"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." 
Josh Billings (1818 – 1885) In an elegantly written and quietly compelling first novel, Sarah Foulger examines the familial struggle with the appearance that all is well. When a series of traumas befall the "perfect" family, the repercussions are both subtle and devastating. In an idyllic south shore Long Island beach town Stephen and Corrine Quintal both have successful and fulfilling careers. Their two daughters, Jane and Helen, are intelligent and insightful teenagers. Family members appear to be bonded to one another but in a universe that revolves around Stephen. Caught up in their busy lives surrounded by a suburban sameness, where family values are assumed but where loyalty, care, and love are taken for granted, the Quintal family reaches a precarious point in their lives where, much to their surprise, their tacit unity is at risk. When it is discovered that Stephen has failed his family, the women in his life, including his much-too-young mistress Nadine, confront their anguish alone, straining their ability to cope. Forced to realize their own limitations, each undergoes an enlargement of spirit and courage. Sin, betrayal, and distrust bring disillusionment but eventually, each tries, in their own way, to walk a path toward forgiveness and reconciliation. Sarah Foulger connects the reader to a world of characters that are familiar, their predicaments all too common, and their search for answers universal.

No Revenge So Complete

Foulger, Sarah

Literature & Fiction

Brook st Pr

REEL AND ROUT is a timely novel that exposes the backroom and boardroom shenanigans that plague corporations and that have led to a daily dose of headlines and scandals. From Enron to Global Crossing to ImClone we are inundated with the suspicion that all is not right with the business world. Filled with colorful New York lawyers, inept trustees, avaricious bankers, and even a few devoted public servants who care about more than the latest sex scandal, REEL AND ROUT is a tale of greed gone wild but in a world where some try to accomplish good. The protagonist, Cedric "Drive" Rhodes, is the aging South African CEO of the world’s most powerful media company and he is anxious to do one last deal. Over the years he has taken his experience in the family newspaper business, a stint in Hollywood, and in television to sculpt a global powerhouse that is both feared and admired. Drive believes he is the smartest CEO who ever lived and this deal will prove it. He will do the impossible. He will acquire, in a hostile takeover, a beloved corporate icon, THE AMERICAN OBSERVER, at one time the most widely read and translated magazine in the world. But THE AMERICAN OBSERVER has fallen on bad times. Circulation is down, revenues are diminished, and the stock price has plummeted. With a cadre of colorful characters, Drive Rhodes goes to work on the most challenging of transactions – a foreigner taking over an American institution. Robert Monks has spent his career in public service and business advocating for responsible behavior from all parties involved in the global corporation – executives, board members, and shareholders large and small. This lifetime of experience has been brilliantly translated into a novel that is insightful and persuasive.

Reel and Rout

Monks, Robert A.G.

United States

A posthumous novel by a writer who has been compared to Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Kurt Vonnegut, IRA FOXGLOVE is a tale of the heart – both real and imagined – that revolves around a talented scientist whose own heart has been broken physically and spiritually. In an odyssey to repair both Ira ventures on a fantastical journey by blimp to try and recover his fractured family. 
Along the way we are introduced to a world of unique characters: Ira, who is refining his latest invention, a prosthetic heart; his friend Neptune, a blimp pilot who likes to use his airship for Icelandic fishing trips; Portia, his aquatically-obsessed estranged wife; and Peaches, the hot tomato who helps Ira realize what he really wants and how to get it. 
In his unique combination of science, fantasy, humor, and a deep understanding of our constant search for love, McMahon weaves a story that deepens with each reading.

Ira Foxglove

McMahon, Thomas

A Long Day's Dying is a mid-twentieth-century Jamesian novel that foreshadows many of the themes in Mr. Buechner's later writing—faith, trust, and the complex relations of family and friends. The story follows Tristram Bone, a rotund man of wealth and "organized leisure" but a failure with women, and Elizabeth Poor, a rich, charming, and beautiful widow and Bone's unrequited love interest, through a series of encounters with friends and family, affairs real and imagined, gossip, jealousy, and innuendo. We also meet Bone's servant Emma and his pet monkey Simon; the novelist George Motley; the arrogant and seductive academic Paul Steitler, Elizabeth's naïve son Lee, and her omniscient mother Maroo.

A Long Day's Dying

BUECHNER, Frederick

Walter Brimm makes choices in his life that cost him everything, including his job, family, and health and as he attempts redemption he learns about himself and his past.

Walter Falls

Gillis, Steven

Return of Ansel Gibbs

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