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|  | | Displaced and Other Etudes
A collection of short stories plus a short novel.
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Recently released from prison after serving a long sentence, Vanburn Holding travels to an intentional recovery community in Thailand hoping to establish a new life for himself. News from home, however, threatens to ruin his endeavours and prompt a sudden, unforeseen return home.
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Where feelings of perceived hurt and woundedness are taken too far, offers of healing meet rejection.
p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Delgado, a disabled resident of an intentional community in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, reflects on the vicissitudes of life growing up handicapped in a slum district of the spread out metropolis. He recalls his father's aversion and flight and his upbringing at the hands of his mother, who would forcibly bring him to the local church so others might take pity on their plight and give alms.o:p>/o:p>/span>
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Healing signifies new life. For Larry, a film actor from Scotland, a process of redemption unfolds on a yearlong trip during which he revisits certain of the locations of the films he has made.
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify">span lang="EN-GB">font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Larry Corbett, a film actor from Scotland, sets off on a trip. He aims to resolve the question of whether acting is something he wants to continue doing. Also in the back of his mind is a wish to find somewhere to settle down. He begins by travelling from Scotland’s Orkney Isles, his nominal base, to Glasgow, where he visits an uncle. While there he receives a letter from a friend and former colleague, Serenity Yunus. They have been out of touc | |  | | The Unintentional Healing of Soul
Novel about an individual's need for healing and the unexpected ways this begins to arise set against a backdrop of war-scarred Guatemala.
Steve Casey, a forty-five-year-old divorced man with one son visits his ageing parents on the eve of his departure for Central America. He is about to commence his third trip to the region in the space of five years. All have been undertaken in the hope of finding out something about the fate of a younger brother, Kenny, who went to Central America years before only to lose contact with the family.
After visiting Mexico City for several days, Steve travels to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, where he begins to recall the course of his relationship with his ex-wife and much else |
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He Was Weird
by Michael LeFevre
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 My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting. |
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