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4) Bay of souls
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Becoming involved with new faculty member Lara, who claims to be possessed, professor Michael Ahern journeys to Lara's native island of St. Trinity, where he is enmeshed in a smuggling scheme.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The author offers a tribute to the 1960s told through a series of personal vignettes recounting his global experiences, from his final year in the military to his work as a correspondent in Vietnam, where he witnessed the invasion of Laos.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this affecting semi-autobiographical novel, the author portrays over three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission.
