Böcker av Mark W Sasse

An ancient warrior awakens to fight for her people.Modern day Hanoi. A giant, shadowy menace has been terrorizing the capital of Vietnam for two years as Chinese troops occupy the city. But old Mr. Tho sees something he can't quite believe. He's convinced that the indominable warrior is actually an ancient Chinese emperor brought back to life. Mr. Tho, along with his neighbor and her son, try the unthinkable. They attempt to summon the spirit of Lady Trieu, the lauded Vietnamese heroine, who repelled the Chinese two millenniums ago. To do so, they decide to plunge beneath the depths of mysterious Hoan Kiem Lake at the center of Hanoi and in hopes that Mr. Tho's four magical marble tablets will allow history to come to life.A giant turtle, an ancient lost bird, a demon warrior, a mysterious beast and a resolute heroine come face to face with old Mr. Tho and his two neighbors in a thrilling adventure to save Hanoi from utter destruction. Lady Trieu and the Demon Warrior of Hanoi is a contemporary fantasy adventure, which explores a common theme in Vietnamese history: the struggle for a national identity.Novelist and playwright Mark W Sasse lived in northern Vietnam for ten years. He learned the language and studied the culture and history of this proud ancient nation. This novel is his attempt to allow the glory of Vietnam's past to shine into the present in a fast-paced fantasy that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The creation myth, and baseball's lost men.Charles "Shoeshine" Henry travels to Iowa to search for the truth about a historical, mysterious baseball league. As he enters Davenport, he hits a man with his rental car. The man smashes his hood with a baseball bat. That man turns out to be Canadian author W.P. Kinsella. This sets off a series of bizarre encounters between Kinsella and Charles Henry as he tries to discover a lost lineup of forgotten ballplayers and Kinsella tries to save the game's integrity from a historical conspiracy.The mythical gods of baseball are up to something!While Kinsella and Henry are locked in their struggle for the truth, Raymond Blythe mysteriously returns to Iowa with the gods of baseball, tasked with creating the perfect game prescribed by Aristotle in the Pythagorean Society's List of Opposites. To prove that baseball is that game, Raymond tells forgotten stories of his beloved former team, the Winasook Iron Horses. If Blythe and the gods can create the game in time, and if Kinsella and Charles can discover their way to the mystical field, perhaps a grand homecoming can occur, which will inaugurate baseball's first pitch.All the wonderfully quirky characters return!Book Two of the Myths & Tales of the Winasook Iron Horses returns with all the wonderful and quirky characters from book 1, A Diamond for Her. But this time, the stakes are higher. Part historical fiction, part thriller, part adventure, part magical realism, part fantasy, The Lost Lineup is an adventure cobbled together like no other, brimming with unique historical characters and poignant stories. It is a baseball lover's dream as it delves into the creation story of the world's greatest game.Myths & Tales of the Winasook Iron HorsesBook 1 - A Diamond for HerBook 2 - The Lost Lineup

Her father told her he would return from war. He didn't.On Christmas Eve 1944, two men in uniforms knock on the door of the Ares' house to inform Mrs. Ares that her husband had been killed in the war. At that moment, nine-year-old Roberta enters an adult world of inconsistencies and inexplicable grief as she tries to make sense of her father never returning.Before he left for war, her father told her he had to cross the water far away to help fight for their country. Roberta becomes convinced that if she can cross the large lake by their house, she will be able to find her father and discover the truth about what happened. Through trial, error, and painful lessons, she embarks on a journey in her mind in search of peace and understanding as Christmas in '45-the year anniversary of her father's death-approaches.