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Henry April
The Night She Disappeared
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Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part time as a delivery girl at Pete’s Pizza. One night, Kayla—another delivery girl—goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed kidnapper had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was working that night. Gabie can’t move beyond the fact that Kayla’s fate was really meant for her, and she becomes obsessed with finding Kayla. She teams up with Drew, who also works at Pete’s. Together, they set out to prove that Kayla isn’t dead—and to find her before she is.
Girl, Stolen (Christy Ottaviano Books)
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Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen--with her inside! Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes—now there’s a reason to keep her. What Griffin doesn’t know is that Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia, she is blind. How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare, and if she does, at what price?
Learning to Fly: A Thriller
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Nineteen-year-old Free Meeker has a shaved head, a nose ring, and a tattoo of Chinese characters around her biceps. She has a career, if you can call it that, as a pet groomer. And she has just learned that she is pregnant, and that her boyfriend is a two-timing bastard.
Then a disastrous highway pile-up erroneously adds her name to its list of victims - and hands Free a chance for a new life. In the chaos of the fiery accident, she acquired the identity papers of the hitchhiker who is mistaken for her - plus a gym bag filled with $740,000 in drug money that otherwise would have been burned up. Go, Free, go!
Free sets out to transform herself into Lydia, the sweet-faced girl whose identity she has assumed. Raised by aging hippies, Free has always secretly longed to be more "normal," to try shaving her underarms instead of her head. Now she has a chance to make herself over.
But Free doesn't know that two men are hot on her trail. One man wants the money back. If he doesn't get it soon, he knows he will end up dead. The other man wants his wife back. He doesn't know the real Lydia died in the accident, on the run from his pathological abuse. Now he is determined to "teach her a lesson" - even if the lesson is fatal.
As Free/Lydia settles into a new life full of possibilities, she is completely unaware that it is threatened by resourceful pursuers who are closing in on her.
Penzler Pick, April 2002: An exceptionally gripping opening sets the pace for this suspenseful and original thriller from northwest writer April Henry. For those readers old enough to remember the classic 1960s New Wave French film Weekend, it will be easy enough to picture in the mind's eye the panoramic landscape of a massive, chain reaction-induced highway traffic disaster. For others, Henry's vivid and nightmarish 14-page description is more than up to the task. In Learning to Fly, the pileup is triggered by a freak eastern Oregon dust storm. Nineteen-year-old heroine Free Meeker is headed home--though not exactly rushing--to tell her laid-back, nonjudgmental, aging hippie parents that she's pregnant. Even more unexpected than the horrific 52-car collision from which she's walked away is the fact that the next day, before she can contact her family, the newspaper reports her among the fatalities. "She didn't feel like a dead person--but she didn't feel real, either. Wearing only a borrowed muumuu, she was sitting cross-legged on a sagging double bed in a room at the Stay-A-While Motor Inn, three blocks from the hospital. During the night Free has gotten only snatches of sleep. Each time she closed her eyes, she saw dead people, cars cartwheeling through the air, the orange bloom of fire. Over and over again, she has flinched awake, hearing the squeal of tearing metal and the terrible boom of impacts in her dreams." This set of circumstances is hardly enough to give Henry's plot the dense weight of dread it soon manifests. The body identified as Free's turns out to be that of a hitchhiking woman whose husband is a single-minded sadist-abuser who soon vengefully targets Free as his missing wife's rescuer. Moreover, the suitcase handed to Free by a suffering young man--he soon succumbs to his injuries--as she fled the scene of the disaster is revealed to contain nearly a million dollars that belongs to some impatient and unforgiving drug dealers. This is a substantially loaded deck, and Free's intuitively self-preserving ability (after all, she has another life to consider) to play her own hand in response is what makes the novel, Henry's fourth, such compulsive reading. A classic tale of an innocent on the lam, Learning to Fly has the kind of plot that would have made Hitchcock smile in evil anticipation of its cinematic possibilities. And it's the kind of story that makes A Simple Plan by comparison look... simple. --Otto Penzler
Shock Point
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Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients—and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die. But no one has ever escaped from Peaceful Cove alive—and even if Cassie gets over the walls and survives the Mexican desert, will anyone believe her story?
Torched
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When Ellie’s parents are busted for possession of marijuana, the FBI gives her a choice: infiltrate the Mother Earth Defenders (MED), a radical environmental group, or her parents will go to jail. At first Ellie is more than willing to entrap the MEDics, but the more time she spends undercover—particularly with Coyote, the green-eyed MEDic that she can’t stop thinking about—the more she starts to believe in their cause. When talk turns to murder, Coyote backs out, but Ellie is willing to risk everything to save her family—even if it means losing Coyote and putting her own life on the line. April Henry, author of the acclaimed YA thriller Shock Point, pulls an issue straight from the headlines as she deftly explores what happens when good intentions get out of hand. With the environment a hot topic, this blend of explosive action and romance will make Torched a must-read for all suspense lovers.
The Six Wives of Henry D. Aith
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Henry Aith is a well-educated Wyoming lumberjack and contented bachelor deceived into thinking he's found the woman of his dreams in Annie, a wide-eyed, innocent young heiress. After a whirlwind courtship, he loads up a buckboard and rides happily off with his wealthy new bride to her prosperous mountain "estate"--which Henry soon learns is a run-down farm occupied by a house full of Annie's unkempt, uncouth, and unwed sisters--all of whom swear like longshoremen and have the temperament of polecats. Trapped for the winter by a heavy storm, Henry undertakes the taming of all these unsavory shrews--after he takes his conniving bride across his knee for one hell of a well-deserved walloping--one of many wallopings, that is. Turning his hellish backwoods sisters-in-law into mannerly, marriageable young ladies proves to be a daunting task, requiring a lot of schooling and a lot of spankings for a lot of very stubborn young women. Mature subject matter for adults only. 38,067 words
Henry Aith is a well-educated Wyoming lumberjack and contented bachelor deceived into thinking he's found the woman of his dreams in Annie, a wide-eyed, innocent young heiress. After a whirlwind courtship, he loads up a buckboard and rides happily off with his wealthy new bride to her prosperous mountain "estate"--which Henry soon learns is a run-down farm occupied by a house full of Annie's unkempt, uncouth, and unwed sisters--all of whom swear like longshoremen and have the temperament of polecats. Trapped for the winter by a heavy storm, Henry undertakes the taming of all these unsavory shrews--after he takes his conniving bride across his knee for one hell of a well-deserved walloping--one of many wallopings, that is. Turning his hellish backwoods sisters-in-law into mannerly, marriageable young ladies proves to be a daunting task, requiring a lot of schooling and a lot of spankings for a lot of very stubborn young women. Mature subject matter for adults only. 38,067 words
Henry April News
Danville area continues to have highest state unemployment rate - Madison Messenger
Madison Messenger, VA - May 30, 2009
Lynchburg News and AdvanceDanville area continues to have highest state unemployment rateMartinsville's unemployment figure was 9.9 percent in April 2008. For Henry County, the jobless rate fell from 14.8 percent in March to 14.2 percent in April. Henry County's unemployment rate is more than twice it was in April 2008, when it was 6.3 BREAKING NEWS: City unemployment at 20.2 percent
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Henry “Jay” Parent: Aug. 11, 1933 - April 28, 2009 - Kemmerer Gazette
Kemmerer Gazette, WY - Feb 10, 7310
Henry “Jay” Parent: Aug. 11, 1933 - April 28, 2009Jay Parent, 75, passed away April 28 from complications of autoimmune hepatitis of the liver in Evergreen Hospice, Seattle, Wash. He was born in Kemmerer on Aug. 11, 1933 and graduated from Kemmerer High School in 1951.
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United States: Last Month At The Federal Circuit - April 2009 - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Mondaq News Alerts (registration), UK - May 30, 2009
United States: Last Month At The Federal Circuit - April 2009Specifically, O2 Micro argued that the Henry patent does not teach the "fl ow-through switch" of claims 2 and 9; the "second state" limitation of claims 1, 2, 9, and 18; and the "only if" limitation of claims 12 and 14.
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Tigers qualify 19 for Mideast final - 2TheAdvocate
2TheAdvocate, LA - May 30, 2009
Tigers qualify 19 for Mideast finalThat was a big relief for the foursome of Monique Cabral, Cassandra Tate, Henry and Kenyanna Wilson because they hadn't gotten the stick around safely since the prelims of the Penn Relays back on April 25. “That was nice to see,” said Shaver,
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More North Korean Nuclear Tests "Quite Possible," Says Senior US ... - Global Security Newswire
Global Security Newswire, DC - May 29, 2009
ITV.comMore North Korean Nuclear Tests "Quite Possible," Says Senior US "No one is really paying attention to Japan," said Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. In a Tuesday telephone interview, he voiced concern about the prospect that Tokyo might develop a nuclear arsenal of Video: Inside story - Nuclear tension - 28 May 09 Israel Shouldn't Sign the NPT A Dreamer at the Helm -
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