LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william auten

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  • In Another Sun
    William Auten
    'I don’t want happiness. I want meaning.'Second edition. The American-born only child of Mexican immigrants, Vanessa Ochoa thought she knew what she wanted until she got it. But when a crisis forces her to redefine her life and start over in the place she swore she would never return to, she searches for something transcendent among the ruins of memory. The narrative weaves in ...
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    18,58 €

  • Cloudbreak
    William Auten
    'A life inside yourself isn’t a life.' Seventeen stories laced with humor and heart crisscross America where ordinary men and women search for identity and order. A retired colonel investigates a cloaked figure at a naval station. Struggling with PTSD, a sister makes a request of her brother. After success at work, a man’s stress outlet creates problems on a family vacation. Ol...
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    18,49 €

  • Night School
    William Auten
    'What you hear is what you know, but what you don’t know is what you need to hear.' When college radio DJ Scotty Piper receives mysterious messages connected to his love of music and encyclopedic knowledge about a legendary rock band and their enigmatic guitarist, he leaves behind his colleagues and everything familiar and raises the odds he may never return home or to the job ...
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    16,31 €

  • Pepper’s Ghost
    William Auten
    BEHOLD THE GORILLA-GIRL! Charlotte Alexandra Long is determined to leave all she knows: her ill-fitting office job, her unreliable boyfriend, and the city she has lived in since adolescence. But leaving that life requires leaving her haunted father who wants nothing but the best for her yet reminds her of a past he’s not ready to let go. After joining a traveling amusement comp...
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    15,38 €

  • Inroads
    William Auten
    Extraordinary stories about ordinary Americans. A stock-car driver gets money any way he can for his son’s birthday present. A girl meets a horse for the first time. Two firefighters help each other while a storm delays their camping trip. A museum employee is asked to monitor her colleague. A boy wavers saying goodbye to his friend. A super receives an evening call from an eld...
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    15,15 €

  • October
    William Auten
    Faced with increasing loneliness and mortality, Patty Pemberton is torn between a past she honors, a present she assumes is stable, and a future she doesn’t know how to plan for. After a new friend disappears from her life, and as autumn deepens and the year’s end closes in, she journeys into her community and the places and histories binding them all-and haunting her-until she...
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    15,63 €

  • A Fine Day Will Burn Through
    William Auten
    Hollywood and Japan. The South and Midwest. Outer space and back home. Past and present. Myths and truths. Expectations and desires. Animals and humans. A storage locker and a softball game. A school play and an art installation. A bar mitzvah and an old tattoo. William Auten’s new fifteen-story collection A Fine Day Will Burn Through bridges cultures and explores how people of...
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    14,93 €