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As Leonard fights on the front lines of World War II, memories of Josephine and home help keep him alive. As Josephine contends with life, family, and work in Cleveland, letters from Leonard sustain her. But official censorship forces him to leave out much of the most significant action he sees. Finally, with the war coming to an end, Leonard is able to tell his full story. In a quietly beautiful letter to Josephine, Leonard writes of the loneliness...
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June 1944. World War II. D-Day. One hundred eighty-two members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division parachute into the French countryside-a full 18 miles southeast of their intended target. This original graphic novel from DC Vertigo is the true story of an obscure World War II battle that took place in the small village of Graignes, France, for six days and the men who survived to tell the tale.
In the worst misdrop of the D-Day campaign, a group...
4) The Mist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Dan West has nerves of steel. He regularly risks his life to disarm IEDs. He puts up with his squad mates' mean-spirited pranks without complaint. And when West finds an Afghan boy standing on a bomb's pressure plate, he still manages to keep calm; because if he doesn't, West will be forced to face the only thing he truly fears-the pink mist. The bloody result of a bomb taking someone's life.
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"Determined to protect his beloved home of Paradis, Eren uses the Founding Titan's power to rouse a parade of massive Titans from their centuries-long slumber, breaking free of the Walls to answer their founder's call--to wipe out all of humanity. Though once hailed as humanity's greatest hope, the Attack Titan has now morphed into a grotesque, colossal skeleton of its former self, with Eren long unrecognizable as a friend, a brother, a savior...and...
7) The Tankies
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[2021]
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"From the bloody battle for Normandy to the Nazi heartland, from war's end to the killing fields of Korea, the men of the British Army's Royal Tank Regiment fight battle after battle against terrible odds. Whether outnumbered or outgunned, the Tankies soldier on as their motto says, "From Mud, Through Blood, to the Green Fields Beyond.""--
9) Soldier zero
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2011
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Having lost his legs during the Afghanistan War, Capt. Stewart Trautmann returned stateside with an understandingly negative attitude towards combat and violence, but his convictions are put to the test when a devastating meteor shower brings an alien parasite that transforms him into the ultimate weapon.
10) Bloody Hel
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2021.
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"When a detonation unleashes imprisoned ancient Viking Gods in the hellish trenches of World War I, a reluctant infantryman must convince these mythic powers to end the war and prevent Ragnarok! Full of mystical battles, historical detail, and the power of human frailty, ingenuity, and heroism Bloody Hel gives a new meaning to "the war to end all wars""--Back cover.
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