[bksvol-discuss] is anyone interested in proofing?
- From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:16:10 -0500
I have a few books here which are in need of a proofer. I still have the
original books, if anyone needs pages rescanned. Note: These are raw scans. I
would like to give them the attention they deserve. Also, if they could be
completed ASAP, that would be fantastic. There is everything here from sports
to mysteries and everything in between. Please email me at:
amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx
if interested.
Title: Where the Light Remains
Synopsis: Set at either ends of a century, Where the Light Remains weaves the
stories of two remarkable women linked by art, landscape, and the intricacies
of marriage.
In 1886 Cornwall, an artist from the Newlyn School paints a portrait of a
striking woman, Claira, the wife of a Methodist farmer. In the painting, Claira
basks in the luminescence of a woodland sunset, violin in hand, the still air
holding the notes she has just played.
In 1986, Claire, a painter, and her husband settle with their two boys in the
Cornish farmhouse where Claira once lived. As Claire falls in love with the
rugged landscape -- and her husband with another woman -- Claire makes two
discoveries that change her as a woman and as a painter.
The lives that fill this elegant novel are a testament to the powerful ways
that sensual discovery, creativity, and the experience of marriage connect women
across time.
title: One Flesh
Synopsis:John Canoe is an artist essentially living his life in isolation. He
sells his work through his affiliation with a cooperative of artists, and also
works
as a school teacher. While John has many acquaintances, he doesn't have anyone
that he can truly call a friend. Early in the book his mother reminds him
that at age 33, he needs to be looking for a meaningful relationship so that he
can marry and have children. Even in his adulthood John struggles with
his identity, his mother is white and his father is black and his experiences
with racism from both races have left him wondering where he fits in. John
shares a close relationship with his mother, who lives in Chicago, but has a
strained relationship with his father, a notable physician, who divorced his
mother years ago.
Susie Chang works for a publishing company and is an amateur poet. She is an
American born Chinese woman that has more or less been cut off from her family.
Susie is constantly at odds with the cultural norms and expectations of her
family, even her move across country and away from her family is frowned upon.
Susie and John meet at a Collective opening and it is practically love at first
sight. What ensues is a whirlwind relationship wrought with ups and downs
ranging from typical relationship issues, such as problems with communication,
to more complicated issues like familial rejection.
title: The Mercy Room
Synopsis: Gilles Rozier's breathtaking third novel The Mercy Room is ample
demonstration that a main character doesn't need to be lovable, but only
closely observed
and adroitly, somewhat ruthlessly portrayed. Set in a small town in occupied
France during World War II, The Mercy Room is so precisely placed inside the
consciousness of its first-person narrator, an emotionally buttoned-down
teacher of German, that it feel claustrophobic, like the "mercy room" in which
much of its action occurs. The teacher, whose sex we never learn, has only two
passions: for German literature (especially by authors forbidden by the
Nazis--Thomas Mann, Heinrich Heine) and for the young French soldier who,
before the occupation, had delivered documents to be translated by the narrator
for the local military leaders. Now the narrator translates for the German
commandant instead. In a dark corridor of the Gestapo offices, waiting for the
latest assignment, he or she catches sight of the young French soldier,
"brought there by fate," in a cluster of Jews being processed for deportation.
It is surprisingly easy to lead him away from the group and out of the building
while the German guards are busy.
And so the narrator, who conceals the beloved in a hidden, dirt-floored reading
room in his or her cellar, begins a great love affair--a contrast in almost
every way from the narrator's bloodless, unconsummated marriage. An act so
personal as saving one's secret beloved and keeping him alive for two years
in a cellar room may not be exactly heroic, as the narrator admits . . .
title: the Shadow Catcher
Synopsis: In the depths of the lush Jamaican forest stands a ruined house of
haunting beauty. The abandoned estate is a place of
dreams, magic and madness.
title: Mafia Summer
Synopsis:"It is the summer of 1950, and a heat wave has overtaken Manhattan.
Two unlikely friends - eighteen-year-old Vinny Vesta, the tough Sicilian head
of a street
gang, and Sidney Butcher, a sickly, whip-smart Jewish boy whose family has just
moved in across the hall - find themselves caught in the crossfire of the
war between the five Mafia families who rule New York." "When Gee-gee Petrone,
a ruthless and ambitious caporegime in the Luciano crime family, hires Vinny
to steal forty cases of sable pelts from a civilian storage depot, it seems
like business as usual. But when the cops suddenly show up before the robbery
is completed, Vinny suspects a setup. He becomes convinced after Petrone
demands that he fulfill the contract by stealing the pelts from a warehouse
owned
by a member of Petrone's own family. But what does Petrone possibly have to
gain from it? Hungry for answers, Vinny agrees to play along. It is a decision
with drastic consequences. That first heist leads Vinny and his gang into a
vicious conflict with Petrone, who will stop at nothing to attain the coveted
position of capo di tutti capi for his mentor - Vito Genovese. As Vinny's
father, a made man, gets involved, and a rival street gang starts gunning for
Vinny and Sidney, Hell's Kitchen becomes deadlier than ever." Based on actual
events, Mafia Summer fictionalizes the pivotal moment in Mafia history when
Vito Genovese attempted to undo Frank Costello and become the leader of the
Luciano family.
Title: Dreaming the Past, Dreaming the Future: A Herstory of the Earth
Synopsis: No Synopsis available
Title: Sworn to Silence
Synopsis:Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . . Some crimes are too
unspeakable to solve . . . In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the
Amish
and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen
years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community.
In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility,
a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror
of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the
realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of
experience
later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Her
Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect
candidate. She's certain she's come to terms with her past-until the first body
is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he
strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish
past-and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.
Title: Broadcast Rites and Sites: I Saw It on the Radio with the Boston Red Sox
Synopsis: Veteran broadcaster Joe Castiglione combines the story of his
baseball adventures with the Cleveland Indians; the Milwaukee Brewers; and for
twenty years,
the Boston Red Sox, with a travelogue of major American cities.
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