Patricia Houck Sprinkle

#2

"When DCI Michael Thackeray enters the kitchen he finds the bodies of a mother and her young daughter, and outside a trail of crimson in the snow leads him to another girl, still alive. With Scott, another young child, missing and his father gone, the police conclude this is a domestic row turned violent. As Thackeray searches for the father, Gordon Christie, journalist Laura Ackroyd wonders just who the missing man is, for he left no personal items and there are no traceable records of him. Thackeray is driven to the brink of resignation before the full tragedy is uncovered." -- BOOK JACKET.

#3

1998

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.