![]() As the deadline to save the manor approaches, fractures among the sisterhood are revealed, and long-held secrets are exposed, culminating in a fiery confrontation with their enemies.įunny, tender and uplifting, the novel explores the formidable power that can be discovered in aging, found family and unlikely friendships. Thankfully, they get a bit of help from Persephone, a feisty TikToker eager to smash the patriarchy. The witches are determined to save their home and themselves, but their aging powers are no match for increasingly malicious threats. ![]() Then things take a turn for the worse when Ruby’s homecoming reveals a seemingly insurmountable obstacle instead of the solution to all their problems. ![]() In an act of desperation, Queenie makes a bargain with an evil far more powerful than anything they’ve ever faced. One man is hellbent on avenging his family for the theft of a legacy he claims was rightfully his. Still, there’s hope, since the imminent return of Ruby-one of the sisterhood who’s been gone for thirty-three years-will surely be their salvation.īut the mob is only the start of their troubles. All eyes turn to the witch in charge, Queenie, who confesses they’ve fallen far behind on their mortgage payments. A looming threat.įive octogenarian witches gather as an angry mob threatens to demolish Moonshyne Manor. ![]() “Bianca Marais is a genius” - Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪ coven of modern-day witches. ![]()
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![]() In Wake in the Night, we are reminded why we must push beyond easy categories and find new ways of understanding the roles we play. By employing forms that break with convention in the same spirited ways her characters do, Laura Krughoff creates a world of stunning detail that examines just what people will do when expectations stifle truth. Spanning the last century with narrators aged 10 to 100, these stories reveal women struggling to fit a definition of womanhood that cannot contain them. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen. ![]() 'Laura Kroghoffs stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones.' Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Wor. Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend’s older brother a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. Buy Wake in the Night by Laura Krughoff for 34.99 at Mighty Ape Australia. Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella Six stories span a century of rural American women. ![]() The stories are solemn but powerful, bleak but invigorating. Laura Kroghoff’s stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones. Wake in the Night is one of the strongest short-story collections I’ve read in years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The catch? They have to pretend to be in love. One viral video later, the world thinks Nathan and Bree are the perfect couple and Nathan's publicist has an idea that could mean financial security for Bree. ![]() Rebelling with a couple of tequila shots, she spills her deepest, darkest secret to a TMZ reporter. When Nathan comes to the rescue and buys the entire building, a stubborn Bree is not happy about it. Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she loves her family and warm days. And that's the least of her problems.Īfter a car accident ended her chance of becoming a ballerina, Bree now runs her own dance studio - if she can afford the rent to keep it open, that is. Sarah Adams is the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet. Bree Camden is helplessly (and secretly) in love with her longtime best friend and NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. ![]() ![]() The Addams An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (American, 1912-1988) throughout his prolific career many have never been published before. ![]() (When he did name the deadly matriarch, he was inspired by the Yellow Pages listing for ‘Morticians.’) Other characters were born and developed in a multitude of Addams's cartoons over the next twenty-six years, before the cheerfully creepy clan debuted on ABC television in 1964 and later on the big screen, twice, in 19. Addams first created Morticia, Lurch, and The Thing in a cartoon published in a 1938 issue of the New Yorker -though he hadn't named them at the time, or even conceived of a family unit. The ‘evilution’ of Charles Addams's singularly eccentric family began long before the television and film interpretations made them icons of American popular culture. ![]() |