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Author
Language
English
Description
Former military policeman Major Jack Reacher goes to the rescue of a 30-year-old woman lawyer he last saw when she was 15. She is the daughter of Reacher's late commanding officer and some nasty land swindlers want her dead. By the author of Die Trying.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
260 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, though, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those are their roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last...
Author
Language
English
Description
I met a man, a wonderful man. He kissed me, touched me like no other man ever has. I think I've fallen in love. What am I going to do about it? That's the dilemma confronting Keely Preston upon meeting dashing Congressman Dax Devereaux. The attraction between them was like a lightning strike - hot and unexpected. But also terribly inconvenient. Keely is in Washington D.C. to appeal to a congressional committee on behalf of families of soldiers...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of south-east Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is taking a trip through hell. Saigon is teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flight is about to make her life even hotter still." -- Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"I live in a coastal town in the deep south of the Mekong Delta. During the war this was IV Corps, which saw many savage fights. Although the battles might have long been forgotten, some places cannot forget." Thus begins the harrowing yet poignant story of a North Vietnamese communist defector who spends ten years in a far-flung reform prison after the war, and now, in 1987, a free man again, finds work as caretaker at a roadside inn in the U Minh...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As the director of the Department of the Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey has made a career solving some of the country's most complex identification cases. The CIL is responsible for identifying all U.S. war dead from battlefields old and new around the world. But after fifteen years at the CIL, Kel is fast approaching emotional meltdown. And that's when he encounters his thorniest case yet: the recovery of Jimmie...