Books with author Stanley Sauerwein

This is gripping first person account of a desperate man’s fight to reach the other side.After a fall in the Pyrenees while on the Camino de Santiago, Sauerwein returned home injured and tired but happy. The happiness faded quickly as dire affects of his injury became apparent. He quickly lost control of his bodily functions and slipped perilously close to death. While in his walking coma, his wife died and Sauerwein was consumed by guilt for not being conscious during her passing. This is the story of how he recovered, and how he reached out to his wife in the between lives state. It’s a story about a deeply felt love and the certainty of spirit.

“I don’t know of any player, ever, who could strike a golf ball like Moe Norman…(He) is a genius when it comes to playing the game of golf.”Lee TrevinoMurray “Moe” Norman was always a little different. He took up the game of golf when he was 12, and spent hours hitting balls until his hands bled. He became a phenomenon on the amateur and professional golf circuit in Canada, represented his country at international tournaments and played in The Masters (though he broke all the Masters decorum by walking off before finishing his round). Moe was always humbly aware of his special gift but he also suffered crippling shyness. He had a limited number of friends among professional golfers, many of whom didn't think he was made of 'the right stuff'. Moe was an individual and always unique, from his personal conduct to his utterly stunning golf swing accuracy. In Moe’s career he set 33 course records, including three 59s, and he recorded 17 hole-in-ones. He was truly a golfing prodigy and had the perfect swing.

Turning 60, Sauerwein is afraid. He’s getting old. He needs to do something to prove he’s still vital. Taking a walk, a 500-mile trek alone, is his answer. In early summer as his birthday approaches, he begins his Camino de Santiago alone from France, uncertain of true reasons. He encounters painful trials of will that test his resolve, physical emergencies, a comical cast of intriguing characters that make up an erstwhile Camino Family and many moments to search his soul in silence. Readers will be gripped by this captivating first person account; searching for beds, tripping over stones and climbing mountains alongside him. On The Way, Sauerwein suffers a serious accident that nearly kills him. But he persists, and in the end discovers personal meaning from the Camino de Santiago. A meaning that changes his life.

There has never been a con-man trickster in American history as devious, or as likeable, as Randolph “Soapy” Smith. He was a sociopath with a smile that could melt the hardest heart. He was a man without a conscience, a natural criminal quite willing to steal from the hapless poor and the greedy rich with an equally shameless eagerness. Soapy’s only measure of man was the wallet he could empty from the day he learned how to cheat at cards, hide the pea in a shell game or invent a scam. He counted few but his gang-members as friends and foisted his scandalous bad habits for theft on everyone else with the cold calculation of a mob boss. He cheated at everything from cards to love. Over several years learning the fine art of flim flam, he developed a glib, friendly persona and it fit perfectly with his dark, brooding good looks, but it was hard earned experience. Soapy began his life of crime as a cow puncher who then became a victim. He quickly learned it was easier to scam the gullible than rob them with a weapon. Then death, like a pickpocket on Soapy’s payroll, took his life in a flurry of gun shots and Soapy was gone...but not forgotten.

A cunning and formidable lawbreaker, Bill Miner spent half his life behind bars and the other half planning ways to execute his crimes. Billy used his robberies to fuel his love of fancy clothes, expensive restaurants and wild nights in brothels. Or to fund his version of the high life he enjoyed, when he could play the role of a wealthy mining mogul lavishly entertaining, enticing and seducing young men. Famous for being a courteous thief and feathering his assaults with polite apologies, he was identified by his Pinkerton Detective Agency pursuers as the “master criminal of the American west” and the ‘Gentleman Robber’. Although Billy could be easily identified by his jailhouse tattoos, he managed to hide himself completely even in high society. He was deliberate and careful but eventually let his libido and the romantic distraction for a young cowboy lover tear away his freedom on a rainy, isolated stretch of railway track in Canada. Bill wasn’t easily confined however. He had too many years of experience with prisons. After mysteriously escaping from his Canadian prison cell, his nefarious life finally simmered to a quiet conclusion in Georgia. Billy Miner, the dashing thief who carried out Canada’s first train robbery in 1904, died in the tiny American prison town of Milledgeville, Georgia. The townspeople gave him a parade to the cemetery in the new suit they bought just for him, and they buried him there with honor. Or did they? Find out in this fast-paced romp through a master thief’s life. Gentleman Robber is Book 1 in the Forgotten Heroes series of historical biographies. It is an intriguing glimpse at the life of a fascinating individual.

He was a man with the heart of a Viking and the simple faith of a child. An adventurer in the truest sense, Joe Whiteside Boyle never turned from a challenge. He blazed the White Pass to the Yukon before gold seekers flooded the hills, boxed with a world heavy weight champion and made millions selling lumber and dredging creeks in the Klondike. In WW1 he paid is own way to Europe to spy for the British, helped the Russians with their revolution, rescued the Romanian crown jewels on a stolen treasure train, lunched with the King of England and spanked a prince. He was a spymaster of incredible cunning who became the “Saviour of Rumania” and the lover to a queen.

“I don’t know of any player, ever, who could strike a golf ball like Moe Norman…(He) is a genius when it comes to playing the game of golf.”Lee TrevinoMurray “Moe” Norman was always a little different. He took up the game of golf when he was 12, and spent hours hitting balls until his hands bled. He became a phenomenon on the amateur and professional golf circuit in Canada, represented his country at international tournaments and played in The Masters (though he broke all the Masters decorum by walking off before finishing his round). Moe was always humbly aware of his special gift but he also suffered crippling shyness. He had a limited number of friends among professional golfers, many of whom didn't think he was made of 'the right stuff'. Moe was an individual and always unique, from his personal conduct to his utterly stunning golf swing accuracy. In Moe’s career he set 33 course records, including three 59s, and he recorded 17 hole-in-ones. He was truly a golfing prodigy and had the perfect swing.

There has never been a con-man trickster in American history as devious, or as likeable, as Randolph “Soapy” Smith. He was a sociopath with a smile that could melt the hardest heart. He was a man without a conscience, a natural criminal quite willing to steal from the hapless poor and the greedy rich with an equally shameless eagerness. Soapy’s only measure of man was the wallet he could empty from the day he learned how to cheat at cards, hide the pea in a shell game or invent a scam. He counted few but his gang-members as friends and foisted his scandalous bad habits for theft on everyone else with the cold calculation of a mob boss. He cheated at everything from cards to love. Over several years learning the fine art of flim flam, he developed a glib, friendly persona and it fit perfectly with his dark, brooding good looks, but it was hard earned experience. Soapy began his life of crime as a cow puncher who then became a victim. He quickly learned it was easier to scam the gullible than rob them with a weapon. Then death, like a pickpocket on Soapy’s payroll, took his life in a flurry of gun shots and Soapy was gone...but not forgotten.

A cunning and formidable lawbreaker, Bill Miner spent half his life behind bars and the other half planning ways to execute his crimes. Billy used his robberies to fuel his love of fancy clothes, expensive restaurants and wild nights in brothels. Or to fund his version of the high life he enjoyed, when he could play the role of a wealthy mining mogul lavishly entertaining, enticing and seducing young men. Famous for being a courteous thief and feathering his assaults with polite apologies, he was identified by his Pinkerton Detective Agency pursuers as the “master criminal of the American west” and the ‘Gentleman Robber’. Although Billy could be easily identified by his jailhouse tattoos, he managed to hide himself completely even in high society. He was deliberate and careful but eventually let his libido and the romantic distraction for a young cowboy lover tear away his freedom on a rainy, isolated stretch of railway track in Canada. Bill wasn’t easily confined however. He had too many years of experience with prisons. After mysteriously escaping from his Canadian prison cell, his nefarious life finally simmered to a quiet conclusion in Georgia. Billy Miner, the dashing thief who carried out Canada’s first train robbery in 1904, died in the tiny American prison town of Milledgeville, Georgia. The townspeople gave him a parade to the cemetery in the new suit they bought just for him, and they buried him there with honor. Or did they? Find out in this fast-paced romp through a master thief’s life. Gentleman Robber is Book 1 in the Forgotten Heroes series of historical biographies. It is an intriguing glimpse at the life of a fascinating individual.

He was a man with the heart of a Viking and the simple faith of a child. An adventurer in the truest sense, Joe Whiteside Boyle never turned from a challenge. He blazed the White Pass to the Yukon before gold seekers flooded the hills, boxed with a world heavy weight champion and made millions selling lumber and dredging creeks in the Klondike. In WW1 he paid is own way to Europe to spy for the British, helped the Russians with their revolution, rescued the Romanian crown jewels on a stolen treasure train, lunched with the King of England and spanked a prince. He was a spymaster of incredible cunning who became the “Saviour of Rumania” and the lover to a queen.