| Ara 13 |
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| Author's Bio: Ara 13 was a United States Marine Corps journalist and Army special operations soldier. He was a national columnist, award-winning journalist, international-award-winning author, and CovingtonMoore's featured novelist. |
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About the Award:
Drawers & Booths won an IPPY—
the world’s largest international
book awards competition,
independent or otherwise. Ara 13
competed against releases from
production houses such as,
Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Yale, and
other university presses, as well as
Pulitzer finalist Dave Eggers’
production house, McSweeney’s,
and Barnes & Nobles’ alliance
press, iUniverse. Ara 13’s novel
was selected from 3,175 entrants
representing 16 countries: Trinidad
to Thailand, Croatia to Czech
Republic, and France to Finland.
Drawers & Booths was one of 32
books to receive the moniker,
“Outstanding Book of the Year,”
and Ara won a Bronze Medal as
“Storyteller of the Year.”
According to 2008 Independent
Publisher Book Awards, Ara 13
exhibits “the courage and creativity
to take chances, break new
ground, and bring about change,
not only to the world of publishing,
but to our society.”
Drawers & Booths won an IPPY—
the world’s largest international
book awards competition,
independent or otherwise. Ara 13
competed against releases from
production houses such as,
Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Yale, and
other university presses, as well as
Pulitzer finalist Dave Eggers’
production house, McSweeney’s,
and Barnes & Nobles’ alliance
press, iUniverse. Ara 13’s novel
was selected from 3,175 entrants
representing 16 countries: Trinidad
to Thailand, Croatia to Czech
Republic, and France to Finland.
Drawers & Booths was one of 32
books to receive the moniker,
“Outstanding Book of the Year,”
and Ara won a Bronze Medal as
“Storyteller of the Year.”
According to 2008 Independent
Publisher Book Awards, Ara 13
exhibits “the courage and creativity
to take chances, break new
ground, and bring about change,
not only to the world of publishing,
but to our society.”
| Ara 13 is an IPPY "Outstanding Book of the Year" winner, a recipient of an Eric Hoffer Book Award, and a Marine Corps journalist awarded medals from four branches of the U.S. military. |
Drawers & Booths by Ara 13
While a Marine Corps corporal acts as a liaison between an island nation and the U.S. Army, his
story is hijacked by a displaced narrator seeking a suspected criminal. The disruption causes the
characters to become aware of their role in a novel, even rebelling against the author's intent, in
this layered, metafictional journey; poignant, hilarious, and utterly unique.
While a Marine Corps corporal acts as a liaison between an island nation and the U.S. Army, his
story is hijacked by a displaced narrator seeking a suspected criminal. The disruption causes the
characters to become aware of their role in a novel, even rebelling against the author's intent, in
this layered, metafictional journey; poignant, hilarious, and utterly unique.
and Mozart Was Taught by Ara 13
Little Emily is picked on, constantly. Will events break her or forge an empathetic adult? Jean feels
powerless to help her student. Joe is rutted to his parental obligations. Multiple characters are
tossed into the environmental boiler in this fictional study of genetic propensity and the complexities
of personality. Ara 13 once again blend cleverness and humor to create memorable characters
while weighing in on several poignant themes, not least of which is the pursuit of happiness.
Little Emily is picked on, constantly. Will events break her or forge an empathetic adult? Jean feels
powerless to help her student. Joe is rutted to his parental obligations. Multiple characters are
tossed into the environmental boiler in this fictional study of genetic propensity and the complexities
of personality. Ara 13 once again blend cleverness and humor to create memorable characters
while weighing in on several poignant themes, not least of which is the pursuit of happiness.
The Unreliable Narrator by Ara 13
Father Daniel journeys deep into the harsh forest with romantic notions of converting the fierce
Oquanato cannibals to Christianity, but his heroic sense of mission clashes with the farcical antics
of sophisticated savages, whose beliefs originate from a peculiar source, a source that rattles
Daniel into an introspective, yet dubious narrative.
Father Daniel journeys deep into the harsh forest with romantic notions of converting the fierce
Oquanato cannibals to Christianity, but his heroic sense of mission clashes with the farcical antics
of sophisticated savages, whose beliefs originate from a peculiar source, a source that rattles
Daniel into an introspective, yet dubious narrative.
Drawers & Booths
by Ara 13
by Ara 13
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