Shocked by the unexpected death of George and his unconventional legacies, the Mayfellow family falters in the absence of his domineering rule. As individuals struggle to accept new roles and identities, a kidnap, blackmail and Fine Art fraud threaten to expose the devious minds which prosper behind a façade of respectable living. But when the local constabulary arrive, the household is horrified to find even more surprises lie hidden within the walls of Flanders House. Discreet Deceptions is a first novel by Sally Wellow. Set in rural Sussex during the 1970s, this family saga explores the loves, hopes and fears which fashion the lives of a family encumbered by status and greed.
A story honoring the survivors of the hurricane of 1938 in Rhode Island. Protagonist Vieve Clough Beale, portrait artist, recovering alcoholic, and widow with storm wreckage of a different sort, arrives on the Weekapaug Coast in the run-up to the eightieth anniversary of the hurricane to visit her beloved Uncle Carl, retired jewelry magnate. When he doesn’t show for dinner, Vieve—accompanied by her feisty terrier mix, Jack West—stay on to search for him. As the search drags on, Vieve accepts an invitation from charismatic acrylic artist Marley Kinnell to compete together in a mural competition for the hurricane’s eightieth anniversary commemoration. And then Vieve’s beloved terrier goes missing. What Vieve finds as she delves into preparations for the commemoration and the increasingly threatening activities at an abandoned coastal fort tests her loyalties and upends her future just as the town faces its own memories of hell and grace.
Sally Van Doren's imaginative new collection offers bold and beguiling poems. Uttered in intense lyrical bursts that reflect the poet's command of language both familiar and strange, the visually dramatic moments gathered here probe the time-honored themes of love and death with candor and intimacy. The poems range in tone from a tongue-twisting search for identity to a plea to engage others in the refutation of pain: "My discreet sorrow / Hides in the dichotomy / Of your duplicitous palm / Offer me your hand / Our patty-cake will / Clap away antipathy." Drawing from sources as varied as the Bible, pop music, American politics, Italian Renaissance architecture, and poetry from Catullus to Wallace Stevens to OuLiPo, the poems unite in their unabashed examination of the uncertainties of life. In several poems, the voice of Eve reimagines the repercussions of original sin. In others, Van Doren chronicles vehicles of present-day suffering, "e-mailed poultices," "day-glo ambulances," and being "drafted against our will into kinetic wilderness." Throughout the collection, recognitions of despair are counterbalanced by assertions of hope: "we dug for glory / for healing not / born from pain.
Pearl, Olive and Tweet are busy flying their kite on the beach when they hear a call for help. Someone is stuck in the Bothering Bog! Can Pearl and her friends help them? Or will the stinky gobble-uns get to them first?
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