D. S. Lliteras

D. S. Lliteras
Born	Daniel Serafin Lliteras July 13, 1949 The Bronx
Occupation	Author
Known for	Spiritual novels

Daniel Serafin Lliteras (born 1949) is an American authorbest known for his spiritual novels.

Early life

Lliteras was born in the Bronx, New York on July 13, 1949 to Serafin (Frank) and America (Mecca) Lliteras. Originally from Puerto Rico, his father received a bachelor's degree from Emory University (LaGuardia Aeronautical School) in aircraft design in 1959 and worked as a postal clerk for the U.S. Postal Service until his retirement in 1971. His mother, also from Puerto Rico, received her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Miami in 1965 and worked for the state of Florida until her retirement in 1991 as the Rehabilitation Nurse Supervisor of Dade and Monroe County, Florida Workers' Compensation.

Lliteras attended St. Athanasius in the South Bronx until 1959 at which time his family relocated to Miami, Florida. His interest in the theater was sparked by Robin Werner, a teacher at Riviera Junior High School, who encouraged him to join the cast of the University of Miami Shakespeare Festival, where he served as a member during the summers of 1964 and 1965. He graduated from Southwest Miami High School in 1967. During his teen years, Lliteras worked evenings as an orderly at Baptist Hospital. His extra-curricular activities included wrestling, track, and gymnastics. He was offered a gymnastics scholarship to the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, but instead enlisted in the U. S. Navy and volunteered for Medical Service Duty (Hospital Corpsman).^[1][2][3]

Vietnam

After completing Navy basic training and the U.S. Naval Hospital Corps School in Great Lakes, Illinois, he served aboard the USS Canopus (AS-34), home-ported in Rota, Spain from February 1968 to June 1968. He attended Field Medical Service School in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in June and July 1968. In May 1969, he was ordered to the First Marine Division, FMF, Vietnam. Upon arrival in Vietnam in July 1969, he volunteered to join the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, First Marine Division, where he served as a combat corpsman and diver until July 1970. Mid-way through his tour, he attended diver training in Subic Bay, Philippines. During his tour in Vietnam, Lliteras participated in twenty long-range reconnaissance patrols deep within enemy-held territory. He also participated in eighty combat dives, eighty bridge checks, three river sweeps, five body recoveries, and three weapons recoveries. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal (with combat “V”).^[1][2][3]

Education and employment

After his discharge from the Navy, Lliteras attended Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida on the GI bill, majoring in theater. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973. Upon being awarded an assistantship at the School of Theater Publicity Department, he entered the Masters of Fine Arts program at Florida State University School of Theatre. A member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society, he graduated in 1976 with a Masters of Fine Arts in directing. Afterward, he briefly served on the faculty, where he taught courses in Acting, Directing, and Shakespeare Styles.^[1][2][3]

Theater

Among his acting credits while at Florida State, Lliteras’s signature achievement was starring in the title role in Lenny Bruce.^[4][5] His directing credits included Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee Williams and Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson.^[6] His one-act play Touch won a Christian Theater Artists Guild award and was also produced while at Florida State in 1975. Lliteras also studied mime under Chuck Metcalf, playwrighting under Mark Berman, and directing under Amnon Kabatchnik. Lliteras’s professional credits include directing Steambath at the Reunion Theatre in Houston, Texas in 1973 and Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm for the New York Theatre Ensemble in 1977.^[7]

Maritime and firefighting

In 1979, Lliteras was admitted into the U. S. Merchant Marines' Calhoun MEBA Engineering School in Baltimore, Maryland and subsequently served aboard the SS Edgar M. Queeny. In 1980, he taught at Rutledge College (now University of South Carolina) in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a proprietary business school. In 1981, he earned a commission in the U.S. Navy and became a Deep Sea Diving and Salvage officer. He attended the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida in September 1981, and later served aboard the USS Preserver, sailing from Little Creek Amphibious Base in Virginia. In 1985, he resigned his commission to become a firefighter for the city of Norfolk, graduating academically at the top of his firefighting class in 1986. He received the Medal of Honor from the Norfolk Fire and Paramedical Services in February, 1998 for exceptional action in the line of duty in the saving of life and retired in 2000 after suffering a heart attack on a fire scene.^[1][2][3]

Written works

Lliteras’s Haiku, poetry, and short stories have appeared in many national and international journals and anthologies. His first book publication, In a Warrior’s Romance (1991), includes Haiku and photographs reflecting his experiences in Vietnam.^[8] A source of its originality stems from it being the first major application of Haiku to the subject of war.^[9] His first three novels, collectively known as the Llewellen Trilogy, trace the spiritual journey of Robert Llewellen, a man who learns how to escape, not from life, but into life.^[10] The trilogy includes In the Heart of Things (1992),^[11] Into the Ashes (1993),^[12] and Half Hidden by Twilight (1994).^[13] In his novel 613 West Jefferson (2001), Lliteras revisited the theme of Vietnam through the character of Richard Santos, a returning veteran who encounters fringe elements of the counter-culture in a north Florida town.^[14]

Lliteras is best known for his biblical novels,^[15] which include The Thieves of Golgotha (1998),^[16] Judas the Gentile (1999),^[17] Jerusalem’s Rain (2003),^[18] The Silence of John (2005),^[19] and The Master of Secrets (2007).^[20] A book about his firefighting experiences, Flames and Smoke Visible: A Fire Fighter’s Tale, is to be published in 2012.

Personal life

In 1971, Lliteras married Kathleen Touchstone, a retired educator and author of numerous scholarly works. She dedicated her book, Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics, to her husband.^[21]

Publications

Books

• In a Warrior’s Romance (1991) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., poetry-photography, trade paper
• In the Heart of Things (1992) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, trade paper
• In the Heart of Things (2006) (Russian) Moscow, Russia: Gayatri Publishing, fiction, trade paper
• Into the Ashes (1993) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, trade paper
• Half Hidden by Twilight (1994) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, trade paper (Kindle, Nook)
• The Thieves of Golgotha (1998) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, hard cover (Nook)
• Judas the Gentile (1999) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, hard cover (Kindle, Nook)
• Judas (2001) (Italian) São Paulo Edizioni, Italy, fiction, trade paper
• 613 West Jefferson (2001) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, hard cover (Kindle, Nook)
• Jerusalem’s Rain (2003) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, hard cover (Kindle, Nook)
• The Silence of John (2005) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, hard cover
• Master of Secrets (2007) Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., fiction, hard cover
• Flames and Smoke Visible: A Fire Fighter’s Tale (Forthcoming) (2012) Rainbow Ridge Books, nonfiction, hard cover (Kindle)

Selected poetry periodicals

• Backyard Bamboo (East Detroit, MI) No. 2
• Bent Nails (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Vol. VI, No. 2
• Brussels Sprout (Mercer Island, WA) Vo. VI, No. 3
• Canopy (Bareilly, India)(1991) Jan-Mar, Vol. VI, Nos. 1 &2
• Cicada (Bakersfield, CA) (1988) Vol. IV, No. 1; (1991) Vol. V, Nos. 3 &4; (1992) Vol. VI, No. 1; (1994) Vo. VI, No. 3: (1995) Vol. VI, No. 4
• Frogpond (Haiku Society of America, New York, NY) (1989) Nov, Vol. XII, No. 4; (1990) Nov, Vol. XIII, No. 4; (1991) Spring, Vol. XIV, No. 1; (1993) Summer, Vol. XVI, No. 1
• Haiku Headlines (Los Angeles, CA) (1990) Mar, Vol. 2, No. 12; (1990) Nov, Vol. 3, No. 8; (1993) Mar, Vol. 5, No. 12; (1993), Apr, Vol. 6, No. 1; (1993) May, Vol. 6, No. 2; (1993) Aug, Vol. 6, No. 5 (1993) Sep Vol. 6, No. 6; (1993) Oct, Vol. 6, No. 7
• Haiku Quarterly (Mesa, AZ) (1989) Winter, Vol. 1, No.4; (1989) Spring, Vo. 1, No. 1; (1989) Autumn, Vol., 1, No. 3; (1990/91) Winter Vol. 2, No. 4
• Haiku Zasshi Zo (Seattle, WA) (1988) Summer/Fall; (1989) HZZ Anthology
• Hobo Stew Review (Allston, MA) (1988) Fall
• Hummingbird (Richland Center, WI) (1993) Mar, Vol. III, No. 2; (1993) Sep, Vol. IV, No. 1; (1994) Dec, Vol. V, No. 2
• The Indian Writer (Madras, India) (1989)
• Jam To-day (Tyngsboro, MA) (1988) Issue 14, (1990) Issue 15
• Japanophile (Okemos, MI) (1995) Summer, Vol. 19, No.3
• Ko: Haiku Magazine in English (Nagoya, Japan) (1990) Spring/Summer; (1991) Autumn/Winter; (1992) Autumn/Winter
• Kumquat Meringue (Pine Island, MN) (2001) Issue No. 6
• Kusamakura Haiku Collection Book (Kumamoto, Japan) (1999) January, Nyuusen (Third Prize)
• Kusamakura Haiku Collection Book (Kumamoto, Japan) (2003) January, Nyuusen (Third Prize)
• Mainichi Daily News (Haiku in English) (1988) Mar 6; (1988) Jul 10; (1988) Sep 18; (1988) Dec. 11; (1989) May 28; (1990) Nov 12; (1991) Apr 27; (1993) Apr 3
• Mainichi Haiku Contest (Tokyo, Japan) (1998–99) International Section: Honorable Mention in English
• Mirrors (Gualala, CA) (1990) Winter; (1990) Spring; (1990) Summer; (1990) Autumn; (1993) Winter; (1993) Summer; (1994) Winter; (1994) Summer
• Modern Haiku (Madison, WI) (1989) Summer, Vol. XX, No. 2; (1989) Autumn, Vol. XX, No. 3; (1990) Winter/Spring, Vol. XXI, No. 1; (1991) Fall; Vol. XXII, No. 3
• The New American Association of Haikuists Newsletter (Jackson, TN) (1989) Sep
• New Cicada (Fukushima, Japan) (1988) Winter, Vol. 5, No. 2; (1988) Summer, Vol. 5, No. 1; (1989) Winter, Vol. 6, No. 2; (1990) Winter, Vol. 7, No. 2; (1990) Summer, Vo. 7, No. 1; (1992) Winter, Vol. 9, No. 2; (1993) Summer, Vol. 10, No. 1; (1997) Summer, Vol. 10, No. 2
• The North Carolina Haiku Press (Raleigh, NC) (1990) Holiday Haiku Chapbook
• Parnassus Literary Journal (Forest Park, GA) (1990) Fall/Winter, Vol. 14, No. 3; (1990) Summer, Vol. 14, No. 2
• Piedmont Literary Review (Forest, VA) (1991) Vol. XV, No. 1
• The Plover: Chidori (Okinawa, Japan) (1989) No. 1; (1990) No. 2
• Poetry Nippon (Nagoya, Japan) (1988) No. 83, Special Summer Issue, Vol. IX, No. 3; (1989) No. 87 Special Summer Issue, Vol. IX, No. 7; (1990) No. 91, Special Summer Issue, Vol. X, No. 1; (1991) No. 95, Special Summer Issue, Vol. X, No. 5
• The Poet’s Domain (Charlottesville, VA) Livewire Press, Vols. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
• Rachna (Bihar, India) (1990) Winter
• The Red Pagoda (Jackson, TN) Vol. V, No. 3
• Skylark (Aligarh, India) Issue 72
• South by Southeast (Archer, FL) (1994) Newsletter of the Southeastern Region Haiku Society of America Feb, Vol. 1, No. 1
• South by Southeast (Richmond, VA) Vol. 6, No. 2; Vol. 7, No. 1
• Wide Open Magazine (Eureka, CA) (1988) Winter, Vol. IV, No. 3; (1988) Spring, Vo. IV, No. 4; (1988) Summer, Vo. V, No. 1; (1988) Fall, Vol. V, No. II, (1989) Winter, Vol. V, No. III; (1989) Spring, Vol. V, No. IV; (1989) Summer, Vol. VI, No. I; (1989) Fall, Vol. VI, No. II; (1990) Winter, Vol. VI, No. III
• Wind Chimes (Glen Burnie, MD), Issue 21; Issue 28

Poetry anthologies

• Four Seasons (1991), Ko Poetry Association, Japan
• How to Haiku, A Writer’s Guide to Haiku and Related Forms (2002), Bruce Ross, ed. Tuttle Publishing, p. 63
• Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun (1998), Bruce Ross, ed. Tuttle Publishing, p. 142
• Wind Five Folded, An Anthology of English Language (1994), AHA Books, p. 13
• World Poetry 1991 Best Poems by 342 Eminent Poets in 70 Countries, (Madras, India), p. 30

Short story anthologies and periodicals

• Chiron Review (1995) Autumn/Winter, Issue 44-45 “Hill 452”
• Happy 10, The Happy Organization Publisher, New York (1998) “Under the Rain”
• In Good Company, Live Wire Press (1999) “The Cleansing Ritual”; (2000) “Big Cities Have Many Colors” (2001) “Turning Things Off”; (2002) “An Abstract Heretic”; (2005) “In a Dream”; (2008) “The Theatre”; (2009) “The Left Ascension” and “Monkey Man”; (2010) “The Horseshoe Crab”
• Ruehlmann, Bill (2001). “As This Book Tells All of Us, We’re a Collection of Stories [In Good Company (2000)]” The Virginian-Pilot, Aug. 26.
• Vietnam War Generation Journal (2001) Dec, Vol. 1, No. 3 “Half Brothers”
• Vietnam War Generation Journal (2002) Dec, Vol. 2, No. 2 “Angels in Repose: Chapter 1-Chapter 7”
• Vietnam War Generation Journal (2003) Apr, Vol. 2, No. 3-4 “Angels in Repose: Chapter 8-Chapter 9”

References

1. Contemporary Authors, Volume 172. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group. 1999. ISBN 0-7876-1995-7.
2. Biography: Lliteras, D. S. (2007). Contemporary Authors Thomas Gale. e-document.
3. Who's Who in America. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 1999. ISBN 0-8379-6974-3.
4. Barry, Julian (1975). “Lenny”. Florida Flambeau, Oct. 31, p. 9.
5. Oppenheim, Rick (1975). “Lenny: The Second Coming”. New Look: Entertainment News, Vol. 1 No. 6, pp. 16-18.
6. Schweitzer, Leonard (1976). “Studio Theatre Adapts Williams Play Well”. Florida Flambeau, Feb 23, p. 6.
   • “Tennessee Williams Play Opens Tonight at Studio Theatre” (1976). Florida Flambeau, Feb 18, p.5.
   • Oppenheim, Rick (1976). “Theatre Review [Two for the Seesaw]”. Tallahassee Democrat, Aug 7, p. 17.
7. Helm, Christopher (1974). “Houston-Keyed Steambath Another Reunion Winner” Bayou City Banner, Sep 20-26, p. 9.
   • Holmes, Ann (1974). “Steambath Washes Well After First Act”. Houston Chronicle, p. 8, section 3.
   • Rosmersholm [Announcement] (1977). The New York Times, Dec 4, p. 37D.
   • Rosmersholm [Announcement] (1977). Voice, Dec 19, p. 108.
   • Rosmersholm [Announcement] (1977). New York Magazine, Dec 19, p. 22.
8. Lliteras, D. S. (1991). In a Warrior’s Romance. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 978-1878901057
   • Need, Robert S. (1991). “Book Review [In a Warrior’s Romance]”. Vietnam Magazine, Oct: pp. 50, 52.
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   • Leepson, Marc (1993). “Norfolk’s Verbal Theme Park [Interview]”. The VVA Veteran, Sep: pp. 41-42.
   • Buchanan, Rosemarie (1993). “Writing Helps Some Veterans Come to Terms with War”. The Virginian-Pilot, Aug 8: pp. A1, A8.
   • Ruehlmann, Bill (1991). “Between the Violence [In a Warrior’s Romance]”. The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star, February 24: pp. J1, J2.
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   • Perry, Clarke (1992). “FSU Grad’s War Memoir is a Collection of Moving Images”. Florida Flambeau, June 25: p. 11.
   • Lindstrom, Andy (1992). “Snapshots and Verse Tell His War Story [In a Warrior’s Romance]”. Tallahassee Democrat, May 3: pp. 1G, 9G.
9. Reichhold, Jane (1991). “Review [In a Warrior’s Romance]”. Modern Haiku, Fall, Vol. XXII (3).
   • Bittle-DeLapa, Mary Lou (1991). “Book Review [In a Warrior’s Romance]”. Nagoya, Japan: Ko Journal: p. 34.
   • Reichhold, Jane (1991). “Book Review [In a Warrior’s Romance]”. Mirrors-in the spirit of haiku-, Winter.
10. Jones, Walter (2002). “Analysis of D. S. Lliteras’ Trilogy: In the Heart of Things; Into the Ashes; Half Hidden by Twilight”. Viet Nam War Generation Journal, Apr, Vol. 1 (4): pp. 110-16.
    • Leepson, Marc (2002). “Arts of in Brief [Lliteras’ Trilogy]”. Jun/Jul, http://www.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2002_07/arts.htm
    • Need, Robert Stanley (1995). “From the Bookshelf [Llewellyn Trilogy]”. The Paperback Forum March: p. 35.
    • “Interview with D. S. Lliteras” (1995). The Paperback Forum, Nov: p. 3.
    • Pinkham, Laurie Joy (1996). “Visionary Fiction: A Conversation with Four Authors [Interview]”. Convergence Summer: pp. 24-27.
    • Newman, John (1996). Vietnam War Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works about Americans Fighting in Vietnam 3rd Edition, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810831848.
11. Lliteras, D. S. (1992). In the Heart of Things Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781878901224.
    • Lliteras, D. S. (2006). In the Heart of Things (Russian) Moscow, Russia: Gayatri Publishing.
    • Morton, James (1992). “Book Review [In the Heart of Things]”. The Kerouac Connection, Winter (34) 1992: 33-35.
    • Reichhold, Jane (1992). “Book Review [In the Heart of Things]”. Mirrors: International Haiku Spirit, Summer.
    • Lourie, Iven (1996). “Winter’s Tale, or Seeking Visions in Fiction [In the Heart of Things]”. Inner Journeys: The Small Press Literary Review, Winter-Spring Vol. VI (1-2): p. 18.
    • Sjoerdsma, Ann G. (1992). “Book Briefs [In the Heart of Things]”. The Baltimore Sun, Sep 13: p. 8C.
    • Squire, Phil (1993). “Media Reviews [In the Heart of Things]”. Mountain Record, Fall, Vol. XII (1): p. 92.
    • Ude, Wayne (1992). “Local Firefighter Uses Unique Form to Get at The Heart of Things”. Ghent Magazine September: p. 7.
    • Ruehlmann, Bill (1992). “Love, Zen, Wildlife and Gardens, Virginia-style”. The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger Star, Sep 6: p. C2.
    • “Book Reviews and News [In the Heart of Things]” (1992). Japanophile, Fall, Vol. 16: pp. 44-45.
    • Anderson, Betsy (1992). “The Heart of Things”. The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger Star: The Virginia Beach Beacon, Aug 5, Vol. 35 (81): pp. 1, 8-9.
    • Keener, J. Kyle (1993). “Male Call [Interview]”. Inquirer: The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Mar 7: pp. 9-10.
    • Reichhold, Jane (1993). “Mirrors Interview with Danny Lliteras”. Mirrors: International Haiku Spirit, Winter.
12. Lliteras, D. S. (1993). Into the Ashes Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781878901774.
    • Holback, Loretta (1995). “Loretta’s Literary Whorl [Into the Ashes ”. New Age Retailer, Jan-Feb: p. 111.
    • Ray, Chuck (1993). “Classic Reader Reviews [Into the Ashes]”. Hazelton, PA, The Paperback Trader.
    • Leepson, Marc (1994). “Arts of War: Books [Into the Ashes]”. The VVA Veteran March.
    • Ruehlmann, Bill (1994). “Serious Undertakings from Local Authors [Into the Ashes]”. The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger Star, Mar 6: p. C2.
13. Lliteras, D. S. (1994). Half Hidden by Twilight Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571740007.
    • Need, Robert Stanley (1995). “Half Hidden by Twilight Book Review”. Mirrors: International Haiku Form, Winter.
    • Smith, Lodeen (1994). “Book Review [Half Hidden by Twilight]”. The Paperback Forum, Sep: p. 11.
    • Leepson, Marc (1995). “Books in Review [Half Hidden by Twilight]”. The VVA Veteran, Feb: p. 30.
    • Moore, Ken (1995). “Half Hidden by Twilight Wraps up Trilogy”. Naples Daily News, Jul 23: p. 5B.
    • “Books in Brief [Half Hidden by Twilight]” (1995). The Roanoke Times, Nov 26: p. G6.
    • Hatcher, Judith (1995). “Llewellen is Back: Norfolk Fireman Publishes the Third Book in His Trilogy”. Norfolk Community News, Jan: p. 22.
    • Molineux, Will (1995). “Book Notes [Half Hidden by Twilight]”. Daily Press, Feb 5. http://articles.dailypress.com/1995-02-05/news/9502030106_1_south-hampton-roads-black-history-month-paperback
14. Lliteras, D. S. (2001). 613 West Jefferson Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571742667.
    • Mort, John (2001). “Book Review [613 West Jefferson]”. Booklist, Mar 15, Vol. 97, Issue 14: p. 1354.
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    • “Review on New Book [613 West Jefferson]” (2001) Virginia Viet Nam Veteran, Vol. 9, No. 2: p. 12.
    • Evans, Katrina (2001). “Read Books, Even Though You’re Busy [613 West Jefferson]”. Lake City Reporter, Dec 14.
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    • “Danny Lliteras: By the Book [613 West Jefferson]” (2002). Callboard: News from FSU School of Theatre, Spring, Issue 7: pp. 8-9.
15. Mort, John (2002). Christian Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited, pp. 14, 43 (Starred titles) ISBN 978-1563088711.
    • Walk, Barbara J. (2005). The Librarian’s Guide to Developing Christian Fiction Collections for Adults New York: Schuman Publishers, p. 71 (Key Book Titles) ISBN 978-1555705220.
    • Butler, Tamara (2007). “Christian Fiction: Q & A [Interview]”. Library Journal, Feb 1, p. 58.
    • Butler, Tamara (2006). “Christian Fiction” Library Journal, Apr 15: p. 74.
16. Lliteras, D. S. (1998) The Thieves of Golgotha Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571740854.
    • Hudak, Melissa (1998). “Book Reviews [The Thieves of Golgotha] (Recommended)”. Library Journal, Jun 1: p. 94.
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    • Ruehlmann, Bill (1998). “Thieves Ponder Spiritual Path to Redemption”. The Virginian-Pilot, May 3.
17. Lliteras, D. S. (1999). Judas the Gentile Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571741448.
    • Lliteras, D. S. (2001). Judas (Italian) Sao Paolo Edizioni, Italy, EAN: 9788821544125.
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    • Markham, Deborah (1999). “Beach Author to Sign Copies of Book [Judas the Gentile] at Pembroke Mall Today [Interview]”. The Virginian Pilot: The Beacon, Aug 15: p. 12.
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    • Draughan, John (2000). “Dynamic Speaker at Thalia UMM”. Catch the Spirit: The Norfolk District United Methodist Men’s Newsletter, First Quarter, Vol. 5, No. 1: p. 4.
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18. Lliteras, D. S. (2003). Jerusalem’s Rain Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571743404.
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19. Lliteras, D. S. (2005). The Silence of John Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571744104.
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20. Lliteras, D. S. (2007). Master of Secrets Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781571745385.
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21. Touchstone, Kathleen (2006). Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. p. 448. ISBN 9780761835196.