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A boy no more / by Mazer, Harry,1925-2016.(CARDINAL)505758;

After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Fiction.; Arizona (Battleship); Manzanar War Relocation Center; Determination (Personality trait); Disobedience; Families; Fathers and sons; Fathers; Fifteen-year-old boys; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans; Japanese-American boys; Japanese; Loyalty; Moving, Household; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence; Teenage boys; Teenage boys; Teenage children of military personnel; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Fathers.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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Walls / by Elliott, Laura,1957-author.(CARDINAL)351412; Behm, Megan,writer of added text.(CARDINAL)418287;

Includes bibliographical references (page 334).In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.Grades 7-9.Ages 12 and up.

Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Historical fiction.; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Cold War; Children of military personnel; Military bases; Cousins;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Military life 101 : basic training for new military families / by Farley, Janet I.,author.(CARDINAL)641469;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- 1.Great expectations -- Hollywood versus real life -- Military families matter -- Your family's must-take first steps -- Translating military language into English -- Command structure, pay grades, ranks, and insignias -- Common military customs and courtesies -- 2. Military money and benefits -- Newbies' guide to military pay and allowances -- Understanding the Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) -- Know your important military benefits -- Military money management basics -- Your good credit: maintaining and protecting it -- Scams, fraud, and identity theft -- Online financial resources -- 3. Military family support -- Important DoD websites -- Military family support centers -- The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) -- Military childcare programs -- Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) -- Military OneSource -- The commissary and the exchange -- DoD lodging and AFRC vacation resorts -- Armed forces entertainment -- Military family support outside the DoD -- 4. Mastering military moves -- There is a downside to moving -- Coordinating your military move -- Potential moving benefits and entitlements -- Weighty matters -- Beyond boxes: preparing for your move -- Moving day to-do lists -- Moving with small children and teenagers -- Bringing furry family members along -- If you're moving overseas -- Unaccompanied tours: the lonely move -- 5. Military spouse careers and education -- Five military spouse employment realities -- How to find a job at your new duty station -- Looking for a job while stationed overseas -- Volunteering for the greater good -- Working for Uncle Sam -- Becoming your own boss -- The grateful exit: leaving your job -- Funding your education and job training -- 6. Dealing with deployments and other separations -- Predeployment: preparing for the inevitable -- Deployment: when it really happens -- Demobilization : anticipation -- Postdeployment/reintegration and reunion -- 7. Difficult topics in military life -- The rise of online haters -- Stressed out: emotion commotion -- The warning signs of depression and suicide -- Sexual assault and domestic abuse -- Divorce in the military -- Caring for a wounded warrior -- Casualty assistance and surviving loss -- 8. Mission transition -- Making now count for later -- Taking care of transition business -- Potential postuniform benefits and entitlements -- Military-to-civilian career transition strategies -- Conclusion -- Graduation day -- Parting words -- Appendix A: Military life 101 recommended reading list -- Appendix B: Common military terms and expressions."Making the most of all your new military life has to offer can be difficult when you aren't familiar with what life in the military really means. Military Life 101: Basic Training for New Military Families answers many of the questions that service members and their family may have about life in and around the armed forces. Janet I. Farley addresses what to expect from life on the home front in the military and how this career path not only affects the service members but their families. This useful, concise guide effectively introduces new service members and their families to the culturally relevant and need-to- know information required to survive and thrive in the ever-evolving military lifestyle, "--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Military spouses; Families of military personnel;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Second chance at Sunflower ranch a Ryan family novel / by Brown, Carolyn,1948-author.;

Second chance at Sunflower Ranch -- Small town charm.From the bestselling author of Queen of Cowboy: regrets and old heartbreaks are unearthed in this sweeping love story as hometown sweethearts get a second chance at love--and being a family. Retired combat medic Jesse Ryan hasn't been home much since he enlisted twenty years ago. Now he's headed back to Texas to help take care of his aging foster parents and run Sunflower ranch. But when he gets there, he finds his parents' live-in nurse is Addison Hall, his high school best friend and the woman he always regretted leaving behind after their one steamy night together before he shipped out. He's not at all surprised that their chemistry is still sparking, but Jesse is shocked to learn Addy gave birth to a little girl about nine months after he left-- his little girl. Addy has her hands full as a single mom of a nineteen-year-old daughter who suddenly wants to rebel at everything. The last thing she needs is Jesse Ryan complicating her life even further, especially since she's always had a crush on the handsome cowboy. But the more time she spends with Jesse, the more she wonders what might happen if they finally let their friendship blossom into something more and became the family she'd always hoped for. Includes the bonus novella Small Town Charm for the first time in print!

Subjects: Fiction.; Romance fiction.; Western fiction.; Foster parents; Foster home care; Foster children; Veterans; Women nurses; Man-woman relationships; Unplanned pregnancy; Ranches; Retired military personnel; Single mothers; Ranch life; Paperbacks.; Pregnant women; Nurses; Teenagers; Foster parents.;

Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 21

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