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|  | | A Jury of His Peers
George Andrews, young, married textbook salesman who lives in the suburbs with his wife and two children, is accused of raping and murdering a 15-year-old schoolgirl. He is tried for the crime, not only by a jury of his peers in the courtroom, but by the jury of his friends and neighbors. Is he guilty? What do you think? You are the third jury.
George Andrews, a textbook salesman in his mid-thirties, lives in the suburbs with a lovely wife, two small children who love and adore him, and wonderful friends and neighbors. One day a horrible crime takes place. A young high school girl of fifteen is raped and murdered in the woods adjacent to the school. George was in the school, selling textbooks, at the time the crime took place. Circumstantial evidence points to him as the perpetrator. Is he guilty? Friends and neighbors, even his wife, become part of the jury that tries him before the trial in the courtroom can even take place. In the | |  | | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Adapted by Joseph Cowley
For ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder series, or for anyone else who wants a faster, easier read.
| |  | | Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (Adapted by Joseph Cowley)
For ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder series, or for anyone who wants a faster, easier read.
| |  | | Dust Be My Destiny
An agent provocateur for the CIA is caught up in the fight of a band of rebels determined to overthrow the dictator of their Central American country.
The central figure of DUST BE MY DESTINY is Michael Reles, agent provocateur for the CIA. The novel moves with relentless passion as Reles and his sidekick, Pancho Gonzales, are caught up in the swift action of a band of rebels determined to overthrow the tyrant who rules his country with an iron hand. While the country and characters are stricly imaginary, the vivid writing makes the scenery and the people compulsively alive.
Among the main characters are: Michael, a divorced man whose ideals force him into continues danger as he battles to free an oppressed people; Pancho, a hot-tem | |  | | Home by Seven
In HOME BY SEVEN Joseph Cowley, author of the sensitive and moving novel THE CHRYSANTHEMUM GARDEN, applies his unique talents to capture the story of a man on a "lost weekend" at the moment his life is coming unraveled, and what happens, seventeen years later, when it finally does.
This novel took first place in a contest for unpublished novels by Tupelo Press.
The central figure in HOME BY SEVEN is Charlie Stoddard, husband, father, commuter, and managing editor of Business Publications, Inc., whose life starts coming apart when he is inadvertently responsible for the death of a fellow editor. The novel begins with a black humor which gradually fades as Charlie is caught up in the swirl of events caused by his drinking.
The novel takes place over a five day period in November 1963, a few weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy. The scenes a | |  | | John Adams
A Brief Life for the Young Adult Reader
This is a work in progress, which I hope to have in print by the end of this year. Length: 40-45,000 words. | |  | | Lndscape with Figures
LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES is the story of a family struggling to survive on a dairy farm in upstate New York during the Great Depression and how, despite their defects of character, love enables them to endure and ultimately prevail against defeat.
This novel placed eighth out of the ten top winners in a nationwide contest for unpublished novels.
Joe Williams gives up his secure job as a policemen to take over, with the help of his family (wife, father, and two sons), a bankrupt dairy farm in upstate New York during the height of the Great Depression. This is the story of their struggle to survive. Told from the viewpoints of the various characters involved, it begins with the recollections of twelve-year-old Tracy.
| |  | | The Aspern Papers by Henry James (Adapted by Joseph Cowley)
A bibliophile seems the papers of a famous dead poet he believes are held by an old woman who was once his lover.
A great novellas by American author Henry James. | |  | | The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (Adapated by Joseph Cowley)
For ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder series, or for anyone else who wants a faster, easier read.
| |  | | The Chrysanthemum Garden
Originally published in hard cover by Simon & Schuster, this is a novel about two mature humans given a second chance at love. The story of their life together is so transcendently beautiful reading it is like an act of liberation and deliverance, from the cares of this life and from the fears of aging and death. It will stir your feelings and imagination, taking you on a journey into the human heart you will never forget.
The Chrysanthemum Garden was originally published in hard-cover by Simon & Schuster. It is a novel about two people, so real, so authentic, so totally realized that as we watch them fall in love we feel we are finally being permitted to enter the magic kingdom of the human heart. Morna Franklin and Denison McArdle are not adolescent, romantic stick figures, but mature humans who bear the scars, defeats, resignation and triumphs that come from having lived full lives. But neither is, nor could ever be, prepared for the moment of unexpected grace that wrenches them from the lives they assumed th | |  | | The Executive Strategist
An armchair guide to scientific decision-making
A classic in its field, THE EXECUTIVE STRATEGIST is a down-to-earth guide to the techniques of scientific decision-making known as Operations Research or Management Science for busy executives and managers as well as the general reader. It suggests ways to solve basic problems involving inventory ("When is enough enough?"), competition ("How to tackle a smart opponent"), allocating resources ("Meeting the demand"), waiting lines ("Quicken the queue"),getting things done ("Concepts of control"), and search, information, and replacement ("The needle in the haystack"), plus problems in other area | |  | | The Golden Bowl by Henry James (Adapted by Joseph Cowley)
For ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder series,or for anyone else who wants a faster, easier read.
| |  | | The House on Huntington Hill
THE HOUSE ON HUNTINGTON HILL is about J. Pierson Grenville, a wealthy old man who has discovered the secret to eternal life by persuading specially "gifted" young men to give him their bodies, and the attempts of Jack and Doris Oliver to prevent him from claiming their son David.
| |  | | The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Adapted by Joseph Cowley)
For ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder series, or for anyone else who wants a faster, easier read.
| |  | | The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories
The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is a collection, arranged chronologically, about love at all ages, from teenage to nonage.
THE NIGHT BILLY WAS BORN AND OTHER LOVE STORIES is about love sat all ages: the passionate affair of two teenagers; the delicate relationships between a brother and sister, their cousin, and their adoptive aunt and her dead husband; the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman, and her love for an older man; the love of a husband and his pregnant wife under straitened circumstances; and extra-marital affair between a divorced, unemployed writer and a beatiful woman he meets in Alcoholics Anonymous; the unexpected love of a married woman in her fifties for another woman | |  | | The Portait of a Lady by Henry James, adapted by Joseph Cowley for ESL
The Portrait if a Lady by Henry James --adapted by Joseph Cowley for an easier, faster read, and for ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder word series.
This is probably Henry James' most accomplished novel. Also available as an adaptation: The Aspern Papers and The Golden Bowl. | |  | | The Stargazers
The basis for this play is the conflict between the astronomers Tycho Brahe andJohannes Kepler for the secrets of the solar system (the world as it was then considered).
The planetary observations of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)provide the data upon which Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) will later base his famous three laws accurately describing the revolutions of the planets around the sun. The play's conflict stems not only from Kepler's urgent need for Tycho's observations to prove his theories, and Tycho's equally urgent desire not to share them before he can use them, with Kepler's help, to prove his own, but also from the utterly different characters of the two men. Kepler is an advocate of the Copernican sun-centered system, Tycho of the Pt | |  | | Twin Bill: I Love You, I Love You\My Life With Women
Two brief plays tied together by their themes of love and lust.
TWIN BILL consists of two plays tied together by their themes of love and lust in mature men and women. In "I Love You, I Love You" and out-of-work writer and a married woman meet and fall in love in Alcoholics Anonymous. Through an anguished affair they learn a valuable lesson in spiritual growth and responsibility. In "My Life With Women," an unusual drama of the absurd, a lustful old man is visited by the ghosts and memories of the many women he has loved over a lifetime. | |  | | Washington Square by Henry James (Adapted by Joseph Cowley for ESL students
A young spurns a heiress when marrying her would mean she would lose a major part of her inheritance. Years later, when this is no longer the case, he resumes the courtship; but this time she spurns him.
This is the entire short novel, revised for ESL students reading at level 4 of the Ladder word series. Nothing is missing, merely the inherent verbosity of Henry James, which has resulted in a better book than the original book Henry James wrote. |
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I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
by Aberjhani
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 I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of |
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