Redeployment
10 best books like Redeployment (Phil Klay): The Yellow Birds, The Friend, Ship Fever: Stories, The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, The Good Soldiers, Fortune Smiles, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Blue Hour, The Angel of History, Gathering the Tribes
| Author | Kevin Powers |
| ISBN | 0316219363 |
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship...
| Author | Sigrid Nunez |
| ISBN | 0735219451 |
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute...
| Author | Andrea Barrett |
| ISBN | 0393316009 |
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as...
The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
| Author | David Roberts |
| ISBN | 0898862701 |
How rare to find a true climber and explorer who can actually write! The two novel pairing reissued by the Mountaineers in single book, contrasts David Roberts’s writing styles in bold ways. Both were engaging and enthralling. However, one is a rapid recounting of a successful summit with a tragic...
| Author | David Finkel |
| ISBN | 0374165734 |
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told...
| Author | Adam Johnson |
| ISBN | 0857522973 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles - his first book since Orphan Master - he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something...
| Author | Ben Fountain |
| ISBN | 0060885599 |
Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk is a razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq. It explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad.
Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060099135 |
"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060925841 |
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. These poems reflect the effects of such experience:...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0300019858 |
The language and images of Carolyn Forché’s poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body’s functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of her poems deal with uprootedness—hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of...
| Author | Philip Carr-Gomm |
| ISBN | 0712661107 |
In this beautifully-written guide, Chief Druid Philip Carr-Gomm shows how the way of Druids can be followed today. He explains
- The ancient history and inspiring beliefs of the ancient Druids
- Druidic wild wisdom and their tree-, animal- and herb-lore
- The mysteries of the Druids'...
Not for Nothing: Glimpses Into a Jersey Girlhood
| Author | Kathy Curto |
| ISBN | 1599541297 |
Kathy Curto gives readers a glimpse into her New Jersey childhood from the 1970s. ”Not For Nothing” is a collection of memories as viewed from the youngest daughter in an Italian - American family. Kathy’s father owned a gas station while her mother tended the house while watching over her children....
| Author | Derek Jeter |
| ISBN | 1476783667 |
The only authorized full-color book commemorating Derek Jeter’s iconic baseball career with the New York Yankees, featuring archival images and original photos of his final 2014 season from renowned photographer Christopher Anderson.
Derek Jeter’s twentieth and final season in...
The Path of Paganism: An Experience-Based Guide to Modern Pagan Practice
| Author | John Beckett |
| ISBN | 0738752053 |
Paganism is a way of seeing the world and your place in it. It means challenging the assumptions of mainstream society and strengthening your relationships with the gods, the universe, your community, and your self. The Path of Paganism provides practical advice and support for honoring your values...
