TOM MILLER

"A Place to Rest by Tom Miller is an absolutely wonderful book that I could not put down once I started...I was very impressed with every part of the writing and think that it is a story for anyone, regardless of the genre that you are most partial to." -- Reader Views A Place to Rest is a journey of discovery through the rapidly changing landscape of the post-World War II American South as viewed from the perspective of best friends, Mildred Morgan and Janet Bell. The pair grew up together in rural Grovers Fork, Alabama, and remained inseparable through college, despite having little in common. Mildred is the classic wallflowersoft-spoken, malleable, and emotionally fraught. Janet is outspoken, iconoclastic, and highly ambitious. After college, the two part ways.Mildred returns to Grovers Fork, where she becomes a high school librarian. Living at home and sociallyadrift, she marries a fellow teacher and starts a family. Her carefully constructed safe harbor is shaken by the mysterious disappearance of her husband, and she turns toher young son, James, for emotional ballast and meaning. Janet lands a job as a reporter for the Montgomery Observer and settles in the state capital where she covers the Civil Rights movement as a Pulitzer-Prize-winningjournalist. Even as her professional career flourishes, she remains vaguely unsatisfied. Despite their geographicalseparation and different paths, both are buffeted by the winds of change sweeping through the South in the 1950s.Sharing their hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, triumphs and tragedies in a vivid and unsparing correspondence, Mildred and Janet continue to navigate a journey to find meaning and hope in an indifferent world.

Los sombreros de Panamá no proceden de Panamá, sino que se fabrican dos países más allá: en Ecuador. Tom Miller viajó hasta allí para buscar los orígenes de estos sombreros. Su relato, una mirada fascinante sobre la cultura norteamericana, revela un viaje exotico y cargado de humor que constituyo tambien el nucleo de una serie de cuatro episodios para una emisora de radio.

The first book in a new series and a thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosophers Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America that [begins] with rollicking fierceness that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesnt loosen its grip or lessen its hold all the way through. Millers writing is intoxicating (Associated Press).HES ALWAYS WANTED TO FLY LIKE A GIRL. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is one of the few men who practice empirical philosophyan arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, heal the injured, and even fly. Hes always dreamed of being the first man to join the US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Department, an elite team of flying medics, but everyone knows thats impossible: men can barely get off the ground. When a shocking tragedy puts Roberts philosophical abilities to the test, he rises to the occasion and wins a scholarship to study philosophy at Radcliffe Collegean all-womens school. At Radcliffe, Robert hones his flying skills and strives to win the respect of his classmates, a host of formidable and unruly women. Robert falls hard for Danielle Hardin, a disillusioned young hero of the Great War turned political radical. But Danielles activism and Roberts recklessness attract the attention of the same fanatical anti-philosophical group that Roberts mother fought against decades before. With their lives in mounting danger, Robert and Danielle band together with a team of unlikely heroes to fight for Roberts place among the next generation of empirical philosophersand for philosophys very survival against the men who would destroy it. Part thriller, part romance, part coming-of-age fantasy, The Philosophers Flightis as fun a read as youll come across Miller has already set a high bar for any book vying to be the most entertaining novel of [the year] (BookPage). Tom Miller writes with unrivaled imagination, ambition, and humor. The Philosophers Flight is both a fantastical reimagining of American history and a beautifully composed coming-of-age tale for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.

Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, this lively travelogue presents us with rare insight into one of the worlds only Communist countries. "Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Millers lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U.S. embargo and tell their favorite Fidel jokes as they stand in line for bread at the Socialism or Death Bakery. Miller provides a running commentary on Cubas food shortages, exotic sensuality, and baseball addiction as he follows the scents of Graham Greene, Josarti, Ernest Hemingway, and the Mambo Kings. The result of this informed and adventurous journey is a vibrant, rhythmic portrait of a land and people too long shielded from American eyes.

The propulsive follow-up to emergency physician Millers imaginative debut, The Philosophers Flight (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) finds Robert Canderelli Weekes as a rookie Rescue and Evacuation flier on the front lines of World War I in France.He came to save lives, but has no idea how far hell have to go to win the war. Thanks to a stunning flying performance and a harrowing shootout in the streets of Boston, Robert Canderelli Weekess lifelong dream has come true: hes the first male allowed to join the US Sigilry Corpss Rescue and Evacuation service, an elite, all-woman team of flying medics.But as he deploys to France during the waning days of the Great War, Sigilwoman Third-Class Canderelli learns that carrying the injured from the front lines to the field hospital is not the grand adventure he imagined. His division, full of misfits and renegades, is stretched to the breaking point and has no patience for a man striving to prove himself. Slowly, Robert wins their trust and discovers his comrades are plotting to end the Great War by outlawed philosophical means. Robert becomes caught up in their conspiracy, running raids in enemy territory and uncovering vital intelligence. Friends old and new will need his help with a dangerous scheme that just might win the war overnight and save a few million lives. But the German smokecarvers have plans of their own: a devastating all-out attack that threatens to destroy the Corps and France itself. Naturally, Robert is trapped right in the thick of it.The Philosophers War is the electrifying next chapter in Robert Weekess story, filled with heroic, unconventional women, thrilling covert missions, romance, and, of course, plenty of aerial adventures. The second book in a series that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesnt loosen its grip or lessen its hold all the way through (Associated Press), Tom Miller again brings Roberts world to life with unrivaled imagination, ambition, and wit.