Helen Phillips
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A young couple sets out to build a life together in an unstable world haunted by monsters, plagued by disasters, full of longing--but also one of transformation, wonder, and delight, peopled by the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, the Virgin Mary, and Anne Frank. Hovering between reality and fantasy, whimsy and darkness, these linked fables describe a universe both surreal and familiar.
2) The need
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood -- joy and dread, longing and suffocation -- in blazing, arresting prose.
"When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room,...
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x, 213 pages ; 22 cm
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"In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.Some Possible Solutions offers an idiosyncratic series of "What ifs": What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through everybody's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if...
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PRE-ORDER the BRAND-NEW, brilliantly funny novel from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell.
This year, their families can deck the bloody halls themselves...
Old friends Shelley, Lena and Pearl have reached their limit with the festive preparation that has always fallen to them, and five days before Christmas, they've booked a mini break… without their families. Up until Christmas Eve, they'll...
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A totally brilliant, escapist and uplifting read that will break your heart and put it back together again, perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly, Jill Mansell and Debbie Macomber.
I always thought I was going to be a girl who did something. I was going to run my own business and find fame and fortune! Fall in love…
But here I am. Still waiting for it all to happen, sitting on the floor, surrounded by lilies and roses, trying to do my best friend's...
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Rick Meadows is a retired detective who spent his final years in law enforcement working with the Crimes Against Children unit. In this role he confronted predators inflicting tremendous evil upon innocent children. One day in early May he was called to intervene in the life of a ten-year-old girl, Shantay. Rick quickly discovered that Shantay was not only the victim of one of the worst cases of child abuse in the state of Virginia, she and her sister...
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Lucy and Alpha are identical twins. But on the inside, they couldn't be more different. A story about healing through nature and listening to the wildness inside us all...
When Lucy and Alpha's parents split up, they move with mum to their grandad's home in the forest. Mum has a new job at a rewilding centre, reintroducing wolves to the wild.
Lucy loves the forest where she can stargaze with her telescope. And she can't go back to school and face...