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  • From Here to Eternity

    by James Jones ...
    Series Book 1 - The World War II Trilogy
    A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" ( Newsday).At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army politics, Prewitt becomes incensed when a commander's favorite wins the title of First Bugler. His ... Read more

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  • The World War II Trilogy

    From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle

    by James Jones ...
    Series series The World War II Trilogy
    Three classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity.An army base at Pearl Harbor. The jungles of Guadalcanal. A veterans hospital on the home front. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones's World War II Trilogy stands as one of the most significant achievements in war literature. This compilation includes ... Read more

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  • The Thin Red Line

    by James Jones ...
    Series Book 2 - The World War II Trilogy
    With "shattering prose," the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal ( San Francisco Chronicle).In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Came Running

    by James Jones ...
    James Jones's saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his daughter, Kaylie JonesAfter the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity, James Jones retreated from public life, making his home at the Handy Writers' Colony in Illinois. His goal was to write something larger than a war novel, and the ... Read more

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  • The Ice-Cream Headache

    And Other Stories

    by James Jones ...
    Short stories by the award-winning author of From Here to Eternity: "One of the significant writers of his generation" ( The New York Times Book Review).In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill or disappear in a ... Read more

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  • Whistle

    by James Jones ...
    Series Book 3 - The World War II Trilogy
    Four World War II infantrymen recover at an army hospital, and struggle to readjust to the home front, in this New York Times–bestselling novel.At the end of a long journey across the Pacific, a ship catches sight of California. On board are hundreds of injured soldiers, survivors of the American infantry's battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. As the men on deck cheer their ... Read more

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  • Venom and Valor

    A White House Physician Assistan'ts Battle for Survival in the Amazon

    by James Jones ...
    This book is a memoir of a life marked by resilience, hard work, and the strength of family bonds. It tells the story of a man who, despite a difficult childhood filled with poverty, an alcoholic father, and early independence, was shaped by adversity into a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather. Through the love and support of an extraordinary wife, he overcame the odds, finding purpose in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Go to the Widow-Maker

    by James Jones ...
    A playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea divingRon Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an ice queen who considers him her personal trophy, his thoughts are back in New York City, with a beautiful young ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the End of the War

    Unpublished Fiction

    by James Jones ...
    Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth centuryIn 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experience.Jones's AWOL ... Read more

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  • A Touch of Danger

    by James Jones ...
    A vacation in the Greek islands becomes complicated when a private eye is drawn into the murky waters of international hashish smugglingHis name is Frank Davies, but friends and clients call him Lobo. A private eye with a law degree, Lobo doesn't like to get rough but he'll do it for a friend. When a rich friend sends him to Paris to retrieve some stolen money, he earns himself a trip to Greece as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • WWII

    A Chronicle of Soldiering

    by James Jones ...
    This "unique and fascinating" WWII memoir by the acclaimed author of From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line "stands out as one of the most vivid" ( The Wall Street Journal).In 1975, James Jones was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book featuring visual art from World War II. The book was a best seller, praised for both its images and for Jones's text. In subsequent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Merry Month of May

    by James Jones ...
    A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in ParisThe Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the country—and the European continent—to its foundations. In a tradition-obsessed nation where the old-guard bourgeoisie had spent decades oppressing youthful unrest, every flavor of rage suddenly had a voice.Hill Gallagher is there—a brash young intellectual ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus