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81) One of ours
Author
Series
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...
82) Rose Blanche
Author
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
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Description
During World War II, a young German girl's curiosity leads her to discover something far more terrible than the day-to-day hardships and privations that she and her neighbors have experienced.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature--German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, bringing the D-Day invasion to its knees. It's clear that someone is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs, but who? And how? General Eisenhower demands his intelligence service to find the best shot in the Allied military to counter this deadly SS operation....
84) The deerslayer
Author
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
Description
First of the "Leather Stocking Tales," describing pioneers and their warfare with the Iroquois Indians.
85) Thunder point
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
87) The big switch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A World War II alternate history explores the lives of historic leaders, soldiers, and civilians in a world where Chamberlain chooses not to appease Adolf Hitler in 1938.
88) Neverhome
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Language
English
Description
"She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Schindlers List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first...
90) Academ's fury
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English
Description
Tavi is ostensibly serving as a page but secretly training to become a spy. When the first lord falls to a sorcerous attack, Tavi and his closest friends and teachers must conceal the lord's condition lest the realm fall into civil war. In the Calderon Valley, a long--forgotten horror awakens and heads for the heart of Alera, while Tavi's closest relative, the newly appointed Steadholder Isana, faces at least two sets of assassins.
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English
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By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained, by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britian and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management, a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
92) Lisette's list
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Language
English
Description
In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, André, move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for André's grandfather Pascal. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris. But as she soon discovers, the hilltop town is rich with unexpected pleasures. Pascal once worked in the nearby ochre mines and later became a pigment salesman and frame maker; while...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy leads a covert Vietnamese counterattack against China , SEAL Lieutenant Ric Kerfer is sent by the president to destroy a Vietnamese doomsday weapon capable of destroying Southeast Asia.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japan's empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself--the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most...
96) Finding moon
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Language
English
Description
Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos. Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled...
97) Every storm
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
New from Lori Wick, this stand- alone story shows how unexpected changes can set the perfect course for love.
1945, WWII-When Lieutenant Donovan Riggs experiences trouble with his PT boat, the sailors of Every Storm make an unscheduled stop...and a surprising discovery. During WWII Lieutenant Donovan Riggs rescues Lorraine Archer from a deserted South Pacific island. Over time and through precarious circumstances, they both discover how life's unexpected...
98) Shadow scale
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Series
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
"Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"--