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by
Jeffrey Archer
(98)
Summary: Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love; and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery...
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BOOK
Call #: F ARCHER
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Laura Ruby
(3,702)
Summary: When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F RUBY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(406)
Summary: "Civilization has fallen. Everyone who survived the plague lived through the Fall, that terrible autumn when life as they had know it ended in blood and chaos. Now nuclear submarines are facing...
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BOOK
Call #: F VOICES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Features "alternative history re-imaginings of ... the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We can do it' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of...
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BOOK
Call #: F GRIMM
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ken Mochizuki
(3,504)
Summary: A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
BOOK
Call #: E MOCHIZUKI
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Frances Hardinge
(5,890)
Summary: In the 1640s during the English Civil War, the twelve-year-old illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic family shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts.
BOOK
Call #: YA F HARDINGE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert Brooks
(751)
Summary: This collection of twelve short stories depicts the backstories of Overwatch's heroes.
BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL OVE
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Mary Downing Hahn
(2,623)
Summary: "When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: J F HAHN
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jeffrey Archer
(4,858)
Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose...
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BOOK
Call #: F ARCHER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ryo Suzukaze
Series:
Attack On Titan: Before The Fall
(438)
Summary: "The Survey Corps sets a cunning trap to capture the mysterious Abnormal Titan that broke through their ranks. As Arwin tries to determine the grotesque creature’s identity and purpose, scouts...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL ATT
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Si Lewen artist
(26)
Summary: "Si Lewen's Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country--a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in...
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BOOK
Call #: B LEWEN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Trent Reedy
Series:
Divided We Fall Trilogy - #3
(403)
Summary: Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F REEDY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John Le Carre
(4,382)
Summary: "From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before...
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BOOK
Call #: B LE CARRE
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sofi Oksanen
(2,921)
Summary: "1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes...
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BOOK
Call #: F OKSANEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michael Burgan
Series:
You Choose Books. Modern History
(44)
Summary: "Lets readers experience the Korean War from multiple perspectives, allowing them to choose different paths through history." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: J 909 YOU
Location: Juvenile Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brian Falkner
Series:
Recon Team Angel Series - #3
(81)
Summary: It is February 2033 and Earth forces have their full attention on the Bering Strait. If Bzadian forces mange to cross the icy wastelands and enter the Americas, then the planet will be lost. On...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F FALKNER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brian Falkner
Series:
Recon Team Angel Series - #2
(140)
Summary: The six teens of Recon Team Angel, genetically modified and having spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act, and think like their enemies, now have their target in sight but time is running out to save humanity and themselves.
BOOK
Call #: YA F FALKNER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paolo Giordano
(2,990)
Summary: "The Human Body depicts the struggle, the vicissitudes and the internal and external growth of a platoon of young Italian soldiers that are sent for the first time on a mission to the forward...
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BOOK
Call #: F GIORDANO
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gabriel Chevallier
(988)
Summary: "Fear is a classic of war literature, a book to place on the shelf with Storm of Steel, A Farewell to Arms, and Going After Cacciato. Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical...
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BOOK
Call #: F CHEVALLIER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ishmael Beah
(4,077)
Summary: "A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an...
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BOOK
Call #: F BEAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series:
Cavendon Hall Series
(5,488)
Summary: "Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there...
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BOOK
Call #: F BRADFORD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Kate Mosse
Series:
Languedoc Trilogy
(8,296)
Summary: "A World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland and protect astonishing secrets buried in...
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BOOK
Call #: F MOSSE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nadifa Mohamed
(1,276)
Summary: 1987. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo, lured to the city...
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BOOK
Call #: F MOHAMED
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laird Hunt
(4,792)
Summary: "She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the...
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BOOK
Call #: F HUNT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kathleen Ernst
Series:
American Girl Beforever Caroline Series
(76)
Summary: A modern-day girl finds herself on the shore of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and as she and Caroline Abbott experience life in this turbulent time, the reader is invited to choose how the twosome might help the Americans beat the British.
BOOK
Call #: J F AMERICAN CAROLINE
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Denise Lewis Patrick
Series:
American Girl Beforever Addy Series
(67)
Summary: What if you suddenly found yourself in Addy Walker's world in the middle of the Civil War? Join Addy on adventures as you outrun a slave catcher, raise money for soldiers, and search for Addy's...
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BOOK
Call #: J F AMERICAN ADDY
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
April Smith
(3,830)
Summary: Meeting for the first time for a shared pilgrimage to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons, an Irish maid, a chicken farmer's wife, a Boston socialite, a former tennis star,...
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BOOK
Call #: F SMITH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tracy Groot
(828)
Summary: Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates...
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BOOK
Call #: F GROOT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Johanna Skibsrud
(168)
Summary: A false conspiracy charge against a World War I veteran prompts the man's disappearance and haunts his son throughout the 1930s, intertwining his life with those of a powerful congressman's children.
BOOK
Call #: F SKIBSRUD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Thomas Keneally
(4,058)
Summary: "From the beloved author of Schindler's List, a magnificent, epic novel of two sisters, both nurses during World War I, that has been hailed as perhaps "the best novel of Keneally's career" (The Spectator)"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Call #: F KENEALLY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Speller
(465)
Summary: Follows the lives of four very different men--Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry--as their fates converge on the most terrible and destructive day of World War I, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
BOOK
Call #: F SPELLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
William Boyd
Series:
James Bond Series
(4,792)
Summary: James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs...
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BOOK
Call #: F BOYD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Wein
Series:
Code Name Verity Series
(99,878)
Summary: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
BOOK
Call #: YA F WEIN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Anthony Marra
(50,338)
Summary: In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and...
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BOOK
Call #: F MARRA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bob Shacochis
(1,845)
Summary: "When the humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful, seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape of poverty, corruption, and voodoo."--Publisher's website.
BOOK
Call #: F SHACOCHIS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bernard Cornwell
(11,472)
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the...
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BOOK
Call #: F CORNWELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bernard Cornwell
(11,472)
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F CORNWELL
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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