Set against the turmoil of the World War II, A World Lost is just one of the classic chapters in Berry's Port William series. The summer of 1944 finds nine-year-old Andy Catlett in that very town in Kentucky, occupied more with watching meadowlarks and dipping into the nearby sp…
Mat Feltner, a farmer in Port William, Kentucky, patiently awaits the return of his son, listed as missing in action, in the final months of World War II.
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the peop…
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For t…
Set in a Dublin of slums and tenements and brutal poverty, the story follows Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly's medical training at Trinity College. The hours are long and the cases challenging and O'Reilly must find a way to harden himself to the misery all around him.