The Kerr Construction Company

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

Dalhart McIlhenny is restless after finishing college. With old school values from his rural upbringing in Texas and a chip on his shoulder from being a Marine during the Age of Aquarius, he sets off on a quest. He wants something different in his life. Something others of his generation wouldn't understand. The Indian Capital of America. That's what they call Gallup, New Mexico, and that's where he'll search for whatever it is he wants. But first he must find a job. One no one else wants. One as a laborer for minimum wage for the Kerr Construction Company, working with the local Navajo and with illegal aliens. Far away from the fast cars and parties he doesn't care about like others do. He becomes best friends with an ex-bullfighter from Durango and finds allure in just trying to survive in a world that doesn't care. Then he meets Carmen.

ISBN: (digital) 9781628302783  

I Will Be the One

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

Following his stint as a Marine during the Vietnam war, James needs something beyond the mundane conformity of his life in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As he enters the Peace Corps, a political reformer named Benigno Aquino is gunned down in the turbulent Philippines, half a world away. James has no idea fate will interweave events for him to witness the overthrow of a dictatorship and the miracle of a bloodless revolution. Lois has joined the Peace Corps to explore the world outside her staid Ohio upbringing. As a teacher in a remote village she totes her own household water from a distant source, learns to accept locals wandering through her hut at all hours, and even becomes accustomed to gunfire in the jungle night. But when the visit of a suspected spy to her village threatens their lives, she and her friend James must make a decision of lasting import.

ISBN: (digital) 9781628307047  ISBN: (print) 9781628307030

Seeing Gail Again

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

Jericho, just out of the Marines, returns to his roots in Texas only to face the anti-war movement that demonizes all Vietnam vets. He needs to sort through his life away from all that, and in his travels he stumbles upon a Shangri-La called the Lake District of England. There is peace and serenity around those lakes. And a girl—a beautiful, soulful girl he meets while working in the restaurant of a luxury hotel. Gail is deep and intellectual, a mother-earth type who gives him peace inside. But when the Yom Kippur War breaks out in Israel, he abruptly leaves her and goes to help the beleaguered Jewish state while seeking his Jewish identity. Yet neither Jericho nor Gail could ever forget the depth of their love… Will meeting again, years later, resolve the feelings that never left them?

ISBN: (digital) 9781509217199  ISBN: (print) 9781509217182

Overland on the Hippie Trail

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

It was a new age, one called the Age of Aquarius, with a restless, ideological generation full of a reverence for new worlds opening up to new ideas. When the Beatles introduced the mystique of India to pop culture, the Hippie Trail was established as hip adventurers traveled overland from Europe to Kathmandu and India. Hunter was not among these hipsters. Still bitter over the way he was treated as a Marine combat veteran home from the Vietnam War, he felt the allure of the open road in America and in Europe. While getting visas in Vienna, he came across a Polish girl, Ewa, whose Politburo father got her unequal privileges she gladly abused to join Hunter on the trek to India to check out the new-age ashrams. Shared experiences and hardships bonded them, but Cold War politics made falling in love the worst hardship of all.

ISBN: (digital) 9781509219599  ISBN: (print) 9781509219582

Rendezvous with Fay

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

Their rendezvous soon turns into a courtship when Fay asks Dutch to stay and he gladly agrees. San Diego, where he'd entered the Marine Corps a few years before, is suddenly much more attractive—it's Fay's town. This is where he wants to stay. Fay isn't the hippie chick he had thought she was when they first met, but she does make everything seem easy…and with so much happiness and love. She questions his job choices and gives her parents crazy stories about him, but she loves this tall Texan. Can they make a go of a runaway Vegas marriage?

ISBN: (digital) 9781509222612  

I Will Survive

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

Elon loved traveling the world. The complexity of being a Marine from Texas and of the sixties generation stirred a curiosity that led him to Taiwan, a small Chinese island. Life in a country that spoke a language he would never understand, one with an exotic history and culture, where he found himself broke and needing a job while surviving a near-death experience, fit the bill for his adventurous spirit. But nothing enticed him like meeting Brigitte, the Belgian model and agent, a survivor herself, who took him under her wing and successfully promoted his talents. Their experiences together seemed a destiny. "I will survive" was the life they took for granted.

ISBN: (digital) 9781509230518  ISBN: (print) 9781509230501

The Movie About Pusan

by Larry Farmer

Category: Romance / Historical / 20th C

Writing his Master’s thesis, Wilson hears of the movie about America’s defense of South Korea against the Communists. He knows people who fought in that war. It’s more than history to him—it’s personal. He must go. As an extra, he’ll have a real view of what happened, experience it for himself. Sandra, a fellow Texan, meets Wilson on the flight from Dallas to Seoul. With her good looks and academic interests, she becomes a good friend immediately, and romance develops as they angle for bit parts in the movie. But when the shoot is over, can they go their separate ways, perhaps never to see each other again?

ISBN: (digital) 9781509240616  ISBN: (print) 9781509240609