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Martyr's song series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The author of "Heaven's Wager" masterfully weaves suspense and intrigue into a powerful romance of unearthly proportions. A stubborn and lost young woman destined to learn life the hard way meets a love determined not to let her go. A stubborn & lost young woman destined to learn life the hard way meets a love determined not to let her go. Annotation. In the compelling tradition of his debut novel Heavens Wager, Ted Dekker brings a romance of epic...
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job--and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
5) Mudbound
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it--to the sheriff, to his defense...
7) Dream town
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English
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It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious entering the property, there's a dead body in the hallway...
Author
Series
Pasadena promises volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Following the pain and glory of World War II, a strong-minded woman lives her life on the fringe of romance and relationship. Rebecca, a beautiful, dark-eyed war widow, is falling for war-ravaged Courtney. With his gruff ways, scarred body, and tortured past, he's a far cry from the husband she so recently lost. Will God open the doors of love? One woman, one heart, one story of love lost to unavoidable circumstances and redeemed in a remarkable...
10) Lacy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cole Whitehall had asked Lacy Jarrett to wait for him. But after the war, he returned to the rambling Whitehall cattle ranch a changed man, the promise of lasting love replaced by a cold, hard distance. Lacy yearned to reignite the once inseparable couple's unquenched passion. Unwittingly compromised into marriage, the handsome Texan refused to come under Lacy's thumb. But the hard press of aching desire had her longing to learn the secrets Cole harbored...
11) War stories
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
12) The Master
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
13) The master
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post-World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a naval veteran who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
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