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Urban Tapestry
This collection of personal narratives takes the pulse of the city of Indianapolis through the everyday experiences of its people. By listening to the voices of the individuals who make their home in the city, Urban Tapestry captures a part of the soul that animates this Midwestern community. The vignettes collected by writers, journalists, and folklorists present the view from the office and the front porch, the park bench and the kitchen table, the racetrack and the city street. They include reports from prominent leaders and tales from the homeless. The stories are organized into four groups: "Justice and Kindness and Giving to Kinsfolk," "The Place Where You Stand Is Holy," "Why Then Do We Deal Treacherously?" and "A New Life Has Come among You." Although they represent a diverse population, these are people who give voice to common concerns: race, education, crime, alienation, and community. Urban Tapestry invites readers to meet the stranger and to understand the "other" as the face in the mirror.
After the Party
'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who will restore England to its former glory. At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences. Years later, Phyllis, alone and embittered, recounts the dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life forever. 'Wonderfully subtle and compelling' Linda Grant 'Uncanny, evocative, atmospheric' Sunday Times 'Connolly is a terrifically subtle writer... [she] slyly sweeps her readers into the period drama as tensions tauten between families and social classes' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderful, tragicomic... beautifully researched' The Times
Hunting the Edges
Hunting the Edges offers both fine and funny examples of the classic hunting story, and something more: an acknowledgment of that edge between the cycles of modern life and the age-old seasonal call of the hunt. Dick Yatzeck's tales of hunting and fishing through his youth and adulthood will resonate with many readers who also leave behind a job and house in town for boots and camouflage and the wild cries of geese.
Pursuing Happiness
Although the pursuit of happiness is one of our inalienable rights, nowhere is it guaranteed that we shall catch it. This witty new novel chronicles the lives of four women, all residents of an adult community in California's wine country, as they pursue their own particular versions, each of them funny, poignant, sometimes annoying but alway fully human.
Coonardoo
A novel treating the Aboriginal as a loving human being the love between an Aboriginal girl and a white man - set in N.W. Australia.
The Youth's Companion
Includes music.
Four Plays
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For the Love of Grace
Katy is a young Amish woman in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She has a young man that she has loved from childhood. They're put to a test when Katy is abducted and raped violently by a man that has been watching her from a distance. She is taken deep into the woods to a shack where she is held captive and abused until she is seriously injured and released to get help for herself. As she struggles to get over her rape and loss, she finds herself drawn back to her captor. To find her way back, she goes away to separate herself from her captor. Until this day, Katy has her own demons to battle with. James and Katy never told anyone about baby Grace being theirs and never will. That will always be their secret.
