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1) Steelheart
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
2) Firefight
Author
Series
Reckoners volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"David and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics, humans with superhuman powers, except they may have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic who resides in Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On America's newest combat base, U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. And soon McLanahan and his warriors will have their first target. Chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters are planning to invade the...
5) Crusade
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An international team of six teenaged vampire hunters, trained in Salamanca, Spain, goes to New Orleans seeking to rescue team-member Jenn's younger sister as the vampires escalate their efforts to take over the Earth.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 hr., 53 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Is there a traitor at Dreamland? When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who's really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with...
7) Raging star
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Saba leads a group of guerrillas against DeMalo and the Tonton, all while contemplating DeMalo's invitation to join him in building a New Eden.
Author
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Werner Herzog, one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, in his first book in many years, tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued to defend a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War Two. In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts there asked, whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former soldier famous for having quixotically...
9) Damned
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
509 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the newly appointed Hunter, teenager Jenn leads the fighting teams who defend against the Cursed Ones--the vampires who are taking over Earth--but an even more sinister force now threatens the teams of hunters, with the fate of humanity at stake.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In post-World War III America, legendary soldier and freedom fighter Ben Raines orders his rebels to make one last desperate assault against the Russian invaders and the mercenary turncoat San Hartline. But until fresh troops arrive, Raines wages a one-man guerrilla war against the enemy!
11) Vanquished
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Physical Desc
462 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the brink of the final battle against the Cursed Ones, the Salamancan hunters' internal bickering threatens their cause, and Jenn must try to rally her team while facing her own doubts, especially about her love for Antonio.
Author
Publisher
Geneva Shore Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A second lieutenant, only days from training back in The States is ordered, under fire, to assume command of a company of cast off Marines, all out in the brutal bloody jungle because of the either the worst of luck or the most minor of offenses or infringement. The outnumbered and little supported company is at constant war with vicious units of the North Vietnamese Army while at the same time tearing itself apart every night in deadly encounters...
Author
Publisher
Geneva Shore Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
507 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirty Days Has September is set in the very center of the time of most difficult combat experienced by a United States Marine Corps rifle company. During this Second Ten Days the Second Lieutenant, 'Junior', only 14 days from training back in the states, is ordered, under fire, to assume command of a company of cast off Marines, all out in the brutal bloody jungle because of the either the worst of luck or the most minor of offenses or infringement....
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.