Katrina Jackson
1) The Enforcer
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ZoeWhat should you do when your boyfriends try to spring a baby on you? Fight and then leave.What should you do when the old women in your family want to know why your sister has gone MIA in Italy? Tell them you are not, actually, your sister's keeper, but then remember that you're never old enough to talk back.So that's how I end up in Naples with my cousin Shae, who is acting very strange, a broken heart, and no real plan besides finding my annoying...
2) Dolci
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GiulioI don't want to be the boss.I want to stay in bed for at least sixteen hours a day with Zahra. I want to pretend that what we have can last. And every now and then I want to shoot some people. In that order.But with Salvatore on the hunt for whoever is trying to kill him and Alfonso in Positano trying to keep Zahra's sister safe, that leaves me in Naples with the weight of our entire organization on my shoulders, with Zahra.And what does the...
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ShaeHere's my advice for how to survive a vacation to Italy with the college boyfriend you've just now realized is terrible:1. Ditch him in Rome.2. Take the train to Naples for pizza.3. Let the attractive older man you've just met buy you a drink.4. Flirt a little (or a lot) while ignoring his wedding ring.5. Let him bend you over a table.6. Break up with your boyfriend.--SalThere are a lot of ways to respond to the news that your wife is trying to...
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2010 Helping pack up his childhood home was going much easier than Amir expected. The only sticking point is the record collection his father Alonzo refuses to put in storage. When Amir asked his father why he needs to keep all those records with him, Alonzo offers to tell him a story instead. -- Monterey Pop Festival In 1967, Alonzo was a baby music reporter at the Village Voice on his first big assignment. By his side is photographer Ada Carr who...
5) Sabbatical
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Toni had a plan for the summer: rest, relaxation, and renovation. In the summer before her sabbatical year, all she wanted to do was extricate herself from her job. No work emails. Not departmental or university politics. No Dr. Antonia Ward.
But during the last week of classes, she couldn't shake the feeling that something was off with Dr. Mike Hernandez. The colleague she's known for years and never once thought twice about, suddenly seems taller,...
6) Office Hours
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What's life like on the tenure track?
For Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Deja Evans, it sucks. Hard. Every day.
Between the class prep, the meetings, grading student work, trying to find time to complete her own research and the meetings, she didn't have a life, she had a digital calendar that decided whether she got to wallow in her feelings at 3pm or 7pm, on Thursday or maybe Sunday. And the worst meeting of them all was the two-and-a-half-hour,...