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Fish out of Water
Felix Palmer
This is a literary novel. It is the story of a man in his early thirties who is determined to murder a perfect stranger, only once, in order to give his life a sort of meaning, and change his personality. However, this is not another crime-story. This novel shows the inner struggles of an individual vascillating between banality of everyday life and insanity. The novel contains precise definiton of the sublime, the beautiful, and a complete elaborate discussion on the origin of art and tragedy, all disguised as dialogues among friends. This novel is not pompous elaboration of a conceited academician. The novel is readable and entertaining, the style natural and simple. The work contains a few passages with vulgar expressions, which may not be suited to all readers.
Stories I Wouldn't Tell Nobody But God
Rasheed Clark
Not since Terry McMillan?s ?Waiting To Exhale,? has a book been so raw, gritty and honest about love, loss, family, relationships, acceptance and trust and put a voice to the collective frustration felt by millions of people looking for love in all the wrong places? Stories I Wouldn?t Tell Nobody But God,? the long awaited, debut novel by Rasheed Clark, is an emotionally charged, provocative and page turning story of four friends, Sista, Brian, Day and Nikki and the rollercoaster ride that they call their lives? Sista, who will lose the only man she ever loved, as she allows her weight to determine her self worth. Brian, who learned the hard way that a good woman isn?t hard to find, he just has to be man enough to keep her. Day, who must learn to accept himself for who and what he is. Nikki, whose perfect world is shattered when she loved a man more than she loved herself and it almost cost her, her life, because of her man?s infidelity and lies. Powerfully told, heartwarming and funny, ?Nobody But God? will leave you wanting more. ?Stories I Wouldn?t Tell Nobody But God,? because there are many things, many people tend to keep to themselves, out of fear nobody but God will understand?
Black Chameleon Memoirs: Survival by Assimilation
Montez DeCarlo
Black Chameleon Memoirs tells the gripping saga of how one of the most successful Black businessmen in America rose to prominence using criminal activity and murder while overcoming adversity and an abusive childhood.
Anjoy - God's Gifts
Jill Divine
The people on Planet Tirleen are subliminally controlled. They are led to believe that not only are they the only surviving planet, but also that God does not exist. God sends them some gifts to prove his existence. Twenty five children who died twelve years ago now live, but they are a threat to the leader, and he imprisons them. Unless rescued they will die. The dark angels are arriving and gathering the negative energy that has been created, and are slowly suffocating the planet.
About a girl
Tony Nesca
?About a girl? is a short novel that begins with two strangers, a man and a woman, who meet at a bus-stop and go on an impromptu bar-crawl on a cool, winter day. Taking place in twelve hours it recounts the oddball, hardcore, characters they meet and their increasing emotional connection as they fall for each other almost immediately. Infused with sexual energy, pop-culture references, intellectual debate and literary allusions this is an unapologetic, uncensored look at our society through the eyes of the outsider. It is written in a free-flow, spontaneous style with long unhindered sentences that enable the reader?s eye to glide down the page as the story flows and moves to an urban beat of strippers, punk rockers and nightlife happenings.
Paint Me As I Am
H Jay Scheuermann
What unique attribute dwells within the creative individual? Is it a flaw in the unconscious psyche that gives rise to talent, influencing artists to fashion the product of their imagination into tangible form, just as the grain of sand gives rise to the precious pearl? Or is it more? To the world around him, Jerrod Young appears to be a typical, mature art student. He certainly has talent as a painter, but hidden within the darkest corners of his mind are unsavory secrets, and a different man that nobody knows. H. Jay Scheuermann, author of The Gore Experiment, gives us another great psychological thriller, delivering a chilling look inside the psyche of a man whose deepest thoughts begin to assume control over his actions. The needs of the darkness within him seem to grow with each atrocity, his ever-increasing confidence fueling an inexorable force for evil. Hell is not a place, but a state of mind, a state of being: it exists within each of us. We like to believe we can control it, but the cruel alternative is that our choices have already been made for us. Jerrod has accepted his truth, and is resolved to serve his inner demon. Special Agent Jackie Jonas has been given her first assignment, a case that may mark the beginning and the end of her FBI career, as it leads her into a web of violence and deception, with each new clue ensnaring the lives of the ones she loves?. This gripping story brings to life the awful truth that the Jerrod Young?s of this world do, in fact, exist. It could be one of your co-workers, the person behind you in the supermarket checkout line, or even the person next door. Can you tell? Are you willing to stake your life on it?
Tabloid Nation
John Schasny
Narrator is intrigued by a group of losers who embark upon a search that includes a visit with the channeling "Cure Girl" who promises to lead them to the Promised Land to avoid total annihilation, but when he falls in love with a fellow traveller, all hell breaks loose, and he decides to bore a hole into his own head so that they might all "see the light." But once cured, everything changes, and our Narrator learns that he has become that thing which he despised most...a loser.
This Is Yakutat
Kadashan
A short story collection about a small village in Southeast Alaska.
77 URBAN STREET Love Thy neighbor? No Way!
ANNIE GRANT
Meet Annie, mid-twenties, moving into an apartment on Urban Street.What starts out calm soon becomes chaotic. Will Annie become what she despises the most? Will she turn into a dysfunctional neighbor? Meet the neighbors. The neighbors from Hell. The neighbors from Urban Street. If you have ever lived with neighbors like this, you would agree, "Love thy neighbor? No Way!"
The Dream of the Decade - The London Novels
Afshin Rattansi
The first deals with the aftermath of the Big Bang in the City of London and how it disturbs all relationships in the British capital, exacerbating differences between rich and poor. It follows an unnamed protaganist fall from grace in the City as he watches London almost tear itself apart over social unrest.In Reproach, Rattansi deals with Londoners trapped in a bar during a suspected terrorist attack. In A Taste of Money, he examines the omnipotence of property prices for Londoners, how it affects all who live in the capital. And in Good Morning, Britain, he satirises the way news is gathered and disseminated in Britain during a war in Europe and burgeoning insecurity for Londoners.
From the publisher:
Ms. Rutter brings to life a cast of rich characters that leap off the page. Suspense, romance, humor and a surprising twist will leave the reader turning the pages long into the night.
Midwest Book Review
Sherry Russell
'A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams', by Joy Lee Rutter, sparks interest in the little-known subject matter; traumatic brain injury. Midwest Rewiew says: "The book is enticing with its wild disarray, weird magical moments and plagued with paranoid delusions. A fast paced excellent read..."
To understand the extent of brain injuries is to possess the understanding of what it takes to work in a neuro-rehab. The main character, Joleen Cumberland, deals with hostile patients, verbal and physical assaults, miracles and her own personal burn out. Joleen is at her wits end after seven years of working at the rehab center, Rivers Edge. Everyday she had "a fear as if she was entering the belly of a gigantic sleeping monster".
Between her irritating co-worker, Brad and her new patient Mitch Stevens along with his brother Geoff, life starts to take an interesting twist. There are many gripping moments all through out the book. One in particular is when Joleen is kicked in the head by one of her patients. There are times when patients leap into rages, toss off prosthesis body parts and attack with toys. Through all this chaos, workers maintain their sanity, make major leaps in helping their patients and Joleen finds love.
The author has done a splendid job of bringing to life engrossing characters. The patients, co-workers and families are all substantial in description and dialogue. A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams is a highly intelligent provocative novel. The book is enticing with its wild disarray, weird magical moments and plagued with paranoid delusions. A fast paced excellent read with an intriguing theory on the Roadrunner cartoon.
Round Table Reviews
Fascinating. My first reaction reading the initial pages opening Joy Lee Rutter’s A FLAMBOYANT DISARRAY OF DREAMS was, as Mr. Spock might proclaim -- fascinating. A woman sits catatonic in her driveway, pondering death by the hand of Bart Simpson, while reflecting on her work, her life, and whether or not the patients she helps at Rivers Edge, a New Hampshire neuro-rehabilitation facility, are actually being “helped” by her efforts. Will their lost cognitive skills, necessary for assimilating information and controlling behavior, once more be of use; or are those patients, and their frenetic, dangerous childlike behaviors, dragging her down intothe same disarray that fills their days? Such is the question before Joleen Cumberland.
Mitch Stevens is a writer; or, perhaps more appropriately stated, he was a writer. Following a tumble from the second story deck of his condominium, he now is little more than a vegetable, unable to speak, and barely able to move. His eyes, as Joleen notices, are alert, watching herself, as well as Rebecca, Mitch’s wife, when she visits him at Rivers Edge; but his ability to communicate is lost.
Mitch becomes the roommate of Alex Williams, a young man incapable of controlling his emotions, raging into temper tantrums, dangerous and frightening to those people not prepared to deal with the hazards he presents. Somehow, with Joleen as the conduit back into the real world, Mitch and Alex foster a nebulous father/son relationship: Mitch helping Alex speak of what bolts him into such ballistic anger; and Alex giving Mitch a reason to do more than just sit in his wheelchair and take up space.
I was drawn to this book initially from its title. It caught my attention, and I found myself wanting to know more of what this curious arrangement of words meant. When I learned the premise of the book took place in a ‘neuro-rehabilitation’ facility – a place of which I was completely unfamiliar – I knew there was something within its 281 pages worth investigating. Happily, I can report my time was spent well.
Why do I say this? Simple: A FLAMBOYANT DISARRAY OF DREAMS resonates within the context of the Rivers Edge patients, as well as the staff from whom they depend for care.
You see, Joy Lee Rutter has accomplished something with this book all authors should. She has taken the book’s title, which overtly pertains to the disarray of those people robbed of their faculties, and applied it to the struggles all people encounter in their lives. Joleen, as the protagonist of this engaging tale, continues returning to Rivers Edge (though she seeks the life of a successful writer) while inwardly desiring to quit, leave it all behind, and forget all the wandering quandaries about why she has remained there seven years. There is also Melanie, her supervisor, struggling, to a degree with boyfriend issues – in a fashion one never envisions a supervisor talking to an employee whom she supervises. Tim, the new RS on staff, is the scruffy ex-husband, thrown out of his house, driving his John Deere lawnmower to work. Brad, Joleen’s nemesis, who while doing all he can to do his job right, manages to insolently do everything wrong – they trade some amazingly witty barbs that shows Joleen’s wrong side is a fool’s land to tread.
If you are looking for a good tale, A FLAMBOYANT DISARRAY OF DREAMS is one worth a try. There are good characters that develop naturally through the action and transpire logically from one plot point to the next. There is a solid ending with which one will not be disappointed; and which, I believe could establish, a second book with these same characters (if Geoff and Rebecca are strengthened) as the issues raised at the conclusion here illicit more concern than just a person’s brain no longer functioning as it ought.
A FLAMBOYANT DISARRY OF DREAMS is Joy Lee Rutter’s second book -- her first, being A DISTURBING PRESENCE. I hope she continues to develop her stories with the sense of strong plot and concurrent theme, which relates not only to the characters she creates, but also those readers taking the time to indulge in her words. It is much the same as the characters here in A FLAMBOYANT DISARRAY OF DREAMS. They were reading the lives of those characters within Rivers Edge, learning, as Mitch would tell in his writings, one should always look beyond the words -- a truth still pertinent to all living upon planet earth today.
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