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By Charles Higham. 1984
By Mary Jennings Hegar. 2017
An Air National Guard officer describes her experiences after being shot down on a Medevac mission in Afghanistan, and her…
efforts to convince the U.S. government to allow women to serve openly on the front lines. 2017.By C. W Seymore. 2013
"Were you ever raped?" That question was the catalyst to what you are now about to experience in revisiting my…
most vivid memories of childhood abuse. How I endured, coped, survived and healed from my past. This journey is one of pain, terror and an emotional roller coaster, but it is also a story of faith, resilience, hope, forgiveness and the magnificent blessing of healing and thriving. 2013.By Alex Henshaw. 1999
Sequal to 'The flight of the Mew Gull'. Alex Henshaw, after his success in races and record flights in the…
1930's asked for something useful to do in 1939, and fairly soon found himself assisting the chief test pilot at the vast Castle Bromwich factory where Spitfires were built for 6 years, and where he and his fellows flew over 37,000 flights in nearly 13,000 aircraft, often in unspeakable conditions.1999.By Elaine Kalman Naves. 2003
At the end of the Second World War, a survivor of Auschwitz, her husband and most of her family dead,…
makes her way home to Hungary. After giving birth to another man's child, her husband returns home, forcing her to make a choice that will cloud her life, and her daughter's, forever. The author is the daughter who grew up with the consequences of that decision, and who was raised on family stories that were both a burden and a gift. Their inescapable message of lost love and lost lives create a resentful divide between mother and daughter, until they finally lead to acceptance and reconciliation. Some descriptions of sex, and descriptions of violence. 2003.By Philip Norman. 1981
From the early days as ruffian teens riding the skiffle wave in the port town of Liverpool to presiding over…
the rise (and fall) of a global entertainment empire, Norman details the history of the Beatles, became one of the most famous bands in the world. 1981.Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.By Alexandra Fuller. 2004
"Scribbling the Cat" chronicles Fuller's journey through Africa's war-torn history with a battle-scarred veteran of the Rhodesian war. What emerges…
is a gripping portrait of men who struggle every day with the sins they cannot forget. 2004.By Jimmy McDonough. 2002
Life and times of rock musician Neil Young, who was born in Canada in 1945 and developed both polio and…
epilepsy as a child. Focuses on the years between 1966 and 1979, when the songwriter-guitarist worked with such influential bands as Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Explicit strong language. c2002.By Peter Goddard, Philip Kamin. 1989
By Donald Hall. 1987
By Adolf Hungry Wolf, Beverly Hungry Wolf. 1983
The true story of a man and his Indian wife who are determined to cross cultural barriers and return to…
the old ways of the Blackfoot Indian tribe. Presents vivid portraits of elder Indians, traditional ceremonies, and life among people who are holding on to their past. 1983.By Marcus Luttrell, James D Hornfischer. 2012
Following the account of his tour in Afghanistan in “Lone Survivor”, Navy SEAL Luttrell recounts his deployment to Ramadi, Iraq.…
He reflects on the sacrifices servicemen and women make for their family, country, and freedom. Sequel to “Lone Survivor”. c2012.By Dawn Rae Downton. 2002
Sidney Wiseman, a prosperous skipper, and Ethel Wellon, a former teacher, were married on the Newfoundland outport of Seldom in…
1922 and had six children; Marion was their third. When Sidney was home from the sea, he would lie on the daybed, waiting for a chance to strike out at the family, and no one in the community seemed to know. 2002.By Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner. 1971
Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner tells of a Jewish childhood ravaged by Nazis, and of her own shocked witness to the total destruction…
of her family - even as she miraculously escaped the same fate. The story of a girl who was picked out from thousands of condemned people and selected to live. 1971.By Woody Guthrie. 1976
Autobiography that mixes fact and fantasy of the legendary writer of folk songs and his search for a lost silver…
and gold mine in the big bend country of southern Texas. c1976.By Charles Osborne. 1985
By Pamela S Turner. 2016
When Minamoto Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family - and lost.…
His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai. When the time came for the Minamoto clan to rise up against their enemies, Yoshitsune answered the call. His daring feats and impossible bravery earned him immortality. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.By Andrew Loog Oldham, Nikola Acin. 2006
Manager des Rolling Stones de 1963 à 1967, l'auteur retrace les débuts du groupe de rock : rencontre dans la…
petite boîte londonienne du Crawdaddy, création de l'image de voyous sexy du groupe, premières compositions originales, succès de la chanson '(I can't get no) Satisfaction'. Descriptions explicites de nature sexuelle, beaucoup de langage grossier, et quelques descriptions de violence. 2006. Titre uniforme: Stoned/2 Stoned.By Jessica Kluthe, Linda Goyette. 2013
Between 1870 and 1970, millions of Italians left their homeland and traveled to places like Canada, Australia and the United…
States, in search of work. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina Russo. She was the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Rosina had to say farewell, one by one, to the persons she loved the most. c2013.