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Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743294662

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From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid dependable marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way. They are unhappy and edging towards divorce. Then the Iraq war starts and 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, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family. Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness and the elusive nature of love.

Author : John Milius
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345528425

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A gripping adventure set in the world of the epic videogame Home is where the war is America may be reeling from endless recessions and crippling oil wars, but hack reporter Ben Walker never expected to see his homeland invaded and occupied by a reunified Korea—now a formidable world power under Kim Jong-il’s dictator son. The enemy’s massive cyberattack is followed by the detonation of an electromagnetic pulse that destroys technology across the United States. Communications, weapons, and defense systems are rendered useless; thousands perish as vehicles suddenly lose power and passenger jets plummet to the ground. Fleeing the chaos of Los Angeles, Walker discovers that although America’s military has been scattered, its fighting spirit remains. Walker joins the soldiers as they head east across the desert, battling Korean patrols—and soon finds his own mission. Walker reinvents himself as the Voice of Freedom, broadcasting information and enemy positions to civilian Resistance cells via guerrilla radio. But Walker’s broadcasts have also reached the ears of the enemy. Korea dispatches its deadliest warrior to hunt the Voice of Freedom and crush the ever-growing Resistance before it can mount a new war for American liberty.

Author : Doris Gwaltney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416995722

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Set during World War II, this novel tells the story of a young girl who realizes what matters most in the face of the realities of war.

Author : D W Hanneken
Publisher : Ten16 Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781645381273

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Set in rural Wisconsin during 1944-1945, this story centers around Maggie Wentworth, a wife, mother and farmer who struggles to keep her life in balance after her physically abusive husband is shipped to Europe during WWII. She has to deal with the challenges of an aging father, a young son, and the temptation of an attractive German POW.

Author : Shawn D. Haley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2001-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781571813237

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About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than statistical, overview of the problem of spousal abuse. It is based on an extensive set of interviews with abused women and individuals who seek to help them (shelter workers, police officers, marriage counselors). More particularly, it follows four women as they move through the steps they must follow to extricate themselves from an abusive relationship and then get on with their lives. The reader witnesses their success and failures as they face a task that is both necessary and daunting, and the effects that spousal abuse (and at attempts stopping the abuse) have on an ever-widening circle of people. This book illustrates how society in general and individuals and organizations in particular help and hinder the process of extrication - often at the same time. By analyzing the solutions, and their implications, that have been offered to and by the abused women, the authors arrive at a set of alternative solutions that could significantly reduce the incidence of spouse abuse in the future.

Author : Allie Pleiter
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459227883

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Dashing and valiantly wounded, Captain John Gallows could have stepped straight out of an army recruitment poster. Leanne Sample can't help being impressed—although the lovely Red Cross nurse tries to hide it. She knows better than to get attached to the daring captain who is only home to heal and help rally support for the war's final push. As soon as he's well enough, he'll rush back to Europe, back to war—and far away from South Carolina and Leanne. But when an epidemic strikes close to home, John comes to realize what it truly means to be a hero—Leanne's hero.

Author : Oliver North
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1476714371

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Heroes Proved, a moving collection of “straightforward, honest testimonials to the courage American troops display on and off the battlefield” (Kirkus Reviews). For more than a dozen years, combat-decorated Marine Oliver North and his award-winning documentary team from FOX News Channel’s War Stories traveled to the frontlines of the War on Terror to profile the dedicated men and women who serve our nation. This time, he follows them from the battlefield to the homefront and finds extraordinary inspiration in their triumph over life-altering adversity. In this new volume of his New York Times bestselling American Heroes series, North describes the courage, commitment, and strength of those who serve—and those who love them. The term “selfless devotion” may be a cliché to many—but not to the men and women on the pages of this book. Their stories resound with bravery, a warrior ethos, and spiritual strength that will encourage us all. Heroes are people who knowingly place themselves at risk for the benefit of others. Since the terror attack of September 11, 2001, more than two million young Americans have volunteered to serve in difficult and dangerous places. No military force in history has been asked to do more than those who have served and sacrificed in this long fight. They are American heroes. So too are their loved ones here at home. These are their stories.

Author : Patti Davis
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1987-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804101103

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In her touching and candidly autobiographical novel, Patti Davis, the daughter of President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, tells the story of Beth Canfield and her coming of age in the America of the late '60s and early '70s. Over two months on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Author : Mark Jonathan Harris
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 1984
Category : United States
ISBN :

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Includes primary sources on defense workers, women during the war, conscientious objectors, scrap metal collection and recycling, racial issues on the homefront, and civil defense.

Author : Craig Alanson
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781973292418

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United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed 'Skippy' is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.