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  • American Holocaust
    Bob Rockwell
    American Holocaust compares Trump’s plan to use our military to execute his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants to Nazi Germany’s deportation and genocide of six million Jews in The Holocaust in the 1940s and Operation Wetback in 1954 where we forcibly removed 1.3 million undocumented Mexicans from America. ...
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    15,72 €

  • While the Wind Blew
    Bob Rockwell
    Relive some exciting historical events in Luna County, New Mexico in Bob Rockwell’s new book, While the Wind Blew. You’ll sit around a pit house fire in 1154 AD with Hateya, a young Mimbres mother and mourn the drought and hunger in her village. You’ll ride with Coronado’s conquistadors as Miguel gives us a glimpse into the New Spain of 1541. You’ll blaze a trail with Caleb and...
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    18,72 €

  • Mostly True Tales
    Bob Rockwell
    Mostly True TalesThese stories might better be called historical fiction because they are about real people and/or real events in history. BobÕs taken the liberty to tell a bit more about little-known people, interject himself into the lives of historical figures, and tell us about real events from the pens of fictional characters. 3 ...
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    11,70 €

  • A Time of Innocence - Gering, 1955
    Bob Rockwell
    It was late April 1955 and spring had finally come to the high plains. I was suffering from a serious case of spring fever. Baseball season was already underway, my Brooklyn Dodgers were 10 and 0, and I was stuck in my seventh-grade English class conjugating verbs. I had lots of plans for the summer break, if it ever comes. When one of the cutest girls in my class invited me fo...
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    12,22 €

  • While Trump Tweets
    Bob Rockwell
    Edda is an artificial intelligence system with the most extensive medical knowledge database ever assembled. Her (Edda refers to herself as female) knowledge-based expert system brings the wisdom and experiences of the world’s leading-edge clinicians to the offices of local physicians, assisting them in making correct and timely diagnoses. 'She’s like having an expert, the expe...
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    17,51 €

  • From Where I Sit
    Bob Rockwell
    From Where I Sit is a collection of the inane thoughts (those are the polite words) rumbling around in the tequila-soaked brain cells of Bob Rockwell, an old curmudgeon fighting a losing battle with the absurdity and the ridiculousness of everyday life. He rants about the stuff that pisses him off (and that’s a lot of stuff), he teases society’s morons especially what he calls ...
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    18,17 €

  • Riding with Villa
    Bob Rockwell
    Bob Lockwood, a cameraman in the early days of Hollywood, takes us on a journey through northern Mexico as he films Pancho Villa. Bob is captivated by the spirit of the revolution and the passion of the Villistas but he’s sickened by the wanton slaughter and the tragic waste of young lives he sees on the battlefield. He drops his camera, crosses the river, and heads back to Cal...
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    23,51 €

  • A Slightly Better World
    Bob Rockwell
    Two Philadelphia detectives become unlikely partners in the tough 25th district. Enoch (Buck) Rogers, a young rookie from a privileged life in Philly’s prestigious Main Line, and Luciano (Luca) Borrelli, a seasoned, cigar-chomping goombah a la The Sopranos. Buck’s life is less than ideal. He’s recently divorced, the relationship with his parents is, at best, strained, and his n...
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    18,15 €

  • Alone In The Dark
    Bob Rockwell
    Alone in the Dark was how I wrote all of these stories. I won’t tell you that I was in my pajamas and drinking beer in the early hours of the morning, because you’d think even less of me. The hardest part of writing is that I become so engrossed in the story I’m trying to tell that I let my beer get warm and go flat. I can’t even begin to count all of the beer I’ve wasted. I’ve...
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    18,20 €

  • Boner
    Bob Rockwell
    Bob, a crusty but erudite old liberal, lives along the Mexican border with his soul mate, Josefina Bernstein, PhD and his long-term guest they’ve aptly named Boner. Boner is a somewhat unique young man. He grins constantly, he only speaks Swahili and he has this curse or blessing, depending on how you look at it, he has a perpetual erection. They go about their lives harboring ...
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    17,05 €

  • Antoine’s Legacy
    Bob Rockwell
    'It was a spring day in Paris in 1780, and Michael Barada, was 20. As he sauntered along a fashionable street, very gay in the silk, ribbons and ruffles of a young French gallant of the court of Louis XVI . . .' So begins the charming story of Michael Barada and his chance meeting with the lovely Omaha maiden, Laughing Buffalo. This romantic fairytale was told to the US congres...
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    19,14 €

  • Can’t Stop Ranting
    Bob Rockwell
    Bob rants about all of the inconveniences, injustices, and especially the absurdities we encounter as we fumble through our hum-drum lives. Now that he’s retired and a member of the geezer generation, he doesn’t have a job or a business to bitch about so he just complains about all of the little stuff we all have to deal with, but why do we? Geezers are big-time complainers and...
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    11,14 €

  • Too Much Tequila, Too Little Sunscreen
    Bob Rockwell
    Bob demonstrates his storytelling skills in this collection of seventeen of his best short stories. Bob set his story Three for Dinner in Boston, where he lived for many years, because he couldn’t find a five-star French restaurant within hundreds miles of the Chihuahuan desert where he now lives, writes and sets most of his stories. He’s become an accomplished researcher seeki...
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    18,17 €

  • On the River with the Army of the Tennessee
    Bob Rockwell
    On the River with the Army of the Tennessee is the diary penned by my great-great grandfather, Dr. William J. Rockwell in March and April of 1862 while he treated the sick and wounded of 11th Indiana Regiment. His diary starts at Fort Heiman and continues as the Army of the Tennessee steams from Fort Henry into the heart of secession-dom and The Battle of Shiloh at Pittsburg La...
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    14,85 €