homecoming

Explores the at times conflicting and ambivalent responses of Americans to veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and compares these responses with past views of veterans of wars such as World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Also reflects on living during a time when America is between peace and war, and discusses ways that America can better support its returning troops.

"Jordan Bingham's first assignment on her new job is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play, but she soon finds out that her predecessor was killed while looking for it"--Provided by OCLC.

Vienne Kenney returns to Clayburn after failing the bar exam twice and runs into former school friend Jackson Linder; however, their relationship grows cold when Vienne discovers he is fresh out of rehab recovering from the same illness that killed her father.

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place(and the man)she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.

Martin Owenby, having moved to New York City thirty years earlier to pursue a career as an author but ended up living a life full of drinking and flings with men, returns home after the disappearance of his brother, Leon, and is forced to face his regrets, family members, and old friends.

The sheep dog Mack is the only constant in his owner Justine Mead's life, and when she travels back to her childhood home Mack is lost and then found by the couple Alice and Ed Parmalee who are mourning the death of their daughter.

The rise and fall of Arcadia, a hippy commune, and its lasting impact on Bit, a gifted young man.