by Pam Knight | Jul 21, 2026 | Announcement, New Release, News
In Acceleration: Sordid Stories of Septuagenarian Decline, sociologist Michael A. Messner tells stories of ageing decline and forges ahead with humor against ads to remain strong, virile, and forever young. With declining hair, weakening muscles, arthritic hands, diminishing eyesight, and face wrinkles, ageing people face a quandary. As the passage of time accelerates, our bodies decelerate. We slow down. We hurt. We face limits, sometimes humiliating ones. And we complain. As boomer men get older, online musclemen bombard us with pitches. For only a few bucks (often, quite a few). we can remain strong, virile, and forever young. So, do we pony up our retirement savings in hopes of re-sprouting a head of hair, smoothing our skin, bulking our biceps, and achieving erections on demand? As professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Messner researched gender-based topics. In this personal account of being a targeted ageing man, Messner enjoys comparing earlier years to his life now as an active septuagenarian. Copies can be ordered on Amazon.
by Pam Knight | Nov 5, 2025 | Announcement, New Release, News
Time Did It, a Family Saga, tells the true story of Ute Carson and her aristocratic family, whose lives, land, status and fortune were lost as they escaped Nazi Europe. Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania. Providing a different perspective on 19th and 20th century Europe, the countess shares the drama, sadness, love, anger, betrayal, and joy that make her the woman she is today. Now living a very full life in America, Ute Carson continues her journey with unflinching love for family, a passion for living, and a wondrous outlook in spite of everything.
by Pam Knight | Mar 14, 2025 | Announcement, New Release, News
Free of the Shadow, poems and stories by Lou Faber, shows sharp wit, deep struggles and astute observations of a twice adopted child who never knew his birth parents. A retired attorney and prolific blogger living in Florida, Faber pieces together his heritage and how he learned to love and be loved, in this second book of poetry. This is for the child /who peers from faded photos /who craved a father and a mother /having both, having neither. Insightful, reflective, a great read.
by Pam Knight | Jan 5, 2024 | Announcement, New Release, News
Love’s Wishbone by Robert Pfeiffer are the poems of a father, a husband, a human, at midlife – melancholy, nostalgic, tinged with regret, yet ultimately hopeful for the future. These poems look backwards with nostalgia and regret, but also with fondness and forgiveness. They look forward with apprehension and fear, but also with hope. More than anything, Pfeiffer’s poetry in Love’s Wishbone is about trying to find meaning in moments before it’s too late.
by Admin | May 27, 2019 | Announcement, News
The PBS National Memorial Day Concert performed “Vietnam Valor and
Brotherhood”, the story of two soldiers — Brad Kennedy and Ernest “Pete”
Peterson — who formed a brotherhood while serving in the 11th US Cavalry in
Vietnam, a.k.a. the Blackhorse Regiment. The two now meet each year at the
Vietnam Wall to remember those who died.
One of the soldiers, Plain View Press author Brad Kennedy, published
Betrayal: Will Stone in Vietnam (2012). A literary fiction novel, Betrayal examines
honor and loyalty — personal, social, military, and political. The story raises
questions of American foreign policy and military strategy, and goes deeper to
ask, “What price must a man pay to remain moral? Are we all brothers? What is
worth dying for?”
“Vietnam Valor and Brotherhood” was performed by actor Dennis
Haysbert (24, MAJOR LEAGUE) as Pete Peterson, and Joe Mantegna as Brad Kennedy.
Hosted by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise, the
30th annual National Memorial Day Concert was broadcast Sunday, May 26, 2019, and
is available as Video on Demand, May 26 to June 9, 2019.
http://www.pbs.org/national-memorial-day-concert/features/vietnam-valor-brotherhood/
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | Announcement
Originally published in 2012, The Rescurer’s Path was revised with a new cover and released in conjunction with Friedman’s new novel, The Change Chronicles: A novel of the Sixties Antiwar Movement.
The Rescurer’s Path is set in Nixon-era Washington DC. Malca Bernovski is riding her horse off trail and discovers the wounded antiwar leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the lethal bombing of an army truck. A budding love between the sheltered Malca, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the anguished, half-Syrian fugitive becomes a desperate struggle against injustice. From the White House to the Rockies, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the post-9/11 search of the lovers’ child for her origins, this tale spans generations to delve urgent, timeless questions.
Publication Date: 5/30/2018
ISBN: 978-1-935514-88-6
200 pages, $15.95
Fiction : Literary
Fiction : Political
Fiction: Jewish
