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1) Mudbound
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return...
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Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Vietnam veteran Ben Brice, a recluse who dulls his memories of the war with alcohol, comes out of his self-induced stupor to help find his kidnapped granddaughter, Gracie, who was snatched from her soccer game while her father John, an Internet billionaire, was conducting business on his cell phone in the stands.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries Eva, the pregnant fiancée of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher’s precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family—which includes Eva and four sons—and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World
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Thomas Witka Just returns from fighting in Vietnam to his wife, Ruth, and his Native American community, who are conflicted over hunting a whale, but when Thomas's daughter, Lin--who he fathered while away in the war--travels to America to find the father she had lost, a greater tragedy finds Thomas instead.
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Kent Anderson returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself.
A 2019 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Ethan Saunders, a former spy, is hired by his former fianceé to find her missing husband, which also means working for his former enemy--Alexander Hamilton--and meanwhile, on the Pennsylvania frontier, Joan Maycott's family struggles to maintain their stakes in their business distilling whiskey, and whose profits have attracted the unwanted attention of Hamilton.
9) Home
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English
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"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.
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The critically-acclaimed debut novel by J.D. Rhoades, and the introduction of iconic bounty hunter Jack Keller. Keller is a man tormented by the nightmares he's had ever since a disastrous tour in Desert Storm. Destroyed by his experience, Keller now makes his living tracking bailjumpers for H&H, a North Carolina bail bonds company run by a reclusive, beautiful, and horribly scarred woman named Angela. In truth, Keller doesn't work bail enforcement...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household whenshe was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan’s
friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie...
friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie...
18) Bitterroot
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Series
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English
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James Lee Burke fills his New York Times best-selling Billy Bob Holland series with the same keen sense of mood and atmosphere that made his Dave Robicheaux series an Edgar Award-winning one. Set in the contemporary West, Bitterroot spins a story as vivid as a mountain sunset. Texas lawyer Billy Bob Holland is in Montana visiting an old friend when he is pulled into an investigation of a string of murders. At first, he seeks to protect his friend....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When four 1960s radicals are gunned down, Vietnam veteran Carl Hitchcock, an expert marksman, becomes the prime suspect, but FBI Special Agent Nick Memphis thinks the case is a little too perfect and calls on retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger for help in tracking down the real killer.
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English
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Emmy Award Winner and Oscar Nominee Viola Davis; "An eye-opening look at the little-explored area of a black frontier woman in the American West." --Chicago Sun-Times Praised by Alice Walker and many other bestselling writers, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an award-winning debut novel with incredible heart about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen. Reminiscent of The Color Purple, as...
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