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William Peace

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William was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended William Penn Charter School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Physics, having minored in English and Creative Writing. He served four years in the U. S. Navy, the last two as Chief Engineer of a destroyer.
Upon completion of his military service, William joined the Power Systems business of Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he progressed through a series of roles culminating in Vice President and General Manager, Synthetic Fuels Division. He then moved to Carrier Corporation (air conditioning) where he was responsible for Carrier’s Europe, Africa and Middle East operations. From Carrier, William transitioned into management consul William was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended William Penn Charter School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Physics, having minored in English and Creative Writing. He served four years in the U. S. Navy, the last two as Chief Engineer of a destroyer.
Upon completion of his military service, William joined the Power Systems business of Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he progressed through a series of roles culminating in Vice President and General Manager, Synthetic Fuels Division. He then moved to Carrier Corporation (air conditioning) where he was responsible for Carrier’s Europe, Africa and Middle East operations. From Carrier, William transitioned into management consulting, where he had his own successful practice.
More recently, he wrote Fishing in Foreign Seas, a business-oriented romance which was published in 2009. In 2011, Sin & Contrition, the wide-ranging story of transgressions by six characters, was published. Ephraim’s Eye, a romantic thriller about a charity in Morocco that provides financing to a terrorist, was published in 2012 and was recipient of a Reader Views Literary Award, 2012 for Adult Fiction, and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The Iranian Scorpion, a thoroughly researched thriller about the drugs trade in Afghanistan and Iran was published in late 2012; it received an honourable mention in the New York Book Festival. His most recent novel, Sable Shadow and The Presence, is the fictional autobiography of Henry Lawson, who, beginning at an early age, hears voices he does not recognise. He attributes one voice to Sable Shadow, a representative of the devil and the other to The Presence, a representative of God. The book has rich dimensions in human relationships, philosophy, religion and psychology. It was selected as the winner, general fiction, in three major contests in which it was entered and runner-up in two more.
He particularly enjoys writing about characters caught up in ethical, religious or moral dilemmas. And, he takes pride in the depth of research which goes into his novels.
William, now a British citizen, as well, is married to Anna Venturi, an Italian who has a successful food business. They live in London, and have a summer villa on the north coast of Sicily.
William has three children, two step-daughters, and ten grandchildren.
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	Seeking Father Khaliq 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iranian Scorpion 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Efraim's Eye 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sable Shadow & the Presence liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Battlefields it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Achieving Superpersonhood: Three East African Lives it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishing in Foreign Seas 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sin & Contrition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peace's Almanac & County Directory for 1873 by William Peace (Goodreads Author), Maggie Mack Mack (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phases Of Convocation: Anglican Synods, A.D. 601 To A.D. 1860 (1860) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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William Peace rated a book it was amazing Lord of the Flies by William Golding	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The novel begins when a British aeroplane has crashed on an isolated island. The only survivors are boys in their middle childhood. A fair-haired boy named Ralph, and a fat boy nicknamed Piggy find a conch shell, which Ralph uses as a horn to gather ...more
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William Peace rated a book it was amazing Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times by Gregory Boyle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book doesn’t really have a plot, but that doesn’t make it any less readable. The nine chapters each have a title which may serve as a summary of the content. But for me, the chapters are unimportant, apart from dividing the book (212 pages) into ...more
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William Peace rated a book it was amazing Dealing With Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want by Marc Brackett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Marc begins the book with a story about a short-tempered encounter that he had with his mother-in-law after a stressful day. His point is that even he is learning. He then describes the seven reasons we can’t deal with our feelings: 1. We don’t value o ...more
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William Peace rated a book it was amazing Dealing With Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want by Marc Brackett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Marc begins the book with a story about a short-tempered encounter that he had with his mother-in-law after a stressful day. His point is that even he is learning. He then describes the seven reasons we can’t deal with our feelings: 1. We don’t value o ...more
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William Peace rated a book liked it The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Augustine of Hippo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
When I started reading Confessions, I was expecting a clear and complete confession of his sins, together with a detailed account of what persuaded him to convert to Christianity. The detail is missing. He confesses, however, to the theft of the pear ...more
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William Peace rated a book it was amazing The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The sub-title of this book is “Economics and the Good Society”, but the key word is “freedom”, and the key theme is that in society if one individual, group, company, institution, or market is given more freedom, some individual or group will have le ...more
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William Peace rated a book it was amazing All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life by David Bentley Hart	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is not an easy read. The text brims with philosophical terms so that I found myself reading with my phone within easy reach to look up the unfamiliar terms. It is 483 pages long with 11 pages of footnotes and a 14-page index. Clearly, it is ...more
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William Peace rated a book it was ok The Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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