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42) An Honorable Man
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Language
English
Description
In this sizzling fan-favorite tale from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster, Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton Wulf's career ambitions cost him the one woman he ever wanted-elementary school teacher Liv Avery. When tragedy strikes, he's determined to win back her love ... even if it means risking his life. First published in 2005.
Author
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Captain Juan Cabrillo of the covert military ship the "Oregon," takes on the Responsivists, a group that publically supports population control and plans on using a virulent virus against the human race.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Sudan decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, the Mahdi or 'Expected One'. The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the "Oregon," while searching for a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, make a shocking discovery that leads to further revelations involving a Chinese curse hundreds of years old.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, Thrawn proved to be indispensable to Emperor Palpatine and the Empire. Ambitious and a warrior never to be underestimated, one promotion followed another. Follow the events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power and infamy as Thrawn rises to Admiral
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a Confederate family prepares for Passover the day after the Civil War has ended, a Yankee arrives on their Virginia doorstep and is invited to share their meal, to the dismay of ten-year-old Jacob. Includes historical notes about Corporal Myer Levy, on whom the story is based, and his prominent Philadelphia family.
53) The quiet game
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Widowed attorney Penn Cage, having returned with his young daughter to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, finds himself battling the FBI, a powerful judge, a former love, and the citizens of the city when he joins ranks with local publisher Caitlin Masters to solve the mystery of the thirty-year-old murder of an African-American Korean War veteran.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Galactic Civil War rages on. Twilight Company is the nickname for the men and women, human and nonhuman, of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry. Defiance is their most powerful weapon until they are ordered to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower. An unlikely ally gives the Rebel Alliance's hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence as they strike at the ultimate target: the very heart...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Portrait of Simone is the poignant story of a young soldier stationed in the Deep South, in the recent past, and his romance with a woman nearly twice his age. Simone is mysterious, alluring, charming, complex. The author brings us the story of true love, love that grows deeper with the passage of time, and pays tribute to the woman known as Simone.
56) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as...
58) The Name-Bearer
Author
Series
Flowers of prophecy volume Book 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will usher in a reign of peace. Having failed in her duties the...
59) Tailspin
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this classic from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster, a playboy falls for the one woman who is immune to his charms ... Lumberyard owner Buck Boswell prides himself on his way with women-but his prickly neighbor Sadie Harte seems immune to his charms. Is she really as aloof as she acts, or can Buck convince her to take a chance on the guy next door? First published in 2004.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
She'd grown up in frontier forts, so if she couldn't handle a harmless kiss with a soldier, who could? Rebecca Huntington blithely declared. But she hadn't planned on her heart being captured by the likes of Officer Clark Forrester, a gentleman whose "casual" kisses were anything but! If Lieutenant Clark Forrester wasn't careful, he would find himself marching down the aisle with Rebecca Huntington. And while a woman who could ride astride, beat him...
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