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1) 1812
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American story 1800-1860 volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 32
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From the New York Times bestselling author David Nevin, comes an astonishing historical novel of the War of 1812.
The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific- or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolly Madison, and Andrew and Rachel...
4) Marking time
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Cazalet chronicles volume 2
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Three Cazalet cousins--Louise, Polly, and Clary--are so eager to shed the trappings of childhood that they view the war from a different perspective than their more experienced parents.
5) Enemy women
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Accelerated Reader
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)
6) Confusion
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In the wake of her mother's death, Polly moves to London and becomes involved in a love triangle with her cousin and a family friend, while teenage Louise suffers an ill-fated pregnancy and Zoe begins an affair.
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A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze in the smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops that encircle the skeleton that the city has become in April 1945. With the precision and skill that has marked his brilliant military career, Brumm has completed the first stage of a simple yet seemingly...
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Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award-winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable—and still unthinkable—carnage of...
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"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor...
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Song of Acadia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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While Anne settles into life in Britain, Nicole sets sail for America to manage her uncle's holdings and finds her heart and loyalties tested by the Revolution.
13) The white knight
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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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"Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only fourteen months. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given." -- Page [4] cover.
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They are the men of C-for-Charlie Company--"Mad" 1stSgt. Eddie Welsh, SSgt. Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them--infantrymen in "this man's army" who are about to land grim and white-faced on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal. This is their story, a shatteringly realistic walk into hell and back. In the days ahead some will earn medals; others will do anything they can dream up to get evacuated...
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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?...
17) Bright captivity
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The story begins as the War of 1812 is in its final days. Ann Couper, the spirited young daughter of a prominent St. Simons family, is attending a house party at Dungeness, an estate on nearby Cumberland Island, when a contingent of British Royal Marines, invades the island.
18) For such a time
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In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin is saved from a firing squad only to be pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt. In order to survive as Aric's secretary, "Stella" must stand by as her people are sent to Auschwitz. When she cautiously appeals to him on their behalf, Aric's compassion gives her hope. Perhaps God has placed her there for such a time as this ...
19) The pathfinder
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Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and...
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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...
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