Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699066
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In Peace on Earth we see into both sides of a vicious, blood-curdling battle in the trenches of WWI, when poison gas, hand-to-hand combat and starvation still played a big role in wars between countries. In a true event, something that history verifies happened, we get a glimpse of what could have happened on that day on the Western Front, between two armies, and the human beings who discovered there humanity on that Christmas Day, in the year of Our Lord, 1914. In Muhammad's Revenge we see how the world can be, has been and will be again, changed in dramatically, historic fashion until it no longer is a world. And, in the Duke, we see into the life of a totally disreputable, thoroughly unlikeable character but whose traits we all recognize because that are not only those of someone we have known but traits that we ourselves have suppressed most our lives. In fact, the further we read, the more we realize that we, ourselves have some, maybe too many, of those same traits ourselves.
Peace On Earth & Collected Plays
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699066
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In Peace on Earth we see into both sides of a vicious, blood-curdling battle in the trenches of WWI, when poison gas, hand-to-hand combat and starvation still played a big role in wars between countries. In a true event, something that history verifies happened, we get a glimpse of what could have happened on that day on the Western Front, between two armies, and the human beings who discovered there humanity on that Christmas Day, in the year of Our Lord, 1914. In Muhammad's Revenge we see how the world can be, has been and will be again, changed in dramatically, historic fashion until it no longer is a world. And, in the Duke, we see into the life of a totally disreputable, thoroughly unlikeable character but whose traits we all recognize because that are not only those of someone we have known but traits that we ourselves have suppressed most our lives. In fact, the further we read, the more we realize that we, ourselves have some, maybe too many, of those same traits ourselves.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699066
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In Peace on Earth we see into both sides of a vicious, blood-curdling battle in the trenches of WWI, when poison gas, hand-to-hand combat and starvation still played a big role in wars between countries. In a true event, something that history verifies happened, we get a glimpse of what could have happened on that day on the Western Front, between two armies, and the human beings who discovered there humanity on that Christmas Day, in the year of Our Lord, 1914. In Muhammad's Revenge we see how the world can be, has been and will be again, changed in dramatically, historic fashion until it no longer is a world. And, in the Duke, we see into the life of a totally disreputable, thoroughly unlikeable character but whose traits we all recognize because that are not only those of someone we have known but traits that we ourselves have suppressed most our lives. In fact, the further we read, the more we realize that we, ourselves have some, maybe too many, of those same traits ourselves.
Streetlife
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Streetlife is a collection of stories that focuses on, and vividly reveals the harsh realities of life on the streets in America. It shows the edges of those streets and how we can easily fall through the cracks in the so-called ""free-market"" Capitalist system to end up there with little more than one unfortunate circumstance. Here, then, is an offering of stories that interweave humor with the all too often coincidental and sometimes pathetic circumstances that land so many of these characters down a dark road to oblivion. These offerings, as well as the rest will keep the reader on edge until the story, and book, are finished.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Streetlife is a collection of stories that focuses on, and vividly reveals the harsh realities of life on the streets in America. It shows the edges of those streets and how we can easily fall through the cracks in the so-called ""free-market"" Capitalist system to end up there with little more than one unfortunate circumstance. Here, then, is an offering of stories that interweave humor with the all too often coincidental and sometimes pathetic circumstances that land so many of these characters down a dark road to oblivion. These offerings, as well as the rest will keep the reader on edge until the story, and book, are finished.
Semper Fi Do-Or-Die
Author: Keith Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 061516188X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, South Carolina, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October of that year, 1962, and then on to their duty stations and, for some, Vietnam. If you want to know what the Marine Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 061516188X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, South Carolina, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October of that year, 1962, and then on to their duty stations and, for some, Vietnam. If you want to know what the Marine Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!
Any Other Name
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In the title story, Any Other Name, it is 1962 and the world is on the brink of nuclear war. For 13 days in October what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged in Cuba, the United States and Russia and the story begins when a 21 year-old ex-marine, working for the CIA, becomes involved in the operations. The young ex-marine was there when DEF CON 2, one step before all-out nuclear war, was activated and he saw history made from a much different angle than anyone else and this, then, is his story.The Terror is told in the 1st person and the subject-the writer's friend-known only as the Russian, is a study in contradictions. Here is yet another book of short stories by author Keith G. Laufenberg all of which will stay on your mind long after you've put the book back down.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In the title story, Any Other Name, it is 1962 and the world is on the brink of nuclear war. For 13 days in October what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis raged in Cuba, the United States and Russia and the story begins when a 21 year-old ex-marine, working for the CIA, becomes involved in the operations. The young ex-marine was there when DEF CON 2, one step before all-out nuclear war, was activated and he saw history made from a much different angle than anyone else and this, then, is his story.The Terror is told in the 1st person and the subject-the writer's friend-known only as the Russian, is a study in contradictions. Here is yet another book of short stories by author Keith G. Laufenberg all of which will stay on your mind long after you've put the book back down.
The Manly Art
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Manly Art is another collection of writer Keith G. Laufenberg's short stories, only this time with the defining factor being that they all involve the sport of boxing. Having been in the sport himself, beginning at age 17, when he entered Marine Corps boot camp, and ending after seven years, fought as a professional, he is afforded a closer more intimate look into the boxers lives. In "Sonny Liston's Eyes," the reader is taken into the Underworld of the sport when a writer interviews an ex-mobster-who is dying of lung cancer-and claims to have killed Sonny Liston, as well as JFK and Martin Luthur King Jr. He tells an incredible story but backs it up by saying he has absolutely verifiable evidence that he will produce for the writer. In "Frankenstein" we see why a young amateur boxer should have picked boxing over football. He has little say in the matter though as his father and uncle have trained him his entire life for football and it, along with the other stories, will keep you glued to the page.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Manly Art is another collection of writer Keith G. Laufenberg's short stories, only this time with the defining factor being that they all involve the sport of boxing. Having been in the sport himself, beginning at age 17, when he entered Marine Corps boot camp, and ending after seven years, fought as a professional, he is afforded a closer more intimate look into the boxers lives. In "Sonny Liston's Eyes," the reader is taken into the Underworld of the sport when a writer interviews an ex-mobster-who is dying of lung cancer-and claims to have killed Sonny Liston, as well as JFK and Martin Luthur King Jr. He tells an incredible story but backs it up by saying he has absolutely verifiable evidence that he will produce for the writer. In "Frankenstein" we see why a young amateur boxer should have picked boxing over football. He has little say in the matter though as his father and uncle have trained him his entire life for football and it, along with the other stories, will keep you glued to the page.
Muhammad's Revenge
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420284
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Muhammad's Revenge is a collection of short stories that literally forces the reader to bring the realities of life on this earth, along with such terrible things as war, into sharp focus and to concentrate on why things happen as they do-when they do-and what happens to the soul when this life on earth is over. In the title story, "Muhammad's Revenge," we see how the war experiences of a single human being can bring an apocalypse to the entire world. In "Peace on Earth" the realities of the horrors of World War I become starkly vivid and real but so does the humanity of mankind when the Germans and the English armies call a one-day truce, a historic event, that actually did happen. In "Big Sugar," as in all these stories, we see the personal as well as private lives of many of the characters, in their darkest moments and how one life's circumstances which end in a tragic death can alter history for all the others involved for the better.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420284
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Muhammad's Revenge is a collection of short stories that literally forces the reader to bring the realities of life on this earth, along with such terrible things as war, into sharp focus and to concentrate on why things happen as they do-when they do-and what happens to the soul when this life on earth is over. In the title story, "Muhammad's Revenge," we see how the war experiences of a single human being can bring an apocalypse to the entire world. In "Peace on Earth" the realities of the horrors of World War I become starkly vivid and real but so does the humanity of mankind when the Germans and the English armies call a one-day truce, a historic event, that actually did happen. In "Big Sugar," as in all these stories, we see the personal as well as private lives of many of the characters, in their darkest moments and how one life's circumstances which end in a tragic death can alter history for all the others involved for the better.
I AM AN AMERICAN
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699007
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In "I Am an American" we get a flavorful mixture of poems: everything freedom, politics, destiny and religion to the fact that if there is one thing we can count on, besides death and taxes, it is that the sun, sooner or later, will come up.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699007
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In "I Am an American" we get a flavorful mixture of poems: everything freedom, politics, destiny and religion to the fact that if there is one thing we can count on, besides death and taxes, it is that the sun, sooner or later, will come up.
The Profit Factor
Author: Keith Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
It's 1979 and Jimmy Carter's administration is seeing 21% interest rates. In the city of Sacramento, California, Gary Greb labors as a union carpenter but with a wife and two toddlers to support-and, as new construction is all but non-existent, he tries real estate sales; putting his knowledge of construction techniques and land-use to bolster his earnings, He quickly finds that one group-the excessively wealthy-are totally unfazed by the recessionary times and when he finds an engineer, with ties to people with unlimited funds, who will buy any piece of land at any reasonable price-for cash-he begins a career that will ultimately land him in prison, as well as turn him from the working class into a part of the wealthy landowners-a class he has come to disdain, distrust and dislike. If you never lived through these times in the 1970's and 80's, take heed and scrutinize today's headlines and economy and remember history has a way of repeating itself-and God only knows when the cycle will begin to spin again.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
It's 1979 and Jimmy Carter's administration is seeing 21% interest rates. In the city of Sacramento, California, Gary Greb labors as a union carpenter but with a wife and two toddlers to support-and, as new construction is all but non-existent, he tries real estate sales; putting his knowledge of construction techniques and land-use to bolster his earnings, He quickly finds that one group-the excessively wealthy-are totally unfazed by the recessionary times and when he finds an engineer, with ties to people with unlimited funds, who will buy any piece of land at any reasonable price-for cash-he begins a career that will ultimately land him in prison, as well as turn him from the working class into a part of the wealthy landowners-a class he has come to disdain, distrust and dislike. If you never lived through these times in the 1970's and 80's, take heed and scrutinize today's headlines and economy and remember history has a way of repeating itself-and God only knows when the cycle will begin to spin again.
The Tower of Power
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Tower of Power provides the reader with a rare glimpse into an American institution, the car business, and is written with such an insider's knowledge, truthfully showing---without any melodrama---all the grief and ugliness as well as the joy and beauty that surrounds so many of these cunning, calculating and captivating characters' lives, that you'll remember them long after you've finished reading the book---especially when you realize that they're all bit players in this tragic/comedy called life and that one of them could have easily been you.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991420209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Tower of Power provides the reader with a rare glimpse into an American institution, the car business, and is written with such an insider's knowledge, truthfully showing---without any melodrama---all the grief and ugliness as well as the joy and beauty that surrounds so many of these cunning, calculating and captivating characters' lives, that you'll remember them long after you've finished reading the book---especially when you realize that they're all bit players in this tragic/comedy called life and that one of them could have easily been you.
THE HUMAN BEINGS
Author: Keith G. Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"THE HUMAN BEINGS" is a story written for children, of all ages, from 1-120. It is a story that sticks to the truth, as much as the imagination of any child can stick to the truth. The roots of the story come from the biblical Adam & Eve story and progress in a vein that is intended for little children, as well as all children, to learn how they must treat animals, as well as each other in order not just to be happy but even to assure the survival of the entire planet's population. It centers on the fact that both men and women, human beings, must get along, not only with each other, by not judging one another and engaging in war after war with each other but also with the animal kingdom and the fact that the human beings must learn how to live with every creature on earth because if human beings cannot even learn the simple truth that they must befriend and share the earth with their animal brethren than they will never be able to befriend and share the earth with human beings of a different skin color, country or religion.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1944699104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"THE HUMAN BEINGS" is a story written for children, of all ages, from 1-120. It is a story that sticks to the truth, as much as the imagination of any child can stick to the truth. The roots of the story come from the biblical Adam & Eve story and progress in a vein that is intended for little children, as well as all children, to learn how they must treat animals, as well as each other in order not just to be happy but even to assure the survival of the entire planet's population. It centers on the fact that both men and women, human beings, must get along, not only with each other, by not judging one another and engaging in war after war with each other but also with the animal kingdom and the fact that the human beings must learn how to live with every creature on earth because if human beings cannot even learn the simple truth that they must befriend and share the earth with their animal brethren than they will never be able to befriend and share the earth with human beings of a different skin color, country or religion.