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A young renegade who's grown to manhood riding freights, prizefighting, and working in mines sails the exotic South China Sea with a trio of dangerous men in search of treasure they figure to divide four ways. But when it's time to dive for the prize, can he trust any of them to guard his back?
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When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller. THE NEW YORK TIMES Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for FictionEnter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...
8) Merry tales
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At the heart of this collection of seven stories is the masterful tale "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Part autobiographical account of Twain's adventures in the Civil War and part fiction, the story is by turns brimming with satire and a sober indictment of the cruel realities of war. Also included are "A Curious Experience," the account of a boy whose fantasy world collides with the real world during war time, and "The Invalid's...
9) Empire
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Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
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2006.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The American Empire is growing too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side and militia foot soldiers on the other, devastating the cities and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the...
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A Union officer struggles homeward through a Christmas Eve snowstorm, haunted by loss and doubtful of the future. Paroled from a brutal prison camp, a young southern soldier yearns to find the one person he loves most in the world -- and worries over the devastation rumored to have reached his family's mountain. An immigrant private plans a startling Christmas surprise for his comrades. And a newly freed slave must choose between the desire for revenge...
11) Jerusalem vigil
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Zion legacy volume 1
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The inhabitants of Jerusalem brace for the violence that will follow the departure of the British in 1948.
12) Danger close
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[2017]
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Freelance female war reporter Alex Quade covers US Special Operations Forces (SOF) on highly classified combat missions. Since 2001, she has embedded with elite SOF, including the US Army Special Forces or Green Berets, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, and CIA clandestine operatives to tell their stories from the front lines. It follows Alex as she lives alongside these highly trained forces on some of the most daring missions ever documented in Iraq and...
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He was a New Kind of Soldier,
Created for a New Kind of War!
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The colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground—with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically
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Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it-on the battlefields and over the graves-and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war between...
19) The warmasters
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"Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" by David Weber: Before she saved the galaxy, she was "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington," and then an encounter with "pirates" who were more than they seemed began Honor Harrington's Brilliant Career. "Choosing Sides" by David Drake: Lieutenant Huber stepped off the starship into an ambush - but Slammers aren't supposed to get ambushed. Huber can save his career if he survives a suiclde mission. "The Island" by Eric Flint:...
20) Warriors
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Tales of Dunk and Egg volume 3
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A major collection includes never-before-published fantastical tales of war and warriors from some of today's most popular writers.
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