Fiction : Dramatic Fiction

Serenity Cottage had been a place of beauty and privilege. In the blink of an eye, a tragic accident had left its owners in ruins. Thirty years later, Terry McQuinn is called back to Maine by the death of his father, who'd been the caretaker of Serenity Cottage. He has left a message: Open Serenity for Christmas. Terry's past comes rushing back.... more...

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The setting of Family Matters is Bombay, mid-1990s. Nariman Vakeel, suffering from Parkinson's disease, is the elderly patriarch of a small, discordant family. In a building called Chateau Felicity, he and his two middle-aged stepchildren - Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her just-younger brother, Jal, mild mannered and acquiescent - occupy a once-elegant apartment whose ruin is progressing as rapidly as Nariman's disease. more...

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Explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds betweens fathers and their children in a story of love, betrayal and adultery. more...

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The Great Santini is an affecting coming-of-age story that does not blink in its depiction of a tight and loving family on the edge of disaster. Set in the rich, sleepy atmosphere of coastal South Carolina in the early 1960s, the novel echoes the timeless tension that emerges between vigorous fathers and their maturing sons, the inevitable clash of personal pride and selfless love, the jealous frustration that comes with maturity. Bull Meecham, known to all as 'The Great Santini', can´t push his son Ben hard enough; to show affection or proud pleasure in Ben´s accomplishment would never occur to him. For Ben, his father´s relentless bullying has become more than a frustration, and he is no longer able to suffer his father´s abuse. more...

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Tall, dark, and handsome, Prodigy Banks was once a playboy. Now he’s a man any mother would be proud to call her son, and when he meets Nina, the mother of the young boy he mentors, it seems that life is going to get even better. But when his past threatens his newfound respectability, Prodigy has to act fast to protect his new relationship. more...

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