Sophia, Brigitte and Me is the life story of Don Lewis, born in September 1934, between the birthdays of Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot. While he never made it to Hollywood, the onetime Babbitz Avenue Commando did sing on stage at Carnegie Hall, the Grand Ole Opry, was interviewed by Tex Ritter and chauffeured by Hank Williams Jr. And although he never won an Oscar, he did win a three-foot-high trophy with a gold tractor atop it
Anyone who has observed cats for a while has probably noticed how closely they resemble their wild counterparts who make their living in the desert and forests of the world. We seem to see in our domestic cats a reflection of their wild counterparts, and we thrill to the mystique sense of danger that we feel when we behold the archetypal features of our miniature predators. Such are the pleasures of stalking the backyard tigers.
JD Banks, a highly respected defense attorney in Manchester, Pennsylvania, agrees to defend the case of a man accused of murdering his wife. Believing in the innocence of his client, despite the mounting evidence against him, Banks knows intuitively that the facts don't add up, and that nothing is as it seems. Could the killer be the person who was having an affair with the victim while her husband was in prison? Did she know too much about her employer's involvement in an illegal scheme worth millions? Was she aware of court corruption in Manchester? Does the blame fall on the victim's association with a liberal woman's group? Was the Mob somehow involved? When Banks gets too close to the truth, roadblocks are set up by a police department rife with corruption, and mob warnings against continuing the investigation. A suicide and two more murders, all frustrate the search for the truth. The most baffling case of Banks' career takes a serpentine course through plots and sub-plots, riddles and an explosive trial to a shocking conclusion.
The thrilling story of Augustine "Sonny" Kalup, an Assistant US Attorney in Tampa, Florida whose troubles cause him to become the focus of a high profile criminal trial. A number of his fellow AUSAs come to his aid only to be told by the government that such a move is forbidden. The real battle behind these charges stems from a power struggle between the FBI and DEA over control of major drug investigations. As the case goes to trial, Sonny and his attorney discover governmental corruption, Drug Cartel interference, and personal betrayal, all of which conspire to ruin Sonny's life and reputation.
The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writer Joy Davidman (1915–1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right — an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Yet One More Spring is the first comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Don King studies her body of work — including both published and unpublished works — chronologically, tracing her development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity. Drawing as it does on a cache of previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely overlooked American writer.
C.S. Lewis is best known as the creator of the fanciful world of Narnia and writer of literary criticism and Christian apologetics. This book examines Lewis's early writings, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton, analyzing the influence of his formative poetic aspirations upon his later prose. By looking at early diaries and letters, and the inclusion of four of Lewis's previously unpublished narrative poems and eleven previously unpublished short poems, this text explains the man through his writing.
There was a time in my youth when I would buy and read any and every book I discovered by C.S. Lewis. What I had found was that he wrote in a way that engaged my mind like no other writer. He was respected in a variety of fields, and held passionately to his faith in Christ. Years later, when I began rereading his books, I was surprised to find that many of the ideas I'd held as my own had been planted by Lewis. Each of the poems in Conspiracy of Light springs directly from something Lewis wrote, or from events in his life. The source for some will be obvious, even to casual readers of Lewis. The notes at the end of this book, although unnecessary for reading the poems, direct readers back to the source material. I would be pleased if my poems expand readers' appreciation of Lewis and bring them back to his work. November 22nd of this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. His is a legacy that will continue to grow as the years pass. Here I honor him, and the one for whom he wrote.
A PULP TALES PULP REPLICA: The January 1940 bedsheet issue of FANTASTIC ADVENTURES containing "The Robot Peril" by Don Wilcox, "Death Over Chicago" by Robert Moore Williams, "The Time Merchant" by F. A. Kummer Jr, "Captives of the Void" by R. R. Winterbotham, "Hell in Eden" by Richard O. Lewis, and "The Gift of Magic" by Miles Shelton.
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