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A historical novel is a novel in
which the story is set among historical events, or more generally,
in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the
author. As such, the historical novel is distinguished from the
alternate-history genre. The historical novel was popularized in
the 19th century by artists classified as Romantics. Many regard
Sir Walter Scott as the first to have used this technique, in his
novels of Scottish history such as
Waverley
(1814) and Rob Roy
(1818). His Ivanhoe
(1820) gains credit for renewing interest in the Middle Ages.
Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of
Notre Dame (1831) furnishes
another early example of the historical novel.
Historical fiction may center on historical or on fictional characters, but
usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research (or at
least serious reading) to tell a story set in the historical past as
understood by the author's contemporaries. Those historical settings may not
stand up to the enhanced knowledge of later historians.
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A PROMISE FROM ETERNITY
(A Sequel to Jonathan's
Tears)
by
Greg Nepini
Jonathan Morris is haunted by visions of his
wife's death at the hands of invading British soldiers near the end
of the Revolutionary War. He vows to prevent it from happening and
sets out on a mission that will bring him face to face with the
horrors of war. Amy Morris recounts her husband's fateful journey as
she struggles to make sense of what has happened. Promise From
Eternity is a story about undying love, the cost of war, and a
promise of eternal happiness.
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THE SUM OF IT ALL: THE BETRAYAL
by
The
Silver Fox
Second World
War has ended and Albert’s family has successfully escaped from
the Soviet army, as well as the Russian zone as it was being
established according to the Yalta agreement.
Albert has
developed a new cancer and while receiving one of his chemo
treatments, he drifts into his now familiar dream where he
recalls his family’s past existence since getting out of Nazi
Germany.
Through many
trials and tribulations, the family manages to reach the US zone and
find a DP ‘Displaced Persons’ United Nations camp, as far as they
could get from the borders of the Russian zone.
They enjoy one
happy and calm year in Wiesbaden under the protection of UNRRA. However, the screening commission makes a tragic error while trying
to uncover any collaborators or persons that don’t fit the
classification of DP’s. To make matters worse, the commission
arrogantly refuses to admit its error or conduct a review. The
family is then expelled from the protection of the UN and thrown
back to the post war German authority. Meanwhile The German Red
Cross tries to reject them and absolve itself of responsibility for
them, but the family appeals to the UN to clear their name so that
they can be returned to its protection under the Charter.
Meanwhile they
are transported via a cattle car to a German make-shift ex prisoner
of war camp where again they endure lack of food and warmth from the
extreme cold of the 1946–47 winter.
The liberation
of Europe has not proven to be the relief from their misery that
they had anticipated.
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JONATHAN'S TEARS
by
Greg Nepini
Legend has it
that Moll Dyer was accused of witchcraft and burned out of her
house on a cold winter night by an angry mob. A young boy found
her alone in the woods a few days later, frozen to death and
kneeling on a stone. Her ghost is said to be a malevolent spirit
that walks the land to this day and causes misfortune for anyone
who happens upon her.
What if the story
behind the legend is wrong?
Jonathan's Tears offers
another possibility for how the legend came to be. It is the
touching story of a mother's sacrifice and a young man's struggle to
save her from an unspeakable tragedy.
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THE APPLE TREE BOOK I: CREEKWOOD
GREEN
by
J.F. Bernard
It all began one quiet evening up on Lazy Hill
Road, at the Nickel Pig Saloon, that is… you know, down ‘round Creekwood Green? They were all there: Pete Liddle, the sheriff, Doc
Thiemann, Deacon Hoot, the mayor (of course). Jim Bob was there too;
and so was his little brother, Tater…. Well, he wasn’t really his
brother, but that doesn’t matter right now. Lil’ Tate was actually
somewhere down in Pete’s basement, playing in the stardust with his
new friend. They were rolling a stone back and forth as sound of
dynamite thundered in the near distance. It was a black stone, I
tell you.
And so sets the stage for CREEKWOOD GREEN, Book
One of THE APPLE TREE, a home-spun tale of historical
fiction/fantasy, western romance, mystery, intrigue, spiritual
awakening, pathos and humor, good and evil; a phantasmagorical
hayride into the soul and psyche of nineteenth century Americana, as
seen through the keen blue eyes of an ax-wielding pilgrim, Jim-Bob
Moses.
Exactly what is it he’s looking for anyway? It’s
not what he thinks, and certainly not what he wants. Not right now
anyway. But he’ll find out, eventually. They all do. It’ll take some
time, of course; it always does. But what’s the hurry? He’s still
young, strong and healthy. He’s got a good home, a job, and a lot of
friends. There’s plenty of work to do. Why, he’s the son of the
mayor, Buck Odie… well, sort of. Lives in the Red-house and
everything! Besides that, he’ll be married soon. Real soon! And
won’t that beat everything? And Founder’s Day is right around the
corner. They’ll be cornbrew and Ten-keg for everyone! What a great
day to be alive. Meanwhile, let’s get back to the saloon, shall we?
Look! Jim-Bob’s finished pouring the rounds and he’s just about
ready to make his big announcement. Listen…
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THE SUM OF IT ALL: THE DARKNESS
by
The
Silver Fox
‘The
Sum of It All, The Darkness’ continues the story of a small child
during the Second World War.
In the preceding novel: The Sum of It All: The Twilight,
The saga began with an old man dying of cancer in a
hospital. As he drifted in and out of a coma, he slipped back and
forth between the present reality and his past life. It began with
a child arriving in Dresden with his family after being deported by
the Nazis from his native land. His father was shipped in as a
‘volunteer’ to work in a furniture factory converted to the
manufacture of V-1 rocket nose cones assembled out of plywood and
toxic resins with other nationals brought in for that purpose.
In this thrilling conclusion,
the
family arrives in Dresden and both parents must work at his project
as directed by the authorities.
The boy soon becomes
aware about the realities of life under the repressive regime, but
still finds childish amusement with his brother during the constant
hunger and danger that is part of his everyday existence.
His nights are
continually plagued by a frightening dream/vision that he had when
he was very young all through the War and the bombing of Dresden.
The boy falls ill and
through the efforts of his parents as well as the bribing of certain
officials he’s clandestinely put into a hospital.
He’s declared dead by
a physician, but somehow is noticed by the attendant sent to take
him to the morgue that he’s still alive.
Strange coincidences
keep saving him from death through the holocaust of the city and
later during the battle at the Russian Front. Even though the old
man sees himself as a child in his comatose visions he’s also aware
that he already has lived through those events. Now in bed he must
relive the same events as when he was growing up, but in the context
of an adult’s mind and understanding.
The
Saga takes the reader through the child/man experiences to the end
of the war and the last gasping days of the Third Reich when staying
alive depended on luck, divine providence and the ability to bribe
the antagonists or friends.
It
concludes with the family escaping the Soviet army into the U.S.
Zone before the allies had set any definite lines of occupation.
Editor in Chief's
Note: After reading this enthralling and often heart rending
novel, I must say that it makes one pause to appreciate the freedoms
we have been blessed with here in the West in our time.
Freedom which we have always taken for granted, rarely stopping to
ask "At what price?"
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THE SUM OF IT ALL: THE
TWILIGHT
by
The Silver Fox
The Sum of It All-‘The Twilight’ is about a small child beginning to develop his awareness of the
world around him during the early days of the Second World War.
The saga begins with an old man dying of cancer
in a hospital.
As he drifts in and out of a coma, he slips back
and forth between the present reality and his past life. Now in
his last moments he relives the events, but in the context of an
adult’s mind and understanding.
In his unconsciousness during the hallucination
he melts back into the young boy that he once was in his formative
years.
A strange dream that he experienced so long ago
resurfaces during the stressful moments of his ordinary life.
It doesn’t take him long to lose his childhood
innocence when he comes in contact with a violent death and
experiences a new odd emotion. ’Hate’.
For the first time in his life during his trip to
Germany he comes in contact with bigotry and some dark secrets of
the Nazi regime.
The Saga takes the reader through the child/man
experiences during the Soviet invasion of his native land and
subsequent deportation to Nazi Germany and Dresden.
The realistic presentation, illustrates how such
events, can change a child’s character.
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THE
MIRACLE MAKER
[The Harlie Book IV]
by
J.F. Bernard
Leaving a troubled
past behind him, Elmo Cotton (along with his good friend and
neighbor, Mister Sherman Dixon) finally arrives at Old Port Fierce.
It is there, in the infamous city he hopes to find the so-called
‘Miracle-Maker’ who had deserted him and his mother so many years
ago, and kill him.
Inside an old
brown suitcase, along with a pair of ‘sailin’ shoes’ left to him by
his dead uncle, lies the Motherstone, the strange black object
Red-Beard had stolen from the dead man’s grave and Elmo brought back
down from the mountain the day he died. It is the key to not only a
deep, dark and disturbing past, but also a bright new future that
still lies an ocean away.
But before that can happen, Elmo, who is still very
much a fugitive from Justice and ‘Raccoon on the run’, becomes
involved in several incidences where fate and providence take over,
leading him not only to his penultimate destiny, but to MIRACLE
TEMPLE AND BARBECUE PIT OF AVENUE ‘D’ and the Miracle-Maker himself.
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A RACCOON ON THE RUN [The Harlie Book
III]
by
J.F. Bernard
In book three of the Harlie Series, ‘A
RACCOON ON THE RUN’, Elmo Cotton is forced, through a series of
unfortunate events which he still doesn’t quite understand, to make
the most difficult decision of his life. As the prime suspect in
the murder of Red-Beard ‘Rusty’ Horn (and possible seven other men),
and under the squinting eye of a sceptical sheriff, he leaves his
wife and child behind and becomes a fugitive from Justice; or, if
you prefer, a raccoon on the run.
Before he leaves, however, Elmo is given
some sound advice from his Uncle Joe, an old black sailor who dies
suddenly in his rocking chair one day shortly after he looks into
the mysterious Motherstone. He leaves his nephew with a few
intriguing hints of the past, a suitcase and a pair of ‘sailin
shoes’ which he hopes Elmo will find useful along the way.
The Harlie heads south, along with the
Motherstone, and before long finds himself living among a tribe of
ancient Redmen, or Indians, who promptly and for reasons that soon
become obvious, bestow upon him the coveted but sometimes precarious
title of ‘The Great Raccoon’ and demi-god deluxe! But he is not
alone; for ever since he ran away from home, the raccoon has been
stalked by someone who not only knows what really happened up on the
mountain when Red-Beard was killed, but moreover, what it is that
Elmo has brought back down with him, the Motherstone.
Coming to the sad
but inevitable conclusion that he is not a demi-god after all, and
still very much a raccoon on the run, Elmo continues his journey
south. Along the road, he comes across his best friend and neighbour,
Mister Sherman Dixon, another poor sharecropper from Elmo’s home
town who bears the uncanny resemblance to a big fat turtle. He is
on his way to Old Fort Pierce with a wagon-load of Harley beans, of
course, which so happens to be where Elmo is going. Shall we go?
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THE MOTHERSTONE [The Harlie Book II]
b y
J.F. Bernard
THE MOTHERSTONE, a sequel to Book One of the Harlie Series,
completes the ‘Expedition’ which Homer Skinner and company have
undertaken in search for the lost gold mine of Cornelius
Wainwright. When they finally arrive at the site of the
doomed excavation, no one is more surprised than Elmo Cotton,
the ‘Lucky Number’, a poor black sharecropper who came along
looking for adventure (and perhaps a new bathtub for his wife),
to find out that there is much more in store than he ever
anticipated. As it just so happens, Red-Beard, a.k.a Rusty
Horn, stumbles upon what turns out not only to be the cause of
the original catastrophe, along with his own death, but the one
thing that will eventually lead Elmo to his ultimate destiny, a
destiny that will take him to places he could only dream of, and
beyond. It is an adventure of metaphysical realities, hidden
truths of the past, culture, philosophy, politics and religion,
all mixed with
a healthy dose of pure
Americana as viewed through the unassuming and kaleidoscopic
mind of the Harlie… and, of course, the Motherstone.
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THE EXPEDITION [The Harlie Book I]
by
J.F.
Bernard
THE EXPEDITION is the first book in a
four volume series of historical fantasy/fiction that provides a
unique and entertaining perspective of American culture as viewed
through the kaleidoscopic and unassuming eyes of its main character,
Elmo Cotton, a young mulatto sharecropper of questionable identity.
Shortly after the Civil War when Elmo
Cotton, otherwise known as the ‘Harlie’, becomes part of an
ill-fated expedition lead by Mister Homer Skinner, an old man with a
tooth ache and a dream who’d stumbled upon the lost gold mine forty
years ago at the end of a long dark tunnel, and Colonel Rusty
‘Red-Beard’ Horn, an ex-army officer with a bewildering past and a
secret agenda....
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