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"The grand saga of an American ranching family continues in The Last Ranch ... When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing."--
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372 pages ; 21 cm
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Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the...
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Bess Crawford mystery volume 11
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303 pages ; 24 cm.
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"The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris for a Matron at the London headquarters of...
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115 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
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The third book in a trilogy of Doonsbury books that looks at the impact of combat on American soldiers in which B.D. helps one of his men whose vehicle was blown up causing him to lose an eye and suffer from traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
B.D. comes to the aid of one of his soldiers, Leo Deluca, when he is injured in Iraq, and helps him cope with aphasia, a traumatic brain injury, and forging a new normal life at home.
5) The beguiled
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
6) El Cid
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Miriam collection volume 1
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2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, who has been dubbed El Cid by his followers, vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Showing clemency to some emirs, he faces treason charges at court. His accuser, Gomez, father of his fiancee, Chimene, dies in the resulting duel. Chimene's avowed vengeance plot fails and Rodrigo is given her hand. When King Ferdinand...
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