Virginia basketball coach Ken Calhoun's nine year old twins are kidnapped from his evening practice. His daughter escapes. His son disappears along with other high profile child athletes throughout the U.S.Ten years later he coaches the 1980 U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team, captained by his All-American daughter. His dream is shattered as he battles his own government and its array of performance enhancement drugs to keep his team clean. Losing is not an option. When the East ...

After Pearl Harbor a six year old Japanese-American boy, Hideki Myoji, and his family enter Washington State’s Camp Harmony Internment Camp as Enemy Aliens. As they battle to salvage their dignity and honor, the boy, Hideki, looks up and asks his Mother, “Why do they hate us?”After graduating from Stanford, Hideki returns to his pre-war sawmill home, confiscated by the government to pay for his family’s internment. He meets the new owner, Rick Blair, an ex-teacher, withdrawn since ...

With two years of college down the tubes, Ken Michaels hops on a lawn tractor and mows down a row of newly planted birch saplings in the front yard of Richmond’s most lavish estate. Welcome back. By the end of his Junior year, he solidifies his claim to coming-of-age specialist of the year. Humility is back in vogue.When the Dean gives his best friend Buddy an ultimatum, a B in summer school, or a one way trip to Viet Nam, a dive through an apartment milk door, a flashlight, and a ...

Ken Michaels' bronco-ride to adulthood begins when he is fired from his Canadian lifeguard dream-job. It passes through his parents' small southern town, rife with '60s attitudes, before he enters college in Virginia. His misadventures in Canada, with the townspeople, his first love Jeanie, his friend Buddy, and the campus coeds, all add gas to the fire.The steady stream of slapstick stories, told by the wisecracking narrator, mostly at his own expense, chart Ken's self-education. ...