Alice Kaltman
1) Wavehouse
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Sixteen year-old Anna Dugan is a super surfer who feels most at home when taking off on a ten-foot wave. But, surf culture bores Anna big time. While other surfers follow trends and speak the lingo, Anna harbors a secret desire to be an artist, drawing houses made of waves. It's not the most practical dream for the shy daughter of a single mom living in Kendall's Watch, a beach town, where most kids are so surf-centric they think 'Current Events'...
2) Dawg Towne
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Dawg Towne explores universal themes of love and loss through the deceptively simple lens of suburban life. But, is life in the suburbs ever really simple? Over the course of one year in Towne, spouses die, children grow up, affairs begin and end, lies are repeatedly, spoken, bad sex happens (good sex, less often), gender is questioned, and dogs go missing.
Many dogs.
Humorous and canine-centric, Dawg Towne is like Peyton Place re-written by Dorothy...
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This irresistible collection of stories brilliantly skewers the close-to-rich and not-so-famous of 21st century America. With keen yet kind perspective, Kaltman revels in the triumphs and travails of misfit trophy wives, psychic hotel maids, jilted bridegrooms, show tune-singing security guards, and assorted other oddballs. Always balancing her sharp eye with a soft heart, Kaltman ensures that this collection isn't just funny, but memorable and lovable...
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"Eleven-year-old Grace Minnaugh is not a fan of big change. And so, she’s miserable during her first weeks in the seaside town of La Toya, sulking like a spoiled brat while her family embrace the California lifestyle with gusto. But Grace’s entire life is destined to change in miraculous ways because she can’t resist the seductive beauty of the sea. One fateful morning, while taking a predawn swim, Grace is caught in a thunderstorm. Without...