Bill Marshall: 5 books

What is this thing called ‘life’ all about? If it's all just an accident, a cosmic hiccup, where in some strange way matter became conscious, then Aristotle and Plato and Hume and Kant and all the great idea makers of humanity were just blowing in the wind. They would have been better off...

The Nature of My Game follows the four central characters from their early years growing up in Jersey City, new Nersey in the 1950's, through their Vietnam experience and ultimately though their redemption of Stanley Kronicki Jr., the central character of the novel. Kronicki, whose marred soul is...

Augusto DeRosa PhD is a psychotherapist and a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Like most shrinks he thinks he has his mind pretty much figured out. At least that’s what he believed until he went to sleep one December night in 2009. Before that night he was a man driven by invisible...

Gideon McGee, unlike Jonas of Lois Lowry’s, The Giver, longs not for the perfect world, but for a world of total fairness. Fourteen year old Gideon is the quintessential woe-is-me teenager until the day he falls through the ice of a frozen pond while trying to save his sister, Prudence. Gideon is...

Coloreds to blacks, queers to gays, tits to boobs, Miss and Mrs to Ms, Indians to Native Americans, retards to mentally challenged...these are just a few of the language and conceptual changes the Baby Boomers have gone through. As Billy DeRosa begins his life story from his vantage point of a sixty-six...