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by Kelly Huddleston
With a cast of eccentrics that rivals “The Royal Tenenbaums”, ALONE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS is about people and their treasured possessions—a running tape recorder, a collection of diplomas, an attic full of disfigured mannequins, or shelves and shelves of books in an all but abandoned public library—and the distinctive role that each of us plays as part of a group dynamic. The book questions where each of us essentially exists—within the singular, the plural, or both.
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by David A. Ross
A community is literally divided when an outraged homeowner catches a teenager spray-painting the wall of his house and champions the building of a wall to section off a wealthy subdivision from its only slightly less affluent neighbors.
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by Keith Ainsworth
Life, death and the relationships we forge between: The Courage of Intimacy is a collection of modern poetry exploring the fundamental human need to connect with others.
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by David A. Ross
GOOD MORNING CORFU: LIVING ABROAD AGAINST ALL ODDS chronicles the experiences of an American expatriate living on Corfu Island in Greece. From wide-eyed wonder to cultural and personal confusion, from unbridled joy to deep despair, and from empathy to outright loathing, these short essays examine both local and expatriate lifestyles through the lens of one deeply immersed yet forever removed, fundamentally involved yet perpetually on the perimeter of a most curious culture.
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by David A. Ross
One man's epic journey from designing smart bombs for the US Military to planting a winter garden on a Greek Island.
Feeling burned out, fragmented, ineffectual and plagued by guilt and remorse after helping to design guidance systems and smart bombs for the US Military, Doran Seeger decides that a prolonged sabbatical in Europe might somehow offer him renewal.
Wandering from country to country, he encounters new societies and new ideas, falls in and out of love, and tries his hand at more than a few curious professions, yet after ten years abroad he still struggles to appease his conscience.
Living in Prague and working as an underground art dealer, a chance encounter with the sister of his former lover persuades him to return to Greece, where a society that embraces real civility, not to mention a few idiosyncrasies, tenderly draws the habitual itinerant out of reticence and cynicism.
With his longtime Greek friend Modestos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden. As he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
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REVIEWS
"Great concepts mixed with ancient mythology and rounded characters. Xanthe and her scientific space art... Doran crippled with guilt... everything ticks the boxes, even the disorienta- tion at crossing the time zones. Yes, man, yes!"
~Lord Dunno - Authonomy
High Praise for ALONE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS
from other writers...
"Original and accomplished. Kelly Huddleston is such a good writer that she makes the complexities of this novel seem effortless and natural. I love its quirkiness and the quality of the dialogue, which gives another fully-rounded dimension to the narrative and cast of characters. I read avidly and really enjoyed the minute details, observations and ironies from small town USA to Greece. This (novel) is ambitious by any standards."
~Deborah Lawrenson (Songs of Blue and Gold)
"Big Amercican novel is right! The breadth of this book, with its cast of characters makes it a novel one would sit down and get lost in..."
~Ruth Dugdall (Family Snap)
"I would happily be alone in the company of this novel. I just want to sit back an' let it wash over me. New take on the old school greats at their best - it reads like a classic."
~Jason Quinn and Jonny Magnanti (The Palace of Wonder)
"(The) writing is gorgeous, extraordinarily confident and strong - as a reader I feel very excited that I'm going to be taken on the kind of literary journey I don't often find these days."
~Paul K. Lyons (Kip Fenn) Visit web site
"Whew! Dark Humour! Convolutions and Evolutions of language, relationships, interwoven plot dynamics. Count me in for this read, my little antennae are spinnin'!"
~M. M. Fahren
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by David A. Ross
In this whimsical novel, a star-crossed weekend sailor is shipwrecked on a wayward South Seas island. Stranded there by the trickery of a Hawaiian kahuna, and accompanied only by his sagacious parrot, Julian Crosby eventually meets the island’s only other human resident, a soft-spoken siren who seems at once out of place yet somehow thoroughly natural to her environment.
As Julian is initiated by the longtime foundling in the ways of this Shangri-La, the female solitary alludes time and again to a past that seems to suggest a solution to one of the century’s inimitable mysteries – the disappearance of 1930’s flying ace Amelia Earhart. Is it somehow possible that the missing aviatrix is still alive?
One man, one woman: alone in paradise. But in the denouement of a ferocious storm, the castaway finds he must confront the preconceived limits of his courage and ingenuity, even in Paradise.
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