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In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches as her father is abducted by Russian soldiers. Their neighbor Akhmed takes Havaa to the bombed-out hospital of Sonja Rabina. Sonja has no desire to take on more responsibility and risk -- there's someone of her own whose return she doesn't want to jeopardize. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja's world will shift on its axis.
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"From present day Viareggio to Glasgow during World War II, a multigenerational sweeping tale of love lost, family secrets, and reconciliation over decades from New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani"--
Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood...
23) Birdsong
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Series
French trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1996], c1993
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic...
24) Redeployment
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2014.
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English
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How do you face suburban life when you can't stop seeing the dogs that ate human remains on the battlefield? Several stories reveal how war irrevocably changes people, from a dedicated Lance Corporal bent on relieving his friend's burden in the wake of murder to a soldier ordered to shoot dogs that feast on human corpses.
25) Parade's end
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Vintage Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Vintage Classics ed.
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906 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last Tory", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child. Meanwhile, his incipient affair with Valentine Wannop, a high-spirited suffragette, has not been consummated, despite what...
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
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141 p. ; 19 cm.
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English
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A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.
27) Executive intent
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 16
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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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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
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354 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"It is 1919 and Niska, an Oji-Cree medicine woman, has left her home in the bush of northern Ontario to receive Xavier Bird, her only relation who has returned from the trenches of Europe. Gravely wounded and addicted to morphine, Xavier recounts how he and his best friend, Elijah Whiskeyjack, prowled the battlefields as snipers of enormous skill and how the circumstances of their deadly craft led them to very different fates."--P. [4] of cover.
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Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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2023.
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English
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"In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into...
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I survived volume 15
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English
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The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs--and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war--brutal, bloody...
33) The steel wave
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 493 p. maps 25 cm.
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English
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A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
34) Enigma
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Tom Jericho has been called out of retirement to join in a race to crack the Nazi's secret code, Enigma, in order to save Allied troops from a deadly German attack.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
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pages cm
Language
English
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After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
37) The saboteurs
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Series
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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605 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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As the war heats up, "Wild Bill" Donovan's agents suddenly find themselves battling on two fronts at once, and fate is just about to deal them a few surprises.
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English
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"August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling...
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
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xii, 430 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among...
40) Still life
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2021.
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English
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"Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn...
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