Posts Tagged ‘local-author’
Two Weeks at the Grande Felice
The Lucifer Scroll
“Legends say the spear offers immortality and world dominance. ” “Rulers and emperors from Charlemagne to Hitler killed for it. ” “But they were hunting a fake; the real icon remained hidden. ” In Istanbul, historian Huw Griffiths stumbles upon an old manuscript in the ruins of a recently uncovered church. It points to a…
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Room 216
The Purr of the Mattress
She and I
Larger Than Life
Celebrity! It’s “when we clamber upwards in men’s eyes/up on the lacquered rungs of praise” according to Roger Nash. But it implies perhaps inevitable downward slide from the heights as symbolized by Priscila Uppal’s The Empty Frame. Barry Dempster holds on to an eternally luminous Marilyn Monroe, “a polaroid of a peach,/her hair a perfect…
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Real Lives
Death Finds A Way
Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. With her husband Steven, Janie heads to Salt Lake City Utah to track down her elusive fourth great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to more than she bargained for. Her discovery of a dark secret brings her…
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