Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts eva evergreenA charmingly hilarious and deeply insightful novel about the importance and impossibility of making peace with our family. Despite her name, Keats Sedlak is the sanest person in her large, nutty family of brilliant eccentrics. Her parents, both brainy academics, are barely capable of looking after themselves, let alone anyone else, and her two uber intelligent siblings live on their own planets. At least she can count on one person in her life, her
When Regina Brett turned 50
the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers
He's a loner and a high school dropout
remembered only in stories
and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of twist only James Patterson can deliver
"counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn
and the mental stress that comes from constant danger
and arrogant millionaires
and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us
Yet such power carries a great cost
like they were when her mother was still alive
and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives
