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With high school behind him, Sam Barger was ready to make 1969 his year. He would finally become a setnet fisherman as he'd always dreamed. Sam soon learned that dreams and reality often differ. The fishing turned sour, the military draft was threatening, and his girlfriend was pregnant. With Tricky Dick in the White House, peace talks in Paris, and war in Vietnam, all of America was in turmoil. Soon, Sam found himself on a noble quest through...

This sequel to Secondhand Summer finds Sam as a junior in high school in 1968. Deals with difficult and timeless topics like war, alcoholism, PTSD and family issues. Author is a well-connected former teacher and is an excellent speaker. Author is social media and marketing savvy. An excellent choice, edgy and engaging, for reluctant reader boys. Synopsis: The homecoming of his older brother, now wounded from war, and the struggle for the two t...

This sequel to Secondhand Summer finds Sam as a junior in high school in 1968. Deals with difficult and timeless topics like war, alcoholism, PTSD and family issues. Author is a well-connected former teacher and is an excellent speaker. Author is social media and marketing savvy. An excellent choice, edgy and engaging, for reluctant reader boys. Synopsis: The homecoming of his older brother, now wounded from war, and the struggle for the two t...

A Hatchet meets The Outsiders coming-of-age novel about a twelve-year-old boy who moves from a remote Kenai Peninsula homestead to Alaska's largest city after the death of his father. The story takes place in the summer of 1965 when our hero, Sam Barger, explores a wilderness of a different kind in the crowded poverty of Anchorage just after the 1964 earthquake.

A Hatchet meets The Outsiders coming-of-age novel about a twelve-year-old boy who moves from a remote Kenai Peninsula homestead to Alaska's largest city after the death of his father. The story takes place in the summer of 1965 when our hero, Sam Barger, explores a wilderness of a different kind in the crowded poverty of Anchorage just after the 1964 earthquake.