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This
ninetieth-anniversary anthology way be the most bountiful collection of American
poems ever published. Everybody's in it, from Ezra Pound to Sylvia Plath
to our own Marilyn L. Taylor.
This
powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious
illness or injury-be it theirs or that of a loved one-who wants and needs to
help themselves through the healing process.
Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as
stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe
injuries-from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong-Abercrombie encourages readers to
write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared
experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about
healing the soul.
Agent of Judgment by Robert Rice
In a rural Montana trailer park, Michael Walker's life has hit bottom. In order to escape a prison sentence for "smuggling" cocaine, Michael joined his brother in a mysterious government unit, as an assassin. But the overwhelming guilt of being paid to murder forced Michael to flee, leaving his identity and his security behind, finding solace in a bottle." "He is sitting, drinking away his guilt over the past, when his sister Ursula calls, in serious need of his help and protection. Someone has been stalking her - keeping track of her every movement." "Then, while Michael is in a drunken stupor, Ursula's baby is kidnapped from right under his nose. Filled with remorse and determined to find his sister's child, Michael comes to realize a greater force is at work. He soon crosses paths with the Church of True Atonement, a Montana-based cult predicting the Second Coming of Christ and preparing for the end by punishing mortals with monstrous acts of ecoterrorism." "As one carefully orchestrated disaster after another plagues the planet, mimicking the signs of the apocalypse, Michael begins to wonder just how far the Church of True Atonement's power and influence reach, and how he can possibly rescue his tiny nephew. <<buy now>>
Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life, edited by Maureen Murdock
Monday Morning Memoirs is a dazzling collection of intimate stories written by ten remarkable women who first met in a creative writing class in the mid-nineties and have continued to write together ever since. This wildly different, yet amazingly similar group of women, aged forty-five to seventy-nine, have provided a unique view of the Second Half of Life across several generations. They have crafted their memories with exceptional compassion, humor, insight and attention to the cultural changes that have occurred in the last four decades. An introduction to each chapter describes the elements of memoir writing contained in each piece so that you can begin to write your life story too.
The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock
A 9 stage process that entails at first rejecting feminine values, making it in the man's world, experiencing spiritual death, and finally turning inward to reclaim the power and spirit of the feminine. This restructuring of ideas and preconceptions leads to a truer sense of female identity. This book is a guide to understanding the female journey, and to realizing the empowerment that comes from knowing one's self.
Rampage
by Susan Taylor Chehak
Once again, Chehak has mined her Midwestern
roots and produced a highly charged novel where the questions of the present are
inextricably bound up with the secrets of the past. In this novel, Chehak sets
her story in a small town called Rampage, and as its name implies, it is a place
where much violence converges on those whose lives are bound up in its dark
history.
Madlen Cramer has come back home with her two young children to be reunited with
her childhood friend Rafe, the sexy drifter who has abducted a four-year-old
girl from an abusive foster family, leaving the parents for dead. During this
hot Iowa summer, the past will refuse to stay past as painful truths begin to
emerge: about Rafe's own foster family; about Madlen's marriage, whose bonds had
begun to unravel in the months before her husband's tragic accident; and about
her beautiful self-absorbed mother, whose passions bring about the devastating
entanglement of two families in an embrace that cannot be undone until Rafe has
gone on the rampage that will destroy everything in sight and leave readers
breathless.
A master of the Midwestern gothic, Susan Taylor Chehak is that rare writer who
brings the closely observed detail to a level of storytelling that has earned
her both an Edgar nomination and the praise of critics nationwide. Rampage is
for people who understand, on every level, that you really can't go home again.
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Dancing on Glass by Susan Taylor Chehak
This startling novel is a tale of illicit passion, transgression, and retribution, set in the very heart of middle America. Bader Von Vechten's marriage to Katherine Craig unites the leading families of Cedar Hill and promises to heal the wounds of three generations. But when Bader commences a love affair with a beautiful young man, Katherine is goaded to the desperate act that will change their lives irrevocably, setting in motion the series of tragic events that will play themselves out over two generations. Only twenty-five years later, in the wake of death, murder, and disgrace, can Bader, changed almost beyond recognition, return to Cedar Hill. There a chance encounter affords Bader his last hope for human contact -- and redemption. Psychologically uncompromising and emotionally gripping, Dancing on Glass is a bold novel that sweeps the reader along from its unforgettable opening scene to its climactic ending. A brilliant evocation of the passion and violence that lurk beneath the surface of smalltown life, it marks a significant step forward in the career of a writer whose fiction has already been hailed as masterly. <<buy now>>
Smithereens
by Susan Taylor Chehak
This
compelling novel, set once again in the heartland of
America, pairs two unlikely friends in a dark tale of seduction and murder. It
is May Caldwell's sixteenth summer, and life couldn't be more dull in Linwood,
Iowa. Vaguely suicidal and haunted by half-remembered scenes from her early
childhood, May is a girl waiting for her life to happen. And happen it does with
the unexpected arrival of Frances Anne Crane, a.k.a. Frankie, a girl with too
much past and nothing to lose. Together they seduce an older man as Frankie
awakens all that May has been holding inside: the mystery of her uncle Brodie's
illicit past, the painful truth of her grandparents' slow dissolutions, and her
own emerging sexuality. Where Frankie leads, May follows, and what's left is a
murder no one can pin, a family's buried past resurfaced in a wild night of
mayhem, and May's safe world blown to smithereens in this unforgettable tale of
betrayal and desire.
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Harmony
by Susan Taylor Chehak
This powerful novel of love and adultery recounts the story of Clodine Wheeler and the small Midwestern town where she was born and raised. As Clodine tells of her upbringing, courtship, and marriage, her narrative circles ever closer to the troubling secret and shocking death that stand at its center. It is a tale of passion and domestic violence -- and their incalculable consequences.
No one knows exactly when Lilly Duke, wife of a convicted killer, arrived to seek refuge in a cabin on the sore of Harmony Lake, but her arrival changes Clodine's life forever. At first Lilly finds no friends except Clodine -- and Clodine's wayward husband, Galen. But after her child's body is found drifting on the lake, the town crowds to Lilly's aid. Still, no one can explain what Lilly was doing when her baby crept out of the cabin. The answer to this question leads to the shattering climax of this unforgettable novel. <<buy now>>
The Truth about Annie D.
by Susan Taylor Chehak
(originally titled The Story of Annie D.)
In this old-fashioned tale of murder and retribution we meet a strong-minded woman who has always feared for her family and tried to protect her father and her two sons. Annie D., the narrator of this fine first novel, was raised in Nebraska, all flat farmland and cornfields, except along its rivers. Widowed and living in the town of Wizen River, she tends to her beloved garden and enjoys frequent visits from her old high school friend, Phoebe Tucker. Then one fine morning Phoebe drives her Chevy off the road, into a ditch, and up an oak tree, and Annie D. is forced to take stock. Despite what Annie D. says, life in Wizen River appears to by idyllic. But we learn that the idyll has been disrupted by two violent killings, and when a third young woman is found strangled and raped, we trust to Annie D., with her sharp tongue and good heart, to make sense of it all. Nominated for an Edgar Award; New York Times Notable Book of the Year. <<buy now>>