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Series
Publisher
Alpha Connections
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The Coalition of Asian States,CAS allied with the Greater Islamic Republic (GIR), has invaded North America, defeated and occupied the whole of Australia, and taken Siberia from the Russians and invaded Russia. The entire Pacific rim has fallen. Israel stands alone in the Mid east, and Europe has been invaded. Heavy fighting is occurring throughout Central and South America and brutal attacks continue within the mainland of the United States. As America...
2) The 5th Wave
Author
Series
5th wave volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--
4) Red metal
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father,...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"When Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell in a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching July day, and the story of Saleem's family, whose loss of their ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their lives. Avi and Saleem understand about the past: they believe it can be buried, reduced to nothing....
6) No Mercy
Author
Series
Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Reprint Edition.
"The launch of a really exciting series." --Joseph Finder
"No Mercy will leave you breathless." --Harlan Coben
When those inside the corridors of power need help outside the law, they know who to call. Jonathan Grave, covert rescue specialist, always gets results. No names. No feds. No trace evidence.
When an Indiana college student is abducted, Jonathan and his team of ace operatives unravel...
"The launch of a really exciting series." --Joseph Finder
"No Mercy will leave you breathless." --Harlan Coben
When those inside the corridors of power need help outside the law, they know who to call. Jonathan Grave, covert rescue specialist, always gets results. No names. No feds. No trace evidence.
When an Indiana college student is abducted, Jonathan and his team of ace operatives unravel...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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“This compelling debut novel, which won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, dramatically examines the insidious role unrestrained technology plays in the moral and ethical corruption of people, institutions, and government . . . This is an excellent story, well told, suspenseful, and tragic.” —Publishers Weekly
When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a...
When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a...
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English
Description
Captain Jim McFarlane, a Canadian infantry officer, is coming apart at the seams. It's September 1944, in Italy, and the allied armies are closing in on the retreating Axis powers. Exhausted and lost, Jim tries to command his combat company under fire, while waiting desperately for letters from his wife Marianne. Joining the army not out of some admirable patriotic sentiments but rather because of his own failings and restlessness, he finds himself...
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English
Description
"This is the legend of Morgan's Raiders--as it's never been told before...In the summer of 1863, Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan led two thousand Confederate soldiers across the Ohio River into southern Indiana. Pursued by fifteen thousand Union cavalry, infantry, and militia, Morgan's Raiders blazed a trail of destruction unparalleled in Civil War history. In forty-six days, they covered one thousand miles, destroyed thirty-four bridges, and captured...
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Language
English
Description
Tales of the Yellow Silk is actually a collection of short stories, covering Sergeant James Kendle's brief tour of duty in Thailand from October 1974 to June 1975. The naIve young sergeant considered his assignment as both a grand adventure and exotic travelogue. Instead, he found himself embroiled in a highly sensitive love affair and assigned to a dangerous covert military operation. Project (Plan) 404 was a secret CIA-funded mission using a complicated...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
13) The lost stories
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In 1896, an archaeological dig unearths an ancient trunk containing manuscripts that confirm the existence of Araluen Rangers Will and Halt and tell of their first meeting and some of their previously unknown exploits.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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World War Z is a fictional account of a worldwide outbreak of the living dead in the near future. WWZ is done in an interview-style format with each chapter consisting of first-person interviews of individuals who lived through the Zombie War from its initial outbreak to it's final battles and mop-up operations.
15) Bless 'Em All
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Language
English
Description
In the early years of the Second World War, respectable Maurice and raffish Bernard are two squabbling brothers who - with the help of sixteen-year-old Jimmy and Miss Tcherny, a pretty invoice clerk - run a wholesale bookselling business near St Paul's. Over the river, in a large house in south London, the residents are doing their best to get on with their lives as the Luftwaffe brings the war to the capital. Bert and Edie Penrose live in the basement;...
Author
Series
5th wave volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others' ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.
17) Prodigy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Long and the Short is the second in Allen Saddler's Forties trilogy and the sequel to his acclaimed Bless Em All. Four years on from Blitz London, as news of the Normandy landings filters through the country, Allen Saddler presents new characters struggling in wartime England alongside memorable figures from the first book. Where Saddler had lives criss-crossing each other in London's streets before, this time they span north and south and with...
19) Breakout
Author
Series
Publisher
Griff Hosker
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
D-day is over but the Germans still have the allies ringed in a foothold in Normandy. The Commandos are tasked with going behind enemy line to destroy a fuel dump. They become part of the force which closes the Falaise Gap and endures horrific fighting against the elite S. S. Concluding with the liberation Paris the novel portrays the lives of ordinary soldiers as they do extraordinary things. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Swordworks and Miro Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Ukraine. A simmering cauldron of old hatreds between Russia and the West. Separatist rebels have an unlimited supply of guns, and the land is ripped apart by rival factions fighting for supremacy. This is a land where brother kills brother, and women can only watch and weep while a Russian invasion threatens. On the other side of the Atlantic, a charitable foundation in New York City, established by Alexander Dragan, a mysterious Ukrainian philanthropist....
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