Don: 3274 books

OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. In Don Brown's The Train Jumper Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great Depression. Collie leaves home in search of his older brother, who has run off. Battling hunger, hostility,...

Sam Glodsky lives among the rough-and-tumble gangs on the streets of New York's Lower East Side. When 13-year-old Sam falls in with fearsome gangster Monk Eastman, he joins an outrageous scheme to rescue Eastman's prize racing-pigeon from a cholera-ridden steamship quarantined in the harbor. The caper...

A ferocious storm blows up, the steerage won’t function, and Captain Cut’EmDown and his crew on board the pirate ship, Rollicking Life, can do nothing but secure the ship and ride it out below deck. Next morning the seas are calm but a stench permeates the air. They have sailed into a ship...

Little Friedrich Müller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. He exercised and exercised. But he to no avail. As a young man, he found himself under the tutelage of a professional body builder. Friedrich worked and worked. He changed his...

A nostalgic introduction to genealogy and the creation of family trees for youngsters in grades one through four. The illustrations complement advice contained in the text. This advice is structured as a conversation between a Christian boy and his mother. The book tells about the boy's friends,...

Join Danny and his friends as they have many misadventures in Johnstown, a southwestern Pennsylvania steel town during the late 1950s and early 60s. The story has many memorable and odd characters. It was a much simpler time; there were no cell phones, computers, or video games. People still gathered...

Since the death of his mother, Baoliu has grown apart from his father and bitterly resents his father's new wife. One night an intruder breaks into the family's home and Baoliu's stepmother is murdered. Baoliu is accused of the crime, convicted, and sentenced to be beheaded-a common practice in twelfth-century...

This first installment of S.E.C.A. Special Heroes (Special Needs - Super Heroes) invokes the ideas of Y.O.T.T. Club Media (Ge-No and YeN) along with the action and adventure of Rush Comics that was originally established by Don Icon. This story-line jump starts the tradition of Edgar Robinson's paintings...

The Adventures of Antlers, Dragon and Rodent is a story about three friends who want to go surfing, but each have chores to do that will take all day. They learn thru teamwork that they might accomplish their goals together. My hope is that I raise enough money thru the sale of this book version, that I am able to add illustrations to the story in the near future.

Forget Not One is about one courageous 20-year old Marine who was captured in 1970 in a South Vietnam mangrove swamp. Corporal Thomas MacLaine is an Eagle Scout who is fluent in Vietnamese. His sister, Elizabeth, is a country lawyer from West Virginia who has an enduring faith in him to survive. Their...

Tom MacLaine is force marched north on the Ho Chi Minh Trail into Laos. Along the way, he is abused, harassed, and humiliated by his captors and the turncoat American traitor. Desperate to escape, he takes a chance that compels him to kill to be free. An Air Force mercy mission to rescue him ends in...

Tom MacLaine is surprised when a senior Viet Cong sergeant befriends and helps him get medical care for his wounded arm. Two POWs who are locked in his bamboo cage with him further surprise MacLaine. One is a mad man, and the other has been so maltreated he is near death. MacLaine tries in vain to help...

The Viet Cong force march MacLaine into Cambodia against his will. There his captors mistreat him until a kind Cambodian woman intervenes. She takes pity on him and makes his POW life more bearable. Then a former American POW, who joined the Viet Cong, offers MacLaine an opportunity to do the same. Presented...

In the midst of the Great Depression, the townsfolk of Port Eddy are looking forward to the annual diversion: a horseshoe tournament against nearby Petroleum City. When a ringer, a hotshot outsider illegally brought in to help the City win the contest, is murdered, Constable Stan Garrett, the recently...