Introducing Journeys - a memorial anthology of select writings by Ned White.
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Maybe it started with his trip to Devils Tower ten years earlier, or maybe it was connected to his life-threatening abdominal surgery a few years later. But for Billy Buck, something is seriously askew, seeming to corrupt the very fabric of reality around him.
Now he's on a cross-country road trip with his two teenage kids to deliver them to their mother in Southern California as part of their custody agreement. In a decrepit old van they call the Green Latrine, one can expect misadventures over three thousand miles. But what happens along the way lurches sharply off the highway into the realm of the nearly impossible, challenging their view of themselves and the world they inhabit. Something out there - powerful and invasive - has its sights trained on them.
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For Jack Lovett, the sudden death of his wife unleashes the sort of grief that goes far beyond the usual boundaries - into unexplored zones of doubt, confusion and superheated passion. Emotionally rich, laced with irony and other people's bad behavior, THE WIDOWER draws us into the wounded head and heart of one vulnerable man -- and a series of tumultuous adventures with too many casseroles, too many women, hostile in-laws, unwelcome surprises at work, and a budding love interest who just might be able to understand why he is the way he is.
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He arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratories as an amnesic heap in a dusty arroyo with only a candy wrapper as a hint to his identity. But Reese Archuleta would soon become one of the leading string theorists of his age.
Dahlia "Sage" Stipes, a gun-wielding Buddhist-in-training from Wichita, is on the lam from a train wreck of a marriage. When she and Reese meet, apparently by accident, they soon suspect that what binds them together -- and inflames their passion -- may be anything but coincidence. A heady and rollicking adventure of intrigue, Taosim, physics and love -- set against the unruly cultural landscape of New Mexico -- STRING THEORIES careens through a broad sweep of unlikely characters and events toward a final, mind-bending revelation. |
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A man and the woman he loves seek firm foundation for their lives in a post-9/11 American landscape where sense of place is shifting and uncertain. Hugh Ogden is a computer systems theorist developing advanced algorithms for Artificial Life. Abigail Sipes, a high-powered corporate consultant with star status, is a widow struggling with fractured memories of a personal tragedy so profound it seems to threaten her very existence: in some way that defies rational understanding, she literally vanishes into thin air.
Complicating their search for answers is the suprise arrival of an abused child whom society has discarded and planted on their doorstep. As their three-way bond grows and deepens, the truth of Abigail's bizarre affliction seems more within reach. PLACE is a story of science and blindness, love and faith, the wreckage of family and its resurrection -- and the quest for affirmation of the certainty of life. |
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Awards winner!
For 16 year-old Woody Elmont, life in rural Georgia is a tolerable routine of caring for his aging Aunt Zee, hanging out with his friend Natalie, or minding his developmentally disabled younger brother, Tick, who was born "a few pickles short of a barrel." It is Tick's uncontrollable kleptomania that lands him in a nearby home for troubled youth, from which he soon disappears, thereby propelling Woody on a grand and improbable cross-country adventure to learn the truth of his brother's fate. |
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