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Stone, River, Rain: Currents in a Single Flow is heroic, harrowing, and magical. This is a story of unselfish love and indomitable courage in the face of cruelty, violence, and tragic loss. The simple, human need to give and receive love draws the novel's heroines-mother, daughter, and refugee child-into each other's lives as we follow Mimi, the central character, on her journey from the busy streets and verdant parks of San Francisco to the dry desert home of the Hadendowa tribe of Sudan, East Africa. The writing is vivid, at times mischievous, and the book features a cast of unlikely...

This is a love story, an adventure and a memoir. The events take place in the early 60's, at the height of the Cold War in a Germany divided by the Iron Curtain into East and West. Berlin, situated behind the Iron Curtain, divided into 4 sectors: American, British, French and Russian is the listening post for the political and ideological powers of both West and East. The relentless struggle for power culminates in the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Wall is down. It is time to tell stories that could not be told till now. Stories about children from behind the Iron Curtain separated...

Buffalo, Carry Me Home, A Tale of the Fall of Saigon is a compelling fictional account of the tragedy of Vietnam. It is a story--at once intimate and universal--not only of the devastation of villages, families and their children, but also of the heroism of these besieged people and their rescuers. The central character is an American journalist and war correspondent, whose personal struggle with cultural identity unfolds as his involvement with the Vietnamese people deepens. This is a tale of courage, heartbreak and hope that had to be told.