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  • One More Last Dance
    Jerome Antil / Jerome Mark Antil / Jerry Antil
    One More Last Dance is a compelling story about the power of friendship, one that develops between two men through an unlikely road trip.Peckerwood Finch has a lot going against him. The 25-year-old Cajun man was abandoned at birth by his parents, endured abusive foster parents, is illiterate, and there’s his name—an unflattering term for a rural white Southerner. Fortunately, ...
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    13,89 €

  • PECK FINCH and the EIGHT OF SWORDS
    Jerome Mark Antil
    Kidnapping and murder become commonplace in the New Orleans Criminal Court when stalkersfollow the innocent through the halls, as if they were prey in the bayou swamps. They feed the wants and appetites.through the unsuspecting. a high school girl helps solve the case. ...
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    13,41 €

  • PECK FINCH and the HANGED MAN
    Jerome Mark Antil
    Human trafficking is overtaking the U.S. Once thought of a border issue or a third worldcountry issue, drug dealers are abandoning drug sales for the no inventory overhead worldof sex trafficking (slavery).Peck Finch, a known Cajun French in New Orleans watches a kidnapping of a girl in the darknessof a moonless night near the French Quarter. He was a slave as a small child. ...
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    14,29 €

  • MAMMA’S MOON
    Jerome Mark Antil
    'A delightfully quirky tale both unpredictable and affecting.'An adventure-driven novel chronicles an eventful road trip taken by a dying man and the Cajun French version of Forrest Gump. Boudreaux Clemont Finch generally responds to Peck-short for Peckerwood-a moniker he was given as a child for his imprudent loquaciousness. Peck works at a hospice in Carencro, Louisiana, as a...
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    27,84 €

  • Heaven Sends For Hemingway
    Jerome Mark Antil
    In 1953 Jerry travels to Little Rock Arkansas where he sees racism that stuns him intonightmares. Enter his guardian angel - they come up with a grand scheme to save a younggirl from being in harm’s way. HEAVEN SENDS FOR HEMIMGWAY, was selected by School Library Journal as a must read for Black History Week. ...
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    11,71 €

  • The Sideshow Pickpocket
    Jerome Mark Antil
    A classic coming of age tale. In 1953 Tall Jerry turns twelve and six-foot-three in the same summer. Accidently bumping into a naked Marilyn Monroe calendar at Leonard’s Coffee Shop, it changes his world. Rascal brother Dick and his friend David Duba play with Jerry’s mind about the whole affair but it is his guardian angel Ole Charlie - with the help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyl...
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    11,62 €

  • The Hoodoo of Peck Finch
    Jerome Mark Antil
    'In two intersecting tales set in Louisiana, an elderly black veteran kills his attacker and faces a murder trial while his Cajun French best friend tries to discover the truth about the mother he never knew. Gabriel Jordan, an 'aging army captain' and 'veteran of Korea and Vietnam,' is threatened by a young white man, Kenneth Bauer, at a Walmart in New Orleans, and as a result...
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    16,58 €

  • The Delphi Falls Trilogy
    Jerome Mark Antil
    In 1953, the memories of the war were fading but not gone. The kids that stuck together likeglue through the shadows of the war, are now coming of age, growing like weeds with a summer vacationstarting before they become Freshman in high school. They’re dealing with growing pains of the bodyand mind - and they reconnect at the cemetery in the late spring just to catch up. Litt...
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    17,54 €

  • The Mysteries of Pompey Hollow
    Jerome Mark Antil
    The novel captures life in the years following World War II before cell phones and the internet. It takes us back to a time when people looked out for one another; a time when small-town values still mattered. The novel does for those years what Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn did for an earlier time.The novel is also a celebration of who we were back then. It’s a joyous hayrid...
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    13,78 €

  • MAMMA’S MOON A Duet Novel
    Jerome Mark Antil / Jerome Mark Antil
    International award winning author Jerome Mark Antil brings the vibrant New Orleans and Acadiana to life on every page of this novel - The Bayou Moon. Experience New Orleans and visit a culture first painted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem, Evangeline, about the tragic beginnings of the Cajun French and their journey into Louisiana's Acadiana. Look no further than...
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    15,77 €

  • Summers of Shadows, Bodies and Bridges
    Jerome Mark Antil / Jerome Mark Antil
     This historically set trilogy is packed full of small twists and clever turns; and the central characters are fully developed and highly interesting.The story basically follows a small number of characters growing up in the 1950s. There is a gripping adventure in all three of the books, but, in many ways, this is not a plot-led story. It’s all in the characters. And all of the...
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    11,45 €

  • Return to Tiffany's
    Jerome Mark Antil
    In the opening of the titular love story, Jerry, rather appropriately, is enamored. It’s 1966, and the 20-something is a groomsman for a friend’s Long Island wedding. He catches a glimpse of one of the bridesmaids—Pamela, as it turns out—and is immediately smitten. The nearly 7-foot-tall groomsman is coupled with Pamela, the tallest of the women, for the ceremony, and they even...
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    9,51 €

  • Hemingway, Three Angels, and Me
    Jerome Mark Antil
    Jerry leaves upstate New York for the first time at twelve.  He travels to Little Rock Arkansas in 1953 to visit an aunt who was about to have a baby.  He sees Jim Crow for the first time, not being allowed to sit in the balcony of the movie house as it was reserved for 'Coloreds Only'.  Jerry and his freiends hadn't been raised with such predjudice. This bothered the lad -...
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    14,00 €

  • Mary Crane
    Jerome Mark Antil
    The British have landed...again! In this heartfelt coming of age story, Ole Charlie, the club's Guardian Angel since the Book of Charlie narrates another adventure. This one with an international twist. The Pompey Hollow Book Club novels are lighthearted nostalgia about growing up in the heart and the shadows of WWII. The club started when they were all nine, just after the...
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    12,93 €

  • The Book of Charlie
    Jerome Mark Antil
    Selected as one of two best novels for the year - 5 Star Review. Author of this series is being compared to Mark Twain. It's a coming of age story beginning with a summer vacation, climaxing on a full moonlit Halloween night. They're teens now - and their club president, Mary Crane, decides to follow her teacher's suggestion of getting a Pen Pal for the summer. She ...
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    12,81 €

  • The Pompey Hollow Book Club
    Jerome Mark Antil
    A Novel Series First Edition - Named - BOOK OF THE YEAR (Family & Fiction) 2012 - BOOKS & AUTHORS "Mark Twain meets the Greatest Generation!The Pompey Hollow Book Club is the best kind of novel: charming, but with teeth. The narration exudes an experienced innocence with characters at once empathic and courageous. One might be tempted to call its setting a bygone era had this e...
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    13,98 €

  • The Pompey Hollow Book Club
    Jerome Mark Antil
    The series begins in 1949.  Jerry and his family move from the city, Cortland to the home converted from an old dance hall right under the thundering waterfall at Delphi Falls.  Along with his friends, Jerry camped on top of the cliffs and studied the beavers building their dams when they weren't in school. It was times in the shadows of World War Two - with the very same k...
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    43,37 €