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A Search For Coppers is a collection of short stories recollecting the childhood of John L. Brown growing up in a small Texas town called Lancaster. Mr. Brown chronicles his childhood during the 1930's depression era. Life was not easy for most people in America during that period. Still Mr. Brown paints a poignant picture of not only surviving that difficult time, but indeed thriving with the help of family and friends.
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Glenda Miller grew up in a rural background, the only child of austere parents. She wanted nothing more than escape to experience the delights of the world beyond. Glenda saw escape in exploiting her innate brilliance. She blossomed into a star student at the University of Saskatchewan. A world famous biologist recognized her genius and set her on the road to potential scientific fame when he introduced her to a potential Nobel Prize candidate who invited her to join his lab at the University of British Columbia. Glenda arrives at UBC with a husband in tow and the demanding life of a graduate student with the expected initial success. She is soon introduced to the temptations of a male and female lover and a diversity of exotic drugs. Glenda finds herself juggling a love quadrangle that forms the basis for lethal jealousy. The distraction of her lovers and exotic substances replaces her scientific work sending her star into burnout. She faces the possibility of being turned out by a likely Nobel Prize winner. A once promising future hurtles into a void she my not escape.
This book is a biography of John Brown, an American abolitionist leader who as he first reached national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.
Frank Smythe, Jr. faces day one of retirement from his job of 35 years. He and his wife Mavis must now adjust to being Home Together.