The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return home, the young physician lives through the most turbulent and formati...

The time is 2005. The place In Miami, Florida, the Magic City. Joan of Miami is a timely and captivating novel that intertwines the universal themes of the search for personal authenticity in an ever-changing materialistic world. Starting off against the vibrant backdrop of Miami's dynamic real estate industry, the story then rockets off to the dazzling heights of Manhattan's elite advertising agencies. There, Jean Molk, a 19-yearl old girl from a small town where family ties bind ever so ...

She found him buried under the desert.She recognized him from television.Airman Onyx Rhinehart has spent her career following orders, trusting the system, and believing the chain of command exists for a reason. That belief ends the day the ground collapses beneath her feet and she discovers what the U.S. government has spent decades hiding — a ship that shouldn't exist, and a man who shouldn't be alive.His name is Damien Blade. He's powerful, dangerous, and complete...

It's the first week of summer vacation and Walt is ready to spend it getting caught up on comics and sleep. Even though his mom has chores and stuff for him to do around the farm, he's looking forward to a nice quiet summer. When Walt finds himself running for his life, an unusual stranger comes to his rescue. Curious about the boy, the stranger decides to trust Walt with a secret which takes Walt on a journey into a world of myth, magic, and adventure.

On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy in his own mind as he struggle...

This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commen...

Waking to find the world changing each day, Jerrod struggles to find out why he appears to be the only one who notices. While trying to understand what is happening to The City, Jerrod discovers that the woman of his dreams is real, but so is the danger that she is running from.

In the beginning, the horizon was marked with darkness and the heavens threatened to swallow all that was and could ever be. Then, one with the knowledge of that darkness sought a way to prevent the storm while harnessing its power. But despite all efforts, the darkness remained, unyielding.But as the darkness continues to stretch across time, a woman and her daughter may hold the key to undoing all that has come before and that which has occurred since.*2nd Edition*

After witnessing the total destruction of life on Earth, Sonya is returned to her own time, with her memories of the future intact. With knowledge of her impending death, Sonya takes steps to unmake the future and to rewrite the events that would ultimately lead to her death and plant the seeds for the demise of human existence (3rd Edition).

While attempting to complete the work of a beloved colleague, Herbert George Li inadvertently transports a young college student through time, tearing multiple holes in the fabric of time and space. With the help of new and old friends, Herb and Alex must undo the mistakes of the past, repairing time before all of human history is erased.

National Book Award Finalist: "A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman" ( The New Yorker).What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America's legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment? In The Law of the Land, Charles Rembar examines these and many other topics, illustrating the surprisingly entertaining history of US law.Best known f...

"So many tensions and so much emotion . . . A powerful novel" of the Vietnam era by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War ( Booklist ).John "Spider" Spiedel is a college dropout who is drafted into the war as a combat engineer. Scared, he tries to keep his head down and stay safe, a plan that works until the Tet Offensive, when he is wounded and sent states...