Laurel Garver

Days after her father's death, fifteen-year-old Dani Deane begins seeing him all around New York -- wading through discarded sketches in her room, roaming the halls at church, socializing at his post-funeral reception. Is grief making her crazy? Or could her dad really be lingering between this world and the next, trying to contact her? Dani desperately longs for his help. Without him keeping the peace, Dani's relationship with her mother is deteriorating fast. Soon Mum ships her off to rural England with Dad's relatives for a visit that Dani fears will become a permanent stay. But she won't let her arty, urban life slip away without a fight, especially when daily phone calls with her lab partner Theo become her lifeline. To find her way home, Dani must somehow reconnect with Mum. But as she seeks advice from relatives and insights from old letters, she uncovers family secrets that shake her to the core. Convinced that Dad's ghost alone can help her, she sets out on a dangerous journey to contact him one last time.

Never Gone

Are you seeking to make your fiction more emotionally true, your characterizations deeper, and your character interactions more dynamic? The best way to bring more emotion to your fiction is research it "in the wild," through observation. Emotions in the Wild will help you do just that. This series of guided journaling exercises will help you develop both broad and deep understanding of emotion as you people watch and record your observations. Better yet, it will keep your observations organized so that you can use them again and again to enhance any fiction project.Once completed, the Emotions in the Wild journal will become your personal "emotions bible," your go-to source for building emotionally-charged scenes in your own authorial voice.

A Writer's Observation Journal

Emotions in the Wild

Paris, the City of Lights. To Dani Deane, it's the Promised Land. There, her widowed mother's depression will vanish and she will no longer fear losing her only parent, her arty New York life, or her devoted boyfriend. But shortly before their Paris getaway, Dani's tyrannical grandfather falls ill, pulling them to rural Pennsylvania to deal with his hoarder horror of a house. Among the piles, Dani finds disturbing truths that could make Mum completely unravel. Desperate to protect her from pain and escape to Paris, Dani hatches a plan with the flirtatious neighbor boy that only threatens the relationships she most wants to save. Why would God block all paths to Paris? Could real hope for healing be as close as a box tucked in the rafters?

Almost There

Jean-Michel Rabaté

This collection of essays was born from a wish to show to a wider audience how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, at a time when there are more essays and books written about Beckett than about any key modernist authors like Joyce and Woolf. This volume contains numerous essays on Beckett that the Journal of Modern Literature has published in the last decade. Their enduring quality proves that Beckett's oeuvre has maintained its appeal today because it attracts original scholars who are also interested in issues like philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, contemporary history, and literary theory.

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