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Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
422) 44 Cranberry Point
Author
Series
Description
Olivia Lockhart-Griffin
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
Jack and I are just back from our honeymoon, and I'm eager to catch up with my friends Bob and Peggy Beldon, who run the Thyme and Tide bed-and-breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point. It's a popular place but (needless to say!) things haven't been the same since a man died there. Turns out his name was Max Russell, and Bob had known him briefly in Vietnam. Nobody has any...
423) The breaker
Author
Series
Description
A man wanted by two governments, Peter Ash has found a low-profile life in Milwaukee, living with his girlfriend June and renovating old buildings with his friend Lewis. Staying out of trouble is key . . . but when Peter spots an armed man walking into a crowded market, he can't stand by. The gunman escapes, and his victim vanishes before police arrive. Soon a powerful associate from Peter's past appears with an interest in the crime, and an irresistible...
424) Hollow chest
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
An epic elegy in American Studies, this collective biography warmly delineates some 170 centenarian lives among the nation's last remnant of Confederate veterans of the 1940s and after. Heavily genealogical, this monumental 15-year study answers ambitious questions its author wanted to know about the last survivors of the War Between the States--who were they, how old did they live to be, where were they from, in what order did they die, how did...
426) Bomber
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Alistar and Valerie have been planning a special trip to Germany for a very long time. When their son Ross stops by the house to send them off, happenstance turns into an impromptu family road trip of the most tortuous kind. Alistar berates Ross for all that he is not in life, while Valerie tries to keep the peace. It is soon discovered that Alistar's reason for the often comic, sometimes painful trip is to shed a guilt he's been carrying for years....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Liz served in Iraq with her trusty military working dog, Ender, by her side. But now that her tour is over, she has to readjust to life in her small New Hampshire town. Despite being surrounded by people she's known her whole life, Liz feels entirely alone and soon gets trapped in a downward spiral of flashbacks and blackout drinking. Things seem destined for a bad end, but when Liz's on-again-off-again boyfriend, Ben, almost hits a stray dog while...
428) The runaway
Author
Series
Peter Ash novel volume 07
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she's in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine. Working nights at a gas station in an isolated Montana town, Helene is desperate to escape both her low-paying job and her predatory boss. So when a kind stranger stops to fill up his tank, Helene barely hesitates before asking for a ride, willing to go anywhere to start her life over. But she may have fled one danger only to run straight into...
429) All secure: a special operations soldier's fight to survive on the battlefield and the homefront
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
©2019.
Description
"Over the course of twenty years and thousands of missions, he's fought desperately for his life, rescued hostages, killed and captured terrorist leaders, and seen his friends maimed and killed around him. All Secure is in part Tom's journey into a world so dark and dangerous that most Americans can't contemplate its existence. It recounts what it is like to be on the front lines with one of America's most highly trained warriors. As action packed...
430) Touchstone
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Description
Laurie R. King has amassed a large and devoted following. His existence shattered by the Great War, Bennett Grey is investigated by an American agent who thinks he may be useful for protecting national security.
431) The cut: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After returning home from serving in Iraq, Spero Lucas makes a living doing special investigations for a defense attorney and catches the attention of a high-profile crime boss who offers Lucas a high paying job he can't refuse.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
After waking up in a German field at the end of World War II, a man with only flashes of his memory intact searches for his identity while getting caught up in a flood of displaced people, including a teenager with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.
433) Hinterland
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans...
Author
Series
Publisher
MEternally, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Start a conversation! Reminiscence therapy can be practiced by anyone with an elderly family member or friend. Whether used in a group or one-on-one, this memory kit will help people connect to one another through reminiscence of favorite things of the past. The resulting meaningful conversations can combat loneliness, create connections, and bring about a sense of self-worth.
The patriotic collection brings together service members from all branches,...
435) Deep into the dark
Author
Series
Detective Margaret Nolan volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"Sam Easton-a true survivor-is home from Afghanistan, trying to rebuild a life in his hometown of LA. Separated from his wife, bartending and therapy sessions are what occupy his days and nights. When friend and colleague Melody Traeger is beaten by her boyfriend, she turns to Sam for help. When the boyfriend turns up dead the next day, a hard case like Sam is the perfect suspect. But LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, whose brother recently died serving...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author, US Navy Veteran, and genre pioneer Lindsay McKenna combines pulse-pounding suspense with the romance of a contemporary Western for the fourth installment in her highly emotional, engrossingly swoon-worthy, Wyoming-set Silver Creek series. Can a veteran SEAL protect a woman from her past when it comes unexpectedly calling?" --
"With a fresh start in the heart of big sky country, Sara Romano is thrilled to bring...
437) Harsh times
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. With an honorable discharge from the Army, Homeland Security wants to recruit him for some special operation in Central America, but first he has to pass a urine test.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing. Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf, an embedded reporter, was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee, when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small, dark object rolling inches from his feet. He reached down and took it in his hand. Then everything went black. Weisskopf lost his...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Who will reap the rewards of war? Hawaii, 1948: Troubled WWII hero turned deserter Wendell Lett desperately seeks a cure to his severe combat trauma, and The Preserve seems to be his salvation. Run by Lansdale, a mysterious intelligence officer, and Lett's ambitious wartime XO Charlie Selfer, the secretive training camp promises relief from the terrors in his mind. Together with Kanani Alana, a tough-minded Hawaiian also looking for a new start at...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around...
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