Jeremy Taylor's life is crumbling. His beloved Grandpa has died, his little sister is ill, his parents just argue, and his best friend's turned mean. What he doesn't know is that a hostile cosmic force is causing all his troubles. But when a golden, spider-like alien takes Jeremy and his faithful cat on a journey through Space and time, he learns he must fight to save himself, his family, and the whole world.
Near the end of World War II, Lieutenant Peter Roebling of German Military Intelligence offends a fanatical SS Colonel and rubs salt in the wound by defecting to the Allies to become a Nazi hunter. The SS officer takes a terrible revenge. Fast forward 30 years and the two men are locked in mortal combat in South America. There the Colonel lives incognito and Roebling, now working for the CIA, sets out on a mission to thwart a fascist plot in which the Nazi may be a player. Can veteran agent Peter Roebling and an amateur cadre of Christian activists derail the conspiracy? The answer lies at the end of a desperate journey up menacing tropical rivers. Book Review 1: "Dan Liberthson has crafted a tale so gripping you will be looking for the sequel as soon as you finish reading it!" -- Mark Plotkin, Arlington, VA, author of "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice" Book Review 2: "A great, exciting read. Characters are well delineated and the story is captivating. Once I started it, I could not stay away." -- Dr. Michael Schmerler, Neurologist, Cincinnati, OH
A Family Album tells in poetry tales of the joys and sorrows of the author's second generation Jewish childhood with perfectionist parents and a schizophrenic younger sister. Enlivened by sharp humor, the poems paint rich verbal portraits of eccentric aunts and uncles, and the struggles and small triumphs of a family under siege. Paperback, 6x9 in, 36 poems, 23 interior family photos and graphic designs, 144 total pages total. "Quiet tone, spare language, and compelling imagery confirm the mysterious capacity of poetry to push us toward a clarity that can move our lives forward." --Jeffrey Hammond, Distinguished Professor, St. Mary's College "This struggle to survive and mature out of the cauldron of immigrant nuclear family tension will inspire anyone who has suffered and surmounted a difficult early family life." --Deborah L. Radzwill, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist "The poems speak of grief and healing, of sadness and epiphany, in connection with and disconnection from an extended family that leaves him both broken and whole." --Alice Rogoff, Editor, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal
Exploring animals as creatures in their own right and as metaphors for the human experience, these 71 poems range in tone from foreboding to comical. With over 50 original illustrations by an accomplished artist and a full-color original cover, Animal Songs will set your mind humming with ideas and images and will make an appealing gift for lovers of animals and poetry alike. "Brilliant! Dan Liberthson's love of and empathy for animals lights up his poems as brightly as the feathers of a macaw." --Nancy Etchemendy, author of Cat in Glass, winner of the 2002 American Library Association, Best Book for Young Adults award "In these poems by Dan Liberthson, the reader is swept up on a journey through the world of animals--the wild, the tame, and the not-so-tame--encountering life, death, mythology, and the author's philosophy and insight into human relationships. Animal Songs is a charming book, with elegant phrasings and rhythms and lovely illustrations by artist Cassandra Mettling-Davis." --Alice Rogoff, Editor, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal; and poet, winner of the 2004 Blue Light Press Award This latest book of poems by Dan Liberthson reflects his love of animals, from ants to elephants. The sensitive writing reveals a deep understanding of animals in themselves and as metaphors for our human experience. Animal Songs captures a range of moods, from the serious, as in Intimations, in which a fantasy animal makes the writer aware of his own mortality, to the amusing, as in Bird Forms, shaped like birds' flight. Intended for mature and thoughtful adults, this is a book to savor." --Andrea Stenn Stryer, author of Kami and the Yaks, winner of the 2008 American Library Association Schneider Family Award for young children's literature
In "Morning and Begin Again," the poems are grouped according to life's great themes: childhood, love, transience, depression, nature, places lived in and visited, and remembrances of loved ones lost. The overall theme is death and rebirth, in both inner and outer life. The poems are not designed to be obscure or abstract conceptual puzzles, but rather are grounded in remembered and imagined events, and tell stories about living: its depths and shallows, whelms and hollows. The goal is, through image and sound, to involve and move readers, to power and intensify their lives by enabling them to share in the poet's most potent and fascinating experiences.
Near the end of World War II, Lieutenant Peter Roebling of German Military Intelligence offends a fanatical SS Colonel and rubs salt in the wound by defecting to the Allies to become a Nazi hunter. The SS officer takes a terrible revenge. Fast forward 30 years and the two men are locked in mortal combat in South America. There the Colonel lives incognito and Roebling, now working for the CIA, sets out on a mission to thwart a fascist plot in which the Nazi may be a player. Can veteran agent Peter Roebling and an amateur cadre of Christian activists derail the conspiracy? The answer lies at the end of a desperate journey up menacing tropical rivers. Book Review 1: "Dan Liberthson has crafted a tale so gripping you will be looking for the sequel as soon as you finish reading it!" -- Mark Plotkin, Arlington, VA, author of "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice" Book Review 2: "A great, exciting read. Characters are well delineated and the story is captivating. Once I started it, I could not stay away." -- Dr. Michael Schmerler, Neurologist, Cincinnati, OH
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