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941) The darkness rolling
Author
Series
Yazzie Goldman novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Upon his return from World War II, Seaman Yazzie Goldman realizes that not much has changed at his family's trading post in Monument Valley--and yet everything is different ... [Yazzie's mother] Nizhoni is thrilled that Yazzie has returned to help bring the trading post back to prosperity. Excitement comes from the nearby filming of a John Ford movie starring Henry Fonda. Director Ford enlists the tall, strong, half-Navajo and half-Jewish Yazzie...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"For readers of Amanda Coplin and Chris Bohjalian, In Wilderness is a suspenseful and literary love story--a daring and original novel about our fierce need for companionship and our enduring will to survive. In the winter of 1966, Katherine Reid receives a shattering diagnosis. Debilitated by a terminal and painful illness, Katherine moves to an isolated cabin deep in Georgia's Appalachian Mountains. There, with little more than a sleeping bag, a...
945) The expendables
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The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
Author
Series
Eagle Point Search and Rescue volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Ever since hearing about the mysterious woman in the woods who'd rescued his friends, Talon Ross has been intrigued... He can't rest until he's found her, made sure she's all right. But when he finally manages to track her down, that difficult task turns out to be the easy part--now he has to earn her trust... And there's an even bigger mystery surrounding the wary redhead, one he wants to solve so she can reclaim her life...possibly with Talon by...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
As an Olympic runner, a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, and a prisoner of war, Louis Zamperini was determined to thrive and survive. Never backing down from a challenge, he lived a life of adventure while modeling hope and forgiveness to a generation.
A magnet for trouble as a boy, Louie determined to create a new path for himself. Nicknamed the "Torrance Tornado," he set national records and traveled to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. His...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Charles Wolfe Collins is an Irish immigrant, ex-spy, Pinkerton operative, and a veteran of the Civil War. Collins is being sent on a hazardous assignment by President Grant in 1876, the nation's centennial. President Grant has recently received intelligence in military dispatches that there had been white men fighting alongside the Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He wants Collins to investigate and report back regarding the identity...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Colonel Gregory Gadson, (Ret.) was grievously wounded in an IED attack in Iraq in 2007 while he and his unit were returning from a service for two fallen soldiers. He subsequently lost both legs and severely injured his right arm, and, in the course of his rehabilitation and recovery, helped to inspire and motivate other war-wounded at Walter Reed. Due to his longtime connection with West Point as a football player there, and his friendship with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"At the close of World War II, American soldiers had the shock of their lives. In this book, the true story of the liberation of a death train deep in the heart of Nazi Germany is chronicled, brought to life by the history teacher who discovered the little-known story and went on to reunite hundreds of Holocaust survivors all over the world with the actual American solders who saved them!"--Dust jacket flap
954) Tug of War
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Champagne, northern France, summer 1926. Joe Sandilands is despatched under the auspices of Interpol to Reims where he is to represent British interests in an unusual case. He has been invited to be the guest of a glamorous French war-widow who runs a champagne estate on the Marne. Aline Houdart is determined that Joe should support her claim that a mysterious shell-shocked soldier who has turned up in the local sanatorium without speech or apparent...
Author
Series
Stay volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
When Ethan Bishop returns to the Hudson Valley, his body and spirit are a little worse for wear. As a former Special Forces paratrooper, he saw his fair share of conflict, and he came home with wounds inside and out. At his sisters' B & B and farm, he can keep all his pain at a safe distance. It's business that brings Manhattan PR agent Mia Thrush reluctantly to the farm. Tightly wound and quick tempered, she find everything about Ethan irritating...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The story of Joseph "Joe" LaNier, who at seventeen joined the segregated United States Navy in 1943. He became one of the first African-American Navy Seabees, shipping out to Iwo Jima in early 1945. After returning from the war, he completed his education in pharmaceutical studies in New Orleans. In spite of the color of his skin, he built a successful career as a pharmacist in several cities, including Denver where he worked, among other places,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Pediatric nurse Kyra Fowler is finally going to realize her dream. She's got a job lined up at the most prestigious children's hospital in London. There's only one little snag--first she has to sell the Wyoming town she's just inherited from her estranged father. After a little fixing up, the place should easily attract a buyer. Hopefully she'll be celebrating the sale by New Year's. Ex-Navy SEAL Aiden Steele couldn't save his brother-in-law on the...
959) Down the hidden path
Author
Series
Roads to River Rock volume 2
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"Jeremiah McKinley is the first of his enlisted brothers to return home to River Rock, Missouri--their sleepy but charming hometown in the Ozarks--in the wake of their father's death in combat. While he's grateful to be home with his sister nearby, his grief over losing the man known as Major Mack proves almost overwhelming, especially without his brothers around. After years of guilt and tireless effort, Mary Grace "Gray" Smith finally has her life...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In 1945, Will Mills and his fellow soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division scaled Italy's treacherous Riva Ridge in the frigid night to break through the nearly impenetrable German line of defense. Severely wounded, Will was rescued by Italian partisans and one, a beautiful girl, tended his injuries until he had the strength to rejoin the U.S. troops.
Tormented and haunted by his decisions and actions during wartime, Will knows he has unfinished missions...