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Britain in September 1940 has seen the retreat from Dunkirk, and the entry of Italy into the War. The RAF has withstood all that the Luftwaffe could throw at it in the Battle of Britain, but the German Blitzkrieg is just starting. The first bombing raids have hit South Shields and the town prepares for worse to come. The Police need more young PAMs (Police Auxiliary Messengers) to be ready to take messages on their bikes in the event of a raid and if the phone lines are down. Mossie Hamed, grocery delivery boy, is one of the volunteers who…

Maya Temple looks forward to teaching her weekend art class where she hopes to introduce the joy of still life drawing to her enthusiastic students. But her plans for her class go awry as soon as one late student, Zachary Yarborough, wheels into her class. Zach is a former marine who was wounded in Afghanistan four years prior and is now a paraplegic. He also suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and is taking the class at the request of his psychiatrist, who feels Zach can benefit from art therapy. However Zach winds up pissing off the beautiful art teacher…

South Boston-native Ned Tobin has all the luck. Alive after the Somme, now an officer, he meets, beds and falls in love with the alluring Adèle Chereaux, a half-English lycée teacher who gives herself fully to Ned. Their love affair is suddenly upended in 1917 when Ned is called home and Adèle flees the last German advance of the First World War. Harlem lawyer Chester Dawkins is a fine young man and a devoted brother. He dutifully joins a new regiment anxious to fight for their chance at valor in the face of deep-rooted racism. Meanwhile, his sister, Lena, is…

Little about Conrad Taylor's primitive upbringing, in a remote mining town in the Amazon jungle, prepared the youngster for a first-of-a-kind scholarship to West Point. An extraordinary opportunity for most, it was a life-changer for him. PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance has a simple proposition - fly or die!  It charts a sometimes-humorous journey of perseverance, resilience, hope, survival, and love. It describes a coming-of-age adventure, which traverses between Guyana and the highly-regimented United States Military Academy - at the height of the Vietnam War. The narrative sums up rude awakenings, especially after West Point - because of…

Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou intertwines historic persons, events and locales of WWII with a fictional Nazi plot to disrupt the manufacture of Higgins boats, the Allied landing craft which won the war. Spanning the globe from amphibious landings in the Pacific, to the exotic environs of New Orleans, to the secret world of Bletchley Park, England, to the Allied invasion of North Africa, this thriller, covering two weeks during the summer of 1942, combines an intriguing cast of characters with the historically important Andrew Jackson Higgins, Admiral John Godfrey of British Intelligence, Navajo code talker Chester Nez, Colonel “Wild…

September 1942: Luftwaffe pilot Karl Deichman must cross the English Channel and bomb the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth even though he knows that his English cousin and best friend is inside the building . . . After the war Karl returns to England haunted by the thought: Did I kill Andrew? His quest leads him into the clutches of a former female secret agent, a wartime spy and an ex-RAF Spitfire pilot who has an incredible story to divulge. As Karl gradually uncovers the secret of the Dartmouth Conspiracy he is drawn into the jaws of a lethal trap. He survives,…

Fiery Deirdre Brannigan had opinions on everything. She certainly hated the very idea of war in 1914. Childhood pals Jack Oakley and Will Parsons thought it a grand adventure with their friends. But the crushing weight of her guilty conscience pushes Deirdre to leave Ireland and land directly in the fray. Meanwhile the five friends from Newfoundland blithely enlist. After all, the war couldn’t possibly last very long… They learn quickly how wrong they are and each is torn apart by the carnage in France. What began with enthusiastic dreams of parades and dances with handsome young soldiers turned into…

In Fallujah, during a particularly difficult time in the Iraq War, a group of Marines are deployed on a tour that will bring them closer together, while threatening to tear them apart. The Delta Company Outlaws are a group of Light Armored Reconnaissance Marines deployed in 2004 to one of the most hostile war zones in the world. Through the memoirs of one Marine, this touching story encapsulates the drama surrounding everyday life during the Iraq War. With a bond formed through blood, sweat, and tears, a group of unfamiliar Marines will come together stronger than family. Memoirs of an…

In the Comfort of Shadows follows main character Ann Olson as she searches for the truth about her birth parents and her adoption. After her adoptive dad dies, she finds a letter from his rural cousin Emmett, who inquires about Ann and her sister. Ann finds the well-written letter suspicious because family stories have portrayed Emmett as a crazy, uneducated old recluse. And, since her adoptive dad quit writing to Emmett years ago, Ann suspects Emmett knows the truth behind an adoption no one ever wanted to talk about and that he may be the father she’s been trying to…

A World War II novel based on the American military nurses serving in the Philippines. Follow Margie whose life changes forever when she is captured and held prisoner of war by enemy forces. January of 1941, Margie Bauer is called to active duty in the Army Nurse Corps of the United States Army Reserves. She delights in her assignment to Manila--the Pearl of the Orient. She falls in love with the beauty of the island and a carefree social whirl of bridge games, pool parties, and dancing under twinkle-light stars with handsome young doctors. Though rumors of war circulate, she…