Terese Svoboda

• Dec-1994
• / Literary
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• Apr-1999
• / General Fiction
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When a copywriter is stranded on a small island in the Pacific after helping a soft drink commercial shoot, she uncovers a terrible secret that eventually drives her to the brink of insanity. Svoboda's stunning novel, frighteningly mysterious and com...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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A collection of short stories ranging in storyline from a clairvoyant who knows she's been hired by a murderer, and a tiny spaceship that lands between a boy and his parents, to a woman who performs the Heimlich maneuver on her ex-husband then flees ...

• Oct-2010
• / Literary
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Pursued by a mermaid, two boys talk their way into pirating and end up in the Arctic where a secret unhinges them both. Disabled piecemeal, harassed by a parrot, marooned on a tree-challenged island, posing as Pilgrims, scrimshawing and singing their...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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A picaresque in the American vein, Terese Svoboda’s new novel is the Bohemian answer to Willa Cather’s iconic My Ántonia. Lifting the shadows off an entire era of American history in one brave girl’s quest to discover who she is, Bohemian Girl...

• Apr-2013
• / Literary
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“This is God,” the novel begins, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines the middle of nowhere.

Whispers plague a desperate conquistador lost in tall prairie grass...

• Feb-2019
• / General Fiction
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Water, its use and abuse, trickles through Great American Desert, a story collection by Terese Svoboda that spans the misadventures of the prehistoric Clovis people to the wanderings of a forlorn couple around a pink pyramid in a sci-fi prairie....

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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Out of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. “Just a glimpse of him,” says his sister; “every inch of him,” says his guilt-filled lover. “Close your eyes,” says his nephew. “What about it?” asks his father. The cupboar...

• Feb-2024
• / Dark Fantasy
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Roxy and Coco, sisters and glamorous harpies (mythical bird women), work to save the world by stopping child abuse, while also trying to evade capture. For readers of Neil Gaiman and Karen Russell.“[A] wry and rambunctious fable….The book offers ...

• Mar-2024
• / General Fiction
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A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador’s dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. “I’ve always had a knife,” says the ...