AH, THE COVETED LOMBARDI TROPHY. Many have hoisted it, hugged it, kissed it. The Detroit Lions franchise - well, they have seen images of it on television. Readers will follow superfan Leo Steigenga inside the Motor City and experience the struggles, anguish, and perseverance related to all things Lions. We are pulled into Leo’s strange odyssey of dark humor, rich fantasy, and ultimate salvation. Enthusiastically we wait, we wait some more, for a championship. Good news, the Lions win the Super Bowl! Open this book and find out when.
Who killed Nancy Guterman in Cincinnati more than 100 years ago? We follow the protagonist William Foss, a firefighter, on his hunt for the killer. During his quest, the reader will experience the grittiness of urban life: the soulful music, technology, steamboats, river culture, the African American experience along the underdeveloped shore, and of course baseball. The reader will smell the Cracker Jacks and ride the carousels in Cincinnati in 1898, as America engages in war with Spain. The odds are stacked against Foss; will he find the murderer.
War. Families are torn apart, estates are plundered, farms are torched, and the war lays bare the dilemmas of mankind—the struggle, boredom, treachery, and fear. Brothers Jacob and Aaron Abbott serve His Majesty’s Army nobly, but circumstance and fate violently disrupt their lives, removing them from a peaceful war to a dangerous peace. They embark on a thrilling journey across Pennsylvania, a wilderness, in 1778. From Swatara Creek to Chambers Gate, they guard against the elements, befriend unlikely locals, and display courage and good sense to combat the danger and confusion that lurk inside the dense gray foliage that engulfs them. The sun sets in the west, and that is where the adventure will send them. Hemlocks on Amazon
A book of poetry--
Sawtooth Waves is a celebration of music, nature, and history, full of verbal delights and an insight into the author's wide canon. . .
My Body sank in happy slumber
Like a thousand motel chronicles.
The stars smiled and protected me.
The grass reached up and the
Stars reached down and
You saw an unbelievable
Physical embrace,
Like dreamy pen pals or
Reconnected lovers when the war is over!
Then the cops
Woke me and escorted me
Back to my house......
