David Elliot, ex-pat, ex-paramedic living in Lima Peru with his family is caught up in a plot against the government of Peru. It is led by a team of ex-military United States and Peruvian members who are trying to make the world a better place, as they see it. You see into David's mind as he is dragged along throughout the city of Lima. His depression, his wants, his needs, his anxiety. He is basically crutch to the team’s leader and medic to the rest. As they move they are seen and David is put on the list of suspects and now also becomes sought by the police of Peru. His loyalty is called into question; he too is ex-military and feels a kinship towards the members of the team. He wonders whether if given the chance if he will be able to escape or if when needed will he pick up a gun? Keywords: Action, Thriller, Medical, Travel, Foreign country, Peru, Military, Fiction, Tension.

With great tenderness, poet and critic Robert Peters recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son Richard, a four-year-old called "Feather" by his sister Meredith and brother Rob. Feather returns home ill one day from nursery school, spends the afternoon in bed with his father and his stuffed toy seal, and dies that evening. Looking back after decades on that February day in 1960, when the skinned knees, colds, and fevers of childhood were obliterated by the unthinkable--fatal meningitis--Peters sees with harrowing clarity the image of that little boy in the tugboat pajamas lying still on a gurney, one bare foot visible at the edge of the sheet. He recalls his anger, his confusion: "What shall I do with my hands?" Feather: A Child's Death and Life is an album of poetic and sometimes visceral snapshots: portraits of a family, a house, a strained marriage, a father reading poems to his children, a young academic struggling to establish himself, Peters catches his family in moments of almost transcendent joy and crushing grief. The children's happiness on Christmas morning, in summer at a Canadian lake, or ice skating is shadowed by lessons in accepting death: a succession of pet turtles, mice, and goldfish succumb; Dad butchers the Thanksgiving turkey, nicknamed "Gobble," in the snowy backyard. The fourth book in Robert Peters' series of memoirs, Feather not only illuminates the lives of father and child, but also reflects a moment in the life of a writer, as Peters' grief for his son finds expression in his first collection of poetry, Songs for a Son.

Is graduate school right for you? Should you get a master's or a Ph.D.? How can you choose the best possible school? This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It will also help graduate students finish in less time, for less money, and with less trouble. Based on interviews with career counselors, graduate students, and professors, Getting What You Came For is packed with real-life experiences. It has all the advice a student will need not only to survive but to thrive in graduate school, including: instructions on applying to school and for financial aid; how to excel on qualifying exams; how to manage academic politics—including hostile professors; and how to write and defend a top-notch thesis. Most important, it shows you how to land a job when you graduate.

No nostalgic tale of the good old days, Robert Peters’s recollections of his adolescence vividly evoke the Depression on a hardscrabble farm near Eagle River: Dad driving the Vilas County Relief truck, Lars the Swede freezing to death on his porch, the embarassment of graduation in a suit from welfare. The hard efforts to put fish and potatoes and blueberries on the table are punctuated by occasional pleasures: the Memorial Day celebration, swimming at Perch Lake, the county fair with Mother’s prizes for jam and the exotic delights of the midway. Peters’s clear-eyed memoir reveals a poet’s eye for rich and stark detail even as a boy of twelve. “Peters misses nothing, from the details of the town’s Fourth of July celebration to the cause and effect of a young cousin’s suicide to the calibrations of racism toward Indians that was so acceptable then. It is a fascinating, unsentimental look at a piece of our past.”—Margaret E. Guthrie, New York Times Book Review “It’s unlikely that any other contemporary poet and scholar as distinguished has risen from quite so humble beginnings as Robert Peters. Born and raised by semiliterate parents on a subsistence farm in northeastern Wisconsin, Peters lived harrowingly close to the eventual stuff of his poetry—the dependency of humans on animal lives, the inexplicable and ordinary heroism and baseness of people facing extreme conditions, the urgency of physical desire. . . . Sterling childhood memoirs.”—Booklist “Robert Peters has written a memoir exemplary because he insists on the specific, on the personal and the local. It is also enormously satisfying to read, and it is among the most authentic accounts of childhood and youth I know—a Wisconsin David Copperfield!”—Thom Gunn

The poems of Robert Peters in this small volume are products of his confrontation with absurdity and despair, angst and disease which he perceives in nature, institutions, others and himself. His outlook moreover is frequently punctuated by a whimsical turn of phrase or choice of subject matter as well as a profound awareness of moments of beauty, joy and love. His statements have an appeal for sensitive adults in an age in which each is confronting his own private despairs and perhaps is seeking an articulate spokesman who is able to give voice to a word of beauty mingled with tears.

Based on life of the Arctic explorer.--Jim Kepner.

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Janus Falling is a story of ambition and greed in a rapidly changing music industry as a singer sets out on a quest to revive her career. Colleen Bahar was in a bad place. Her early success as a singer has unfortunately run its course. Now an aging asset in a business that nourishes the young, she has become yesterday's news in a tomorrow world. Desperate to find her way back to the big time, Collen embarks on an unrelenting quest to resurrect her waning career. Colleen begins her journey back to stardom by reconnecting with her former mentor, Bennie Murphy. Bennie's jazz band offers Colleen an opportunity to showcase her skills with some of the best musicians in the industry. But Colleen is far from an artistic purist, and she sees Bennie as a step on her path to fame and fortune. Colleen uses her physical assets, scheming ways, and industry experience to navigate through the male dominated terrain. Over time, greed and ambition become all-consuming traits with unforeseen consequences. As self-delusion becomes a way of life, Colleen attempts to justify her behavior while never acknowledging the damage left in her wake.