LIBROS DEL AUTOR: donald platt

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  • Man Praying
    Donald Platt
    In his sixth book, Donald Platt starts a poem by exclaiming, 'The days are one thousand / puzzle pieces.' He gathers up the days into this book of terrors and ecstasies decanted in seamlessly reversing tercets of long and short lines, syllabic couplets, and lyric prose. The puzzle pieces include a dying father-in-law, AIDS, maimed World War I veterans, Caravaggio’s painting of ...
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    27,09 €

  • Close to The Sun
    Donald Michael Platt
    Close to the Sun follows the lives of fighter pilots during the Second World War. As a boy, Hank Milroy from Wyoming idealized the gallant exploits of WWI fighter aces. Karl, Fürst von Pfalz-Teuffelreich, aspires to surpass his father’s 49 Luftsiegen. Seth Braham falls in love with flying during an air show at San Francisco’s Chrissy Field. The young men encounter friends, riva...
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    17,30 €

  • The Sorceress and The Skull
    Donald Michael Platt
    Nostradamus, Occult, Suspense, Metaphysical, Visionary  A Gothic Horror Novella from Award Winning Author Donald Michael Platt San Francisco 1946: A Confrontation of Sorcerers and Seers. For the first time in almost 400 years, Michele born in 1932, a direct descendant of Nostradamus, will have all his gifts of precognition and even greater powers, but they will not be fully ma...
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    12,69 €

  • Rocamora
    Donald Michael Platt
    No man is closer to a woman than her confessor, not her father, not her brother, not her husband. -Spanish saying Vicente de Rocamora, the epitome of a young renaissance man in 17th century Spain, questions the goals of the Inquisition and the brutal means used by King Philip IV and the Roman Church to achieve them. Spain vows to eliminate the heretical influences attributed t...
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    15,48 €

  • Bodo The Apostate
    Donald Michael Platt
    In a time of intolerance, following your conscience is a dangerous choice...'In the meantime, a credible report caused all ecclesiastics of the Catholic Church to lament and weep.' -Prudentius of Troyes, Annales Bertiniani, anno 839On Ascension Day May 22, 838, Bishop Bodo, chaplain, confessor, and favorite of both his kin, Emperor Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, and Empre...
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    16,92 €

  • A Gathering of Vultures
    Donald Michael Platt
    Murder, mutilation, and carrion... in paradise? ' 'There shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.' -ISAIAH 34:15 Professional ballroom dancers Terri and Rick Hamilton aspire to be world champions. Unfortunately, Terri's recurring back and health problems place that goal well out of reach. They travel to Terri's birthplace, Florianópolis, on the scenic isl...
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    15,06 €

  • House of Rocamora
    Donald Michael Platt
    A new life and a new name ... House of Rocamora, a novel of the 17th century, continues the exceptional life of roguish Vicente de Rocamora, a former Dominican friar, confessor to the Infanta of Spain, and almost Inquisitor General. After Rocamora arrives in Amsterdam at age forty-two, asserts he is a Jew, and takes the name, 'Isaac,' he revels in the freedom to become whateve...
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    15,69 €