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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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When her father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally,...
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Series
Language
English
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The story of a South Vietnamese captain -- a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America -- who returns to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers receives a phone call notifying him another body has been found shot and the victim has a lemon in his mouth, the same as the body found the week before. Two bodies in two weeks, Flowers must find the killer before he's sorry.
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"This film documents the Vietnam War in the words of Americans who served there. It features home movies and rare archival footage collected during a worldwide search and now presented in high definition. Many scenes are graphic in nature and viewer discretion is advised." -- Container.
6) The orchard
Author
Language
English
Description
"For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in nonresistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens...
8) Danger close
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
August 18, 1966, South Vietnam: for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fight for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,000 battle-hardened Viet Cong. With their ammunition running out, each man begins to search for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Formats
Description
Inspired by the true story known as the Mekong Massacre. Two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle, one of the largest drug-manufacturing regions in the world. Thirteen sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are recovered at the scene.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Examines the decisions made between 1963 and 1965 in regards to escalating United States involvement in the Vietnam War and looks at how early mistakes in policy formation were constantly repeated throughout the Johnson administration.
Author
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Controlling Ash in jail isn't working--amid the abuse he's receiving, he's managed to get info to his allies in Chinatown and has hooked up with Max Lobo, another survivor of his brother's unit. When he gets out, he's headed for bigger trouble--when he confronts both Papa Dino and his real father.
14) The Vietnam War
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A combination of archival photos and voice-overs reading letters, diaries, and documents telling the story of the Vietnam War from beginning to end.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
16) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to...
17) Spider bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
When Temperance Brennan is called to investigate the death of a man who drowned in the midst of a bizarre sex act, she knows the case will be anything but ordinary. However, when the victim is identified as John Lowery, a man who was reportedly killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam over 40 years ago, Tempe sets off to Hawaii to find some answers. There, Tempe is given another case when the body of a young boy washes ashore and appears to be the...
18) Walking wounded
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
19) Platoon
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A grunt's view of the Vietnam War is provided in all its horrific, inexplicable detail. Bonus features included.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This New York Times bestseller details the author's life story-from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate. Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Includes a new introduction by the author.
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