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Late one night out on the Eastern Promenade Trail in Portland, Maine, the police discover an incoherent teenager sitting in a pool of blood, holding the body of his best friend and the murder weapon. The girl they both love has been missing for weeks. The kid’s jealousy clearly drove him to murder. He says the missing girl is the love of his life. She also happens to be the girlfriend of the murder victim. It’s an open and shut case, or so most of Portland thinks. Dr. Lisa Boyers, forensic psychologist, receives a call from an old friend, a connection to her troubled past. Attorney Rudy Swaner wants her to interview the young killer Paul Ducharme, who is claiming he doesn’t remember the events leading up to the murder. In her jailhouse interviews, Lisa helps Paul to recover his memories. But something about Paul’s disturbing love story shakes Lisa to the very core of her being. To understand Paul, she is forced to confront her own ugly violent secrets. Media attention mounts. Reporters stream into Portland. All eyes turn to the psychologist who seems intent on exonerating the vicious teen killer. Soon Lisa finds herself the focus of an over-zealous reporter with a knack for digging up dirty secrets.

Literary nonsense turns to whimsical imagery with a macabre twist in the pen and ink drawings of Jamison Odone... Literary nonsense turns to whimsical imagery with a macabre twist in the pen and ink drawings of Jamison Odone. Stick figures have never emoted this much energy and each page brings one curiosity to a new light in this deconstruction of Lewis Carroll's classic. This is the first in the new series Stickfiguratively Speaking. Jamison is also the author/illustrator for Honey Badgers and the illustrator for The Bedtime Train by Joy Cowley both from Front Street Books. "Odone's retelling of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reinvents the world not as dark and dangerous—as many modern interpretations have done—but with all the whimsy and wonder of a child chasing a mysterious white rabbit. Mixing text with stick figure illustrations, Odone follows an Alice who is now somewhat pluckier than in her original incarnation as she meets the iconic Wonderland residents. What is thankfully lost in the translation are the political subtexts that made Carroll's original work less like a fairy tale and more like a story of caution. Alice is simply a girl who outwits the bumbling and the bad rulers of Wonderland. The Red Queen is a villain and not a political allegory. Fans of Odone's other works, Honey Badgers and The Bedtime Train, will find Alice to be a departure from his regular style, but his neat little stick drawings are wholly reminiscent of how children actually draw during their early artistic years, making it an easy book to pick up. Odone's lighthearted take on the characters is refreshing; it allows the story to breathe and see itself in a new and magical way."

Some say put the past behind you. Alice Wynter tried. Alice Dunn, nee Wynter, made great strides to create distance from her family in their rural Maine town. They were that family, who never had any money, were abused by the alcoholic father, who you both felt sorry for and disliked. Escaping south for a Boston University education led her to Gerald, a nice guy from a well-off family. Thus began her life as Alice Dunn, a marketing exec, devoted wife, ever careful to cover up her upbringing to the world, including her husband. Life was not ideal with a marriage on the rocks and signs of age, but at least she wasn't Alice Wynter anymore. Now, twenty years since putting her past behind, it all rushes back with a phone call in the middle of the night. "Dolly, it's your mother." Dolly. Jackie Ruth Wynter had called Alice that for years. The conversation that followed led her right back to the place she had run from for years. Her twin brother, younger by just a minute or so, had been fading, transforming into an image of their drunken, narrow-eyed father. Now her father was dead, and her brother, Chris, missing.

This collection of twenty-eight "riotously funny and outrageously honest" true-life tales (including some heartbreakers) manages to mingle low moments with high comedy; and social awkwardness with social observation. Self-aware, edgy, and masterfully crafted, this book is for anyone who has ever felt overly attached to a pet, stalked her high school crush, said long goodbyes to loved ones, or tried to talk (and talk and talk) her way through the ups and downs of life. The recipient of a 2011 Pushcart Prize nomination for her essay "Strangers on a Train," Cole adds a lively and literary new voice to a genre best described as humor that matters.

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