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Maxine (Paperback)
Meredith Bricken Mills; Jack Remick
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R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Maxine (Paperback)
Meredith Bricken Mills; Jack Remick
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R224
Discovery Miles 2 240
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Pacific Coast Highway - A BMW Mechanic. A troubled heiress. A red
Ferrari. Murder. The City of Angels-Today. A neo-noir story about a
love triangle getting very ugly. Jonny's trip to the dark side of
love hits a bump when Bea's jealousy derails his career...
A dying poker king with one more game to play. A love-sick mechanic
with Jesus issues. A mysterious black woman wearing gold chains.
Money and sex, love and death and a showdown in the Sierra Nevada.
The stories in Throwback open a window on characters living calm
everyday lives but underneath that calm there's a violent, bloody,
painful, suicidal world and a savage god waiting for them to make a
mistake. The hurt oozes up driving each of these people to find a
way out-- The kid with a heart murmur wants to be a Marine. A guy
finds his lost sister but doesn't know how to handle a fallen
angel. A woman with a fatal disease loses all her hair and doesn't
want to live without it. Looking for love, a writer finds a demon
muse who rips his heart out. A traveling salesman falls in love
with a surgical nightmare. Throwback takes you step by step into a
dark world where the light is just an illusion.
Black Madonna in Blue: In a film noir world of back-street hotels
and suitcases full of money, two men duke it out for love but only
one of them can win. Kress, the mechanic with magic hands falls for
Falcon, a black Madonna looking for a knight. Grace Regis, the
gambler, is a sick man who plays poker for body parts and blood and
he won't let Falcon go. Then the ax falls...
In California's Central Valley an epic love story plays out between
Ricky, a seventeen year old Anglo boy and his Chicana girlfriend,
Josie Delgado. Driven by social class mores to hide their love,
Ricky and Josie are caught between two cultures: Josie's brother
distrusts all Anglos, while Ricky's mother forbids him to cross the
racial barrier. But the lovers don't listen. Josie will do anything
for the boy she loves and loving Josie drives Ricky crazy. When her
brother discovers Josie's involvement with Ricky, he sends her
away, breaking Ricky's heart. Separated, the two teen-age lovers
know there's only one way their story can end and Ricky won't be
happy about it
A woman stands on a windmill tower in Kansas, ready to jump. The
woman is married, two kids. The farm is driving her crazy. She can
escape by jumping or she can escape to the city. Olive needs to say
goodbye to the kids. Saying goodbye, she changes her mind. She
drops the kids with grandparents, steals her husband's car, and
heads for Wichita. Three women guide Olive on her journey from farm
girl to city woman: Janey, a waitress shows her the sexy, seamy
side of night life. Eileen, a transgendered former basketball
player teaches Olive how to dress. Rose, a psychiatrist opens
Olive's dreams to read her hopes for a new start. Olive is America
migrating from the country to the city. Olive is America
re-inventing itself. Olive discovers the hard truth-the American
dream doesn't end in happy ever after, it ends in loss, rebuilding,
starting over with a new dream.
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