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Astronautics United States History Astronauts' spouses Texas Houston Biography Military spouses Military spouses Drama Military spouses Fiction Military spouses United States Biography Résumés (Employment) United States Texas Fiction Widows Fiction Women Texas Houston Social life and customs 20th centurySummary: 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 UNISummary: The team scrambles to make sense of the disintegration of the unit. The unit reunites to rescue Mack and clear their names. Nerve gas is stolen and the team is sent to retrieve it. Jonas tests his daughter's strength and conviction when she decides to enlist. The team deals with a loss and Jonas vows revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: War and romance collide in the sweltering heat and political unrest of 1960's Aden--a port city in today's Yemen--where the British Royal Military Police battle local militia in an intense struggle to control the strategically important port. The officers know only too well that a lapse in luck or judgment risks death. But do they know what their wives are risking at the local country club,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASChapman, Gary D.
Summary: "Marriage is hard enough for the everyday civilian. But imagine marriage when you're separated by thousands of miles. when one of you daily faces the dangers of combat. while the other shoulders all the burden of homefront duties. Add to that unpredictable schedules, frequent moves, and the challenge of reintegration, and it's no wonder military marriages are under stress. Husbands and wives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Pub 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CHASummary: With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MILFallon, 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 FALDallas, Sandra.
Summary: An evocation of the day-to-day life of women in the Civil War era follows Alice, whose husband has left their Iowa farm for the war, as she copes with the farm and lives normally, until suddenly being accused of murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALJacobs, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACWilliams, Kayla
Summary: Documents the author's marriage to a fellow Iraq War veteran, describing the impact of his brain injury on their relationship, their shared efforts to overcome post-traumatic stress, and the lack of support for veterans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 WILLIAMS, KAYLA WILWoodson Harvey, Kristy
Summary: After finding out her military husband is missing in action, Sloane's world crumbles. She can barely climb out of bed, much less summon the strength to be the parent her children deserve. Her mother, Ansley, provides a much-needed respite as she puts her personal life on hold to help Sloane and her grandchildren wade through their new grief-stricken lives. But between caring for her own aging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TOWGillham, David R.
Summary: Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILHenderson, Kristin.
Contents: Welcome to the sisterhood -- The waiting -- Uncle Sam wants you -- Preparing for goodbye -- Green ramp -- The knock at the door -- Connections -- Live from Fallujah -- Different planets -- Honorary sisters -- Dreamland -- Pigeons in the desert -- Hitting the wall -- Peace also takes courage -- Back to green ramp -- The war at home -- The real news -- The terrible relief.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 HENFallon, 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 FALMcCullers, Carson
Summary: A reprint of the 1941 novel about the sad and tragic lives of the Pendertons and the Langdons, two military couples living on an army base in the American South in the 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBrown, Sandra
Summary: The letters Kyla sent to her husband, Sergeant Stroud, stationed a world away, held the young couple together. But when tragedy ended their marriage too soon, Kyla was left a widow with a newborn son. And Richard left behind only a metal box filled with his wife's declarations of love. Returning home from military duty, Trevor Rule carried with him the letters Kyla had sent. And with each one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROHenderson, Artis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HENDERSON, ARTIS HENLondon, Julia.
Summary: Macy Lockhart's life is shattered with the news that her husband Finn, serving in the military overseas, has been killed in the line of duty. While Macy tries to sustain herself with memories of Finn, it is wealthy Wyatt Clark who slowly brings joy back into her life. Macy vows to cherish Wyatt, and their marriage is happy and as solid as a rock-- until the day that Finn, miraculously spared...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LONMcDermott, Alice
Summary: In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer “on loan” to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the “wretchedness” she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina since her husband, Noah Wilcox’s death, nearly five years earlier. With her son Ben turning five and living at home with her mother, Harper fights a growing restlessness, worried that moving on means leaving the memory of her husband behind. Her best friend, Allison Teague, is dealing with struggles of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREGerard, Cindy
Summary: Believing her husband had been killed in action in Afghanistan four years earlier, Jess Albert must let go of the new love in her life and try to heal her physically and emotionally broken husband, who has no memory of their history together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERMarlantes, Karl
Summary: "Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKoppel, Lily.
Summary: "As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with Jackie Kennedy, appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and quickly grew into fashion icons. Annie Glenn, with her picture-perfect marriage, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.45 KOPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.45 KOPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 KOPSummary: Based on Lily Koppel's book, this limited series tells the story of the women who were essential players behind big events in American history. As America's astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, the lives of their young wives were transformed from military spouses to American royalty. As their celebrity rose, and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017