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Voices from the Heart
Coming out of high school, Alan Paige could only dream of college. The family is in a hole living on his father's unemployment, his mother's job at a school library, his sister's part-time at a fast-food, and his $6.50 an hour as a gofer in a golf course. As a test of his academic credential from the top three of his class, he applies for admission at GWU and is accepted. Tony Feller, a part-time co-worker at the links and a kind-hearted friend, is deeply troubled to see him and his family struggling to claw their way out of their hole, especially when Alan tells him about his college admission. There has to be a way, he swears to himself, to get him out of that hole. The way presents itself...
Ordinary Lives: A Journey Through America
He is a naturalized U.S. citizen, born in the Philippines eleven months before the Japanese invaded the country December 8, 1941 hours after Pearl Harbor. He survived the war and lived there till the age of twenty-four. In July 1965, two weeks after college, he ventured on a journey to America with a tourist visa and two hundred dollars in his pocket. He is now a retired U.S. Federal employee in the D.C. Capital area and has finally found time to finish this memoir, an autobiographical novel, recounting the first 21-year period of that journey: 1965-1986. * Ordinary Lives: A Journey Through America, is a newcomer's story of the unveiling of America, an illustration of a discovery, of an imag...
Official Gazette
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Being Here
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The Message
A disgruntled federal worker with top-secret clearance decides to get even with his bosses by selling critical security data to America's enemies, resulting in horrifying consequences to the U.S. Government. It also brings into play Omar Husain, a faceless, nameless master terrorist, known only by the FBI code-name Saladin. Consumed by hatred the day he lost his entire family including Kamilah, his fianceé, in southern Lebanon during the '82 Arab-Israeli war, he commits himself to the Jihad. Out of the ruins of his life, he carries a relic of his love for Kamilah whose mother is a Christian--a copy of the Holy Bible. A quarter of a century before, Sister Caterina, an Italian nun on a missio...
Government Gazette
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Being Here
Nicholas, at twelve years old, came to the U.S. with his family. He learned what was fact and fable about America, and then some. A black man, a well-educated fellow engineer, tells him: "I do not believe in integration, because it is unnatural, and wrong." At a park bench, he tells a homeless man who was once a member of the middle-class and who, through circumstances, became an acquaintance: "You were born and raised here. Many people throughout the world could only wish that had happened to them. What happened to you?" "Everybody has a different story," the bum tells him. "You have an America to go to. I don't. I'm already here!" A natural-born American of Japanese descent confessed to hi...
Music and Exile in Francoist Spain
The Spanish Republican exile of 1939 impacted music as much as it did literature and academia, with well-known figures such as Adolfo Salazar and Roberto Gerhard forced to leave Spain. Exile is typically regarded as a discontinuity - an irreparable dissociation between the home country and the host country. Spanish exiled composers, however, were never totally cut off from the musical life of Francoist Spain (1939-1975), be it through private correspondence, public performances of their work, honorary appointments and invitations from Francoist institutions, or a physical return to Spanish soil. Music and Exile in Francoist Spain analyses the connections of Spanish exiled composers with thei...
MR and MS Stories
Four endearing short novels that bring the silent tears and then the smiles and laughter to wipe them dry. ***Mr Catholic - Young man from a mixed-bag family of nominal, devout, practical RC's wrestles with human nature and the Church.Ms Have-It-All - A plain Jane has a face-lift then turns the table on everybody in the old hometown, lays waste to social and sexual decorum. Mr Practical - A cerebral macho uses pure logic in his relationships without realizing he is doing so to hide his feelings.Ms Biological Clock - Woman capitulates to singlehood but beats the clock. Women's contemporary issues, mostly men and motherhood. ***
Duck People
Nine captivating stories that reach out into the heart and mind, baring some of our most feared and most fulfilling emotions alike, each one told with unrelenting frankness and realism. Among them ... Duck People. Career crises in middle-class Washington bureaucrat life. Humor and social criticism. Charlie Joe. GI-Joe/native-boy story during WWII. Explores cultural and historical issues. Friends. Singles life, the ravages of contemporary man-woman relationship. An illustration of current values in leisure-based lifestyles and the pursuit of commitment. Alice. Divorce, loss of self-esteem, ego-bust. A detailed look into a frightful descent to self-destruction from one's loneliness in society. Louis. Middle-age anxiety, social dislocation, humor. From a man's point of view. Basement People. Young black woman faces challenge to do better than her elder generation. Personal character and human values set in Washington bureaucracy.
