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Author
Series
Virgin River volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers both a chance to make peace with the men they once were and to find the dreams they thought they had lost.
2) Sparta
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"[After four years in Iraq, Conrad Farrell returns to Katonah, New York], and he's beginning to learn that something has changed in his landscape. Something has gone wrong, though things should be fine: he hasn't been shot or wounded; he's never had psychological troubles. But as he attempts to reconnect with his family and his girlfriend and to find his footing in the civilian world, he learns how hard it is to return to the people and places he...
3) Making faces
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young...
4) Shelter me
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nestled in the sunny fields of Tennessee lies the McDaniel family's Second Chance Ranch Animal Rescue. Two new arrivals are on their way, but only one is the four-legged kind. Staff Sergeant Mike Kowalski wants only one thing after he gets home from Iraq: to sleep in a king-sized bed with clean sheets. But first, he has to hand off his fallen commander's dog, Trooper, to his family without handing off his heart to Sierra...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A former interpreter in Iraq who lost his wife and child in an assassination attempt discovers a dead body on the beach in Virginia and believes it is connected to his past.
One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Billy Summers es un asesino a sueldo y el mejor en lo suyo, pero tiene una norma: solo acepta un encargo si su objetivo es realmente mala persona. Ahora Billy quiere dejarlo, pero todavía le queda un último golpe. Y siendo uno de los mejores francotiradores del mundo, un veterano condecorado de la guerra de Irak, un auténtico Houdini cuando toca desaparecer después de finiquitar un trabajo, ¿qué podría salirle mal?"
"When Billy Summers was...
Author
Series
Spero Lucas mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After returning home from serving in Iraq, Spero Lucas makes a living doing special investigations for a defense attorney and catches the attention of a high-profile crime boss who offers Lucas a high paying job he can't refuse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At the Millers Kill community center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. And down-on-her-luck Tally McNabb has brought home a secret-a fatal one. Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne just wants Clare to settle down and get married-to him. But when he rules Tally McNabb's death a suicide, Clare sides with the other vets...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
12) Carthage
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a young girl disappears near a community in the Adirondacks, the people of the town of Carthage must face the fact that an Iraq War veteran is the prime suspect.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
15) The messenger
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.
16) Puncture wounds
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After returning home from a traumatic tour of duty in Iraq, John finds himself struggling with PTSD. What little peace he had managed to build around him is shattered one fateful day when he rescues a local call girl from a group of violent Aryan Brotherhood pimps. Having killed several of the high-ranking brotherhood during the rescue, John and his family are now the prime targets of Hollis, the ruthless criminal leader of the group.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan has just returned to Mercy Hospital from a tour in Iraq and knows more about medicine than all of the residents combined. She works with fellow nurses Sonia Jimenez, who turns the heads of everyone in the hospital, and Chloe Payne, a native newcomer who learns to deal with the difficulties of working in a challenging and sometimes unsettling profession.
Series
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Footloose: When city-boy Ren McCormick finds himself in a uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned, he revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter to change everyone's mind.
Tremors: The small desert town of Perfection is under attack from giant prehistoric man-eating worms that can sense any sound.
Mystic River: Jimmy, Dave, Sean. Friends who grew up together in working-class Boston, they drifted apart after a terrible...
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