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This book perfectly captures exactly what a true high school football coach is supposed to be, and how Tim Delaney embodies it. A teacher, a father figure, a mentor, a friend, a leader. And when all of those things come together, a deserving champion. The fact that Tim was able to win a state title given the circumstances and constraints he's faced, is a great example of perseverance for the very young men he's coached. And the fact that he did it in his native Buffalo, at his alma mater South Park High School, makes this story even more amazing and special. John does a wonderful job of telling the story of a special coach, a special team, and a special season. Sal Capaccio, Buffalo radio and television personality, and former high school football coach

When Niall Donoghue's father falls ill, a revelation threatens the security of the family farm Niall has grown up on and is infinitely dedicated to. Will Aidan O'Connell's discovery through the promptings of a mysterious stranger hold the key to resolving Niall's dilemma, or will the discovery cause a break in their friendship that cannot be repaired? Meanwhile, Patrick Leahy's family faces a new mixed blessing, and Michael Sullivan's marriage to Susannah is on hold. In this sequel to Walking Through The Mist, each of the Macready's Bridge bandmates face challenges to their future plans and dreams

Trapped by isolation... Ken Connell is a former Buffalo detective who has lost everything: his wife, his job, even his striking good looks, thanks to a shotgun blast that punctured his neck. These days he investigates insurance fraud, reminisces about the woman he loved, and dreams of moving south, while convinced he is being followed. R.J. Sorrentino has always lived on the fringe. He was angry before leaving for Vietnam and grew angrier when he returned. He's a survivor; yet lately, surviving isn't enough. His one chance at redemption is his ability to draw. Now working as a police sketch artist, a grisly discovery twists him back into uncertainty. Laura Pantera inhabits a world that looks different from everyone else's. Her cheating husband is gone, and she's haunted by a painful childhood. Days are long and nights turn surreal when she plunges into an abyss. Yet a mysterious neighbor mat just provide a lifeline to happiness... FACES AND FINGERTIPS may be read a stand-alone novel, continuing characters introduced in BROKEN AND PROFANE and BONESHAKER. When these lonely souls converge, results are hopeful, electric, and sometimes heartbreaking.

When Grady Pickett hears that the lost paintings of Ward Gregory have been rediscovered, he decides to abandon his long time girlfriend and the life he has made for himself in Massachusetts and return home to Apollo, New York, certain that if he unravels the central mystery of his childhood he will be able to make sense of his greatest loss. In the tailspin of events that follow, Grady must choose between two lives laid out before him. Will he reclaim himself and the past he once called his own from the grips of his brother Emile's elaborate distortions or will he submit to the temptations of vengeance and forever lose all he once was? In NOTHING HERE IS REAL Matt Bindig explores the power of family myths and the costs that come with striking out on your own.

Tommy Patton is a small-time crook from Buffalo's gritty Irish-Catholic First Ward who's always been committed to never living a law-abiding day in his life. Upon being sprung from the Erie County Jail for his latest indiscretion, Tommy learns he's being held responsible for a debt owed to a local crime boss due to a past robbery gone wrong. With the payback deadline winding down, a two-faced mob soldier charged with collecting the debt goes behind his boss's back and hatches a scheme designed to benefit all involved. But eventually, the soldier's plan goes terribly awry, exposing unholy secrets and costing people their lives. And Tommy Patton finds in his bid to stay alive that when it comes to being forgiven for his sins, no one can be trusted - not even his parish priest.

This is Marc Savett's second volume of poetry. Like Mr. Savett's first volume: Crows Nest, Poems, Maxims, and Tales demonstrates the author's engaging and provocative style. Mr. Savett's writing combines skill and emotion to produce an entertaining and thought provoking work. Broken into three sections the book addresses a wide variety of topics, delving into imagery and ultimately giving the reader insight into humanity and society.

Have you ever experienced life with conflict, constant problems and situations which resulted in change and emotional turmoil? Life often throws you into unfamiliar circumstances, leaving you with a lack of understanding and an overwhelmed feeling of uncertainty for your life. "My Visions, My Truths" is a collection of poems on how I successfully made it through my journey with God. Open your heart to these words and let the past go. Allow this book to foster creativity and grow from within. Inspire your future. Embrace each message as it resonates down to the core of your very being. Choose to live your life happily, once again.

There is a time and place for deep thinking, questioning the realms of our existence, and attempting to find everlasting and eternal bliss. Sometimes the path leads to revolution, uproar, the rising of millions. Other times it finds love and ventures through the temples of Aphrodite. Ever frequently, when hope seems distant and far-fetched, it takes you deep down below, where the shadow lives. Wreathed in flame it engulfs your every movement. If I have any goal with this book and the writing in it, it is to spark a thought in the readers mind. No special or certain thought in particular, but something that moves you towards a deeper understanding. A thought that drives you to question what exists, what you are told in your daily life. I hope that something you read in this book causes you to stop and think. If it does not do that then I did not achieve what I set out to do when I began to compose this collection of poems. Thank you to all who do read this book, I appreciate the support, and I hope that you think a little while reading it and maybe even get a laugh or two.

Science. Religion. Antiquity. Tomorrow. Worlds separated by millennia and mystery are on a collision course. Hurtling through time and space, their paths inevitably crossed, they will come crashing together, like storm fronts of fire and ice, to create an immaculate tempest of brilliant lightning and ground shaking thunder. Sweeping in scope, radiating and rumbling from an ultramodern genetics laboratory in the Swiss countryside to an ancient monastery in the Taurus Mountains in Turkey, from an archaeological dig site in the Syrian desert to the gleaming towers of industry and shadowy streets of New York City, Come the Thief in the Night journeys to the point of impact. Where death, rebirth, and discovered answers that beg still more profound questions, prove all too prophetic. Ecco homo! Behold the man!

Twenty-one year old Aidan O'Connell's world revolves around music and his father, sister and grandmother, the core family that supports him through the ups and downs of life. While he and his Macready's Bridge bandmates are on their first American tour, tragedy strikes. Aidan returns to his Derry, Ireland home to find his world torn apart. Macready's Bridge's other members, Patrick Leahy, Michael Sullivan and Niall Donoghue, and their manager Mack Macready, step in to help where they can, while at the same time coping with their own life challenges. As everything in Aidan's world collapses, he finds he must make some very difficult decisions, including letting go of people and things he once held close, in order to rebuild his life. Set against a rich Ireland background, with endearing, memorable characters, "Walking Through The Mist" is a story of relationships, faith, and the human spirit's struggle to survive when all is lost.

Johnny Nolan was one of Buffalo's favorite downtown draws. He spent his evenings exhaling rock's greatest lyrics, grinding out covers on guitar while basking in the adulation of devoted fans and revelers. To Nolan, those nights under the lights meant everything- until he needed to walk away. But what happens to a musician when his life strays from the stage? Does he settle into his marriage to a barroom waitress? Does he try to sooth past friction with the city's most prominent bluesman? Or does he lean on the scene's only garage band-leading Catholic priest to find his voice with or without the microphone? Throughout his journey from rock clubs to familial crisis and rediscovery of music's revelatory meaning, Nolan will find out how life unfolds- when the lights go out.

It seems so important as you do what you do, But in times to come no one remembers you. Your actions are forgotten and your feelings destroyed. You've become one with the nihilist void. Inspired by real-life events, as well as by classic philosophical novels such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, Albert Camus' The Stranger, Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask, and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, The Nihilist tells the story of a philosophy professor caught in the grips of nihilistic despair. Following the death of his mother and the increasingly bizarre deaths of his closest friends, the nameless main character is afflicted with a mysterious malady that forces him to confront the absurdity of his own meaningless existence. Brain parasites, scatological dreams, punk rock, and spontaneous human combustion appear alongside the ideas of Heraclitus, Socrates, Diogenes, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger. The result is a wryly humorous philosophical allegory of hopelessness and resignation in the face of the void.

Dear Mother was how the letters began. Love Rum or Love Ed was how they ended. Roman and Edward Bartz are brothers. They were also a sailor and a soldier. In Two Brothers, One War, they speak across years and oceans to deliver first person accounts of World War II. Told exclusively through letters, these two brothers tell of traveling from their home in Buffalo, New York to the far reaches of the world. They speak of combat, adventure, and the longing for home. Each letter gives a vivid and personal account of what it was like to fight in World War II. Edward speaks of the simple pleasure of watching the movie "Sergeant York" and finding an octopus in Puget Sound. Roman, known as Rum tells of playing football in Washington DC and taking Class E Allotment in order to send $75.00 back to his mother. Each letter reveals details and emotions that can only be found in the voices of the men who lived through and fought during America's involvement in the war.

The second volume from noted poet Mark C. LLoyd. Like Unfinished Suite. LLoyd's first volume, Breakfast With You demonstrates insight and emotion combined with Lloyd's artistic style. LLoyd's voice is resounding as his words flow from the page. "I want to be there in the morning when you wake up to freshly brewed coffee and say hello to the world. I want to have breakfast with you."

In 1978, Jimmy and Michael, two long time friends from Buffalo, NY, engage in a cross-country hitch-hiking adventure throughout The United States to look for George, Michael's brother, who mysteriously deserted his family years earlier. Along their journey the pair gains a vivid truth and a wisdom that only the road can provide. They encounter extraordinary landscapes and meet a series of remarkable characters that represent a truthful, gritty and heart-warming portrait of America.