The Ramos Files gathers together three connected works shaped by family, memory, inheritance, and the uneasy persistence of the past. Set across the Philippines, England, France, Germany, and California, these pages follow lives joined not only by blood and affection, but by distance, silence, secrecy, and the long afterlife of what has been buried.At the heart of the book lies a question that reaches across generations: what do we inherit, and what do we choose to carry forward? S...

Under the Mango Tree is a moving novel of love, memory, and legacy that unfolds across the Philippines, France, England, and California. Letecia, born to an English father and a Filipina mother, grows up in the Philippines beneath the shade of the mango tree in her family garden. When she discovers a cache of old letters and family papers, she is drawn into a journey through hidden histories, long-buried truths, and the lives that came before her.As Letecia follows...

An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for changeColleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions bribery scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges' pursuit o...

An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for changeColleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions bribery scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges' pursuit of...

Abstract Words Are Vitamins is a reflective and experimental poetry collection that explores the power, playfulness, and complexity of language. Through abstract verse, rhythmic wordplay, and philosophical musings, Anthony Peter Prior examines themes of identity, mental struggle, creativity, morality, freedom, love, society, and self-discovery.The poems move fluidly between nonsense and sense, chaos and order, mirroring the way thoughts form and reform in the mind. Language is trea...

Miracles can happen in unexpected places. Even during a decadent Easter Carnival weekend on St. Thomas in the U.S.Virgin Islands. What would you do if you were given a profound message that changed your life? What would you do if you discovered the messenger was an angel? Would you ever be the same? Key Master is the incredible true story of one mans journey, when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary. Uplifting, enlightening and magical Key Master takes us on the unusual journey of a you...

When bankrupt farmer Ray Marak saves the life of his friend and banker, Josh Werther, neither they nor their neighbours can imagine what the night will bring.Still traumatised by his time in Vietnam, Ray’s world has shrunk – to the boundaries of his small hometown of Immaculate, and the warmth of his adored family: his young sons Jacob and Ethan, and his wife Renee; Renee, the woman who waited for him during his wartime hell.But as the snow accumulates, so do the townspeopl...

Woggers PigBy Peter AnthonyA text message dated March 21, 2016 from Laurie, author Peter Anthony’s granddaughter, age 27, reads, “I read the Memoirs [now Woggers Pig] from start to end, It’s excellent, such a great account of life at that time! The rumblings and reality of impending war, with some delightfully amusing writings of your experiences, a few tears and some laugh out loud. X.”One may wonder what the book title Woggers Pig has to do with the contents. It i...

Over the years among the many poems and stories I have written, I have felt compelled to write of the experience of soldiers. I was a little too young during the era of the Vietnam conflict, saw all the news growing up and managed to miss the last draft lottery with a 176. They only drafted to 45 that year. Regardless of my story, these pages are about the stories of those who served in places like Vietnam, Gettysburg, the Battle of Britain, the Frozen Chosin, the mountains of Afghanistan,...

A collection of poems about People who meet and because of the alignment or misalignment of the stars, some twist of fate, or long forgotten destiny, they are swept together and then apart by the tides of life, leaving them to wonder what it meant ...

Here the reader will find a story of love, its beginning, the way love grows, the heartaches of expression and separation, and the blessings of love as it becomes present in the lives of two people - expressed in this collection of poems written for my wife during 15 years of courtship, love, and marriage.

Confessions of a Single Man is an inspiring exploration of life through the lens and experiences of author Peter Anthony. In this book, the author eloquently shares his deepest secrets, biggest fears, and triumphs through poetry and prose. What is it really like to be a single man in the twenty-first century? This book answers that essential question for both men and women. For those who have failed at the game of love or succeeded, there is a lesson to take away with each page. Peter Anth...