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Voices in the Blood

By: David L. Spruance

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An author contemplates the motivations of his character—an alienated, exiled youth in seventeenth century France; a modern character struggles to derive personal meaning from an unknowable past, and in the fusion of these two efforts emerges a narrative of discovery: who we are and the forces that define us. Voices in the Blood is a novel about the stories in each of us, the voices that inform those stories and make us unique. Listening to our own voices gives each of us a sense of being, a sense of belonging, a sense of connection to our near and distant past and a future stretching away before us. It gives us a sense that we are indeed the center of the vast and mysterious universe. Sitting in a cemetery surrounded by the graves of his forebears, the twentieth century character says, “sometimes I think that they really do know that I’m here, all of them, even the ones that died long before I was born, and I think they can talk to me, and I stand very, very still and listen for their voices…”

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0595175155

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9780595175154

Charlotte's Bridge

By: David Spruance

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Charlotte's Bridge

By: David Spruance

Charlotte's Bridge tells the story of a girl's coming of age at the turn of the last century whose life is haunted by two images: One, the conjured, idyllic face of her mother who died giving birth to Charlotte; the other, the body, encased in a block of ice, of a man murdered by her father and half brothers. Against a backdrop in which constant changes produce coincidentally marvelous and frightening experiences, Charlotte Hutchison escapes the sordid, hostile, and criminal world of her childhood to create a life among the civilized people of the town across the river from her natal home. Pursuing what she believes is the purity of her mother's legacy and desperately seeking to sever the present from her past through acceptance and love, Charlotte clutches at stability, security, and respectability. Yet a dark secret plagues her, compromising her ideals and engendering ambivalence towards her friends, her marriage, motherhood, and ultimately her religion. Each reaction, each choice, each step she takes towards the fulfillment of her dreams ironically generates doubts and trials challenging her faith in her worthiness and leaving her with a tenuous and precarious grasp on reality.

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330

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0595336868

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9780595336869

Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

By: Patricia Van Voorhis,Michael C. Braswell,David Lester

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Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

By: Patricia Van Voorhis,Michael C. Braswell,David Lester

This text presents foundations of correctional intervention, including overviews of the major systems of therapeutic intervention, diagnosis of mental illness, and correctional assessment and classification. Its detailed descriptions and cross-approach comparisons can help professionals better determine which of several techniques might be especially useful in their particular setting. Includes key concepts and terms as well as discussion questions.

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Routledge

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1437755224

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9781437755220

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Voices in the Blood

Voices in the Blood

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