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A Comedy of Pretzels
When tradition twists with popular culture and lands on “people’s oral humor,” idealistic Reuben Lamberth finds himself in a mess. He is a young, progressive, inspired scholar teaching at a prestigious northeastern university, but his other unique self has another foot planted secretly in the world of standup comedy as Josh Sandburg. His stage name is a composite of ‘joshing’ and the renowned American poet Carl Sandburg. Neither his fully tenured professor wife Byrra who is enmeshed in a cabal of women’s faculty; his tough minor gangster-hood father Solly; his staid sociology chairperson and conventional colleagues; nor his tyrannical University President Jeremiah Brittle have any idea that he performs in comedy clubs as Josh Sandburg. Should he be outed, there is considerable doubt that he will be upgraded to the coveted position of tenure, and his marriage may suffer as well. Reuben wonders, Is it worth giving up academia and taking a flyer in the world of comedy culture? The finale in this novel reveals tantalizing internecine connections that land squarely the realm of people’s oral humor.
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Bloodlines - Harsh Fate
Bloodlines – Harsh Fate is a fantasy, set on the continent of Mataan, a land originally inhabited by humans, elves and dwarves, for the most part. A many-decade long war, with a race of people known as Krakons, from across the ocean, has defeated the original races and taken over the lands of Mataan. The human race has been assimilated into Krakon society as a slave class, a few scattered to wild lands in the northwest, now called the Outlaw Kingdom. But there has been a foretelling of a Ravenlock, the old rulers of the dark Wars era, that would rise up once more, unite the races, and renew the war with the Krakons. A Renewing of the first formal Joining, the true sign of this prophecy. This is the story of one of Raklor Ravenlock’s scion, hundreds of years after the Dark Wars, found deep in the mountains of the Outlaw Kingdom – a short and somewhat concise telling of the events, occurrences, and happenings of his formative years. His journey to this fabled renewing.
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Redemption in the Majella Mountains
Ken’s grandfather always inspired him, as a child, to respect and love the outdoors and to find in nature the introspection and refuge to allow every person to solve any of life’s vicissitudes. Recalling his grandfather’s philosophy, the author carries the reader through the mesmerizing beauty of the Majella mountains in the Abruzzi region of Central Italy. There Ken has the protagonist first find refuge, and ultimately, find redemption from the helter-skelter corporate life he left behind. These two existences, ambition and introspection, clash and confront each other so that the reader sees the unforgiving life of ambition lived by a grizzled corporate veteran pit itself against the newly-found introspective existence of a young man whose soul is forced to reawaken and leave behind the societal ladder to success in favor of the more simple, but much more satisfying, life of ethics and morality.
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Reversible World
Reversible World addresses threats to our planet and its ecosystem. It is a courageous, Whitmanesque, passionate book that urgently concerns itself with time, hope, climate change, science, mythology, and history. Its dazzling use of metaphor surpasses that of other contemporary poets. It has an aura of being concerned with something bigger than we can grasp. The love poems are its shining stars, but in a sense, they are all love poems.
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Standing
The old man is home from years away fighting in that distant, useless, and dirty war. He is haunted by his demons from “over there”, his drug-addicted wife and the children he never wanted. It was all her fault…his drinking, no job, and those kids were constant reminders of worthless, weak years. Difficult years pass and have hardened both children, Roger and his older sister Alle. Even that simple routine of horrible has finally come to an inevitable end and change. Change is chaos. Cascading events leave Roger homeless, and utterly alone. Fast forward three years to a young woman Roger saves by doing the right thing, ending up with a child he can call his own. A fresh start, a pure start he can and has to make exception to. Inevitably, Roger is approached by an old acquaintance that has expressed interest in him and the abilities he obviously learned from his father. Roger is granted the opportunity to become a member of newly developed Deviance Squad, “Hunt and Kill” units that were created to eliminate everything insidious and rotten in society. Roger now can clean-up for his son as well as keep the demons at bay, as with every action, there is cleansing. With his kill team by his side, Roger may finally have the chance to make things right for not only his son, but for himself as well, but in doing so, he discovers how deep the rotten core of everything is.Will his past, no matter how impossible, come reaching out for him?
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