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Evil Ethics Conscience Imperfection and Doubt

4th Quarter 2011

Description

Everywhere we turn we meet ourselves. And in doing so we must all inevitably deal with evil, ethics, imperfections, conscience and doubt. I realized this, and wanted to make sense of this fact by finding out for myself what are the nature and implications of each. The discoveries I made apply to anyone.

 

The Idiocy of My Odyssey (a fun and engaging Memoir)

4th Quarter 2011

Description

I had odd beginnings. I was born during a Nazi air raid, raised in deprivation and then proceeded to live an even stranger and unpredictable life in the many countries I lived or visited. I have had three careers: teaching, business and writing. My memories of them range from profound to confusing to funny to downright peculiar. I recount them all along with lessons learned. Self-discovery is achieved partly by memory, and memory is provoked by writing.   

 

Essay Writing for High School Students

(Sample pages coming soon)

4th Quarter 2011

Description

I wrote this book in response to the new SAT requirement. In it I describe the “how” of writing as good essay. More importantly, however, I show how a student or teacher can discover an idea which is worth writing about: the “what.” A skillfully written essay in response to a question but which has a poorly thought-out or inadequate message will never accomplish its purpose. However, even a modestly well-written essay with an interesting message will get the attention of the reader, be they an SAT examination reader, college entrance examiner or prospective employer.

 

The Anglezarke Trilogy: Book One: We Are Your Ghosts

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1st Quarter 2012

Description

Two young boys from aristocratic English families meet at a Catholic boarding school in the early nineteen hundreds. They leave and go their separate ways; one becomes a Benedictine monk and one a British army officer. They meet again and cement their friendship in the horrors of the trenches of the Western Front in France. One is now a chaplain, the other his commanding officer.

Book One of “The Anglezarke Trilogy” transports its readers back in time to an era, and to places, they may never have imagined: the British trenches of World War One, an English manor house, a monastery near the Hindenburg Line, even a French bordello.

Accounts of heroism, humor, intrigue, tragedy, indiscretion, doubt, conscience, romance and betrayal are all chronicled against authentic and richly detailed backdrops. The main characters are the commanding officer, the monk, a Sergeant Major, the medical officer, an army nurse, two young officers, two private soldiers and a Jewish prisoner of war.

This work of historical fiction is a story of how love, truth, beauty, goodness and the mystery of faith can be lost and redeemed, even in the Hell of the Western Front, where in 1917, man’s inhumanity was on display, as well as many of mankind’s innovative yet hideous weapons of mass destruction, such as tanks, flame-throwers, barbed wire, airplanes, tanks and poisonous gas, deployed for the first time.

 

The Anglezarke Trilogy: Part Two: The Fugitive Society

(Sample pages coming soon)

2nd Quarter 2012

Description

Two young boys from aristocratic English families meet at a Catholic boarding school in the early nineteen hundreds. They leave and go their separate ways, one back to his life as a Benedictine monk and the other back to his life in the British army. These two and the other characters, after enduring World War I together, return to post-war England – the 1920s.

 

The Anglezarke Trilogy: Part Three: Darkness Dispelling Light

(Sample pages coming soon)

3rd Quarter 2012                                                        

Description

Two young boys from aristocratic English families meet at a Catholic boarding school in the early nineteen hundreds. They endure World War I as chaplain and army officer. After World War I they return to post-war England and their lives are further entangled in the interbellum period. Part three takes the two men from the late 20’s until the eve of the outbreak of yet another war with Germany.