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Pender Denton was born in a bordello. His mother, a sex-worker, taught him to steal. He grew up with little regard for "normal" society. He was a pre-teen when he killed his first man. Pender wanders the lawless, post civil war west and survives by stealing and selling horses. He meets, and insults, famous outlaw Jesse James---and lives to tell about it. Pender also met Bill Dalton, of the Wild Bunch/Dalton Gang. Bill claims to be Pender's fat...

Two families, like so many before them, set sail for the "golden land, " of America. One family was drawn by the glow of the American dream. The other group was driven out of Europe by violence, political upheaval, and the ever-darkening shadow of an impending war. Their paths to America were as different as can be imagined. One family landed in the western wildness of Texas in the early 1900s. The America they met, and learned to love, inclu...

Theodore Karpstein was born in the shadow of World War II and was not allowed to move out of that shadow. His family filled his mind with stories of death and destruction that cover a century or more of their own history and that of their distant relatives. Tales of injustice, of revolution, of pogroms, and of the holocaust become his bedtime narratives.Karpstein wants to be the hero of the stories he hears--and to revenge the wrongs he hears ...

Theodore Karpstein was born in the shadow of World War II and was not allowed to move out of that shadow. His family filled his mind with stories of death and destruction that cover a century or more of their own history and that of their distant relatives. Tales of injustice, of revolution, of pogroms, and of the holocaust become his bedtime narratives.Karpstein wants to be the hero of the stories he hears-and to revenge the wrongs he hears a...

Voice Versa is a powerful collection of more than 200 poems by Martin A. David, ranging from 1959 to 2019. The topics cover a wide scope of human experiences, emotions, and observations. It is a kaleidoscopic flood of language, thoughts and visions, a writer's journey from youth to maturity, from the gritty streets of New York, to Mexico, Europe and beyond. Simple visions of nature blend with painful images from a child's memories of the holoc...

Voice Versa is a powerful collection of more than 200 poems by Martin A. David, ranging from 1959 to 2019. The topics cover a wide scope of human experiences, emotions, and observations. It is a kaleidoscopic flood of language, thoughts and visions, a writer's journey from youth to maturity, from the gritty streets of New York, to Mexico, Europe and beyond. Simple visions of nature blend with painful images from a child's memories of the holoc...

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Seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre befindet sich Thomas David in einem kontinuierlichen Gespräch mit der Gegenwartsliteratur. Bedeutende englischsprachige Autoren wie John Banville, Don DeLillo, Patricia Highsmith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Muriel Spark, Graham Swift, Philip Roth und Zadie Smith hat er z.T. wiederholt zu ihren Arbeitsweisen und gesellschaftspolitischen Themen ihrer Zeit befragt. Herausgekommen ist ein Buch über da...

Karpstein Was Hiding is a great, dark, mythical journey. The pain of a people is written across the soul of one man. It is a haunting fusion of modern Magic Realism and the detailed story telling of ancient Jewish Mysticism.

A mischief maker with sticky fingers, a rabbi who has prophetic visions, a healer, peddlers, revolutionaries, and travelers all live in the stories of Shtetl In My Mind. They will make you laugh, make you dance, and sometimes make you cry.