Since it went national across the states, th e funny eccentric world of John McPherson''s Close to Home ha s received rave reviews.
Close to Home is a wry look at the small compromises, manipulations and sustained self-delusion of young men and women possessed of good fortune . . . and only looking for good lives.
Will Kelly’s past and Elliot’s future add up to something greater than the sum of their escalating attraction, or will the answer to their equation end up hitting too close to home?
Close to Home
Karen is the author of The Loneliest Grief and Danger at Deerwood Grove . May 18 , May 23 , Nov. 5 , Dec. 4 . Tami Horst is the women's ministries director for the Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh - day Adventists .
Tears burned at the backs of Tessa's eyes, but it was the fear clutching at Tessa's throat that choked off her voice. It sounded an awful lot like Patty was saying goodbye. “Goodness ...
The #1 New York Times bestselling author “definitely knows how to jangle readers’ nerves” in this chilling novel of romantic suspense (Booklist).
With a story that feels all too real, Close to Home is the best kind of suspense—the kind that sends chills down your spine and keeps you up late at night, thrilled and terrified.
Rachel Hills’s foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy’s analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women’s labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.
In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease.
It takes courage to open yourself to this kind of exposure and this knowledge. You need to ask yourself if it's something you can really handle knowing. Can you even say the words— “severed head”—out loud? Can you watch a graphic war ...
Hearings were held concerning community-based mental health services for children. In an opening statement, Chairwoman Schroeder discussed issues of children's mental health and suggested that the committee study: (1) the...
Close to Home
" Waldie speculates on the meanings and implications of the snapshots in this book and of snapshots generally, which he sees as expressions of "the hunger of memory."
One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone. Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles.
Close to Home: An Inquiry Into Older People and Human Rights in Home Care: Executive Summary
The potential risks to human rights when care is provided "behind closed doors", in people's own homes -- a less easily regulated environment -- are in many ways greater than in institutional settings.