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Thursday, July 11, 2024

CHARLES YNFANTE'S NON-FICTION HISTORY: "GOD, NAZIS and GENOCIDE: THE HOLOCAUST. A HISTORY"


 This is an historical and analytical overview of the Holocaust of the World War 2 Era. God. Nazis. Genocide. Auschwitz. Atomic Bomb. Africa. The Holocaust in the mid-twentieth century --- not long ago from our time --- was and is a challenging moment and era. I believe it should never happen again.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NON-FICTION: "WAR and MODERNIZATION"


 This is an economic, social and political analysis of war.  War is on the surface devastation and destruction. But war also contributes to modernizng a region, state or country. War forces the advancement of necessary improvements in social life, industry, technology, and other areas to counter the threat and destruction of war.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NON-FICTION: "GLOBALIZATION of the AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: A Five-Hundred Year Economic and Social History"


 This is an economic and social history. The influence of globalization in the American Southwest is not a new or recent trend of the twentieth or twenty-first century. The phenomenon of globalization goes back centuries to the arrival of the first Spanish and the French, among others. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are only the most pronounced aspects of Globilization but there are earlier influences as well. My study is a general overview.  

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL of HISTORICAL FICTION: "YORK"


 This is a novel of historical fiction. The story of York, the black slave, an African American,  who was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the year 1804. The Corps of Discovery was trying to find the mythical "Northwest Passage" from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. This is his story, as seen through my eyes. 

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "VOYAGE at the END of TIME"


  As the universe collapses back onto itself,  a daughter --- an historian--- awaits to hear from her father --- an astrophysicist--- who has gone on an intergalactic pilgrimage to Earth during the cataclysm of the end of time … the end of everything.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL: "THE VESUVIAN PROPHECY"


 In the year 68 A.D., a young man, Divinius, a would-be prophet, meets the Roman general who murdered his father. Divinius wants revenge. Meanwhile, he is in love with a woman he feels he will never have. He also believes he has predicted the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but no one believes him.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "THE STRIKE"


 In the near future, a fighter jet pilot assigned to protect the President’s plane, shoots it down, blaming the President for the a world-wide nuclear war that has killed his parents and bride-to-be. The fighter pilot faces the end of the world alone in a jungle.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "SILER TWIGG and WILLY"


 Siler Twigg's best friend, Willy, has died. But he and his dead friends return to give Siler and his pals one last big-banger party of a lifetime. What results is really out of this world.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL: "PREDATOR"


 A serial killer, Vester Grewg, is on a rampage. He is also involved with his own personal lovers: Donny, a gas station convenience store clerk; and a new found lover, a French man. Vester is also pursued by the daughter of church leaders. Yet, she wants desperately to become his sex slave. Homicide detectives Gary Blake, a married man with children, and Julie Nicks, single, must stop Grewg before he kills again. But they also must deal with the fact that they are falling in love with each other.
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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "DRACULA and the SHARK"


 This is a whimsical and light hearted story about Dray Cula, a vampire, and Fat Louie, a great white shark. They are in competition, a power struggle. Dray is a life guard on the beach and Fat Louie wants to eat everybody in the surf. Who will win? Dray and his vampire fangs or Fat Louie with his sharp teeth?

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY COLLECTION"


 A collection of short stories ranging ffom literary fiction to pulp fiction. From the silly and humorous to the serious. They are different genres. Three may not be suitable for young adults.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S "SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION"


 "Voyage at the end of Time": The universe is collapsing back onto itself. A daughter, an historian, awaits to hear from her father, an astrophysicist, who has gone on an intergalactic pilgrimage to Earth at the end of time. "Sounds of Life": Aliens visit a planet. "Love": Phineas wants to give his true love the perfect gift. "The Game": A football coach is put to the test by space Aliens. "Last World": A single flower is all that is left. "CLO[w]N[e]": A man clones himself --- genetic engineering --- wondering what it would be like to interact with himself. "The Strike": In the near future, a fighter jet pilot assigned to protect the President's plane, shoots it down, blaming the President for a world-wide nuclear war that has killed the aviator's parents and bride-to-be. "The Source": In the far distant future, Humankind is forced to live in hermetically sealed plastic domes. The Earth is barren and uninhabitable because of deadly viruses. Somewhere out there is an Anti-Body Source to fight the deadly virus and free Humankind from their confines. Three individuals risk all to save the world.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S COMPLETE "POETRY to POEMS"


 Poems on Science & Math, Friendship, Love, Death, Nature, and the World, among other topics. Some poems are in French and Spanish. Please, enjoy!

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "MR. ORY and FAMILY"


 Mr. Ory, a wealthy man in the city and the world, controls his family. Then his brother arrives needing a place to stay for a few days. Life for all begins to unravel.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL of HISTORICAL FICTION: "THE OLD MAN, BEOWULF, and the KING"


 This is historical fiction. Blacks live in poverty in a run-down tenement building. Their modest livelihood and uncertain future are threatened by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan. Their only hope is a 95-year-old man in a wheelchair.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL of HISTORICAL FICTION: "THE DELERIA MOSAIC"


 This is historical fiction. In the year 1952, Moscow, Russia, a young man, veteran, and woman, a violinist, are emotionally and mentally scarred from their experiences in World War 2 when the Nazis attacked. The couple meet and slowly fall in love, trying to find the meaning of life for their future. At the same time, dissidents in Moscow want to topple the Soviet Union; while in Naples, Italy, an older couple marry and try to adjust to a post-war world.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: THE DEVIL’S INSURANCE MAN"


 The Devil is worn out and living in poverty from being tracked by modern surveillance in the 21st century. He can no longer do his dirty deeds in secret or by trying to hide. He seeks help from an insurance man to help him out.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL: "THE IMPRISONED"


 In the dystopian future, murderers, political treasonous, and racists are in a prison called Correctional Decontamination Center, a Federal Prison. The future is bleak with no hope. Those who are lucky to get parole are sent to the City, destitute and overcrowded with desperate people who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Those who are less lucky are sent into the foreboding Wilderness. There they must fight to survive with limited resources in the mountains and forests --- and other dangerous outcasts, who believe that life is cheap.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL: "HITLER’S TOMB"


 The story takes place today. It happens in an isolated mountain in the American West. A vacation resort is on that forested mountain. Many people are there to relax. But a strange fog has formed everywhere. From out of the fissures of the mist come Things from the deep past. These Things are Hitler's minions. The people in the resort do whatever they can to survive.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'SNOVEL: "THE HIDDEN"


 A father loses his daughter to a cult of devil worshippers. He races to save her before she becomes one of the devil’s own.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

CHARLES YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "THE DOG"


 A man, Leroy Barnes, who just wants to live in a small town and do his job is harrassed by a dog and its owner. Leroy takes the entire matter into his own hands. A satiric and mutely dark short story.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVELLA: "THE COIN"


 How far and how long are you willing to go for true, ever-lasting love? A month? A century? Or ten thousand years? Time and place will stretch, bend and fold into each other in this short tale, “The Coin.”

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YNFANTE'S SHORT STORY: "CLO[w]N[e]"


 In this short story “Clo[W]n[E], a would be biochemist creates a clone of himself. He is obsessed with the idea of what it would be like to meet and experience himself. What he finds out is distasteful and unwanted. Be careful what you wish for…

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVELLA: "CHECKS"


 A family living in an isolated house in the desert wait for their checks — their money — that never arrive electronically or by snail mail. The pressure on them mounts until they crack.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL: "BUTTERFLY of EDEN"


 A man, Mariner Manchild, awakes to a call that his father has died. Someone Mariner had never met, known, or heard from his entire life. Once in his father's neighborhood, Mariner meets the circle of people who knew the deceased man. Mariner tries to unravel the knot of mystery that was his father’s life. With that confrontation, Mariner must face who he himself really is.

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CHARLES YNFANTE'S NOVEL: "THE BETRAYAL"


 In the year 1972 in Orange County, Southern California, an ex-Nazi, Ulrich Kreitz, recruits a young man to the cause of Neo-Nazis. What Ulrich Kreitz does not know is that the new recruit, Heinrich Traupman, wants revenge against Ulrich.

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