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A great Italian-American saga that covers 60 years and three generations of the Adamo family, "Sons and Brothers" is set against a backdrop of history from the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the end of World War II.

A NOVEL ABOUT A SECRET PROJECT TO LOCATE A PARALLEL PLANET WHICH SOME EARTH PEOPLE MIGHT USE AS A SPACE LIFEBOAT. IN A MULTI-DIMENASIONAL UNIVERSE SUCH A PLANET MIGHT EXIST AND MIGHT ALSO BE A PLACE WHERE A UTOPIAN SOCIETY COULD EXIST. A SMALL GROUP OF SCIENTISTS PURSUE THE MISSION AND DISCUSS THE IDEAS INVOLVED. THE SUSPENSE IS THRILLING AND THE IDEAS ARE BRILLIANT.

These are the memoirs of an American writer who has spent almost fifty years in the village of Deya on the island of Mallorca in Spain. Deya has long been referred to as an "Artist Colony." Many of the artists settled in this village after WW II, after studying art in Europe. At first they settled in Paris, and then later moved to Spain because it was less expensive. This group of American Artists is now a story of the past, since most of them...

Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analysing the content of the 116, 000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major themes of the book: knowledge and ignorance, truth and probabiity, learning and education, language, religion, and morality.

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An autobiographical account of the author's childhood from birth until highschool graduation at the age of 17. He began Columbia College the year WW II ended, 1945, a month after the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

To the young Catullus Rome was a golden nightmare. Vast and teeming, viciously corrupt, this center of the crumbling Republic was also the setting for his own self-destroying search for perfection in love. For in Rome reigned Clodia...the Lesbia of his poems -- enigmatic, beautiful, depraved.This is the story of Catullus's metamorphosis from a bright-haired, romantic youth into a man ill and embittered at the age of thirty. It is also the stor...

Carnival of Angels is a novel about the human condition, about love, about the old dichotomy between the body and the soul. It is an exciting narrative with metaphysical overtones and an intricate fabric of symbols. It is a story of Mario, more the old Hamlet than the new angry young man.In his last year at the University on Morningside Heights Mario rebels against the gray academic surroundings, the conformity and sterile intellectuality. He ...

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A great Italian-American saga, that covers sixty years and three generations of the Adamo family, SONS AND BROTHERS is full of passion, violence, comedy, and tragedy. The men and women on this epic stage act out their lives against a background of history from the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the end of World War II. This novel is not merely a Mafia tale, it is the whole story of those who left the old country for the new world.

This novel has been called "Gatsbyesque." The review in PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY says: "Veteran novelist DeMaria tells an engrossing story of four young people pursuing their dreams and pursued by their demons during the politically tumultuous 50's.

Considers the surprising influence of Samuel Jackson, one of the greatest readers in English literature. This book not only reveals much about his life and times, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits.

Our hero says, "I am a bachelor and may remain one as long as my mother is alive. It is impending marriage, in fact, that has brought the entire situation to a head. My mother objects vigorously, and when my mother objects vigorously to anything, it is like a nameless and invisible plague visited upon the land. You know it is killing you, but you can't describe exactly how it is being done.

BLOOD OF THE HUNTER is a novel about six women lost in a blizzard near the Canadian border with Vermont, an area called The Northern Kingdom. Their all-terrain vehicle skids off the road into a gorge and they are left with only what they are wearing or carrying. The blizzard is burying everything in the snow. They are rescued by an eccentric hunter, a recluse in the woods. They have reason to believe that he might kill them. Is he their killer...

Christopher MarloweShakespeare's rival, brilliant poet, heretic and spy, was murdered in a tavern in Deptford in 1593. In this biographical novel he talks about his art: "Poetry is the longest arm of the human mind. As we strive for knowledge absolute, which is impossible, of course, everything eventually fails us: logic, science, and even words. The aspiration is our blessing and our curse. Our victories are brief but wonderful, our failures ...

That Kennedy Girl" tells the story of Kathleen Kennedy and her struggle to live her own life her own way, in spite of enormous pressures from her parents and the rest of the clan. Only her brother Jack, whom she loved profoundly, seemed to understand her. It was, perhaps, the saddest of all the Kennedy tragedies. Kathleen lost both her husband and her brother, Joe, in World War II, and shortly thereafter, at the age of 28, died herself in an a...

This is the story of one of the most powerful women of ancient Rome, Agrippina, sister of Caligula and daughter of Caesar.

The daughter of a publishing magnate struggles to hold onto her father's empire as she falls in love with a rogue writer.

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