Joseph Allen
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Vietnam 1966. Six U.S. Marines run frantically through the jungle as a vicious battle swirls around them. A bomb drops in their midst, killing five and wounding one. A lone Marine comes to the injured man's aid. He removes the man's dog tags, fires a shotgun into his face, sets the body afire and disappears into the jungle. Thirty years later in Sarasota, Florida, when a murder investigation is closed under suspicious circumstances, ex-detective,...
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This book tells of this draftee's struggles, sacrifices and ultimate survival of a war he wanted nothing to do with. The letters recorded here are actual unedited reproductions of the letters he received in Nam and letters he sent home. The author took many years to compile this book, with the hope that reader could get a better sense of that divisive war fought so many years ago. The thought of writing this book at first was overwhelming, as he had...
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Marcus Owen is preordained to follow in his parent's footsteps by going on to a prestigious high school, ivy league university and then earning a Ph.D. At any moment, Margaret and Harold Owen - the professors - may spring a pop quiz on Marcus. He may have to ask for his morning cereal in Latin or recite the Fibonacci sequence to earn dessert.
Marcus is diminutive in size, looking more like nine than eleven, which is why his parents are steadfast in...
4) Comets
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delivers stunning prose perfect for the times. The settings, both personal and universal, are not only tangible in the imagination, but they invite the reader in to experience stories from the heart.
The twelve-story, linked collection, COMETS, follows through-line protagonist, Roberto, as he grows from a working teenager influenced by the men in his father's cabinet shop, to a disillusioned 42, unwittingly trying to fill his father's shoes, while...
