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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The effect of the preparation and the actual outbreak of World War II upon the family of Commander 'Pug' Henry. The affairs of the Henry family become intertwined with those of others, in such places as Washington, Berlin, Rome, London, and Moscow.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of four people--a baker, a young father, a sniper, and a cellist who commits to playing Albinoni's "Adagio" once a day for twenty-two days in memory of his neighbors who were killed--trying to adjust to their new daily routines in war-torn Sarajevo.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman-Evangelina Cisneros-who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry,led by the ICBM submarine Xia III—a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city.
National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret
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Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A young American goes on a dangerous mission against Franco troops during the Spanish Civil War, with a Spanish girl as companion through the several eventful days. Background for the novel was obtained by the author as a contemporary war correspondent.
10) Catch-22
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 220
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly tries to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to get him killed by demanding that he fly more and more missions.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to save their family and the citizens of Ferryport Landing from the evil plans of Mirror, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm seek counsel from the other magic mirrors, who advise them to join forces with the Scarlet Hand.
12) One of ours
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds...
15) Behemoth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
16) On the beach
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
17) Out of the dark
Author
Language
English
Description
The Galactic Hegemony, having learned of the existence of Earth and its human inhabitants, decides to send in the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi to neutralize the humans before they can become a threat to galactic peace, but even though Earth is conquered in minutes, the alien Shongairi soon discover they seriously underestimated the enemy.
18) Goliath
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
19) March
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.
20) A distant melody
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Before being shipped to England during World War II, Lt. Walter Novak and Allie are drawn together by their love of music, prompting a correspondence that untangles secrets, commitments, and expectations between them both.
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