Bynum Westmoreland
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The Orb & Prince Asper (2nd book of series) continues the delightful fantasy of adolescent exploration begun in The Orb & Ward Asper. It furthers the tale of a boy made parentless by the cruel action of a prison wagon's guard who is annoyed by the child's crying. Happily, the infant lives, and grows up as ward of Priest King Trapunto and Nunsin. Grasping the potential of Asper's unique talent of face changing, Queen Nunsin formally adopts him. The...
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The Messiah's Path (1st book of series) promises to enrage Christian dogma. For many centuries of recorded Biblical history, the Old Testament has told of men and women who prophesy the coming of the Jews' most revered Messiah. Finally, a man arises who, fed up with inaction, deems it his destiny to breathe life into these prophecies. This historic epic features a young rabbinical graduate, Nico (known as Nicodemus in the New Testament) who envisions...
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The Voglers of East Blunt (1st book of series) is a historical novel about a fictional teenage boy named Willum. Though the central figure, he is overwhelmed by his stepfather, Dirk Chivers (i.e.: real life pirate during the last decade of the 17th century) and his storybook mother, Margareth Vogler whose husband is slaughtered in the historic raid Tuscarora Indians near New Bern, Carolina in 1711. This saga opens as Willum sees his father killed...
5) Gone Astray
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Jillia's Man, Gone Astray (1st book of series) tells the story of two people: Jillia, born into a prominent and affluent Montevideo family; and Char, the bastard son of a Baltimore industrialist and a devoted woman from the ghetto. He - reared in Baltimore's slums - steals and fights to exist, hunts and fishes with an Afro stepfather, leaves school at twelve, and apprentices as a shipbuilder but rejected as too unruly. At thirteen, he stows away aboard...
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The Messiah's Trek (2nd book of series) continues the quasi-historical novel. It begins a year before Jesus' conception and ends when he is twelve years old. From events of the story, readers learn about the people, places, history, and customs of ancient Palestine, and Judea. For many centuries of recorded Biblical history, the Old Testament had told of men and women who prophesied the coming of the Jew's most revered Messiah. A Rabbinical student...
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The Orb & Ward Asper (1st book of series) combines realty, delightful fantasy, and childhood mayhem. It is the compelling story of Asper, a boy made parentless by the cruel action of a prison wagon's guard, annoyed by the child's crying. An unjust ruling has condemned his family (known as the Falconers) to a penal colony in a far-away valley. Through the bars of the wagon, they watch the guard fling their swaddled infant across the roadside, toward...