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1) Home front
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, must defend Brian McCarran, a general's son who recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. In the high-profile court-martial, Terry is joined by Brian's sister, Meg McCarran, who leaves her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans--and learn that families, like war, can break the...
Author
Series
Danger never sleeps volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI Special Agent Caden Denning is part of the task force assigned to catch a serial killer targeting military families-only he needs Ava Jackson's help to do so. When the killer turns his sights on Ava, the investigation turns into a fight to survive"--
Ava Jackson entered the military shortly after high school, but her mother's illness forced her to request an early discharge. She lost her father while deployed, and there's no way she's going...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted brother and then discovers that he's been reported missing in action, she lies about her age and travels to the front lines as an army nurse, determined to find him. Shy and awkward, Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, a sprawling encampment north of Rome where she forges new friendships and is increasingly consumed by the plight of her...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When someone is serving our country, far from home, everyone in their family has to be brave. Including -- and sometimes especially -- the kids. This book speaks to all kids in this situation in telling the story of a boy and a girl with parents away on duty. It captures the children's worries, fears, trials, and triumphs while waiting for their parents to return from service. Although the narrative tells one universal tale, the photographs depict...
6) Muse of fire
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"A documentary on the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience."--Container.
7) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart"--
In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan--devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks, and general meltdowns. One of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny hopes to use her geographical knowledge to overcome her...
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