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  • The Tiger Man of Vietnam

    by Frank Walker ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited. Aged 28, highly trained, with experience in anti-communist guerilla warfare, he was about to embark on the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Ghost Platoon

    The critically acclaimed Vietnam War bestseller

    by Frank Walker ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The Sun HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer or sergeant in charge. A rugged ex-Royal Marine stepped forward to take the lead. Jim Riddle was only an acting ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Maralinga

    The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country

    by Frank Walker ...
    'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing.This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Masked Man, Black

    by Frank X Walker ...
    "We all wear masks. There are people with whom we can take our masks off and speak from the heart. Professor Walker is an expert in masks, or personas. And he well knows that sometimes masks let us speak deep truths about the world. He also knows masks sometimes protect us, sometimes keep us from ourselves, and sometimes cause us pain. Paul Dunbar, in "We Wear the Mask," asks of the world and of ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Black Box

    Poems

    by Frank X Walker ...
    A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry.In this collection of sixty-eight poems, Kentucky writer Frank X Walker continues the personal poetic writing of his bestselling debut collection, Affrilachia. In Black Box, he expertly melds autobiography, political commentary, and literary allusions into a devastatingly beautiful journey through ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Load in Nine Times

    Poems

    by Frank X. Walker ...
    A stirring and historically substantive tribute to literal freedom fighters that provides inspiration and instruction for all who believe in liberation in illiberal times. —Cortney Lamar CharlestonSouthern Review of Books • The Best Southern Books of October 2024Winner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for a Poetry CollectionFor decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Is for Affrilachia

    by Frank X Walker ...
    Illustrated by Ronald W. Davis ...
    The people and places in Appalachia make it a rich, multifaceted, and diverse region. When author Frank X Walker first coined the phrase "Affrilachia," he wanted to ensure that the voices and accomplishments of African Americans in that region were recognized and exalted. A Is for Affrilachia not only brings awareness of notable African Americans from this region, but this inspired children's ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Affrilachia

    Poems

    by Frank X Walker ...
    A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature.In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, artistic, and male in one of America’s most misunderstood geographical regions. As a proud Kentucky native, Walker created the word “Affrilachia” to render visible the unique intersectional experience of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges

    A "This I Believe" Essay

    by Frank X. Walker ...
    Narrated by Frank X. Walker ...
    Series series This I Believe

    Unabridged

    4 min

    Frank X. Walker sees many supposed survival skills as "Creative Solutions to Life’s Challenges" in his contribution to NPR's This I Believe series.This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Last Will, Last Testament

    by Frank X Walker ...
    In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he’s committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father’s last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • About Flight

    by Frank X Walker ...
    "Up until this point in American history, no poet has written an honest and believable lament about the crippling effects from the tornado swirl of a crack pipe, how a little rock being melted between thin mesh screen creates pallid smoke: a monster, a slave to the white lady that is cocaine. In About Flight, Frank X Walker gives us the beautiful ugly narrative of a brother who is wrestling with ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Turn Me Loose

    The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

    by Frank X Walker, Michelle Hite ...
    Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title,"Turn me loose," which were his final words, ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD