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Immerse yourself in the tale of a lifelong tennis enthusiast with Richard S. Hillman's A Tennis Story. Peter Love fell in love with tennis the day his father introduced the game to his son during a family vacation at a resort in the Catskill Mountains. He played tennis throughout his college years until he graduated from Upsilon University in 1965, trying to cope with the socio-political strife of the '60s by using tennis as an outlet to navigate the stress and pressure of everyday life. During this time, he met the beautiful May Taylor-his future wife. After his stint as a professor at NYU, Peter and his wife retired to Florida. Now, as age has finally caught up to him, Peter struggles to keep up with the game he has loved all his life.
"Funny, poignant, and heartwarming, A Tennis Story is an ode to the game of tennis. The book follows the adventures of a diehard devotee and his lifelong quest to stay competitive even as his body catches up to the passing of the years. Richard S. Hillman infuses a lot of heart and humor into this story. The author captures the turbulent times of '60s and '70s America with an engaging narrative that plays out like a slice-of-life drama with some relevant social commentary. Peter Love is a fascinating protagonist whose inner monologues were some of my favorite parts of the book. The scene when he teamed up with May for a mixed-doubles match had me in stitches. All in all, this is a must-read for tennis fans and drama lovers alike." -Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
--Chicago Sun-Times
When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense--a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful. But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, and in anger her father cuts her out--setting off an explosive series of events that will leave none of them unchanged. A classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family.
"While she has written beautifully about families in all of her seven preceding books, [this] effort is her best: a family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres, of the human heart".
--The Washington Post Book World
"A full, commanding novel . . . This is a story bound and tethered to a lonely road in the Midwest, but drawn from a universal source. . . . A profoundly American novel.1
--The Boston Globe
"A TOUR DE FORCE".
--Newsweek
"POWERFUL AND POIGNANT".
--The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Andy Carver and Byron Walker are basically good guys. They just happen to have a highly questionable side-hustle.
Andy was a soldier. Now he's a tractor parts salesman with an adrenaline deficit. Walker is a middle school PE teacher who needs two part-time jobs just to make ends meet. Another thousand dollars a month would make a big difference for Walker. When an opportunity presents itself, Andy and Walker commit their first burglary, with more to follow.
Then they come across a weapon that has to have been stolen from the military. Andy feels obligated to report it to the Army, which means tiptoeing around what he and Walker were doing in a place they didn't belong. Soon, he's in an uneasy alliance with two military police investigators and an ATF agent.
All of this takes place in Raleigh, North Carolina during the early days of COVID-19 and the social and political upheaval of that time. Walker has a run-in with a group of anti-lockdown protestors who turn out to be connected to the stolen weapon. Later, he and Andy are caught up in a Black Lives Matter protest that turns into a riot.
Andy and Walker learn that right and wrong aren't always black and white.
Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past.