The Education of Corporal John Musgrave

The Education of Corporal John MusgraveBy: John Musgrave A Marine's searing and intimate story"A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in wars aftermath. A superb addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War, and of its lessons (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment). John Musgrave had a small town midwestern childhood that embodied the idealized postwar America. Service, patriotism, faith, and civic pride were the

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Panoramic and intimate

rather than against it

Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land

and grumpy fairies happen to be a his favorite food…

But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt

and creative rethinking of all the different things a book can be

The daily tasks and dramas of the rotating crew of care aides tether her to the world: Young Lily

including Tom Sutton

Peggy's mom volunteers her to babysit six rambunctious mini muffins so she can write about "how to be responsible

one of the few female game wardens at work in Wyoming today) to confront these assassins

From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales