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Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Near retirement after years of rescuing children, Alan Carmichael embarks on one last mission--to rescue a teenager from an abusive parent--but after the boy is safely hidden away, Alan begins to doubt his decision to intervene.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Howard has not spoken since a severe blow to the head during his days in the Army. Most people think he is disturbed; no one understands that he is still the same man he was before enlisting. Now his former sweetheart, a single mom, needs his help. The presence of her nine-year-old son transforms Howard's life.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has...
7) The throat
Author
Series
Blue rose volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Tim Underhill comes back to his hometown to investigate the murder of a childhood friend's wife.
10) The unwilling
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But...
11) Night of thunder
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
12) Robicheaux
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
13) Glory road
Author
Language
English
Description
E.C. "Scar" Gordon, a Vietnam veteran, answers an ad promising adventure and meets a mysterious beauty who transports him to another world
14) Point of impact
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was one of the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today all he wants is to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences,...
16) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland heads to Montana to help his old friend Doc Voss battle a local mining company whose operations are devastating the community, unaware that one of his opponents is recent parolee Wyatt Dixon, a man with a deadly plan for Holland.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger- who may have finally met the only man who can outshoot him.
18) The car
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Aaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. He's lost love. Dignity. Second, and even third, chances. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him."--P. [4] of cover.
20) Back Bay blues
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1985, Boston. In Vietnam, Andy Roark witnessed death and horrifying destruction. But for the soldiers who made it back alive, there are other casualties of war--the loss of tenderness, trust, and connection. Still feeling adrift and unsettled, Andy has struck up a welcome friendship with Nguyen, a Vietnamese restaurant owner. Sipping beer and trading memories after the restaurant shutters, Andy gradually learns of the extraordinary lengths Nguyen...