When flood waters from broken levees submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.

"It is 1866. Nineteen-year-old Jason Collins is sent from New Orleans to the Colorado Territory with instructions for his father's friend to either make him a man or break him totally. Kidnapped off the stagecoach by highwaymen, abandoned in the middle of the untamed prairie, and alone in a land he doesn't know, Jay must survive buffalo stampedes, Indians, and the Colorado winter. But what is the real reason his father shipped him west? Is it actually...

Taylor is a rebellious teenager with a habit of sneaking out to hang with his anti-war friends, so in January 1968 his mother drags him off to Saigon where his father is attached to the United States embassy; bored (and still rebellious) Taylor sneaks out of the embassy to watch the Tet celebrations, just as the war erupts all over Vietnam and there he is captured by the North Vietnamese Army and sent North as a prisoner and hostage--and during the...