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Motorcycle ride on the sea of tranquility

2002
Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait for her brother, Chuy, to return from Vietnam, but as soon as he arrives, the entire family realizes how much the war has changed him, and they must all readjust to his new attitude.

The razor's edge

1992
A young American man named Larry Darrell traverses Europe, China, Burma, and India in search of meaning after experiencing the horrors of the First World War.

The Bonus Army

an American epic
2005
Chronicles the events surrounding the 1932 demonstration where 45,000 World War I veterans descended on Washington, D.C., to demand immediate payment of a cash bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime service.

This side of paradise

2006
Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

The man in the gray flannel suit

2002
Tom Rath, having returned from World War II to settle down with his wife and children in their nice New York home, finds himself feeling discontented with himself and his job, and when he encounters a man from his past, he must make an important decision about how to go forward with his life.

Gal?pagos

2009
The author takes the reader back one million years--to A.D. 1986 and the beginning of the human race with the descendants of a small group of survivors of an ill-fated cruise ship to the Gal?pagos Archipelage. The narrator is the ghost of a Vietnam veteran.

Soldier in paradise

a novel
1999
James Patrick Donnelly flees to Florida's Gulf Coast after a messy divorce and joins a group of Vietnam veterans, where he is reunited with a soldier he knew in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

Carry me home

2005
Sixteen-year-old Earl Gunderman struggles with the problems of family and community in rural 1940s Wisconsin when his brother returns from a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines and his parents' marriage seems to be unraveling.

Paco's story

2005
After surviving a brutal Vietcong attack at Fire Base Hariette and returning to the United States from Vietnam, Paco Sullivan is haunted by the ghosts of the men he saw killed there.

Maisie Dobbs

a novel
2004
Maisie Dobbs finds herself drawn back into the Great War when she begins investigating a recent crime.

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