veterans

The author shares his life and his role as a decorated medic during World War II. Exploring his actions that saved many soldiers on D-Day.

A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.

"A picture book biography of Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 presidential election hopeful."--.

"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect new identity lined up and a scrupulously orchestrated, flawless escape plan. And then something happens that changes everything for Billy. A stranger needs rescuing, and Billy sacrifices the safety of his own perfectly devised new life to offer her protection. And then the two of them-the most compelling and surprising duo in King fiction-set out on one last mission, to rectify the injustices of one extraordinarily evil man"--Provided by publisher.

Maisie Dobbs, a one-time maid who was encouraged by her employer to seek an education, becomes a private investigator after serving at the front as a nurse during World War I, but her first case brings back disturbing memories of the war when her inquiries lead her to The Retreat, a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers from which no one ever seems to emerge.

Handsome, wealthy Princeton student Amory Blaine's experiences with love, loss, and war, lead him to self-realization in the World War I era.

Having lost access to the old railroad station where they had been staying, homeless Ian and his father move into an unused city courthouse and try to avoid being discovered by the authorities.

Marine Rob Kugler recalls how he had to get his dog Bella amputated due to cancer and how, uncertain whether the cancer would go into remission, they went on a road trip.