Landfall
by Nevil Shute | 
Pastoral
by Nevil Shute | 
Day
by A. L. Kennedy | 
The Illusion of Separateness
by Simon Van Booy | 
The Soldier's Return
by Melvyn Bragg | 
Part Of The Furniture
by Mary Wesley | 
The Castle on the Hill
by Elizabeth Goudge | 
Youngblood Hawke
by Herman Wouk | 
Purple America
by Rick Moody | 
Happy Baby
by Stephen Elliott | 
The Quarry
by Iain Banks | 
Man Crazy
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Bright Flows the River
by Taylor Caldwell | 
The Interruption of Everything
by Terry McMillan | 
The Nuclear Age
by Tim O'Brien | 
The Rainbow and the Rose
by Nevil Shute | 
Ruined City
by Nevil Shute | 
What Happened to the Corbetts
by Nevil Shute | 
Lonely Road
by Nevil Shute | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett |
John Turner, a young man with a checkered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his remaining time in search of three very different men he met in the hospital during the war, each of them in trouble of some kind: a pilot whose wife had betrayed him, a young corporal charged with killing a civilian in a brawl, and a black G.I. wrongly accused of the attempted rape of a white English girl. As Turner discovers where these men have landed on the checkerboard of life, he learns about compassion, tolerance, and second chances, and overcomes his fear of death.