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| BLUE
WATERS
by B.
J. Vaughn. Determined
Penny Kennedy marries a Union officer, Colonel Ryan Madison, despite
the fury of family, friends, and neighbors who cannot forget the
hardships they suffered at Union hands. The
horrors
of military
occupation and Reconstruction fuel further fires of resentment.
The initial days of
wedded bliss end abruptly when Marcus, the man who courted Penny for
years in anticipation that she would wed him, is arrested for murder
and Ryan is assigned to prosecute him. Lizzy,
her
husband’s jilted lover, adds to their marital woes when she
decides she will win him back, one way or another.
The
perfect opportunity
occurs when Penny is swept overboard during a storm and presumed lost
at sea. Washed
ashore, she is taken captive by a demented old man who thinks she is
his long-dead wife returned from the grave. [Approximately
88,000 words, Manuscript Completed]
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| CAUGHT IN A WEB by Jason
Carter. It’s
been two years since his wife, Victoria, vanished, and single father,
Steven Pierce has found the strength to move on. But after spending his
first night alone with a new love, a mysterious letter draws him back
to Victoria, unveiling a secret life Steven had no idea she led. With
his sister, Susan, in tow, Steven resumes the search for Victoria, and
becomes entangled in a web spun of murder and deceit. Steven believes
that the truth behind Victoria's sudden disappearance is the only thing
that will set him free. But uncovering the truth may destroy him
instead. [Approximately
88,500 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| CONS FROM
THE ROCK by Robert
VanDeventer is, finally, the full story
of the most famous escape from Alcatraz prison. What really happened in
1962 has never been told before. Just one convict makes it. And he may
owe his success less to savvy and luck than to that ever shining moment
called Camelot. That’s right. A Kennedy is pulling strings,
recruiting a mole to infiltrate Alcatraz, ostensibly to find out if an
escape is possible. Meanwhile, near-genius inmate Fred Morgan already
has an escape plan in motion. Fed plan versus Morgan plan. We watch
both develop, neither known to the other. Will Morgan make it? Are the
Feds working for or against him? We can’t be sure. They often
seem unsure themselves, as we listen to them inside the Washington
Monument, on a New Jersey golf course, aboard a
“clocker”, on the Golden Gate Bridge, at the Top of
the Mark. Morgan’s plan is a known page of history, revealed
here chip by chip – with detail and emotion never before
published or filmed. Morgan is often funny, more often serious, as we
watch him deal with inmates sage to insane and officials also sage to
insane. CONS FROM THE ROCK is less revisionist than a re-imagining of a
fantastic coup – the kind of brave, if often futile,
derring-do about which people will always wonder. [Suspense,
Approximately 83.000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| THE
DEVIL MADE ME . . . .
by Stephen
Tobias.
Everyone knows that Satan collects souls, but his other
passion
is to amass a fabulous art collection. Much of the art that has been
lost or stolen over the ages now hangs on the walls in his
“Museum of the Lost.” His claim that his is the
only
collection free of fakes and forgeries is undisputed. When rumor of a
previously undocumented Vermeer, appropriated by Nazi Air Marshal,
Herman Goering in the closing days of WW II reaches him, Satan sends
his chief demon curator; Renaissance sculptor, Pietro Tacca to buy it
from a dying war veteran who has it hanging on his wall in Houston,
Texas. Pietro returns with the painting which has been damaged by years of neglect in a bombed out farm house basement and Satan (AKA-Staggs, Stagger Lee) picks an innocent New York painter to do the restoration; hoping to obtain her soul and the painting both in one fell swoop. It is only when Pietro takes one look at her and falls madly in love that Satan’s plans go awry; as everything Pietro does to make the artist suffer backfires and Satan can see the painting slipping out of his grasp. Add a Capuchin monkey that is the artist’s guardian angel, an Israeli Mossad agent trying to repatriate the painting to its original owner, and a rapacious demon with fetal alcohol syndrome anxious to score points with the boss and, as they say in Hollywood-hilarity ensues. [Approximately
80,000 words, Manuscript Completed]
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| DO YOU STILL CHA CHA? by Fran
Metzman is a
women’s mystery
novel where The Golden Girls meet Sex
& the City and will appeal to boomers, women aged 20 plus,
mystery buffs,
and romance readers. It is an off-beat, upmarket novel laced with humor
and
romance and is diabolically quirky. It takes place in a Florida
retirement
community where the sixty-year old protagonist along with two friends
and her
thirty-two year old daughter, find themselves dangerously enmeshed in
serial
murders. They must unravel the
mystery or be arrested themselves. The game of love among the 55
plus population is revealed and juxtaposed to more youthful romantic
life. Amusing
antics of retirement communities take on a personality of its own. A
surprise
ending exposes a darker side of society that plagues the present era of
greed.
[Woman's
Fiction. Approximately
80,00 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| ELEANOR ALBRIGHT,
EDWARDIAN PI
: Her First Case
by Julie Murphy.
Recognizing a peck
ring in a torso that has arrived at
the Forensic Science Laboratory in Dublin, the great granddaughter of
Lady Eleanor Albright needs to delay the sergeant sent to over see the
priority
case. She begins a tale of her
great-grandmother’s: the case of Lord Montfire, the
Baron of Tweedmouth, who is dead at the foot of his castle and in his
nightdress. So easy to smother an asthmatic. Chief
Constable Owens, who is great with coarse bass, wants the case to go
away, but pressed, believes that the effeminate son did it.
The son Louis says to them, “Ignis Fatuus, we must live
foolishly. It’s the fire within us
all.” Eleanor, who knows him as gentle, thinks that
the killer is the wife who is perfuming herself as a nervous tick, or
Monsieur Renard, Lady Tweedmouth’s “French Poodle
who has killed before. As a chemistry student with patents in
women’s skin creams and an expert in poisons, Eleanor
recognizes a drug-induced dilation in the moneyed, abstinent,
evangelist’s eyes. [Approximately
77,000 words, Manuscript Completed]
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| EMERSON'S HOME
by Wendy
Fiore. When
Emerson LaMonica, an
over-achiever working as an
archivist in [Approximately
75,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| THE GOLDEN GLEAM;
Fantasy fiction by Pam
Chillemi-Yeager. is
the story of Rick
Dearborn, a cynical mental health
worker, and Rubilee Gardner, the enigmatic, bi-racial
clairvoyant he
meets and marries after a whirlwind romance. Their wedded
bliss is
quickly thwarted when Rubilee miscarries during a
frightening
supernatural event. Shortly after, Rick's favorite client,
Ray
Antonelli, takes off, leaving behind a map, and a
note stating that
he is going to meet space creatures. Finding evidence that the
two
events are related, Rick and Rubilee, along
with Rubilee's two
colorful aunts and a coon dog with a fondness for baying at the moon
are off on a cross country quest to find answers, as well as the
missing Mr. Antonelli. From the lush farmlands of PA to the
beauty of
Nag's Head and ultimately a tribe of Goddess worshippers in
the Marble
Desert, THE GOLDEN GLEAM is filled with contemporary fantasy, humor and
suspense.
[Approximately
71,000 words. Manuscript Complete]
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THE HAND OF OSIRIS by Frank Cavallo. 1879. Bounty hunter Jacob Hatcher has pursued the outlaw Jedediah Sykes from the Texas prairie to the deserts of the Arizona Territory. On the verge of capture, Sykes escapes into a valley that Hatcher’s Apache guides refuse to enter, warning that the lands are cursed by an ancient, nameless evil. The trail leads him to a town, a dark paradise of sin and vice called Gehenna. Though gambling and gunfights rule the day, no one in Gehenna ever dies. Unless everyone in Gehenna is already dead. Hatcher and Sykes soon find themselves entangled in the mysteries of Gehenna’s peculiar denizens – a pale dandy, a fire & brimstone Jesuit preaching to a city of lost souls, and a shadowy figure who rules over the town like a living god. When one of them makes a choice that threatens to damn them all, the rest must work together, confronting not only their own demons, but the hidden horrors of Gehenna itself, to find a stolen key that can unlock the domain of the dead. [Approximately
100,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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THE
JEWISH JOURNEY by Sheldon
Cohen. From the
1840's to World War II, The Bauemler
family of [Approximately
100,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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LEFT LUGGAGE by Geoff
Nelder contains a
shattering original premise. The concept of memory is examined as the
part it plays in making us who we are. From space is brought a
suitcase-size
object that fundamentally affects memory. A few escape its invidious
consequences
and attempt to secure a future. Dangerous, yet sometimes humorous
action takes
us from orbit in the International Space Station to an apparent
sanctuary in a
remote valley in
[Approximately
108,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| OUTSIDER,
by Stephen
Tobias.
Nathan Lerner, photographer and art professor has been unable to work
since the loss of his daughter to leukemia and the subsequent break-up
of his marriage. He keeps his lack of creative output secret,
re-cycling his old negatives and sleep walking through his days. When
an elderly tenant in a building Nathan owns moves into a nursing home,
Nathan goes to clean out his apartment and finds a vast collection of
original art done by the reclusive and disturbed ex-janitor, Herman
Vireck. The art, done on cheap sketch paper with Woolworth water colors
and using sophisticated techniques of collage and blending of sacred
and profane images will eventually be recognized as the work of an
obsessive genius and effect the work of hundreds of contemporary
artists. For Lerner the discovery of Herman’s work sends him
on a tortuous journey into the nature of his own creative sensibility
and to the dark secrets surrounding his daughter’s hidden
relationship with “crazy” Herman.
OUTSIDER is loosely based on the life of outsider artist Henry Darger, about whom little is actually known. It is hoped that through this fictional exploration of the imagined relationship between Nathan and Herman an emotional satisfying conclusion can be brought to some of the questions that surround this disturbed and elusive genius. [Approximately 100,000 words. Manuscript Complete] |
| THE PATH
by Wayne
Miller.
Once upon a time, the future was written in blood, carved by the point
of a spear. Long before the recorded history of the Americas, there
were the days now remembered only in myth, when the eaters of men,
called the Menhau,
sought to
destroy all the children of Wakanti,
the
Sun. This is the story of P'hana, the half-breed son of the Great
Serpent, who became a great chieftain and led all the tribes of
humanity against the Menhau
in the last great battle. Yet true evil is
hard to kill, and dares to raise its ugly head again in our own time.
So to, though, death sometimes fails to hold a mighty hero in its
grasp, more so a hero who has sworn a blood oath never to rest so long
as even a single Menhau
yet
draws breath . . .
[Dark Fantasy Approximately 91,000 words. Manuscript Complete] |
| THE PROMETHEUS GATE
by Frank
Cavallo.
After more than four decades behind bars, notorious serial
killer
Al Grimsby stages an inexplicable escape. Christina Falcone,
the
FBI’s top behavioral analyst, is assigned to hunt him
down.
Her investigation leads her into a maze of conflicting clues: secret
government experiments, legends of lost gods and an archaeologist named
Carter McAlester—who works for a shadowy organization with
their
own agenda. From the streets of Berlin to the ruins of
Babylon
they race to find a legendary artifact that may hold the key to an
unspeakable power—a power that Al Grimsby may already
possess,
and which may have driven him mad. Plagued by nightmares and
dark
visions, they must discover the truth before Grimsby can finish his
bloody work. Before the Prometheus Gate can be opened. [Horror.
Approximately
120,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| THE
PUZZLE BOX by Chris
C. Ewing.
A
chain of bizarre events is set in motion when
geologist Thomas McEwen discovers an intricately-carved wooden box in
the mountains of Wyoming. No one seems to know what is inside the
sealed box but many are willing to go to great lengths to find out.
When a university professor is murdered for researching the artifact,
the Abbess of a mysterious rogue church in the mountains offers Thomas
sanctuary. Caught in over 100 years of eerie destiny, Thomas races to
find the ancient truth before he becomes yet another victim of the
PUZZLE BOX. [Approximately
71,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| SUCH
SWEET THUNDER: The Woman who
Loved Beethoven by David Ryback. Sometimes a man’s hidden secrets are best understood by the woman who loves him most deeply. This is the story of Beethoven's life as seen through the eyes of his immortal beloved. Hers is the voice that sets up the narrative, with all the passion that reverberates with his powerful music. It takes the reader through the life of Beethoven, based on a memoir that he leaves for her after his death. The memoir is intermingled with her own remembrances of this immortal love for the ages. [Approximately 85,000
words.
Manuscript Completed]
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| THERIOPHOBIA
by Wayne
Miller. Every man has
a savage
beast inside of him. Lucas Vale has one too, but his has bigger teeth
than the rest. Bigger teeth, sharper claws. It is pure appetite, this
beast, and pure malevolence. And it's getting stronger with each
passing heartbeat. God help us all when it gets out. [Horror, Approximately
92,000 words.
Manuscript Completed]
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| THE TWINS
by Sheldon
Cohen.
The Nazis have assumed power in Germany. A
brilliant theoretical and experimental German physicist has discovered
the secret of nuclear fission and the nuclear bomb and is prepared to
assure Adolf Hitler control of the world. Who is this physicist? Can he
be stopped? The intelligence services of two nations combine to kill or
capture this physicist. There is one chance. What is there about his
past that can be used to stop him? The future of the world hangs in the
balance. [Approximately 70,000
words. Manuscript Completed.]
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| ULTIMATE
PRIVILEGE
by Reanne Singer is a suspense novel. Synopsis coming soon. [Suspense, Approximately 100,000 words.
Manuscript
Completed]
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| UNDER
LOW SKIES is another
adventure from Ed
Teja
with the exotic background of the
Southern Caribbean and South America to add spice. The action-oriented
adventure murder mystery is peopled with interesting and likable
characters. [Approximately
80,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| THE
VAMPIRE LOVER'S COOKBOOK by Pam
Chillemi-Yeager. Bram
Stoker would never have imagined his
seminal work would create such madness. For here in the new millenium,
vampires are all the rage. Girls swoon, boys scoff, and the sometimes
secretly smitten adults fund it all. But has anyone ever wondered how
this pop culture phenomenon plays out in real ife? THE VAMPIRE LOVER'S
COOKBOOK, a
Young Adult novel of first love, loss and today's
complex
family dynamic does just that. All fourteen-year-old Cal wants to do is
play football. When he accidentally breaks a church window, he and his
friends are corralled into a mortifying church cooking class. Enter one
Nikki Sixx Morganstien, the sultry teen clutching the Sunset vampire
books to her chest. Sparks fly as the class progresses, culminating in
the frightening kidnapping of Cal's young neighbor. Featuring
first love, blended families, rock and roll, sexuality, religion and
the power of friendship and forgiveness against the backdrop of small
town USA,
THE VAMPIRE LOVER'S COOKBOOK tells a
beguiling story which also shows how pop culture shapes each
generation. [Young Adult,
Approximately
75,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| WHO IS MISTER I?
by Robert
VanDeventer is a suspense romp of cars
and characters. Some of each are pretty rare. It involves
Castro’s Cuba with America’s much maligned business
– used cars. Roger Deerman, the big Philly car dealer, is
secretly and illegally selling cars in Cuba and he needs a
“big, honest guy” to spin and cover the operation.
Fred Burns, the former pro wrestler and sometime sports writer, now
sells classic cars – Hudsons, Cords, and Nashes. Deerman
insists that Burns is also Mr. Iconoplast, Philly’s
mysterious image maker, and insists he take the job. Well, Burns is big
and probably honest but he swears, “I’m not Mr. I.
Absolutely not!”– even when bribed with a 1949
Hudson convertible. But Burns now knows about Cuba, so, Deerman frames
him for murder. Within hours, he’s dumped in the bay, trapped
aboard a yacht with daughter Nell, and attacked by a power boat on the
Delaware (it crashes into a battleship). He’s about to be
shot at an auction lot, too, but is saved by a tattooed lady. He winds
up in a chase all over New Jersey, attacked by thugs, elephants, and
rhinos. Still, he’s inscrutable. The tattooed lady thanks him
with a Mercedes 300SL. It’s for Mister I. Is that you? He
drools, but cries, “It is not!.”
[Approximately
72.000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| WORDS
OF GRACE by Pam
Chillemi-Yaeger
is the story of one woman's journey back to her
hometown, the calamities of her lively Italian family, as well as the
heartbreak of first love, family secrets and the surprising danger
facing old friends in small-town USA. [Approximately
80,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| XAGHRA'S
REVENGE;
Magic realism fantasy.
XAGHRA'S REVENGE by Geoff
Nelder, follows
the fate of a sixteenth century abducted family, and of two
contemporary lovers thrown together by the ancients. Reece and Zita are
unaware that one descends from the pirates, the other from the abducted
family. While the Gozo spirits seek revenge, so do the Ottoman
Corsairs, who intend to roll back history, and this time win the siege
of Malta. [Approximately
90,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| AN ACCIDENTAL PRISONER'S
SURVIVAL
GUIDE ; A memoir/black
comedy, by John
J. Reiner.
When a strait-laced attorney is jailed for a crime he didn’t
commit, he must use his background in psychology, sociology,
pediatrics, and, especially, his sense of humor to first thwart and
ultimately befriend his fellow inmates and the jail staff, who, thanks
to Erin Brockovich, peg him as “the enemy” and use
malevolent and comical methods in their attempts to wreak havoc upon
him and explode his “good time” release credits to
maximize
his jail term and prevent him from returning to his home and family
until the latest possible date. [Approximately
90,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| THE COMING HEALTHCARE
REVOLUTION by Sheldon
Cohen.
Medical errors kill 98,000
patients per year in the United States. You, the patient, can play a
crucial role in not becoming part of this statistic. The coming
healthcare changes that will be implemented over the next ten years
will make the patient’s role more crucial then ever. You will
learn the important details about a complete medical examination
including a medical history, physical examination and screening
laboratory data; risk factor analysis for the major diseases; health
screening; symptoms that must never be ignored; and how to take charge
of your health. Once confident about your personal health information
you will be in a position to minimize medical errors and live a longer
and healthier life. [Approximately
90,000
words. Manuscript Completed]
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| HEY
DOC: REVELATIONS OF A
MODERN FAMILY DOCTOR
by Richard
Bowles, MD.
Dr. Bowles, with his patients' permission,
shares his amazing and intimate dealings with them. He was
there. He spoke with them. He touched
them. He spoke with family members. They trusted
him, or they didn't. Things worked out well, or they
didn't. He was sued. The reader is invited on one
fantastic life adventure after another. [Approximately
75,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| A GUIDE TO THE PSALMS OF
DAVID (A Book for All
Reasons) by Steve
Rosner is a resource for an individual—of
any faith—who is suffering
and/or directionless:
To help him/her find solace, direction, receive a new awareness and/or
be transformed. One that will result in healing and/or reconsideration
of one’s personal ethics—to become more inclined to
clean
hands and a pure heart..
Highlighted by a detailed taxonomy
that—using modern data base technology—classifies
each of the 150 Psalms within four major categories (For Whom Intended,
Purpose, Theme, Mood), it
allows the reader to quickly find the right
psalm at the time
of greatest need.
Additionally, the book contains, but is not limited to, a deeply felt,
yet eminently readable, English translation of all 150
psalms,
not based upon a particular religious belief or practice, but
attempting to convey the human
condition
and engage the reader’s soul. [Approximately
90,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| HOW VIDEO GAMES SAVED MY
LIFE by Benjamin
S. Dutka.
A memoir, dating from the first moment a young child of four
grasped the unfamiliar plastic stick in his hands, which shows how
video games
have had an overwhelmingly positive influence on an otherwise typical
life. The gaming industry has long since
been misunderstood; as far as the media and many parents are concerned,
such a
hobby can only have a negative impact. But
in looking back, the author recalls the moments when gaming enriched
his life:
virtues rather than vices, conventional, old-fashioned beliefs in the
form of
duty-driven heroes and heroines, nearly unparalleled creativity and
imagination
that prompted the very same traits within a young, developing mind,
etc. Could video games really give birth to such
crucially important elements of human decency?
Once we reach the end of the candid, emotional memoir, filled with the
short story events of a wide-eyed kid who continues to be a wide-eyed
adult,
everyone will know the answer. [Manuscript
Nearly Completed]
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| JUSTICE FOR ONE &
ALL? The Story of Jane
Gagliardo vs.
Connaught Laboratories: the
story of one woman standing up to the powerful drug industry.
Jane
Gagliardo is no Erin
Brockovitch—Gagliardo is both the victim and the hero of her
own story. Her 2002 landmark case changes the law and
challenges the way corporations do business. Gagliardo fights
for justice as a leading pharmaceutical company, Connaught
Laboratories, is found guilty of arrogance, apathy and indifference and
held liable for violating Gagliardo’s constitutional
rights. A maker of vaccines, this company literally runs in
the veins of millions of Americans, while its toxic waste runs
underground in the black stone region of Pennsylvania. [Approximately
75,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| STUMP CITY
CHRONICLES--MEMOIR OF
A BLUE COLLAR KID is Robert
J. Porter Jr.'s
journey through the life he was handed, and made for himself.
It
is a wry, yet poignant look at blue-collar family life as it was in the
1950's and 60's in small town America, which was influenced by the
blessed trinity of church, school and tavern. STUMP CITY
describes life during the era of black and white TV's with rabbit ears
antennas, the imminent invasion from illegal aliens from Mars, who
somehow became Mexicans just a few years later, entering puberty in the
absence of biological instruction, thus, his first time (with a
partner), though memorable, was also forgettable. He found
out
early that his town expected blind obedience to the Republican Party,
and later, despite having 25% of his DNA derived from Mohawk
Indian blood, this did not insure the safe operation of a canoe. [Approximately
70,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| NEVER
FOREVER,
by Judy
Light Ayyildiz. Creative
nonfiction.
Forced out from the western provinces of the weakening Ottoman Empire
and into the heart of Anatolia and the establishment of the new Turkish
Republic, Adalet embodies both the dreams and struggles of the 20th
century woman. She is disowned for her love. She fights for the new
ideals of tomorrow and for her children. She is engendered by war and
an era that gave Turkish women a secular voice even before much of the
west. But she never is able to buck the traditions and dilemmas faced
by a woman determined to own her independence. Adalet was
born
into the grace and education of high Ottoman society, where European
ideals fostered the uprising of the Young Turks. She is one of the many
builders, wives and mothers of the new state whose bold pride secured a
revolution. As Adalet's life folds dreams into deception, love into
rejection and birth into loss it is her inner strength, a spirit forged
in both East and West that stands down and rebuilds. [Approximately
90,000 words. Manuscript
Completed]
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| THIS IS NOT ABOUT
BASKETBALL by Tom Morgan.; A
Boy finds his voice; an Old Man finds renewal and purpose. Daniel, a little boy, is rescued from a serious malady - in part because of his uncle’s urgings. Twelve years later the uncle intervenes again. At 65, with a faulty heart, he builds a basketball court, buys balls and shoes and takes up the challenge to help his nephew learn to play the sport. This is the chronicle of Daniel’s progress from awkwardness, through goals, drills every morning, to his first game as a high school player. “This is not about basketball” is the uncle’s mantra. “This is about your piano lessons, your Spanish class. This is about life, Daniel.” The uncle explores his own painful memories of learning to play amidst neglect and disinterest from his parents. He reflects on a range of topics: The brilliant coach who never played. A speedster who had no speed. The anatomically impossible jump shot. A guru who knew nothing. Idiot twins who learn to read. A jazz pianist who has heard rumors “they’s writin’ music”. How the brains of John Nash (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) and Daniel tackle problems. Golfers who learned without clubs. The worldwide mystery of the 4-minute mile. The TAO/DAO of basketball. Death of a brother. A throwaway kid who becomes a Navy officer. The lesson that “Unusual, plus hard work, equals extra-ordinary.” As Daniel progresses and nephew and uncle grow closer, we realize that this is about more than basketball. It is about life - why the uncle’s was spared , extended. It is about something valuable to Daniel: How it is that he learns. [Approximately
50,000
words.
Manuscript
Completed]
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| TRIAL IN COOPERSTOWN
by Tom
Morgan.
In Cooperstown you attend your first jury trial, in 2006, of
a
man accused of beating his wife to death. By the time the
jury’s foreman sings out their verdict you have befriended
the
accused’s parents and brother and minister, the dead
woman’s siblings, the district attorney who prosecutes and
the
colorful legendary man who crafts the defense for “an
innocent
man, ladies and gentlemen”. In his farewell he
beseeches
you to “Let the people know what you witnessed here this
week.” Questions he peppered us with in his
masterful
defense will resonate with you for years to come. You will
come
to appreciate COOPERSTOWN
as a celebration of an American treasure, the jury trial. [Approximately
85,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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