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From The Second Fly Caster:When I was a boy I thought my father was the greatest fly caster on earth, so I grew up dreaming of following in his way and not of becoming, as my mother wanted, an accountant.Today, I am a man who often relives the important events in my life, but when I think back to the five state casting tournaments my father won, most of their images and sounds have melted and flowed into downstream memories, except for the images...
2) Haint Blue
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In 1986, Kip Drummond rescued a sentimental landmark - the Lady's Island Oyster Factory - in Beaufort, South Carolina. Six years later he battles corporate greed and Gullah traditions overshadowed by a hex revealed by a tarot reader. Haint Blue lures the reader into the pluff mud and out of the Lowcountry marshes in a compelling story of passion, grisly violence, guilt, forgiveness and hope.
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From The Good and Two Fly Fishing Women:Now, as I approach the autumn of my life and some, though not all, of my dreams have come true, how do I describe myself? As a wife and a mother who loves her family, as an attorney who admires the law, and as a fly fisher who proudly says she learned from the greatest fly fisher she ever knew: her grandmother.And whether by accident or not, my grandmother, with the help of some unexpected and dark events, taught...
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Twelve-year old Jake accompanies his father and some friends on a fishing expedition but things don't turn out quite the way he expected. While an almost tragic event has special meaning for the young boy, that same event is viewed by another man on the boat as yet another reason to deny his own cultural heritage.
5) Sail On
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After writing a pioneering TV drama series in the nineties and knowing nothing but success afterwards, Adam Donovan mysteriously abandons Hollywood for his hometown of Redmond, Washington.When attorney Natalie Summers asks him to take in three roughed-up orphan girls from L.A., Adam is as surprised as anyone when he says yes. The oldest is rude and shrewd--she threatened to kill him the first night they met--but maybe that's why he's drawn to her.Natalie...
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JP Monaghan is tired of his boring life in Ft. Lauderdale so he decides to move to New York City to experience life, real life first hand. When that life experience bitch slaps him he must learn to survive and hold onto his soul in a city that devours all lost souls.
8) Brunch
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As a family travels home for the Christmas season, they come across a series of hurdles (including forest fires and unruly shipmates) that delays them from getting there in time. As the days drag on, they begin to wonder if the holiday season is truly ruined.
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In this bittersweet story of youth, lust, and life, Sonny Dennison catches the allure of Lela, a local temptress. Idolizing a local Don Juan named Dion, Sonny pursues Lela until she seduces him. Under the guidance of his cynical friend, Alfie, Sonny prepares for the loss of his virginity.Following an hilarious attempt at a first sexual encounter, Sonny and Lela have a brief affair, until she rejects him for an old friend. Cast adrift, Sonny painfully...
10) The Mattress
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As Colene says goodbye to her old apartment, she invites her friend Peyton over for one last raucous night in which secrets are shared and they reveal just how much they're going to miss each other.
11) Kiss the Sky
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This is London in the heady nineties. The world is waking up to the tribal tom toms of repetitive beats, much to the dislike of the authorities, which violently try to clamp down on the abundant creativity and unity emanating from the speaker stacks. Together, three girls are hijacked into this subversive scene for better and for worse…After recurring dreams, Claudia drops out of college to become an artist. It's a snowy winter. On her quest for...
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"Rule number one in the music business: never start a band with any members of your family.Sure, it'll start off just fine, everyone having fun, with big dreams of success and gold records, but then you realize you're stuck in a stinking, too-small tour bus with your siblings for the fifth year running, and your brother hates you. Next thing you know, the band implodes just as it's reaching its highest success, your family won't talk to you anymore,...
13) Focal Point
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Several centuries ago, a woman named Niut is forced to become a pharaoh in Egypt when her father prematurely passes away, causing her to act hostile to those around her.
14) Hank
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Hank Marvin was Jeff Lyon's great uncle and his grandmother Stella's twin brother. Hank and Stella lived in the small town of Willow Springs, Missouri where they were born in a small house across from the Baptist Church Jeff's grandparents attended until they passed.As a boy growing up in Irving, Texas the tiny hamlet in the Ozarks where Hank lived on a hardscrabble 80-acre spread was fascinating. The holiday visits to Jeff's grandparents' home in...
15) Silver
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A man recalls a New Year's Eve where he comes face to face with a series of crimes that change how he sees the world.
16) The Town Hero
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Back in the 1930's, a young boy gets a chance to meet his hero: Gerry Sundown, an airplane pilot who enjoys flying around the city. It sparks a love for planes that never fades, even as everyone around him loses hope.
17) Pimple
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In the 1930's an elderly trumpet player and a Tibetan mystic combine their talents to compose a melody that will come as a revelation to listeners born under a future night sky.Generations later, an ordinary youth,'Pimple' is deeply affected by the strange tune, and soon learns that he has been recruited into a wild and wonderful conspiracy to make the world a better place. He shares some unusual experiences with others who are also trying to unravel...
18) The Estate
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In 1911, young Pyotr and Petrova meet at Pyotr's estate, bonding over toboggan rides and playful interactions. As they grow together, their innocent friendship blossoms into a deeper connection, marked by a shared first kiss and youthful adventures. However, their world is overshadowed by the onset of war in 1914. The story poignantly captures their experiences against the backdrop of this tumultuous period, reflecting the contrast between the innocence...
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2016 I Heart Indie Contest Finalist: New AdultTop 100 Must-Read International Romance -Book Riot"Delicate and resilient. Like you."Brina and Eagan meet for the first time when she's nine and he's fourteen. They like each other from the very beginning, though their bond isn't immediate, but it grows over the years. What links them is the fact that their parents are photographers and are extremely devoted to their work and to each other; so much so...
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This dramatic and influential play by Christopher Marlowe thrusts readers into the ambitious rise of a shepherd to a powerful warlord in the 14th century.
This two-part play is renowned for its poetic grandeur and the depiction of its ruthless yet charismatic protagonist, Tamburlaine. Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, revolutionized Elizabethan drama with his use of blank verse and complex characters. Set against the vast backdrop of the...
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