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A great new novel of the American Heartland - Coon Creek is a story of love and loss, violence and revenge, in post-Civil War Illinois.
Japheth Bunt, a veteran of the Civil War, is a man who lives to hunt and drink - at the expense of honest work.
Hannah Bunt, of pioneer stock, is the strong willed woman who married Japheth years before - content with her hard, but simple life on Coon Creek.
Elias Bunt - their son. A boy who watches in fear as his life and the lives of those he loves are threatened by a bitter family feud that rages in the woods and on the roads of Hancock County, Illinois.
| |  | | Journey: A Novel of America
The sprawling story of a Czech-American family's determined struggle and unforgettable odyssey...from the hunger and hardship of Eastern Europe at the turn of the century, across the cold, gray Atlantic, and on into America's growing cities and farms.
| |  | | Lonesome Whistle Blow
This exciting sequel to "Coon Creek" revisits Dallas City, Illinois, even as young Rafe Bunt sets out to find his own way in 1930s Depression-era America.
| |  | | Seasons of Harvest
Book One of the Corrales Valley Trilogy, set in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.
Book One of the Corrales Valley Trilogy, set against the turmoil and sweep of Southwestern history, this sprawling novel is seen through the eyes of an early pueblo family, and the early Spanish conquistadors who conquered them. "Seasonsof Harvest" begins with the early Anasazi who abandoned their homes in the red rock cliffs of southern Colorado to seek a new home on the banks of the Rio Grande River, and concludes with early Spanish conflict and settlement in the Corrales Valley. | |  | | Shadows on the Land
"Shadows on the Land" is Book Three, the final volume of the Corrales Valley Trilogy.
"Shadows on the Land" is the third and final volume of the Corrales Valley Trilogy, resuming near the turn of the twentieth century, and following the final tragedy of the Bonneau family and the coming of age of Gaetano Perna.
After being wounded in France, James Parrish returns home to marry lovely Emily MacKenzie. They move a small herd onto Corrales land and put down roots as the first Anglos in the village.
The fortunes of the Apodacas, Bonneaus, Pernas, and Parrishes are followed through the great 1918 influenza epidemic, bootlegging and prohibition, Ku Klux Klan violenc | |  | | The Awakening Land
"The Awakening Land" is Book Two of the Corrales Valley Trilogy.
"The Awakening Land" is the second of a three-volume trilogy set in the Corrales Valley of New Mexico. Continuing the story, as a desperate Spanish remount station eventually becomes the small settlement of Corrales, the story follows the fate and fortunes of the Apodaca family through the bloody Pueblo Revolt, and then over seven generations in the Corrales Valley.
It also introduces French immigrants, Louis and Julian Bonneau, who are forced to flee France to escape punishment for an unspeakable crime.
A few years later, young Gaetano Perna must leave his small, Sicili | |  | | Unlike Any Land You Know
The true story of the "Burma Bridge Busters" in China-Burma-India.
Along with Gen. Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," the men and planes of the 490th Bomb Squadron became famous as the "Burma Bridge Busters." This is their story.
From late 1942 to the end of the war, their incredible feats of low-level bombing and strafing of Japanese held bridges, airfields, and troop facilities in occupied Burma hindered the Japanese advance in Asia, and provided critical air support for the Allies fighting on the ground.
The author's uncle was a radioman/waist gunner in the 490th, and was killed on a mission late in the war. His body and those of his com |
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