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The ha-ha

a novel
2005
Howard Kapostash has maintained a restricted lifestyle since an accident left him with limited communication; however, when old friend Sylvia asks him to care for her nine-year-old son while she went through drug rehab, Howard must risk changes in his routine that could lead to more heartache.

Evidence of things unseen

a novel
2003
Fos returns to Tennessee from the trenches of war-torn France, falling in love with the beautiful Opal and running a photography studio with his former Army buddy, Flash, who soon gets them all into trouble when his love for trouble crosses paths with the Ku Klux Klan.

The corporal was a pitcher

the courage of Lou Brissie
2009
Profiles the life of Lou Brissie who was wounded in World War II but returned home to overcome his disability and become a professional baseball player. Also describes his work mentoring wounded veterans.

The razor's edge

2003
Wealthy Larry Darrell forsakes his comfortable lifestyle and journeys to the mountains of India in search of spiritual wisdom.

Salinger

2013
A biography of American author J.D. Salinger.

Mudbound

a novel
2008
The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.

The Honk and Holler opening soon

1999
When a young woman and a Vietnamese refugee wander into a small diner a few days before Christmas, the lives of the diner's other customers are changed forever.

The life history of a star

2002
For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.

Semper cool

one Marine's fond memories of Vietnam
2010
A true story of a teenager who enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps seeking adventure and his father's approval and is sent to Vietnam as a Marine.

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