Thrasher, Travis

Summary: "Darren and Heather Turner share a passion for serving God, family and country. When Darren is deployed to Iraq as an army chaplain, Heather vows to serve military families back home as she cares for the couple's three young children. Darren knows he's overseas to support the troops in their suffering as their chaplain. What he doesn't know is how he will get through his own dark moments. And...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION THR

Hickey, Caroline

Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIC

Littman, Sarah

Summary: Life has suddenly turned chaotic for high school student Stella since her brother, Rob, got home from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan: her school is on edge with ethnic tensions and her brother seems to be suffering from post-traumatic stress but will not talk about it. But when Rob's anger finally spirals out of control, Stella realizes she has to find the courage to take a stand...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIT

Krivak, Andrew

Summary: Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century. After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRI

Eason, Lynette

Summary: "FBI Special Agent Caden Denning is part of the task force assigned to catch a serial killer targeting military families-only he needs Ava Jackson's help to do so. When the killer turns his sights on Ava, the investigation turns into a fight to survive"--"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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

Fallon, Siobhan.

Summary: A collection of interconnected stories relate the experiences of Fort Hood military wives who share a poignant vigil during which they raise children while waiting for their husbands to return.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAL

Fallon, Siobhan.

Summary: A collection of interconnected stories relates the experiences of Fort Hood military wives who share a poignant vigil during which they raise children while waiting for their husbands to return.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2011

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FAL

Grossman, David.

Summary: Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. She sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Shotz, Jennifer Li

Summary: "Hero, a retired search-and-rescue dog, is not prepared for a stray puppy to come into his life. But when he and twelve-year-old Ben find Scout injured and afraid, the new addition leads them down an unexpected and dangerous path. When Scout goes missing, it's up to Hero to use his search-and-rescue skills to find Scout and bring him home.Get ready for a canine adventure full of danger,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Shotz 2016

Jacks, Janie

Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Macomber, Debbie.

Summary: While working in the toy department of a family-run department store in New York City, Mrs. Miracle seizes the opportunity to connect Holly, who is searching for the perfect robot for her nephew, with Jake, the store owner's son.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Vanderbes, Jennifer

Summary: 1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted brother and then discovers that he's been reported missing in action, she lies about her age and travels to the front lines as an army nurse, determined to find him. Shy and awkward, Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, a sprawling encampment north of Rome where she forges new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Harrington, Claudia

Summary: Lenny follows Connor for a school project and learns about his life with a military mom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HAR

Korman, Gordon

Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KOR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KOR

Summary: Risking their lives on deadly undercover missions around the globe, the Unit is a highly skilled, ultra-secret contingent of special forces soldiers operating outside the traditional chain of military command. The hunters become the hunted as the team and their families are targeted by a deadly and far-reaching conspiracy forcing them to relocate and assume new identities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNI