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Life After Deployment: Military families share reunion stories and advice
by Karen Pavlicin
Captures the tender and moving stories of military families during their reunion. Service members and their spouses, parents, finacées, and children share the joy and anxiety of homecoming, the adjustments of living together again, and how they coped with anger, depression, PTSD, injuries, grief, and other challenges.
Paperback. 192 pages. $14.95
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A Year of Absence: Six women's stories of courage, hope, and love
by Jessica Redmond
Follows six women during their husbands' year-long deployment to Iraq as part of the Army's First Armored Division based in Baumholder, Germany.
Nonfiction, hardcover. 232 pages. $24.95
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Deployment Journal for Kids
by Rachel Robertson
A special place for kids to express feelings and record events during a loved one's deployment. Contains calendar pages, writing ideas, interesting facts about common deployment locations, military definitions, and a pocket to keep mementos.
96 pages. $14.95
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Surviving Deployment: A guide for military families
by Karen Pavlicin
Personal stories and practical ideas to guide you through all aspects of deployment.
Paperback. 320 pages. $19.95
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Heart of a Hawk: One family's sacrifice & journey toward healing
by Deborah Tainsh
An honest and moving account of one family's journey through grief and toward healing following the death of their son in Iraq. Profits benefit TAPS.
Nonfiction, paperback. 192 pages. $14.95
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Daddy, You're My Hero! &
Mommy, You're My Hero!
by Michelle Ferguson-Cohen
Helps young kids feel good about their parent's job "to make people safe... and a good world for me." A book they will want to read over and over.
Boardbooks $12.99
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The Four Little Children: A Likely Story
by Larry Michalove
While he served in Vietnam, Mr. Michalove included in letters to his wife bedtimes stories for her to read to their young children during his absence. At the request of his grandchildren, the letters were compiled into this delightful collection of adventures.
Paperback. $12.95
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| Authors Support Military Families
Among the many people who came to God Bless Fort Benning Day to support military families, were the above authors. They talked with families at the Columbus Library, bookstores in town, the main event at the civic center, and at a remembrance breakfast with Gold Star families. It was a powerful, fun, and emotional weekend!
Click the picture for a larger image. See below for a list of authors and their books.
Front row:
Deborah Tainsh, Heart of a Hawk.
Phil Kiver, 182 Days in Iraq.
Larry Michalove, The Four Little Children: A Likely Story.
Back row:
Jon Hovde, Left for Dead.
John Givhan, Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam and South Alabama.
Jessica Redmond, A Year of Absence: Six women's stories of courage, hope, and love.
Karen Pavlicin, Surviving Deployment: A guide for military families.
Jeff Edwards, Torpedo.
Michelle Ferguson-Cohen, Daddy, You're My Hero.
Akef Tayem, A Muslim, the Quran and Jesus the son of Mary.
Also attending but not pictured:
Martha Zoller, Indivisible.
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