Showing results for "Plane" in Literary Fiction

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless...

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel "Rukeyser weaves a dreamlike spell—'Twin Peaks’ by way of ‘Northern Exposure.’" —LA Times "Fantastic.” —The New York Times Mira is a...

Nueva York, 1991. Cuando Elton era un niño, sufrió un cruel ataque de odio en la escuela que aún lo traumatiza. A los 17 años, se muda desde su pueblito natal a la gran ciudad para cursar el último semestre de la secundaria y comenzar una nueva vida. La Calle que Cambió mis Planes es un poderoso coming of age que toca temas como la amistad, la vocación, el primer amor, y profundiza en el daño que provocan el acoso escolar y la homofobia.

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper.

David hat Job und Wohnung gekündigt, das Flugticket in der Tasche, den Koffer voller Geld. Da ruft die siebzehnjährige Nicole an und behauptet, er sei ihr Vater. In der leeren Wohnung erwartet David das Eintreffen der vermeintlichen Tochter. Davon unbeeindruckt zieht die attraktive Nachmieterin Angelina ein... Die desillusionierte, verheiratete Maria hat den alten Pietro bis zu dessen Tod gepflegt und sein heruntergekommenes Hotel geführt.