Jennie Shortridge

Waking up knee-deep in the San Francisco Bay with no memory of her past, Lucie learns that she has a rare form of amnesia and reunites with a loving fiancé she does not recognize only to discover unsettling truths about her own personality, findings that are complicated by unsettling changes in her fiancé's feelings. By the author of When She Flew.

Love Water Memory

Eleanor Samuels's intense love affair with food is interrupted when she takes on the task of caring for her beloved Uncle Benny, while enjoying a flirtation with the new chef in town and uncovering some long-hidden secrets about her emotionally frazzled family. Original.

Eating Heaven

Garth Stein

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence. The quirky tenants--a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by--rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

A Novel in 36 Voices

Hotel Angeline

After seventeen years on the road in pursuit of her dream of becoming a rock star, thirty-four-year-old Tallie Beck finds her life on the skids and is forced to return home to Denver and to her crazy mother and resentful younger sister.

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