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Fate
Richard Smith thought moving from Tennessee to Dallas his junior year of high school was bad enough. He never would have dreamed how his life was going to change. Richard was a superstar basketball player with nothing but stardom to look forward to. What will be Richard's "Fate?" What will be the fate of the others he encounters? Fate will have you on an emotional roller coaster ride. So buckle up!
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy. Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communit...
Enemies and Allies
This Part 2 of The Jackson story is set in the later years and early Post-war years of WW2. Ron Jackson, now living with Anne Carruthers in Folkestone develops the tiny Transport firm of 2 semi-derelict vehicles into a thriving firm and moves into Air Cargo Transport as war ends buying some war surplus aircraft and participates in the Berlin Airlift with its attendant dangers from weather and threatening Russian fighters. Throughout there are battles with his ex-wife (who also re-marries)and Tim decides to join his father and sister Kathleen in Folkestone when 15 yrs. to work in hisd father's Airfield.
The House
He immediately attaches to people, wherever he comes. And they love him instantly. Despite that, the main character of The House is essentially alone. His entire life is a continuous movement, physically as well as mentally. He wins the world but is not afraid to lose it, time and again. New encounters and possibilities appear on his way. He searches for them, he attracts them. He describes it all with compelling honesty so that you cannot put the book aside before you've finished reading it. The House not only is a beautiful pastiche of the sixties, seventies, eighties and early nineties, it also is a unique and honest document of a man who dares to undress his soul in front of the reader. That his pen is polished with humour is one of the great virtues of this book.
You call this 'Peace'?
When Anne and Ron Jackson's, Carruthers Chandlery expands to selling cruisers it seemed a sound move. But they had not reckoned on their Manager's other ideas. Domestic life is not plain sailing either as conflict between Ron and his ex-wife flares with much wider repercussions than themselves. During those years, 1950-1962, Britain's other wars intrude into their lives too, from Franks' National Service to the Cuban Nuclear Missile Crisis that drags them all into danger.
Salt in Our Blood
In 2000, Michele Longo Eder began a journal to record what daily life was like for her while her husband and sons were out commercial fishing off the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and northern California. But personal tragedy struck just before Christmas 2001. This book is an offer of healing to her family, her community, and to fishing families everywhere.
Car-Hop Wife
riven to despair by her brutal husband she became a sensuous... HUNGER KILLED HER SHAME... LET MEN GAPE AT HER BODY When blonde and beautiful Madelyne learned her husband Bob was discharged from the army, she was the happiest girl in the world. She didn't realize what two army years spent in the dark and mysterious Orient could do to a man. Her husband had become transformed into a virtual monster... a madman... some evil fiend. Bob was also a chronic drunkard and utterly refused to work... so Madelyne was forced to be the wage-earner. First a scanty costumed car-hop... then, in desperation, a nude photographer's model... finally a sculptor's model for Wayne Lester, who offered her love and marriage. Spied on by Bob, Madelyne is kidnapped along with her room mate Patti... both of whom are turned over to evil Kim, who makes Bob's methods of torture look amateurish and pale by comparison. A thrilling rescue makes Madelyne realize that to be a model wife...
THE SUPER HUMAN
THE SUPER HUMAN By: Wayne Castronovo The Super Human follows the adventures of a man born with special physical and mental abilities as he experiences life from birth to manhood.
Landfall
An unexpected letter from Tokyo impels a Canadian accountant to break his resolution never to revisit the past. Hunting out an old journal, he relives his adventures on the far side of the Pacific, when he sought redemption for his sins among primitive but contented islanders. There he aided Japanese veterans in their search for a World War 2 flying boat, put an elderly English spinster in touch with her half-caste nephew and helped a tribe to preserve its age-old customs. Only now, ten years later, does he learn that, in the process, he may have forfeited the greatest opportunity of his life. In Landfall, his fourth novel, Peter Moss explores the myriad miscommunications, misunderstandings and mysteries of the human heart.
