MATT CONNELL: against a sea of troubles, a novel, an adventure in the west of Ireland, tells of Connell's search for peace in a partitioned land. In his struggle and while falling in love, he meets deadly opposition while leading a 1985 peace march. A throwback revolutionary, Jim O'Grady, seeks to destroy Matt's movement. The two men clash at the summit of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's holy mountain; later, bullets fly. The novel's deeper meanings are universal. Among troubles revealed is love, assassination, war, justice, and something else, salutary or punishing with cosmic implications. The...

Angela Gold is beautiful and has higher education in music; she also grew up on a Montana ranch. When she climbs an old-growth pine tree to save it from Big Timber World, Inc., the trouble she finds changes her life completely and leads her into a journey between life and death--a great discovery.

Most of this book offers collected poems by the author, but it begins with "Ireland's Winter," a long poem as memorial to the great famine in Ireland, 1845-1852. David's poetry features a sensitive awareness of rhythmic effects in phrasing and the selective uses of rhyme in free verse. Nonetheless, the final section of the book provides more than thirty English sonnets in the Shakespearean form. Therefore, more than rhyme is evident in this work. David is qualified in Philosophy and has published in the field; his poems respect fine distinctions, close attention to metaphoric effects, and...

Love's progress is not always untroubled. Sometimes there are years between "goodbye" and a second, first kiss. These stories bring to life the rediscovery of romance, passion, and devotion.