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The author provides an account of his experiences during the Vietnam War, discussing his decision, while home for Christmas during basic training, to leave behind his family, his girlfriend, and his homeland and escape to Canada where he has lived for thirty years.

When Maximilian Ophulus is murdered by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown, authorities uncover a dangerous link between the murderer and the victim's daughter.

An exploration of the history of Afghanistan since 1808 that focuses on the country's foreign relations and discusses Russian, British, and American involvement.

The renewed relationship of two high-society Americans, young diplomat George Darrow and widow Anna Leath, is shaken in France when George embarks on an affair with Sophy Viner, an appealing woman of the lower classes whom Anna's stepson loves.

Tells the true story about Joshua Key, an American sold who refused to return to Iraq and fled with his family to Canada because of the things he saw and did in Iraq.

Fifteen-year-old Ned Mariner, accompanying his photographer father on a shoot at the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence, meets American exchange student Kate Wenger, and together they becomes involved in a supernatural battle between a Celtic warrior and a Roman trader whose love for the same woman has not dimmed over centuries.

The American author shares stories of her experiences in the south of France, framed within the context of words she has learned from her children, husband, and through the course of everyday life.

The author tells of her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala in 1992, and includes stories from seven women whose lives she touched.