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『The Strange Adventures Of Rangergirl (Bantam Spectra Book)』／Tim Pratt (著)　￥1,341

• ペーパーバック: 402 p ; 出版社: Spectra ; ISBN: 0553383388 ; (2005/11/29)

From Publishers Weekly
Pratt (Little Gods), praised for his short fiction, stumbles in his first novel. Marzipan "Marzi" McCarty, a 20ish California art school dropout, writes quirky comics. Marzi's also the night manager–barista of Genius Loci, a Santa Cruz coffeehouse decorated by vanished muralist Garamond Ray to hold in elemental Evil. The wild adventures that Marzi concocts for her cowpunk character, Rangergirl, start coming true after her artsy friends become obsessed with freeing weird gods. When the Outlaw, a representative of everyone's worst fears, busts loose from its surreal corral, the Desert Lands, it's up to Marzi, the new artist-guardian, to save the whole shootin' match from disaster. Pratt's simplistic message, glimpsed sporadically behind clouds of neo-hippie jargon, self-consciously naughty language, outdoor sex and nasty violence, is pretentious and even a little naïve—that art can trap our fears and hold them at bay. Like too much marzipan, it all turns cloying mighty fast, pardners. (Dec.)
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『Miracle on I-40』／Curtiss Ann Matlock (著)　￥1,578 （Amazonギフト券 -￥250）

• ハードカバー: 223 p ; 出版社: Mira Books ; ISBN: 0778322238 ; (2005/10)

Book Description
Lacey Bryant is the ever-hopeful waitress at Gerald's Truckstop restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a spot that is clear across the country from her home and family in North Carolina. It has been eleven years since Lacey, pregnant and unmarried, ran away from her angry father. Now she wants to go home again. A single mother, struggling to raise her children, she longs for her father's forgiveness, her mother's sweet embrace, and to share with her aging parents the grandchildren they have never seen. Cooper is every inch a Scrooge who wants no part of traveling across the country with two children, but he has promised to help out a friend, so he loads Lacey and her brood into her eighteen-wheeler, and carries them along with him on his trip down Interstate 40. As the miles roll under the big truck's wheels, it turns out to be Lacey and her children who are bringing Cooper along with them, on a journey that takes them home to the heart. In the revised edition of a Curtiss Ann Matlock classic, readers are treated once again to a cast of lovable characters in a magical romance as sweet and tender as a Christmas cookie.