Bøger af Peter Hershey

Forest Nelson walks through a cluster of worn and crooked gravestones. He wears a black suit, white shirt, black tie, and black dress shoes. Although Forest is only twenty-six years old, his eyes are tired, sitting atop grayish blue bags, and his face is worn and wrinkled with stress. He carries a bouquet of red roses in his left hand. Forest continues through the graveyard until he stops abruptly at a stone that is new, standing upright, and recently engraved. He kneels, places the flowers on the gravestone, then closes his eyes and says a silent prayer. In his folded hands, he holds a necklace with a cross that dangles at its end.

Not knowing what else to do when his parents are mysteriously murdered one night, Sullivan retreats into the forest. Lost and scared, Sullivan stumbles upon a tree fort complex from which five boys wage war against an army of gruesome mud monsters that has invaded the forest. Sullivan soon realizes that in order to figure out what happened to his parents, he must unite with the boys, join in their fight against the mud monsters, and unravel a secret known only by a mysterious man who lives alone in the forest and calls himself the Hermit.

Included within this collection are the first five Hershey Papers: Analyzing the Causalities of the American Revolution through Virginia Freedom, Essays on the American Civil War, The Decline of the Chesapeake Blue Crab and Potential Recovery Mechanisms, Essays on the Development and Use of the British Naval Marine, and Essays on Ethiopia, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

When Forest Nelson, an enthusiastic young historian at the Society for Cultural Heritage Preservation, volunteers to lead the effort to restore the Point Lookout Lighthouse, he is oblivious to the lighthouse's dark past. But after hearing voices calling out to him in the middle of the night and encountering bloodied Confederate soldiers patrolling the lighthouse's hallways, Forest quickly realizes that something sinister is astir at Point Lookout-something that seeks to expose the lighthouse's murderous history and bring everything crashing down into a deadly finale. In order to divert disaster and save the lighthouse, Forest must piece together a series of haunting encounters somehow connected to a crazy but generous benefactor at the center of the restoration effort.

"A collection of poetry full of emotion, imagery, and observations about everyday life. With topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to trips down memory lane, Glimmer of Hope highlights struggles that we all face from time to time." "Glimmer of Hope plumbs the deepest and darkest corners of the mind and emotions. It explores frustration, despair, longing, desire, disappointment, and equal measures of humor, irony, and enthusiasm. Through the breadth of the represented experiences, Glimmer of Hope posits that even the darkest places afford just enough light for the path of the human spirit."

Profundity. Defined: of or being profound, of a deep or thoughtful insight. Since Tobb Ghinder was a small child, the voices had told him that he had potential, that he had the unique opportunity to lead a profound life, that he could be a profound inspiration to those around him. Tobb successfully ignored these voices until a series of unpredictable and unfortunate events eroded the foundations upon which his life had been built, and left him with an unexplainable desire to seek profundity.

Athazagoraphobia. Defined: fear of being forgotten, of not having an impact; fear of a vain existence. Noah Hobson was a victim. The first time he suffered from Athazagoraphobia was in West Hamlin, West Virginia, where he helped tear down an antique stone house that was home to four generations of Smithfields-their one, lasting imprint on the world. Noah understands little about his condition until he volunteers to go on a mission trip to Port Sulphur, Louisiana, following the scourge of Hurricane Katrina. Surrounded by devastation, fishing boats in the treetops and empty cement slabs where houses once stood, Noah is nearly undone by his fear of being forgotten. An abandoned church, a volunteer nurse, a mysterious voice, a damaged mailbox, and a stranger who shares his name culminate in a journey that forces Noah to reckon with Athazagoraphobia.

With the rebuilding efforts in Iraq almost complete, the Ottawa Treaty once again comes to the forefront of the national agenda. Without the added strain of rebuilding Iraq, Congress signs and ratifies the treaty with hopes to de-mine the world and save innocent civilian lives-but the plan backfires. North Korea invades South Korea immediately after the landmine field is removed from the de-militarized zone. The U.S. military base camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without the protection of a landmine field, is destroyed by an attacking Cuban army. Simultaneously, a rebellion erupts in Iraq as rebel forces try to retake their country. The President finds himself in the midst of complete chaos, fighting on battlefields on three fronts, when the wars take an unfortunate turn, and the death and destruction is brought home.