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1) Taxi dancer
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2015, c1985
Language
English
Description
A novel based on an elite corps of jet pilots who flew controversial and highly dangerous bombing raids over North Vietnam. Captain Barney South has flown ninety hazardous missions. He has already used up more than his fair share of luck. With ten more missions to go, he doesn't need the brand of flak he's been getting from the brass, who have more use for dead heroes than live troublemakers. And now they're offering him a long shot the most important...
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Language
English
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Description
"Aaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. He's lost love. Dignity. Second, and even third, chances. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him."--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"For maverick Lapd homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again...
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Series
Virgil Flowers volume 2
Language
English
Description
It is a humid summer night in Minnesota, when Virgil Flowers gets a phone call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found in Stillwater with two shots to the head. The victim has a lemon in its mouth-- exactly like the body they found last week. The more Flowers works the case, the more convinced he becomes that a list is being kept--one that could have a lot of names on it.
5) The berets
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 5
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
They were the chosen ones, and the ones who chose to be the best. Never before had the United States given so select a group of fighting men such punishing preparation. Now they were heading for their ultimate test of skill and nerve, and sacrifice, in a war unlike any they or their country had ever fought before, in a land that most of America still knew nothing about: Vietnam.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Documents the daring March 1970 campaign by the Blackhorse Regiment to rescue an infantry unit that was surrounded and outnumbered by Northern Vietnamese forces, and describes the thirty-year effort to formally commend their bravery.
10) Targeted
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 12
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After being accused of reckless endangerment and forced to answer to the U.S. Congress, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger must protect political hostages in a once-in-a-lifetime standoff"--
Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. What begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked. Swagger, the...
11) I, sniper
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 6
Language
English
Description
Bob Lee Swagger fights to clear the name of a fellow soldier-in-arms and faces off against one of his most ruthless adversaries yet, a sniper whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rivals his own.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain...
13) The orchard
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in non-resistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It happened the way attraction happens best: suddenly, passionately, uncontrollably, and unforgettably. Thousands of feet above the ground on a crowded flight to Washington, D.C., radio personality Keely Williams felt the irresistible pull of handsome congressman Dax Devereaux. They were speaking at the same congressional hearing about Vietnam soldiers listed as MIA. Tragically, Keely's husband was among the missing soldiers.
15) Stay: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks, and one day he veers into the woods. There he discovers an isolated cabin and two huge dogs. Frightened, he runs. And the dogs...
16) The Post
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
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