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The Bottom of the 5TH
Have you seen the movie THE SANDLOT?
Well, that was pretty much my childhood. As a ten year old, it seemed the mysteries of life came alive through baseball. This is a story straight out of those glory days of playing baseball on the diamonds of Southern California, of the smell of cut grass in the outfield, of hitting impossible homers on and off the field. And of ghosts. This story is very much about the ghosts of childhood. You won't believe where this story goes. More info →
Not One Among Them Whole
The flies. The blood. The soldiers. The wounds. The surgeons. The undertakers.
The insanity.
The greatest battle ever fought on American soil is in full tilt. Southern Pennsylvania has become one great grinding stone and thousands of men are dead or dying in its wake. In this tilted landscape, reputations are made, careers are ruined, and men are driven to the brink in the wake of two armies intent on killing one another. What happens next amid the carnage and human flotsam will be unholy, unnerving, and all but unbearable, with only one thing certain: nobody will escape unscathed.
Introducing an audacious historical novel told from the viewpoint of the surgeons struggling amid the chaos and carnage of a battlefield hospital at Gettysburg in 1863.
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The Matriarch of Ruins
In THE MATRIARCH OF RUINS (Book II of The Gettysburg Trilogy), a widow struggles to keep her family together amid the carnage of the Battle of Gettysburg. This is a story of ordinary folks caught in the maelstrom of an extraordinary time.
It is 1863 and the war has come home to the Gamble farm in Southern Pennsylvania. With her husband buried under the willow tree in the back yard, and only four months in the ground, the widow Purdy Gamble must cope with losing him all over again when a rebel surgeon conscripts her farm—and Purdy’s growing respect despite herself. Hannah Gamble Griel, Purdy’s daughter, disappears into the chaos of war to chase her own ghosts, both imaginary and real. And then there are the twins Loli and Coal, just fourteen. One, struck dumb by a mule kick at age five, will find a disturbing peace amid the flames of war. The other will twice save a man’s life, unburying a horrid family secret in the process—a secret at once as alive as warm flesh and as dead as cold bones mouldering under the earth.
THE MATRIARCH OF RUINS is a haunting story of lost love, moral dilemmas, and psychological traumas amid the ruins of war, by the author of NOT ONE AMONG THEM WHOLE (Book I of The Gettysburg Trilogy), which told the story of the surgeons at Gettysburg. This is a vivid, suspenseful tale, told with heart-breaking empathy and stunning detail.
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