A MORALLY CORRUPT WOMAN

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Editors Var: this release also came close to winning today's best headline "Hot New Beach Book Sizzles Spiritually."

Out of THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.

In this deceptively simple novel, a distinguished cop is swept into a series of mysterious events, including a baffling investigation that affects him personally. Jay Stephens' first novel, Confluence, is a tapestry of the tangible and the spiritual, a fecund philosophical and spiritual work that is embedded within a thrilling suspense novel.

After two failed marriages, he successively falls for three women-his psychiatrist, a woman half his age, and a degenerate schemer. The first leads him to the second, Linda Jordan, whom he entangles in his investigation and causes serious harm. The last is Virginia Schultz, a morally corrupt woman, who ironically leads him to his spiritual redemption.


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The Wonderful and Terrible Kentucky Samaritan; New book takes a long hard look at fanaticism, mental instability, and child abuse

Editors Var: read on just a bit for scintillating publishing news.

Out of WEST JEFFERSON, N.C.

Twenty-five years ago, Ninety Brothers and Sisters by Lenore De Pree was published by Harper & Row with the promise of a twenty-one gun salute, a write-up in the New York Times, and a possible movie deal. Three months later the book was dead. De Pree was stunned. It had taken her twenty years to heal enough to tell what had happened in Kentucky-the innocence, the dreams, the horror, and her survival-and now she was receiving veiled warnings from people in power that this book should never have been published. Why?

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Editors Var: We would like to see Northrop, the company that among other windfalls was just awarded a 408 million contract with the army, also donate $100,000 to aid victims of their war machines.

Out of LOS ANGELES

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) today announced it is donating a total of $100,000 to the American Red Cross and the United Way of Florida's Hurricane Charley Response Fund to benefit Floridians impacted by Hurricane Charley.