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This sometimes dark but ultimately uplifting tale relates the tribulations and triumph of suicidal undertaker/poet Flam Grub, who finds the way out of the netherworld of his own life.
Abused and withdrawn, the child of a troubled marriage, young Flam Grub takes refuge in books.
When the latchkey kid instinctively gravitates to the bookstore beneath his family's flat, his obsession crystallizes as he falls under the tutelage of Page Turner, the shop's owner, and grows up as a lover of literature, and especially poetry.
Flam, however, carries the burden of a pathologically introverted nature, and the perceived shame of an unusual name that brings him nothing but abuse from his peers. As adulthood arrives, the angst-ridden and suicidal Flam must strugg | |  | | skyfisher
A digital-age whistle-blower, hiding for his life, tells all in this timely novel depicting the rise of Religion 2.0 and its unholy messiah.
Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and takes refuge in a trailer in the New York countryside. There he writes an exposé of Phasmatia, the world's first great internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher.br />
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As one of the trio of ad men who schemed to concoct Phasmatia, Evans certainly knows where all the skeletons are buried, and is ready to tell all—provided he manages to live long enough. His close friend and co-conspirator, Stan Shiu, whose technical genius helped spark the religion's rapid rise, has already bee |
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Restless Waves
by Miller Caldwell
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 May I offer you a Round the World Cruise of a lifetime for the price of a novel?
Not only do the seas roll on but two romances,a death at sea, uncovered past lives, history uncovered in Brazil, caves in Australia, poetry in Senegal, the Lux Mundi |
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