Bill McCausland
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The main character, Paul Atwater, has graduated with a doctorate in physical therapy in Wisconsin and returns to his native environment in northern California. He secures a job at a health maintenance organization as a physical therapist and annoyance with the political situation and need to research and document with electronic charting becomes overwhelming. His vision was to simply treat patients. This escalates and he quits and has enough money...
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People in desperate search of love and oblivion...
In the Mouth of the Wolf has a layered set of characters, each with his or her own personal questions, whom confront their past as it bears on their present behavior if they are to survive. Three men in the novel have varying degrees of war trauma. Their wives display different ways of absorbing the war experience upon the men's arrival home. The book principally encompasses the impact on marital...
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It Came by Loss concentrates on Pete Gordon, about to graduate from Stanford. The tale launches with Pete sitting at the hospital bed of his extroverted and charismatic mother, as he tries to come to grips with her demise from alcoholic liver failure.
An attraction with the young nurse caring for his mother draws Pete to reveal his vulnerabilities. A connection develops, since Julia's father also died of alcoholic liver failure. She suggests an experiment...
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The story evolves, around a town that is, known for peace and love. There is a wall with a peace symbol on it, that shows the contributions, that people have, made for peace. The main character is in line with the peace of the town, notwithstanding him, being a veteran of the Iraq War. He teams up with a clinical social worker and spontaneously starts a group for damaged adults who were children of Vietnam combat veterans and the adult children have...
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He became self-deceptive and then had a realization.
Dr. Glen Coyle used to be an artist at what he does. In his office is a hand sculpture given by a patient whose hand he reattached.
These days, though, Glen is doing his best to keep his hands from shaking. He's on the run constantly from pharmaceuticals he's supposed to be prescribing for his patients. His wife is about to leave him. The DEA comes to pay him a visit. But, when he's called before...
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Pete Devon encounters a beautiful woman with a black lab. He invites her for dinner that evening at his cottage. Carol Fairchild's amorous side comes through and she spends the night. The next morning she walks on the flat and Pete runs the hills. On his way, back he sees a man with a rifle that is, pointed at Carol. Pete is a veteran and uses hand-to-hand combat to disable the man and take his weapon. The man is a serial killer. He begins to notice...