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On Thatcher Island
(The Last Automat Presshttp://thelastautomat.com/index_files/Page484.htmPatterson, NY, 2008-07-01) -
Entangled Landscapes
(Pudding House PressJohnstown, OH, 2002-11-01) -
Monet in the 20th Century
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The Route and Other Poems
(Pikestaff Publicationshttp://pikestaffpress.com/Catalog_Detail.htmlNormal, IL, 2001-01-01)Scrimgeour’s poems are landscapes and portraits becoming each other. In them there seems a faith that the everyday details of this world, like an intricate seashell or piece of tide worn glass, contain within them marvelous ... -
Goodbye Yeats and O’Neill: Farce in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Narratives
(Rodopihttp://rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=COS+183New York, 2010-01-01)The book is a study of works by more than a dozen authors, including Roddy Doyle, Nuala O’Faolain, Colum McCann, William Kennedy, Alice McDermott, Mary Gordon and Thomas Kelly. The study argues that farce has been a major ... -
Balloons Over Stockholm
(Fine Tooth Presshttp://www.finetoothpress.comWaterbury, CT, 2005-02-22)James Scrimgeour’s Balloons Over Stockholm takes the reader on dual trips – across the globe and into the heart and soul of the artist. The poet’s visit to Sweden is born out of necessity: he and his wife go to say goodbye ... -
How to Heal the Sick in Three Easy Steps
(2016-12-31)<p><em>How to Heal the Sick in Three Easy Steps </em>is a 72,000 word literary fiction novel set in present day Waterbury, Connecticut that explores faith healing in the Christian community, religion that unites instead ... -
The Familiars and Other Stories
(2016-05-08)<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p><em> The Familiars and Other Stories</em> spans other times and other worlds: Michigan Territory during the War of 1812, Seleucid Palestine, feudal Japan, and a hidden world of horror in the contemporary ... -
What I Learned From Friday Nights
(2016-05-22)<p><em>What I Learned from Friday Nights</em> is a 50,000 word contemporary young adult novel on the issues that keep teenagers quiet. The novel focuses specifically on the topic of abortion and the emotional complications ... -
ANXIOUS: SAVING MY SELF FROM MY BRAIN
(2016-05-22)<p>ANXIOUS: SAVING MY SELF FROM MY BRAIN is the story of a childhood and adolescence colored by depression and anxiety. In raw, personal moments, the memoir explores how untreated psychological problems impact a developing ... -
Firefly
(2020-12-18)<p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>My story, <em>The Promise,</em> is a work of science fiction. It unfolds from two points of view: Maya Lee the human protagonist, and Ben, the alien main character.</p> <p>Maya, a loner, ... -
Rocky Rhode: An Ice Cream Lover's Guide to Rhode Island
(2020-12-18)<p><em>Rocky Rhode: An Ice Cream Lover’s Guide to Rhode Island</em> features forty-seven ice cream destinations, about four hundred lodging, restaurant, and attraction destinations spread across twenty-nine cities and ... -
Scanning Jordan
(2016-05-22)<p><em>Scanning Jordan</em> is a 56,000-word young adult dystopian novel about a sixteen-year-old girl in the near future who lives with the compound of Ubble, a powerful corporation that is taking over the world and ... -
Just Your Average Flag Twirler
(2020-12-01)<p><em>Just Your Average Flag Twirler</em> is a coming of age story about Darlene “Weezy” Weasner, a sixteen-year-old girl who loves color guard. Ever since she joined marching band in ninth grade, she’s created a family ... -
At the Altar of the Past
(2020-12-20)In October 1966, Tad Forte said goodbye to Ellis Buck and joined the war in Vietnam. Before he left, he slipped a ring on Ellis’s finger. She promised to wait for his return, but a promise, when the world is at war, is a ... -
The 36th Line
(2020-05-17)<p>Abstract</p> <p><em>The 36<sup>th</sup> Line</em> is a full-length drama that uses humor, sometimes bordering on slapstick, to diffuse the intensity of family obligations and a daughter’s need to break free of them. It ... -
On Good Authority
(2020-05-30)<p><em>On Good Authority</em> is a Victorian Gothic novel. It begins with two workhouse adolescents sneaking away to play a game: Marian acts the part of a thief, and Valentine arrests and punishes her. This awakens a sense ... -
Arol's Verse
(2020-05-15)<p><em>Arol’s Verse</em> is a novella in verse that tells the story of a mariner who leaves Denmark (identified as Dane-land) in search of the hero, Beowulf, in order to save the people of Heorot from the monster, Grendel.</p> -
Spellbound
(2020-05-17)<p>Spellbound is a 72,000-word modern teen fantasy novel told from the perspectives of both the monstrous, magical creature who’s abducted a prince, and the sixteen-year-old girl who sets out to rescue him.</p> <p>Angel ... -
The Look-Back Window: A Journalist's Memory of Murders, Men, and the Media
(2019-12-19)<p>Journalist Lisa N. Peterson in her true-crime memoir, <em>The Look-Back Window: A Journalist’s Memory of Murders, Men, and the Media, </em>revisits her life as a newspaper reporter in the 1980s when she covered the ...