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A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a "narcotic farm."
Sixty-five years later, Dr. Russell's granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father (Dr. Russell's oldest son), always her biggest fan, is accepted into hospice.
Debbie's investigation into her paternal lineage reveals family secrets and ignites her mother's volatile...
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These are the personal experiences of the author and his wife in dealing with the posttraumatic stress disorder that he was diagnosed with while he served his last year of a twenty-year career in the US Army. This is the final installment of his three-book series, detailing the events that led up to his diagnosis. You will read about his experiences in combat, his two years as a drill sergeant, his time in Hurricane Katrina relief, and his ongoing...
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The National Guard and Reserves is comprised of remarkable men and women who work behind the scenes as our nation's supplemental fighting force. It's a part-time job with a full-time commitment that involves the entire family. They wear the same uniforms and train to the same standards as America's full-time military. And when, called to service, they fight right alongside the active duty. Nobody knows the difference. Yet they are very different.
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In Roster Number Five-Zero, you will bear witness to the author's personal experiences, from beginning to end, of attending the toughest combat leadership course in the military-US Army Ranger School. You will learn of the daily hardships, challenges, and accomplishments of planning, moving, and executing combat missions at small unit levels. The time spent in this school is under the harshest conditions of terrain, weather, starvation, and sleep...
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What Is Wrong with Me? is the compelling story of Anna, whose childhood sexual trauma and dysfunctional family looms over her journey to adulthood. Entering college, nothing seems to go her way. She struggles with every relationship and cannot trust the good ones, eventually finding herself in an abusive relationship as family secrets unfold in unpredictable ways. When she marries her abuser and has a baby, she is forced to abandon her nursing career....
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