title: Haven in a Heartless World (Norton Paperback)
author:  Christopher Lasch 
description: A fascinating, alarming, profound study. . . . [A book] to ponder for years to come.<br /> - <strong><em>Chronicle of Higher Education</em></strong><br /><br />A brilliant little book. . . . As an analyst of social science literature on the family, Lasch is superb. On balance, his book is the best essay available today on the modern history of the family.<br /> - <strong>David Hackett Fischer, <em>New Republic</em></strong><br /><br />There is no more brilliant exposure of the collective self-deceptions of a 'therapeutic' society in quest of psychic security. . . . [Lasch's] indispensable contribution is the argument that public concern for the plight of the family has commonly masked efforts to subject the family to new forms of outside influence<br /> - <strong>David Brion Davis, <em>New York Review of Books</em></strong>
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  Checkmate: A Neighbor from
  
  
  Hell
  
  
  by
  
  
  R.L. Mathewson
  
  
  Copyright 2012
  
  
  Smashwords
  
  
  Edition
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Edited by Christi Ehrlich, Carla Main and
  
  
  Lieve Van den Heuvel
  
  
  A special thank you to Stephanie Shaw, Gitte
  
  
  Doherty, Amanda Brown, Laura Babcock Dunaway for your time, great
  
  
  advice and for just being the wonderful women that you are.
  
  
    
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. All of the
  
  
  characters, organizations and events described in this novel are
  
  
  either products of the author's imagination or are used
  
  
  fictitiously.
  
  
    
  
  
  e-book ISBN 978-0-9885732-0-8
  
  
  Checkmate: A Neighbor from Hell © R.L.
  
  
  Mathewson 2012. All rights reserved.
  
  
  [http://www.rlmathewson.com](http://www.rlmathewson.com/)
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Other books by R.L.
  
  
  Mathewson:
  
  
    
  
  
  Tall, Dark & Lonely: A
  
  
  Pyte/Sentinel Series Novel #1
  
  
  Without Regret: A Pyte/Sentinel Series
  
  
  Novel #2
  
  
  Tall, Dark & Heartless: A
  
  
  Pyte/Sentinel Novel #3
  
  
  A Humble Heart: A Hollywood Hear