Celebrating National Veterans and Military Families Month!

Updated October 24, 2025
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Celebrating National Veterans and Military Families Month!

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For love of country : what our veterans can teach us about citizenship, heroism, and sacrifice
Schultz, Howard.
Paper Book
A celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Because so few of us now serve in the military, our men and women in uniform have become strangers...
Section 60 : Arlington National Cemetery : where war comes home
Poole, Robert M.
Paper Book
Gifted writer and reporter Robert Poole opensSection 60: Arlington National Cemeterywith preparations for Memorial Day when thousands of families come to visit those buried in the 624-acre cemetery, legions of Rolling Thunder motorcyclists patrol the streets with fluttering POW flags, and...
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
"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story -- a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge...
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...
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...
Sacred duty a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Cotton, Tom
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A moving, reverent history--a tribute, really--to 'The Old Guard' ... An ode to excellence and caring in service to the nation. It is an inspiring read for every American." -- ROBERT M. GATES An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National...
Band of giants the amateur soldiers who won America's independence
Kelly, Jack, 1949- author.
Paper Book
Band of Giantsbrings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were...
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...
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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