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FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR
KINGSOLVER, BARBARA
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of
Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant
and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm,
oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by
surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man. In the opening scene, Dellarobia is
headed for a secluded mountain cabin to meet this man and initiate what she expects will be a self-destructive
affair. But the tryst never happens. Instead, she walks into something on the mountainside she cannot explain or
understand: a forested valley filled with silent red fire that appears to her a miracle. After years lived entirely in
the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out, chapter by chapter, into blunt
and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at
large.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 500,000 IN CANADA
HARPER COLLINS 272 PAGES
9781443412995
$31.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
LARGE PRINT EDITION AUDIO DISC
9780062124302 ($36.99) 9780062124326 ($57.99)
FOOD FOR THE GODS
DUDLEY, K.A.
Pelops troubles began when his father chopped him into stewing meat and served him to the gods for tea.
Although he 's been remade, and gifted with a talent for the culinary arts, there are downsides--namely a missing
shoulder and sea god with an infatuation. Poseidon 's nice enough, but he just doesn t take no for an answer.
Not only that, a wealthy, but mysterious patron has been causing Pelops clients to cancel their engagements.
Meanwhile, a rival chef is doing his best to destroy Pelops reputation, the woman Pelops loves appears oblivious
to his feelings, and just before Athens most important festival begins, Pelops finds himself suddenly without olive
oil--a serious concern for a chef. But things get worse when a courtesan is murdered at a dinner Pelops
prepares--drowned in his newly-acquired olive oil. Seeking vengeance, the Furies arrive in Athens, and the rival
chef blames their attacks on Pelops. Clients cancel in droves, and even Pelops friends are affected by his rival 's
machinations. Pelops asks the gods for help, but when they turn him down, he realizes he alone must find the
woman 's killer to salvage his reputation.
FANTASY
RAVENSTONE 344 PAGES
9780888014016
$16.00 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
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