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21) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward volume 2
Language
English
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"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
22) Executive intent
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
26) Honor bound
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In 1942 First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Marine aviator, and two others are sent to Buenos Aires to sabotage the resupply of German ships and submarines.
27) All is fair
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at boarding school, she doesn't want to read it--telegrams never bring good news. The message is written in a cryptic code, and Mina is soon pulled out of school and into a secret wartime mission with a dashing American spy" --
28) Soldier boys
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Alan Furst goes to war: Occupied Paris for the first time since Red Gold (1999 pub), Furst has set this novel during the war itself, instead of on the eve of the war. Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers, defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An...
31) Behind the lines
Author
Series
The corps volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy heads a mission into the jungles of the island Mindanao in search of a missing colonel, who is reported to be harassing the Japanese inhabitants.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...
35) Arc light
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A novel about the collapse of Russia and the unexpected, terrifying nuclear war that ensues.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies. The American and United nations troops are fighting for their lives against the most brutal weather conditions imaginable, and an...
37) 1356: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356, wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poiters and French King John II.
38) Dear Mrs. Bird
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird. Emmy is disappointed, but gamely bucks up and buckles down....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A group of American Marines, serving in small garrisons throughout North China in 1941, are stranded when the U.S. declares war on Japan, and forced to undertake an epic march through hostile territory in an attempt to rejoin their Corps.
40) The storyteller
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart"--
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