Max Winter
1) Exes
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island, the place has become an obsession. Here live the only people who can explain what happened to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking, hilarious novel-in-fragments. A former movie star impersonates himself; an ex-con looks after a summer home perched atop a rock in the bay; a broken-hearted Salutatorian airs thirteen years worth of dirty laundry at his school's commencement;...
3) Japan
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Highlights the geography, government, cities, currency, people, customs, and culture that make Japan unique in an increasingly globalized world.
4) Vietnam
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Highlights the geography, government, cities, currency, people, customs, and culture that make Vietnam unique in an increasingly globalized world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two very different people, one very small island. For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. The proud owner of a thriving Parisian architecture firm, co-founded with her brilliant new husband, Sophie had much to look forward to--including a visit to the island home of her favorite singer, Jacques Brel. For Barry Bleecker, the same trip was meant to mark a new beginning. Turning away from his dreary...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Élysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens,...