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In 1795, two young boys return home from fishing to find their parish priest has been guillotined in the town square. Seventeen years later, Jean-Luc and Adrien have faced every horror and hardship imaginable as part of the emperor''s Grande Armée, but their greatest challenge is still ahead: to find Jean-Luc''s love, Anna Lise."Jean-Luc & Anna Lise" is set in the turbulent years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars and follows the lives of three childhood friends: Jean-Luc, Adrien, and Adrien''s sister, Anna Lise. Jean-Luc and Adrien join Napoleon''s army expecting grand adventure and glory. They do find courage and comradery, but they must also endure disease, intense suffering, and death. Complicating their lives is Jean-Luc''s growing love for Anna Lise, who has fled with her parents from France to Russia-the country they must now invade. Will Jean-Luc and Adrien find Anna Lise, survive the brutal Russian winter, and return home to France? Can Jean-Luc reconcile himself with the horrors he has witnessed?

"I got to see her triumph and fall apart. I wept and cheered for her. She was so beautiful and so strong, so weak and hurting, all swept together and intertwined." ~ from an included prose piece titled, My Life Story in Music. These are poems from my idyllic youth, my rebellion, my wild abandon, up to my rescue, redemption, and rebirth as a functioning member of society, and a grown woman with a family of my own. In my early days, I wrote about pain, which was easy. The harder thing was to learn to write about all the joy and adventure of being happy and loved. It wasn"t until later in life that I found my community of artists and really learned to tell the tales from all the angles. I am indebted to the Fresno Rogue Festival, in California, where I first read for an audience and fell in love with receiving a standing ovation. Also, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Rogue Poetry Slam in Southern Oregon, where I learned to do competitive poetry and bring my best, and bring the poetry that I was afraid to share, that made my hands tremble and my voice quake, to sit in awe of the skill of other poets, and sometimes take home the money and win, even with the odds stacked against me, as other poets made the room jump and dance to their words. Oh, sweet victory! "If you have ever loved another, been passionate about anything, mourned a loss, been a parent, heck, been alive - this poet will move you! Her rhythmic words pulse with the beat that promises (like it or not) the continuum of LIFE." - Patti Thornton, in her review of Liesl Garner"s 2008 Rogue Festival Poetry Show

THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES HIS EARLY YEARS SURVIVING THE AIR RAIDS WHICH DESTROYED BOTH HIS SCHOOL AND HOME IN FRANKFURT, GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II, BEFORE IMMIGRATING TO THE US.In 1960, he joined the Department of Defense Dependents Schools as a young teacher taking him on an eighteen-day ship ride across the Pacific to his first assignment. Serving in various educational positions, he describes his life on Okinawa, returning to his native Germany where he witnessed both the fall of the Wall and the reunification in Berlin; living thirty miles from the treacherous North Korean border in Seoul; supervising a 6,200-mile school district out of Adana, Turkey and winding up his 45-year career residing near Venice, Italy.