Doctor on an Elephant

Riding elephants, crossing flooded rivers, outrunning rogues, and avoiding tigers are not the things that most doctors face in an average workday, but then they don’t work in the province of Bengal. Dr. John Symington did. As the doctor for several tea plantations in a region along India’s northeastern border in the early part of this century, and adventure was simply part of his day.

Escape From Saigon: A Vietnam War Orphan Becomes An American Boy

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

When war comes, Alia Muhammad Baker, the librarian of Basra, fears the library will be destroyed, so she asks government officials for help, but they refuse, which means Alia must take matters into her own hands to protect the books that she loves.

Hidden Child

After more than fifty years of keeping his story to himself, the author details his experiences as a young Jewish child living in France during the 1940s where he had to shed his Jewish identity and name and depend on the kindness of strangers.