THE ONLY EDITION APPROVED BY THE ATKINSON FAMILYOriana Atkinson (1895-1989) was a wide-ranging novelist and journalist of the WWII era and in this amazing best-seller, Over at Uncle Joe’s: Moscow and Me, she expounds on her short but hilarious time in Moscow in 1945-46 with her husband, Brooks Atkinson, correspondent for the New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence in 1947 for his observations in the war-torn and totalitarian government of the U.S.S.R. from Moscow. It is with Oriana’s unassuming, unaffected, but definitely humorous writing that she describes the complexity of life in the Communist state of Stalin (Uncle Joe as he was often described by the citizenry and his propagandist media), highlighting that even those used to confusion and scarcity from war and socialist rule can be unique and bonded to life, family, and love.THE ONLY EDITION APPROVED BY THE ATKINSON FAMILY

Over at Uncle Joe's: Moscow and Me (A Glimpse at Post-WWII Soviet Union from an American Traveler and Correspondent) (The Women War Correspondents Serie)

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Atkinson, Oriana

Humor

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The Twin Cousins: An Early American Romance Novel (The Women War Correspondents Series)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

After Elise by Denise Pattiz Bogard is a novel about unexpected tragedy and how it changes the lives of a dysfunctional family while demonstrating that patience, understanding and forgiveness bring hope.Imagine this: You are a married mother of two, driving to the grocery store in a storm, changing the radio station, answering your cell phone, when you notice a woman stranded by the side of the road and, on impulse, decide to pull over….Teri Berger’s car skids in the rain, killing twenty-year-old Elise and leaving Teri reeling with guilt and the rest of her family in disarray as they struggle to adjust to this new reality. Already strained family relationships are tested, and Teri’s marriage suffers, her son withdraws, and her daughter faces a heartbreaking decision.AFTER ELISE confronts readers with the most everyday tragedy—an accident that could happen to anyone—and its effects, changing the lives forever of everyone involved.Ultimately, the novel is a story of forgiveness and healing.After Elise was a finalist in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition sponsored by the Faulkner Society.

After Elise

Bogard, Denise Pattiz

Larry Williamson's story of the first Creek War in Alabama (1813-1814), Tallapoosa (2001 by NewSouth Books), was a rousing success, and this sequel, Muskogi Sunset: The Second Creek War of 1836, builds on that tragic story, including many of the same characters and mix of historical facts and exciting story line.Williamson's update on the Murph family and its strong personal connection with the local Creeks living on the Tallapoosa River shows that Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not fully endorsed by Alabama's citizenry, especially those living on Creek lands.Though the Cherokees Trail of Tears is more famous, the Creeks had their own forced removal. The Creeks knew they had little say in the matter and that many whites would take advantage of the situation to steal their homes and property, sending them on a heart-breaking path toward what would later be known as Oklahoma.It is troubling in today's diverse society to realize the lengths our ancestors took to eliminate the native population from their homes, but it is also understandable why so many of the Creeks in 1836 were willing to stand against the government oppression unwillingly fostered upon them. Larry's first book was the historical novel Tallapoosa, about the Creek Indian War of 1813-14. Muskogi Sunset, concerning the Second Creek War of 1836, is the sequel to Tallapoosa.

Muskogi Sunset: The Second Creek War of 1836 (Ardent Writer Press)

Williamson, Larry

United States

Things I Wish My Father Had Told Me is a collection of sayings for a happier life and for dealing with life's struggles from former U.S. Army counselor, Leonard Adams, whose childhood trauma from abusive parents was rejected and his own life was turned around. The motivational sayings are random snapshots of how to embody love in one's life and relationships, resulting in an affirmation of the possibilities for any of us, no matter how terrible are the conditions we are currently experiencing.

Things I Wish My Father Had Told Me (Ardent Writer Press)

Self-Help

Adams, Leonard

Relationships

In The Killing of Jefferies Flat, author Sophia Bogart gives a fascinating description of rural Tennessee in Post World War II, where Southern charm is simply a facade for the raging emotions of a small town. The hard-working citizens of Jefferies Flats, a tiny community in a valley of East Tennessee, live simple lives and the end of World War II brings them hope for peace and prosperity. The return of their native sons is a time for celebration and renewal, but simple lives do not mean that life is simple. Instead, the casual indiscretions of two who stayed behind will taint the return of these young veterans of battle. J.T. Briley and Clara McGuire are secretly having an affair while Arlo McGuire is fighting in Europe. Upon his return, Arlo discovers his wife's infidelity and flies into a rage that will devastate the two families and send shockwaves throughout the valley. The most innocent by-stander in this tragedy is Eldon Boyette, J.T.'s teenage grandson. He shoulders the weight of the family scandal while struggling to keep his father sober. His only solace is with Laura Mae, the new girl in town, who has troubles of her own to bear. The difference between renewal and chaos is a delicate balance from which the small town may never recover.

The Killing of Jefferies Flats: Death Throes of a Small Town and Its People (Ardent Writer Press)

Bogart, Sophia

Anne Aletha: The Story of a Suffragist’s Fight against Racism and the Klan during WWI (Ardent Writer Press)

Wright, Camille N.

The Blue House Raid: American Infantry and the Korean DMZ Conflict

The Blue House Raid was a lesser-known conflict of the Vietnam era that played out in Korea, testing American and South Korean resolve when North Korea launched a daring attack to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-hee in his residence near Seoul. However, this novel of the same name is more than a description of a failed incursion. The author, a former U.S. Army soldier who spent 13 months along the DMZ, develops fictional characters who enable a grander weave of the relationships of the American and Korean soldiers along the DMZ, as well as the Korean people impacted by the soldiers’ presence, especially the working girls in the scattered villages nearby. Even the North Korean soldiers in the invasion are brought to life with crisp clarity in The Blue House Raid, allowing a hint of empathy for these young men who were controlled by their propagandist government. 
Author Robert Perron culls from his vivid familiarity of the time and subject as well as those of his fellow South Korean friends to paint not only a gripping and sometimes tragic story, but in the process narrates a fascinating military history of those forgotten times, which are as dire now as they were then.

Perron, Robert

William, The Patriarch: Book One of The Watertown Chronicles

Shattuck, Nancy

Divine Aphasia: A Woman's Search for Her Father

Divine Aphasia's poignant story is tragic and often dark, yet hope permeates the struggles of the author, Nancy Owen Nelson, as the background in her childhood exposes her vulnerability to men and life. The story reflects a loving but delicate father, Woodford Owen Nelson, a military officer, who passes these same qualities to the author. As an adult, the author labors through multiple marriages and relationships in a difficult search for identity blurred by the experiences of the constant moves of her father from one Army base to another. These experiences, along with his alcoholism, ultimately result in the codependencies of Nelson, her mother, and sisters as well as stiff barriers to stability. Only in her final unsuccessful marriage to a colleague with Aphasia does the process reach a breaking point that shatters these barriers and leads Nelson to understand, as she writes, that "he could not give me any more love than he did. That he gave love in ways I didn't recognize."

Biographies & Memoirs

Nelson, Nancy Owen

Community & Culture

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