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by Jane Austen
The life and loves of two starkly different sisters:
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Secrets, betrayals and confessions soon complicate the lives of the Dashwoods, whose goal is nothing less than the achievement of perfect happiness.
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 Lewis Carroll
A work of children's literature about a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. It is considered to be a characteristic example of the genre of literary nonsense.
by Charles Dickens
The moral message of A Christmas Carol and the spirit of the Christmas Holiday -- to give, rejoice and love friends, family, neighbors and strangers alike -- are forever linked.
by Kahlil Gibran
A book of poetic essays, each of which discusses the fundamental aspects of human experience.
by Washington Irving
The story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster who competes for the hand of the young, beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. He is also pursued by a Headless Horseman.
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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.
by David A. Ross
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.
by Kelly Huddleston
This 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.
by David A. Ross
A lonely and deranged sorcerer; a noon-time Bozo, a local television-star; observant and bewildered tourists; angry, drunken cock-fighters; obedient anarchists; a guilt-ridden engineer; each one experiences the curious juxtaposition of the two overriding ideas contained within the collection’s title, Sacrifice and the Sweet Life.
by David A. Ross
In this whimsical novel, a star-crossed sailor is shipwrecked on a 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 he 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.
by Donald O'Donovan
Originally written on 23 yellow legal pads while the author was homeless in the streets of LA, Night Train follows the exploits of Jerzy Mulvaney, homeless and broke in the streets of America's City of Angels. Jerzy may be a bit down on his luck, but he is forever engaging, and he offers a mirror to those members of American society living more fortunate lives. Night Train is an honest and penetrating look at America's vast homeless culture; it is not for the faint of heart, or for those who would deny the obvious. Night Train is a rare and unique opportunity to see this pertinent issue from the inside out.
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American Blow Job
by Teri Louise Kelly
Even God makes mistakes. Tiny little screw ups that can occur in utero, or beyond...chromosomes going awry, or the hormone fairy forgetting to do her damned job after a heavy night on the juice. Sure, no big shit, get over it – grow some balls, maybe some facial hair, and get drinking. Teri Louise Kelly managed all three in her previous incarnation as a surly young tearaway in London. Confused? Well, join the club. After muddling through as a 'cute' but rather lippy boy, becoming a chef and traveling the globe, he finally became shein Australia. A strange place to do it for sure, but then again, way down there in the big sandy desert no one can hear you scream.
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by David A. Ross
Cornelius Valentine is a young, passionate and very talented sculptor living on the Left Bank in Paris. After an affair ends abruptly, he retreats to a village in the South of France to attempt his masterwork.
There, in the medieval village of Seillans, a delusional local artisan confuses Cornelius with a figure in her past - the celebrated Dada artist Max Ernst. Seeking revenge for unrequited love, she sets out to both befriend and slowly poison the young artist.
As Cornelius becomes increasingly ill from the poison, each artist must ultimately share the same existential dilemma: what happens when one fails both in love and art?
Girls Like Me
by Teri Louise Kelly
The first collection of poetry from Teri Louise Kelly showcases the methodology of an author whose life has been lived both within, and beyond, the borders of the binary system.
A volume that is simultaneously coy, overt, reflective and sentimental. Featuring collaborative works with four of Adelaide's leading female poets, 'Girls Like Me' is an ethereal eulogy to fifty-years of having to suck in oxygen, and, more critically, an anthology that delivers an unequivocal declaration of independence from an independent entity still kicking after all those strange years.
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by David A. Ross
Motivated to expatriate by guilt and remorse after helping to design guidance systems for the U.S. Military, Doran Seeger has lived the past decade in Europe. Wandering from country to country, he has encountered new societies and new ideas, 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 friend Modestos by his side, Doran plants a winter garden; and as he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he regains his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
