Thomas, Joseph Earl
Summary: "After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC THOMorrison, Toni.
Summary: "The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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Summary: While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it's not long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their coworkers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "...Hackberry Holland makes his first appearance in this early gem...Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney yields to the myriad of urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat--and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers. And when Hack attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURKrueger, William Kent
Summary: On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KRUCarr, Robyn
Summary: Dakota Jones is the second youngest of four children who had a difficult upbringing living with parents who struggle with mental illness. He escaped his family as soon as he could by joining the military. Now, after several tours of duty he has been discharged. He has nowhere to go and no solid plans for the future. Refusing to return home to his parents he arrives in Sullivan's Crossing where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARPetrie, Nicholas
Summary: "Peter Ash's friend Lewis has helped him out of jam more times than he can count, and has saved his life more than once. So he doesn't hesitate when Lewis asks a favor. Lewis has left his criminal past behind, but a former associate may be in trouble, and he and Peter must make a trip to check in on the man. But their visit immediately takes a dark turn when they arrive to find a smoldering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETKrueger, William Kent
Summary: On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Bledsoe, Alex.
Summary: "No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLEBrackmann, Lisa.
Summary: When a chance encounter with a Muslim fugitive drops her down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, Ellie must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAPowers, Kevin
Summary: One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWBarker, Gary
Summary: "Tyler is in therapy. Katia and Goran are in love. On a summer trip to Zagreb, the couple discover an unusual museum that displays mementos of broken relationships. Inside, Goran stumbles upon an exhibit that seems to be addressed to him, from a girl he met in a Sarajevo refugee camp at age fourteen. What follows is a whirlwind summer of reconnecting with lost pasts: Goran confronts the youth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: Wounded years earlier in Vietnam, Howard Kapostash is unable to speak, read, or write, although his intelligence is normal. Now middle-aged, he lives a lonely existence, deliberately avoiding contact with others whenever possible. But then his former high school sweetheart entrusts her nine-year-old son to Howard when she enters drug rehab. Suddenly a father figure, Howard begins to open up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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Summary: Keven Bell returns to Rogue River a war victim but not a hero. His bitterness deepens when he discovers that Gus Atwell has stolen his girl, ruined his reputation and prospered by his absence. He turns to the deep, fast-moving Rogue River and there he finds the will to fight against men who are as unscrupulous as he is honest, as crooked as he is straight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1930
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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Summary: Fighting his post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane-- until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her young grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead daughter's husband and the sole suspect, fled to Iceland with his son for the protection of Erik's lawless family. For reasons both unknown and unofficial, it seems that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PETCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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Summary: "Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VAUHannah, Kristin
Summary: "'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KingfisherTrentham, Laura
Summary: At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams of being a songwriter up in flames. To make matters worse, a series of bad decisions and even crappier luck lands her community service hours at a nonprofit organization that aids veterans and their families. Greer cannot fathom how she's supposed to use music to help anyone deal with their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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Summary: Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008