A satirical novel about a Russian soldier during World War II, ridiculing numerous aspects of life in the Soviet Union.

Jackie Cogan is a hitman for the New England mob who has been enlisted to find out who pulled the latest heist at a criminal poker ring and "take care of them." A ruthless professional with the efficacy of a businessman and a sharp sense for recognizing other people's weaknesses, Cogan doesn't stop at finding the guilty parties and restoring honor to those who hired him. Lively dialogue, biting humor, and constant tension keep alive the suspense of a plot that unfolds in 1970s-Boston's criminal underworldufull of petty thieves, hired assassins, mobsters, and corrupt law enforcement.

A series of articles which appeared originally in La Vanguardia.

The rise and fall of a man of imagination. From a helper in his grandfather's cigar store in 19th Century New York, he rises to become an entrepreneur of fabulous creations, culminating in a hotel with moonlight, waterfalls and a Grecian temple where maidens recite poetry around the clock. Facing ruin, he comes to the conclusion he dreamed the wrong dream. By the author of Edwin Mullhouse.

On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive-- and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.

The death of eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish leads to a spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a Canadian university.

Volume 2 of the Trilogia de Cornish.