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At last - a humorous as well as biting novel about baby boomer women, fear of aging and loss of romance within long-term marriage. No Penelope Perfect pining over Pierre's pectorals here. My Occasional Torment dares to ask and answer - What makes a woman a woman and how in the world would a man know the answer? Now taken on as a stage play by Nigg Media Productions. Premiere date in February.
span style="font-size: 11pt">So who’s tormenting Julia Connery? After thirty-three years of marriage, her husband, of course. A self-righteous, Scottish-obsessed, damsel-in-distress-saving husband; a magnet attracting a parade of women wanting to interview him for their unwritten books and bask in his Scottish glow. Meanwhile her gangster-obsessed father-in-law knows Julia’s afraid of him and a bit disappointed his son didn’t marry someone else. Her own son lives buried within baggy clothes and teenaged angst, whose passion in life is to tweak his father’s pride. Ev | |  | | River Ghosts
A Kirkus Starred Review Mystery! Sixteen years after Richard Hill, as a boy, pointed out in court the man he saw murder his white mother and black father, DNA evidence sets the convicted man free. Now Richard must fight between the so-called perfect science of man and his own imperfect memory of a traumatized eight-year-old boy, to not only stop the advance of a white supremacist group, but also his own assured murder. A mystery in the classic sense that honestly takes on race and religion, without preaching, in substantive and emotional ways that matter. The ending leaves you breathless in its honesty and impact.
span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial">Richard Hill's childhood memories begin with the innocent belief that love between his black father and white mother created him, that he is proof of a good and purposeful God. His innocence ends at age eight when Richard's parents hide him at the outset of trouble. A neo-Nazi youth who rapes his mother and murders her and his father. Richard survives, a witness to violence and, he believes, his own cowardice.o:p>/o:p>/span>
span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial"> On the strength of Richard's | |  | | The Widow's Son
Grand prize winner of the FirstNovelFest 2000 novel writing competition, a story set in the 1960s; a story for all time. Based on a true story, you are guaranteed laughter and tears following 12-year-old Jeremy's struggle to save his family during the year after his father dies.
The Widow's Son was selected as a FirstNovelFest Grand Prize Winner - Enjoy the music, politics, fashion, televison and movie fare of the 1960s. Did you know that 2 days before the blizzard of 1967 that brought the Midwest to a halt, it was a balmy 65 degrees? Or that Wild Thing by the Troggs kicked the Beatle's Paperback Writer off the top of the pop charts? Or that Gomer Pyle USMC replaced the Dick Van Dyke Show? These details unique to 1966 and 1967 also include the Apollo 1 disaster, what young men did to avoid the draft and Vietnam, and President Johnson's conclusion in 1966 that the V |
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