FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Page & Palette, 32 S. Section St. in Fairhope, will host author Doug James on June 19, from 10 a.m. until noon.

He will sign his novel “Billy Benson.” The book is a sequel to his earlier work “Flights of Angels.”

Some 40 years after WWII Navy pilot Billy Benson disappeared in the Himalaya Mountains on a secret mission to China, his plane is discovered under the melting ice and snow. As his body is recovered and returned to his family, his life is reviewed through a series of flashbacks.

The plot of “Billy Benson” revolves around life of an American boy in a typical small Southern town before and during WWII.

As the reader shares in the family, friends, school and hometown of Billy Benson, from boyhood to young manhood, he or she becomes aware of the influences that accounted for the man he became.

It was these same values that shaped so many of the men who fought a war on two fronts; the men whom newsman Tom Brokaw called “the Greatest Generation.”

Even though “Billy Benson” is a sequel, it stands on its own. Those who are reading this book only (or first), will be able to appreciate the American home front and the all-American boy in a simpler, more innocent time.

James grew up and was educated in Florence, Ala. He attended Freed-Hardeman University when it was a two-year college. He completed his bachelors’ degree at Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama), where he majored in biology.

He taught in the public schools of north Alabama before attending Auburn University for a masters’ degree in speech communication.

He taught at Auburn for four years prior to taking up residence in Mobile to teach at Spring Hill College.

The author will exclusively sign all books purchased from Page & Palette.

For more information, call (251) 928-5295.