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"Missing in Action" was written in one month, on a farm on the
Little Nemaha, in the summer of 1981, from notes contemporary with
1979 New York City. The work belongs to the genre established by
Joyce, present in American Literature as "The Great Gatsby," "The
Sun Also Rises," and "Catcher in the Rye," the contemporary novel
written in the time of its setting using the selective stream of
consciousness of a first person observer to tell the story.
It is the story of frontier inversion, of a famed generation
putting itself up for sale in the slaving markets of the Big Apple,
of a journey into the regenerations of primitivism, of the return
of the West to the spawning grounds of the East, like one joins the
French Foreign Legion, to escape and forget, a stray splash from
the whirlpools of the dispersion occurring within American society
after the Viet Nam War Era.
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Dragalleon (Paperback)
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Dragalleon and his mate, Angelina, are magical creatures that
normally live in outer space. But when the mother must give birth,
she must land upon a planet and burrow deep into the ground. In the
nest, the brood is born, but when the cubs venture up to the light
upon the planet's surface, the father must wash their eyes or they
remain blind and cannot fly away to the stars. This is the moment
the cunning winged snake, Histah, waits for. To disturb the washing
of the eyes, leaving the young prey helpless before her hunger.
Angelina is forced to land in Central Park. Dragalleon lands,
too, and immediately breaks up a mugging, protecting a mother and
her little girl. But only the child sees him. Only Elizabeth knows
that Dragalleon is real. With her companions, Chelsea, a perky
kinkajou, and Captain Jonathon Olds, retired of Her Majesty's Royal
Navy, Elizabeth seeks out Dragalleon and finds him, but also finds
Histah. By her courage and pluck, Elizabeth fights Histah at the
critical moment, when the cubs climb out of the den, and thwarts
the wicked snake's evil intent.
The tragedy of Jesus, the man, is told in three books. The first is
"The Last Dead Sea Scroll" by Ocampus, a Greek anchorite. The
second consists of "Fragments from the Lost Gospel of James." The
third, the longest, covers "The Last Days."
This tragedy is presented as literature. It is not intended to
confirm or refute any philosophy or religious creed. This is a work
in the literary art of tragedy, nothing more.
"After the Towers Fell" is a contemporary account of the nation's
ordeal from the destruction of the World Trade Center to the
invasion of Iraq. Written in the form of letters addressed to the
Old World from the New, this book tells the story of America's
fateful metamorphosis through eyewitness detail, breaking news, and
social commentary.
Who is the Enemy? What does War demand? How must we change to
win? Provocative, passionate, insightful, and sobering, "After the
Towers Fell" presents the unforgiving history of world-changing
times. In case you have forgotten.
There are only two directions for a society to move, two choices,
toward liberty or toward tyranny. Between a leveling democracy or a
sanctified hierarchy dividing the people in two. Is a free society
truly possible, or are its myths delusions, its policies shambles,
and its alternative, Orwellian Control, the only game in town? What
are the conditions of a free society? Are they achievable? The Myth
of America affirms. The Reality, then and now, though, might bring
many a smile to the face of dead British Kings.
"The Feather Giant" is a race of stories lived in a dreamland a
little boy might dream and wander in search of action and
adventure.
The feather giant, Trebor, is a seven-foot tall, manlike
creature, covered in shaggy feathers instead of fur, light as a
feather, quick as a cat, and able to climb like a spider. He wakes
up in a forest in a pile of leaves, near tabula rasa. But life does
not just happen, it moves. Befriended by a brightly colored toucan,
Trebor encounters a dragon and a dragon keeper, a sage in a magical
garden, a strange bearman, an alien named Zixix with a spaceship, a
troll and a dwarf captain, and pirates, ship, crew, and plank, just
as one might expect from a little boy dreaming.
Trebor learns he must head north, always north, if he is to
catch up with the other 776 feather giants apparently ahead of him.
The action moves through the child's natural development, from
naive, simple settings, to the more complex arrangements of a city
with mixed up animal citizens, including the most complex
arrangement of all, a little girl.
In the surprise ending, Trebor...but that would be telling how
dreams end, and nobody knows that, not even old feather giants.
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