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“vailes shepperd”

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  • A Good Ending for Bad Memories

    by Vailes Shepperd ...
    A Good Ending for Bad Memories is a tale about a woman and the splintered iterations of her identity that resulted from a seminal trauma. Equal parts sprawling travelogue and multi-generational family saga, A Good Ending is imbued with both magical realism and Southern Gothic narrative. Ultimately the story details the quest for wholeness, the reconstruction of memory, and reclaiming one's own ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Good Ending For Bad Memories

    by Vailes Shepperd ...
    A Good Ending for Bad Memories is the story of one family's struggle to remove the long tentacles of its unsettling history, leave the ugliness and its grip behind crumbling in the dirt in order to procure an unencumbered future.The Macomb family moves to Cairo, Egypt when their father, an educated African American is appointed Attaché to the American Embassy. The story begins in 1958 after the ... Read more

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  • The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

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  • The Collector's Daughter

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  • Under the Visible Life

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    Fatherless Katherine carries the stigma of her mixed-race background through an era that is hostile to her and all she represents. It is only through music that she finds the freedom to temporarily escape and dream of a better life for herself, nurturing this hard-won refuge throughout the vagaries of unexpected motherhood and an absent husband, and relying on her talent to build a future for her ... Read more

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  • Daddy Was a Number Runner

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  • The Avram Davidson Science Fiction & Fantasy MEGAPACK®

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    Avram Davidson (1923-1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, plus an Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine short story award and an Edgar Award in the ... Read more

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