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81) Cast in silence
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Chronicles of Elantra volume 5
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English
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A member of the elite Hawk force that protects the City of Elantra, Kaylin Neya has sacrificed much to earn the respect of the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani she works alongside. But the mean streets she escaped as a child aren't the ones she's vowed to give her life guarding. Those were much darker. Kaylin's moved on with her lifeand is keeping silent about the shameful things she's done to stay alive. But when the city's oracles warn...
82) Nostalgia
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English
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Leaving his schoolteacher sister and his baseball career to serve in the Civil War, young Summerfield Hayes struggles with secret feelings for his sister throughout grueling battlefield experiences and while seeking shelter and a sense of identity after being abandoned by his comrades.
83) Secret soldiers
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In 1917, Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner seeking his missing brother, James, joins the Claykickers, who tunnel beneath the battlefields of the Western Front as they learn to be men.
84) Sir Thursday
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Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 4
Language
English
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When Arthur is drafted into the Glorious Army of the Architect by Sir Thursday, he must survive basic training, avoid getting posted to the Front, and figure out how to free Part Four of the Will, while Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppleganger on Earth.
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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...
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English
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Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War buff and weekend reenactor, is partnered with two misfits--Ella, who is on the verge of failing all her classes, and Kevin, who is Oliver's lunch companion -- to create a documentary about the wartime experience of a Civil War contemporary, and while they conduct research in local historical societies, collaborate on a script, and edit the film, they discover secrets about their Pennsylvania soldier and learn how...
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English
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The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed, or, possibly, gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueao and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder that has been concealed, rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck. It is up to them to right egregious wrongs while being pursued...
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Series
Traitor's trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Training completed, and comfortably situated as the royal tutor, the spy Sage Fowler only longs to be reunited with her betrothed: Captain Alex Quinn. As a way to be near to him again, she accepts a secret mission only to continuously clash with Quinn's gruff demeanor, until they are separated and she ends up in enemy territory.
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Language
English
Description
Despite pressure from his father to join the family company, a supplier of military radios, Merrill Kendrick chose to fight on the front lines of the war, a decision he's never regretted. Now, as captain of a destroyer in the US Navy, Kendrick plays a crucial and dangerous role in protecting the convoys that are essential to Britain's survival in the Second World War. But when technical issues with his family's Gatekeeper radios lead to devastating...
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Series
Hope's crossing volume 4
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English
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Offered her dream job at an exclusive restaurant, Alexandra McKnight, who prefers work to play, gets involved with construction foreman Sam Delgado, who seems like the perfect man until he wants more than she is willing to give.
92) My big brother
Author
Publisher
Star Bright
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
When his big brother leaves to become a soldier, a boy does what he can to take his place in the family.
Author
Series
Traitor's trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Deemed unfit for a suitable marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls, and on the soldiers escorting them. Recruited by a handsome soldier to infiltrate the enemy ranks, Sage becomes less certain about whom to trust-- and becomes caught in a dangerous balancing act that will determine the fate of her kingdom.
94) Unravel me
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Series
Shatter me volume 2
Language
English
Description
Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight.
95) Dead man's hand
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Jake Paynter volume 1
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English
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Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train...
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English
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A series of short stories in which mystery master Arthur Conan Doyle dishes up action and hilarity in equal measures. The stories follow the adventures of the eponymous brigadier, a Frenchman who is puzzled by British mores and manners but is always at the ready to defend his own or another's honor, either by word or by the sword.
97) The volunteer
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into clandestine service for the U.S. government"--back cover.
98) 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...
Author
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.
100) Article 5
Author
Series
[Article 5 trilogy] volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother, Ember must take action.
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