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1) Private life
Author
Language
English
Description
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed.
2) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
4) Celebration
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
After a 20-year marriage, an army colonel's wife is abandoned by her husband, who empties their bank account. In the next eight years Kristin Kelly finds another man, gets a divorce and her three children are adjusting, when the husband appears on the doorstep, asking to resume the marriage. By the author of Finders Keepers.
7) This is home
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An teenage girl is trying to find her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, Quinn Ellis, are united in their search for the true meaning of home. Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their triple decker home, Bent's two sisters, Lucy and Desiree, live on the top floor....
Author
Language
English
Description
Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? At the height of World War II, Berlin has become a city of women. Sigrid Schröder, the model German soldier's wife, goes to work every day, does her best with her rations, cares for her meddling mother-in-law, and ignores the horrors of the regime. But behind this façade Sigrid dreams of her lover, lost in the chaos of war. Her lover is a Jew. And Sigrid is not the only one with secrets....
13) Military wives
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For fans of Notes on a Scandal and Janice Y.K. Lee's The Expatriates, a taut and intimate debut novel from Siobhan Fallon, award-winning author of You Know When the Men Are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in a marriage, all set against the U.S. military community in the Middle East.
Cassie Hugo and Margaret Brickshaw have dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the U.S. embassy in Jordan. After...
Author
Publisher
Elva Resa
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Humorous memoir of an attorney who leaves her law career to become a navy wife and stay at home mom of three. Somewhere between "I do" and "deploying again," chaos threatens her Supermom aspirations. Lisa has everything she ever wanted-a husband who knows his chardonnay but can't identify a Phillips-head screwdriver, a quirky son with special needs, one daughter who dreams of world domination and another who longs for world peace, a puppy, and a...
17) Alice's tulips
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When the U.S. Army ordered troops into Arizona Territory in the 19th century to protect and defend the new settlements established there, some of the military men brought their wives and families, particularly officers who might be stationed in the west for years. Most of the women were from refined, eastern-bred families with little knowledge of the territory they were entering. Their letters, diaries, and journals from their years on army posts...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain...