Bøger af Franklin Lafayette King

After his wife's death, a former Navy officer finds a photograph of his Chinese lover from the Vietnam War era. After conducting an online search, he finds a woman on social media with the same name and similar physical characteristics. He cannot, however, be certain she is the same person. The young woman he loved was both poor and illiterate. The person online seemed wealthy and educated. John Yorktown decides he must know the answer to what happened to the cabaret hostess he loved in his youth. He travels to Hong Kong where he finds himself involved with a person he does not know, a woman known as the Dragonhead.

During the Vietnam War, LTJG John Yorktown's betrayal of a Wan Chai hostess leads her to seek vengeance on her former love. Across the world, she plays with him like a Bengal tiger with its prey. Obsessed by his own guilt, John Yorktown loves and hates the woman stalking him. It is the conflict between these two emotions that drives the book towards its fatal conclusion.

Richard Sullivan stands on a cliff mere inches from a fatal fall to the Atlantic below. Seabirds sound loudly on the cliffs of Dun Aonghasa. With his wife and son dead, he faces the stark reality of being alone, driven by guilt and indecision. Suddenly a hand grasps his shoulder. Unsure whose hand has touched him, he pauses before the fatal leap.

When elementary school teacher John Percy Yorktown attempts to avoid the draft during World War II, he finds himself painting barns in northeast Texas. This odyssey is forced upon him after he makes a scene at the Fox Theatre during a matinee Western. After purchasing a Model T van from a barn painter, he is at last free until he meets the beautiful wife of the elementary school principal. The unsettling events of his life are inseparable from those of the nation and the rural landscape of Texas. A Time of Sycamore Trees is a book written from the heart.

The Story of James John Johnson, a recent graduate of an Ivy League law school, discovers that an incurable disease threatens his life. He travels to Houston hoping for a miracle cure. While in treatment, he meets Karen, a divorced mother whose young son is undergoing proton therapy for a brain tumor. Their unlikely relationship begins an adventure that takes them on a journey to the moon. The Tribe of Noah Three people meet in a truck stop on a rainy South Carolina night: Noah, a professor who has just been fired for having an affair with the wife of his department head; Anna, a wealthy debutante, fleeing from a drug rehab program; and Steven, an AIDS-stricken sitar player. They travel along the East Coast of the United States in Rocinante, Noah's 1969 VW bus, each one carrying their past with them. They soon grow to depend on one another in their Quixotic quest to become street performers in Provincetown, Massachusetts located at the very end of Cape Cod, the mythical edge of the earth. Poetic Moments A collection of poetry that explores and celebrate genuinely personal moments in life.

A doomed love set against the turmoil of the landless poor, the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the British Crown.A Yeats scholar earlier fails to acknowledge the question of a romantic relationship between Lady Gregory, a co-founder of the Irish Literary Revival, and W. B. Yeats, the Poet Laureate and Noble Prize Winner of Ireland. A love only suggested in the past is hurled into the present through the discovery of a series of paintings.

The Dark Side of Man follows the Shell family - from the time of their bondage to an English master to their ruthless acquisition of wealth and influence. Doomed to slavery on the island of Barbados, a young Irishman makes a bold decision to flee the island accompanied by an African woman named Manuela. Through the years, a recurring dream is handed down from generation to generation: a dream whose origin lies in the hurricanes of the Caribbean.

A Southern Gothic novel of terror based upon events that occurred within a historic country home."While I am a believer in good and evil, my religious convictions prevent me from interpreting the events that transpired in the house that was moved from Dahlonega Street to Mt. Ebal. It is important for these facts to remain isolated from my own beliefs. What happened or why it did is left to the reader's interpretation. I have found from my own experience that a person should not look too deeply into dark rooms or stare at antique mirrors. My hand writes this story as one whose fingers are placed upon a Ouija board. I know not what direction or answers it will provide."

When Ensign John Yorktown reports aboard a destroyer in the Far East, he finds himself confronted by an unpopular war as well as the morass of 1960s society. Forced to conform, he makes life-altering decisions that impact the lives of the crew, the future of his ship, and the woman he loves. Having just graduated from the University of Texas, Ensign John Yorktown quickly learns that NROTC has not prepared him for either liberty call or the ethical questions raised by the Vietnam conflict. Boats, his mentor, is determined that John be transformed into a true China sailor as they journey from the bars of Thieves Ally in Japan, duel North Vietnamese shore batteries, and anchor in the port of Hong Kong where he meets the exotic bar hostess Firefly. China Sailor is told with the humor and pathos of wartime sailors.

From the Tower of Fomhoire on Ireland's River Lee to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Edmond Bryant searches for a mysterious woman known only to him as Ann Pennington.