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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Ha̐ng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. In a split second, Linh is ripped from her arms--and Ha̐ng is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Ha̐ng has made the brutal journey from Việt Nam and is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesn't know how she will find the little brother who was taken from her until she meets LeeRoy, a city...
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
4) The Women
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Language
English
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...
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Language
English
Description
"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...
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English
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In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive
7) Absolution
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
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"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
10) The sympathizer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of a South Vietnamese captain--a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America--who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
11) Walking wounded
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
12) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. Now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Now, for the first time, Ivan is forced to question what he's really...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates the murder of a Vietnamese woman and discovers a homeless Crow Indian living in a culvert with the woman's purse, which contains a photograph that reminds him of his past as a Marine investigator in Vietnam.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Vietnam War, Brian Holcomb, an ambitious young naval officer, discovers serious problems aboard the guided missile ship on which he is serving--problems which make the ship vulnerable to a potentially deadly air assault by the North Vietnamese, and which her captain seems unwilling or unable to address.
17) Sons of fortune
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Fraternal twins Nat and Fletcher, separated at birth in 1940s Connecticut, follow different paths to success until they finally meet and realize their connection while running against each other for governor of Connecticut.
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Series
Language
English
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President Jake Cazalet no sooner learns that he has a daughter--the product of an affair he had while in Vietnam--than the girl is kidnapped by men whose demands leave Jake no recourse but to turn to former IRA enforcer and security specialist Sean Dillon and FBI agent Blake Johnson for help.
19) Four blind mice
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Series
Language
English
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Detective Alex Cross, intending to resign from the Washington D.C. Police Force, agrees to take on one more case when his friend and partner John Sampson asks for his help in clearing an old Vietnam buddy who has been framed for the murders of three women.
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