Books published by publisher Creative Arts Book Co

More than fifty years after the carnage at Normandy, Dr. John Kerner draws from his wartime journals and letters home to present a candid and insightful portrait of war. Medical units under his charge pushed through western Europe, improving on the treatment and transportation of the wounded during some of the most brutal fighting of the war. Amidst the mud and blood of combat, this decorated medical officer shares a time and place when living beyond each day was in serious question.

Meet Digby Shaw, on the verge of turning teenager. Right now he's still child enough to grow angry at the mere mention of the Keebler dwarves (he suspects they hoard their cookies). About to graduate from grade school, and outlawed by his family, Digby's every move at home is mysteriously known by his mother, and in the classroom he's under the sharp eye of a powerful nun, twice the size of the Lord God, with a man's name. And he has a theory his father doesn't like him one bit. Nothing is safe anymore. Digby suffers every misfortune at school: embarrassed to perform in the school play, about a saint, bullied by the local juvenile delinquent, trying to do good when his every other instinct is to be bad. He likes books, lighting fires, facts and fictions of all shapes and sizes, and he likes tormenting his brother Emmet. But now the younger boy reminds him of himself. And all of a sudden, to his bewilderment, Digby also seems to like girls. One girl in particular, his oldest friend's sister. And still, her brother, his supposed friend, locks him in a box in the woods, just for fun. Only memory and love save Digby, and then only briefly. He would much rather just be cool. This is a funny book about being sad and about being in the dark. It's also about what it's like to grow up in a funny family. Digby is getting ready to walk out into a world that's looking larger and fiercer to him every passing day. But he can't help but feel a little fiercer himself as he goes along. And he's certainly getting larger. "Sometimes I wish that instead of being born the usual way, I had been flown through the solar system to earth and just dropped off here. It would be much simpler than having to have been nothing first. But I wasn't flown in. I was born, so I have to deal with it."