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News reporter to commander: Bataan, the Death March, three POW camps- the war story of Captain Charles Underwood. A Story untold for more than sixty years! There are thousands of U.S. soldiers who have never been properly recognized for their actions during the Second World War. This is the story of one of them. Charles Underwood was a young reporter when he was called up to active service in the Philippines. He survived the infamous Death March, and spent over three years as a prisoner of war in Japan, at the end of which time he boldly commandeered a train and traveled through hostile territory to reach the U.S. lines. He is credited with helping to liberate more than seven hundred starving POWs. Using his father's long-forgotten journal as a starting point, Charles Underwood, Jr. has done extensive research to bring to life the important part of American military history.

In this intimate look at life on the Autism spectrum a mother reveals the touching, exhausting, and, ultimately rewarding details of raising a child with Autism. From the earliest signs that John was somehow different, to his triumphant High School graduation and transition into adulthood, Ellen Walker details the pitfalls and tribulations of parenting in uncharted territory, while at the same time presenting the reader with an inspiring profile of a boy struggling to make sense of his world with bravery and intelligence.

Somehow, somewhere a secret list of ultra-radical college students has been smuggled out of a federal prison. At J.Edgar Hoover's direction, a covert plan has been concocted to coerce young Americans into becoming undercover agents in a desperate attempt to ����ind that list and neutralize the Weather Underground before it can join forces with the Black Panthers. Sean O'Neal leaves the tough streets of South Boston to become a Green Beret and fight a guerilla war in the jungles of Vietnam. He returns home with his life shattered, and finds himself ensnared in Hoover's plan. Jack Duncan, a child of the counter-culture, leaves college to travel overseas. What he doesn't know is that the FBI has put him directly in Sean O'Neal's crosshairs.

Nick Daggett, a Vietnam veteran in his early forties, has returned to Snow Island to live year-round and run a pirate radio station from the abandoned mansion. Nora Venable, a lesbian in her seventies and owner of the decaying mansion, comes to the island after a fifty-year absence and decides to stay. Ruth Lambert, a photographer from New York, arrives to see what is left of the old Snow Inn, which she has inherited from her aunt. This unlikely trio finds their lives unexpectedly linked after a fire sweeps through the old mansion. Set in the fall of 1990, as the United States prepares to go to war in the Persian Gulf, the final volume of the Snow Island trilogy (after Snow Island and Evening Ferry) brings together characters from the previous volumes with new arrivals in a moving conclusion that completes the saga of island life. This taut tale of love and perseverance evokes the isolation and connection at the heart of every community.

"No one else seems to have thought of telling the story of a boy's life with so great a desire to show what a boy's life is, and with so little purpose of teaching what it should be; certainly no one else has thought of doing this for the American Boy."-- William Dean Howells, 1870This humorous, poignant yarn of one lad's adventures became the inspiration for Twain's Tom Sawyer and many others.This newly typeset, highly readable edition includes over 60 illustrations by A. B. Frost, the foremost illustrator of Aldrich's time. This IS NOT a facsimile!

There is a well of sorrow here-in existential probings bya host of alter egos through unexplored terrain, impossiblecrossings, breakdowns and absurdity. Each "figment" is astep along a trail hitherto shrouded in mist and each stepbrightens our way until illumination, action and place areone, transcending the limitations of reason.Praise for Figments-Richard Miles, poet and author of Boat of Two ShoresGerald George won the Donn Goodwin prize for poetry, was chosen poet laureate for the Maine Senior College Network, and has published poetry widely. His work has appeared in a book, Imitations of Indonesia and Other Poems (Chestnut Hills Press, 1997); in many periodicals such as Potomac Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Visions International; and in anthologies such as A Rump-Sprung Chair and a One Eyed Cat, Poems by Down East Maine's Salt Coat Sages (Black Dog Press, 2008), Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press 2002), and Take Heart, Poems from Maine (Down East 2013). His verse play Bailey's Mistake was performed in Portland's 2008 Maine One-Act Play Festival, and two of his other plays were performed on WERU radio. He and his wife Carol live in East Machias, Maine.

Tennyson once said, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Tennyson was an idiot. Because heartbreak sucks. If you're breathing, at some point in your life, love has probably bashed you over the head ... and then continued to kick you while you were down until you thought you might die. That's better?! Feeling like your heart has been shredded with a cheese grater and then set on fire - that's better? The pain of heartbreak is so massive and all-encompassing, most people believe the torment they experience over love is exclusive to them. But The Sorrows of Young Werther realistically attests to the fact that heartbreak began occurring way before you confessed your love for someone, only to have him or her remove you as a Facebook friend.

"On that night my friend Derek Reardon and I went to a bar in Atkinson to start drinking before we moved the partying to an old friend's house. I have no memory of being there, but for some odd reason I decided to drive home. This is still a mystery to me. I wasn't a habitual drunk driver, but that doesn't matter because I know now that one time is all it takes." Jim Scott tells an intense story of Traumatic Brain Injury and the long, grueling journey that follows. A cautionary tale for young drivers, and a source of inspiration for others suffering from a TBI.

The poems in this book are inspired by the region called the Piscataqua watershed: Portsmouth, Kittery, Rye, Eliot, Durham, and so on. Oh, and of course, we must include The Isles of Shoals, which seem to burn brightly in the minds of all our local poets.Here are poems memorializing the Memorial Bridge, celebrating our forests and rivers, our past and present, and our intense emotional connection to this region.We hope that you enjoy reading this book as much as we've enjoyed making it.