Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott

Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states.

Big Boned

Meg Cabot - Big Boned

Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with "rebound beau," vigorous vegan math professor Tad Tocco, is more than satisfactory. Best of all, nobody has died lately in "Death Dorm," the aptly nicknamed student residence that Heather assistant-directs. Of course every silver lining ultimately has some black cloud attached.

Gossip Girl #7: Nobody Does It Better

Socialites looking for a change of scenery need look no further than the Plaza. Serena and Jenny are checking in to party in the penthouse. Racy pictures of Jenny surface, landing her in trouble at Constance. while Blair won't check out until she and Nate have had some do-not-disturb time. The question is: which room would Nate rather sleep in?

Nobody True

James True was not there when he died. He returned from an out-of-body experience to find that he’d been murdered and mutilated. He had no body to go back to. But who murdered him? The serial killer terrorizing the city—or someone closer? True had no enemies, at least none that he knew of.
To discover the truth, James True must track down his killer. The initial horror of True’s experience is followed by an even greater terror. . .his family are the murderer’s next targets.

Catering To Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson

Goldy's father-in-law is almost killed by a poisoned cup of coffee at an affair she has catered, closing down her business and sending her on the trail of someone intent on revenge.