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Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
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Description
A Virgin River Christmas: Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband. This year she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Marcie's letters to marine Ian Buchanan have gone unanswered, but she's tracked him to the tiny mountain town. As Marcie pushes her way into his reclusive life, she discovers a sweet but damaged soul beneath a rough exterior. It is, after all,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed...
5) While I live
Author
Series
Ellie chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Officially the war is over, but Ellie can not seem to escape it and resume a normal life especially after her parents are murdered and she becomes the ward of an unscrupulous lawyer who wants to acquire her family's property.
Author
Series
Ellie chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009, �2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Ellie Chronicles, the follow-up to the Tomorrow Series, tells of post-invasion Australia as witnessed by teenage Ellie. In this final installment, Ellie's responsibility for her surrogate brother Gavin is threatened by both enemy forces and the government and she finds herself fighting both but on different fields of battle.
Author
Publisher
Team Pursuits
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD affects the veterans and their families and explore strategies...
8) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Yossarian, a reluctant bombadier stationed in the Mediterranean in World War II, has come to the utterly sane conclusion that everyone is trying to kill him. The Germans, yes, but also commanding officers supposedly on his own side like Col. Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions his flyers must perform to finish their tours. Everybody seems equally dead-set on his destruction, and Yossarian is just as determined to stay alive. An enormous...
9) Persepolis
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One of the most painful and tragic legacies of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the trauma suffered by those who served and the far-reaching consequences and after-effects of their scarring combat experiences. This very important volume looks at the issue of returning soldiers PTSD from multiple angles, examining skyrocketing suicide rates; the debates surrounding the quality and accessibility of health care; the nature of and stigmas associated...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Beowulf: In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages.
The lovely bones: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful...
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