Keenan, Sheila

Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KEE

Straley, John

Summary: "Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War is at its height, and multiple assassinations have gripped the country. But some things remain the same. Ellie's bar is still the place to catch up on the town gossip, and there's a lot to talk about, from the boys who have returned from the war...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2022

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

McDermott, Alice

Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MCD

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NGU

Mailer, Norman.

Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAI

Heywood, Joe T.

Summary: A fictional account of the air war through the eyes of Captain Barney South, the first Flying Ace of the Vietnam War. After having flown more than 90 hazardous missions, he is being offered the most important mission of the war, they say--although Barney is convinced he's being set up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hey