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1) Blind tiger
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
From...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.
5) Prodigy
Author
Series
Legend volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
6) Battlemage
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Balfruss is a battlemage, sworn to fight and die for a country that fears and despises his kind. Vargus is a common soldier -- while mages shoot lightning from the walls of the city, he's down in the front lines getting blood on his blade. Talandra is a princess and spymaster, but the war may force her to risk everything and make the greatest sacrifice of all"--
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
565 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Soon to be forced into a loveless marriage for political gain, Princess Annika of Kadier finds unexpected love against all odds in the arms of the enemy--a Dahrainian soldier determined to reclaim the throne for his people.
8) Front lines
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xv, 548 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a court decision that makes women eligible for service in the fight against the Nazis, three young women volunteer to serve their country, unaware that their decisions will take them to the front lines of the conflict.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
xxi, 548 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1943, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio accompany the American Army to Sicily to fight on the front lines.
10) Once a soldier
Author
Language
English
Description
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried...
11) Legend
Author
Series
Legend novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xviii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio join thousands of Allies in their deadliest battle yet as they descend into the freezing water and onto the sands of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (21 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
West Texas's Weldon Holland's colorful, intrigue-filled life takes him from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde as a teenager to the trenches of WWII and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana Coast. He will need all of his experience and skill to save his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime American and threaten to destroy them all.
15) Nick
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator from "The Great Gatsby" imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
16) Rogue
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Unable to forget the human boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, Ember is determined to save him from execution with the help of rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues.
Author
Publisher
Merit Press, FW
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After her soldier brother is horribly wounded in Afghanistan, Gabriela must honor the vow she made to walk the Camino de Santiago through Spain with her brother's best friend, a boy she has despised all her life.
18) Take me home
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Marsten is unable to deny her feelings for Peter Becker, an escaped POW who wants to spend every moment he can with her before he must turn himself in, threatening the fragile future they are trying to build.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn't expecting much. It's the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can't resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now. Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the Missouri...
20) Dear John
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.