Stephen P Kiernan Books in Order

Stephen P. Kiernan examines the gap between dying patients' wishes and the medical system's reliance on intensive intervention. Interviews, surveys and personal accounts explore dignity, family involvement, comfort and greater control over the final stage of life.

Kiernan revisits America's founding ideals through people who practice civic responsibility in their communities. Profiles of local renewal, health care initiatives and other acts of service present patriotism as practical participation in improving the lives of others.

Scientists revive a man preserved in Arctic ice since 1906, bringing him into contemporary Boston. As researcher Kate Philo grows close to Jeremiah Rice, public scrutiny and the experiment's uncertain consequences challenge their ability to protect his second life.

Hospice nurse Deborah Birch cares for a dying World War II historian while struggling to reach her husband after his return from Iraq. The historian's account of war and reconciliation offers a way to understand trauma, forgiveness and love.

In occupied Normandy on the eve of D-Day, young baker Emmanuelle quietly helps sustain her village. Her efforts to provide food and resist German control become an act of courage amid deprivation, danger and uncertainty about liberation.

Mathematician Charlie Fish works on the atomic bomb's detonator while his wife Brenda misunderstands his moral doubts. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki reveal the truth, their love and shared guilt shape a lifelong search for redemption.

After losing his family and serving as a Resistance assassin, Asher finds refuge at a French chateau making stained glass for ruined cathedrals. Hidden identities and wartime secrets threaten the fragile community helping him rebuild his life.

An ambitious auction-house associate investigates a woman’s claim to possess Jackson Pollock’s final painting. Moving between the 1950s and 2006, the story explores authenticity, artistic power, and the women whose lives intersect with his legacy.