When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Henry's love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law.

Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death and his own terrible experiences during the WWI. Meanwhile, Nick and his wife Fran are trying to unite their fractious young family, despite the discovery of a Victorian drawing revealing the tragic history of their house.

The classic bestseller on which Oliver Stone's academy award-winning film was based.

The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him.

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone - the war took it away.

Tells the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter.

Joe, a young American soldier in the Great War, lies helpless in hospital, so horrifically injured that he cannot communicate with the outside world. He wanders back and forth through memories, struggling to retain his sanity and find a foothold in the world all but lost to him.

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then, there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, are turned inside out.

A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.

A powerful new novel, a bestseller in the US, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation.

Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in WWI decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. This book is a story told by a man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.

Outlines clear strategies for tackling problems such as learning healthy coping skills, sleep problems, and managing stress, anger, and depression. This book helps veterans returning from conflicts and provide education and intervention for those who are experiencing war-related stress.

Documents the US government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume compels us to confront how America treats its veterans and to consider what kind of nation deifies its soldiers and then casts them off as damaged goods.

Longtime business partners decide to go their separate ways. Then, one of the men is savagely murdered. When Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is called in to investigate, he finds a whole village full of suspects. Is this to be the only case where Rutledge doesn't get his man?

A highly practical, user-friendly guide to homecoming-including common after-effects of war zone exposure and how to cope-for returning troops and their families

Gives us a series of vivid glimpses into brain science.