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"Eden Cain will end his life when the sun reaches the top of the barn door. The United States Department of Justice has convened a grand jury; congressional hearings had left little choice. A middle-aged, Iowa farmer is subpoenaed. His involvement will unravel the deceptive life he has created as atonement for his crimes. The guilt of wartime atrocities more than thirty years earlier haunt Eden daily; visions entwined with reality that threaten to...
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How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War Patriots, now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy.
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The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as six other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the...
28) In country
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to come to life. But Dwayne had died...
30) The great alone
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...
31) Burrows
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When a serial killer arrives in Center Springs, Texas retired constable Ned Parker is drawn into the investigation with his nephew Cody, the new constable.
34) The Vietnam War
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Lucent Books
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c2005
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IL: MG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 2
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35) Still the drums
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American Patriot Pictures, LLC
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2010.
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A powerful and touching story spanning fifty years in the lives of four best friends that will grab you and not let go. M.I.A. (missing in action) , in Vietnam, for thirty-nine years, the remains of Lt. Jack E. Buchannon, U.S.M.C., are found and identified. he is brought home and awarded the medal of honor and buried as a fallen hero. His three childhood best friends, all ex-marines and Vietnam veterans, get together after attending the funeral...
37) Finding moon
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Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos. Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled...
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In the U.S. Marine Corps, the most dangerous job in combat is that of the sniper. With no backup and little communication with the outside world, these men disappear for weeks on end in the wilderness with nothing but intellect and iron will to protect them-as they watch, wait, and finally strike. But of all of the snipers who ever hunted human prey, one man stands above the rest as the most legendary fighting man to ever pull a trigger.That man is...
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"Palace Cobra picks up where Ed Rasimus's When Thunder Rolled left off. Now he's flying the F-4 Phantom and the attitude is still there." "In the waning days of the Vietnam War, Rasimus and his fellow pilots were determined that they were not going to be the last to die in a conflict their country had abandoned. They were young fighter pilots fresh from training and experienced aviators who came back to the war again and again, not for patriotism,...
40) Fallen angels
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Coretta Scott King author award book : 1989.
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