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22) Sky masters
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English
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A confrontation between the U.S and China threatens to erupt into all-out war. As the U.S. withdraws from the Philippines, China slips in to fill the power vacuum and lays claim to tiny, uninhabitable oil-rich islands in the South China Sea. The Philippines also claim the islands, so China's navy decimates a Philippine drilling platform when its occupants refuse to knuckle under. A shooting war ensues, bringing America into the fray. The U.S. Air...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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A breathtaking epic fantasy of love, war, rebirth, and magical destiny based on the haunting folklore of England, Ireland, and Scotland unfolds across a vivid landscape of wonder and peril In The Ill-Made Mute, a wretched, nameless mute awakens without a memory in a lofty tower upon whose battlements winged horses and flying ships make landfall. The amnesiac longs to escape and roam the wild landscape in search of a past, a name, and a destiny. But...
24) Executive intent
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English
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When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
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Men at war volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A novel following the struggles of fighting men in the Philippines, Budapest, Washington, and Cairo in 1943.
27) A world away
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English
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James and Anne Langer, having moved to a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons during World War II to care for James's aging father, await word from their older son Rennie who is off fighting somewhere in the Pacific, while trying to deal with their own, more personal conflicts on the homefront.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
This story begins at an observatory in England where the narrator witnesses explosions on Mars. This event is followed by what is thought to be a meteor landing not far from the observatory. Once the narrator travels to the spot of the meteor landing he discovers it is actually a cylinder and the cylinder contains Martians. The story chronicles the Martian attacks throughout many parts of England, even devastating London and the narrator escapes with...
30) The 5th Wave
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher.
31) Copperhead
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Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Nate Starbuck, a young Bostonian and a lieutenant in the Confederate Army, is accused of being a Yankee spy. To prove his innocence means getting behind enemy lines.
33) Catch-22
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Description
Set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy, the hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)
34) On the beach
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English
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A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
36) Dead zero
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger is called in to investigate when Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, who was killed in action a year earlier, seems to come back from the dead, threatening to take out a high-ranking official and reveal government secrets.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As the war in the Pacific heats up in 1945, Private Clay Adams dreams of finding glory like his brother, while Admiral Chester Nimitz struggles to unite rival army and marine commanders so they can defeat the Japanese and end the war.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Life changes on the Greek island of Cephalonia as Axis forces invade during World War II, and beautiful Pelagia finds that she must choose between Mandras, a fisherman who joins the resistance and Corelli, a captain with the communist Italian troops.
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Daughters of fortune volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Three sisters, daughters of newspaper tycoon Keagan Hayes, follow very different paths in life with Cameron, the oldest, taking a job with a rival newspaper in 1941 and heading off on assignment to Russia; Blair giving her all to become a Hollywood star; and college student Jackie trying to hold to her Christian ideals by befriending a Japanese American boy.
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