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An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they're forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today. When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a...
4) Enemy women
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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"Follows Adair, the daughter of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks, who is wrongly accused of enemy collaboration by the Union militia, as she falls in love with her interrogator and embarks on a perilous journey to find her family." (Baker & Taylor)
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First published in 1936, this classic novel portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. This is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans.
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House of Winslow volume 40
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The thrilling conclusion to the epic House of Winslow Series! Luke Winslow, American fighter pilot, selflessly goes to battle for the freedom of others in Spain's Civil War. In the process, however, he loses at love--and abandons his faith in God. Adding to his heartache is the death of an old friend in a tragic accident for which Luke blames himself. He tries to make amends by reaching out to his friend's sister, Joelle, and soon falls in love with...
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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?...
9) Legacies
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American dreams volume 02
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A romance between a white woman and an Indian man during the Civil War. She is Diana Parmelee, daughter of a Union officer, he is Lije Stuart, a Harvard-educated lawyer from the Cherokee Nation, whose family owns a plantation and sides with the Confederacy. A sequel to The Proud and the Free.
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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...
11) Birdsong
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French trilogy volume 2
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Rootless and heartbroken Stephen Wraysford joins the army at the outbreak of World War I. He and his men are given the assignment to tunnel under the German lines and set off bombs. The comaraderie, love, and loyalty of the soldiers contrasts with the horrors of the underground, air, and trench warfare.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance...
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In a departure from his mystery novels featuring Dave Robicheaux and Billy Bob Holland, Burke describes New Iberia, LA, during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Young Willie Burke (an ancestor of the author) and two friends join the Confederate army despite their doubts about some aspects of the Cause, while in New Iberia Abigail Dowling, a nurse from Massachusetts, struggles to act on her abolitionist beliefs. Now, in a startling and brilliantly...
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"An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie,...
15) The winter guest
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Winter guest volume 01
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"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation...Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village...Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper...[as] Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her...
16) The postmistress
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In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it. Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople...
17) 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.
18) The surrender
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Last cavaliers trilogy volume 3
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"Morgan Tremayne leaves his Amish heritage to quietly seek his own way. Spurning slavery, he establishes a Virginia horse farm ... and a reputation as a good and upright man who shelters Jolie, a young girl left homeless when one of the neighbors dies. Then the horrific events of the Civil War threaten Morgan's carefully built life. He bravely follows his employer, Robert E. Lee into battle, but it will take a life-changing injury on Gettysburg's...
19) The sword
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James Ewell Brown Stuart is a brawny soldier with a big heart for young Flora Cooke. Their love was meant to be ... until the Civil War forces Jeb to leave his young family for the battlefield. "Reckless" describes the life of well-to-do Clay Tremayne - a world of gambling and chasing women. When he nearly becomes a casualty of his own wild ways, Clay joins the southern forces under General Stuart hoping to redeem himself.
20) Dreamspinner
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Searching for a master swordsman who will save her evil-plagued land, Aisling of Bruadair, whose life is forfeit if she fails, finds an unexpected candidate in a wounded elven prince masquerading as a soldier and forges an unprecedented alliance. By the author of The Mage's Daughter.
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