Hugh Aaron: 10 books

  Young Hal Arnold doesn't know much about war or life or anything else. He certainly doesn't fit the Hollywood image of  The Fighting Seabees battling the Japanese while driving his growling bulldozer into a hail of gunfire like John Wayne. In fact, Hal Arnold isn't really much...

Hugh Aaron's new book doesn't quite have it all. Sure you can find blood, guts, pathos, drama, comedy, tragedy, wisdom, and even sex in its pages, but something's missing. The book is refreshingly un-academic; perhaps that's one reason it's so effective as a tutorial manual...

Hugh Aaron's short story collection It's All Chaos represents dynamite tales on a short fuse, hot bursts of epiphany in the ever expanding growth of human pain, searing journeys from innocence to experience, underscoring the troubled spirit lurking beneath the face that faces the world.In...

Hugh Aaron's short story collection It's All Chaos represents dynamite tales on a short fuse, hot bursts of epiphany in the ever expanding growth of human pain, searing journeys from innocence to experience, underscoring the troubled spirit lurking beneath the face that faces the world. ...

This book by Hugh Aaron really gives any reader with any amount of time to read just about the perfect selection of stories to choose from! From the moment I peeked into the cover of this book until the last time I looked into it I was amazed at how quickly I could get through a story but not be left...

Business Not As Usual 2 is a candid account, in 57 down-to-earth narrative essays on crucial issues that commonly arise when running a business through both hard and easy times. Although all about business, the topics are wide ranging. The author's company was a virtual management laboratory...

A collection of five novellas: Doctor Banner's Garden: A retired elderly professor, whose life is coming to a close, and her female cohort are rejuvenated when three young college students enter their lives. Family Agendas: A Jewish son is tricked into taking over the family business in a ruse to...

A Journey of the Heart is a 47,000 word non-fiction journal in the American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues. Harry’s journey across America in 1986 with his grown son opens a dialogue as wide as the Midwestern plains. The two generations, born from vastly different Americas, can...

Set amidst the last two years of the Pacific war, this story follows a young, naïve Seabee (U.S. Naval Construction Battalions) from California to the harsh, tropical jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines. The war provides twenty-year-old Hal Arnold with his first venture into real life, where his youth and naivete are dashed and where reality and maturity emerge.

Stories from a Lifetime carries readers through a widely diverse series of life’s peaks and valleys with poignant, clear-eyed vision and understanding that is only gradually gained across the course of a lifetime through endurance and honest appraisal of the emotional rollercoaster that we all...