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1) Brave deeds
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"Spanning eight hours, the novel follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-torn Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their leader, Staff Sergeant Rafe Morgan. In an inhospitable landscape, these men recall the most ancient of warriors while portraying a cross section of twenty-first century America--sometimes strong, sometimes weak, but subject to the same human flaws as all of us."--
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The year is 2600 AD or 419 B.O.M. (the Brotherhood of Man) when Anthony Meredith, a scholar from the future, comes across an important manuscript of Avis Everhard written around 1912-1932 when "Iron Heel” came to power in USA. "Iron Heel” is an oligarchic regime where the power and money is concentrated in the hands of a few rulers and Avis and her husband Ernest are involved in a conspiracy to overthrow it. Although Meredith knows the fate of...
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By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouchback becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor.
5) Checkpoint
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From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be.
Atop a hill, deep in the forest, an army unit is assigned to a checkpoint. The commander doesn't know where they are, what border they're protecting, or why. Their map is useless and the radio crackles with a language no one can recognize. A...
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A story for anyone who has ever wanted to burn down a call center.
Libby Frower loves crushing veterans' hopes and dreams.
Libby Frower works at the VA pharmacy. She decides whether former soldiers get their prescriptions…or not.
But Libby Frower had better watch out.
Tonight, she's going to get a taste of her own medicine.
In the mood for a karmic short story that could have come out of the Twilight Zone? Then THE BUREAUCRAT is just the read...
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Harriet Carew is the endearing heroine of Cristina Odone's popular weekly 'Daily Telegraph' column, 'Posh But Poor'. Based on the character from the column, 'The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew' is the story of her struggle to juggle family life, work and money. Meet Harriet Carew, mother of three and juggler of work, home and family. Harriet only wants to do her best for her husband Guy, her children, and herself. But while their friends flourish, and...
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The award-winning author of Black Moses is at his satiric best in this novel the catalogs the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.
Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war culminates...
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Sword of honour trilogy volume 2
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Guy Crouchback trains as a commando and joins a special assault team on a mission in Crete.
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Reinhart saga volume 1
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Thomas Berger's debut novel of a young man tumultuously coming of age in postwar Germany Carlo Reinhart, a young American army medic stationed in Germany, confronts a disturbing new world following the end of World War II. Living in Berlin, a city fractured into barricaded sectors by the occupying powers, Reinhart begins to drive himself mad with memories of the evils he has witnessed and questions about how the atrocities took place. When he meets...
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Extrait : "Dans un salon jaune, obscur et fané, dépendant d'un appartement garni de la rue de Beaune, trois femmes étaient assises et causaient à demi-voix le 24 décembre 1864. Le jour douteux, qui tombait difficilement des fenêtres à doubles rideaux, indiquait cette heure indécise, si prompte à venir en hiver, o le travail n'est plus possible, o la lecture fatigue déjà la vue, o la lumière d'une lampe n'est pas encore désirée."
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12) Dental Warfare
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AYE EVERYONE KNOWS DENTISTS BE EVILI could stay aboard this ship for the rest of my life. The salty air filled Spencer's lungs and the wind bit his face. This was his first time on a ship. He thought he would hate it. He did hate it at first, but it grew on him quick.He simply had to become accustomed to the smell of the sea and the motions of the boat that at first made him feel sick. Made him sick, after enough time. He simply drank too much. Thankfully,...
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Picture the perfect family...Now forget it & read this.
An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through the e-mail correspondence of two sisters. When your family snapshots resemble NSPCC ads and it takes a quick-witted au pair to prevent your guests from burning alive, you have well and truly arrived in motherhood... Charlotte and Nell are sisters who live thousands of miles apart, each coping, or rather not coping,...
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Un roman habilement construit, o Hector Malot dénonce sans concession les intrigues du prince Louis-Napoléon, et nous brosse un portrait riche en couleurs de la société et des caractères du début du Second Empire
Le capitaine Guillaume de Saint-Nérée, officier rigoureux, honnête et loyal au régime républicain, se trouve à Paris au moment du coup d'Etat du 2 décembre 1851; il assiste impuissant et révolté au déroulement du complot...
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