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    The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro
    The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro
    The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro
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    The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro

    By Ron D Smith

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    The wedding that Thanksgiving weekend 1958 in Chicago should never have happened. Venus Ballesteros should have been on her way back to the Philippines. Hiro Tanamachi should have died in the war.

    Somehow, the man who had trained to die as a suicide submarine pilot in the Japanese Navy, and the woman whose hometown had been occupied by the Japanese, met 8,000 miles away from their homelands.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRon D Smith
    Release dateSep 21, 2012
    ISBN9781301395132
    The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro
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    Ron D Smith

    Ron D Smith is the author of the novels Come up a Cloud, The Savior of Turk and The Night Budda Got Deep in It. He lives in Kentucky.

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