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In late 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, and to the resilience of the human spirit, Across the...
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Hannah Bonner returns to her family's mountain home in 1812 without her husband or her son, unable to talk about the tragic loss she has endured, and unaware that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge yet--saving her younger brother from the British who hold him captive.
4) Up country
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Paul Brenner novels volume 2
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One of the last things that Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division-an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself having to do the last thing he ever wanted-return to Vietnam.
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Major Jack Novak has never failed to meet a challenge--until he meets army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty. When Jack lands in the army hospital after a plane crash, he makes winning Ruth's heart a top priority mission. But he has his work cut out for him. Not only is Ruth focused on her work in order to support her orphaned siblings back home, she carries a shameful secret that keeps her from giving her heart to any man. Can Jack break down her defenses?...
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Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
"April, 1917. The Smith College Club is looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine. Kate Moran reluctantly agrees to join the...
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On his own after his network is dismantled by the Nazis, American socialite spy Stephen Metcalfe sets out from Paris to Moscow to find a former lover, ballerina Svetlana Baranova, and must choose between potentially saving the free world and saving the woman he realizes he still loves.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
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For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there:...
10) Garden of stones
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After bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor, 14-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up--along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans--and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.
11) The rough rider
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House of Winslow volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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"Aaron Winslow, The Rough Rider, is determined to protect his younger brother in the fight against the Spanish in Cuba"--Provided by publisher.
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From the best-selling author of The Lost Regiment series comes this factually based narrative of the black military experience in the Civil War. “I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north...
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"The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly-minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it's happening--through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands. Day after day, Jack tries to assert his leadership in the sweltering, dreary atmosphere of Ashuriyah. But his world is disrupted by the arrival of veteran Sergeant Daniel Chambers, whose aggressive style threatens to undermine the fragile...
16) Every storm
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Lt. Donovan Riggs and his crew from their damaged PT boat encounter a half-starved American woman, the lone survivor of a plane crash, on an island in the middle of the South Pacific, and suddenly the war seems miles away for him.
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It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor...
18) Secret sanction
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Sean Drummond novels volume 1
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Word of Honor meets A Few Good Men in a stunning thriller that pits the Green Berets, C.I.A., and White House against a top Army lawyer in an Investigation that could put the U.S. military on trial.
A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. But of course, no one saw anything....
A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. But of course, no one saw anything....
19) The gypsy moon
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House of Winslow volume 35
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Dr. Gabrielle Winslow, who has joined the underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country, must decide whether she can trust a British OSS agent who has offered to help her get her physicist uncle, who does not want to work for the Nazis any longer, out of Germany.
20) For such a time
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Women of valor volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Gisell Munier and Jean Thornton are more like sisters than cousins, having spent many summers together while Giselle's French father taught at an American university. But with the outbreak of World War II, both women's lives take a dramatic turn.
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