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Memorial Day surprise

2004
When Marco attends a Memorial Day parade, he is surprised to see a familiar face among veterans.

America after Vietnam

legacies of a hated war
1989
Examines the physical, emotional, and social effects of the Vietnamese War on those who survived it, both the veterans and the refugees who came to America.

Veterans Day

2011
Introduces readers to what it means to celebrate Veterans Day, and shows them why this holiday is so special.

The car

2006
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.

The Orange Houses

2009
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

Heroes

a novel
1998
After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.

The impossible knife of memory

Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try to live a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy them both.

Ordinary heroes

2005
Retired newspaperman Stewart Dubinsky discovers a packet of his father's World War II letters and papers that reveal a secret life his family never knew of, including an fiancee and an involvement with a former war spy.

Temptation Ridge

2009
Shelby McIntyre is ready to experience adventure and find the man of her dreams after caring for her terminally-ill mother for so many years, but when she visits Virgin River, she finds herself falling for the rugged and jaded Luke Riordan, an ex-Army pilot who is nothing like the man she had in mind.

In conflict

Iraq War veterans speak out on duty, loss, and the fight to stay alive
2006
Presents the stories of twenty-five American veterans of the Iraq War, providing a variety of perspectives on the controversial conflict.

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