<p>Not all the drama played out in Washington, Moscow, and Havana. This is an absorbing and frightening account of one mans experience on the frontline of the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the autumn of 1962, as the world waited for apocalypse, Joseph Maiolo found himself manning Jupiter missile launch facilities near the border between Turkey and the Soviet Union.</p>

My Turkish Missile Crisis: A Memoir from the Front Line of 1962

Biographies & Memoirs

Joseph Maiolo

Memoirs

Overcoat Books

In A Boys Tale, two brothers in a tough Catholic school for problem boys rely upon each other for safety until a secret is revealed. The Error of the Rings follows a high school student charged with purchasing class rings for his fellow seniors, cumulating in a most memorable prom night. Man of Letters finds a writer apologizing to his estranged wife in a missive recalling an ill-fated visit to the home of his aging mentor.

Boy Youth Man: A Triptych of Novellas

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Three frays from Mallorca is a fictional account of Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan friar, beatified as a Saint by John Paul II in 1988, whose lifes journey took him from his island home of Mallorca to the Pacific coast at Alta California in the Las Californias Province of New Spainnow Californiawhere he founded a chain of missions. In this volume, Maiolos historical novella is accompanied by four contemporary stories of men struggling with Catholicism in their adulthood, including The Pilgrim Virgin, winner of a 1994 Pushcart Prize for Fiction.

Three Frays from Mallorca: and Four Stories

This collection gathers Joseph Maiolos Appalachian stories set in the southwest Virginia of his youth: the mountains and hollows, the coal towns and camps, and in a town much like his hometownborn from coal and trying to cover its scars, but still a special place.

Saint Matthew in Appalachia: and Other Stories

An Arch of Birches and Other Stories

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