Book Display Archive
November 11, 2006
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
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Bitterroot |
Dream Baby |
Time to Hunt |
To Have and To Hold |
Bitterroot
Burke, James Lee. (2001). Bitterroot. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Descriptor Keywords
Holland, Billy Bob (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Private investigators -- Montana -- Fiction.
Genre
Mystery
Geographic Keywords
Montana -- Fiction.
Summary
Ex-Texas Rangers are suckers for old friends in distress, so when Vietnam vet and recent widower Doc Voss calls lawyer Billy Bob Holland from Montana with an apparently innocent invitation to visit, Billy Bob packs up and "head[s] north with creel and fly rod in the foolish hope that somehow my own ghosts did not cross state lines." Doc has managed to alienate everyone in town, including mining interests on the Blackfoot River; a drug-running biker gang; an enclave of white supremacists, led by slimy Carl Hinkel; the local mob connection, in the person of an even slimier Nicki Molinari; and the feds, who don't want anything interfering with their pursuit of both Hinkel and Molinari. After a murder is committed in a particularly nasty fashion, Holland must try to clear his friend of suspicion. As he ferrets through a tangled web of coincidence and connection, Holland risks losing everything and everyone dear to him.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com
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Dream Baby
McAllister, Bruce. (1989). Dream baby (1st ed.). New York: T. Doherty Associates.
Descriptor Keywords
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Prophecies (Occultism) -- Fiction.
Genre
Science fiction
War stories
Geographic Keywords
Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Summary
After enlisting in the Army as a nurse, young Mary Damico develops a "talent" for dreaming about the future, a device that allows the author to portray the Vietnam War with unforgettable power. Her ability to "see" the soldiers who will be her patients before they in fact are wounded proves devastating to Mary, but not to Col. John Bucannon, who is heading up a CIA experiment to determine the potential of such psychic gifts in warfare. Accordingly, Bucannon has Mary transferred from Cam Rahn Bay to his Central Highlands camp, where many similar "talents" are assembled. Bucannon assigns them dangerous missions to test the accuracy of Mary's dreams. His plans lead to an astounding operation: he sends Mary, her friend and lover Lt. Steve Balsam, mind-reading Captain Kelly and teenaged Corporal Cooper, who "reads" what his German shepherd senses, into North Vietnam. There they are to ferret out plastic explosives hidden by the French in a cave, and use them to blow up the Red River dike. Bucannon's real purpose is not revealed until the first part of a surreal, two-part ending. Masterful interior monologues that yield eerie, tingling tension make this terrifying novel one of the most memorable chronicles of the Vietnam war.-- Review from http://www.amazon.com
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Time to Hunt
Hunter, Stephen. (1998). Time to hunt (1st ed.). New York: Doubleday.
Descriptor Keywords
Swagger, Bob Lee (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Ranch life -- Fiction.
Genre
Adventure stories
Domestic fiction
Geographic Keywords
Idaho -- Fiction.
Summary
Two snipers from the Vietnam War--one Russian, the other American--resume their duel in the mountains of Idaho. Round two opens when ex-Marine Bob Swagger and his wife are wounded by rifle fire.
-- Review from http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org
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To Have and To Hold
Michaels, Fern. (1994). To have and to hold (1st ed.). New York: Ballantine Books.
Descriptor Keywords
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Missing in action -- Fiction.
Missing in action -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Genre
Love stories
Summary
It is 1970 and Kate Starr is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect housekeeper. But soon after her husband Patrick departs for a tour of duty in Vietnam, he is listed as MIA. Suddenly, Kate must raise their two daughters by herself, learn how to earn a living, and struggle with the U.S. government to get news of her husband. It is ultimately the government's callousness that turns Kate into an activist, determined to be heard. It is the beginning of a new Kate Starr. Twenty years later, she has educated herself and her daughters, started a successful business...and finally found love again, the fulfilling love of a passionate woman.... Deeply felt and incredibly moving, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD traces the awakening of a remarkable woman who learns that sometimes in order to keep love in our hearts, we have to let it go. -- Review from http://www.amazon.com
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