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War has come to Discworld ... again.
And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks's brother marched off to battle, and Polly's willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out
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Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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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.
25) Fear and desire
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
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The sequel to the international bestselling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
One day, in the middle of an...
27) Defy the worlds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. When a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi is the only soldier to have ever left the planet. It's up to her to save its people-- if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap. On the run to avoid his creator, Burton Mansfield, Abel hears that Noemi has been captured-- by Mansfield....
28) The sympathizer
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Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
32) Unravel me
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight."--
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Raised by a career soldier, a working class Englishman tries to find his place-both in and out of uniform-in this compelling novel of love and war Charlie Scorton sees his best friend killed beside him in the mine, and resolves to join the army. His father throws him out for deserting the coal miner's life, but Charlie never looks back. For twenty-four years, he roams the empire, a king's soldier who is finally left with no choice but to come home....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Jonas, the only survivor of his family after the U.S. bombs his Middle Eastern country, relocates to America where he tells a counselor about Christopher Henderson, an American soldier who disappeared after saving him.
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Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
From...
37) Kill chain
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A remote Maine island becomes the setting for a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the Net Force novella KILL CHAIN. Natasha Mori and Bryan Ferrago work for the Net Force Cyber Squad, an elite government agency created to lead the charge against America's online enemies. They've traveled to Maine's coast for a project to study extreme weather forecasting--and hopefully enjoy a little vacation. But someone from Natasha's past has followed them and, as...
38) Hero dad
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Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2010
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IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
39) Rebel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Having broken free of HARC, seventeen-year-old Wren and Callum escaped north but the Reboot Reservation is preparing to wage all-out war on the humans and the two are torn about their loyalties until Micah commits the ultimate betrayal and their choice is made.
40) Hell hole
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Hell Hole is the fourth book in the mystery series featuring former hardened military PD and current Sea Haven, NJ police officer John Ceepak and his partner, wise-cracking Danny Boyle. In Hell Hole, Ceepak is confronted with his most personal case yet when he must investigate the alleged suicide of a military corporal who recently returned from Iraq. When it turns out that this "locked stall" rest stop suicide is anything but an open-and-shut case,...
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