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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
3) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.
American women—American wives—have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
One night at Elaine's, Stone Barrington -- back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbean -- meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton's career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother's, but he's suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch...
6) Noel Street
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flowers is only in his late thirties, but heś been around the block a few times, and he doesnt́ think much can surprise him anymore. Heś wrong. Itś a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if youŕe keeping count), when the phone rings. Itś Lucas Davenport. Thereś a body in Stillwater--two shots to the head, found near a veteranś memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth....
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Language
English
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Description
In the tradition of Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" and James Jones's "The Thin Red Line," Marlantes tells the powerful and compelling story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood.
9) Time to hunt
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The killer lies in wait, silently watching as a man and his family ride horses under the Idaho sun. Suddenly the shot rings out. a woman screams. Horse hooves thunder. And Bob Lee Swagger is jolted by a sound he knows all too well. Once he has the Marine Corps' most freared sniper. Now Swagger--husband, father, hero--is fighting to protect his wife and daughter . . . from the one shooter in the world who is as good as he is.
10) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emotional look at the war in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a young man who discovers that the Viet Cong are not the only enemies he has to fight.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
12) Bat*21
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam, 1968. A true story of a middle-aged air force officer, LTC Iceal Hambleton, who's never seen combat before. He is stranded behind enemy lines and all he can do is wait and hope. Then a voice crackles over his radio, and he has found a friend.
13) Jacob's ladder
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Vietnam veteran back at home in New York City finds himself losing his grip on reality as he sees visions of demons and his dead son.
14) Rescue dawn
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, U.S. fighter pilot Lt. Dieter Dengler is shot down and imprisoned during the Vietnam War and plans a daring escape with fellow captives.
15) In country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatic portrayal of a reclusive war vet and his 17 year old niece as they struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures ; distributed in Canada by Alliance Films
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Apocalypse now: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Hamburger Hill: Fourteen American soldiers in Vietnam battle for a mud-covered mound of earth that chews up soldiers like meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse.
17) Tree of smoke
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of Skip Sands--spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Author
Series
Cold storage novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War is at its height, and multiple assassinations have gripped the country. But some things remain the same. Ellie's bar is still the place to catch up on the town gossip, and there's a lot to talk about, from the boys who have returned from the war (and the ones who haven't), to the robberies that are...
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