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2) Dear John
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
An angry rebel, John drops out of school and enlists in the Army. He meets Savannah and she is the girl of his dreams. Savannah can't wait for John to finish his tour of duty so they can be together. But 9/11 changes everything when John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. The long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. 'Dear John,' the letter read . . . and with those two words, a heart is broken and two lives are changed forever....
3) Sir Thursday
Author
Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
On the fourth day there was war. Following their adventures in the Border Sea, Arthur and Leaf head for home. But only Leaf gets through the Front Door. Arthur is blocked because someone or something has assumed his identity and is taking over his life. Before Arthur can take action, he is drafted by Sir Thursday and forced to join the Glorious Army of the Architect. While Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppelganger on earth, Arthur must survive his...
5) Drummer Hoff
Author
Pub. Date
1967.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.
8) Blind tiger
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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. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
11) Warrior's woman
Author
Series
Ly-San-Ter family saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
A coup on her planet forces Security Guard Tedra to flee, and landing on a strange planet, she encounters and challenges an unbearable barbarian. No man has beaten her before, so when Tedra loses, she must become his slave--and soon becomes a slave to desire as well!
Author
Description
The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.
Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
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Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
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In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
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"At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloquent novel recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of war, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by...
15) Once a soldier
Author
Series
Rogues redeemed volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
A Regency series debut from the New York Times bestselling author whose "endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight" (Sabrina Jeffries).
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...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
As civil war engulfs his West African country, Agu, a school-age child whose father had been killed by militants, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. As the war rages on, he becomes more and more separated from the life he had known before that had been filled with friends, church services, and time with his family. Now, his relationship with his commander deepens and darkens, and his friendship with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense...
Author
Series
Shadow Campaigns volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived....
Author
Series
Lord John Grey novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Lord John has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor.
Author
Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Gold Numbers have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door. Amidst all this trouble, Arthur must weigh an offer from Lady Friday...