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Even a billion dollars can''t liberate Frank Babcock. He knows that his jealousy has contributed to the murder of Wayne Johnson, the man he once believed had illegitimately fathered his own heir, Fox Babcock. The wrong Johnson was murdered. Mickey Johnson not Wayne Johnson was Fox Babcock''s biological father. The Babcock/Johnson Feud persists in the third volume of the "Generation Series" as the two Long Island families battle through another iteration of generational loathing. The animosity between the Babcocks and the Johnsons escalates against a new backdrop of global instability - a product of racial unrest; radical religious extremism and the technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web. The final decade of the twentieth century brings the Babcock/Johnson Feud into a New York courtroom, even as global economic inequities bring the United States into a global kangaroo court replete with terrorist judges. "Techies, Trials & Terrorists" takes the feuding Long Island families through a decade of desperation and distrust that culminates in the long awaited murder trial of Frank Babcock. The trial itself rehashes a 25 year old love quadrangle that resulted in the ambiguous parentage of Dr. Fox Babcock. Fox Babcock is now married and has children of his own. But just like his mother, Fox Babcock has not remained faithful to his spouse. In fact Fox has parented an illegitimate child of his own. New familial discord lurks in the background as the murder trial unfolds. And while carnal revelations, during seamy trial testimony, recount old erotic discord between the Babcocks and the Johnsons, the more recent sexual liaisons further undermine any possibility of rapprochement. Meanwhile, Frank Babcock has a new Jewish bride, a new Christian son and a new Saudi Arabian mistress. His business takes him throughout the Middle East even as his young wife remains in New York parenting her sister''s child. Life becomes ever more intriguing for the billionaire as the existence of his varied business and personal relationships are compromised by his compelled cooperation with American Intelligence agencies. These agencies are investigating the ties of a certain Saudi Arabian family to the rise of terrorist attacks against the United States. As the twentieth century hurdles toward a close and the dawning of the new millennium awaits, the lives of several generations of Johnsons and Babcocks become ever-more entwined. As the internet age unfolds on a global stage, the financial prosperity of the feuding families blossoms along with the burgeoning technology. The saga of sex, money, murder and mayhem follows the family fortunes from the dunes of Saudi Arabia to the white waters of West Virginia and back again to the shores of Long Island. This third book of the "Generations Series" highlights the transient decade that sets up the new Millennium and the challenges that await all of the characters as they embark on 21st Century and the advent of the Social Media. This in turn will be the subject matter of Book 4 in the Generation Series: "Madmen, Millennials & Malcontents: The Social Media Generation." (Due for Publication in the Fall of 2020)

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.

The book describes the adventures of Zeb Clancy, the author''s avatar. Zeb moved to Kentucky to purchase a farm big enough to establish a simmental cattle breeding operation. Once there Zeb meets some legendary Mountain Men and goes on many adventures. They include gunfights, robberies, poker games, and tall tales from men who were living legends.

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.