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42) Outlander
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Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES
Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire...
Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Language
English
Description
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
Author
Publisher
Yorkshire Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the Vietnam War and four young Marines. It's about fighting and killing. Compassion and love, however, are defining parts of the story. The story personalizes what war does to those who fight it and what they do to survive it. Enduring and caring relationships forged in combat are as much a part of their survival, maybe more, as their combat skills. While the book is fiction, the majority is based on actual battles and personal...
46) For such a time
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English
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A powerful retelling of the biblical story of Esther set during WWII: Blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin must save her people--even if she cannot save herself--
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Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
598 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the first hradani wind rider in history, Bahzell stirs resentment over his elevation to the War God's elite champion, a situation that is further complicated by the romantic advances of Baron Tellian's heiress daughter.
48) Gearbreakers
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are figting for a common purpose--and falling for each other.
49) Out of the dark
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English
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A master sergeant prowling the back country of the Balkans and a firearms instructor and former Marine find themselves at the center of a growing network of resistance against an invading force of alien, carnivorous Shongari intent on annihilating the human race.
50) After the bugles
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English
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In the aftermath of a bitter and bloody war for independence, Texans have finally claimed their freedom from Mexico-but they don't have much else to brag about.
Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war has cost him much but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Anna.
Josh is travelling with Ramon Hernandez...
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English
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"It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre."
Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history.
Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking...
Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history.
Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking...
53) Starsight
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After becoming a pilot and learning some disturbing things about her father, Spensa disguises herself and enters a Krell pilot training program where she discovers the purpose of the program is to exterminate humans.
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English
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From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as the best in the business, comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part, the silvery moonlight defies authority, and so does a leader...
55) Days of Infamy
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English
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The "New York Times"-bestselling authors of "Pearl Harbor" return with the second novel in their action-packed World War II historical series, which examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. Illustrated.
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
57) Amina's blanket
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
42 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.
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Language
English
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Description
Shocking scenes of battle...unforgettable soldiers...heartbreaking betrayals...In this stunning, fast-paced novel, a ruthless future war unfolds in a 21st-century nightmare: Los Angeles is a radioactive ruin; Europe lies bleeding; and Israel has been destroyed...with millions slaughtered. A furious America fights to reclaim the devastated Holy Land.
The Marines storm ashore, the U.S. Army does battle in a Biblical landscape. Hi-tech weaponry is useless...
60) The saboteurs
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new OSS adventure finds the agents of Wild Bill Donovan fighting the Battle of the Atlantic on two fronts, a situation that is compromised by a possible saboteur.
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