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Stiff Hearts
Stiff Hearts By: Jo Deniau Jo Deniau’s debut novel is based on the adventures and mishaps of her mother in mid-1950s Greenwich Village. At the end of twenty-year-old Gillian Rysert’s train journey from St. Louis to New York City in 1949, she believes she’s escaped her hillbilly mother’s legacy: some extreme physical code or language of survival transmitted by the blow of a fist on someone’s jaw or a gun firing far away in the woods. Magnetized to violence by her mother and bereft of her father, Gillian no longer lets love in. So far, Gillian’s reserve has shielded her - from anyone who is not her late father. But now Gillian’s surrounded by other Greenwich Village incomers suff...
Edith's Return to Devon
1929. For Lady Edith Parfitt, the financial crash unravels her comfortable life in a matter of hours. Her family’s money disappears overnight. Her father is found dead – the cause, suicide – and her brother has been keeping a secret from her which breaks up their family and shatters the bond between them forever. Edith is forced to start again from scratch. Everything she has dreamed, hoped and planned for seems to have come to nothing.1942. Britain is at war. The Blitz, rationing, food shortages and everything is a struggle. For Edith, living in Bath, there is only one consolation. Bath has not been bombed. She is working as a secretary and living in a small flat that makes her feel s...
Stories of the Middle Space
"Postmodernism's critics often accuse the movement of being dangerously amoral because of its apparent wariness of concepts such as truth, ethics, and justice. Stories of the Middle Space explores the possibility of "postmodernism-with-a-conscience" and examines a variety of British and Canadian postmodern fiction to show how twentieth-century critical theory can be brought into fruitful dialogue with a faith-based perspective." "Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contempo...
Edward Albee's Marriage Play
THE STORY: Jack comes home from a middling day at the office to quickly announce to his wife, Gillian, that he is leaving her. Suspecting for some time a midlife crisis, Gillian goads Jack about this announcement, forcing him to try it again--going
Songs of Sadness, Songs of Love
A childhood illness leaves Ryan Graves with a paralyzed arm and emotionally painful ways to try to hide it. Following a failed high school romance and a subsequent divorce, Ryan's self-confidence is shattered. Later, Gillian helps Ryan focus on what is, not what isn't, which includes their love.
Within The Shadows
After a Westminster businessman is murdered, newly appointed Detective Inspector John Oulton gets his first case. Young, dedicated and eager to make an impression, Oulton begins an investigation that would shatter his world. An obscure tattoo, found on the back of the victim's neck, leads to a shocking revelation that propels Oulton's local London murder into a global and deadly man hunt. Intrigue and dedication soon turn into complete obsession; the pressure building with every step closer to the truth. Oulton's life becomes a fog of paranoia where distrust is the only key to survival and time is the enemy.
Go Carefully, My Friend
Go Carefully, My Friend tells the story of people whose paths collide against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa. The longing of South Africans who could leave and did is contrasted with the lives of some who stayed and found meaning in the struggle to survive in a country at odds with itself. In the end these two strands of South African history share more than just a past. The question Go Carefully, My Friend asks is whether in the future South Africa will need both parts of itself to overcome the great obstacles that it faces.
