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Off the Shelf November 2015
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Rock paper tiger
by Lisa Brackmann
When a chance encounter with a Muslim fugitive drops her down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, Ellie must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side.
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One was a soldier
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A latest entry in a series by the Agatha Award-winning author of In the Bleak Midwinter finds five Iraq veterans struggling to adjust to life after brutal tours of service, an effort complicated by permanent injuries, PTSD and the murder of one of their number.
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Barefoot season
by Susan Mallery
Returning home to Blackberry Island to claim her inheritance and recover from her tour of duty, young Army vet Michelle Sanderson, to save her family's Inn, must form a tentative truce with single mother Carly Williams, whose shocking betrayal years earlier destroyed their friendship.
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The chameleon's shadow
by Minette Walters
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, especially toward women, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings apparently motivated by extreme rage.
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Home
by Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sula presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories.
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
An intimate memoir of growing up in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979 describes her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia, detailing her hardscrabble existence with an alcoholic mother, frequently absent father, and three lost siblings, as well as her fierce love for Africa.
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Some luck
by Jane Smiley
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres follows the triumphs and tragedies of a farm family from post-World War I America through the early 1950s.
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
by Louise Erdrich
Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his wife, leaves to start a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship.
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The Lieutenants
by W. E. B. Griffin
In 1943 Tunisia, Major Robert Bellmon, a tank commander, is captured by German enemies, in a harrowing American saga that views the terrifying and triumphant side of the war through the eyes of one man.
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Finding moon
by Tony Hillerman
In 1975, journalist Moon Mathias ventures into the turmoil of Southeast Asia in search of the child of his recently deceased brother, a quest that takes him from Manila to the Cambodian jungles as he uncovers a dangerous trail of smuggling, intrigue, and possible murder.
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Maisie Dobbs : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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Mudbound : a novel
by Hillary Jordan
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
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Home to Seaview Key
by Sherryl Woods
Rescued by a handsome ex-soldier upon her return to Seaview Key, newly divorced Abby Miller, while trying to mend an old friendship and give back to the community, decides to take a chance on love, which tests her courage in a way she never could have imagined.
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Requiem
by Frances Itani
After spending his youth in an internment camp during World War II, Bin Okuma travels across Canada to find his biological father despite his leaving a devastating legacy in this historical novel from the Commonwealth Writer's Prize-winning author of Deafening.
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The Poppy Lady : Moina Belle Michael and her tribute to veterans
by Barbara Elizabeth Walsh
A first children's work by the daughter of a World War II veteran who knew the subject of this book recounts the story of "Poppy Lady" Moina Belle Michael, a Georgia schoolteacher who worked to establish the red poppy as a commemorative symbol in honor of war veterans, in a title published to raise funds for the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple'.
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We are all the same : a story of a boy's courage and a mother's love
by James T. Wooten
The global battle against the ravages and spread of AIDS is set against the life and death of Nkosi Johnson, a young South African boy who, despite having been born with the ailment, became a dramatic symbol of the struggle against the disease and the strength of the human spirit in the face of tragedy.
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All over but the shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance.
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Last man standing : the tragedy and triumph of Geronimo Pratt
by Jack Olsen
Describes the twenty-seven-year battle to vindicate Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt, a Vietnam veteran and Black Panther Party leader convicted in a trumped-up case of murder, in an intriguing study of government conspiracy and judicial abuse.
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West with the night
by Beryl Markham
Describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic, east to west.
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Not my father's son : a memoir
by Alan Cumming
The acclaimed actor profiles his turbulent relationship with his father and discusses his 2010 appearance in a celebrity genealogy show to solve the disappearance of a WWII hero grandparent and his discovery of astounding family secrets.
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Soldier girls : the battles of three women at home and at war
by Helen Thorpe
Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the realities of their work on bases and in war zones and how their choices and losses shaped their perspectives.
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Exit Wounds : Soldiers' Stories - Life After Iraq and Afghanistan
by Jim Lommasson
This compelling and timely collaboration between photographer/writer Jim Lommasson and American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars presents Lommasson’s portraits and interviews as well as soldiers’ own photographs from the war zones. The stories expressed in words and in images are intimate, profound, and timeless. In their own words, 50 men and women speak their truth about these wars―what they saw and what they did. They talk about the wars’ impact on themselves and on their loved ones at home as well as on the Iraqis and Afghanis caught in the crossfire. They talk about why they went to war and how the war came home with them. Our soldiers need to tell their stories, and we need to listen.
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Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
Tells the gripping true story of a U.S. airman who was the soul surviver when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II and had to face thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. By the #1 best-selling author of Seabiscuit.
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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
by Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.
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The circle of Hanh : a memoir
by Bruce Weigl
Chronicles the author's life by focusing on his experience in the Vietnam War and showing how he has coped with the aftermath by turning to poetry and family.
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Flags of our fathers : Heroes of Iwo Jima
by James Bradley
Focusing on the men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, this stirring chronicle of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II follows the young men--most of them barely out of high school--into the fiercest hand-to-hand combat of the war.
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