“wells e draughon”

A young man who loves a free-spirited girl. A woman searching for her runaway daughter. A man trying to win back his ex-wife's love. A mysterious young woman yearning to be free. When the lives of these four intersect, passions erupt, devastating prices are paid, and the only hope is courage and a c... More

A woman whose past makes it impossible for her to get close to anyone. A middle-age man with a passion for young girls and the power to crush anyone who gets in his way. A teenage girl searching for the father she never had. A successful lawyer determined not to get burned again and to have a baby b... More

Most people regard freedom as being able to do what you want, but this is not the view held today by sophisticated thinkers. Policy-makers have equated freedom with non-interference. As long as no person stops you, you are free, whether you are able to do anything or not. Social activists are wary o... More

Val believes his life is ending. Erin believes hers is not. Both may be wrong. Erin, while waiting to adopt an infant, takes her niece on a trip to the Greek Islands. Amy is a teenage girl eager for adventure of all kinds, and Erin tries to rein her in while at the same time fending off a local loth... More

Ruth gets a lead on the daughter she gave up at birth. Her worst fears appear to be realized: her daughter is making the same mistakes she made. She has to find her before something terrible happens to her. And without her husband finding out that, because of this daughter, she deprived him of the s... More

Is there anything that can be said about the value of a novel, story or film other than that one likes it? If such factors were made known, writers could use them to write books that readers would not only like better but would feel are worth reading. Do the techniques in books on writing produce su... More

Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as originality, credibility, contrivance, crudeness, monot... More

After all else has failed, Linda joins an underground nationwide organization to find her kidnapped child.A chance event makes her suspect that she and the other members of the local chapter are being used and that the people they are abducting and interrogating may not be kidnappers at all.She begi... More

From college presidents to governors, to TV reporters, to faculty, to government agents, to drug dealers, to students of every political stripe, this novel follows a trail of circumstances, opportunities seized, weaknesses exploited, advantages enlarged, groups co-opted, expediencies implemented, to... More

Ruth tries to find her daughter before anything happens to her and at the same time help her young friend Kim through a heart-wrenching problem. She also wants to become reconciled with her own parents. But a long-buried secret may wreck her marriage. Only a miracle can bring Ruth's family together ... More