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Human experimentation in medicine Fiction Identity Fiction Revenge Fiction United States History 1945-1953 Fiction Veterans Mental health United States War Psychological aspects War Psychological aspects Drama War Psychological aspects Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects Drama Young adult fictionSeahorn, Janet J.
Summary: The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Team Pursuits 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8521 SEAShay, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8521 SHAGriffin, Susan.
Summary: Discusses how private life--family history, childhood experience, gender and sexuality, private aspiration and public image--assume a role in the causes and effects of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.001 GRIDuraffourg, Willy
Summary: "This graphic novel explores the youth of the author of The Lord of the Rings, and his traumatic experience of the battlefields of the First World War, which will forge the imagination of his literary work" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. DURWood, David Bowne
Summary: Most Americans are now familiar with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. It is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 172 WOOPachico, Julianne
Summary: "Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways and whose stories, taken together, provide a lens on the intensity of life in Colombia during the violent years of guerrilla insurgencies and corruption. A teenager hides alone in her family's mansion until she hears a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACBrown, Brian
Summary: "From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian T. Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War" -- From book jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BROCarr, Robyn
Summary: "Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she wants to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport four years ago, then disappeared once their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered. Marcie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CarrSummary: In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERBrennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James)
Summary: "A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BREKorkeakivi, Anne
Summary: Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, Shining Sea quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three-year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the page, the Gannon clan find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, for decades to come. Told with a cinematic sweep, Shining Sea transports us from World War II to the present day, crisscrossing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KORGrossman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROTick, Edward.
Contents: Introduction: a call to the nation -- The war after the war -- The universal warrior -- The war after war -- War wounds us all -- Arena for the soul -- The journey through hell -- The invisible wound today -- Bringing our warriors home -- War trauma and the social contract -- The wound: a holistic understanding -- Wounding and identity -- The transformational journey -- Lessons from the chiefs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Mind TickGreen, Daniel R.
Summary: "Daniel R. Green offers a unique and much-needed perspective on war veterans and the transitions they go through upon returning home, using his own experience following five military and civilian tours of Afghanistan and Iraq"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 GRESoli, Tatjana.
Summary: A story that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSummary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwKorkeakivi, Anne
Summary: When Michael Gannon, war hero and devout Catholic, dies on the front lawn of their yellow house in California in 1962, his wife Barbara and their children must learn to manage without him. They find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, from the beaches of Southern California to the Woodstock rock festival, from London's gritty nightlife to Scotland's remote Inner Hebrides, from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KORMalkasian, Cathy.
Summary: "Do concepts life war and enemies hold a people together? Does conflict have an irresistible cultural momentum? These are the questions the cartoonist Cathy Malkasian explores in Temperance. After a brutal injury sustained in battle, Lester has no memory of his prior life. For the next thirty years his wife does everything to keep him from remembering-- and re-constructing-- a society,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MALPercy, Jennifer.
Summary: A report on the long-lasting effects of war on individual and national psyches shares the experiences of veterans working through post-traumatic stress disorder at a Christian rehabilitation camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.85 PERStern, Jessica
Summary: "Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.6 STESummary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMAudoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2002