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  Where Earth Meets Sky

  Annie Murray

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  Beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness and loss. At eighteen she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Fairford, a soldier in Ambala, north India and his highly strung wife Susan. Lily is drawn into the emotional life of the Fairford family and adores her charge, two year old Cosmo. 
   When, in 1907, Captain Fairford orders a new Daimler car, it is brought out by a young motor mechanic, Sam Ironside. Sam and Lily fall deeply in love, and it is only later that Lily learns that Sam is married and feels utterly betrayed. When Cosmo is later sent home to school, Lily finds another post with a Dr. McBride and his invalid wife, in a beautiful Himalayan hill station. The place is idyllic, and Lily settles for a quiet life. However, she is unprepared for the pain and misunderstandings that follow and force her to run from everything she has known . . . 
   Where Earth Meets Sky by Annie Murray, and read by Annie Aldington, takes us from Edwardian England and the British Raj, through the darkness of the Great War to the glamour of Brooklands Race Track in the 1920s. Spanning two continents, it is a story of enduring friendships and two hearts which cannot be kept apart.

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  Far Bright Star

  Robert Olmstead

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  Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star "packs a potent emotional wallop" (Booklist). In 1916, aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops are wiped out, and he is left to die alone in the Mexican desert.

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  The daughter of the great Barnum

  Alexander Kuprin

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  While almost entirely fictional, this story about the famous entertainer Barnum, his beautiful daughter, and one very clever clown, set against the backdrop of an old-fashioned circus, is witty, sweet, and romantic.

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  Another War Another Peace - A Novel

  Ronald J. Glasser

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  The powerful story of an unlikely friendship and a doctor’s re-education on the battlefields of the Vietnam WarFresh out of medical school and planning to enter academia, David pragmatically applies to serve in the US Army, thinking he would rather work in a stateside military hospital than get drafted. But when he gets reassigned to Southeast Asia, he suddenly finds himself on a base in Vietnam. He joins a civilian aid mission on a supposedly secure plateau, and spends his days dispensing pills to villagers. As David comes to terms with the unexpected factors that brought him to Vietnam, he must adjust to many more twists and turns—among them his relationship with his driver, Tom, a young, rough-hewn Southerner whose reticence feels unnervingly like indifference. Gradually, however, David sees that there’s far more to Tom than he initially thought. As their friendship grows, David also realizes that his fellow doctors and the troops on base hold widely diverging opinions about the war and its objectives. As it becomes clear that their base is located on a key strategic route—the notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail—and thus a vulnerable target, it’s only a matter of time before battles break out . . .

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  Saigon - An Epic Novel of Vietnam

  Anthony Grey

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  An epic saga of love, blood, and destiny in twentieth-century Vietnam: “This superb novel could well be the War and Peace of our age” (San Francisco Chronicle).   Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon—the capital of French colonial Cochin-China—as a young man on his father’s hunting trip in 1925. But the exotic land lures him back again and again as a traveler, soldier, and reporter. He returns because of his fascination for the enchanting city—and for Lan, a mandarin’s daughter he cannot forget.   Over five decades Joseph’s life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigon’s most influential families, the French colonist Devrauxs, and the native Trans. In this sweeping saga of tragedy and triumph, Joseph witnesses Vietnam’s turbulent, war-torn fate. He is there when millions of coolies rise against the French, and during their bloody last stand at Dien Bien Phu. And he sees US military “advisors” fire their first shots in America’s hopeless war against the Communist revolution. A story of adventure, love, war, and political power, Saigon presents an enthralling and enlightening depiction of twentieth-century Vietnam.  

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  Kipling - Collection

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Kipling - Grand Collection: 
      Novels:
      The Light That Failed
      Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
      Kim
      The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
      Stalky and Co.
      Short Story Collections:
      The City of Dreadful Night
      Plain Tales from the Hills
      Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
      Soldier's Three - Part II
      The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
      Under the Deodars
      Wee Willie Winkie
      Life's Handicap
      Many Inventions
      The Jungle Book
      The Second Jungle Book
      The Day's Work
      Just So Stories
      Traffics and Discoveries
      Puck of Pook s Hill
      Actions and Reactions
      Abaft the Funnel
      Rewards and Fairies
      The Eyes of Asia
      A Diversity of Creatures
      Poetry Collections:
      Departmental Ditties
      Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
      The Seven Seas
      An Almanac of Twelve Sports
      The Five Nations
      Songs from Books
      The Years Between
      How Shakespeare Came to Write the Tempest
      Military Collections:
      A Fleet in Being
      France at War
      The New Army in Training
      Sea Warfare
      The War in the Mountains
      The Graves of the Fallen
      Travel Collections
      American Notes
      From Sea to Sea
      Letters of Travel: 1892-1913

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