The House Guest

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Author : Eleanor Nilsson
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Author : Deborah L. Norris
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Maggie Davis is a middle-aged widow and heiress of a grand Victorian mansion built in 1910 by her grandfather in Madison County, Nebraska. The stately old manor, which she shares with her spunky nine-year-old daughter Jenna, also serves as a bed-and-breakfast inn to a once regular, but now transitory clientele. Maggie's spinster neighbor delights in keeping everyone on guard with her opinionated tirades, but she is frequently reined in by an elderly, equally forthright house guest who has recently become a permanent dweller at the old manor. Gentle-spirited Maggie finds herself struggling with the painful memories of her husband's tragic death, while acknowledging the stirrings in her heart associated with a new house guest—a man of few words and quiet wisdom. On the heels of a sudden death in the community, Maggie must also contend with a scandalous scheme to swindle her out of her property, leaving more than one family member caught up in suspicion. In The House Guest, the kitchen table is the epicenter of lively, colorful dialogue, where no subject matter is off limits. Set against a backdrop of humor, tragedy, and love, this lyrical novel culminates in a most surprising and unexpected manner.

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Author : Thomas Berger
Genre : Fiction

Summary : "Frightening . . . [the] domestic confessions as expressed by the accomplished satiric wit of Mr. Berger are certainly not to be trusted . . . wonderfully bizarre." — The New York Times Book Review Chuck Burgoyne appears to be the perfect houseguest. Between his impeccable manners and gourmet breakfasts, the Graves family is utterly charmed by him. He even rescues a family member from drowning in the ocean! But then one morning, Chuck does not appear. When he finally returns, he's no longer the affable lodger they once knew, but arrogant and abusive, terrorizing each family member in turn. Who invited Chuck to share their summer home anyway? Soon it becomes clear that Chuck isn't anyone's guest at all, but a stranger who has invaded their home. The well-heeled Graves family is too polite to mention their suspicions to Chuck. After all, they don't want to offend a man they barely know. Instead, they plot to murder him. That is, if any of them can muster up the courage to actually do it. "The quintessential weekend-houseguest horror story." — Publishers Weekly "A rare example of buoyantly irresponsible comedy. . . . At his best, as he is here, Thomas Berger can command attention solely as a lonely, insidious voice insisting . . . that fiction can be stranger than truth." — Time Praise for Thomas Berger "A writer of enormous wit and incisive wisdom." — San Francisco Review of Books "[Berger is] as brilliant a student of American talk as Nabokov or DeLillo." —Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author of The Fortress of Solitude "Thomas Berger is a magician . . . he never hits a false note" — Detroit Free Press "[Berger is] a compelling talespinner in his own right: a Tolkien for the worldly." — The New York Times Book Review "Humbling, eye-opening, and enormously funny." — Newsweek "One of America's most important comic artists." — The Boston Globe

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Author : Daniel Jonasen
Genre : Fiction

Summary : As this vivid and surreal psychological portrayal of his unsure plight and resilient survival through hardship has it, a recently widowed man supernaturally finds his late wife to essentially still be present with himself, and this brought about by his intense soul-searching, causing his realization that he is practically almost exactly like her in both personality and essence; thus he immortally perfected in attitude and the belief that he, in fact, is also still present with her.

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Author : Amparo Dávila
Genre : Fiction

Summary : The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.

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Author : Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
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