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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this book the author examines friendship in all its modern varieties, both online and in person, and explores how to keep friends in the face of intimidating odds including disliking a spouse or being happy in their misfortunes.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed to maintain an enduring friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, a child?s illness and the mysterious death of one member of their group. Capturing their remarkable story, The Girls from Ames is a testament to the deep bonds...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troops. One neighborhood patriot proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: One of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat,...
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Saving My Enemy is a "Band of Brothers" sequel like no other.
Guilt nearly killed one of the celebrated "Band of Brothers" members, Sgt. Don Malarkey. He was a hero for his service in World War II, especially in the Battle of the Bulge, yet he came to the brink of suicide, haunted by the memories of the German soldiers he killed.
Across the ocean, Fritz Engelbert was shackled in shame for having been a pawn of Hitler-he too had fought in the Battle...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Friends for thirty years, Texas beauties Alana and Farrah supported each other through the trials of Hollywood life and the raising of their families. Now you can read the private diaries of the woman who was by Farrah's side every step of the way, from the cancer diagnosis in fall of 2006 to the inevitable end.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana ... and an East Texas honky-tonk ... and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda ... an upscale New York gallery ... a downtown...
16) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
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