Stephen Hirst

O Beloved offers a unique insight into a soldier's experience of war through this collection of letters home to his wife, lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs and maps. Dr. David Hirst was a front-line combat surgeon who saw action in some of the fiercest battles of World War II, at Kasserine Pass and Hill 609 in North Africa and Cassino and Anzio in Italy. Despite that, these annotated letters attempt to mask the brutality and horror with everyday life in the field to keep from alarming those at home. Eventually, however, as the war grinds on, the letters darken.Dr. Hirst's letters and photographs have been compiled and annotated by his wife Charlotte and son Stephen and now issued for the first time to the public.

The bombing of an atomic lab in Ohio and a mistaken killing in Southeast Asia set off this roller-coaster mystery set in the 1990s at the cusp of the Internet age. The ride begins when college instructor Graham Bell tries to connect with a wary salon worker calling herself Linda Chapman. Then the flirtation turns deadly when Chapman disappears and a SWAT team invades his house hunting Tori DaMantova, the Antigone bomber. Investigators stun Bell when they find DaMantova's fingerprints in his house.Bell uncovers information, however, that casts DaMantova in a different light and sets out to find her. One step ahead of her pursuers, the instructor tracks DaMantova across the country to land himself in the middle of an incident far bigger and more sinister than he could have imagined. What began as an attempt to find Tori DaMantova takes him into a menacing underworld after an elusive Eurydice.

A ruined hunting shelter, a displaced Indigenous woman and the planetary weight of the U.S. government: the gunpowder that ignite Lauren Greasewater's War. Set in the 1970s, this historical novel traces an urban Indian woman's quest from the streets of New York to the canyons of the Southwest finding her way back to the community of her birth to reinvent herself as Lauren Greasewater. Caught between two dissonant worlds, she turns a cultural misunderstanding into an armed conflict that captures national attention.In her effort to save the place she was born, Lauren Greasewater's motley defenders see a struggle for recognition and a chance to regain their humanity. The war that ensues brings together the Vietnam-wracked Havasupai man Lauren loves, Lauren's strange wizard namesake Gwi Swaada, and her way into the Native American world.The updated text includes a diagram of Lauren's family and a glossary.