New Additions to the English Book Library Catalog

The books featured below have all been added to the LCS English Book Library in the last 30 days. Click on the cover images for more information. Donations are always welcome.

Title: A Soldier's Duty


Author: Ricks, Thomas E.

Pub Year: 2001
Publisher: Random House

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Military:
Location: RICK

Description:

Majors Cindy Sherman and Bud Lewis are the best young combat officers the army has, and they’ve both been tapped for plum positions as aides-de-camp for two of the Pentagon’s most senior generals. The Pentagon is a cauldron of careerist jockeying and factional squabbling in the best of times, though, and these are not the best of times. A president whom the officer class widely loathes sits in the White House, and grumblings that he’s steering the military onto the rocks are growing louder. Some officers are openly asking: If you believe the president is betraying his country, where does your duty lie? Just as Sherman and Lewis ease into their jobs — and into a deepening romance — a secret pressure group of military officers called the Sons of Liberty begins to carry out covert protests, symbolic at first, against White House policy. It is with shock that Lewis comes to suspect the group’s leader is his own boss and hero, General B.Z. Ames, and that the man in the center of Ames’s target is Sherman’s boss, General John Shillingworth. As the White House keeps the army grinding through a miserable third-world brushfire war, the Sons of Liberty’s activities grow more treasonous, and their efforts to avoid detection more ruthless, until Majors Sherman and Lewis find themselves in a vicious game with life-and-death stakes and the future of the American military hanging in the balance.
A Soldier's Duty
Select Icon
Title: Heritage
Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict

Author: Durgin, Doranna

Pub Year: 2001
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

Media: TradePaper
Genre: :Science Fiction:
Location: DURG

Description:

Liam Kincaid, the human Protector assigned to Da'an, the North American Taelon Companion, has had a difficult time balancing his duties for the aliens with his responsibility as the head of the secret, underground Resistance that is Earth's only hope for survival under the aliens. Liam has also struggled with his alien heritage. He's managed to control the shaqarava, the power he wields, inherited from his Kimera ancestor, who came from a distant world in another galaxy. Left to himself, he thinks he'd be able to master the power that sometimes possesses him to send a vast beam of energy toward some perceived threat. When he is accidentally infected by a Taelon virus that Zo'or, head of the Taelon Synod, has unleashed for the purpose of creating shaqarava in humans, Liam catches more than the artificial flu that was designed into the virus. Instead, he is so seriously ill that it will require more than mere medicine to cure him. For the illness has awakened memories he didn't know he had--memories that could save . . . or kill him. As his friends in the Resistance try to save him and stop the Taelon plague, Liam wrestles with the inner demons from his past in a life-and-death struggle for survival.
Heritage
Select Icon
Title: If Tears Could Speak


Author: Stauble, Kay

Pub Year: 2002
Publisher: Candelabra Publishing

Media: TradePaper
Genre: :Family Relationships: :General Fiction:
Location: STAU

Description:

This poignant novel, inspired by a true story, investigates the stages of a woman?s life and her path to awareness. Emotional and deeply moving, the story spans four decades beginning in the 1960?s in the small ravaged town of Texas City, Texas where Rose Bradley suffers neglect, shame, humiliation, misery, and abuse. Rose searches for the love she was never given and unravels the reason for why it was withheld. In doing so, she comes to terms with the ghosts of her past to prevent the haunting of the next generation. Stauble takes you through Rose?s allegiance to the Mormon Church, her three-time marriage and divorce from the father of her children, and a passionate unrequited love affair. With remarkable bravery, she faces rejection, scorn, trial, and excommunication.
If Tears Could Speak
Select Icon
Title: Separated -- Inside an American Tragedy


Author: Soboroff, Jacob

Pub Year: 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Social Problems:
Location: 363.2 SOBO

Description:

In June 2018, Donald Trump’s most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalists to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His influential series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president reversing his own policy and earned Soboroff the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Broadcast Journalism and, with his colleagues, the 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism. But beyond the headlines, the complete, multilayered story lay untold. How, exactly, had such a humanitarian tragedy - now deemed “torture” by physicians - happened on American soil? Most important, what has been the human experience of those separated children and parents? Soboroff has spent the past two years reporting the many strands of this complex narrative, developing sources from within the Trump administration who share critical details for the first time. He also traces the dramatic odyssey of one separated family from Guatemala, where their lives were threatened by narcos, to seek asylum at the US border, where they were separated - the son ending up in Texas, and the father thousands of miles away, in the Mojave desert of Central California. And he joins the heroes who emerged to challenge the policy and who worked on the ground to reunite parents with children. In this essential reckoning, Soboroff weaves together these key voices with his own experience covering this national issue - at the border in Texas, California, and Arizona; with administration officials in Washington, DC, and inside the disturbing detention facilities. Separated lays out compassionately, yet in the starkest of terms, its human toll and makes clear what is at stake in the 2020 presidential election.
Separated -- Inside an American Tragedy
Select Icon
Title: Vinegar Hill


Author: Ansay, A. Manette

Pub Year: 1994
Publisher: William Morrow

Media: Hardcover
Genre: :Family Relationships: :General Fiction:
Location: ANSA

Description:

n a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.
Vinegar Hill
Select Icon

CheckoutCheckout icon