The published and award winning poetry and art of Robert John Mestre. Included are works written under the psuedonym Toshiro Takeshita.View the world as seen through a poets eyes. Expressed in haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, and art. The world has never been more beautiful.
Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It is a property from which many of our stories, assumptions and geographical reckonings are drawn. For Drewe and Kinsella, it evokes the memories - both personal and cultural - that inspire the writing in this book.
After losing his business, family & home an ex-lawyer purchases a winning lottery ticket before finding solace in a bottle. He see a picture of a large home on 40 acres and buys it without ever visiting the property. The Realtor is a beautiful young woman half his age with a precocious daughter & a porno film floating around on the Internet. As he decides what to do a gorgeous young blond ex-police officer enters his life & complicates matters.
A MIT mathematics Professor inherits untold wealth from a father he barely knew. Along with the money he acquires all of his father's enemies who attempt to kill him. In order to survive while managing his wealth & protected by ex-Secret Service Agents, he hires a man once used by his father for "Problem Resolution.
A remote medical clinic in an abandoned Canadian meat plant specializes in restoring people's faces. The owner recuits a young disgraced ER doctor & together they expand the clinic's reputation by handling only the most difficult high profile cases, those other doctors refuse. Three horribly disfigured sisters are discovered in remote Montana. The doctors create 3 beauties, one of which closely resembles a deceased movie star. Two sisters are offered movie careers in Hollywood & eventually one dies of AIDS & the other commits suicide. The younger doctor unexpectedly finds & marries the 3rd sister. During an emergency procedure on the only survivor of a plane crash in Vail, he discovers through routine DNA testing that the boy is related to his wife. She hires a retired LA police detective to solve the mystery. Repercussion in the the form of letter bombs & attacks immediately follow & the Clinic hires a group of forgotten Vietnam era military snipers, now led by a self proclaimed Reverend to protect them.
A retired cop from Chicago collects an inheritance which he can't sell and reluctantly settles in the community eventually becoming the Sheriff and joining forces with honest to God swamp Indians fighting a well known drug operation.
Someone is abducting Colorado's young women and after holding them in a cage and assaulting them, they turn up dead on the side of a road. Follow our hero as he pursues them with the help of his staff and his Eurasian wife's family who are related to the infamous Japanese Yakusa's.
A young man suffers a head injury and now has blackouts that last from hours to days long. During that period he commits brutal crimes, especially to those that he believes are "Trophy Wives". He meets the girl of his dreams by accident and seeks help from doctors in the form of medication. However sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of enormous length and complexity, often working with only their bare hands. They concealed themselves in their captors’ vehicles and hitched rides to freedom. They became world-class forgers and tailors; they stole anything that might be useful to their escapes that wasn’t actually red-hot or nailed down. Some of them made it to freedom; some did not. Many of those who failed simply tried again and again until they succeeded. Some of the escapers who were caught were murdered by the Japanese or the German Gestapo. That did not stop others from risking torture or death to gain their freedom. Many men whose break was initially successful would not have survived save for the dangerous, selfless help of civilians, especially in occupied Europe and the Philippine Islands. The stories in The Greatest Escapes of WWII highlight the courage, endurance, and ingenuity of Allied prisoners, chronicling their ceaseless efforts and the alarm that spread far and wide when one or more escaped. These escapes tied up thousands of Axis soldiers who might otherwise have prolonged the war for many more bloody months. The troops committed to guard the Allied prisoners and recapture escapers numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
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