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61) A private war
Author
Publisher
Alliance Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A Private War" tells the story of the personal battles of the first African American war correspondents who paved the way to cover the perspective of the black soldier during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Alliance Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A Private War II" continues the story of the characters first introduced in "A Private War." Although the war has ended, life at home has changed. Memories of battlefield and courtroom conflicts still haunt the soldiers, reporters, and lawyers and once again their lives intertwine. But this time, the men and women find themselves faced with danger from their own countrymen ... culminating in a dramatic and fiery final climax.
63) Bellewether
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on...
64) First command
Author
Publisher
Sagebrush Large Print Westerns
Pub. Date
2003, c1959
Language
English
65) The contractor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a Special Forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 19
The Cork O’Connor Mysteries volume Book 19
Thorndike Press large print thriller
The Cork O’Connor Mysteries volume Book 19
Thorndike Press large print thriller
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series returns with this "genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel" (The New York Times Book Review) as Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries.
The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully...
The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully...
Author
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the international best-selling 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 has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
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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 has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
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Author
Language
English
Description
This book is a real-life chronicle of two people who met through letters in the summer of 1955. In the beginning, the exchange was friendly but very revealing of their vulnerabilities and innocence. These pen pals soon discovered the commonalities between them.
As this story unfolds, there is so much anticipation to learn about each other. Both are willing to help one another deal with everyday experiences. Finding a purpose for writing to each other...
Author
Language
English
Description
COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
"A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
"A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a...
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this nail-biting sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia?s critically acclaimed fantasy novel We Set the Dark on Fire, La Voz operative Carmen is forced to choose between the girl she loves and the success of the rebellion she?s devoted her life to. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid?s Tale and Anna-Marie McLemore.
Author
Series
Publisher
KL & MM Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Kris Longknife has discovered that this desk job is not at all what she expected. Being desk bound hasn't even decreased the number of assassination attempts! Then Kris gets home to find her two kids playing with an Iteeche. Ron has come back to human space with a request. Should Kris take it? Can she finally get some straight answers from her Grampa Ray, known as King Raymond to most? Does she risk taking the kids into a situation with a whole...
75) Beau travail
Series
Criterion collection volume 1042
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.
76) I am the traitor
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division's answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment, through...
78) Running target
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
She escaped right into danger…
A Coldwater Bay Intrigue novel
A routine patrol turns deadly when marine deputy Bree Carrington's boat is sunk by men carrying illegal weapons. Fleeing a barrage of bullets, she's suddenly rescued by DEA agent Quinn Strand-her ex-boyfriend. Quinn's return threatens more than Bree's heart…because he's the one the men are really after. As criminals hunt her to get to him, can Quinn and Bree take down a drug ring?...
80) 1917
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
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