"They can take everything you own, everything you cherish and hold dear, but they cannot take your dignity unless you let them. There is a light in the heart of darkness." - The Hamsa. Bronislaw Czech is a dashing Polish highlander born in 1908. His father teaches young Bronek the secrets of the Tatra Mountains while his father's friend, 'The Captain' teaches the boy to ski. He learns well and represents Poland in three Winter Olympic Games, which teach him as much about life as about the sport he loves. He is honored to lead his team and carry the Polish flag into the stadium at Germany's...
"They can take everything you own, everything you cherish and hold dear, but they cannot take your dignity unless you let them. There is a light in th...
In the 75th Olympiad by Greek reckoning, the strongest, fastest, quickest and most agile men in Hellas gathered at Olympia to celebrate life through athletic competition. That same year, 480 BCE by our reckoning, the Persian Emprie ruled the known world save for that small peninsula dominated by a dozen democratic city-states. To avenge the defeat of his father on the plain of Marathon 10 years earlier, Xerxes, the Great King amassed an army a million men strong to bring these free states to heel. Amid the cheering crowds, the sweat, dust and blood on the Elisian fields of friendly strife,...
In the 75th Olympiad by Greek reckoning, the strongest, fastest, quickest and most agile men in Hellas gathered at Olympia to celebrate life through a...
An apocryphal story set in the Civil War South ... the story of a man whose blindness enables him to see. In the nineteenth century as America struggles with its morality, southern educators journey to South Carolina to test Dixie's physical fitness in games of strength that pit white students against black slaves. Lasting friendships emerge, friendships that endure the pain and suffering of plantation life before, during and after the Civil War, and friendships that rise in the face of racism in an age when hatred is as common as love. An unlikely bond is forged between the young black...
An apocryphal story set in the Civil War South ... the story of a man whose blindness enables him to see. In the nineteenth century as America struggl...
"He pulled his weapon from his holster and opened the chamber. After inserting one cartridge, he spun the cylinder, put it to his head and pulled the trigger." - DWI: Dying While Intoxicated. When does the law cease to serve justice? What action beyond the letter of the law is justified? When? By Whom? E.S. Kraay - best known for his three historical novels - explores new territory with his cop-thriller "DWI: Dying While Intoxicated." Harold Huck is a happily married man with two fine sons and a beautiful wife. In 1965, life in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts is grand, happy and...
"He pulled his weapon from his holster and opened the chamber. After inserting one cartridge, he spun the cylinder, put it to his head and pulled the ...
Have you ever asked yourself who bring more value to the world, animals or people? "The Sixth Day" is the pivotal day in history, the day God almost quit. It's a feel good story that you will not want to put down, a story about one day in the life of five brothers and a strange hobo who reveals the secret of creation.
Abandoned by deadbeat parents, each boy has a special gift. The oldest, Sam is a boxer who makes the best pancakes in the world. Peter is the best reader in the world, although he owns but a single book. Jimmy is the best pickpocket in the world with his own, unique sense...
Have you ever asked yourself who bring more value to the world, animals or people? "The Sixth Day" is the pivotal day in history, the day God almos...
E.S. Kraay's "Gaspar, Another Tale of the Christ" is the story of one man's remarkable search for truth. Told in the words of an unwitting wise man, the narrative spans four decades from young Gaspar's time at the Kanheri caves in India with the ancient Buddhist Vajrabodhi to his witness of Christ's crucifixion at the behest of his friend Pontius Pilate.
In the intervening years, Gaspar translates ancient scrolls on the shores of the Dead Sea under the tutelage of the Zadokite priest Barjadek, and ten years later, he instructs at the Greek Ptolemaeum in Athens where he meets a...
E.S. Kraay's "Gaspar, Another Tale of the Christ" is the story of one man's remarkable search for truth. Told in the words of an unwitting wise man...
