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621) The card counter
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
Author
Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her soldier brother is horribly wounded in Afghanistan, Gabriela must honor the vow she made: If anything ever happened to him, she would walk the Camino de Santiago through Spain, making a pilgrimage in his name. The worst part is that the promise stipulates that she must travel with her brother's best friend--a boy she has despised all her life" --
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After waking up in a German field at the end of World War II, a man with only flashes of his memory intact searches for his identity while getting caught up in a flood of displaced people, including a teenager with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.
625) Hattie's war
Author
Publisher
Crispin Books
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Hattie's War is a story of a girl in Milwaukee near the end of the Civil War. In 1864, eleven-year-old Hattie is far more interested in the emerging sport of base ball than in sewing circles and other's women's efforts to support the cause. But when her good friend Charlie enlists as a drummer boy with the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin, and her mother becomes involved in the new Soldier's home Society, Hattie wants to do her part. Still, must her backyard...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Max Wolff is a committed soldier of the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he is outraged. His mother's act of mercy is a gross betrayal of everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism, fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father's imprisonment. It's his duty to turn the sisters over to the Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer...
627) Duke's mission
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to transport a case of nuclear warheads, Duke and Ripcord's Special Forces unit is ambushed by COBRA, a secret terrorist cell.
628) Birds without wings
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 553 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
629) Raven summer
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
630) Before the scandal
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Colonel Phineas Bromley is a legend--on the battlefield and in the bedroom. Though he's won many wars, and even more hearts, nothing could prepare him for his new life. When Phin discovers that someone has been pushing his family toward ruin, he assumes the role of a legendary highwayman. Riding out in the middle of the night, hidden behind a mask, Phin heads straight into trouble...and into the arms of the ravishing girl next door. Coming face-to-face...
Author
Publisher
Skybound Books/Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Skybound Books / Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars--the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain--Saito Ren--whom she knows nothing about. She is commanded to spy on Captain Ren by the Sisterhood,...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes...
633) Mulan
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When China is invaded by the Huns, Mulan decides that she must disguise herself as a male soldier to fight in place of her ill father, who has been called up for war.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, My Mothers Secret is a profound, captivating, and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the clever and {28}righteous
635) The brides of London
Author
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
674 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Bittersweet Bride: "Widow Theodosia Cecil needs a husband and needs one fast to protect her land, so she places an anonymous ad in the paper. She's delighted she spends her remaining weeks exchanging flirtatious letters with the perfect man... Until she meets him and realizes he's the son of the man trying to steal her land." -- Page [4] cover.
The Bashful Bride: "When sparks fly between timid heiress Ester Croome and a handsome actor, they're...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent...
639) The colonels
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
13 audio discs (16 hr., 1 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come.
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha's Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices. France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Fournier has important secrets to keep. Her role as a spy has made her both feared and revered, but it has also put her in extreme danger from the approaching German army. American soldier...