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|  | | Anselm, a Metamorphosis
Vain young professor Eric Behrens curses the world and wishes he were someone else. He falls and wakes in the body of a middle-aged, overweight Benedictine monk with a severe heart defect. He must survive somehow as he tries to "go home again."
| |  | | Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross
The year: 1731. Three Franciscan missions struggle to establish themselvs on the San Antonio River despite Apache raids. Missionary Fray Marcos and an Apache woman warrior, Ahuila, fall in love. They must work out their fate in the face of cultural conflicts and prejudices.
Chapter One
Her first raid as an Apache woman warrior!
Ahuila smiled in spite of her intense concentration. None of the ten in her father's raiding party knew she was there, least of all Naiche, her father. He'd ordered her to stay behind with the rest of the tribe. Raids were too dangerous, he insisted, though he'd been her trainer. Of course he'd say that—she was the last member of his family and he loved her—but a father could love too much, for too long. She'd seen sixteen summers and was ready to take her slain brother's place. Besides, this raid was far less dangerous | |  | | Before the Alamo, a Tejana's Story
Emilia Altamirano, illegitimate daughter of a Royalist officer and an Otomi Indian mother, rejected by her father, becomes a ward of Jose Antonio Navarro. She nurses the wounded at the Alamo Battle and survives to face an uncertain future.
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margin-left:.3in">span style="font-size: small;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Emilia Altamirano, half Otomí Indian, half pure Spanish, is born in 1814, the year after the Battle of the Medina River, where her father fought as an officer in the Mexican Royalist Army. She grows up in Bexar de San Antonio unacknowledged by her father, raised by her Otomí Indian mother, and “adopted” as an unofficial ward by José Antonio Navarro, h | |  | | Dolet
Etienne Dolet, 16th-century publisher, was an outspoken free-thinker persecuted and ultimately burned on his 37th birthday by the French Inquisition.
i>Dolet /i>depicts the life and times of Etienne Dolet, who told the bald truth to friend and foe alike, angered the city authorities in sixteenth-century Toulouse, fled to Lyon, and became a publisher of innovative works on language, history and theology. He was persecuted, imprisoned, and ultimately executed by the Inquisition on his 37th birthday for daring to publish the Bible in French translation as well as works suggesting needed reforms in the Roman Church. | |  | | Seven Cities of Mud
1581: 3 Franciscans and 9 soldiers set out to evangelize the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande, but the soldiers make prisoners of the priests and begin a gold hunt--with tragic consequences.
Two radically different cultures, 16th-century Spanish and ancient Pueblo Indian, collide. Franciscan Fray Agustín Rodriguez leads an expedition to evangelize the Pueblo Indians of the Río Grande. The group totals thirty-one people: three Franciscans, nine soldiers and nineteen servants. The Franciscans persuade Poli, a widowed Pueblo woman, to be their guide. She consents in order to escape a forced marriage to a warrior she suspects of having murdered her husband. The soldiers mutiny, taking charge and making prisoners of the Franciscans. The expedition becomes a gold | |  | | Seven Cities of Mud
1581: Franciscan Fray Agustin Rodriguez leads an expedition to evangelize the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande. He persuades Poli, a widowed Pueblo woman, to be their guide, but Captain Chamuscado takes charge, makes prisoners of the Franciscans, and begins to seek gold. Conflicts and passions explode: love and faith oppose anger, brutality, hatred, lust, greed and ambition, with tragic results.
| |  | | Sonora Moonlight
New Spain (Mexico), 1762: Father Ygnacio, S.J., struggles to keep his mission Indians from being blamed for the murder by beheading and crucifixion of an Irish rancher.
span style="font-size: small;">This book was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in independent publishing in 2009. It was first published under title "I'll Come to Thee by Moonlight" in 2002, rewritten and republished by Twilight Times Books in 2009. It is available as an e-book, for Kindle and Nook. See my website under Media for complete reviews. /span>
| |  | | Sonora Wind
Sonora, New Spain (Mexico), 1766-67: Father Ygnacio, S.J., investigates the murder of an army captain whose death is blamed on the local missionary. The pursuit involves a beautiful widow, Ygnacio's capture by and escape from Apaches, and discovery of illegitimate gun-running by a high Jesuit official. The murder is solved during the Expulsion of all Jesuits from new Spain in 1767.
span style="font-size: small;">A full description of this book is available at my website (below). It was originally published in 2002 under title "Sonora Wind, Ill Wind." It was rewritten and republished by Twilight Times Books in 2009, and was an Indie Book Awards Next Generation Finalist in 2010 in Historical Fiction, and won the New Mexico Book Award in the category Historical Fiction. The book is an e-book, available on Kindle and Nook../span>
| |  | | The Storks of La Caridad
Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, a missionary from the Sonora Desert in northern Mexico, is caught in the Expulsion of all Jesuits in 1767. After enduring eight years of prison and abuse, he is incarcerated in La Caridad Monastery where the abbot recruits him to help solve two murders. In the course of his investigations, Father Ignaz finds his own life in peril.
Chapter I: Limbo
I am a priest. I am a Jesuit.
These words help me remember; help me believe. I've repeated them throughout my eight years of prison and pain, more so these past four sweltering days in this dusty coach. My wrists aren't infected yet, but surely my ankles are. With each jolt of these iron-shod wheels on the rough road, the manacles and leg irons cut deeper into my flesh, tormenting me.
We're four days north of Cádiz and its prison at the Port of Santa María. My next prison, the monastery of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad, Our Lady of Charity, is not far | |  | | Unrest in Eden
Father Ignaz (Ygnacio) Pfefferkorn, ex-S.J., released after 10 years in Spanish prison, begs his way across France to his home in the Rhineland. He arrives in Unkel-on-the-Rhineto find factional strife and murder in his hoped-for paradise. He is recruited to solve the crime, placing himself in mortal danger.
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