Celebrating National Veterans and Military Families Month!

Updated October 24, 2025
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Be safe, love mom : a military mom's stories of courage, comfort, and surviving life on the home front
Brye, Elaine Lowry.
Paper Book
When you enlist in the United States military, you don't just sign up for duty; you also commit your loved ones to lives of service all their own. No one knows this better than Elaine Brye, an "Army brat" turned military wife and the mother of four officers--one each in the Army,...
The league of wives : the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home
Lee, Heath Hardage
Paper Book
The guardian
Hood, Joshua
Paper Book
From the USA Today bestselling author of Robert Ludlum's Treadstone series, The Guardian is an action-packed adventure with a hint of romance that's perfect for fans of Extraction and Romancing the Stone. When a retired Air Force PJ with nothing to lose is hired to rescue a kidnapped...
Half American the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad
Delmont, Matthew F.
Paper Book
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in...
Soldiers don't go mad a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Glass, Charles, 1951- author.
Paper Book
The #1 Amazon UK bestseller in War Poetry A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the...
Three wise men a Navy Seal, a Green Beret, and how their Marine brother became a war's sole survivor
Wise, Beau, 1984- author.
Paper Book
From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat--becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by...
Switchboard soldiers a novel
Chiaverini, Jennifer
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I--the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to...
A soldier's quartet
Baldwin, Colin
Paper Book
CONRAD BENTLEY ENJOYS HIS RETIREMENT. By chance, he comes across a letter from WWI - a German father writes about his grief of losing a son to war - buried by his three comrades near a small French village. The letter resonates with Conrad and he commits to researching its backstory.
Finding Jack
Crocker, Gareth.
Paper Book
When the war ends, how do you leave your best friend behind?After losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson joins the flagging war effort in Vietnam. Deeply depressed, he plans to die in the war. But during one of his early missions, Fletcher rescues a...
The wives a memoir
Gorrindo, Simone
Paper Book
"[Simone] Gorrindo's prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir." --The New York Times Book Review "A hopeful, unifying memoir." --People This profoundly intimate memoir about...

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