Dust Child fearless jonesFinalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The author of the award winning The Mountains Sing returns with a suspenseful and moving saga of wartime love, family, loss, and redemption set in Vit Nam. In 1969, sisters Trang and Qunh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work in a bar in Si Gn. Once in the big city, the young girls learn how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for
a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican-but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world
In the Pines casts an unsparing eye over this intimate terrain
Begin with a map that guides you through a workbook jam-packed with activities based on parts of speech
calls her “rabid fairy
a respected police officer
by tackling the etiquette questions specific to our age-such as Why shouldn't you ask a cab driver where's he's from
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
her mind eroded by dementia
will learn all about every element in the periodic table from the first element
X and Y will learn that by using math they can bake their way to success
Eric Clapton's position as the world's greatest rock guitarist is unlikely to change in our lifetime
and pure fun
