Books with author Michael Rutter

After his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-Howl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. Contrasting Duncan's daringly frank homosexuality with Rumaker's own then-closeted life, Robert Duncan in San Francisco conjures up with harrowing detail an era of police prosecution of a clandestine gay community struggling to survive in the otherwise "open city" of San Francisco.This expanded edition includes a selection of previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan, and an interview conducted for this edition, in which Rumaker provides further reflections on the poet and the period."This is a wonderfully revealing account of a series of lifechanging collisions between a young writer (Rumaker), an older writer (Duncan), a still older mentor for both (Charles Olson), a city (San Francisco), and an important era in American literature (the 1950s), when it was being turned upside down by these individuals and their friends. It's also a tender and intelligent account of a young man's coming to grips with being gay in the midst of this upheaval. Much more than memoir; it's history."—Russell Banks, author of CloudsplitterRobert Duncan in San Francisco offers a surprising portrait of a mentor in all his witty, wicked, luminous, and vulnerable complexity. Straddling the lines of memoir and cultural history, Michael Rumaker gives a rare and delightful view of Duncan at home in the gay community while also documenting the struggles of that community in 1950s America."—Lisa Jarnot, author of Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus"In this fine memoir of this 16 months in San Francisco, Rumaker learns many lessons about being at home with who he is, in what he calls 'Robert's city.'"—Joanne Kyger, About Now: Collected PoemsMichael Rumaker has written several novels and short story collections, as well as the memoir Black Mountain Days. He was born in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Black Mountain College—where Duncan served as his outside thesis advisor—and Columbia University. He taught at City University of New York and the New School for Social Research.Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was an American poet and well-known as a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance. City Lights published a book of his poetry titled Selected Poems.

Jake and Angie Cohen return in Sicarii Justice, another Remnant Rescue thriller, to lead a daring mission into the heart of the Caliphate where they try to slip hundreds of Christians out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the noses of Mecca police. Thinly disguised as American billionaires on their first Muslim hajj, the most sacred pilgrimage of Islam, they dash from Mecca to the city of Medina and then to the port of Jeddah where their team and the Saudi Christians are supposed to escape across the Red Sea. Jake and Angie bravely stay behind to make room for the last escapees. The couple then flee along the Red Sea coast one step ahead of the police and a Caliphate SWAT team intent on capturing them.While Remnant Rescue teams hide as many Jews and Christians as possible in refuge centers before the start of the Great Tribulation, a misguided group of professing Christians rushes to alter the course of Biblical prophecy. Saul Rosen, the charismatic leader of a group of zealots, models his wild-eyed followers after the sicarii “dagger-men” of the first century who murdered Romans and their Jewish sympathizers. The modern-day assassins pursue violent justice apart from God’s divine plan for Israel’s redemption. Intent on killing the Antichrist before the Beast can wage genocide against Jews and Christians, Rosen’s followers believe, in spite of God’s infallible Word, that they can short-circuit prophetic history and alter God’s plan.In Jerusalem, the Antichrist—known to the world as the Prince of Rome or the Principe—survives an attempt on his life by the sicarii and the False Prophet proclaims his miraculous resurrection from the dead. The Prince claims that he is God and from the Third Temple in Jerusalem begins a wave of unprecedented terror that the Bible calls the Time of Jacob’s Trouble.The Remnant Rescue team has its own imaginative plans to deal with the Tribulation’s final days that include a low-orbiting space station and Israel’s secret arsenal of special atomic weapons. In all of this, the Sicariis have their own scheme to disrupt Biblical prophecy. Their twisted plan isn’t revealed until the last pages of Sicarii Justice!

Sixteen hundred years before the Earth changes forever, a zoologist receives an important message from God that a supernatural event is imminent. God is angry with mankinds evil and will destroy every breathing creature on Earth. Told by God to build a ship that will carry him and his family safely away from a global deluge of water, Noah struggles to warn civilization, to no avail. Unfortunately, he is up against the evil Emperor Anak and his Cainite officials, who are determined to stop the construction of Noahs ark at all cost.Under Gods ever-watchful presence, Noah; his grandfather, Methuselah; and his son, Japheth, devote their lives to completing the massive project, even as the water vapor canopy suspended above the atmosphere begins its steady, inevitable plunge downward. The Book of Adam, which contains sacred prophecies of Gods work to come and proves that what Noah is preaching is true, appears to be lost foreverunless Japheth can continue the search his grandfather started ages ago and find the book before time runs out.In this fast-paced Christian adventure, a biblical family must put into practice unforgettable lessons of courage, faith, and self-sacrifice as they attempt to escape an evil world with nothing more than an ark and a promise from God.

Gideon’s Sword begins immediately after the Rapture when the multi-national crew of the International Space Station (ISS) watches atomic wars and their aftermath destroy most of the United States and kill one-fourth of the world’s population. National allegiances on the space station soon split between the majority-Russian crew and two friends, an American and Israeli. When a Russian resupply ship approached the ISS with food and supplies, astronauts Ryan Legend and Gabriel Weiss take drastic action that saves their lives. They dub their new home Blue Star after the Star of David on the Israeli flag.Their rescue from space eventually comes from an unlikely place when the Remnant Rescue organization launches an antique rocket found in an aerospace museum and three of their own astronauts arrive at the Blue Star. What the two castaway astronauts think is a rescue mission to take them home is in fact an ingenious space shield as Jews begin a time known as Jacob’s Trouble or the Great Tribulation.Gideon’s Sword is also the name of the space platform from which captured Israeli atomic missiles with non-lethal electromagnetic pulse (EMP) warheads rain down on Imperium forces. A Syrian mechanized division, a strategic fortress, and the re-built city of Babylon all become targets. Not knowing the source of the mysterious attacks from space, the Imperium’s kingdoms turn on each other in a fierce nuclear exchange.Before the astronauts can return home, they must evacuate a Christian from the giant Venture space cruiser that orbits nearby after a seven-year expedition to Mars. The rescue is a race to leave before a satellite collides with what remains of the ISS and kills everyone.