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Disabled veterans Rehabilitation United States Disabled veterans United States Biography Iraq Iraq War, 2003-2011 Veterans United States Biography Leadership National parks and reserves United States Post-traumatic stress disorder Patients United States Biography Project MKULTRA. United States VeteransCollier, Victoria L.
Contents: Basic training : preliminary information you should know -- Secret money for seniors -- Application process for improved pension benefits -- Health care benefits -- Burial benefits -- Getting help -- Attorney's fees -- Resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Communications 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8682 COLHoxie, Jim
Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Disabl HoxieSummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEPeterson, Nolan
Summary: "Ask most combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and they'll probably tell you it was war. But ask them to choose the best experience of their life, and they'll usually say it was war, too. For someone who has not been to war, this is nearly impossible to understand. The spectrum of emotions experienced by a combat veteran is far wider than that experienced in civilian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 PETMackell, Thomas
Contents: The fractured American retirement dream -- The new political reality -- The new realities of work and the workplace -- America's love affair with debt -- Employee benefits at a crossroad -- The retirement crisis -- The time is right for bold leadership -- A time for change -- How did we get where we are? -- A call to action -- Conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: 331.25 MACKLowenstein, Roger.
Summary: From the bestselling author of "Buffett" and "Origins of the Crash" comes a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.25 LOWAlexander, Tamera
Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALELewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents a narrative account of the post-2016 election chaos that took over Washington to reveal how a small number of uninformed Trump appointees are triggering devastating world consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.973 LEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.973 LEWShulkin, David J.
Summary: The former VA secretary describes his fight to save health care from politics and money-and how it was ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials with influence in the Trump White House. Known in health care circles for his ability to fix ailing hospitals, Dr. David Shulkin was originally brought into government by President Obama, in an attempt to save the broken Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHULKIN, DAVID SHUMontalván, Luis Carlos
Summary: "Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalván takes to the road with his beloved Golden Retriever service dog, Tuesday, advocating for America's wounded warriors and for each other. Luis's first book sparked a national conversation about service dogs and PTSD. In this spectacular new memoir, he and Tuesday bring their healing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTALVAN, LUIS CARLOS MONSwofford, Anthony.
Summary: Describes how the author found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, and women by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and a chance encounter with his future wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWOFFORD, ANTHONY SWOHines, Debbie
Summary: "An examination of the historical and present racial inequities of the prosecutorial system and a blueprint for transforming the system to one of fairness and justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.089 HINGates, Robert Michael
Summary: Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352 GATTorrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)
Summary: Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TORMorgan, Jason
Summary: A Dog Called Hope is the incredible story of a remarkable service dog who brought a devastated warrior back from the brink. It is the story of one funny, lovable dog’s power to heal a family and teach a wounded man how to be a true father. It is the story of an amazing dog with boundless loyalty who built bridges between his wheelchair-bound battle buddy and the rest of able-bodied humankind....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORGAN, JASON MORPineiro, R. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINAlexander, Tamera
Summary: Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted Confederate soldier he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin. Catriona leaves their Irish homeland in search of him with their seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, hoping to reunite the siblings. Wade Cunningham is a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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Summary: "John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch-The Dirty Tricks Department-and its role in World War II. In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LISRuliffson, Jess
Summary: "Candid, compassionate graphic interviews with returning war vets from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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Summary: Complied list of veterens from World War I, II, Korea and Vietnam buried in Kalkaska County Cemetaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377465 VeteransPhilpott, Don.
Summary: "Written with these men and women in mind, The Wounded Warrior Handbook provides our injured heroes and their families with quick, straightforward answers to the questions they suddenly face and guides them through the deluge of processes, procedures, and policies they must adhere to in order to receive the care they deserve and need."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Government Institutes 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1086 PHISummary: Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BORBest, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023