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Sports and games, War, Disabilities
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"The National Veterans Golden Age Games (NVGAG) encourages Veterans age 55 and over, enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs…
(VA), to make physical activity a central part of their lives and support VA's comprehensive recreation and rehabilitation therapy programs. It is a national showcase for the preventive and therapeutic value of sports, fitness, and recreation for all older Americans. The following qualifying procedures and rules of competition for the 2025 National Veterans Golden Age Games are based upon those set forth by the recognized National Governing Body (NGB) for each sport. In the best interest of the athletes, modifications, and variances of these rules and regulations are permitted as outlined in the rulebook." -- Provided by publisher
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War, History, European history, Police and military, World War II, Asian history
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Some violence and some strong language
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War, Women biography, Biography, Science and technology
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Praised by the Daily Oklahoman as "touching and entertaining," Rob Simbeck's biography of Cornelia Fort is wonderfully evocative and moving.…
Like Beryl Markham's and Amelia Earhart's, Cornelia Fort's daring life as a pilot was both inspiring and groundbreaking. Raised on her parents' Nashville estate and educated at a prestigious finishing school, Fort rejected the role expected of her in society to become a pilot. A member of the first women's flight squadron and one of the few to witness the bombing of Pearl Harbor from the air, she persevered in her courageous career, as one of the war's first female pilots, despite rampant prejudice toward women. Selling out just six weeks after its first printing, Daughter of the Air interweaves Cornelia Fort's own eloquent letters and diaries, historical documents, and the interviews of those who knew and flew with her, to create a vivid portrait of an infinitely courageous woman. It both tells Cornelia's remarkable story -- a life shaped by bravery, intelligence, and charm -- and describes the era's political and social atmosphere. --Goodreads Adult. Some strong language
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War, Women biography, History
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The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at…
the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed. Some violence
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War, History, War and military biography, Historical biography, Police and military, World War II
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"In this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American…
GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco--farm boy from Alabama who was flung into the chaos of Normandy and survived the terrors of the Bulge. As part of the 92nd Signal Battalion and Patton's famed Third Army, Joe and his buddies found themselves at the forefront of the Allied push through France and Germany. After more than a year of fighting, but still only twenty years old, Joe had become a hardened veteran. Yet nothing could have prepared him and his unit for the horrors behind the walls of Germany's infamous Dachau concentration camp. They were among the first 250 American troops into the camp, and it was there that they finally grasped the significance of the Allied mission...." -- Provided by publisher
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War, Biography, Journals and memoirs, Police and military, Historical biography, World War II, Arts and entertainment, Writing
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A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during…
World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters they were in French but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel's letters translated. Reading words of love combined with testimony of survival inside a labor camp transformed Carolyn's curiosity into an obsession to find out whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war
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War, United States history, Police and military, Social issues
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The epic history of America's most controversial weapon. Reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to…
ubiquity. How did the same gun represent the essence of freedom to millions of Americans and the essence of evil to millions more? To answer this question, McWhirter and Elinson follow Stoner the American Kalashnikov as he struggled mightily to win support for his invention, which under the name M16 would become standard equipment in Vietnam. Shunned by gun owners at first, the rifle's popularity would take off thanks to a renegade band of small-time gun makers. And in the 2000s, it would become the weapon of choice for mass shooters, prompting widespread calls for proscription even as the gun industry embraced it as a financial savior. Writing with fairness and compassion, McWhirter and Elinson explore America's gun culture, revealing the deep appeal of the AR-15, the awful havoc it wreaks, and the politics of reducing its toll. The result is a moral history of contemporary America's love affair with technology, freedom, and weaponry
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Adventure storiesWar, Police and military, Historical biography, General non-fiction
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Young readers are in for the most exciting trip of their lives as they venture into a nuclear submarine! While…
touring the vessel from bow to stern, they learn about the history and mechanics of subs, their military and scientific uses, and the incredible discomfort and danger of life onboard. For grades 2-4
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Animals and wildlife, War, Police and military
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For more than five thousand years, people all over the world have worked with pigeons to send and receive important…
messages. These birds carried weather reports in ancient Egypt, letters between Mongolian warriors in the 1200s, news in nineteenth-century Europe, and more. Homing pigeons became especially important during World Wars I and II. From famous pigeons such as Cher Ami and GI Joe to lesser-known birds such as No. 48, these avian heroes were crucial to war communications. They carried messages between officers and soldiers when phone, radio, or telegraph lines were cut or officers needed to send top secret communications, transporting vital information across great distances. Homing pigeons, like human heroes, received awards and medals for their service. In fact, pigeons earned the most medals of any animal for their services during these conflicts. Discover how pigeons were domesticated and trained for use in military conflicts, learn about some of their most daring flights, and explore how pigeons and humans continue to work together. For junior and senior high readers
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War, United States history
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Missouri ranks third in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil. Although some sizable actions were fought…
in the state, most of the battles were the result of the intense guerrilla activity. These battles are only the actions reported by Federal troops against the guerrillas. The attacks on civilians were equally as numerous. Adult. Violence
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Biography, War, Religion
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"He Leadeth Me is a deeply personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him…
to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer'a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the "arrogance of evil" that surrounded him. Learning to accept even the inhuman work of toiling in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit. He Leadeth Me is a book to inspire all Christians to greater faith and trust in God'even in their darkest hour. For, as the author asks, "What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will'"" -- WorldCat
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War, United States history, Biography
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The accounts described within Show-Me Veterans help to inspire an acknowledgment and appreciate of all veterans who have served Missouri…
and the United States. No single work can fully capture the bravery and sacrifices of our state's military heroes, but this compilation provides an introduction to the lives of those who have gone forth into harm's way. Adult
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History, War, United States history, Police and military
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Covering topics from print journalism, activism, nuclear testing, and science and education to health physics, environmental cleanup, and kitsch, essays…
collected from the Hanford History Project s March 2017 conference along with additional new research illuminate facets of the Manhattan Project earlier scholars left unexplored and demonstrate how its legacy lives on. Adult. Unrated
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United States history, War
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In These Honored Dead, readers will learn about hundreds of men and women who served their country from the Mexican-American…
War through the Global War on Terror as soldiers, sailors, nurses, airmen and marines
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United States history, Politics and government biography, War, Police and military
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Find out how this one-time American hero became the country's most notorious traitor. As a young child, Benedict Arnold never…
shied away from a fight. So when the French and Indian War began in 1754, Benedict was eager to join the militia and fight for the British colonies in America. And when he was eighteen years old, he got his chance. Arnold had no idea that less than twenty years later, he would be fighting against the British in the Revolutionary War. Now the captain of his own militia, Benedict won the admiration of his troops and George Washington when he captured a major British fort. He continued fighting for the colonies and was even considered a patriotic war hero after being wounded in battle. But in 1780, Benedict made a decision that no one could anticipate. He betrayed his fellow Americans and joined the British army. Author James Buckley Jr. takes us through Benedict's life and explains the events that led him to switch sides and become the most famous turncoat in American history
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United States history, War
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Richard M. Ketchum explores the fractured society of Revolutionary-era New York, where political, religious, and economic tensions forced individuals to…
choose between allegiance to Britain or the American cause. Through vivid storytelling and detailed historical insight, Ketchum reveals how the war's upheaval tore families and communities apart in the struggle for independence. 2003. Adult
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United States history, Biography, Social issues, Reference, Police and military, World War II, War, Poetry, History, Family and relationships, Historical biography
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Merging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American…
family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Americans who lived in the North versus the slaves who lived in the South. Lucy Terry, a devoted wife and mother, was the first known African-American poet and Abijah Prince, her husband, was a veteran of the French and Indian wars and an entrepreneur. Together they pursued what would become the cornerstone of the American dream having a family and owning property where they could live, grow, and prosper. Owning land in both Vermont and Massachusetts, they were well on their way to settling in when bigoted neighbors tried to run them off. Rather than fleeing, they asserted their rights, as they would do many times, in court. Here is a story that not only demonstrates the contours of slavery in New England but also unravels the most complete history of a pre-Civil War black family known to exist. Illuminating and inspiring, Mr. and Mrs. Prince uncovers the lives of those who could have been forgotten and brings to light a history that has intrigued but eluded many until now. Adult. Unrated
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War, Police and military
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Marseilles, France....August, 1940 The Gestapo's blacklist was thousands of names long... How many people could he get out before Hitler…
sealed the frontiers? Varian Fry didn't know any more about being an undercover agent than what he'd seen in the movies. But, he was the one man who could get into Vichy France, where thousands of people had fled Hitler's Germany. Unless he could get them out, they'd be trapped-turned back to the concentration camps and death camps. An exciting, true story of World War II - Varian Fry describes the methods he used to get thousands of hunted men and women to safety. Adult. Unrated
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United States history, Politics and government, War
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This riveting volume outlines the techniques employed by both Union and Confederate naval forces as they engaged in some of…
the fiercest sea battles of the Civil War. - Library Annotation Adult
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History, Biography, Politics and government, European history, War, Historical biography, Police and military, Social issues
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"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old…
Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, here is Phil Hoose's inspiring story of these young war heroes"-- Provided by publisher