Beds

Stevenson, Wade

McCall Pub. Co

During the mid-1950s, winds of change encircled the globe. In postwar America it was a time of peace and hope, a time of rebuilding, with a resurgence of love for country and family. Elsewhere, all was not so quiet and tranquil. Much of Europe was still recovering from the horrors and destruction of WWII. Old Masters paintings and other priceless objets d’art were stolen from victims of the Reich and secretly stored in mines and vaults all over Germany. Many of those hiding places were discovered after the war—many remain hidden—even today. 
One in particular, the Salzdorf Wellspring was the richest and most magnificent of them all. Even at death's doorstep wearing an immaculate uniform with the coveted Iron Cross next to his heart, the Führer’s last thought was of the single richest collection of art and wealth ever collected—his Salzdorf Wellspring. 
Years later Karl Miller stood where Hitler himself once walked in that secret mine amidst vast treasure. Miller also wore an impeccable uniform with the German Iron Cross next to his heart. He too was possessed by the same evil, sadistic and murderous ways of the Führer. But there was one important difference. Miller wore the uniform of a Captain in the United States Air Force.

The Salzdorf Wellspring

Literature & Fiction

Loveland Pr

Back From War: Finding Hope and Understanding In Life After Combat is the harrowing narrative of 1st Lt. Lee Alley and his year in the horrors of combat in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam from 1967-1968 and his reflections on the years since. Additionally, it is the true accounts of twelve other contributors, their time at war and stories of their return home. All of them discuss feelings of maladjustment, loneliness, depression, bouts of PTSD and negative family repercussions that are similarly felt by many of our nation's veterans of foreign wars. 
Lee Alley made a life for himself, but never spoke of his war experiences. Thirty-two years later, he and his "brothers-in-arms" began to reconnect and have recently begun to heal some of their suffering by gathering at veteran reunions. Lee Alley's message is clear: America's soldiers are forever changed, but they are never alone. 
Back From War is dedicated to all veterans and their families as a guide for the readjustment to civilian life.

Back from War: Finding Hope & Understanding In Life After Combat

History

Alley, Lee

Military

Exceptional Pub

The Electric Affinities A Novel by Wade Stevenson The Electric Affinities examines the interior lives and motives of six affluent, artistic friends as they struggle to find love and meaning in the summer of 1969, “the year that changed everything.” Set in the Hamptons and New York City, the novel brilliantly captures the decadent, freedom-loving lifestyles of characters trapped in a “prison of opulence.” Andre, a film director with a volatile temper and Robert, a romantic, yet self-absorbed, Vietnam War veteran, are obsessed with the enigmatic Maya, a former Vogue model; free-spirited Carolina, seeks solace in a quest for spiritual transcendence while her own relationship crumbles; French-born Louise sacrifices her own dreams in a self-appointed role as Maya’s protector; and Ben, the older, wildly successful architect, avoids confronting his own loneliness as he fills his Sag Harbor home with lovely, yet broken souls. The paths these characters take mirror the disillusionment inherent in the late ‘60’s, as they turn inward in a quest for self-understanding that presages the attitudes of the “Me Generation” of the 1970s. The Electric Affinities encompasses the excitement of youth, sexual freedom, mistakes, and ultimate losses that lead to the sober awakening from a dreamlike existence to a clear-eyed understanding of the realities of life.

The Electric Affinities

Literary

BlazeVOX Books

These 103 poems explore grief, loneliness, thoughts and memories arising from lost love. As he’s done in previous collections, Stevenson (Moon Talk, 2016) pays close attention to the particularities of losing a beloved, finding a range of images to portray each gradation of feeling. “The most beautiful body is the absent one / The most beautiful night is the absent sun.” Stevenson offers some striking and effective images for romantic love… These poems effectively convey heartbreak’s anguish.”  — Kirkus Reviews   Left. There is the absence There is the wound the shock, the rage, the disbelief and the grief and more for the sinking, suffering heart. In these poems, Wade Stevenson realistically surrounds the departed love with his private raw emotions and with the most wonderful metaphors, fantastic in fact, and with them the poet in his craft knits his hurt into poetry.  — Michael Basinski   Many poems and poetry collections focus on the presence of love, but “The Absence Of The Loved” is about that aftermath where love is gone, poetically describing the void left behind, and what happens when transformation and change confront a relationship: “This morning we were born for something else.” However, this book is not just about loss. In the end, the poet transfigures his loss into a vibrant, radiant presence. The young woman that he loved becomes a symbol for “the loved.” In the gorgeous final poem, “You and You Again,” the circle is closed, there is no more absence — what remains is Amor.  — D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review   “Stevenson’s poems, sometimes tender, sometimes an unnerving evisceration of the heart, explore the cost of loving too deeply, the things one loses to love, and the parts that are left to him when that love has vanished. “The Absence Of The Loved” is both love lost and love redeemed. Tissue required.”  —P.J. Lazos, author of Oil and Water

The Absence Of The Loved

Poetry

In the Country of the Peregrine

The Departure Sonatas

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