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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
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...
Author
Series
Kyle Swanson sniper novels volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago. The defector proves to be an Edward Snowden-type gold mine of amazing secrets about the When, Where and How of President Vladimir Pushkin's next grab for lost Soviet territory.But Swanson, now a special contractor with the CIA, soon begins to believe that it...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government. A small boy speaking an unknownlanguage is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So begins The Volunteer. But in order to...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
War and Peace chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Tolstoy said War and Peace is "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections, especially the later chapters, are a philosophical discussion rather than narrative. Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 12 hr., 45 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
When looting and rioting overwhelm all the major US cities, Afghanistan War vet Ray McGregor makes his way from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to his parents' cattle ranch in Bella Coola, British Columbia, in remote western Canada. Joining him is his old friend Phil Adams, a Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence case officer based in Washington State. Reckless banking practices, hyperinflation, and government negligence have led to an unprecedented...
Author
Series
Warrior Chronicles volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to his epic Saxon Tales saga with The Pagan Lord, a dramatic story of divided loyalties, bloody battles, and the struggle to unite Britain.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
436 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"If you like Bernard Conwell's Grail Quest series, you'll love The French Executioner and The Curse of Anne Boleyn. To my mind Cornwell is good, but Humphreys is better." –Sally Zigmund, Historical Novels Review (UK)
From the masterful C.C. Humphreys comes the captivating sequel to The French Executioner
Nearly twenty years have passed since Anne Boleyn died at the hands of her slayer and savior, Jean Rombaud.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
15) The Iliad
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
It is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have laid siege to the city of Troy, but the leaders of the Greek factions are beginning to turn on one another. When Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, angers Achilles, leader of the Myrmidons, the gods begin to intervene more directly in the conflict, and the war becomes even more dangerous for the heroes of Greece and Troy.
The Iliad is attributed to the poet Homer and is the earliest surviving...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
Description
"Champagne, 1940: In�es has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the R�esistance. In�es fears they'll be exposed, but for C�eline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau's chef de cave, the risk is even greater--rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate. When C�eline recklessly...
17) Lines of courage
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
388 pages : 22 cm.
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared--gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Jack's oldest friend has turned, they insist. They...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...