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Bright and Tender Dark

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“Pearson bursts onto the scene with a gripping murder mystery fueled by the craziness of the internet.” -DebutifulDays after the dawn of the new millennium, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, her freshman-year roommate Joy, mid-divorce and desperate for a new beginning, stumbles on an old letter from ... Read more

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“Pearson bursts onto the scene with a gripping murder mystery fueled by the craziness of the internet.” -DebutifulDays after the dawn of the new millennium, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, her freshman-year roommate Joy, mid-divorce and desperate for a new beginning, stumbles on an old letter from
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Every Human Love

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The fourteen stories in Every Human Love redefine our sense of reality. Set seemingly in the quotidian, these tales veer into the unexpected, the uncomfortable, occasionally the eerie, thrusting characters in crisis into still greater quandaries, where the world of weddings and work, of frustrated hopes and mundane dissatisfactions, collides with a realm of legend, of fairy tale, of nightmare. ... Read more

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The fourteen stories in Every Human Love redefine our sense of reality. Set seemingly in the quotidian, these tales veer into the unexpected, the uncomfortable, occasionally the eerie, thrusting characters in crisis into still greater quandaries, where the world of weddings and work, of frustrated hopes and mundane dissatisfactions, collides with a realm of legend, of fairy tale, of nightmare.
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Able Muse, Winter 2018 (No. 26 - print edition)

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by Alexander Pepple, Matthew Buckley Smith, Joanna Pearson, Amit Majmudar, Heinrich Heine, Maryann Corbett ...

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This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2018 issue, Number 26. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the ... Read more

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This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2018 issue, Number 26. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the
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Ploughshares Summer 2025 Guest-edited by Victor LaValle

by Victor LaValle, Nadia Bulkin, S.A. Cosby, Carolyn Ferrell, Tristan Hughes, Jac Jemc, Zara Karschay, Barbara Lock, Rachel Mans McKenny, Thomas McMullan, Olajide Omojarabi, Joanna Pearson, Deesha Philyaw, Siavash Saadlou, Rho Weber Mack, Helen Phillips ...

The Summer 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Summer 2025 issue, edited by ... Read more

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The Summer 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Summer 2025 issue, edited by
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Now You Know It All

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Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery—and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager Southerners venturing afar, these stories capture the crucial moment of irrevocable change. A young waitress accepts an offer from a beguiling stranger; a troubled boy attempts to unleash the villain from an
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The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills

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For anyone who's ever survived a rite of passage or performed a mating dance at Prom . . .The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC ... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant. Janice loves anthropology--the study of human cultures--and her observations help her identify useful rules in the chaotic world ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson, read by Mara Wilson.For readers of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, a wire-taut literary debut about a murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.“Bright and Tender Dark . . . will sweep you away.” —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth“A haunting and lyrical read” —Becky Cooper, ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson, read by Mara Wilson.For readers of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, a wire-taut literary debut about a murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.“Bright and Tender Dark . . . will sweep you away.” —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth“A haunting and lyrical read” —Becky Cooper,
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The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills

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For anyone who's ever survived a rite of passage or performed a mating dance at Prom . . .The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC ... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant.Janice loves anthropology--the study of human cultures--and her observations help her identify useful rules in the chaotic world of
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A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up isa wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves ... Read more

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A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up isa wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves
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I'm the happy one. The dependable one.The shoulder. The anchor. The pillar. The rock. The matchmaker.I'm the one you call when you've had a bad day. When you need to vent, or scream, or cry. I will always be there to comfort you. It's a gift. A talent. A role I've happily played. I've helped my friends become who they were meant to be. I've watched them move away, find love, start their lives.But ... Read more

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I'm the happy one. The dependable one.The shoulder. The anchor. The pillar. The rock. The matchmaker.I'm the one you call when you've had a bad day. When you need to vent, or scream, or cry. I will always be there to comfort you. It's a gift. A talent. A role I've happily played. I've helped my friends become who they were meant to be. I've watched them move away, find love, start their lives.But
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The Best American Short Stories 2012

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#1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER! USA TODAY Bestseller!This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys: passing a simple blade of grass on the sidewalk, the freedom of peeing outdoors late at night, or the way a hand-built ceramic mug feels when it's full of warm tea on a chilly morning. It's a catalog and a ... Read more

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