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Sal Benedict has become one of the most powerful mob bosses of all time. He's an understated man who lives frugally with his wife. But he's also highly temperamental, and he's about to confront an issue that'll make him go through the roof. Someone has kidnapped his son Johnny, a gifted young student at Harvard Medical School. The Irish mob has been taking family members of Italian gangsters for some time, but no one has been dumb enough before to sign their own death warrant like this.

In the playful style of Tom Robbins, Ed Abbey, and Kurt Vonnegut, Shawn Hartje’s Pipeliner is a laugh-out-loud journey through ‘90s culture. Idaho, 1993: Seventeen-year-old Jason Krabb falls for a girl from the other side of town who’s mixed up with a ragtag crew of pipeliners bringing gas lines through the high desert. Jason’s hilariously naive struggle to distinguish himself as one of the crew while attempting to leave his mark on the ‘90s grunge scene is a stirring reflection on adolescence.

Dans notre imaginaire, le diable est souvent rouge et noir, doté d'ailes, de cornes et d'une longue queue. Dans la réalité, il s'appelle Matteo Scorsese et il est séduisant, haletant et aussi tentant que le fruit défendu. Lorsque Matteo, son amour de jeunesse, qui lui a odieusement brisé le coeur, ressurgit étrangement et sans crier gare dans sa vie, Asia Williencourt s'interroge. Elle n'a qu'une solution pour obtenir des réponses : le confronter, même si elle se serait bien passée de ces retrouvailles, elle qui a mis tant de temps à se remettre de leur histoire.

Retirement is supposed to be the golden era of travel–long, leisurely vacations, romantic wine sipping by the sea, and, finally, ticking off that bucket list. They don’t tell you that travel in your golden years comes with its own set of...surprises: luggage, fights in the overhead bin, security line interrogations, the joys of navigating foreign restrooms, and the art of staying married despite back-to-back red-eye flights.