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The American War

By: Don LoCicero

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The American War, the name given by the Vietnamese to our conflict in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, is the story of Franz Linsdorff, son of an anti-Nazi ex-Wehrmacht battlefield physician who emigrated to America with his family after World War II. Although having serious misgivings about America's participation in the conflict, Franz enlists in the army and serves heroically as a combat medic. In addition to bloody battle descriptions, the novel depicts the turmoil at home: the protest movement as well as the sufferings of the returning veterans. Intertwined with the historical events is the love story of Franz and Delia Rini, a flower child of the 60s. The personal trials, sacrifices and triumphs of individuals who fought in and against the war permeate the work, with particular attention given to the philosophical and moral issues involved.

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1469756951

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9781469756950

A Guy from Brooklyn

By: Don LoCicero

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A Guy from Brooklyn

By: Don LoCicero

Like the acclaimed television series, The Sopranos, A Guy from Brooklyn offers a keen insight into the complexity of human nature. Unlike the mafia Don, however, Guy Lorenzos life-defining journey leads him from the tough Brooklyn streets to the hallowed halls of academia. While reminiscent of the great European novels of development, A Guy from Brooklyn is pure Americana, often simultaneously solemn and hilarious, and always thought provoking.

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iUniverse

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1469796988

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9781469796987

Superheroes and Gods

A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman

By: Don LoCicero

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Superheroes and Gods

A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman

By: Don LoCicero

The work provides a unique study of superheroes and gods in literature, popular culture, and ancient myth. The author selects a number of mythological figures (e.g., Babylonia's Gilgamesh and Enkidu), ancient gods (e.g., Greece's Eros and Tartarus), and modern superheroes (e.g., the United States' Superman and Captain Marvel) and identifies the often striking similarities between each unique category of characters. The author contends that the vast majority of mythological superheroes follow the same archetypal character patterns, regardless of each hero's unique time period or culture. Each of the first nine chapters examines the heroes and gods of a particular region or country, while the final chapter examines modern descendants of the hero prototype like Batman and Spiderman and several infamous anti-heroes (for example, Dracula and The Hulk). Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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0786431849

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9780786431847

The American War

By: Don LoCicero

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0595231004

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The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

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The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. Frankie Machianno, a hard-working entrepreneur, passionate lover, part-time surf bum, and full-time dad, is a pillar of his waterfront community—and a retired hit man. Once better known as Frankie Machine, he was a brutally efficient killer. Now someone from his past wants him dead, and after a botched attempt on his life, Frankie sets out to find his potential killers. However, the list of suspects is longer than the California coastline. With the mob on his heels and the cops on his tail, Frankie hatches a plan to protect his family, save his life, and escape the mob forever. Then things get really complicated.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307277666

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9780307277664

If Animals Could Speak

A 21st Century Fable Inspired By 9/11/2001

By: Don LoCicero

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If Animals Could Speak

A 21st Century Fable Inspired By 9/11/2001

By: Don LoCicero

IF ANIMALS COULD SPEAK is a fantasy that examines the human condition and our relationship to the animal kingdom. Inspired by 9/11/2001, the central themes of the novel are betrayal, terror, loss, heroism and love. Unlike that infamous September day, however, the primary victims and heroes of LoCicero's work are not human, but a band of farm animals. Faced with the destruction of their farm after its sale to developers, they valiantly but vainly battle the construction workers and their cruel, scar-faced boss. Exiled and pursued, their numbers grow as they recruit a dog, a bear, a colony of bats, a band of raccoons, an eagle, and ultimately a human who was an eyewitness to the terrorist attack on New York's Twin Towers. The latter, a stage actor nicknamed Shake, is also a fugitive, suspected by overzealous government agents of being a terrorist. Horse ultimately takes the unprecedented action of revealing the animals' most guarded secret to Shake. The latter repays their trust after making a remarkable discovery in the far recesses of a mountain cave, a find that has the potential of securing them lasting peace and freedom. In order to do this, however, they must locate Farmer and enlist him to their cause.

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059534478X

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9780595344789

The Apparatus

By: Don LoCicero

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The Apparatus

By: Don LoCicero

The Apparatus is an insightful satire on government bureaucracy, personal identity and confused human relationships. Set in World War II America, the novel transcends geographical borders and is timeless. The characters in The Apparatus remain nameless, defined by their functions rather than their individuality. LoCicero's narrator, a young man with an extraordinary ability, recounts his bewildering dealings with the Apparatus, a nebulous organization that is simultaneously frightening and laughable, omnipotent and powerless, omnipresent and invisible, omniscient and unknowing. Its world is a chaotic conglomeration of committees and cubicles, its function unintelligible even to those who are in its most powerful positions. Directing the important Apparatus School, for example, is the "Head Administrator", a sadistic, femme-fatal whose sexual services are enjoyed by the leaders of many governments. What role does the Apparatus play in our lives? One must read LoCicero's work to learn the answer, if indeed, there is an answer.

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1469726645

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9781469726649

You Never Know

By: Don LoCicero

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You Never Know

By: Don LoCicero

You Never Know depicts a world in which every question is an answer and every answer a new question, a world where nothing is certain except uncertainty. The reader will marvel at the incredible tale of the sweating corpse, suffer along with a young man who refuses to accept the fact that it is raining bananas, admire the perseverance of the shoemaker who invents a substance that makes heels invisible, shudder as voracious rats devour an unfortunate victim alive, and marvel as a nude defendant presents his case to a jury. LoCicero's satirical, philosophical, metaphysical romp spares no segment of society: the legal, medical, and theological experts are fair game, as are the reader and author themselves. LoCicero challenges us to do the most difficult thing of all: to think the unthinkable.

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1469744988

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The Apparatus

By: Don LoCicero

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Human Development

By: Grace J. Craig,Don Baucum

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Human Development

By: Grace J. Craig,Don Baucum

Designed for students from a wide range of backgrounds, this text takes a chronological and interdisciplinary approach to human development. With its focus on context and culture, the 8/E illustrates that the status of human development is inextricably embedded in a study of complex and changing cultures.

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Pearson Educación

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9684445164

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9789684445161

Superheroes and Gods

A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman

By: Don LoCicero

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Superheroes and Gods

A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman

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0786431849

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The Blue Wheelchair

A Metaphysical Mystery

By: Don LoCicero

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The Blue Wheelchair

A Metaphysical Mystery

By: Don LoCicero

Several years after their divorce, Bernice contacts her ex husband, Valentin, to reclaim the blue wheelchair she left in his keeping. Valentin informs her that he has given the wheelchair to his friend, Homer, after the latter was temporarily unable to walk due to an an accident he suffered while mowing his lawn. Bernice is livid; she threatens to emasculate him if he doesn't promptly return the wheelchair to her. Aware that Bernice will carry out her threat, Valentin contacts Homer. He becomes extremely agitated when Homer tells him that he has passed the blue wheelchair on to Myrna Bosmire, a famous stage director for use in a dramatic production. What follows is a bizarre series of episodes as Valentin and Homer frantically attempt to recover the missing blue wheelchair. Why does Myrna deny that she ever saw the wheelchair? Will the famous detective agency that Valentin hires be able to prevent Bernice from destroying Valentin's private parts? And why do these highly skilled professionals conduct their meetings in an underground bomb shelter garbed only in loincloths?

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1440134472

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The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

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The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

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0307266079

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Valparaiso

By: Don DeLillo

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Valparaiso

By: Don DeLillo

THE STORY: Michael Majeski boards a plane bound for Valparaiso, Indiana but ends up in Valparaiso, Chile instead. What was to be an ordinary business trip has turned into a major misadventure, and Michael becomes a figure of some celebrity as he re

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822217910

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9780822217916

Frankie Machine

Roman

By: Don Winslow

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Frankie Machine

Roman

By: Don Winslow

Der Kult-Roman des internationalen Bestseller-Autors Don Winslow: Jeder weiß, dass Frank Macchiano, 62, ein gesetzestreuer Bürger ist, mit seinem Angelladen und seinem Surfbrett praktisch nicht wegzudenken vom Strand von San Diego. Kaum einer weiß, dass er einmal Präsidenten die Hand geschüttelt hat – und jeden beseitigt, der der italienischen Mafia ein Dorn im Auge war. Denn Frank war Frankie Machine, der gnadenloseste Mafiakiller der Westküste. Jetzt gibt es jemanden, den es nicht die Bohne interessiert, dass Frank längst im Ruhestand ist. Jemanden, der seinen Tod will, um jeden Preis. Das Problem: Die Liste der möglichen Verdächtigen ist verdammt lang.

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Droemer eBook

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3426452219

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L'hivern de Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

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L'hivern de Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

En Frank Machianno és un sicari a sou retirat que va trencar els seus llaços amb la màfia de San Diego molts anys enrere. El passat, però, no queda tan lluny i un bon dia truca a la seva porta: ha arribat l'hora de tornar un favor al capo de la família de Los Angeles. En Frank ha d'assistir a una trobada entre la banda de Detroit i la família de Los Angeles, però la trobada resulta ser un parany, una confabulació per matar en Frankie. Algú desitja veure'l mort, i ell haurà d'esbrinar per què, qui i com. El problema és que la llista de candidats és més llarga que una guia de telèfons i a en Frankie no li queda gaire temps.

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Grupo Planeta Spain

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8466413219

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9788466413213

The Names

By: Don DeLillo

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The Names

By: Don DeLillo

In an expatriate's world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore.

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Pan Macmillan

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0330297511

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9780330297516

Francisco Coronado

By: Don Nardo

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Francisco Coronado

By: Don Nardo

Chronicles the life and adventures of Francisco de Coronado, who led an expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Câibola, said to be the home of fabulous treasures, and instead became one of the first Europeans to see much of what would become the southwestern United States.

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Franklin Watts

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0531165760

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9780531165768

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