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Which of her three lovers will beautiful twenty-three year old Simone Muirchant chose? Will it be her wealthy blue-blooded fianc�? Could she choose the high school senior who is her passionate secret lover? Will she succumb to the earthy insensitivity of the mysterious third man in her love life? Or will she simply sustain all three lovers?The above encapsulation is the central anchoring plot dilemma for Boomers Bastards & Boneheads: The Wasted Generation, the first of four novels in a fictional quartet entitled The Generations Series. This first book is set on Long Island during the years of 1965 through 1980. The chapters of Boomers Bastards & Boneheads unfold during some of more intriguing events of the period including the Vietnam War; the Moon Landings; Chappaquiddick; Woodstock; Watergate and even the long lines at gas stations during the 1973 Oil Embargo.**********Collectively the four novels that comprise The Generations Series depict the sequential story of two Long Island families throughout multiple generations of intriguing characters. The Babcocks and the Johnsons share more than just a persistent hatred of one another. The ongoing plotline revolves around a carnal reality that there had been a blending of the families back in 1965. That was when the beautiful but enigmatic Simone Muirchant managed to become part of both families. The hatred and hostility between the Babcocks and the Johnsons leads to misogamy, mislaid blame, murder and mayhem. **********One early reader has described the milieu of the 4 volume epic as "Jay Gatsby versus Forrest Gump." Set on Long Island in suburban New York, the epic saga is illuminated by the evolution of thoughts, behaviors and mores in the United States from 1965 through 2016. The fictional all-male Catholic high school - Shenandoah - also plays an essential role in centering the progression of changes that take place for the principal characters over a fifty year period. The bitter hatred between the Babcocks and the Johnsons transcends the timeworn topics of War; Spirituality; Morality and Politics. It also utilizes a fifty year chronology to depict the development of Music; Baseball; Drug Abuse; Sexual Liberation; Political Evolution; Racial Unrest; Feminism and Information Technology across five decades of change in the United States and on Long Island. By the end of the fourth novel the reader will have relived a half century of Americana that may very well serve as a gateway to the exciting future ahead.**********

Birddog Charlie tells the stories of horses that made a substantial contribution to the authors life beginning at age 11 by revealing the wisdom and secrets of the natural world.

When an idealistic young journalist gets pulled into a disgusting political campaign, lives and attitudes suffer greatly in the end. All that''s left is a sense of humor

Communists, Capitalists & Cokeheads The second novel in The Generations Series is entitled: Communists, Capitalists & Cokeheads: The Connected Generation. It picks up where the first novel Boomers, Bastards & Boneheads left off and covers the period of the 1980''s. It introduces the next generation of Babcocks and Johnsons, while dealing with residual issues of infidelity, sexual torment and manslaughter, which the previous generation had left unresolved. Once again Shenandoah High School, baseball, politics, spirituality and music provide a structural context. Fox Babcock and his half-sister Maureen "Mo" Babcock play prominent roles. Vietnam War hero Mickey Johnson remarries (his first wife died in the earlier novel, BB&B.) and his new wife Sydney (A/K/A ''Syd'') delivers three children into their family. Syd Johnson has an Italian father and an African American mother. The plot deals with a new premeditated murder and an intensifying family animosity between the Babcocks and the Johnsons. It also details Simone''s 18 month sabbatical in the squalor of Calcutta on the Indian subcontinent. Simone attempts to discover her own spirituality while working with Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa''s charity. Meanwhile 13 year old Maureen Babcock runs away from one of America''s wealthiest family households and the consequences are tragic. Fox Babcock finally becomes aware of his authentic pedigree and wrestles with this truth during his high school days at Shenandoah; through his college years at Harvard and onto his first year at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Major social issues of the 80''s also punctuate the plot. AIDS; cocaine addiction; racial tensions and gender (in)equality are central to the plot. Also the progression of the nascent personal computer industry foretells the insidious influence of these machines on the global future as well as on the lives of the Babcocks and the Johnsons. Likewise, the earliest cell phones emerge and begin to impact the lives and livelihoods of the two families. Racially polarizing events such as the Bernhard Goetz Subway Shootings and the Central Park Jogger case cause developing disharmony between multiracial members of the Johnson family. Meanwhile Mickey Johnson''s career has brought him a new prosperity, even while his outlook on life becomes more rigidly rooted in working class values. The Johnsons and the Babcocks continue to deal with their ever-escalating hostility. In addition, parts of each family have moved to California to participate in the stimulating atmosphere of Silicon Valley. Simone rejoins this capitalistic development after she returns from India. This second novel climaxes in 1989 with the main characters assembled in an attempted rapprochement at the home of the woman who has been a part of both families. However, the Loma Prieta earthquake intervenes and alters the intentions of Simone Muirchant. The near-death experiences of the primary members of the Babcock/Johnson Feud provide for some relief in the rancor. However it offers no real closure to the conflict. As the USSR and the USA begin to wind down their Cold War, a frigid wall is erected for the next generation of the Babcocks and the Johnsons. This section of that saga ends on the doorstep on the Internet Age. Book three of the Generation Series, Thinkers, Techies & Terrorists: The Tribal Generation (scheduled for release in October 2017) will take the Johnsons and the Babcocks through that doorway.

A pictorial tribute to the disasters of September 11, 2001. Interviews with Mayor Giuliani, Govenor Pataki, Senator Schumer and more.

Brandon a toujours eu une vision un peu particulière de la vie. S''il sait reconnaître le chant des oiseaux, il a du mal à trouver sa place parmi les humains. Son père, éleveur de bovins, ne sait pas quoi faire de lui. Promu agent de la police des frontières, Brandon surveille des centaines de kilomètres entre les Etats-Unis et le Canada, où se déroule la guerre contre le trafic de drogue, les clandestins et les terroristes. Le paysage se peuple de politiciens paranoïaques, de caméras de surveillance et d''immigrés qu''il arrête par hasard. Mais Brandon n''a aucune conscience de ces problèmes. Tel les hirondelles colonisant la région, il reste libre de franchir la frontière invisible, et d''observer les deux communautés si éloignées par la politique mais si proches à vol d oiseau.

Le jeune Miles sort souvent de chez lui en secret pour explorer les eaux de la haie de Puget Sound, dans l''Etat de Washington. Une nuit, à marée basse, il découvre une créature marine rarissime échouée dans la vase. Il devient alors la vedette locale, assailli par d étranges personnes qui ne savent pas s''il s''agit d''un simple observateur, d''un intrépide ou d''un éventuel prophète. Mais Miles a bien d''autres préoccupations. Il doit prendre soin d''une vieille dame un peu médium et empêcher le divorce de ses parents, sans oublier son ancienne baby-sitter, qu''il tente maladroitement de séduire... Au cours de cet été pas comme les autres, il va apprendre à décrypter les mystères de la vie et ceux de la mer.

Een 13-jarige jongen weet alles van het leven in de baai voor zijn huis, waarin hij zelfs twee nieuwe diersoorten heeft ontdekt die hem nationale beroemdheid opleveren. Dan voorspelt hij een ernstige vloedgolf.