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"After twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart. Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next-door neighbor, and not to mention the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again. He has a way of erasing the...
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Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in this honest and emotional memoir.
From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing...
From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing...
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From bestselling author Julia Cook, comes a story about the challenging (and fun) changes a military family goes through when a parent is deployed.
"I think I'm pretty lucky because I'm part of a military family. It makes me really proud to know my parents are working to keep our country safe.
I get to do stuff other kids don't.
My life is kinda unique.
I've tried on night vision goggles,
and I've looked inside a Humvee."
Life is full of unique...
6) Pax
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Pax volume 1
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Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly...
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The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom of military service into their lives.
Born into a military family, Harris Faulkner revered her father, a decorated career officer who served three
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"Sarah is happy to finally see her mom after two months of boot camp but she feels a distance between them that's more than the physical space that separates them. Is that her mom who stares straight ahead in a line of soldiers when Sarah calls out for her? Is that her mom who stomp stomp stomps in big, heavy boots and hides in camouflage clothing? Using the analogy of links in a chain, Camouflage Mom is the story about how Sarah reconnected with...
10) Coming home
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The story of military homecomings, Greg Ruth's Coming Home focuses on a boy reuniting with his military mother, as well as other reunions (and dogs!).
Every day, soldiers leave their families to protect others.
We love them. We miss them when they're gone.
And we want them all to come home. They are our heroes.
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Tinkertown is the story of how a unique new town and huge Air Force base grew from the Oklahoma wheatfields as World War II began. It is also the memoir of my years growing up there and how the place influenced me and my friends. The town is Midwest City, the airbase is Tinker, and the early ponies were from the faraway Shetland Islands. The ups and downs of how we all co-existed and helped each other overcome obstacles and grow in the 1950s and 1960s,...
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Norendy tales volume 2
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At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel's wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all the while dreaming of the return of her soldier...
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As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life "inside the castle," within the embrace of the armed...
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"School is out for the summer, and Airi is off to Japan with her family to visit her grandparents and cousins for the first time in years. As fun as the trip will be, Airi is worried that her new friends will forget about her while she's gone. Will the stories she sends them from her vacation be exciting enough to keep them wanting more? Looks like it's time to pull some pranks and keep her friends--and her family--entertained! But after some of her...
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As a little girl, Teressa's father dotes on her and little sister, Karen, while mercilessly mocking her older sister, Debbie. Teressa thinks its Debbie's fault-until she gets a little older and he begins tormenting her, too. Soon enough, his verbal abuse turns physical. Her sergeant father brings his military life home, meeting each of his daughters' infractions with extreme punishment for them all. Meanwhile, their mother watches silently, never...
18) My military mom
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My Military Mom is the story of a normal day in Connor's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Connor's mom is deployed in the US military. Who helps with his homework? Dad! Who taught him to play basketball? Mom! Who does his laundry? Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO. Reviewed...
20) Hasta que alguien me escuche: una historia sobre las fronteras, la familia y la misión de una niña
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"La familia de Estela vive junta en un hogar feliz y lleno de amor. O, al menos, así lo hacían... hasta que su hogar fue destrozado. Mi madre tuvo que volver al otro lado del río, porque no había nacido en este país. Durante años, su familia pidió permiso para que su madre se quedara en los Estados Unidos. Pero nadie los escuchó. Cuando Estela tenía ocho años, su madre fue deportada a México. Estela sabía que tenía que hacer algo....
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