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Chris tells the story of one American FSO who believed in serving his country in very foreign lands. From the hilariously morbid bureaucracy of South India to the blood-soaked streets of Rwanda, to civil war in Liberia, and to the creation of a new country in South Sudan, this memoir should make us all shake our heads with wonder and pride at the sacrifices our diplomats make for America.

A young Christopher must deal with a very bad egg. For ages four to nine.

Ellen Craft is property; in this case, of her half-sister Debra, to whom she was given as a wedding gift. The illegitimate daughter of a Georgia plantation owner and a house slave, she learned to hate her own image, which so closely resembled that of her "father": the same wiry build, the same blue eyes, and the same pale - indeed, lily-white - skin. Ellen lives a solitary life until she falls, unexpectedly, in love with a dark-skinned slave named William Craft, and together they devise a plan to run north.

I jumped at the chance to say a word about Run Scout Run. Chris Datta opens the book by explaining the human bond with dogs in powerful theological, evolutionary, and literary terms. Chris’ stance is firm and unapologetic: “The arrogance of humanity is appalling. We constantly set ourselves on high as the top of Creation.” But he and Scout forge a partnership of souls from the moment the nine-week-old whelp gazed at him “with brown soulful eyes”.

Robert E. Lee’s most trusted senior commander, General James Longstreet, takes two Virginia divisions west to unite with General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. Longstreet arrives just in time to join in the Confederate attack on the Union army at the battle of Chickamauga. As the fate of the Confederacy is decided, this epic saga plays out against the backdrop of the love stories of Mexican war veteran Sergeant Sam Davis and the recently widowed Sally O’Grady, and of the young, poor and naïve Private Harry Kolb and Rachel Shaw, the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner.

When Kevin volunteered to travel to a war-ravaged country in Africa to help out his childhood buddy Bill, now a physician with Doctors Without Borders, he knew he might face danger. But he could not have envisioned the brief, nightmarish encounter that would rob him of his friend, his principles, and quite possibly his sanity.

PI Zooey Krause has no idea what she is walking into when she accepts a bread and butter assignment to investigate the car-crash death of an experimental nuclear power plant worker. Soon enough, however, she finds herself doing battle with the tentacles of a powerful and angry octopus out to destroy the framework of Democracy. Its weapons are fear, deceit, street violence, and terrorism. Its mission is to strangle the soul of America....