Books with author George E Davie

Sweet little Shadow, America's most beloved blind black cat*, is back--this time with new friends and a new adventure. Shadow meets and falls in friend-love with the amazing and inspiring Chloe, a kitty who does more with only two legs than we humans do with...well, with two legs. (You get the point, though.) Chloe shares with Shadow her hobby of spying on the residents of the building across the alley, and this leads to the horrifying discovery that one of her neighbors has diabolical plans to hurt some cats--including Chloe and her brother! Together, Chloe and Shadow plot, plan and scheme to find a way to stop this bad man. *He made me write that.

The year is 1212: twenty thousand children march towards Jerusalem, led by a shepherd boy, Stephen, who says Jesus has told him that only the innocent can save Jerusalem. That the sea will part and they will make peace with Islam. A time, in other words, when young people believed in causes and saw answers not in conquest but in the power of their own special qualities, their own special innocence. In the same year, 1212, the Church continued its Crusade against the heretics known as Cathars - source of the infamous lines "Burn them all, God will know which are his." The Cathars believed that Jesus never had a body, that the world is split between two gods but waiting for the advent of the third, the God of fire, light and air who will unite us all. If any group heralds contemporary Christian aspirations for a religion based on the Holy Spirit, it was the Cathars."The Crusade of Innocents" asks what happened when the two crusades crossed paths? Narrated by two eye-witnesses - Alberic the monk and Jean de la Toureille, Knight and one-time Troubadour at the Courts of Love - two narrative strands emerge strongly: the tender but passionate love story between Stephen and a young Cathar girl, Marie, and Stephen's own religious education as he foresees in ecstatic visions the dawn of the Age of the Holy Spirit, and devises a New Baptism - of fire.Both stories had tragic endings but both glimpsed a future beyond tragedy, beyond war, beyond fear."It is a story which has not yet been told but it is, I believe, the only Crusade that really matters, the only one we will one day be proud to recollect. " David George is an international, award-winning playwright and director. After living and working in England, Germany, France, California, Malaysia, China, Australia and New York, David is now fulfilling his life-time’s ambition to be a full-time professional writer.A published author (six books) and internationally recognized expert on the theatres of Asia and on Buddhist thought, he brings to the novel a visual richness, strongly drawn characters and a filmic dimension. Critics have praised his work for its “great emotional and intellectual tension" and “daring innovations;” “we should be grateful for something radically new.” “Hugely enjoyable ... full of mystery, subtlety, danger and depth..."

The author, George Wesley Davis, was a resident and businessman in Butte in the early twentieth century. In his book published in 1921, he relates many true stories and tales of life in a bustling mining town, with its criminals, vigilantes and high society and every element in between. In particular, he tells of the formation of the first vigilance committee and its efforts to bring law and order of a sort to Butte; the drug problems that came with the easy money, the foreigners that came chasing their dreams (according to the author 52 different nationalities); crime and corruption of local authorities; the horrific plague of 1918; the enactment of prohibition and many other not well known stories of the beginnings of Butte.

Throughout time using one's imagination, creativity, curiosity and problem-solving skills have been associated with success. This is the story of an epic battle between the creative abilities of Chipper Cloud versus Stormy Cloud who casts a dark shadow over creativity and tried to inhibit his ability to experience the full range of his creativity and intellectual powers. Chipper dares to create and defends those in the creative world, but Chipper always knows Stormy will be back to battle another day.