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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In the high desert badlands of New Mexico, the Strickland family struggles to hold on to their way of life in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, while, thousands of miles away, Jack Strickland is imprisoned by the Japanese and battles to survive.
1143) In times of rain and war
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Stocking, a German-born Jew, hides in 1940 London, hoping someday to reunite with her family while pretending to be a British citizen. American Lieutenant Wesley Bowers arrives in England the same day as the beginning of the Blitz, which is also the day a bomb penetrate's Audrey's apartment - and doesn't explode. When they meet Audrey must decide whether or not to reveal her true identity and past.--Derived from dust jacket....
1144) 1636: the devil's opera
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, band together to stop a deadly conspiracy of operatic proportions in the capital of the United States of Europe.
1145) Sharpe's siege
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 18
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1814, the Napoleonic Wars rage on as Britain invades France. Gearing up for a long and bitter winter campaign, Major Richard Sharpe and his company are unwittingly used as diversionary pawns. Faced with taking a French fortress while simultaneously dealing with American mercenaries, Sharpe butts heads with the bungling Captain Horace Bampfylde.
TRAPPED WITH HIS BACK TO THE SEA, MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE AND A HANDFUL OF MEN MUST STAND AGAINST A BATTALION...
Author
Series
Faith of our fathers volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
1147) The light brigade
Author
Publisher
SAGA Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'The war has turned us into light. Transforming us into light is the fastest way to travel from one front to another, and there are many fronts, now. I always wanted to be a hero. I always wanted to be on the side of light. It's funny how things work out.' Soldiers in the war against Mars, The Light Brigade, live brief lives, but the veterans are starting to be affected by changes in their bodies and minds, slipping in and out of time, or are they...
1148) The last of the Mohicans
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the story about the exploits of a young white man and his Mohican Indian friends during the French and Indian war.
1149) The silent unseen
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission.
1150) Articles of war
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
George Tilson, nicknamed Heck, is deployed to Normandy and soon discovers a troubled French family headed by a one-armed painter. As Heck falls in love with the painter's daughter, he is pulled back into the war. Marked as a coward by his fellow soldiers, Heck gets a second chance when his company sergeant puts him on a secret and dangerous assignment.
Author
Series
Trapped in Battle Royale volume 3
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Grey is back in Battle Royale -- but will he make it out this time? With Grey as its leader, his squad soars up in the ranks of Fortnite: Battle Royale. With only a few weeks left in the season, the squad members are closing in on those top five spots that will free them from virtual reality. Grey believes that a little more practice will get them there, but not everyone in his squad is so sure. When a top ten squad comes recruiting for veteran players,...
1152) On rough seas
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.
1153) The sound of the hours
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a young, black soldier fighting for a country that refuses...
1154) Blitzkrieg
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In Nazi-ruled Germany, twelve-year-old Joe flees to England after his father is arrested by the Gestapo and he is separated from his mother, but when he arrives in London, Joe is recruited by MI5 and given a deadly mission that will put him in the very center of Hitler's ruthless reign.
1155) The gates of Athens
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon...Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...
1156) Sink or swim
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
Author
Series
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire. Most of Ky's family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire. Most of Ky's family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.
1159) Cimarron thunder
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tracking down a crazy Confederate scheme to capture Colorado was the kind of job Union Captain Tom Baird was ready for. But he hadn't reckoned on a hidden cache of ammunition big enough to equip a small army--or the surprising partnership of a beautiful brunette Federal agent. When Baird is captured by three men, the remainder of a First Colorado Cavalry scouting patrol, it takes a while for each to earn the other's trust. He needs their help to...
1160) Stella
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the beautiful model, Kristin, who soon becomes his energetic yet enigmatic guide to the bustling and cosmopolitan city, escorting him to underground jazz clubs where they drink cognac, dance, and kiss. The war feels far away to Friedrich, who falls in love with Kristin...
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