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F. Mark Granato's gut-wrenching novel, The Barn Find is the
touching yet raw story of three generations of a once loving New
England family that has survived countless crisis' - only to be
torn apart by violent tragedy and a baffling disease. It takes
their courage and resolve, an old man's hallucinations, an antique
car and the boundless love of a young man determined to heal them
to make the Evans' of Willington a family again.
100 years after the most infamous shipwreck in history, imagine:
What If Titanic Didn't Sink? Perhaps no disaster in history has
endured the scrutiny reserved for the sinking of the RMS Titanic on
her maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. Yet nearly a century after the
disaster, there is perhaps one question that remains unanswered
about the legendary British steamship: What if Titanic didn't sink
and the rich and poor she carried had survived that terrible night?
Titanic was a marvel of luxury and innovation. But it was the names
on her passenger list that said it all. The British Liner's first
trek across the Atlantic was not just an adventure for the well to
do. It was a happening. The voyage was a gathering of pre-war power
and influence where deals were done, markets were made and futures
were set. Titanic was the world's greatest symbol of wealth and
success for the very fewest. For those who could afford the
enormous price of a first class stateroom, it was the place to be.
But after colliding with an iceberg while recklessly racing across
the North Atlantic, eminent Captain Edward J. Smith learns that his
ship is doomed -- unless he makes decisions that can save Titanic
and her remarkable cargo against all odds. Twenty years later,
Titanic has enjoyed a successful career and the privileged who
sailed on her maiden voyage have become the world's wealthiest
financiers and industrialists.. All have one thing in common: the
power to influence history. A new President, himself a Titanic
survivor, is slowly leading the United States out of economic
depression but international hostilities are building again and
another World War is inevitable. He reaches out to his fellow
Titanic survivors. Together, can they rewrite the course of
history? Or have they once again unwittingly boarded Titanic for
her final voyage?
September, 1938: An angry hurricane is racing across the Atlantic
as the fledgling US Weather Bureau scrambles to track the monster
storm. Inexplicably, the forecasters lose sight of the typhoon,
which unfathomably grows more powerful and takes direct aim at an
unsuspecting New England. Even as the deadly storm approaches, on
the wealthy Rhode Island summer retreat of Napatree Point, there is
another kind of evil lurking. With a trail of blood marking his
every eerie advance, a man of equally terrifying proportions is
being hunted by lawmen dedicated to stopping the crazed murderer's
killing spree since his escape days earlier from the State Prison
in Wethersfield, Connecticut. No one is safe from the threat of man
and nature as the insane killer and an epic hurricane descend
together on the unsuspecting beaches of the Rhode Island coastline,
bent on death and destruction.
When Charles Lindbergh's tiny, fuel-laden "Spirit of St. Louis"
barely lifted off from a short Long Island runway on May 20, 1927,
the world held its breath. Lindbergh and a host of post-war fliers
were determined to win the "Orteig Prize" -- an award of $25,000
for the first pilot or pilots to cross the vast Atlantic Ocean
between New York and Paris. Tragedy has already struck numerous
attempts prior to Lindbergh's. At least six men have died in the
pursuit. In America, victory in the First Great War less than a
decade before has already become a distant memory. But in defeated
Germany, torn and humiliated by the terms of the Treaty of
Versailles, rearming has already begun in secrecy. It is only a
matter of time before Europe explodes in war again. The Orteig
Prize - seen by the Germans as an Allied attempt to seat Paris as
the capital of Europe -- is the final humiliation. The Germans
sabotage several attempts at success even before Lindbergh's
attempt. Will the same fate await Lindbergh? Or can the Allies
harness their might and resolve to protect the young pilot - and
crush a German super-plot to seek revenge against America?
When aimless, nineteen-year-old boyhood friends catch war fever at
the height of the Vietnam conflict, they dream of adventure, glory
and the romance of victory. Within weeks of beginning their combat
tour as U.S. Marines, one is dead, a hero who has selflessly
sacrificed his life to save his friend. Grievously wounded, the
comatose survivor fights to stay alive for the girl they both
loved. "Finding David" is the touching story of young, unfinished
lives, unquenchable love, broken hearts and haunted minds, and an
enduring devotion to "Semper Fi" - always faithful. Although
"Finding David" is a work of fiction, it is based on a war that
fifty years later is still a source of pain that changed America
forever. For many of those who fought the battles of Vietnam and
returned to a deeply divided country, the scars of their service
are often unhealed and untreated. It was in the wake of Vietnam
that we began to recognize and confront one of war's most horrific
legacies: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. "Finding David" is a
story dedicated to a nineteen-year-old friend and classmate, David
Michael Kirk, who survived just fifty-five days in the jungles of
Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, in the hope that it helps to continue to
raise awareness of the desperate need for greater efforts to help
those suffering from PTSD.
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