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1) Blind tiger
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest threat against US security that the country has ever...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
353p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
War has come to Discworld ... again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks's brother marched off to battle, and Polly's willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out to join...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
From...
6) March
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
280p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.
8) Fort Pillow
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the U.S. colored troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having earned his writing chops as an award-winning author of short fiction, Lance Weller delivers an unforgettable novel set in post-Civil War America. Abel Truman, maimed at the Battle of the Wilderness and beset with old age, lives on the rugged coast of Washington State. Resolving to attend to personal matters set in motion long ago, Truman and his be-loved dog embark on a harrowing journey over the treacherous Olympic Mountains - and along the...
10) Thrawn: treason
Author
Series
Star Wars Thrawn volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
12) Still life
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home from Vietnam when his sister goes missing, soldier Ray Landsdale embarks on a relentless search that takes him from Montana to Hollywood to L.A. and beyond, forcing him to confront his worst nightmare.
14) Prodigy
Author
Series
Legend volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In an ancient Persian empire torn by civil war, the young soldier Xenophon leads his decimated Spartan army in a confrontation against the legendary warriors of Artaxerxes II.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
760 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the German army's secret V-2 bombs begin falling on London, U.S. Army Lt. Tyrone Slothrop realizes the bombing locations exactly match the sites of his own sexual liaisons, and that the coincidence has been noticed by British intelligence, sending Slothrop on a journey across Europe in hopes of escaping British officers who think he has knowledge about the attacks.
Author
Series
Magic Tree House volume 31
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack and Annie arrive at a Roman camp on a mission to learn how to be a fierce Roman warrior, their assignment is complicated by a mysterious man on a black horse.
18) Once a soldier
Author
Language
English
Description
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried...
19) Legend
Author
Series
Legend novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374, 10 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first Black women allowed to serve in the army, Grace Steele and Eliza Jones, helping form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, navigate their way through the segregated ranks, finally making it overseas where they do their parts for the country they love.