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Author
Language
English
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Description
Jean Gilkyson, pregnant when her husband was killed, is raising their daughter, Griff, in an Iowa trailer house with yet another brutal boyfriend, when she realizes this can't go on. But the only refuge available is a town in Wyoming where her loved ones are dead and her father-in-law wishes she was too. For a decade he has blamed her for his son's death, choosing to go on living himself largely because his oldest friend otherwise couldn't survive....
Author
Publisher
Sunwood Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hershey is the heart warming illustrated story of a true American, the son of Japanese immigrants, who served his country proudly despite the discrimination against Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. -- Back cover.
23) Indignation
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Passion ignites culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torried encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1952, bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood, a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe ... In the mill town at the foot of the mountains--a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the untold story of Bloody George, an understrength and undermanned marine rifle company that was hastily called to serve the United States in 1950 at the start of the Korean War.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
xv, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (470 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (12 p.)
Language
English
Description
Legendary journalist Mike Wallace hosts a dynamic examination of modern warfare. Expert analysis from journalists, military leaders, and historians supplements compelling archival footage with Edward R. Murrow, Morley Safer, and Walter Cronkite. Also included is expert commentary from Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam, former secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara, and Senator John McCain.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
They came from one street, but death found them in many places...in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky. One died going over a fence during the greatest paratrooper assault in history. Another fell in the biggest battle of World War II. Yet another, riddled with bullets in an audacious act of heroism during a decisive onslaught a world, and a war, away. All came from a single street...
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor Teddy Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
37) The naked tree
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman's first brush with desire against the backdrop...
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