The library will be closed on Wednesday, November 11, in honor of Veterans Day. The first on the list describes the final day of the First World War, the day that was prompted the creation of Armistice Day, which later became Veterans Day. The rest of the books are either nonfiction about veterans or novels featuring a character who is a veteran. All are available in print at the library (click the title to place a hold in the catalog), and many are also available as e-books or e-audiobooks through the library's subscriptions to Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby. If you're new to Hoopla and Overdrive, you can watch tutorials on how to use each here, or you can ask a reference librarian by calling us at 978-623-8430.
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Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour : Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax
by Joseph E. Persico The best-selling author of Roosevelt's Secret War re-creates November 11, 1918, the final day of World War I, when Allied military commanders in search of glory and advancement flung men against an already beaten enemy, leading to eleven thousand casualties. |
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Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
by George W. Bush A vibrant collection of military oil paintings and stories by the 43rd president. Borrow the e-book or the e-audiobook from Libby/Overdrive. |
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For love of country : what our veterans can teach us about citizenship, heroism, and sacrifice
by Howard Schultz A collection of compelling, original portraits celebrates the extraordinary heroism on the battlefield and the equally valuable contributions on the home front of this generation's American veterans. Borrow the e-book or the e-audiobook in Libby/Overdrive. |
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Without a country : the untold story of America's deported veterans
by J. Malcolm Garcia Traveling across the country and abroad to interview veterans who have been deported, as well as the families and friends they have left behind, the author analyzes the political climate that has led to the deporting of men and women who have served and the toll this has taken on American vets and their communities. Borrow the e-book from Hoopla. |
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Mudbound : a novel
by Hillary Jordan In the winter of 1946, Henry McAllen moves his wife, Laura, to a remote cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, and two celebrated soldiers of World War II return home to the Delta. Jamie McAllan is everything his older brother Henry is not: charming, handsome and sensitive to Laura’s plight, but also haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black tenant farmers who live on the McAllan farm, comes home from fighting the Nazis with the shine of a war hero, only to face far more personal—and dangerous—battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen. It is the unlikely friendship of these two brothers-in-arms, and the passions they arouse in others, that drive this powerful debut novel. Borrow the e-book in Libby/Overdrive, or borrow the e-book or e-audiobook in Hoopla. |
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko On a New Mexico reservation, one Navajo family--including Tayo, a World War II veteran deeply scarred by his experiences as a Japanese POW and by the rejection of his own people--struggles to survive in a changing world in the years just before and after World War II. Borrow the e-book from Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook from Hoopla. |
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Some go home : a novel
by Odie Lindsey A pregnant Iraq War veteran, the son of a man undergoing retrial, and a correction officer’s family navigate media hype, community secrets, and racial tensions at the antebellum estate where a civil rights murder occurred half a century earlier. Borrow the e-book in Libby/Overdrive. |
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The hum and the shiver
by Alex Bledsoe Iraq War veteran Bronwyn Hyatt must reconnect with the Tufa, her people, and their ancient song if she is ever going to stop the death stalking her family. Borrow the e-book in Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook in Hoopla. |
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Freebird : a novel
by Jonathan Raymond "The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city's wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne's teenage son, Aaron, can't decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family's moral character to the core." Borrow the e-audiobook in Hoopla or the e-book in Libby/Overdrive. |
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Charlie Company's journey home : the boys of '67 and the war they left behind
by Andrew A Wiest Draws on interviews, letters, diaries, and recordings in a compelling report of the human costs of veterans and their families in the form of PTSD, depression, substance abuse, suicide, broken families, and homelessness. Borrow the e-audiobook in Hoopla. |
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Plenty of time when we get home : love and recovery in the aftermath of war
by Kayla Williams Documents the marriage of two Iraq War veterans to describe the impact of the author's husband's brain injury on their relationship, their shared efforts to overcome post-traumatic stress, and her personal struggles as a veteran in a civilian society that does not yet fully recognize the contributions of women in the military. |
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PTSD
by Guillaume Singelin In this graphic novel set in a near-future world, a veteran comes home from an unpopular war and struggles to cope with her mental and physical wounds, while seeking relief in illicit drugs she buys or steals. |
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The Cuban affair : a novel
by Nelson DeMille When his shaky finances compel him to accept a lucrative job for a 10-day fishing tournament to Cuba, Army combat veteran-turned-charter boat captain Mac learns that one of his clients is seeking to claim millions hidden by her grandfather, who was forced to flee Castro's revolution years earlier. Borrow the e-book from Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook from Hoopla. |
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The personal history of Rachel Dupree : [a novel]
by Ann Weisgarber Agreeing to a marriage of convenience involving a share of land granted by the Homestead Act, an African-American veteran and a hired woman stake a claim and begin a pioneer life together in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands. Borrow the e-book from Libby/Overdrive. |
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The off-islander
by Peter Colt In 1982 Boston, Vietnam veteran and private investigator Andy Roark is hired to find a father who went missing on Cape Cod—but may find far more than he bargained for. Borrow the e-book or e-audiobook in Hoopla. |
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The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers
by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman "In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. Their experiences illuminate ways in which sex-role change was embraced and resisted throughout the twentieth century, and the ways that men and women struggled together for gender justice." Borrow the e-audiobook from Hoopla or the e-book from Libby/Overdrive. |
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The war came home with him : a daughter's memoir
by Catherine Madison "During his years as a POW in North Korea, 'Doc' Boysen endured hardships he never intended to pass along, especially to his family. In a memoir at once harrowing and painfully poignant, Catherine Madison tells the stories of two survivors of one man's war: a father who withstood a prison camp's unspeakable inhumanity and a daughter who withstood the residual cruelty that came home with him... Madison's dual memoir offers a powerful, intimate perspective on the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a wounded soldier brings his war home." Borrow the e-book in Libby/Overdrive. |