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Author
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner.
6) The horizon
Author
Series
Royal Marines saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"This story takes Jonathan Blackwood into the 1914-1918 war, and is in two parts. The first, the Gallipoli campaign offers a horrifying initiation into war and the second half concerns the Naval Division in Flanders and trench warfare."--Fantastic fiction.
Author
Series
Royal Marines saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
It's 1943 and the British Army has won a victory. A new phase of the war is coming, already bloodied in the disastrous retreat from Burma the British are about to strike the first blows against ihr Nazi fortress of mainland Europe.
Author
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
528
Description
"With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde of zombies but also holds the flickering hope of survivors. Now Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped Marines and sailors succumb to starvation"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marine's marine. She's survived more deadly encounters--and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive--than anyone in the Corps. Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all will to escape. Now, Torin must fight her way not only out of the prison but also past the growing compulsion to...
10) Semper Fi
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed Brotherhood of war saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steeled themselves for battle, and prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice ...
11) The third bullet
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
485 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Swagger becomes interested in exploring JFK's assassination, asking questions few have asked before.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
Author
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When an airborne zombie plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family takes to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope. For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and...
14) Bitter Creek
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Lieutenant John Patchen has come to Montana to persuade Chappie Plaquemines, his former gunnery sergeant in Iraq and the son of Gabriel Du Pré's girlfriend, to accept the Navy Cross. First, however, Du Pré and Patchen must find the wounded marine, who was last seen drinking heavily in the Toussaint Saloon. They locate him soon enough, disheveled and stinking of stale booze, but a sobering visit to a medicine man's sweat lodge reveals a much greater...
Author
Pub. Date
©2013.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Frankie Byrne Tennyson stunned everyone when she decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Now--after bravely serving her country in Iraq--she's finally come home. Home to a husband whose lingering feelings of abandonment make her wonder if their lives can ever be the same. Home to a daughter whose painful encounters with bullies can only be healed by a mother's love. And home to a father who still can't accept his daughter's decision to serve...
Author
Series
Royal Marines saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Captain David Blackwood is embroiled in the Boxer Rebellion. Ordered to escort a beautiful German countess on a dangerous journey up the Hoshun river, Blackwood sees death and slaughter unlike anything he has known. Finally, standing before the walls of Tientsin, he must hold on against a torrent of frenzied Chinese warriors.
17) Grenade
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The discovery of an ancient cuneiform guides an unlikely group to a secret portal buried in the desert long ago. A near-death experience in the Iraq desert transforms the lives of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, and his young disciple, and alters the fate of a Pulitzer Prize-winning female journalist, and a decorated U.S. Marine about to be executed. Guided by a visionary young girl from Peru, they become aware of an ancient past, and an energy...
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Pat Conroy's New York Times–bestselling coming-of-age novel about a son's struggle to escape the domineering expectations of his volatile military father.
Marine Col. Bull Meecham commands his home like a soldiers' barracks. Cold and controlling, but also loving, Bull has complicated relationships with each member of his family—in particular, his eldest son, Ben.
A born athlete who desperately seeks...
Marine Col. Bull Meecham commands his home like a soldiers' barracks. Cold and controlling, but also loving, Bull has complicated relationships with each member of his family—in particular, his eldest son, Ben.
A born athlete who desperately seeks...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
"Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she wants to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport four years ago, then disappeared once their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered. Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and...
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