Sam Sackett: 5 books

With his last adventures officially behind him, Huck Finn has just made up his mind to escape Aunt Sallys wishes for him to get sivilized. Without a second thought, Huck strikes out for the Injun Territory on foot, leaving Tom Sawyer and Jim behind. But before long, the mischievous Huck Finn soon...

It's 1849.  Betsy is 18, a minister's daughter, and pregnant.  To escape the shame, she and her lover, Ike, run away from Pike County and join a wagon train headed for the California mining camp of Hangtown.  It's a long, tough journey.  On the trail and in the rough-and-tumble mining camp Betsy outgrows Ike and becomes a strong, independent woman.

Southeast Asia looks different to a farang than it does to a native.  Here are seven stories picturing some of the things that one farang saw. A retired American takes a young Thai wife and gets more than he bargained for. A young Thai woman lets her jealousy destroy her chance for a good future....

Not even a three-hour motion picture could give an adequate impression of Thailand.  These seven stories are snapshots of a few phases of the kingdom.  An American expatriate seeks employment and love, but what he finds is not what he was looking for.  A Thai woman overcomes the habits that almost...

Chamberlain is a college town in the American Midwest.  Its population is 20,000 people when school is in session, 15,000 in August.  It has 20,000 stories.  Here are some of them.