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HiStory of Santa Monica
The collection is thematically linked by both the characters-who are struggling to realize their Hollywood dreams and the setting-Santa Monica, California. A seemingly peaceful seaside city, Santa Monica is also a purgatory where the characters must face failure and loss-as well as their demons and ghosts. Family and ritual are consistent motifs throughout the collection, as are the themes of escape, addiction, redemption, reparation, religion, and death. Whether it is a young couple looking to buy their first home or a man returning to his hometown for a funeral or a baptism, readers will find the everyday rituals in these stories identifiable in many ways.
History of Santa Monica II
In this exciting new collection of short stories, Atwood creates original yet alienated characters living in seaside city of Santa Monica and surrounding areas of Los Angeles and Hollywood. He blends contemporary fiction together with suspense, mystery, and even detective themes in each selection. "Disappear Here," a tribute to author Brett Easton Ellis, follows Ian Bradley, a young college student returning from school in Boston to his hometown of Santa Monica. He is forced to wrestle the demons of his past over the Christmas holiday. "Conspiracy" features Alex, a young woman caught in the web of a government plot. She is forced to hide in plain sight in Santa Monica until she remembers who...
HiStory of Santa Monica
The collection is thematically linked by both the characters-who are struggling to realize their Hollywood dreams and the setting-Santa Monica, California. A seemingly peaceful seaside city, Santa Monica is also a purgatory where the characters must face failure and loss-as well as their demons and ghosts. Family and ritual are consistent motifs throughout the collection, as are the themes of escape, addiction, redemption, reparation, religion, and death. Whether it is a young couple looking to buy their first home or a man returning to his hometown for a funeral or a baptism, readers will find the everyday rituals in these stories identifiable in many ways. Michael J. Atwood is a fiction writer and weekly opinion columnist for the North Attleborough Free Press. His work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and online journals.
Delirium Fades
Delirium Fades: Stories A housewife comes out of hiding after thirty years, when her identity as an IRA terrorist is revealed. A bank vice-president, who went AWOL on D-Day then committed identity fraud, is stalked by a woman from his past. A man picks up the wrong briefcase on The Tube in London, leading to a manhunt and his detainment. A college freshman must overcome his lifestyle of partying and academic failure to realize national-level athletic success. A young man is haunted by his convict father's obsession with diamonds and gold. A teenager befriends a trucker from Texas, who helps him seek revenge on a bully. An aging con woman is confronted by her son for her criminal lifestyle. A housewife is forced to deal with her husband's Hollywood infidelity. A police officer struggles to deal with his parish priest's disturbing criminal confession. An English teacher is attacked by Russian snipers on his way to school.
The Moral Infection
The Moral Infection After a decade on the lam, a grocery worker in California is discovered by his old friend, a Mafia capo from North Jersey, who arrives to seek revenge for his betrayal A Swedish police detective realizes that a disgraced Boston cop, hiding in Stockholm, is a member of the U.S. Federal Witness Protection Program A famous author meets a beautiful young woman in London, who takes him on an odyssey, leading him to question his sanity, as well as his decisions as a fiction writer A security guard at a nursing home is assigned to protect a falsely accused Catholic priest from zombie-like protestors and a morally corrupt politician nephew A college basketball player helps cover ...
Verification of Geotechnical Grouting
Proceedings of sessions of the ASCE Annual Convention, held in San Diego, California, October 23-27, 1995. Sponsored by the Committee on Grouting of the Geo-Institute of ASCE. This Geotechnical Special Publication contains a report and seven juried papers on verification of geotechnical grouting. The report discusses planning for a grouting verification program, surveys grouting methods andØverification methods, and describes the selection of verification methods. The report also includes a set of charts that indicate the applicability of various verification methods by grouting method, goal of grouting, and subsurface conditions. The juried papers present case histories involving verification of geotechnical grouting.
The Boys
A powerful Catalan author gives us a penetrating story of meaningless deaths and personal isolation, set in the heart of one of Spain's most beautiful, vibrant places. In sleepy Vidreres, a Catalonian village suffering a deadening recession, prostitutes sit along the highway and two teenage boys have just died a horrible death. After attending their funeral, a banker named Ernest heads out to the spot where their car collided with a tree -- a tree that he himself planted there. Trying to come to terms with the accident, he meets a brutish trucker named Miqui who takes him to two sweet whores. So begins Ernest's journey into the dark depths of this unfathomable loss. Meanwhile, Miqui has his ...
