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In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above...
2) Celebration
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English
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Heiress Kristine Kelly must struggle to make a new life for herself and her family after her husband of twenty years takes off with her fortune, leaving her to deal with three teenage children who really do not have much love left for either of their parents.
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Military spouses from World War I to Afghanistan tell their stories, presented along with personal photographs and diariesFor as long as there have been armed forces there have been camp followers - the families who move with the military to stay with their men. This book looks at the experiences of just a few of these families, through the eyes of the military wives and their relatives. From the First World War, when many women were fiancées but...
4) Our Lizzie
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English
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Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit. At twelve, she loses her father and her happy family life ends as her mother grows to resent her. Then circumstances push Lizzie into an early marriage, where she finds her mother's petty cruelties replaced by her husband's frequent beatings.
But she is a survivor. When World War I breaks out, Lizzie's husband is forced to join up and she seizes the opportunity to run away. She finds independence and friendship...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Best-selling author Sandra Dallas has won rave reviews for this tale set during the Civil War. When Alice Bullock's husband joins the Union Army, the young quilting enthusiast is left to deal with an Iowa farm and an imposing mother-in-law. And then her life turns upside down when she's accused of murder.
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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A collection of true stories that reveal the often hidden aspects of military life in America, recounting the experiences of family members who are left behind to deal with isolation and anticipatory grief while their loved ones are fighting wars on foreign soil.
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Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier's wife during World War II, except for one secret, she misses her Jewish lover, but she is not the only one with secrets, and she must choose to act on what is right and what is wrong and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two when the carefully constructed fortress of solitude she has built over the years begins to collapse.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2014
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English
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Raised as an Army brat, Angie Ricketts thought she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin?then an infantry lieutenant?on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since that time, Darrin, now a colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts, has lived every one of those deployments intimately?distant enough to survive the years spent apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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If they survive the war, will their marriage?
Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks forward to her new life – even though Tom is continually getting into mischief that borders on the downright criminal. When war begins and Tom is called up almost at once, Jessie is left to cope with the baby alone.
Meanwhile Jessie's twin, Hannah, has been recruited to...
11) Absolution
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...
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