Böcker av Robert Steven Habermann

The Promise in the Morning Sky is a classic tale of a grandfather telling his grandson the story of a German immigrant (my great-great-grandfather, Christopher Bogner) and the man's life and times in America during the Nineteenth Century. The story includes his early days in Bavaria, the journey to Liverpool, the forty-six-day crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, and his struggles to set up a new life in the New World.As a story-teller, I found it challenging to write a tale about a little-known person who has been deceased for well over one-hundred years. When I began researching this account about the life and times of my great-great-grandfather, I found that there was precious little in the historical record about him before 1846 - the year when he married Margaret Zeilmann. So, what makes up a man's life and times? I knew that it is indeed more than the few words engraved on his headstone, and more than those sentences recorded in an epitaph or placed on the pages of an obituary found in the local newspaper. Life is made up of years and months, and hours and minutes. Christopher Bogner lived to be seventy-five years old; that's well over twenty-seven-thousand days - when things happened to him, both good and bad. His life was made up of innumerable times of joy and pain; of fear and bravery; of disappointments and accomplishments; and of dreams which came true and hopes which were elusive. Life takes a lifetime, and it's gone in just a moment.Even with my subsequent research and the written and oral family traditions, I found that there were many gaping holes in the historical narrative regarding who Christopher Bogner was and what he believed. In filling in these unknowable details with my assumptions about his past, passions, and values, I've settled upon a curious, intelligent, and optimistic man who was thoroughly engaged in the life and times of the nineteenth century.This book is not just about one man and his family. It's about life in th

The Last Emperor of Rome, a tale of love, betrayal, and turmoil, takes place during the final thirty-five years of the Western Roman Empire. It was a time of palace intrigue, assassinations, barbarian invasions, declining institutions, struggling political alliances, and a general breakdown of the imperial system of government which had ruled much of Europe and North Africa for the previous five hundred years. Before his entry onto the national stage, little is known about Emperor Julius Valerius Majorian, the major historical character of this novel. Therefore, the author invented much of the storyline, including the Emperor's early life, his family, and his career in the Imperial Legions. The story begins in 461 AD as Emperor Majorian is confined to a cell in a Roman prison and reflects upon his life. His thoughts take him from his childhood in Gaul to his career in the Roman Legions, his marriages and family, his dealings with men such as Count Flavius Ricimer, Master General Flavius Aëtius and Senator Gaius Gallipolis, and ultimately onto his rise to political prominence in the waning Roman world. As Majorian sinks deeper into despair, he tries to make sense of the consequences of his actions. Come ride along with the Imperial Legions of Aëtius and Ricimer as they battle the armies of the Huns, the Visigoths, and the Vandals. Attend a Roman wedding. Take part in conversations about immigration, slavery, Roman law, and the rise of Christianity. And witness the coronation of a Roman emperor. A well-conceived and imaginative novel of the late antiquity period, The Last Emperor of Rome delves into the political, religious, and military turmoil of this frantic time. Although it was the end of a way of life, the events portrayed in this novel opened the door to something new and powerful. The reverberations are still felt today.

It's the Times and Not the Dreams That Die... This novel tells the story of two young men who meet at a small mid-western university, the women who love them, and their coming-of-age story as seen through the music, turmoil, and politics of the middle and late 1960s.