Fresh, Green Life
A study of interiority and inferiority, written in the vein of Lars Iyer and Ben Marcus, that takes place over the course of a single, snowy night After resigning from an adjunct teaching position, our narrator Sebastian Castillo, who shares a name with our author, Sebastian Castillo, and also with a translated Spanish writer, Sebasti n Castillo, resolves to spend an entire year without speaking, passing the time by exercising each day and watching self-improvement videos. But, come New Year's Eve, Sebastian (the narrator)--whose rich interiority in precontemplation alone is curiously and addictively easy to read--will break his silence by accepting an invitation to the home of a former professor for a reunion amongst his cohort, one decade after graduating. This invitation surely would have been ignored if not for the promised attendance of Maria, Sebastian's former classmate and love interest. What follows is an inexplicable series of fascinating events charting the erosion of
Statens förändrade gränser : en studie om sponsring, korruption och relationen till marknaden
I idealbilden av en moderniserad statsbildning är staten separerad från privata intressen, ett förhållande som utgör en av förutsättningarna för demokratins upprätthållande. På senare tid har det dock funnits anledning att ifrågasätta separationen...
Arbete för alla : att skapa långsiktiga möjligheter i arbetslivet för personer med funktionsnedsättningar
För personer med funktionsnedsättningar är chanserna att få och behålla en anställning betydligt sämre än för befolkningen i allmänhet. Under 2015 initierade Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting ett nätverk av kommuner som tillsammans har arbetat för a...
So Far from God
In Tome, a small, seemingly sleepy New Mexico hamlet, Sofia and her four fated daughters reveal a world of marvels where the comic and horrific, past and present, real and fantastic coexist and collide. Over two crowded decades, Sofia tries to hol...
Sworn to Silence
Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . . Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve . . . Painter's Creek, Ohio may be a sleepy, rural town with both Amish and 'English' residents, but it's also the place where a series of brutal murders shatte...
Pray for Silence
The second thriller featuring police chief Kate Burkholder
Watercolor Women Opaque Men
2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for Story Teller of the Year In this updated edition of Ana Castillo's celebrated novel in verse, featuring a new introduction by Poet Laureate of Texas Carmen Tafolla, we revisit the story's spirited heroine,...
Cold War on the Home Front
Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon squared off on the merits of their respective economic...
Evil Heart
On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call to discover a victim violently killed with a crossbow. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commi...
The Hidden One
The discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in The Hidden One, the next thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo. Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister. The town's elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate's first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania's Kishacoquillas Valley, where the Amish culture differs dramatically from the traditions she knows. Though Bishop Stoltzfus was highly respected, she soon hears about a dark side to this complex man. What was he hiding that resulted in his own brutal death? Someone doesn't
