrique, who everyone knows will be the one to hunt down her killer—saw her die. As the close-knit residents of Rio Seco, California react to Glorette’s murder, it becomes clear that her life and death are deeply entangled with the dark history of the city, and the untouchable beauty that, finally, killed her. Just as Faulkner spent years populating his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Susan Straight has captivated readers with her rich portrait of Rio Seco in novels such as A Million Nightingales and Take One Candle Light a Room. Rio Seco is a town deep in the groves, heavy with the sweet tang of citrus and the smell from the old morgue; it’s a place some will never leave. In Between Heaven and Here, the final novel in her Rio Seco trilogy, Susan Straight tells a story of unforgettable intimacy and intensity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

McSweeney's

Published Date

ISBN 10

193807341X

ISBN 13

9781938073410

Straight from the Hip

By: Susan Mallery

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Straight from the Hip

By: Susan Mallery

Izzy has always been the fearless Titan sister. But when an oil rig blows up, leaving her barely able to see, her sisters find themselves as concerned by her emotional withdrawal as by the possibility that the explosion was no accident. Are the mind games their long-lost brother Garth has been playing turning physical? Or is someone else out to get them? When her sisters enroll her in a survivor training camp, Izzy is not happy. Nick, her instructor, is determined that she won't be left in the dark. In more ways than one. But if he tells her the terrible truth behind why he's helping her, he'll never see her again. Unless they're both willing to take the biggest risk of all.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

HQN Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1426835353

ISBN 13

9781426835353

Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston

By: Susan E Meisenhelder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston

By: Susan E Meisenhelder

Zora Neale Hurston is a controversial figure, equally praised and criticized for her representation of African-Americans; while some critics emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity. Jonah's Gourd Vine's protagonist, the preacher-womanizer John Pearson, can be seen as an African rather than an African-American trickster figure, i.e. as a mobile character whose liminality helps him fight essentialist definitions imposed on him by both the white establishment and his own community. Janie's romantic search for self-fulfillment in Their Eyes Were Watching God is undermined by the humor and the carnival, which emphasize her shifting and multiply defined identity. Finally, the African-Americanized story of Moses and the Hebrews shows the conflicts involved in their search for a unified national and cultural identity. In these three novels, Hurston appears as a subversive presence whose manipulation of humor underscores a complex political vision.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0817311319

ISBN 13

9780817311315

The Friskative Dog

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Friskative Dog

By: Susan Straight

Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

Yearling Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0440421454

ISBN 13

9780440421450

Highwire Moon

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Highwire Moon

By: Susan Straight

A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America—a “heartrending, take–no–prisoners” novel (Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award finalist. A vital and unsparing vision of America from National Book Award finalist Susan Straight. At three years Elvia was placed in foster care when her mother, Serafina, an undocumented migrant worker, was deported. Twelve years later, Serafina risks everything to return to the United States and the daughter she was forced to abandon.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Catapult

Published Date

ISBN 10

1640093605

ISBN 13

9781640093607

A Million Nightingales

By: Susan Straight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Million Nightingales

By: Susan Straight

When she is sold away from her family, Moinette begins to prepare herself for an escape to freedom, journeying through a world of brutality, sexual violence, loss, and struggle to find her way out of the bonds of slavery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Pantheon

Published Date

ISBN 10

0375423648

ISBN 13

9780375423642

Straight Talk about Child Abuse

By: Susan Mufson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Straight Talk about Child Abuse

By: Susan Mufson

A guide for teens discussing the pervasive problem of child abuse in all forms, its effects, and possible solutions. A resource section provides lists of hotlines, associations, and agencies that offer assistance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Laurel Leaf

Published Date

ISBN 10

0440213495

ISBN 13

9780440213499

Teaching Children Dance

By: Susan M. Flynn,Emily Enloe,Theresa Purcell Cone,Stephen L. Cone

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Teaching Children Dance

By: Susan M. Flynn,Emily Enloe,Theresa Purcell Cone,Stephen L. Cone

Thirty-two new dance learning experiences for K-12 students of all ability levels. Wide variety of dance styles. Instructional videos and online resources to make teaching effective and smooth. Strategies in developing learning experiences and planning lessons and units.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Published Date

ISBN 10

1718213158

ISBN 13

9781718213159

Quilting and Color Made Easy

By: Susan McKelvey,Janet Wickell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Quilting and Color Made Easy

By: Susan McKelvey,Janet Wickell

Theres always a challenge in quilting, and this book guarantees that quilters can rise to that challenge. Quilting and Color Made Easy provides all the basic techniques needed for cutting, piecing, and appliqu; includes shortcuts for sets, borders, and bindings; gives a straightforward explanation of the color wheel and how to use it specifically for quilting; and provides detailed charts for quilters to analyze and organize their fabric stash. Filled with beautiful photographs and written by two well-known professional quilters, this book appeals not only to the beginner but also to intermediate quilters who want to expand their basic knowledge.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

Rodale

Published Date

ISBN 10

1579545548

ISBN 13

9781579545543

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume

By: Susan Ireland

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume

By: Susan Ireland

Includes tips on writing an effective resume, creating an accurate yet impressive job statement, networking, using software programs and other resume technologies, and making the most of your experience.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

372

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0028644409

ISBN 13

9780028644400

Cambridge IGCSETM Physics Student's Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSETM)

By: Gurinder Chadha,Susan Gardner,Malcolm Bradley,Chris Sunley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cambridge IGCSETM Physics Student's Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSETM)

By: Gurinder Chadha,Susan Gardner,Malcolm Bradley,Chris Sunley

Collins Cambridge IGCSETM Physics provides complete coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSE Physics syllabus (0625/0972) for examination from 2023 and is packed full of questions, in depth content, practical investigative skills features and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

442

Publisher

HarperCollins UK

Published Date

ISBN 10

0008480761

ISBN 13

9780008480769

This Heart of Mine

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

This Heart of Mine

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series! Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance. Then there's her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns—that awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember Molly's name! One night Kevin barges into Molly's not-quite-perfect life and turns it upside down. Unfortunately, the Ferrari-driving riving, poodle-hating jock isn't as shallow as she wishes he were, and she soon finds herself at a place called Wind Lake. Surrounded by paintbox cottages, including a charming old bed-and-breakfast, Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life's most important lessons. Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes—if you're lucky—it can heal in a most unexpected way.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

430

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

0061753939

ISBN 13

9780061753930

Lily White

By: Susan Isaacs

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lily White

By: Susan Isaacs

In Susan Isaac's most ambitious and dazzling novel to date, we are introduced to Lee White, a criminal defense lawyer practicing on Long Island. Into her life drifts Norman Torkelson, a career con man charged with strangling to death his latest mark. At first, as Lee explains to us, the case seems routine, the evidence overwhelming. Norman--manly, magnetic and morally reprehensible--is a man who crisscrosses America looking for patsies for his cruel marriage scam: Love 'em, liquidate their assets, leave 'em. Clearly, he murdered Bobette Frisch, the dumpy, sour 50-something bar owner who had fallen madly in love with him. But just as Lee is resigning herself to the inevitable Guilty verdict, she begins to have doubts. What, after all, was Norman's motive? Why not do what he had done for the last 20 years: run and leave behind a broke and brokenhearted victim? Lee starts to wonder if her client is not only not guilty but also covering for the real killer and, in doing so, performing the first selfless act of his life. As the Torkelson case unfolds, a second narrator chimes in to tell us the story behind the story: the tale of Lee's life. Born Lily White, Lee is a smart, pretty and privileged child coming of age on Long Island. Her parents have little time for her or her younger sister, devoted as they are to the pursuit of shallowness. Her mother, Sylvia, who looks like Lauren Bacall's twin sister with a mild eating disorder, is busy with the exhausting work of keeping up her wardrobe. Her father, Leonard Weissberg--Weiss--and finally White, is consumed by his chi-chi Manhattan fur salon, his model-bookkeeper mistress, and his obsession with the family next door, the old-money, oh-so-social Taylors. When Lee marries Jazz Taylor, the scion of these blue-bloods, her life seems blessed. Suddenly she has her mother's approval, her father's love--and a sublime husband. No matter that she has to give up her dream job in the Manhattan DA's Office to move back to Long Island with him; that's what marriage is, a series of compromises made in the name of love. Isn't it? Lily White masterfully interweaves the depths of deception surrounding the twisted Torkelson case with the stunning betrayals that devastate Lee's own life. With the characteristic intelligence and delicious, razor-sharp wit displayed in her previous bestsellers, such as After All These Years and Compromising Positions, Susan Isaacs has crafted an extraordinary novel about social mobility -- about what is phony and what is real. Lily White is the seamlessly executed story of the crimes committed in the name of the good life and the victims of these violations: Those like Bobette, who do not survive, those whose spirits are crushed, and the few, like Lee, who fight back--and find something better

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

660

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

ISBN 10

0061093092

ISBN 13

9780061093098

Electric Circuits

By: James William Nilsson,Susan A. Riedel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Electric Circuits

By: James William Nilsson,Susan A. Riedel

Designed for use in a one or two-semester Introductory Circuit Analysis or Circuit Theory Courses taught in Electrical or Computer Engineering Departments. The most widely used introductory circuits textbook. Emphasis is on student and instructor assessment and the teaching philosophies remain: - To build an understanding of concepts and ideas explicitly in terms of previous learning - To emphasize the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem solving approaches - To provide students with a strong foundation of engineering practices.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

885

Publisher

Prentice Hall

Published Date

ISBN 10

0131989251

ISBN 13

9780131989252

Susan Witt's Classics for Needlepoint

By: Susan Witt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Susan Witt's Classics for Needlepoint

By: Susan Witt

Presents guidelines for selecting supplies and working with charted designs together with a portfolio of stitches and a variety of projects to needlepoint.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

138

Published Date

ISBN 10

0848705254

ISBN 13

9780848705251

PC Learning Labs Teaches PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows

By: Susan L. Reber,Richard P. Scott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

PC Learning Labs Teaches PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows

By: Susan L. Reber,Richard P. Scott

This classroom-tested book/disk learning system provides a comprehensive introduction to PowerPoint. The step-by-step instructions are designed to work with the example-filled disk so readers can learn by doing. -- Disk contains examples that work together with instructions in the book -- saves time and speeds learning

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

468

Published Date

ISBN 10

156276229X

ISBN 13

9781562762292

PC Learning Labs Teaches Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows 95

By: Logical Operations,Susan L. Reber,Charles Blum,PC Learning Labs

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

PC Learning Labs Teaches Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows 95

By: Logical Operations,Susan L. Reber,Charles Blum,PC Learning Labs

Designed to help users attain a high level of fluency in the shortest time possible, this instructional approach stems directly from over a decade of successful teaching in a hands-on, classroom environment. Throughout the book, theory is mixed with practice by presenting new techniques and then applying them in hands-on activities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

436

Published Date

ISBN 10

1562763792

ISBN 13

9781562763794

Book's by Susan Straight

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email