Fiction : Dramatic Fiction

Deals with sassy dialogue and jazz club rhythms. more...

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Stephanie - bored housewife and down-trodden mother - wants a job, and Madeleine's recruitment company seems the obvious place to go. Except that PAs isn't quite what it appears. Far from providing companies with Personal Assistants, the agency offers Perfect Alibis to unfaithful women. And as Stephanie soon discovers, there are lots of them about! Founder member Patsy, is a serial philanderer and there's even a dark side to best friend, the blissfully-married Millie. For the well-heeled ladies of Edenhurst, PA's is a ticket to risk-free adultery. When slacker Troy, Stephanie's first love, returns unexpectedly, even she is tempted. But her life is soon in turmoil, and that's before the tabloids get involved. more...

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To tell his story, Tom Wingo, the scarred but proud hero of Pat Conroy´s The Prince of Tides , must go on a journey - a literal, geographical journey to New York from his home on the South Carolina coast that leads to a psychological journey from the present to the past, to a virtual prison of memory. What he finds there is both terrible and liberating, for him and for his whole broken but remarkable family. more...

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The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his ?rst term at university. The usual freshman anxiety over ?tting in is compounded by the gap between his own humble origins and the privileged backgrounds of his better-off classmates. more...

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Sometimes you've got to forgive the person you were to be the person you can be.... How do you find the faith to love again? Take Caddy. She's blonde and beautiful, and has a wonderful man who loves her....what could be more perfect? And yet she's running away from him, and from a secret and painful past. Then there's feisty, tender Roz who has to make corn cream commercials sound romantic and who yearns to be a writer. That's after she finds a man and has a baby, of course... She can't help feeling it was all meant to be easier. And Tom who dreams of being a famous photographer but who ends up selling mobile phones and thinking about the son he never sees. Not to mention gorgeous Dan, a famous actor...He only wants Caddy.... Why doesn't she want him? Four star-crossed people in a Dublin summer, with a match-making mother to spice up the sometimes poignant and sometimes hilarious tale even further. Should they all settle for less, taking life's little disappointments on the chin, or chase their dreams of love and happiness? The question is, are they ready for it, or not? more...

Price: $12.99