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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, on a remote Scottish Coast, Dorothy, while caring for sick and wounded Italian soldiers, is drawn to Cesare, a young man broken by the horrors of battle, until the tensions between the islanders and outsiders deepen, testing their loyalty and desire.
23) Nova: [a novel]
Author
Series
Spectre war volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia?s childhood...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War (1950-1953) American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise their treatment and criticize the war. When they came back, the Department of the Army and cooperative pundits said too many were weaklings...
Author
Series
Mack Bedford novels volume 2
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a liberal judge releases four al-Qaeda terrorists, they slip away from CIA surveillance and disappear into the mountains of Pakistan, and soon the CIA learns that an attack on the U.S. mainland is imminent, an attack that can only be stopped by retired Navy SEAL Mack Bedford.
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Escaping from a Confederate prison by balloon, the survivors land on an uncharted island in the Pacific. The island is home to carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and the mad genius Captain Nemo, who inhabits the island for his own strange ends.
29) Deathcaster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"The realms descend into chaos as three rival armies battle for control"--
Since Lyss was captured by the Empress, she must turn her powers against her beloved homeland or be put to death -- something which would end the sacred Gray Wolf bloodline. But in her absence, her castle and country are subject to intrigue and betrayal, as the endgame of Destin Karn is revealed.
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most cunning and merciless officers of the First Order, Captain Phasma commands the favor of her superiors, the respect of her peers, and the terror of her enemies. But for all her renown, Phasma remains as virtually unknown as the impassive expression on her gleaming chrome helmet. Now, an adversary is bent on unearthing her mysterious origins -- and exposing a secret she guards as zealously and ruthlessly as she serves her masters. Deep...
34) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, seven prisoners escape a Siberian gulag and must make a 4,500-mile trek to freedom with little food or water.
Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by? If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to change, because they have inherited a very important prisoner:...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Based on real history and alternating between three perspectives, When We Had Wings tells an amazingly moving story of heroic service, perseverance in the darkest of days, and the hope of the human spirit"--
The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty...
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