R.W. Holmen

• Mar-2010
• / Historical
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Saint Paul was a sinner. He never met Jesus, but he experienced the famous conversion on the road to Damascus long after the Messiah had been crucified. Paul believed his Damascus experience had healed his guilty soul, but Jesus' own brother doubted ...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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A short story.Multi-colored splashes of sugar maple leaves carpeted the ground, disturbed only by squirrels scrounging for acorns and the woodsman's autumnal pilgrimage to cut firewood. Many happy days of the old man's life were spent in these hardwo...

• Apr-2011
• / Historical
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An updated eBook version with improved Table of Contents and added Table of Characters and Study and Discussion Guide.Saint Paul was a sinner. He never met Jesus, but he experienced the famous conversion on the road to Damascus long after the Messiah...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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A short story about life as a soldier in Vietnam.This is the fourth installment in the series of Vietnam short stories entitled "LRRP Rangers Vietnam". The first three short stories were set in the mountains and jungles of Vietnam's cen...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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A short story--a vignette of a LRRP team in the mountains of central Vietnam. "Elijah Fire" is the fifth installment of a series entitled "LRRP Rangers Vietnam".A Bible verse about the prophet Elijah serves as the epigraph--"...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Bold, dark, and intense short stories of the Vietnam war. The LRRPs of Vietnam (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) were the cavalry scouts of their war, traveling by helicopter rather than mustangs into remote and unfriendly territory. The mountainous...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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"Donut Dollies" is the sixth installment in a series of short stories about the Vietnam War. The stories are loosely based upon the author’s personal experiences but with plenty of embellishment and ought to be considered fiction. An ...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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Golden Sand is less about patriotism and heroism than about the gut-wrenching reality for the Vietnam combat soldiers who are celebrated for simply doing their best to get by, not as superheroes, but as young men who often acted heroically but someti...

• Mar-2019
• / Christian
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On a late summer's day during the reign of Emperor Vespasian, the world seemingly ended for the Hebrew people of Palestine; tens of thousands died as Roman legions torched Jerusalem and demolished the Holy Temple, the very dwelling place of the Lord ...

• Apr-2022
• / Historical
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This novel of historical fiction plays out over the course of nearly five decades of Minnesota and American history beginning in 1891.Swedish immigrant Jonas Jönsson arrives in America dreaming of a farm with a herd of spotted cattle, sturdy horses,...

• Oct-2024
• / General Fiction
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Choices. It's all about choices. The Vietnam War, and one's reaction to it, defined the generation that came of age in the turbulent '60s. From the novel's opening paragraph, the moral ambiguity of this war confronts a raw recruit in the mountainous...