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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given. Sentry Dance Pickett has watched, helpless, for months as conditions in the camp worsen by the day. He knows any mercy...
82) The 5th Wave
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher of original edition.
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
427 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helen Carlisle, a young war widow covers her pain with the frenzy of volunteer work until the spark of her romance with Lt. Raymond Novak, a WWII pilot, propels them both into peril.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...
85) 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...
86) The devouring
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A murder in wartime Switzerland reveals Swiss complicity with the Nazis and profiteering during World War II Billy and Kaz are sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a Swiss banking official with ties to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The US and Swiss governments are about to embark on diplomatic discussions regarding the Safehaven Protocols, which are aimed at limiting the amount of war materials exported by Switzerland...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Sphinx is blown up by terrorists who also launch attacks on an Iranian soccer team and a vessel in the Red Sea, Kyle Swanson and his Trident team uncover an extremist plot to provoke war between Egypt and Iran to upset the balance of international power.
89) Tiger's claw
Author
Series
Brad McLanahan volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
Author
Series
A novel of World War 1 volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the war coming to a close, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his family learn that the identity of the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker is about to be revealed by a German counterpart, but the family must first solve the mystery of a murdered nurse.
91) The nugget
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the formerly naive Steele vows to avenge the attack. Flying...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
93) The white ghost
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
338 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1943: In the midst of the brutal, hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign between the Allies and the Japanese forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle receives an odd assignment: he's sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper (and future president) Jack Kennedy has been implicated. The victim is a native coast watcher, an allied intelligence operative, whom Kennedy discovered on the island of Tulagi with his head bashed in....
94) The night watch
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
450 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018], p2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (27 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the "engrossing" (People) and "poignant" (Booklist) international bestseller The Room on Rue Amelie comes a remarkable and moving story of love, danger, and betrayal: two women in France in the darkest days of World War II and another in present-day America on a quest to uncover the secret that connects them. At the dawn of the Second World War, Ines is the young wife of Michel, owner of the House of Chauveau, a small champagne...
97) Lord Hornblower
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1986, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1986, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
100) March
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
280p. 25cm.
Language
English