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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Luke "Pax" Paxton has been out of the US military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving moment of combat. When an old army friend suggests they travel to Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, he agrees, and together they cross an ocean to Lviv, the City of Lions. But Pax isn't merely going out of the goodness of his heart. He carries with...
2) House
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Author Roger Cobb (Katt), long overdue for a new horror novel, begins work instead on a book based on his experiences in Vietnam. In part, the new project is a way of purging himself of the horrors that he experienced while there. But what begins as an ambitious fiction experiment soon deteriorates into a seething and terrifying reality. Cast into a sinister otherworld, looking into the void of uncertain death, in the darkness, Roger grapples with...
3) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
4) Fraser
Author
Series
Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fraser Marshall is sure his career in private security for Jones, Inc., is over. Especially after his last gig ended with him taken captive and wounded. And those wounds just won't heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family's winery pressing grapes. But what choice does he have? The answer comes via a panicked phone call from his kid brother, Creed. Creed is in over his head. He's run away with a princess, her bodyguard hot on...
Author
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...