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Series
Blue sky cowboys volume 2
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Description
After Griff is discharged from the army, he comes back to his family's ranch, where he finds Riley, who is renovating the ranch while his family is away, and romance sparks between them despite the scars of their pasts.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Howard Kapostash has not spoken in 30 years. Ever since a severe blow to the head during his days in the Army, words unravel in his mouth and letters on the page make no sense at all. Because of his extremely limited communication abilities, a small repertory of gestures and simple sounds, most people think he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before enlisting, still awed by the beauty of a landscape, still...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In Beyond the Shadows, Hatcher writes about the serious issue of alcoholism. After her husband dies, Deborah Haskin thinks she will never love again. But then Gideon Clermont enters her life. She does begin to love him very much, but how will she be able to come to terms with his addiction?
46) Paradise valley
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Series
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For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers both a chance to make peace with the men they once were and to find the dreams they thought they had lost.
47) Veterans day
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In Veterans Day, early readers will learn about the American holiday of Veterans Day and the ways people celebrate it. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they explore this unique holiday.
A labeled diagram helps readers understand the symbols of Veterans Day, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about Veterans Day online using our safe search engine that provides...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Behavioral/ mental health and veteran suicide are major issues that generate a large number of questions from individuals who often times don't have them answered by the data provided by agencies like the Department of Veteran Affairs. It's my hope that my book is a better answer to those who would like to know more about what veterans experience in relation to mental health that too often times lead us to attempt suicide.
49) The great alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
50) The return
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a moving new novel about an injured army doctor and the two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather...
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
After a minor injury prevents her from traveling solo, a wedding planner heading to her best friend's big day is caught in a snowstorm with her traveling companion, an uptight ex-paratrooper who is her complete opposite.
Author
Description
President George W. Bush presents a collection of oil paintings and stories of servicemen and women who have served our nation with honor since 9/11-- and whom he has come to know personally. Growing out of his own outreach, and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institutes's Military Service Initiative, each painting is accompanied by the inspiring story of the veteran depicted. These stories of courage and resilience honor our men and women...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Hired to evaluate the safety precautions around an art collection, Van Shaw finds himself the prime suspect after a dead body is found on the estate in the sixth novel of the series following A Dangerous Breed.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In the summer of 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., demanding payment from the Herbert Hoover administration of the bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime service. With the "bonus bill" defeated in the Senate, the U.S. Army, led by Army Chief of Staff Gen, Douglas MacArthur, deployed tanks in the capital to rout the protestors.
This highly praised account of the event is based on extensive research...
55) The bone orchard
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"In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent case of 'suicide by cop, ' he begins having second thoughts about his decision. Now Kathy finds herself the target of a government inquiry and outrage from the dead soldier's platoon mates. Soon she finds herself in the...
56) Kill devil
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Jed Patrick is convinced he's doing all it takes to keep his family safe--new names, new location, new identity. But just when he thinks he finally has his life back, trained men claiming to be CIA agents break in and threaten his wife and daughter, proving once and for all his family will never truly be safe until he eliminates the agency dead set on hunting him down. Not knowing if Karen and Lilly are better off by his side or in hiding, Jed is...
57) Home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1995
Description
Twenty years after the fall of Saigon, almost three times as many American veterans of the Vietnam War are currently dying of drug overdose and exposure on the streets of our cities as were killed in Southeast Asia. Ravaged by their experiences fighting in a savage war, Vietnam veterans have to face not only their internal demons but a society that wants only to forget, and a treatment system that either brushes veterans aside or keeps them drugged...
Author
Series
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2005?], ©2001
Description
Years after young soldier Jan Jovic reluctantly participates in events that result in the death of a priest who inspired him, he writes of his wartime experiences and unexpectedly falls passionately in love with an unlikely woman.
60) Blanco sol
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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