After a long absence from his hometown in rural Pennsylvania, and once completing his military service, achieving university degrees, earning a small fortune, and suffering the loss of a wife and children, a man, Frank Sarvey, makes an effort to renew a happiness lost. He remarries and decides to take his wife back to the little river town he left behind. In an attempt to retrace his steps and recapture a happier time, Sarvey goes back and walks into his hometown football stadium, where he played many games. There, he discovers the body of a decapitated man. At the request of a former teammate and current chief of police, Sarvey becomes involved in the search for the murdered mans killer. But the search uncovers something unexpected. On the outskirts of this small community, there is another localityMuhammadvillea conclave of the followers of Islam, and the face of rural America is changing. Sarvey works to preserve and protect a way of life he thought lost, and his efforts take the reader on an open-book, fleshy pictorial of what is taking place in other communities across the United States unbeknownst to most Americans.

In the act of climbing a tree, a young boy is witness to a disturbing criminal act involving a teenage girl. The boy in the tree comes to the girl’s aid and unknowingly becomes infatuated with, falls in love with and eventually marries the girl who captured his heart. War, relocation and professional advancement bring the girl and her savior in contact with the perpetrator of the long-past crime. In what takes place between these seemingly predestined people, “The Tree Climber” offers and array of action, adventure and drama to the reader.

The Marilyn Chronicles was written for one single person, the love of my life. She, this woman whom I married sixty-three years ago, is now suffering from late-stage dementia, and I am her care giver. In an effort to better understand the disease and what it is doing to my wife, I have researched, documented and built in advice to anyone who might become involved in the preservation of dignity and passion which remains in the mind of the person afflicted with the disease. The portrayal of the inevitable march toward finality is a literary approach done as a tender tribute to a remarkable woman, and its message serves as a beacon to those who want to understand and care for the person afflicted with the insidious disease called dementia. This book is my love story.

Since Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus, more and more Americans have been expressing their rights to freedom of speech and action. All too few announce their opinions on the everyday happenings taking place in their world. Allen R. Remaley is neither a journalist nor talking head commentator nor political pundit. He is an American who, over the years, has witnessed events, changing mores, and the earth on which he lives. His focus and thoughts on such things are brought to light in Reflections of a Disgruntled American Gargoyle. Among topics covered are Black Lives Matter; Racism Redux and the Oscars; cell phones and selfies; blood, sweat, and human evolution; Roe v. Wade and infanticide; Sharia law; Nellie Bly, columbine, and deinstitutionalization; a wall or Ellis Island, Southwest; and retirement, socialization, and happy hours. The chances are good that opinions expressed here mirror those of many Americans.

In any invasive surgery, there is always a chance that unforetold or unforeseen consequences might occur. Infections, missteps, and incompetent procedures due to lack of focus sometimes result in less than desired results and even death. But, in one case, an open-heart repair of the aortic valve results in a phenomenon unheard of in modern times---a man receives the gift of being able to channel things and people from the past to present time. A college professor who thought that he was close to death suddenly realizes that he is more alive than ever and that his ability to conjure up the past allows him to find love, security, happiness and adventure. The gift offered him during a life-saving operation makes him, Jack Riddle, The Magician.

Imagine, if you can, an attractive young woman from the Loire Valley in France. At first glance, yes, both women and men are attracted to her character, beauty, and the way she lives in her little town of Blois... However, this woman also has a certain touch about her when, applied to the right person (male or female), allows them to prosper and become proficient at what they do. Enter an expatriate American antique seller, himself a handsome newcomer to the Loire Valley. Odalie is attracted. The two become lovers and during their familiarization with one another, make a startling discovery! They acquire a 15th century mirror and an ancient tavern sign which is associated with the most famous French poet of all time. Mysteriously, the mirror becomes a portal to time, place, and person. Unexpected verbal and visual exchanges take place which lead us to questioning what is real, and what is imagined. Odalie’s wizardry takes a jump forward into the future. Come on in... But watch your step!

The COVID-19 virus, more serious than the Spanish flu of 1917, will perhaps be remembered by Americans along with Pearl Harbor and 9/11. In the early months of the outbreak of the disease, the author, an observer of the confusion reigning on all continents about the nature of the beast, began to document its daily progress. Also recorded were the efforts made by elected officials, health-care providers, scientists and economists to thwart the death march of the contagion throughout the United States. Along the way, another ugliness, racism, had to be addressed. A virtual war against these stealth-like adversaries is presented in chronicle form in what Allen R. Remaley entitles, “19”. Sidebars caused by the stress of the pandemic are exposed. Insights, personal thoughts and daily updates, sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, give us a record of this harbinger of death and hope.