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1) Mudbound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job -- and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within...
5) Veterans Day
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the history of Veterans Day and why it is observed, and suggests ways of honoring veterans on this special day, such as flying the flag, attending parades, buying poppies, and visiting hospitals.
8) Veterans Day
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief description of Veteran's Day, when it began and why it is celebrated each year.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Vietnam veteran and American politician Max Cleland describes his life and the adversities he has faced, including the loss both his legs and right forearm in the Vietnam War, being labeled as unpatriotic by members of the Republican party, and more.
11) Trust no one
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's no coincidence when Grace Elland finds a vodka bottle next to the lifeless body of her boss, motivational speaker Sprague Witherspoon. The bottle is a terrifying--and deliberate--reminder of the horrors of her past. Grace retreats to her hometown to regroup and tries to put everything she's learned about positive thinking into practice--a process that is seriously challenged on the world's worst blind date. Awkward doesn't begin to describe...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
13) The abduction
Author
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
Series
Language
English
Description
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
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A scarred Vietnam veteran and successful businessman reflects on his teen years as a social outcast and friend to a popular youth during a summer camp reunion marked by selflessness and an unthinkable event involving his friend's family members.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. With the same fiercely beautiful...
17) Ordinary heroes
Author
Language
English
Description
Retired newspaperman Stewart Dubinsky discovers a packet of his father's World War II letters and papers that reveal a secret life his family never knew of, including an fiance and an involvement with a former war spy.
18) Heat lightning
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summoned by Lucas Davenport to investigate a pair of murders in which the victims are found with lemons in their mouths, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers struggles to find a connection that could prevent additional killings.
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