Kim Antieau

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Kim Antieau is the author of several novels and short stories for adults and teenagers, including Mercy, Unbound. She graduated Eastern Michigan University and lives with her husband, poet Mario Milosevic, in the Pacific Northwest. Aside from writing books, she works as a librarian.

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[edit] Broken Moon

(2007) When her little brother is kidnapped and taken from Pakistan to race camels in the desert, eighteen-year-old Nadira overcomes her own past abuse and, dressed as a boy and armed with knowledge of the powerful storytelling of the legendary Shahrazad, is determined to find and rescue him.

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"Antieau's moving story set in modern-day Pakistan unfolds in diary entries written by 18-year-old Nadira, addressed to her six-year-old brother, Umar....She is one of the few women who can read, and makes frequent references to Shahrazad, her role model for bravery. To the gentle gardener who wishes to marry her, Nadira confides for the first time the truth of what happened on the night of her attack....She then disguises herself as a boy in order to rescue Umar, sold as a camel boy by Rubel. It is to the author's credit that she preserves the humanity in these events, characterizing them as realities in a poverty-stricken culture where survival drives people to acts of great horror and also great heroism." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

[edit] Mercy, Unbound

(2006) Mercy is becoming an angel. She feels wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. They itch. Sometimes she even hears them rustling. And angels don't need to eat. So she doesn't eat. Her parents send her to an eating disorder clinic in New Mexico. She isn't like the other girls who are so obviously sick. Her wings don't come and she begins to have doubts. What if she isn't really an angel? What is she is just a girl, like Bluebird, Suzy-Q, Mia, and Snapshot?

[edit] Coyote Cowgirl

(2003) Jeanne Les Flambeaux—you know, the famous Flambeaux clan, the great chefs and restaurateurs of the Southwest—is the black sheep of her very accomplished family. She has a few problems. Like, for one, she can't cook. And she hears voices for another. And she screws up everything she touches for a third. No one, including herself, ever expected her to amount to anything, so she hasn't; she thinks of herself as an idiot savant—if you drop the savant part.

When her parents take a much-needed vacation, leaving her in charge of the family's ancient, prized possessions—a crystal skull and a priceless ruby scepter—she wakes up the next morning to find that her lover, Johnny (what is she doing with that loser?), has stolen the scepter. This propels her on a wild and wacky journey across the Great American Southwest, trying to catch up to Johnny and the scepter.

To complicate matters, women (and some men) start mysteriously disappearing throughout the southwest. The police and the FBI have few clues—and Jeanne, as she stalks Johnny, is herself being stalked by someone or something. Fortunately—or unfortunately, Jeanne can't quite figure it out—she's aided in her impossible task by the crystal skull . . . now a talking crystal skull, which, of course, speaks only to her. The crystal skull, who calls himself Crane, leads Jeanne (who is rapidly becoming an actual heroine) through the casinos of Las Vegas, the mysteries of the Goddess Temple, the family's skeletal closet in Mexico, and finally to a wild climax that outdoes Tom Robbins . . . and maybe even gives Carlos Castaneda a run for his pesos.

Light and sexy, filled with imaginative characters and situations, and some of the hottest secret recipes from the Flambeaux recipe drawer, Coyote Cowgirl will leave you laughing and begging for a sequel.

[edit] The Gaia Websters

(1997) In the future, Gloria Stone administers her healing arts to the people of Coyote Creek in the Arizona Territory. In a desperate search for a cure to an epidemic sweeping her community, Gloria will come to understand that the ghosts that prowl her dreams, the governor's man who stalks her village, and the powers that emanate from her body are all parts of a puzzle that is connected to the catastrophic past. Solving it could be the salvation of humanity or Gloria's own undoing.

[edit] The Jigsaw Woman

(1996) From ancient battles and violent witch-hunts to Amazonian paradise and Sumerian hell, Keelie spirals through epic distortions of history and magic. She finds that her very salvation may depend not on the promise of the future but on the lessons learned in the past.

In this extraordinary journey of self-discovery, Keelie, created from the bodies of three women, is guided through history and magic by the tempestuous goddess Eriskegal. Steeped in mythology, Keelie's struggle to confront the past is a dynamic new fable.

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