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From its beginning as a Tidewater town in the 1600s, Hampton, Virginia, has weathered many storms, including the disastrous effects of the Civil War and the difficulties of Reconstruction. The city's picturesque harbors have witnessed the rise of a thriving seafood industry, the growth of educational opportunity and the plight of Hampton's African American community. Author Alice Erickson uses her own family, the Hickman family, as a vehicle to unite...
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An intersection of three inseparable features of military life: stories, family, and food.
Food brings families and friends together, providing not only nourishment for our bodies, but also the glue that holds our families and society together. It is around the dinner table that we interact and important announcements are made-it was chow time in the foxholes when soldiers came to know each other, forming bonds so strong they would risk their own...
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IL: MG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1915, the United States experienced the 9/11 of its time. A German torpedo sank the Lusitania killing nearly 2,000 innocent passengers. The ensuing hysteria helped draw the United States into World War I-the bitter, brutal conflict that became known as the Great War and the War to End All Wars. But as U.S. troops fought to make the world safe for democracy abroad, our own government eroded freedoms at home, especially for German-Americans. Free...
44) Homefront
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An action-packed thriller about how far one man will go to protect his family. Widowed ex-DEA agent Phil Broker retires to a quiet Southern town with his ten-year-old daughter and discovers that the idyllic setting is riddled with drugs and violence. When a riveting chain of events forces him to face off with psychotic local drug lord Gator Bodine, Broker must retaliate using the fearsome skills he hoped to keep in his past.
47) Come Home To Me
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"A perfect snowed in second chance romance!" ~ Goodreads reviewPreviously published as ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOUFrom USA Today Bestselling author Jessica Scott comes an all new novella about a woman who came back from war changed and the man who loves her enough not to let her go.All Major Patrick MacLean wanted was Christmas with the woman and child who were his family in everything but name. But Captain Samantha Egan has come back from the...
48) Last One Home
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Captain Sal Bello wants nothing more than to train his men for their upcoming deployment. But life at home is far more complicated for many of his men and Sal doesn't know how to stop the unraveling within his formation. First Sergeant Holly Washington has been baptized by fire and come out steel. She knows how to lead soldiers in combat and bring them safely home. But she's not prepared for the strain she finds in her soldiers and the weight carried...
49) After the War
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A terrible loss…Captain Sarah Anders lost her husband to the war and has nearly lost the career she loves. Sent to Fort Hood, she only wants to do her job and take care of the daughter she's raising on her own. She never counted on running straight into a memory she'd tried to forget. A love he never forgot...Captain Sean Nichols never got over Sarah. He simply tried to forget her amidst the war and the chaos of combat. But when she's assigned to...
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June, 1943 Betty Ahern isn't a novice PI anymore. After solving several dangerous cases, she is hired for what she hopes will be simpler one. A soldier home from Europe on medical furlough wants her to find his birth mother. Left at a church and raised an orphan at Father Baker's Home for Boys, his only clue is a silver St. Christopher medal with a French inscription on the back.
Betty tracks down the unmarried daughter of a wealthy businessman...
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November 1942. Betty Ahern is doing her part for the war, working at Bell Aircraft while her older brother and fiancé are fighting overseas, but she really wants to be a private detective like her movie idol Sam Spade. When sabotage comes to the plant, and a suspected co-worker hires her to clear her name, Betty sees it as her big chance.
As her questions take her into Buffalo's German neighborhood, Kaisertown, Betty finds herself digging into a...
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March 1943. As the Buffalo winter ends, the father of Betty Ahern's friend, Lee Tillotson, disappears. At first his absence is a relief, providing Lee, his mother and sisters refuge from the man's frequent drunken rages. But when Mr. Tillotson is discovered drowned in the Buffalo River and the police charge Lee with the murder, the family's newfound peace shatters.
Worse, Lee becomes secretive and unwilling to cooperate with Betty or the police....
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May 1943. Betty Ahern is studying for her private investigator's license when a new client-Edward Kettle-hires her to clear his name after he was dismissed from his job at the American Shipbuilding Company. When Edward is brutally murdered, the dead man's sister hires Betty to finish the original job and find the killer.
The job hurls Betty back into the world of wartime espionage, but with a twist: Edward Kettle was a homosexual. Did he know...
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Life is about to change for Lieutenant Jack Falcone.Stationed at the U.S. Naval Academy, Jack has just learned he's headed back to the SEALs as an Anti-Submarine Warfare Expert. He's got six weeks left in Annapolis... six weeks to convince Maeve that some pasts are worth revisiting.How can she resist?When Maeve said good-bye to Jack eight years ago after a weekend fling, she never expected he'd return to her life, and wind up the best man in the wedding...
55) More, Please
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I know exactly what I want. And it has nothing to do with the hot Navy SEAL I picked up in a bar.Really... it doesn't.Even though the pressure of his lips on mine fires me like a hot kiln, and the feel of his ripped chest beneath my hungry fingertips...Wait... I'm digressing. Focus, Allie.Since graduating from college, I've been juggling two jobs while fostering abandoned dogs, with my sights set on opening a rescue kennel. I'll do whatever it takes...
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Editor-in-chief Irene Ingram pencils in her newest mystery in Joyce St. Anthony's second captivating Homefront News mystery, perfect for fans of Anne Perry and Rhys Bowen. As World War II rages in Europe and the Pacific, the small town of Progress is doing its part for the soldiers in the field with a war bond drive at the annual county fair. Town gossip Ava Dempsey rumors that Clark Gable will be among the participating stars. Instead of Gable, the...
57) Faking It
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FUBAR.The day my life fell apart, I was introduced to this term. It's comforting to know there's one word that completely defines my life.Go ahead. Look it up.And right next to the term, you might see a picture of me as the example, sweltering in a 40-pound princess gown in front of my castle beside a kiddie coaster …… and flanked by the sexiest piece of man candy that ever walked this earth: Dylan Sheridan.The same Dylan Sheridan who's an Olympic...
58) SEAL the Deal
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In the postcard-perfect seaside town of Annapolis, Maryland, the bestselling romance series begins…Lieutenant Commander Mick Riley, a member of the fabled SEAL Team Six, can't pull his eyes from Lacey Owens. Yet she is the type of woman he wants to avoid – the kind that gets him thinking about settling down, spawning kids, and finding lower-mortality employment.Lacey has her own reasons for avoiding Mick. Tired of living in the shadow of her financial...
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"It's not him. It can't be him..."24-year-old Bess Foster has a three-year-old daughter she cherishes... friends she adores... and an Army Ranger she's been fantasizing about for nearly four years.But she also has a past that haunts her: an abusive ex-boyfriend she fled to protect her child. She thought she was free of him... till she saw his face again.Sharing a house with a single mom and a preschooler might not sound like the best fit for an Army...
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Some contracts are meant to be broken...Desperate to shake herself free from the humiliation of a very public divorce, TV financial correspondent Vi Owens makes a deal with a Navy SEAL Commander who can wipe her slate clean:One date in the public eye. One night of unrivaled temptation. No strings attached.Just weeks before he deploys, Captain Joe Shey can't resist the intriguing offer from the sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. As Commander of the Teams...
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