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A holy hermit, a Holocaust survivor, a literary librarian, and a Christian geneticist search for peace and happiness in a culture of chaos, set in Berkeley and on Mount Diablo, east of San Francisco, in 2018.
A holy hermit, a Holocaust survivor, a literary librarian, and a Christian geneticist search for peace and happiness in a culture of chaos.
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p class="MsoNormal">Hermit Abram, 80, and his sister Elizabeth, 84, escaped the Holocaust in Greece and made it to America as children. Elizabeth retired from teaching high school Western Civilization, and Abram, retired from teaching classics at U.C. Berkeley, converted to Christianity and retreated to Angel Mountain to pray with his icons for the world and preach from the mountainside. o:p>/o:p>
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Set in Hana, Maui, in a natural world both beautiful and dangerous, this poignant multi-generation story asks T.S. Eliot's "permanent questions" – what is goodness, truth, and love – as city clashes with country, youth with age, decadence with innocence.
span style="line-height: 115%;"> /span>span style="line-height: 115%;">Old Nani-lei lives in Hana-lani, her family home in the rainforest of rural Maui./span>span style="line-height: 115%;"> /span>span style="line-height: 115%;">She looks after her grandson Henry, 52, and his daughter Lucy, 6, who have returned to Hana from Berkeley after the death of Maria, Henry's wife./span>span style="line-height: 115%;"> /span>span style="line-height: 115%;">Henry and Maria, professors, had been working on / | |  | | Inheritance
She risked everything to save a life…
But who would save hers?
Vietnamese-American Victoria Nguyen, seventeen, flees to England with a powerful secret…and a determined senator on her trail.br />
Madeleine Seymour, a history professor, and her husband, Jack, a retired wine broker, travel from San Francisco to London to purchase property for a children’s home—and find much more than land at stake.br />
Brother Cristoforo, a black Franciscan from the Seymours’ Quattro Coronati orphanage in Rome, wrestles with demons of his past and present.br />
Woven through the mists | |  | | Offerings
Jack’s haunted by fears of the past.
Madeleine holds a powerful secret.
And Rachelle is running away.
Set in the breathtaking beauty of France, the characters travel to Lourdes, Rocamadour, Crillon-le-Brave, Vence, Lerins, Lyons, Vezeley, Reims and Paris.
For the last seventeen years, her husband, Jack, and son, Justin, have been Madeleine Seymour’s world. Then, during Justin’s wedding re-ception, Jack collapses. Jack needs surgery, and he insists it be performed by the doctor who perfected the procedure. But the doctor isn’t reachable, and time is running out.br />
Dr. Rachelle DuPres, plagued by memories of a deadly failure, flees America to search out her roots in her ancestral village in Provence, France. But as she tries to locate the graves of her Catholic uncles and her Jewish parents, will their rol | |  | | Pilgrimage
Madeleine Seymour will never forget what happened twenty-two years ago in her own backyard. Riddled with guilt and hoping to banish haunting nightmares, she travels to Italy with her husband on a pilgrimage. As a history professor, Madeleine is fascinated by the churches they visit in Rome, Orvieto, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Siena, Cortona, Assisi…and what she learns from the
lives of the martyrs. But can she find peace?
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="3">font face="Times New Roman">span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> /span>Many years after her baby girl drowned in a wading pool, nightmares of guilt and grief return to haunt history professor Madeleine Seymour, forty-nine.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>Her old friend and priest, Father Rinaldi, prescribes a pilgrimage through Italy, stopping at selected churches, praying for healing, and keeping a journal.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>Whe | |  | | The Fire Trail
Set at UC Berkeley, four characters struggle with today's threats to free speech, freedom of religion, rule of law, and the collapse of Western civilization as they seek peace, truth, transcendence, beauty, and faith.
span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">UC Berkeley grad student Jessica Thierry walks the Fire Trail in the hills and witnesses a rapist-murderer leave the scene. Fearing for her life, she tries to focus on her doctorate about Christianity's role in Berkeley's history./span>
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Ten years ago a gunman opened fire
in a parking lot, killing her parents.
No one ever found out why.
But a trip to Rome might reveal the deadly reasons.
span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 11.4pt; text-align: justify;">Thirty-year-old Kelly Roberts receives a mysterious envelope after the death of her godfather, director of a news service dedicated to exposing media lies, summoning her to Rome for a promising legacy. After losing her job, Kelly, a single parent, fears for herself and her five-year-old son. She could sure use the money implied in her godfather’s letter, but she can’t afford to go to Rome, she can’t leave Matt, and she can’t take him with her. Even stranger, |
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Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
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 Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
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 What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti |
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