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You Know When The Men Are Gone

Siobhan Fallon's collection of interconnected short stories are tales of life on a contemporary American military base, and take readers inside the homes, marriages and families of the segment of society that deals with the consequences of wars. The stories were inspired by her own experiences as an army wife living at Fort Hood, TX, while her husband was deployed to Iraq for two tours of duty.

Fahrenheit 451

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s classic novel on censorship, a tyrannical government rules in a grim future where books are illegal and firemen are trained to burn them….until one fireman begins to question the government’s destructive ideology that knowledge is evil.
Published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of science fiction writing and continues to receive international acclaim.

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