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61) Prodigy
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Series
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
62) Hawks: a novel
Author
Series
Wings of war (Ray Rosenbaum) volume 2
Publisher
Lyford Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based ona true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa vividly to life as a beautiful city by the sea where Jews,...
64) August 1914
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Series
Red wheel volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1972
Physical Desc
v. ; 25 cm.
Description
General Samsonov and Colonel Vorotyntsev lead Russian soldiers into battle and subsequent defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.
65) The deerslayer
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Formats
Description
Follows the adventures of the brave and bold frontiersman Natty Bumppo.
66) The tyrant's law
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Series
Dagger and the coin volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
513 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
In the great war, tyrant Geder Palliako will do anything to bring peace, banker Cithrin finds herself in the path of danger, Clara has become a traitor, and Captain Marcus Wester tracks an ancient secret that could change the result.
67) March: a novel
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In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.
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Battle hymn cycle volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Presents a reimagining of the pivotal Civil War battle from the perspectives of a Blue Ridge Confederate sergeant, a bitter survivor of the Great Famine in Ireland, and a German political refugee.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
476 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
A Chinook helicopter carrying a squad of Navy Seals suddenly plummets to earth in Afghanistan. A car driven by FBI agents tailing a suspicious vehicle is mysteriously rendered immobile in San Francisco. The U.S. is under secret attack and only Jack Hatfield, a popular television host hounded from his position by left-wing forces in the media for speaking the truth, suspects the danger of this lethal conspiracy. With the help of Dover Griffith, an...
70) Inheritors
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
viii, 270 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"From the O. Henry Prize-winning author comes a heartbreakingly beautiful and brutal exploration of lives fragmented by the Pacific side of World War II. Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of its characters as they grapple with the legacies of loss, imperialism, and war. Written from myriad perspectives and in a wide range of...
71) The hooligans
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Series
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Loosely-organized in fast moving squadrons, PT (patrol torpedo) boats were the pesky nemesis of the formidable Japanese navy, dubbed "the mosquito fleet" and "devil boats" for their daring raids against warships, tankers, and transport ships. After the Pearl Harbor raid plunges Americainto war, young surgical resident Lincoln Anderson enlists in the Navy medical corps. His first deployment comes in August 1942 at Guadalcanal, when after a brutal...
74) Forever peace
Author
Series
Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Description
"New York, present day: On a whim, photographer Juno Lambert buys the 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unpublished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in the story of Cordelia and her sister's loving yet tempestuous relationship. England, 1936: Cordelia's socialite sister, Irene, marries a German man from a powerful family who whisks her away...
76) On Cimarron
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Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
369 p. ;
Description
"As weary settlers begin to infiltrate the Kansas area, a young family of pilgrims settles on a lower stretch of the Cimarron River. Elizabeth O'Day and her husband, Tom, virtually alone in the wilderness, have been told that the area is safe for whites. However, they soon discover a band of Kiowa Indians, their mood uncertain, living nearly across the river from where they plan to build a home. An uneasy peace endures between the people on each...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
As World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle, Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer, a disheveled trader and an English spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by circumstance. Fighting time, heat, malaria, and bullets, they make their escape on the rickety steamboat the African Queen and hatch their own outrageous military plan.
78) Fobbit
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
At Foreward Operating Base Triumph, a combat-avoiding staff sergeant named Chance Gooding spends his time composing press releases that spin grim events into statements more palatable to the public.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book...
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