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IDENTITY CRISIS

My sister’s book - now on Lulu.

Amplify’d from www.lulu.com

IDENTITY CRISIS introduces attorney Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae. A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Sam’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend. With her career and life on the line, Sam’s search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives.

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“Losing Mum and Pup”

A “tell all” story by “Christo” Buckely on the lives of his parents.  This news item is worth the full read.  Hope to get the book.

Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com

He sums up his painfully intimate portrait in “Losing Mum and Pup” this way: “He was impossible. She was impossible. And sometimes their impossibilities acted like great magnetic force fields.” Which is to say, William F. Buckley and Patricia Buckley had a stormy marriage and an equally volatile relationship with their only child.

“They were extraordinary people,” Buckley says. “Why anyone should expect extraordinary people to have perfect lives would be beyond me.”

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Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World

Perhaps one to read?

Amplify’d from www.palgrave.com
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Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills too often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly acceptable solutions to social problems can be found. It takes its cue from the idea that our endlessly changing and complex social worlds consist of ceaseless interactions between organizing, justifying and perceiving social relations. Each time one of these perspectives is excluded from collective decision-making, governance failure inevitably results. Successful solutions are therefore creative combinations of four opposing ways of organizing and thinking. This book, jointly written by leading political scientists, anthropologists, economists, lawyers, sociologists, a geographer and an engineer, shows the force of these theoretically sophisticated, yet simple and practical ideas for a number of pressing issues from around the globe.

Read more at www.palgrave.com