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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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"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
Virgin River volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly-widowed Marcie Sullivan tracks down Ian Buchanan, the man responsible for saving her husband's life years ago, and finds an emotionally scarred man who needs her help in healing his wounded soul during a season of miracles.
Author
Series
Danger never sleeps volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When former field surgeon Heather Fontaine returns from a party to find that someone has broken into her house-and threatened her friends-she assumes it is the stalker who has been creeping her out. She hopes to find safety and piece of mind by leaving the city and hiding out in a small town. But trouble follows here even there. Luckily, a stalker isn't the only one observing heather. Travis Walker has been secretly watching out for her for weeks....
4) Sparta
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After four years in Iraq, Conrad returns home to Katonah, but finds that the place that he once loved, and he himself, have changed.
5) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruth and Aubrey are worried about their hero older brother, Joseph, who returned from a deployment in Iraq just three months after he left. Joseph disappears as the horrifying details of the incident he faced in Iraq emerge.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
12) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.