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Our Place
The unassuming location of a dock extending out onto a small lake serves as the backdrop for five different stories. On a cool autumn night, Jake arrives with Holly at a secluded spot. The couple feels an immediate connection to this place as if it were put there just for them. Things seem perfect until Anne and her date, Lyle, arrive. On another day, early in the morning, Beth has plans to spend the day with her dad at their favorite fishing place. She has high hopes for catching some sunshine, a few fish, and her dad's fading memories. The third story involves Al, who arrives at the dock with his family and has high expectations for their family canoe trip. The only problem is that his wif...
Alice, the Musical
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Fowl Play
Comedian Scott Capurro's first novel, Fowl Play, is a relentlessly glib and self-conscious story of a cynical gay man hoping to become a TV star and looking for love among studly guys. Aiming for playful dark humor, the narrator divulges his sexual excesses, drug and booze binges, loneliness and depression and his traumatic family history in a maddening tone that is alternately mean-spirited and self-pitying.
Coping With Lyme Disease
Discusses the disease, symptoms, diagnosis, psychological aspects, treatment, protection from ticks, the disease in animals, and vaccination.
The Sweet and Simple Kind
Loyalty (and the damnable lack of it in his wife) was the thought uppermost in the mind of Sir Andrew Millbanke as he looked down at Lady Alexandra's dead body, spread-eagled on the paved pathway of the Residency.' And so begins an engrossing and dramatic family drama, set against the backdrop of Ceylon's bumpy evolution into Sri Lanka, as the Wijesinha clan struggle to balance their staunch political ambition against the ignominy of an embarrassing family scandal. And when two young family members, cousins Tsunami and Latha, meet and become firm friends no one can guess that their triumphant friendship will be played out over the passing years against both the best and the worst the newly independent Sri Lanka can offer as these two smart and Westernised young women pursue their own personal freedoms.
A Change of Skies
A first novel, concerning the experiences of an Asian professor of English and his wife who migrate to Australia. The author is herself a professor of English at Macquarie University and holds the Order of Australia.
