Unlikely Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unlikely Animals write by Annie Hartnett. This book was released on 2023-02-28. Unlikely Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Book Riot • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad’s illness, her mom’s judgment, and her younger brother’s recent stint in rehab, but she’s unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they don’t spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma’s dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn’t really trying to be a hero, but somehow she and her father bring about just the kind of miracle the town needs. Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.
Unusual Creatures
Unusual Creatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unusual Creatures write by Michael Hearst. This book was released on 2012-09-26. Unusual Creatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms"-- P. [4] of cover.
Weird Friends
Weird Friends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weird Friends write by Jose Aruego. This book was released on 2002. Weird Friends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn about funny and fascinating animal friendships around the globe.
Elephant Company
Elephant Company - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elephant Company write by Vicki Croke. This book was released on 2014. Elephant Company available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "At the onset of World War II, [Billy] Williams formed Elephant Company and was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in Burma and saving refugees, including on his own 'Hannibal Trek, ' [becoming] a media sensation during the war, telling reporters that the elephants did more for him than he was ever able to do for them"--
Rabbit Cake
Rabbit Cake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rabbit Cake write by Annie Hartnett. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Rabbit Cake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. People Magazine Book of the Week A Best Book of the Year at Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, The Chicago Review of Books, Minnesota Public Radio, and more An Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick Fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Kevin Wilson's The Family Fang will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother. Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn’t yet know—like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother's silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother's death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the endurance of humor after loss.
