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Vito Vitale, proprietor of "Vito's Place", a once-fashionable
bar-restaurant in mid-Manhattan, NYC, is visited by Alan Craigan,
who has come to tell him he wants to marry Vito's daughter, Jennie, and to
ask for Vito's blessing. Like the widening ripples from a pebble dropped in water,
news of this impending marriage sets in motion the plans for a betrothal party,
and a circle of actions and reactions that change the relationships of everyone
present.
affect everyone in the family
complications which take plac
Vito Vitale, just turned 83, has been the dominant force in the lives of everyone
inhis family. A man of enormous gusto, born the poorest boy in the poorest town
in Northern Italy, he has built a small empire of influence via his bar-restaurant,
"Vito's Place", a once-fashionable watering hole for NYC' famous. Though he is a
loving man, he distrusts love, itself, because, as he says, it can hide behind many guises,
whereas fear tells you who a man or woman is, what is his or her price. This has led him
to play what he and the family call his "Money Game", which | |  | | HONEY
A modern fairy tale in which
Honey Burke finds her prince
and makes him immortal.
After singing her way up through every
illegal beer joint in NYC's Hell's Kitchen,
Honey Burke gets her big break, the
Headline Singer at a top speakeasy -
from which she is appropriated by Big
Augie Farrell, a Chicago Mobster.
The rest of the story is concerned with
her search for validation, "cosmic" proof that
she matters. And that pursuit
ultimately leads her to her "prince." | |  | | Ladyhouse Blues
The Year is 1919, and Liz Madden, a widow with four daughters, tries to hold her
family together in a world she never made, while waiting for her only son to return
from France.
The Place is St.Louis, the time
is 1919, and the people are an
indomitable mother and her
four daughters. The family is
working class, respectable
Irish, and they have moved
from the farm to the city.
One daughter is dying of
consumption, one is unhappily
married to a New York socialite,
a third is a political activist,
and the youngest wants to get
married and move with her
husband to California.
Though the mother's
children are flling away
from her she is still the
dominant force in the family,
a firm believer in God and the
Bible, possessed of a
| |  | | The Dead File
An exposé of the Showbusiness Blacklist as a business-run-for-profit, where those who
did the Blacklisting would then "clear" you --- for a fee.
From the Publisher:
In the 1950s the infamous TV Blacklist was quasi-public, part of TV's every day
commerce, but The Dead File, it's bastard child, was secret.
This is a story about why and how Des McCrossan, a young actor, is put into
The Dead File, and never learns what has changed his life forever. | |  | | The Morgan Yard
When the US Government
tries annex the Morgan Family
burying ground in the Missouri
Ozarks for a munitions dump,
ground which widowed
Carrie Morgan regards as
sacred ground, left to her to
guard in trust, she mines the
mountain top and posts a "No
Trespassing" sign for the Army
to see. In this case of the
irresistable force meeting the
immovable object, with neither
side able to yield, the result
inevitably leads to tragedy.
| |  | | The Passion of Brian Loftus
A fractured view of most of the 20th Century, viewed through the dying eyes of Brian
Loftus, who has been Consultant to every president fro Roosevelt to Clinton.
During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Brian Loftus,
lifetime Chairman and CEO of Crown Industries and Consultant to The President,
suffers a stroke, which sends him on a wild chase in search of his identity, a chase
which takes him into the "realities" of his life in the halls of Power; a chase distorted
by folk lore and phantasms conjured up by the evasions employed by those in seats
of power that have unsuspected limits.
The personal cost of those evasions has led Brian to an unadmitted isolation from
the wife he has lov |
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Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
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 Deputy Dave Jenkins investigates the murder of local high school principal, Jerry Egge, but this is a multi-faceted novel that deals with spiritualism, romance, friendship, and children who fall through the cracks.
"Murder isn't usually this |
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