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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward—loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters—and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they’re replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era militia house they claim is haunted, and Loyette and...
25) Wolves of winter
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Series
Essex dogs volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting--and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down the vanished...
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Language
English
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Set within a system of decaying world-ships traveling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds -- and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 493 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War I, Alfa Ndiaye finds he is unable to perform a mercy killing for his injured friend. Alfa then begins to sneak into enemy territory to kill enemy soldiers. His fellow soldiers think he is mad and devise a plan to get Alfa away from the front. But how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 22
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set just after the Battle of Waterloo ... The war against Napoleon might be over, but the Duke of Wellington is afraid a new enemy is looming on the horizon--la Fraternite, a group of Bonaparte loyalists apparently poised to carry out a plot to assassinate the 'princes of Europe' and catapult Napoleon back to power throughout the continent. Sharpe's mission: to take a small group of skilled men, locate la Fraternite, and kill them all. But soon...
30) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
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Language
English
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"In 1935, orphaned servant Hirut struggles to adapt to her new household as Ethiopia faces Mussolini's looming invasion. As the battles begin in earnest, Hirut and other women must care for the wounded. But when Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia is about to lose hope, Hirut helps to disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor to keep the fight alive. She becomes his guard, inspiring women to join the war against fascism. In this extraordinary,...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
234 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, leads one such cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. Aiding Mathieu as part of his covert network are Lisette, a seventeen-year-old student and...
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Language
English
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"Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known 'code breaker' who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort's astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought. From the...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi's club once again the hottest spot...
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Language
English
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Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand...
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each of them trying to answer the question that fuels this sweeping novel: If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
290 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild-a one-armed, impassioned abolitionist-set out from Portsmouth to...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer — and occult disciple — Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever. 1950. A lone Surrealist...
40) Lines of courage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
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