title: No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in World War II
author:  Larry Colton 
description: "[I] am reading <i>No Ordinary Joes</i>. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm's way. It's lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet."<br /><b>--Katherine Dunn, National Book Award finalist, author of <i>Geek Love</i></b><br /><br /><i>No Ordinary Joes </i>is a marvelous treatment of a special time in American history, as well asan up close and personal look at the devastating impactthat warcan haveon the personal lives of those involved in it. Let's have a twenty-one gun salutefor Larry Colton!<br /><b>--John T. (Jack)Ramsay, Former Navy Ensign, Underwater Demolition Team #30</b><br /><b>Basketball Analyst, ESPN TV and Radio</b><br /><br />Larry Coltons Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Coltons engrossing story strips sentimentality and clich from our notion of hero.<br /><b>--Ron Shelton, award-winning screenwriter and director of <i>Bull Durham,White Men Cant Jump </i>and <i>Tin Cup</i></b><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  Tom Swift And His Submarine Boat
  
  
    
    
  I News of a Treasure Wreck  
    
  II Finishing the Submarine  
    
  III Mr. Berg Is Astonished  
    
  IV Tom Is Imprisoned  
    
  V Mr. Berg Is Suspicious  
    
  VI Turning the Tables  
    
  VII Mr. Damon Will Go  
    
  VIII Another Treasure Expedition  
    
  IX Captain Weston's Advent  
    
  X Trial of the Submarine  
    
  XI On the Ocean Bed  
    
  [ XII For a Breath of Air  
    
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  XIII Off for the Treasure  
    
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  In the Diving Suits  
    
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  At the Tropical Island  
    
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  "We'll Race You For It!"  
    
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  XVII The Race  
    
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