These titles are set during the Vietnam War, covering abroad and at home.
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into... |
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as six other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping... |
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Perfume River
Robert Olen Butler - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Book
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From one of America's most important writers, Perfume River is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State... |
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Up Country: A Novel
Nelson DeMille - Warner Books; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors,... |
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A Catalog of Birds
LAURA HARRINGTON - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback
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Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A wounded... |
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A Loving, Faithful Animal: A Novel
Josephine Rowe - Catapult
Format: Paperback
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"I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." -- Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review. It is New Year's Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru's father,... |
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The Reunion
Dan Walsh - Thorndike Press
Format: Hardcover
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A CBA Bestselling Author -- There are people in this world we pass right by, yet some of them have amazing stories to tell. Aaron Miller was an old, worn-out Vietnam vet, a handyman in a trailer park. Forty years prior, he saved the lives of three young men in the field only to come home... |
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The Given World: A Novel
Marian Palaia - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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"Complex and haunting ... vivid and unforgettable." - People "Ardent, ambitious." - The New York Times Book Review "Stunning ... elegant ... It's enormously refreshing to read a story that talks about complicated women with so much empathy." - Missoula... |
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Finding Moon
Tony Hillerman - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Book
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Tony Hillerman's best-selling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations... |
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The Things They Carried
Lucy Calkins - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha... |
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The Names of the Dead
Stewart O'Nan - Doubleday
Format: Book
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In Ithaca, New York, in 1982, Larry Markham awakes to discover his wife, Vicki, has taken their young son, Scott, and left him--not for the first time, possibly for the last. It is a deep blow to a life already in fragments: a dead-end job delivering Wonder Bread; a strained relationship... |
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