Books with author Tim O'Brien

Scooter, the dog sees the front door is open and decides to go on an adventure. Heading up the street, he checks out a park and an ice cream truck. As the sun goes down, he looks around and realizes that he doesn’t know where he lives. He tries to remember his address, but can’t. So, he takes to the street to try and find his way home. Along the way he meets an interesting group of friends who teach him a few things along the way.

Bill and Christie Sullivan are a typical Las Vegas Valley family: liberal, innovative and hard-working. They’ve gone to great secondary schools and put their careers first. They’ve missed their own window for having children and have chosen to bring two orphans into their home. Bill Sullivan owns and operates a security software company and he designed his home to be futuristic and secure. There is a control room in the home, cameras in every room and creature comforts that exist on the cutting edge of technology. The orphan children still manage to thwart the home’s security measures to terrorize the Sullivan family and their servants. And, how do the marks on their necks mutate into palm print they align with their dead sister's to form the mark of the beast, 666?

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere — from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing — it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.