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1) Home front
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After twelve years, their marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home to be a single parent to their two girls.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is an unforgettable World War II tale about a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself...
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Series
Saganami Island volume 1
Language
English
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A peaceful integration of the Cluster with the Star Kingdom turns violent when corrupt Solarian League bureaucrats attempt to prevent the annexation, with only Honor Harrington's newly graduated midshipmen in their way.
5) At all costs
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Series
Honor Harrington volume 11
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
Honor Harrington has been called to command Eighth Fleet against the Republic of Haven, but when she discovers the Star Kingdom is badly outnumbered by the Republic's fleet, the cost of victory will be agonizingly high.
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Series
Shadow campaigns volume 1
Language
English
Description
Stationed in Khandar, a remote desert outpost of the Vordanai empire, Captain Marcus d'Ivoire and his men find themselves on the front lines when the region's inhabitants stage a bloody uprising. As Marcus struggles to fashion his raw recruits into a functioning army, he promotes the most promising soldier, Winter Ihernglass, to a command post (complicating matters for Winter, who's secretly a woman in disguise). Meanwhile, the arrival of a brilliant...
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Series
Gilded ones volume 2
Language
English
Description
"It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is...but war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. For there is a dark force growing in Otera--a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera...or...
10) In enemy hands
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Honor Harrington is sent straight to the heart of an ambush that forces her to choose between watching her people killed or surrendering to the Peeps, a prospect that dooms her to execution or a lifetime of imprisonment on an inescapable planet.
11) Mission of honor
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Series
Honor Harrington volume 12
Language
English
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Description
The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, but Honor has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are forces in play that Honor knows nothing about ... and that could crush the very life out of the Star Kingdom.
12) High hearts
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
When her new husband joins the hastily organized Confederate Army, Geneva changes her name to Jimmy, dons a uniform, and enlists to be with her beloved.
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Series
Discworld volume 31
Language
English
Description
War has come to Discworld ... again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks's brother marched off to battle, and Polly's willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out to join...
14) Bloody rose
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Series
Band volume 2
Language
English
Description
A standalone adventure featuring a band of female mercenaries in the world of Kings of the Wyld from author Nicholas Eames, who has been hailed as "the voice of modern fantasy" by Michael R. Fletcher. Live fast, die young. Tam Hashford has always dreamed of living through glory days of her own. With a renowned mercenary for a mother and an illustrious bard for a father, battles and adventure seem the only way to really live. So when she learns that...
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Series
Gathering of dragons volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
With a demon-possessed warlord wreaking deadly magical havoc on the nations, fallen warrior Lizzan, to stop these terrors, aligns herself with a group of warriors that includes the man who sent her into exile.
18) Against the odds
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Series
Serrano legacy volume 7
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
As Fleet is threatened by mutiny, class conflict, and power struggles, Esmay Suiza-Serrano finds herself unceremoniously dismissed from Fleet and hurtled into the midst of warfare that threatens all galactic civilization.
19) Quicksilver
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Terrorists take an unprecedented gathering of world leaders hostage within the Pentagon. One man inside the building -- and one woman outside -- must join forces to prevent the enemy from realizing that by seizing the Pentagon, they've also seized control of America's super-weapon satellite, Quick Silver.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In the dark and bloody days of the Ninth Century, a courageous young woman took the guise of a gallant warrior to preserve the precious legacy of the past, and protect her people from destruction. Here is a bold retelling of one of Europe's greatest sagas, by one of the world's most acclaimed historical novelists.
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