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Part personal history, part biography, DOTTER OF HER FATHER'S EYES contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds.

With so many pieces combining to form one long-form story, it’s easy to get lost inside Building Stories. Where does it begin? Where does it end? That’s all up to you, and that’s just the beginning of its brilliance.

The story of three spotty teenagers who skip school to go surfing, only to end up investigating rumors of a dead body in their beach town.

Detective John Blacksad returns, with a new case that takes him to a 1950s New Orleans filled with hot jazz and cold-blooded murder! Hired to discover the fate of a celebrated pianist, Blacksad finds his most dangerous mystery yet in the midst of drugs, voodoo, the rollicking atmosphere of Mardi Gras, and the dark underbelly that it hides!

With delightful drawings, interviews, dialogue, description, and insightful reflections, this book chronicles the first several months of the fragile and contradictory movement. It situates detailed personal experiences and representative narratives within the broad context of a truly unique and historical global conjuncture.

There are pies in the diner again, the church has been rebuilt, and single mother Trina Lockhart has found a home for herself and her baby daughter. Trina has even found love with Raymond Twinhorse, who has returned from Afghanistan after being injured and is trying to form a real family with her. However, Raymond is a different man since coming back and when he is implicated in a crime, it will take all of Pie Town to help and heal him.

Private eye Mike Hammer’s old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide, but Hammer knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. When a woman is murdered practically on the funeral home’s doorstep, Hammer is drawn into the hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds, and for the mysterious beauty who had been close to Doolan in his final days.

When Sargent "Sarge" Shriver died in 2011 after a valiant fight with Alzheimer's, thousands of tributes poured in from friends and strangers worldwide. After a lifetime searching for the path to his father's success in the public arena, Mark instead turns to a search for the secret of his father's joy, his devotion to others, and his sense of purpose.

Inheriting a beautiful old hotel on the Outer Banks could be a dream come true for Libby. However, this dream come true soon becomes a nightmare when she realizes the only way she can afford the upkeep is to sell it to developers. Worse still, her best friend and business partner has been kidnapped before her eyes, and she is under suspicion for the crime. Can Libby prove her innocence and save the inn? Or will she lose it all?

In 1876, with hopes of fleeing from the heartache and humiliation of a certain US Congressman proposing to her roommate instead of herself, Sophia Makinoff signs up with the Board of Foreign Missions, and is dismayed when she's sent to the Ponca Indian Agency in the Dakota Territory. There she meets Willoughby Dunn, a man who shares her passion, and with whom she must work with to fight for the lives of the people she has grown to love.