“we Are All Walking Around This City With Our Hearts Sadly Swimming In Our Chests, Like Dying Fish On The Surface Of A Still Pond. It’s Enough To Make You Give Up Entirely.” —from instant Love but We Don’t Give Up. We Keep Trying. We’re Either Too Stupid To Learn From Our Mistakes Or We Honestly Believe That The Next Time Will Be Different; It’s Hard To Say Which. Driven By The Mad Hopefulness That Is Part Of The Human Condition, We Are Constantly Falling In And Out Of Love With A Slightly Different Version Of The Person Who Came Before. Jami Attenberg Chronicles Those Exact Moments With Heartbreaking Realism In Her Powerful Debut, instant Love . told Through The Eyes Of Three Young Women And Their Friends And Lovers, Instant Love Explores What It Means To Be In Love, What It Means To Be Lonely, And What It Means To Be Both At The Same Time. Holly Turns To Computer Dating To Find Love Even As She Thinks Wistfully Of A Former Boyfriend Who Loved Her Well And Fed Her Ice Cream. Maggie Recounts The Story Of Her One Crazy Summer To Her Disbelieving Husband And Feels The Distance Between Them Grow Wider Than The Void Across Their King-sized Bed. And Sarah Lee Remembers The One Who Got Away And The One She Ran Away From, All The While Moving Toward The One She Can Actually Love. as Holly, Maggie, And Sarah Lee Move Through The Rituals Of Modern Love, They Have To Decide Who Is Worth Taking A Chance On In A World Where Things Don’t Fall Into Place Easily, People Are Often Difficult, And Disappointment Is The Rule. Through Their Stories, Attenberg Presents A Rare, Honest Look At Love. also Available As An Ebook.
school Library Journal adult/high School-alternating Between The Clich And The Brilliantly Candid, Attenberg Scrutinizes Humankind's Deepest Sentiment Through The Romantic Ups And Downs Of Sara, Holly, Maggie, And Melanie-seen In Girlhood And Into Womanhood-as Each Of Theses Quirky Characters Searches For A Happy Ending. Their Stories Are As Much About Love Lost, Unrecognized, Or Distorted As Love Found. The Self-contained Vignettes Gradually Overlap. Some Were Published Earlier And Are Now Woven Together Through The Interactions Of The Main Characters And Their Friends In Common. Readers Feel The Loneliness And Risks Involved When Looking For Love. It Is By No Means Instant And Is Often Fleeting As Each Individual Ponders That Moment When Everything Changes In A Relationship. This Honest Portrayal Will Be Disorienting For Some Teens And Reassuring To Others.-brigeen Radoicich, Fresno County Office Of Education, Ca Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Night Vision

Naomi Blake Mysteries

Night vision : a Naomi Blake mystery. Vol. 7

Night Vision (Naomi Blake Mysteries (7))

Night vision : a Naomi Blake novel

Jane A. Adams

Adams, Jane A

Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated

Severn House Publishers Ltd

Three Rivers Press

Canongate Books

Broadway Books

Vintage Books

Crown

A Naomi Blake mystery, First world edition, Sutton, Surrey, England, 2012

A Naomi Blake mystery, 1st world ed, Sutton, 2012

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 1), Sutton, 2012

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

United States, United States of America

1. paperback ed, New York, NY, c 2007

Naomi Blake mysteries, Sutton, ©2012

1st pbk. ed, New York, ©2007

April 24, 2007

PS, 2012

PT, 2007

We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. Its enough to make you give up entirely. from Instant Love
But we dont give up. We keep trying. Were either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly believe that the next time will be different; its hard to say which. Driven by the mad hopefulness that is part of the human condition, we are constantly falling in and out of love with a slightly different version of the person who came before. Jami Attenberg chronicles those exact moments with heartbreaking realism in her powerful debut, Instant Love .
Told through the eyes of three young women and their friends and lovers, Instant Love explores what it means to be in love, what it means to be lonely, and what it means to be both at the same time. Holly turns to computer dating to find love even as she thinks wistfully of a former boyfriend who loved her well and fed her ice cream. Maggie recounts the story of her one crazy summer to her disbelieving husband and feels the distance between them grow wider than the void across their king-sized bed. And Sarah Lee remembers the one who got away and the one she ran away from, all the while moving toward the one she can actually love.
As Holly, Maggie, and Sarah Lee move through the rituals of modern love, they have to decide who is worth taking a chance on in a world where things dont fall into place easily, people are often difficult, and disappointment is the rule. Through their stories, Attenberg presents a rare, honest look at love.
Also available as an eBook.

"What had jailbird Neil Robinson been about to tell journalist Jamie Dale? Whatever it was, it got them both killed, and now DI Alec Friedman and his DCI are called away to help with the investigation. Jamie had been a friend of Naomi's before she left Pinsent to pursue her career. They had lost touch, but now, with her husband Alec gone, Naomi is harassed by phone calls seemingly from the dead journalist. Alone and very disturbed by it all, she turns to her old friend, Harry Jones, and his son, Patrick, for help. Then the violence strikes much closer to home, and Alec is forced to question which side of the law he is actually on ..."--Jacket

The new Naomi Blake mystery -
What had Neil Robinson been about to tell journalist Jamie Dale? Whatever it was, it got them both killed, and Alec and his DCI are called away to help with the investigation. Jamie was an old friend of Naomis, and now she is being harassed by phone calls seemingly from the dead journalist. With Alec away, Naomi turns to another old friend, Harry Jones, for help. Then the violence strikes close to home, and Alec is forced to question which side of the law he is actually on . . .

An incisive novel that examines what it means to be in love and what it means to be lonely--and what it means to be both at the same time--follows the romantic lives of three very different women: the precocious and sexually adventurous Holly, her settled sister Maggie, and Sarah Lee, a shy wandering artist.

After Neil Robinson and journalist Jamie Dale are murdered, Naomi Blake receives harassing phone calls seemingly from the dead journalist, so Naomi turns to old friend Harry Jones for help

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