LPPL provides top reads in honor of Memorial Day

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The Lafourche Parish Public Library provided a list of their top book picks in honor of Memorial Day. “Salute our fallen and give thanks to our nation’s heroes with these reads in honor of Memorial Day,” reads a statement from LPPL. The list of fiction and non-fiction books available at LPPL branches include:
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand 
  • No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen
  • Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
  • Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar
  • Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford
  • Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila
  • The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior by Robert O’Neill 
All LPPL branches will be closed on Monday, May, 29, 2023 in observance of Memorial Day. Visit LPPL online anytime.