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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World War II, Lorenzo lives among the salt flats and the flamingos. There are lots of things he doesn't understand-but he does know how to heal animals, how to talk to them; the flamingos especially. He loves routine, and music too: and every week he goes to market with his mother. It's there he meets Kezia, a Roma girl, who helps her parents run their carousel-and who shows him how to ride the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the heat of battle, you gotta stay frosty...And no one is more frosty than Corporal Jack Campbell. Hailed by his Marines as near God-like in battle, Jack finds himself at the apex of 21st century urban warfare - Fallujah. Stalking the streets, kicking in doors, and racking up kills are just part of another day in the sandbox for the young degenerate squad of Marines, known as the Berserkers. With the pending knowledge of becoming a new father,...
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Series
Sisters Grimm volume 7
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After their parents awake from a sleeping spell, Daphne and Sabrina become caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming's Everafter army and learn a shocking secret about a deadly enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En la noche del 24 al 25 de julio de 1938, durante la batalla del Ebro, 2.890 hombres y 14 mujeres de la XI Brigada Mixta del ejército de la República cruzan el río para establecer la cabeza de puente de Castellets del Segre, donde combatirán durante diez días. Sin embargo, ni Castellets, ni la XI Brigada, ni las tropas que se le enfrentan en L̕nea de fuego existieron nunca. Las unidades militares, los lugares y los personajes que en esta novela...
8) Sea prayer
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey ... the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone"--
9) El principio
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Despite the cruel and devastating effects of war, this poetic story tells of a united family and provides a message of hope in the face of the horrors of war.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer -- all answer the call of duty, but...
12) Treason
Author
Series
Trident deception volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Rick Campbell's newest thriller, a military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories--while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond. In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its military strength and regain its role as a superpower. The Russian President refuses to greenlight a bold plan to disable American strategic nuclear capability and retake Ukraine and the Baltic States, fearing the potential consequences...
13) The last paladin
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping tale of anti-submarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of military adventure fiction. The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann is based on the true story of the USS Hayward (DE-24), a World War II Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort which has spent the past two years in the unforgiving battle for survival against the German U-boats of the North Atlantic. Summoned to relieve destroyers that are bogged down by escort duty...
14) Missionaries
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Missionaries is an astonishment, a novel of extraordinary suspense whose central, unsparing drama is infused by a geopolitical sophistication and a wisdom about the human heart that would be rare even in isolation. As Los Mil Jesuses make their move to fill a power vacuum in Norte de Santander, aided and abetted by the Colombian military for its own reasons, the Americans are made pawns of a game they don't even begin to understand. The result is...
15) Still life
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn...
16) Arctic Sea
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New threats surface in the aftermath of WWIII--this time, in the remote waters of the Arctic ... In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant to confront Russian aggression. At the same time, the International Criminal Court is accusing...
17) Insignia
Author
Series
Insignia trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Author
Series
Halo series. Kilo-Five trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"HALO: GLASSLANDS saw a very different development in the war that Earth has been fighting for so very long. With terrible losses on both sides, finally open hostilities have ended. But though a fragile peace has been established between Earth and the peoples of the Covenant, forces on both sides make that peace precarious. A schism among the Sangheili is gaining strength, with a splinter group trying to unseat the leader who agreed to peace; and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
World War Two has been declared and the Chivers children are sent to the safety of the countryside. They are delighted to be brought back home when it looks like the Germans aren't going to invade after all. But the air-raid siren goes off and this time it's frighteningly real.
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