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Author
Series
Scott Brodie volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017, c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Enduring the terror and shortages caused by the Blitz in 1940 Liverpool, thirteen-year-old Joan is unable to spend time with her friends in the face of intensifying bombing raids and makes a shattering discovery about a stranger and a local mill.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Deserting to escape the horrors of the Indian Wars, two Irish brothers seek peace with the woman they love. For fans of Cormac McCarthy. Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter....
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A ... history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, [this book] offers a ... new perspective on the Second World War ... [delving] deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this ... portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
(Stephanie C.).Ancestry detective volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Lancaster is just about to tuck into a plate of tacos at her favourite Austin joint, Big Flaco's, when she gets an unexpected visit from her former-and least-favourite-co-worker. Camilla Braithwaite hasn't gotten much friendlier since the last time Lucy saw her, but that doesn't stop her from asking a favour. In her hand is a newspaper feature on an ancestor, a civil war corporal-and a liar, according to the article. Charles Braithwaite is depicted...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Five documentaries, employing re-enactments and historical photographs, and two feature films explore the life and times of Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War.
Lincoln, trial by fire: Lincoln, facing the crisis of a divided nation, was forced to turn for help to General George McClellan, who supported Southern positions on slavery and states' rights. The conflict between Lincoln and McClellan was intense from the start and before their uneasy partnership...
Author
Series
Saga volume 10
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back in a new story arc. This story picks up three years after the events at the end of issue 54. Hazel, now ten years old, is living on the run with her mother Alana, who has partnered with a drug smuggler named Bombazine. Hazel acts confident and cheerful, but inside, she is torn up about her father's death. This collection features the latest six chapters of the most epic adventure in...
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 364
Publisher
Signet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While trying to locate three widows who have gone missing in the Rocky Mountains, Skye Fargo locks horns with Dub Kreeger and his ruthless gang of army deserters who have been killing and stealing their way through the treacherous terrain.
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