From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity” (T Kira Madden) comes a defining book of Californian stories where everyone is seeking or sabotaging love United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California’s Central Valley, the characters of Heartbroke boil with reckless desire. A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to recoup her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny. Heartbroke brims over with each character’s attempt to salvage grace where they can find it. Told in bright, snapping prose that reveals a world of loss and love underneath, Chelsea Bieker brilliantly illuminates a golden yet gothic world of longing and abandonment under an unrelenting California sun.

From James Meek, the award-winning author of the international bestseller The People's Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secrets and shame, the quest for youth, loyalty and betrayal, falls from grace, acts of terror, and the wonderful, terrible inescapability of family. Ritchie Shepherd, an aging pop star and a producer of a reality show for teen talent, is starting to trip over his own lies. Maybe filming a documentary about his father, Captain Shepherd, a British soldier executed by Northern Irish guerrillas, will redeem him. His sister, Bec, is getting closer and closer to a vaccine for malaria. When she's not in Tanzania harvesting field samples, she's peering through a microscope at her own blood to chart the risky treatment she's testing on herself. She's as addicted to honesty as Ritchie is to trickery. Val Oatman is the editor of a powerful tabloid newspaper. The self-appointed conscience of the nation, scourge of hypocrites and cheats, he believes he will marry beautiful Bec. Alex Comrie, a gene therapist (and formerly the drummer in Ritchie's band), is battling his mortally ill uncle, a brilliant and domineering scientist, over whether Alex might actually have discovered a cure for aging. Alex, too, believes he will marry Bec. Colum O'Donabháin has just been released from prison, having served a twenty-five-year sentence for putting a gun to Captain Shepherd's head when he refused to give up an informer. He now writes poetry. Their stories meet and tangle in this bighearted epic that is also shrewd, starkly funny, and utterly of the moment. The Heart Broke In is fiction with the reverberating resonance of truth.

"The Heartbroken of a Lovelorn and the Lovely Dovey" is almost a flashback romantic story of fate. The salient context revolves around two businessmen who own a great commercial enterprise together. They love each other and conceive the idea of extending their precious relationship to their future generations, creating a fraught and heartrending relationship through this plan. It is a school lifestyle story that recalls the memories of your childhood, early developmental years, and the overgrown youthful exuberance of a love affair. It is a book of enlightenment filled with wisdom, providing insight for the young, old, and teenagers in terms of decision-making. The book delves into the philosophy of love from its beginnings to its end. It emphasizes and reveals the psychology behind love and attention-seeking behavior among individuals of the opposite sex. It is a guide that navigates through the stages of maturing, offering advice, making choices, showing determination, experiencing intense passions, idolizing emotional storms, deep feelings, strong attractions, falling deeply, being enchanted, and struck by desires of love without any logical reasoning, ultimately resulting in a broken heart.

Music directory with records for artists, titles, labels and year of release for 45 RPM records published between 1947 and 1982.