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Written by Brian Azzerello, “For Tomorrow” was a 12 issue storyline in Superman comics. A phenomenon called “the vanishing” causes a million people vanish. Because one of the vanished is Lois Lane, Superman finds himself searching for answers.

Father Daniel Leone is having a crisis. So is Superman, who visits the priest to make a confession about the last year in his life. This series of dialogues dominate the story arc.

Superman tells of a weapon that was used to create the vanishing. Superman mentions ‘the vanishing’ originated in the Middle East and that it occurred while Supes was in orbit helping Green Lantern save the planet. His search for the source of the phenomenon took him to Qurac. Superman disarms both sides in the civil war, but they proceed to brain one another with stones. Superman fights a beastly villain named Equus. Equus is a super-soldier in the army of General Nox. Nox uses the disarmament to seize power in Qurac.

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Meanwhile, Father Leone is dying of cancer. Mr. Orr begins tracking Superman, alternately visiting with Father Leone. And a woman (Halcyon) begins to harry Superman. She magically creates monsters from each of the four elements, including four giants made from Mount Rushmore. The giants threaten to obliterate Earth’s population, allowing the planet to start anew. Superman one-ups the monsters, telling them if Earth’s people are destroyed, he will scorch the Earth so no life can live upon it, then find a new homeworld. Halcyon’s monsters disappear. Wonder Woman shows up in the desert with Halcyon.

Father Leone dreams about Superman, who wants Leone to leap to his doom as a sign of faith, claiming he will then cure Leone’s cancer. Leone does so, but wakes from his dream. Meanwhile, Superman comes upon a Batman-Joker showdown, where the Joker throws a woman off a roof. Superman saves her, then talks to Batman about the ‘disappearance’ of Clark Kent. Batman and he argue as usual.

Halcyon gives Wonder Woman a sword with which to kill Superman. Wonder Woman thinks Superman is going to use the vanishing weapon against himself.

Superman takes Father Leone to the Fortress of Solitude, but refuses to find a cure for cancer. Wonder Woman and Mr. Orr track Superman there. Wonder Woman and Superman battle. Superman activates the vanishing weapon, which causes him and the fortress to disappear. In the aftermath, Mr. Orr takes Father Leone to a CIA center for cancer treatments.

All that is left is for Superman to appear in the vanishing realm. Lois and Clark are there. Lois is picking peaches, and Clark tells Superman he has stopped visiting Lois because he realized Lois loves Superman. Superman visits Lois and the two make sweet love. He realizes the vanishing realm, named Metropia by Lois, is his paradise. Equus attacks Clark. This is the cliffhanger.

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Author: Paul Levine
ISBN: 0440242746

Steve Solomon is the kind of a lawyer you would like to have on your side when
you believe you are in serious trouble with the law. Solomon believes that if
the facts don’t fit the law, bend the facts. On the other hand, his law partner,
Victoria Lord, brings a certain amount of ethical respectability to the
unorthodox Miami law firm of Solomon & Lord. These two lawyers originally teamed
up in Paul Levine’s previous novel, Solomon vs. Lord and are now once again
putting their unconventional lawyering skills to the test, as evidenced in the
author’s latest novel, The Deep Blue Alibi: A Solomon vs Lord Novel.

The opening chapter of Levine’s recent novel has Steve trying to seduce his lady
friend and law partner Victoria into making love in the Ocean. While these
shenanigans are going on, the couple watch in horror as a yacht washes up on the
shores of Sunset Key in the Florida Keys with a hundred thousand dollars. Two
men are found on the boat, one of whom, Ben Stubbs, has been badly injured with
a metal spear protruding from his chest. The other, Hal Griffin, turns out to be
a close family friend of Victoria, whom she had not seen in years and whom she
refers to as her uncle Grif.

Stubb does not survive and uncle Grif is now on the hot seat, accused of murder.
Motive or lack of one seems to be a factor here, as Grif was involved in a huge
multi-million dollar project called Oceania, wherein a hotel and casino were to
be built on coral reefs. Stubbs was an employee of a government environmental
agency, and he was supposed to have agreed to write up a favorable report giving
the go ahead for the project. Could it be that he changed his mind, double
crossing Grif, or could it be that someone wanted to sabotage the entire project
due to the environmental harm it would cause?

To add a little more spice to the novel, Levine works in family secrets
pertaining to Steve and Victoria. Apparently, many years ago Steve’s father had
resigned as judge in the Florida courts and had also lost his license to
practice law. This occurred when his friend Peter (Pinky) Luber fingered him
during a corruption probe. In order to save neck and reduce his own prison
sentence, Pinky told the Grand Jury that Solomon Sr. had taken bribes to rezone
agricultural property to commercial use. Steve now wants to set the record
straight and get his father’s license back.

Victoria has her problems when she reveals that her father had committed suicide without even leaving a note to say he loved her. This is something she never could come to terms with and has been a part of her psychological baggage she has been carrying around for several years. However, in both secondary themes, all is not what it appears, as revealed in the headlong rush in the final chapters of the novel, where there are some shocking and interesting denouements.

Levine can clearly write a good easy-to-read mystery narrative with eccentric characters and an intentionally convoluted plot that at times is over the top. However, it does keep you coming back for more of the same, as we follow the careers of Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord through the halls of justice.

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“Dance with me so I can show you the way to get gloriously lost in the
forest.“ This charming quote from the book, “Which is More
Round, the World or Your Tummy,” is a great introduction to the delightful
dance of words found on every page. The author, Leslie Miklosy, lets his prose twirl
and play, dance and giggle, hit and run. I found reading his book to be a thoroughly
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scratch my head a little now and then.

Once you open the cover, you will find a book that is fast and easy to read if
you choose, yet if you prefer to read it slowly and thoroughly, you will have a
greater appreciation of the writing skill and talent of this writer. “Which is More
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little book packed with serious delights for the mind, heart, soul and … funny
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I recommend this imaginative and insightful collection of original quotes,
musings, poetry, philosophy, observations and thoughts to anyone who likes to
read for mental stimulation or for plain entertainment. “Tummy” covers
such a wide variety of topics that I cannot imagine anyone not finding something to
thoroughly enjoy.

If thoughts are nourishment of the mind and words are food for the soul, then
Mr. Miklosy has written a delightful side dish of life. I hope there will be a second
helping in the future!

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Reader Views would like to welcome Gary Pisarski, author of “Black River Crossing,” a new historical fiction set in the Civil War era.

Juanita: Thank you for talking with us today Gary. Please give us an idea of the storyline in “Black River Crossing.”

Gary: A young unmarried couple, Carol Ann and Will, survive the horror of the Civil War and its aftermath. Sweethearts before the war, they move westward to escape the hopelessness of a South Carolina in despair. For Carol Ann, the journey leads her to a new life at the Double-M ranch in Texas, spanning a period of eleven years until everything she has found is threatened as a result of the Black River crossing.

Juanita: What is the underlying theme of your book?

Gary: My interest is the human experience and although Carol Ann is the central character, this is a story of several other characters as well and their intertwining relationships. At any point in time, we all react to one another and in crisis situations based on what has happened in our lives previously. That is the basis of the actions taken by the key characters in the book in the final scenes of Black River Crossing.

Juanita: Give us a little insight into the hearts and minds of the leading characters.

Gary: I believe that the relationship between an author and his or her characters is like that of a parent and children. The characters we create and the children we raise take the values we have tried to mold into their beings. And like the parent letting go as their child leaves home for the world outside the family unit, the characters in a book come to life in their new relationship with the reader. Carol Ann is a strong, kind, and loving young woman who in the beginning of the book has lost the people who were the center of her life. Like Will, she has a good heart, and as such they don’t always recognize the deception of others that eventually separates their lives. Agnes is a woman who like Carol Ann, once left her home at an early age looking for a better life, but fate led on a different journey. And when the two women meet, Agnes is driven by her own desires for her son.

Juanita: What is Carol Ann’s message to your readers?

Gary: Life does not always turn out as youth dreams it will be and we cannot hold on physically to the people we meet early in our lives. Carol Ann’s strength was her ability to accept life knowing that memories are nourishing while regrets are bitter.

Juanita: What does “Black River Crossing” suggest to us about ‘fate’?

Gary: The people that touch us in different periods of our lives, family, friends, and loves, stay in the heart and are treasured in the mind forever. Fate cannot take us back in time to relive the past, but what we all carry from the past determines how we respond to the challenges brought by fate.

Juanita: What are some of the similarities that people face today in comparison to the era of the Civil War?

Gary: Human emotions are the same. In a way, as back then, people and icebergs are alike in that both only show a fraction of what lies beneath. People interact with one another every day, but never have the insight into the depth of each other’s feelings and experiences that drives how we interact. I don’t believe that has changed; though society in the era of and in the aftermath of the Civil War has changed significantly from the society of today, and those society changes impacts how we interact with one another.

Juanita: I know you are a Civil War buff, but tell us about the research you did in preparation for writing “Black River Crossing?”

Gary: Actually, I’m not a Civil War buff at all. The story ideas as well as the emotions of the characters were the primary conceptions developed first. I felt that that the Civil War and the period that followed best suited the story that I wished to tell. I enjoy American History, but have always been left with a desire to understand how the different periods of time affected the emotions and the thoughts of those people living those various times. For me, the post Civil War period provided a chance to bring together people impacted by varied experiences of the era.

Juanita: So many people headed west during that time. What was the ‘promise of Texas’ for the many that traveled so far, undertaking such insurmountable challenges?

Gary: Escape and a migration towards hope, and at that period in our history, the West was a vast, open area that provided that hope.

Juanita: What inspired you to write “Black River Crossing,” your first novel?

Gary: I had roughed out five storylines, one of which led to this story. My wife’s sister, Carol, died at the age of twenty and my wife has often wondered aloud what Carol’s life would have been like had she not passed at such an early age. That was the inspiration to build the story around Carol Ann as the main character, who at the beginning of the book is that same age.

Juanita: Do you have plans to write another book?

Gary: I have finished a second work of fiction, set in modern day Chicago, the city in which I was born and raised. I have a rough outline for a 3rd as well.

Juanita: Gary, thank you for talking with us today. We will be watching for your upcoming books, and wish you all the best. How can your readers get more information about you and your endeavors, and do you have any last thoughts for us today?

Gary: The website is www.GaryPisarski.npauthors.com, which can be accessed directly or through www.nightengalepress.com. Thank you for this opportunity. I hope those readers who open the cover of this book will enjoy both the story and the characters they meet along the way.

Juanita Watson is Assistant Editor for Reader Views
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that in 2006 there will be 151 million jobs in the U.S. and a labor pool of only 141 million workers to fill them. Companies today are facing a daunting challenge as they struggle to recruit and retain knowledgeable employees. Add to this mix employees who are striving to find fulfillment both at work and at home, a dilemma Angelina Laycock calls The Work-Life Movement, and you have a recipe for disaster.

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Joanne Benham is a reviewer for Reader Views.
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