Patrick phair (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Daniel Mannheim, an autistic high school savant, is introduced to Mark Flour, a retired German teacher living in a local nursing home, ostensibly to learn German. But what the senior in high school finds is a World War II POW veteran with a secretive past. Encouraged to improve his social skills, Daniel joins the writing club at the nursing home and works with the reluctant POW hero as a subject for an upcoming writing contest. Mark and Daniel develop a strong bond that probes their previous lives. Mark detests being thought of as a hero, and Daniel has much anxiety over graduation, future fears of living on his own, and parental pressure to attend the senior prom. Secrets are revealed by young and old alike, and the truth hangs raw emotions out like pictures at a public exhibition.The action slips back and forth from battlefields of World War II to the farmlands of central Wisconsin in the 1940s to the contemporary dayroom of a modern retirement home and the halls of Oakwood High School, in Oakwood, Wisconsin.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Mannheim, an autistic high school savant, is introduced to Mark Flour, a retired German teacher living in a local nursing home, ostensibly to learn German. But what the senior in high school finds is a World War II POW veteran with a secretive past. Encouraged to improve his social skills, Daniel joins the writing club at the nursing home and works with the reluctant POW hero as a subject for an upcoming writing contest. Mark and Daniel develop a strong bond that probes their previous lives. Mark detests being thought of as a hero, and Daniel has much anxiety over graduation, future fears of living on his own, and parental pressure to attend the senior prom. Secrets are revealed by young and old alike, and the truth hangs raw emotions out like pictures at a public exhibition.The action slips back and forth from battlefields of World War II to the farmlands of central Wisconsin in the 1940s to the contemporary dayroom of a modern retirement home and the halls of Oakwood High School, in Oakwood, Wisconsin. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A small town murder. Modern-day Nazis. Only a determined detective and a brilliant consultant can solve this crime.With the end of World War II, several notorious concentration camp perpetrators during the Holocaust attempt to avoid capture from the Allies by hiding in plain sight. Decades later the Nazi subterfuge rears its ugly head during a murder investigation in an American small town nursing home. The dogged determination by the only detective on the Oakwood Police Department and his quirky but brilliant consultant reveal the horrible legacy of the Nazi regime. The Nazis Among Us covers several generations and is a reminder that prejudice, bigotry, and anti-Semitism have taken hold in present times, and they must be rooted out.About the AuthorPatrick Phair was born and raised in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with an undergraduate degree in English followed by an MA in creative writing from Minnesota State University. An educator for nearly forty years, Phair now concentrates on writing, this being his third novel (previous works include Two Flags for Marco and The Exchange). He has had three plays produced and scores of poems published. He lives with his wife Mary in Appleton, Wisconsin.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorPatrick Phair is a retired English teacher who has published poems, plays, and this his debut novel. His writings explore what happens to normal people when they collide with those whose experiences are driven by confl.