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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of Sophie's portrait.
64) Free-fire zone
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Vietnaqm volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
65) Torn
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Only eighteen when she is sent to Afghanistan, British army medic Elinor Nielson is continually at odds with her hardnosed bunkmate, Heidi Larson, but connects with a mysterious Afghan girl and local children, as well as an American lieutenant.
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It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...
67) Birdsong
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English
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A tale of love and war early this century. The protagonists are Stephen Wraysford, a British businessman, and Isabelle Azaire, a married Frenchwoman. They meet in 1910, she elopes with him, gives birth to his child, then remorse sends her back to her husband. But World War I will bring them together when he returns to France as an officer in the British army.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents’ Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn’t like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit—especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Gaffney’s irresistible novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally’s eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America....
69) Neverhome
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English
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"She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. A farmer's faithful wife, she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, Ash Thompson becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. Throwing a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind., Neverhome is also a mystery story: why did Ash leave and her husband...
70) 27 hours
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Series
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
During one twenty-seven-hour night, four youths from very different backgrounds must stop the war between the colonies and an army of monsters while handling their own worst fears and secret desires.
72) Sophie's choice
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English
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Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this novel tells the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe and the terrible choice she was forced to make.
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Paul Mitura
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The Best Worst Tank and The Ship That Wasn't is a collection of interesting and historic military topics written by Paul Mitura, an Army officer with more than 30 years of service. Mitura is a graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the Air War College. He holds multiple advanced degrees. Mitura's service and passion for history blend together to provide a survey of little-known military stories from our country's...
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A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
76) The returning
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English
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When the twelve-year war between the Uplanders and Downlanders is over and Cam returns home to his village, questions dog him, from how he lost an arm to why he was the only one of his fellow soldiers to survive, such that he must leave until his own suspicions are resolved.
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1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very porpoer family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlies's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London,...
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(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 6
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English
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Now a full-fledged Ranger, Will must rescue his friend Alyss from a rogue knight and uncover vital information needed to ward off a Scotti invasion.
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Vampire earth volume 11
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Most of the world's resistance leaders and the lifeweavers are gathering for a strategic conference in Helsinki, Finland, and according to the intelligence materials alessa recovered during her raid of a kurian stronghold, the enemy has already inserted an agent among the delegates. David valentine is chosen to be head of security for the army of kentucky representatives and alessa ignores his order to stay behind. Now, thrust into a lethal intrigue...
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"At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloquent novel recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of war, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by...