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Midsummer's Tale

A Romantic Comedy

By: Frederick K. Van Patten

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Midsummer's Tale

A Romantic Comedy

By: Frederick K. Van Patten

Lake Yew Summer Arts Festival is in for a bumpy ride when L.A. director Jackson Stockade descends on tiny Hester College in rural North Carolina to direct the summer Shakespeare play. Stockade threatens a theatrical revolution when he proposes a hard rock version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. However, the resident Shakespearean scholar, Professor Howard March, has his heart set on a traditional production. Stockade and March find themselves cast as rivals.

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0595260837

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9780595260836

The 13th Notebook

A Mystery Novel

By: Frederick K. Van Patten

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The 13th Notebook

A Mystery Novel

By: Frederick K. Van Patten

Anna the Red, a teenage runaway in Seattle, auditions for an amateur theatrical billed as a Stone Age Opera. The opera tells an ancient tale from a lost society a story of self-sacrificing innocence overcome by suffocating evil. The inspirational brainchild of the opera is Dr. Elizabeth Mellony, a forensic archaeologist, who teams up with Malcolm Washington, a black ex-con, to produce the show. On opening night Anna is spirited away by her father, a bigoted Idaho backwoodsman who tracks her down in the city. She leaves behind a mysterious note-a page torn from an old notebook given to her by a member of a paramilitary environmental group called Whole River Systems. Years earlier, Malcolm had been given 13 private notebooks written by his troubled grandfather. But the notebooks were stolen while Malcolm was in prison. The page Anna leaves behind is from one of the notebooks written by Malcolm's grandfather. That single page provides the first clue to the mysterious disappearance of the notebooks. But when Anna tries to help, she finds herself up against Mortim Rimpoche, the paranoid spiritual leader of Whole River Systems. Her youth and naïveté collide with his unmerciful narcissism, creating a near fatal showdown.

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0595237010

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9780595237012

Reluctant Seeker

By: Frederick Van Patten

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Reluctant Seeker

By: Frederick Van Patten

Maximilian Fausto is on a mission. His dead mother set him the task of collecting her personal journals, but he quickly discovers that the elusive journals are not so easy to find. And he begins to suspect that his mother planned this journey for his personal growth. He's suspicious and depressed by nature, and he chafes against any attempt to right himself with the world. Things get rough for Max. He's snared in a destructive love affair; he tangles with an Evangelical family; he narrowly escapes a drug lord's wrath. But working with his fractious family--a brother disabled in Vietnam, a well-meaning but alcoholic uncle, an angry father and a handful of dotty aunts--Max learns the evanescent quality of true love. This odyssey is filled with heartache as well as joy, with the struggles and triumphs played out against a backdrop of profound longing and deep hope.

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458

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059534996X

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9780595349968

A Month in the Jungle

A Novel

By: Frederick Van Patten

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A Month in the Jungle

A Novel

By: Frederick Van Patten

Henry Cooper, an aspiring San Francisco screenwriter, has his first real writing job scripting a B-movie. The melodramatic story takes place on a coffee plantation in Africa during WWI, and although it isn't what Henry would call art, it's a potential break for his early career. On a shoestring budget, the producer secures the use of a run-down antebellum rice plantation in the sweltering heat of South Carolina's swamp country. And the cast and crew have only a month to get the film completed. During his month in the jungle, Henry struggles to find his creative voice and to nurture a budding affair. But he nearly ruins his career when he becomes entangled in politics. He joins in a collaboration with the brilliant cinematographer, Bjorn Depew, against the perverse and controlling director, Teddy Rollick, and it nearly costs him his job. Romance, artistry, betrayal and murder pepper the plot of this spicy novel as the filmmakers rush toward their goal to complete the film on time and under budget.

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252

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0595273491

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9780595273492

In the Clear

A Novel

By: Frederick Van Patten

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In the Clear

A Novel

By: Frederick Van Patten

A government raid goes terribly wrong and a young mother is murdered. No one in Cressida's family is prepared for the consequences of that tragedy. Her lover, Simon, escapes into hiding and the couple's small daughter, Enid, is left in her grandmother's care. Revenge becomes paramount for Simon's stepfather, Colin Humphrey, as he ruthlessly pursues a wrongful death lawsuit against the government. But the other members of her family struggle painfully to come to grips with their horrible loss. Cressida's aunts and uncles want to help but they find themselves paralyzed by the senseless killing. Finally, Cressida's two cousins, Valerie and Melody, set out on a mission to find Simon. But an unexpected stranger from Simon's past complicates the difficult work of repairing this damaged family. Like a giant puzzle with its pieces hopelessly scattered, In The Clear tells the story of a family moving painfully, but inexorably toward healing.

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0595323790

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9780595323791

Book's by Frederick K. Van Patten

Midsummer's Tale

Midsummer's Tale

The 13th Notebook

The 13th Notebook

Reluctant Seeker

Reluctant Seeker

A Month in the Jungle

A Month in the Jungle

In the Clear

In the Clear

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