Philip Caputo

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1) The longest road: overland in search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Formats

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One of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take...

2) Some rise by sin: a novel

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

2017.

Physical Desc

335 pages ; 25 cm

Language

English

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"The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows...

3) 10,000 days of thunder: a history of the Vietnam War

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

2005.

Physical Desc

128 pages : illustrations, (some color), map ; 26 cm

Language

English

4) Crossers

Author

Caputo, Philip

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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In a tale inspired by the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border, September 11 widower Gil Castle finds his efforts to heal challenged by dark truths about his fearsome grandfather and retaliations against an act of kindness.

5) Hunter's moon: a novel in stories

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

2019.

Physical Desc

272 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other's lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they're...

6) The voyage

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

1999.

Physical Desc

415 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm

Language

English

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At the turn of the century, a Maine fisherman sends his three sons to sea in June, with orders not to return before September. A woman descendant of the family recounts the boys' adventure in their schooner-- storms, shipwreck, murder--as well as the father's motive and the mystery of the mother's absence.

7) Indian country

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

1987.

Physical Desc

419 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

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Explores the aftermath of the Vietnam War to reveal the heart and mind of a single soldier who returns to the States shattered by his experience in Southeast Asia.

8) Memory and desire: a novel

Author

Caputo, Philip

Pub. Date

[2023]

Physical Desc

356 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

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When he discovers stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragedy, newsman Luke Blackburn becomes the center of a media firestorm that threatens to blow up his marriage while his star investigative reporter slowly pieces together a story of corruption and cartel money in his refuge, Key West. The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West, discover stranded Cuban refugees...