Location: United States
Member Since:
Jan. 20, 2016
Arthur H Barnes
Biography
Arthur H. Barnes was born in Ventura, CA. He earned a B.A. in professional arts from Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. and an M.A. degree from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.
While serving in the US Navy (1944 -1950) he survived a Kamikaze attack and earned a Purple Heart; and he served in Okinawa, Japan, which experience provided the source of many of the details and flavor of this story. He worked at the Data center of Edwards Air Force Base, CA., in the Major Company for 27 years.
He lives with his wife Alvena in Bellingham, WA, a most beautiful city 22 miles south of the Canadian Border and overlooking the San Juan Islands. He has been married from 1950 to the present, and dotes on one “fabulous” grandson.
While serving in the US Navy (1944 -1950) he survived a Kamikaze attack and earned a Purple Heart; and he served in Okinawa, Japan, which experience provided the source of many of the details and flavor of this story. He worked at the Data center of Edwards Air Force Base, CA., in the Major Company for 27 years.
He lives with his wife Alvena in Bellingham, WA, a most beautiful city 22 miles south of the Canadian Border and overlooking the San Juan Islands. He has been married from 1950 to the present, and dotes on one “fabulous” grandson.
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Books
Bear - A Chance Meeting Turns into a Lifetime Friendship
by Arthur H Barnes
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 21,300.
Language:
English.
Published: August 15, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » General
Colonel Kirk Rodgers finds himself suddenly facing retirement from the Marines after he’s injured in combat. One final assignment offers him enough pay to finance his dream — a wildlife sanctuary. While he’s completing this assignment, his fellow Marines pull some strings and guarantee he will be able to buy the property he longs for but thinks is out of reach.
I am just Jes — One Man’s Journey from Slave to Freedman
by Arthur H Barnes
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 43,660.
Language:
American English.
Published: August 7, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » African American fiction » Historical, Fiction » Historical » USA
Slavers took him from his African home when he was just four years old. He and a group of adults were loaded onto a ship and herded into the hold. They would be sold as slaves once they reached their destination. Now, 14 years later, he is just Jes.
Lonely Horses
by Arthur H Barnes
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 80,540.
Language:
English.
Published: October 5, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » General, Fiction » Adventure » General
Enjoy the story of USN Captain, Ross Carter as he leaves the military and buys a ranch in Nevada. Carter falls in love with the land and the wild horses that inhabit it.
The Darkest Shadows
by Arthur H Barnes
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 135,100.
Language:
English.
Published: July 17, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Tasked with funneling information about the Middle East to the president, Lt. Commander Brock and his cohort, Fletcher, cook up an insane plan to locate Osama bin Laden and thwart his terrorist plans. The two find themselves going beyond “The Darkest Shadows” of bin Laden’s hate for the free world.
The Longest Way Home - A Harrowing Trek from Vietnam through Laos into Thailand
by Arthur H Barnes
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 81,610.
Language:
English.
Published: May 11, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Three U.S. servicemen from three different branches of the service find themselves stranded at the very last minute of the last day of the U.S./North Vietnam conflict. This compelling story shows how men determined to make their way to freedom found that their only choice was The Longest Way Home.
Loving Enemies - Barney and Myko, Southern Japan 1944-1946
by Arthur H Barnes
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 83,130.
Language:
English.
Published: February 3, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Suspense
After surviving the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Barney Freeman, U.S. Navy, is sent to Japan in 1944 on a covert operation to observe the enemy. His mission was supposed to last two weeks, but the submarine scheduled to retrieve him never comes. He finds himself alone and stranded in enemy territory on the island of Kyushu. The only thing he has going for him is that he’s fluent in Japanese.
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