[PDF] Snakewoman Of Little Egypt eBook

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1608193233

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Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend's niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband, an evangelical pastor from the Little Egypt region of Illinois, but he had it coming after forcing her to take on a rattle snake. As an anthropologist, Jackson is curious about Sunny's experiences with The Church of the Burning Bush; as a man, he is not immune to her backwoods sassiness. Although Sunny is pleased to be with a kind partner at last, she is also serious about her belated education--funded by her late uncle--at Jackson's university. French and herpetology compete for her attention, and Jackson's plan to take her to Paris to propose marriage are waylaid when she decides to travel to an academic conference with her biology professor instead. Jackson is crushed and heads for Little Egypt in Sunny's absence, to get to know her ex-husband and to study the snake-handling ceremonies at his evangelical church. Complications ensue, including Jackson's near-death experience and Sunny's murder of her ex, but fate is a positive force for all in the end. Packed with both information and emotion, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.

Author : Michael L Cox
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1913551601

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Born Together explores the fascinating and rare phenomenon of conjoined twins in both humans and animals.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1632862913

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The Truth About Death," the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa, Simon's mother, makes peace with her husband over his dead body in a cooler in the basement of the funeral home. Simon contemplates the mystery of death over a plate of spaghetti cacio e pepe in Rome with an Italian undertaker. The dog, Maya--who works as a greeter at the funeral home where she comforts those who are grieving hardest--eventually makes the truth about death known to Elizabeth, Simon's wife. New Yorker cartoons keep the family laughing during the most difficult months, Elizabeth decides to show her own cartoons (included here), to the New Yorker cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, at his office in New York. The serious issues cleverly addressed in The Truth About Death are touched with warmth, humor, and deep feeling in the eight "Other Stories," not by invoking comforting fairy tales but by accepting the fact that death and grief are part of the natural order of things. As Maya explains to Elizabeth, "It's just the way things are.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620405490

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A retired high school Latin teacher begins receiving direct messages from God after she intervenes between her daughter and her abusive husband in the new novel from the author of The Sixteen Pleasures. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Delphinium Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504061152

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Chas. Johnson & Sons, a venerated rare bookstore in urban Chicago, has been a family operation for three generations―grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the Internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop―and, in a sense restart his life―in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Haunted his entire life by an obsession with a former lover, he finds her again only to be faced with yet another even more difficult challenge that threatens the well-being of the revival of the bookstore as well as the fate of his rekindled relationship. It is rare, indeed, to find fiction that is both passionate and erudite; and in his previous books, Robert Hellenga brought us tales of love, learning and of loss. But now, with Love, Death & Rare Books, he celebrates an industry that has brought us the written word and his novel is a paean to the independent bookseller.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2009-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316090387

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An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684850273

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In his rich and dazzling new novel, the author of the bestselling "The Sixteen Pleasures" chronicles the journey of a man awakening from profound sorrow and rediscovering love in a most unexpected time and place.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781432880958

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Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop--and, in a sense restart his life--in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Haunted his entire life by an obsession with a former lover, he finds her again only to be faced with yet another even more difficult challenge that threatens the well-being of the revival of the bookstore as well as the fate of his rekindled relationship.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316026301

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An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence, featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures. Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica -- and the misguided love affair it inspired - is now, 25 years later, being made into a movie. Margot, with the help of her lover, Woody, writes a script that she thinks will validate her life. Of course their script is not used, but never mind -- happy endings are the best endings for movies, as Margot eventually comes to see. At the former convent in Florence where The Sixteen Pleasures -- now called The Italian Lover - - is being filmed, Margot enters into a drama she never imagined, where her ideas of home, love, art, and aging collide with the imperatives of commerce and the unknowability of other cultures and other people.