Bøker av Joseph Covino

Savior of San Francisco, A Tale of the Christ-an extraordinary mixture of city history and sacred scripture-ponders what could occur were the Christ Jesus to appear and traverse the grievous streets of San Francisco in contemporary times. It's a city in dire crisis on the verge of complete collapse: rampant crime, epidemic drug deaths, a scourge of homelessness, a deserted downtown, empty offices, vacant buildings, shuttered storefronts, a mass exodus of businesses and residents, fleeing from what's turning into a dystopian wasteland. A spiraling and deadly doom loop. A zombie apocalypse. A corrupt, incompetent, and indifferent government. A complacent populace in abysmally deep denial. An apologist, propagandistic news media. A nightmarish hellscape of human suffering and misery across which abruptly rambles the promised Messiah. What becomes crystal-clear as the Christ wanders the land, the pervading problem plaguing the city is pure, unadulterated greed. And that the simplest, most forthright solution is pure and gracious giving. The sole solution that, contrary to its hyper-pretensions to all-accepting and non-discriminating inclusion, this mostly atheistic city has neglected to try. This tale of faith and hope, a love letter to numerous of those dearly beloved parts of the city well worth saving, speculates ultimately how the teachings of the Christ might directly impact the city's most critical and compelling challenges.

JFK: A DALLAS HOMICIDE commemorates the 60th anniversary of this terrible and tragic event in our American history by reviewing it through the sharply focused lens of direct eyewitness testimony. Presented as a compelling docudrama concerning a heinous crime, emphasis is placed upon those earliest and most forthright firsthand accounts, preserving their immediacy and impact with this unadulterated, undistorted format. Culled from numerous in-the-moment interviews and testimony, including well-documented declarations and sworn statements, this book presents in a cohesive time frame one of the most comprehensive yet concise compilations of these frequently rare accounts-many familiar, many unfamiliar, all soundly fascinating-ever collected in one volume. From the horrific events in Dealey Plaza to the traumatic incidents at Parkland Hospital-to the strange sightings at the Texas School Book Depository to the revealing encounters with J.D. Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby-these telling accounts bear witness to two inescapable conclusions: multiple shooters fired those fatal gunshots at the president from different directions that fateful day, and the official government patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald, was never amongst them. Conspiracy to assassinate President John Fitzgerald Kennedy-cold-blooded, wicked, and corrupt-has rarely proved to be more clear-cut and conclusive.

"Francesco Ferrari Mines the Mission, a reverent send-up of Alfred Hitchcock's major motion picture masterpiece, VERTIGO (1958), is the third and most epic entry in this crime suspense thriller series. Francesco Ferrari, San Francisco's new iconic private detective for the times (not the dated Sam Spade past), a former Franciscan seminarian-turned-shamus, drives a Ferrari California T sports car, packs a .357 magnum and operates out of a flat in the historic Buena Vista Cafe on the city's northern waterfront. And he covers only those cases affecting the city he loves -- his namesake City of Saint Francis. This time out, Ferrari's hired by the president and CEO of an internet pornography company, located in the city's largely Latin Mission District, to watch and follow his young and enigmatic Catalonian wife, whom he claims is obsessed with a once celebrated but dead Spanish dancer known as Seänorita Carmelita. A feminist anti-pornography activist plummets to her death from the Mission Dolores basilica bell-tower and Ferrari's quickly implicated in her demise. Creatively adapting essential elements from both the classic Vertigo novel and movie, this complex, erotic, romantic, and wholly original detective/love story is neither a copycat imitation nor a make-over of the Vertigo story. This is, make no mistake, most definitely not your parents' Vertigo -- nor even your grandparents'! Just when you think this story is traversing familiar territory it will deviate drastically into fresh, unfamiliar, and even surreal realms, which will both startle and surprise. Once Ferrari falls -- and falls hard he does -- for the sultry and seductive subject of his surveillance, becoming obsessed with solving the secret mystery she lures him into, he's forced to follow a haunted trail that turns as emotionally daunting as it does deadly -- leading, dizzyingly, to a shocking, climactic conclusion from which the tough and tenacious detective may never fully recover. One you won't see coming. One you won't ever forget. Listen to soundtrack music composed by Bernard Herrmann while reading this book, and you'll believe you're reading a Hitchcock film!" --

A sensitive and unassuming kid's seven atrocious years of violent bullying, child abuse and mis-treatment suffered at the wicked hands of an evil and malevolent mother and step-father from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s in Pensacola, Florida.

He conquered a continent. She conquered him. Behind every great man is an even greater woman. Manuela Saenz was the woman behind the Liberator of the Americas: Simon Bolivar!

The continuation novel sequel to Francesco Ferrari Navigates Fisherman's Wharf

"San Francisco has a new iconic private detective for the times ... His name's Francesco Ferrari. A former Franciscan seminarian-turned-shamus, he drives a Ferrari California T sports car, packs a .357 magnum and operates out of a flat in the historic Buena Vista Cafe on the city's northern waterfront. And he covers only those cases affecting the city he loves -- his namesake City of Saint Francis. In his debut novel, Francesco Ferrari Navigates Fisherman's Wharf, the theme is ethnic cleansing. Something's ominously amiss in Ferrari's own neighborhood of Fisherman's Wharf, where some outlandish and deadly things are happening. Someone's out to make over the wharf for the Italians again -- and by any means necessary. The Port of San Francisco's being terrorized and a new organized crime family in the city, bossed by a stunning femme fatale, could be the sinister culprit responsible. After the dead body of a former lover is fished out of San Francisco Bay, Francesco Ferrari is sucked into a case so strange -- involving even sunken treasures, killer pirates, an imposing Italian villain, and a death struggle on San Francisco Bay in sight of the Golden Gate Bridge -- the festive Fisherman's Wharf of the tourist-and-travel brochures will never seem the same again...." --

Inspired by champion bodybuilder and filmdom¿s quintessential Hercules--STEVE REEVES--this compact but revolutionary philosophical primer prepares anyone at any age to properly practice practical principles of total fitness, diet, nutrition and weight training to their utmost benefit for health, longevity and youthful vitality. It pays special tribute, carrying on the torch passed on by Reeves, by forcefully raising its impassioned voice against unnatural, steroidal bodybuilding. It confronts the latter-day fitness fads, frauds and gurus from Perricone to Dr. Phil by imparting proven precepts of natural fitness without worthless resort to infomerical-promoted contraptions(like Bowflex)or synthetic supplements. CONTENTS Acknowledgment Preface: Train--Don¿t Talk--For Results Foreword: Why Rely On Reeves For Verve Chapter One: Physique Critique Chapter Two: Sensible Weight Training Chapter Three: Training Tips For Select Exercises Chapter Four: How To Weight-Train Correctly(In Steve¿s Own Words To The Mass Media) Chapter Five: Practical(Not Perricone)Prescription For Youth Chapter Six: Intelligent Nutrition And Weight Control Chapter Seven: Supermarket Banking Chapter Eight: Insight Into The Steve Reeves Diet Chapter Nine: The Travesty Of Steroidal Bulk-Building(In Steve¿s Own Words To The Mass Media) Chapter Ten: Contemporary Bulk-Building--Advanced And Modern Or Deadly And Suicidal? Chapter Eleven: Steve¿s Impassioned Pleas For Sanity In Bodybuilding(In His Own Words) Chapter Twelve: Now It¿s My Turn(Or Why I¿m No Fan Of Arnold!) Afterword: A Superior And Superlative Past Appendix 1: Contacts And Stats Appendix 2: A Cautionary Warning To Parents Of YMCA Kids Appendix 3: Picking A "Personal Trainer" Appendix 4: Genetic Grounds To Refrain From Bulk-Building