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A minister, believing he's on a mission from God, identfies a local teacher as a homosexual. This identification leads to the teacher's murder.
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A feud, the fiery deaths of three little girls, and a confession, are events that come together and threaten four people’s lives in the suburban community of Payson Heights. The deaths create a major community controversy that draws Jack Schroeder into the conflict, as he becomes chairman of an ad hoc committee attempting to find suitable housing for the area’s migrant workers. A confession, made in confidence to a minister, is used to thwart the aims of the committee and threatens the lives of four people, including Jack’s wife, with exposure of a rape and assault they had covered up. The ensuing controversy is intensified with an ongoing fight between two of the most powerful people in the community. The story climaxes with a dramatic ending when the participants come together at a village hearing to determine whether suitable housing will be allowed in the village. “Payson Heights” is a sequel to the novel, “The Private Lives of Teachers.”
| |  | | The Darkness of Mid Day
On her eighth birthday, Anita witnesses the rape and murder of her mother. Thus begins a series of events that will forever alter her life. In the years following her mother’s death, Anita suffers more indignities and pain. After her seventeenth birthday, and with the aid of a friend, Jack Schroeder, Anita escapes first to Chicago and eventually to California. Twenty-five years later, she returns to Illinois, and by chance encounters the three who murdered her mother. As she remembers that fateful day, and all of the atrocities that have since happened to her, she makes a decision. She will exact
The Darkness of Mid Day is a volatile story that will test the reader’s ability to acutely discern a sinner from a saint. Let the reader beware… as the characters of this story invade your psyche, you may be left with no hero to champion.
Can murder ever be justified? You’ll have to decide, because you may find yourself rooting for a cold blooded murderer.
All those people had it coming, right? Maybe… but when “good” people begin to die, your allegiance will vanish and you will be shocked at the unexpected ending of this dark tale.
Joseph A. Wellman’s The Darkness | |  | | The Last Hours of Their Lives
A 53-year-old woman with just forty hours of flying takes over controls of an airliner when the captain and first officer become medically incapacitated.
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This is a story about a small group of people who are in front of us fourteen to eighteen years of our lives. This is a story about teachers. We think we know them, but all we know is an image. This is a story of teachers and their personal lives, the lives one rarely reads or hears about.
Excerpt from chapter one.
Meanwhile, Teri Jacobs, the new American history teacher, is in the social studies room trying to get a jump on next fall because she’ll be vacationing in San Diego in August. The office is stifling as there are no windows or movement of air. Dripping wet she struggles getting books and folders out of boxes, putting them on shelves and into filing cabinets. Stopping often, she tries to cool off by waving a piece of cardboard in front of her face. Her T-shirt is soaking wet and huge dark wet spots stain her shorts indicating sweat has gone through two la |
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