Monthly Archives: April 2019

Dark Time

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Chuck Radda presents his new novel, Dark Time, available as a trade paperback or ebook. Here’s a summary from the book jacket:

A woman survives the dramatic crash-landing of an airplane on the Hudson River, only to disappear into thin air. Her husband begins a journey to find her that leads him hundreds of miles from home, to uncover her secrets in the desolate tundra of northern Canada.

In his debut novel, Chuck Radda takes readers deep into the new territory of Nunavut, where Martin Wilkes struggles to come to terms with the truth about his wife, his marriage, and ultimately, the meaning of his life.

With a wide-ranging cast of characters that includes a cranky detective, a psychic Inuit, a daredevil pilot, and some uptight suburbanites, Radda captures the desperation of a man teetering on the brink of losing everything he holds dear.

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Chuck can also be reached by email at chuckradda@gmail.com

Chuck can also be found at his website: chuckradda.com

Absolute Truth

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Chuck Radda presents his second novel, Absolute Truth, available as a trade paperback or ebook. Here’s a summary from the book jacket:

Brutal murders on successive nights have shocked the small town of Drayton. In their aftermath two young women are dead, two anguished families will confront a shattering loss, and residents must face the possibility that a serial killer lives among them.

To Brianna Cooper, a reporter for the Drayton Courier, even such horrific crimes would ordinarily mean little more than an assignment; but because the first victim was a friend, Brianna feels a greater personal involvement. Unfortunately, her reputation as a journalist is spotty at best: she cuts corners when it suits her, and at least once has embarrassed herself and the Courier with her nonchalant approach and indifferent attitude.

Brianna Cooper believes she can do better—can gather facts and verify sources, seek the truth and report it, play her role with a new independence. She doesn’t realize that simply doing her job may well have consequences she could never have anticipated, and that the absolute truth can present its own dangers.

 

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 Chuck

Chuck can also be reached by email at chuckradda@gmail.com

Chuck can also be found at his website: chuckradda.com

I’ve always been drawn to aviation

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I’ve always been drawn to aviation—maybe because I had an uncle once who flew bombing missions in the Pacific during World War II, crash-landed in New Guinea, and somehow made it back alive. He seldom spoke of the incident, but to the rest of the family he was always a pilot.

I’m not a pilot. I never became one (just as Kramer in Seinfeld never became a banker) but that didn’t keep me away from airports—even dragging my family there incessantly in years past—less so these days when heightened security measures make it difficult to find a location to watch take-offs and landings. But of course aviation is often linked to disasters, and the piece previewed here involves one of them: the crash of American 191 in Chicago, May, 1979. Though the story takes place today, its seed grew from that event.

The link below will take you to my website where you can download an early chapter. I’d love to hear what you think.

And Let All Sleep

Giguere painting featured in art show

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Lefora author Judy Giguere poses along side her painting incuded in the Monastery Gallery art show in West Hartford through April 23.

Lefora author Judy Giguere’s Chinese ink brush painting is included in the Monastery Gallery’s current art show. entitled “No Ordinary Path.” Giguere published The Art of Chinese Brush Painting two years ago.

The announcement on the website describes the show as allowing the exhibitors an opened-ended opportunity to participate using many different mediums. “Most artists provided a statement as to how the artwork fit the theme. For many it was following their own creative path exploring where the theme took them. Learn more as you explore the exhibit.”

The gallery is located on the grounds of Holy Family Passionist Retreact Center in West Hartford. The shows runs through April 23.

Its mission states the following: “The Monastery Gallery of Art values and promotes all forms of art that explore themes of compassion, resilience, peacemaking, loving kindness, social justice, and care for others and our planet.”