Truth be told, Jack Smith's eyes didn't twinkle—they blazed like burning coals on the fiery Texas plains. His soul had been seared years ago at the end of the War Between the States, when he'd watched a cabin burn with his mother and ...
Amid a freak snowstorm, Texas rancher Damien Lambert made the unlikeliest find on his Bent Pine Ranch—a bloodied woman and her infant daughter in hiding.
Instead, they reach a compromise: we'll get hamburgers, but at McDonald's, which will be faster. They try to tell me how to get to the nearest McDonald's, and begin to argue over that. “I lived here for seven years,” I say.
Eight-year-old Liberian Lucky, his ten-year-old sister Nopi, and their schoolmates are kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, but even after they escape along with some other children and are reunited with their parents, their lives ...
Son of a Gun
Son of a Gun
This sensitive and compelling narrative is based on true stories of former child soldiers interviewed by the author. Son of a Gun also includes a section of notes and further information about Liberia.
. . . In his understated, eloquent way, St. Germain makes you feel the heat, taste the dust, see those shimmering streets. By the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her.
Son of a Gun
Son of a Gun
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