The Redcatcher Express is the author's Vietnam War memoirs. Drafted and sent to fight in the war, the author, a musician by trade, is thwarted in his attempts to get into an Army band. He is assigned to Recon Platoon E 4/ 12 of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade where he endures the adversity of war. The situation worsens when he is picked to be "point man" for Recon. At the forefront of battle, the author begins to feel that he is losing his senses. His prayers are answered when a reporter for the Stars and Stripes writes a story about his musical background. The Commanding General of the 199th reads the story and commissions the author to recruit members for a band to entertain the troops and raise the morale. He organizes The Redcatcher Express, and the band, consisting of American GIs, becomes popular with the troops. He later discovers that raising the morale is instrumental in raising the enemy body count in the 199th's war campaign as well.

A woman uncovers the sinister reason behind a haunting that has plagued her for years. After moving from her birth town of Tijuana, Mexico, she learns the spirit followed her to a suburb of Los Angeles - Highland Park, where the situation escalates into a powerful supernatural attraction. Fearing the ghost has overstepped his boundaries after she suspects he is having sex with her while she sleeps, she seeks the guidance of a psychiatrist when she believes the ghost is causing her to become pregnant. After years of psychoanalysis, the psychiatrist’s prognosis is that her case is due to a persistent sexually imaginative mind. Her life condescends into a state of depression and despairs when her psychiatrist and family choose to institutionalize her to avoid further damage to her psyche. The situation intensifies into another-worldly tale where the entity that caused her misery is the very one that rescues her from an emotional breakdown. This fictional tale with overtones of DNA extraction, alien visitation, and romance will keep you in edge-of-your-seat suspense.

This sentimental book is a diary of a brother sent to Vietnam in 1968. Book 2 includes the first book "A Redcatcher's Letters from Nam" with the letters George wrote home along with the journey it sent his sister, Patricia, the author on for the next 45 years. As Gold Star Sister she was embraced by her brother's unit the Redcatchers. Many vetsshared their memories with her over the years and are included. Special articles written by Robert Fromme he wrote later in life are included. For my children, grandchildren and family to remember a real Hero in their family whowas a fine athlete, good friend, loving son and brother. For my mom who lived to be 100years old she quietly missed her boy for 45 years. For old friends who still remember their friend from childhood wrote wonderful heartfelt stories are included. So many still asking about the first book for their kids andgrandkids. Hopefully leaving a small legacy for the young people of today to know the Vietnam War through the words and tears of a small town boy who was called to duty in 1968.

The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holden is deeply troubled by the "phoniness" of the adult world and is haunted by the death of his younger brother, Allie, which has left a lasting impact on him. He fantasizes about being "the catcher in the rye," a guardian who saves children from losing their innocence by catching them before they fall off a cliff into adulthooda. The novel ends with Holden in a mental institution, where he is being treated for a nervous breakdown. He expresses some hope for the future, indicating a possible path to recovery..

Unceremoniously dumped in the orphanage by their drunken, war-traumatized father, Don and his brother Mike learn the harsh realities of life. We can feel the fear of the tormented child and smell the antiseptic dormitory. Not all is bad there, for it is during this time that the young Donald sees his true love, Annette, for the first time. Her brunette hair, twinkling eyes and heart-melting smile are what help sustain the warrior's sanity and focus during some of his darkest moments, which are yet to come. Don was a 'malcontent renegade' in the eyes of the nuns, because he fought for his dignity and that of his brother. Recalcitrant, yet gregarious, Don is dismissed from the orphanage with his brother, and returned to the father who had abandoned them. No hope for the future leads the seventeen-year-old boy, old beyond his years, to a recruiter's office and the Army. In August 1967, after a tour in Alaska and six months in Germany, the young paratrooper volunteers for duty in the Republic of Vietnam and is initially assigned to the 173d Airborne Brigade. Then, he hears a call for volunteers and joins a new long range patrol unit being formed, with the motto "I Serve," and the charter of taking the war to the enemy. Expertly weaving heart-thumping moments as enemy soldiers walk past within mere feet of patrols, the cacophony of battle and copper-taste of adrenaline during contacts, and the stark contrasts of the war, Don Hall takes us on his tour with the Lurps. We feel the anguish of losing teammates, and share the love for comrades. We see the oblivious eyes of the enemy walking toward an ambush, and the handmade wooden cross prepared by a soldier for a dead enemy tossed from a helicopter. We hear the cries of the wounded and the soft strains of songs on the radio. We feel the hurt and anger of the young boy, and the power and control of the soldier as he serves.

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war

It’s no wonder descriptions of riding often resemble the words of Asian mystics and Jedi knights: The ride causes your senses to open completely. You experience only the present, the now. Readers who prefer revving a Harley to meditating in a Zen garden know that biking is just as contemplative as chanting in the lotus position. Here, philosopher-bikers explore this seeming dichotomy, expounding on intriguing questions such as: Why are the motorcycles the real stars of Easy Rider? What would Marx and Foucault say about Harley riders’ tight leather garb? What’s it like to live a dual life as a philosophy professor who wrenches his own 1965 Electra Glide? Would Jesus hang out in a biker bar or a coffeehouse? And more importantly, would He ride a Harley or a Honda? These witty, provocative essays give readers and riders a new appreciation of what it means to become one with the road.

February 1991, 6 hours before coalition forces initiated the ground assault into Iraq, one unit conducted a forward reconnaissance into unknown territory. Task Force 2-4 Cav, "First In-Last Out" The History of the 2nd Squadron, 4th Cavalry During Operation Desert Storm, 25th Anniversary Edition with a forward by Coach Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University Head Basketball Coach.

In her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary. The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future. A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia, against a background of social collapse. Two friends must embark on an Epic Quest To Capture The Weapon That Threatens The Galaxy, or else they’ll never achieve their dream of opening a restaurant. The stories in this collection, by their very outrageousness, achieve a heightened realism unlike any other. Anders once again proves she is one of the strongest voices in modern science fiction, the writer called by Andrew Sean Greer, “this generation’s Le Guin.” At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.