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The running man
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Michael Gerard Bauer |
Fourteen-year-old Joseph reluctantly agrees to draw a portrait of his reclusive neighbor, Tom, for a class assignment, and over time, like the silkworms Tom raises, both men come out of their cocoons… |
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La promesa and other stories
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Leroy Quintana |
"Welcome to the other San Miguel, a fictional town in New Mexico.
It's the sort of town that has survived a burning rosary, the face of Jesus appearing on a wall, a sixteen-foot rattler, Mosco Zamor… |
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Reckless
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Lesley Choyce |
While riding his dirt bike on an abandoned logging road, Josh encounters a Vietnam veteran who has been living in the wilderness for forty years, and the two develop an unusual friendship. |
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Foolish undertaking
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Mark De Castrique |
"The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayto… |
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Emergency ops
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M. Zachary Sherman |
Captain Anne Donovan's field hospital in NhaTrang, Vietnam, treats many wounded soldiers, but when one of her patients is somebody she recognizes her emotions threaten to overwhelm her. |
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Free-fire zone
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Chris Lynch |
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, … |
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Year of the jungle
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Suzanne Collins,James Proimos |
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home. |
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Take the Silk Road Home
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Barry Terenna |
Gianni and Vinnie Fresco, two very different brothers, grow up in a close but neurotic Italian-American family in a small town in Westchester County, New York. The responsible younger brother aids hi… |
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Eggplant Alley
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D. M. Cataneo |
Thirteen-year-old Nicky Martini lives in an apartment complex, known as Eggplant Alley, in the Bronx in 1970 and struggles to cope with a changing family, a changing neighborhood, and a changing worl… |
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Free-fire Zone
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Chris Lynch |
Rudi, drafted by the U.S. Marines for the Vietnam War, feels lost without his three best friends by his side. Through letters back and forth between the friends, Rudi defends the type of soldier he's… |
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The aviators
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William E. Butterworth III |
It is 1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics, and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the United States Army must scramble to cr… |
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Steel tiger
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Mark Berent |
In 1967 Vietnam, Court Bannister takes on his second tour of duty, Toby Parker struggles against alcohol to earn his wings, and Wolf Lochert degenerates into mercenary madness. |
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Cry for the water buffalo
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James N. Zitzelsberger |
A Vietnamese family is decimated by the war around them and a sniper caught up in the military machine. Children, parents, politicians and soldiers are shaped by the war, driven by it, and, worst of … |
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Last Day in Vietnam
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Will Eisner |
*Last day in Vietnam* is Will Eisner's memoir of his years in the military, six stories garnered from observations of camp life at close range, of soldiers who were engaged not only in the daily host… |
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Too big a storm
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Marsha Qualey |
When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally Cooper, daughter of a wealthy Minnesota family, they develop a close friendship that helps they both grow and survive during the turbulent Vi… |
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The Road Home
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Ellen Emerson White |
Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States. |
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Dove song
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Kristine L. Franklin |
When eleven-year-old Bobbie Lynn's father is reported missing in action in Vietnam, she and her thirteen-year-old brother must learn to cope with their own despair, as well as their mother's breakdow… |
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The lotus and the storm
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Lan Cao |
"An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut,… |
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Perfume river
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Robert Olen Butler |
Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam War protests, now bears… |
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Up country
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Nelson De Mille |
Now in trade paperback for the first time, this sensational novel by #1 New York Times bestseller Nelson DeMille features the return of Army investigator Paul Brenner from Nelson DeMille's previous N… |
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