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Book descriptionJoleen Cumberland questions her motives for staying with her job at a neuro-rehabilitation facility. She loses her focus, which often endangers her and her peers. She has reached the limits of her endurance. Her work centers around Alex Williams and Mitch Stevens. Mitch, unable to communicate due to his own brain injury becomes intrigued by the spirited Alex. What is behind the rage Alex often displays? How will Mitch be able to communicate what he eventually learns? Only A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams holds the answer. 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. The twist is the fact-based background...
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Book descriptionCombining the wistfulness of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" with the social criticism of Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Brewster Milton Robertson disdains convention with his new novel. Wryly introspective yet bawdy and delightfully erotic and set against the backdrop of nonpareil elegance at the renowned Greenbrier resort A Posturing of Fools introduces hopelessly corruptible Heneley Logan Baird, a testosterone-fueled postmodern Tom Jones, and recounts the crucible experiences of a disillusioned young husband forced to ask disquieting questions about the important values in his life.
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Book descriptionElvis died in 1977, or did he? In 1982 an Elvis impersonator clumsily robs a bank, and incredibly all of the evidence points to the supposedly deceased Elvis as being the robber. A detective hot on the trail of the robber is convinced that he is chasing Elvis, but is killed in an accidental car crash near Moscow, Tennessee, leaving behind a five-year-old daughter. Twenty years later, the daughter is a tabloid reporter for Weird Magazine, a shameless, check-out counter rag. She is assigned to cover an Elvis Festival in Moscow, discovers her fathers notes, and quickly stumbles onto the Elvis-robbers trail. What she discovers in rural Tennessee just may be the news story of the young century.
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Book descriptionOut of the Wilderness…Three Women. Three Eras. Three Miracles.1901Plagued by loneliness on the Big Muddy Ranch, a sheepherder’s wife awaits the outcome of her husband’s trial for murder. He is sentenced to life in prison–and she to life without him. But a startling event could redeem their pasts and transform their future.1984Against a backdrop of attempted murder, federal indictments, and the first case of bio-terrorism in the U.S., one woman seeks to rescue her granddaughter from within the elaborate compound of a cult that has claimed the land.1997On the much-reviled, abandoned cult site, one woman’s skepticism turns to hope when she finds that what was meant to destroy can be used to rebuild–and in th...
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