The British have landed...again In this heartfelt coming of age story, Ole Charlie, the club's Guardian Angel since the Book of Charlie narrates another adventure. This one with an international twist. The Pompey Hollow Book Club novels are lighthearted nostalgia about growing up in the heart and the shadows of WWII. The club started when they were all nine, just after the War - and, truth be known, it had little to do with books. The name was a convenience to their club of valor, enabling them to get out of the house for club meetings - even on school nights. Mary Crane has been the club president since 1949 - primarily because she could spell, and hit a home run. Now they are all teens. Antil takes pride in the historic detail of his backdrops - researching the War years and early 1950s rural America - times he grew up in. Many of the main characters are real. The adventures get taller with the telling but they have accurate roots in the times and foundations in truth. The War that killed seventy million people presented in an interesting way so as to encourage a better understanding among today's young adult - making a point we mustn't forget this War and its heroes. In this adventure - book three in the series - we find Mary Crane overseeing the club's volunteering to do the chores for poor old Farmer Parker's farm - watching over his team of horses and some milking cows - bringing the hay down into the barn while he's bedridden with a badly sprained back. In doing so a biplane giving State Fair plane rides goes off course and nearly crashes on his farm. Rushing to the pilot's rescue, the club members unwittingly step into their most spirited adventure yet - this time a need to out trick a professional pickpocket at the State Fair who happens to be in a traveling Sherlock Holmes Players company from England. Jerome Mark Antil is the seventh child of a seventh son - of a seventh son. Born at sunrise it's been told by Mary Holman Antil and Michael C. Antil Sr., that he was the first of eight siblings to stay awake all day and sleep through the night from the moment he was born. "My dad was a baker from the 1929 Great Depression through the post-War 1950s. As a young boy, I'd ride with him all throughout central and northern New York visiting grocers and U.S. Army bases; baseball parks and bread lines as he sold his bread, hot dog buns, pies and cakes. My Dad was 'Big Mike' and I loved listening to his timeless stories and tall tales - stopping at fishing holes along the way. All day rides with Big Mike - his Buick my Steamboat - his grand stories and an entire world at War my Mississippi."
Автор: Antil Jerome Mark Название: The Book of Charlie ISBN: 0989304434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780989304436 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2476.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Selected as one of two best novels for the year - 5 Star Review. Author of this series is being compared to Mark Twain. It's a coming of age story beginning with a summer vacation, climaxing on a full moonlit Halloween night. They're teens now - and their club president, Mary Crane, decides to follow her teacher's suggestion of getting a Pen Pal for the summer. She writes to a boy her mother had read about in the newspaper - a Pennsylvania lad. He writes back. As the summer unfolds one of the teens is witness to a crime in progress. Innocently the young Pen Pal to the club's president unwittingly helps them not only solve the mystery of just who the crooks are but they also solve what turns out to be an unresolved military mystery dating back to the War and still lingering in the shadows of the D-Day invasion. Was it coincidence that Mary's Pen Pal just happens to be a grandson of the president of the United States? It's more than a Halloween story, it's a history book. It might be to today's chronicles of the past what Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was in 1884. With a backdrop of rural life and times as they were in 1953 this novel reawakens our faded memory and colorfully illustrates two vanishing landmarks, both epics of an American culture and world history. The family farm for one and sad as it may be, the fleeting memories of the pivotal D-Day Invasion under Supreme Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower - the other. Without either we could have lost the War. This novel brings them both back to life in absorbing detail - it's a fable with a solid footing of the times for the tale's lasting cultural relevance. It all happened amidst five country towns, a few villages and hamlets where more than sixty five family farms were busy raising children, apples, corn, and wheat, and - all told - milking about 3,200 cows.
Автор: Antil, Jerome Mark Название: One more last dance ISBN: 0997180269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997180268 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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One More Last Dance is a compelling story about the power of friendship, one that develops between two men through an unlikely road trip.
Peckerwood Finch has a lot going against him. The 25-year-old Cajun man was abandoned at birth by his parents, endured abusive foster parents, is illiterate, and there's his name--an unflattering term for a rural white Southerner. Fortunately, he's affectionately known as Peck (his given name is Boudreaux Clement Finch). Peck is a fisherman and mows the grass at a small hospice on a Louisiana bayou. There he meets Gabriel "Gabe" Jordan, an elderly African American man dying of cancer whose final wish is to attend the Newport Jazz Festival. Despite his own shortcomings, Peck is determined to make Gabe's dream come true.
The new friends hit the road only to be stymied by, among other things, a lack of funds and Peck's poor sense of direction. At times, guardian angels come to their rescue, including a wealthy real estate broker who offers to buy airline tickets, among many other generosities. But Peck has no form of identification and must travel by bus while Gabe flies. The bulk of the story then concerns Peck's adventures en route.
Описание: Jim Crow is discovered by Jerry during a trip into the south in 1953. Not only does he see the light and become more aware of life around him, he experiences one of the most important missions he would likely ever be faced with in his lifetime. WWII veteran pilots come to the rescue for a helpless young girl in Arkansas. The message in this historic novel should stand alone, and it will stand the tests of time as it is inspired by what actually happened to Jerry's heart while visiting Little Rock as a youth, and how it affected his heart as an author. For Tall Jerry the lad and Jerome Mark, the author, this Thanksgiving week's life experience, was chilling and heartwarming...and the adventure it spawned that went on through Christmas will never be forgotten.
Описание: Tall Jerry and his friends grope with puberty while grappling with saving a down and out WWII air corps hero from a near death experience. The friends come together once again, and backed by the communities around them, they bring a criminal to justice. Showing the examples of what rural life was in the '50s, Jerry and his friends step up to help a disabled neighbor, unable to work his farm for a spell. Based on a true story, this adventure fleshes out what D-Day was like to the paratrooper - and what the blitz to the young Brits in England.
Автор: Antil Jerome Mark Название: The Delphi Falls Trilogy ISBN: 1735307637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735307633 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3304.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In 1953, the memories of the war were fading but not gone. The kids that stuck together like
glue through the shadows of the war, are now coming of age, growing like weeds with a summer vacation
starting before they become Freshman in high school. They're dealing with growing pains of the body
and mind - and they reconnect at the cemetery in the late spring just to catch up. Little did they know they
(and you) were in for a year not soon forgotten. Truth be told this is pretty much how it all happened...
this is how times were in the day. Book One - Summer Vacation - Book Two - A Halloween Caper -
Book Three - a Thanksgiving to Christmas adventure proving that Black Lives Matter to the
Pompey Hollow Book Club.
Автор: Antil Jerome Mark Название: The Long Stem is in the Lobby ISBN: 1735307629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735307626 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2476.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Imagine a world at war. Cities and countries wiped off the face of the earth. It happened. Imagine kids getting through it dreaming of white Christmases, of falling in love and living happily ever after. That happened too. These same kids invented Elvis Presley, Rock and Roll, tail fins for cars and the panty girdle. They invented the Hula Hoop, EZ Bake Ovens and the bikini...why they even landed on and walked around on the moon. Nothing to it.
Their first loves were harder. Meet a forties child Jerry. Jerry's rose colored glasses came off in the '60s, he came of age, forgot he was just a kid and conquered marketing. Hollywood couldn't have written it better, and it's true.
"Just finished the book and I am simply staggered at how good it is. The story is engrossing and speaks to what every man has lived in his own life. It is a profound work. It is at its root a story of growth and passage. Passage from youth to maturity. All of us have had a similar experience but you have memorialized it into a beautiful narrative. There have been two comparable works for me personally. J. D. Salinger s epic, A Catcher in the Rye as I became a teenager and a movie I brought to the screen in the 1980 s: Stand by Me directed by Rob Reiner and written by Stephen King. Both made a profound impact on me and shed insight and light on my own life and evolution. Now, I must add a third leg to this group: The Long Stem is in the Lobby. It is that good. Thank you for making our times together a part of this wonderful work. I am honored. Congratulations my friend. I am glad that you have been and are in my life. Pete"
Peter S. Sealey (Past president of Columbia Pictures)
Автор: Antil Fred Название: A Lincoln Treasure Trove ISBN: 1087895820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781087895826 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cicero said, "In history nothing is sweeter than pure and clear brevity." A Lincoln Treasure Trove uses clarity and brevity to present many amazing facts and stories.
"A Lincoln Treasure Trove...is a delightful book...The conversational style adds to the comfort of the reading experience...suitable for all ages...I recommend this book. It is not a heavy, scholarly tome but rather an interesting and entertaining read."
-Dick Sakulich, INTELLIGENCER COURIER
"What is especially fascinating about this new book is how different it is from the usual history book...I recommend you read this book and enjoy...new appreciation for one of our most interesting presidents."
-Jean Brenner, BUCKS COUNTY HERALD
"This reviewer has also spent over 25 years studying the 16th President...the book is full of surprises and new revelations...you will say "I didn't know that" or "I forgot about that"...a welcome addition to the Lincoln scholar's library and a wonderful gift...whether a true Lincoln scholar, or to know more about our greatest President...I recommend it."
-Hugh Boyle, THE BOOK NOOK
"...my first thought was that the world really didn't need another book about our 16th President, but the world was ready for this book. There are a lot of, 'I didn't know that' moments...It's filled with quick-read stories, some you know-or think you do-some you never dreamed happened."
-Ted Taylor, MEDIA NEWS GROUP
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