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581) Toll of honor
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
""It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength." -Subhas Chandra Bose. Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She will need months to regenerate her lost leg, but how long will it take to heal her heart? She's come home to find that her wounds, her ship's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
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...
583) Joan: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. This stunningly-researched novel...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Description
Presentation of the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for a promise of freedom.
586) Miracle at St. Anna
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
587) The soldier
Author
Series
Rise of the Jain volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity's Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity nor the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they've placed an impartial third party in...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
"Jina Modell definitely doesn't feel like a 'Babe', especially when she's working with the gruff, no-nonsense Levi Butcher, team leader for the GO-Team. When the Syrian base where she's stationed is attacked, Jina manages to escape. Levi would never willingly leave a soldier behind, especially a brave woman whose sweet voice haunts his every thought. Once he discovers Jina is alive, the tenacious warrior will walk into fire to save this intriguing...
589) The lover: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The story of Allison and Eyal unfolds primarily in Tel Aviv where Allie, a thoughtful and intelligent academic searching for a sense of where she belongs in the world, falls deeply and unexpectedly in love with a young Israeli doing his military service. Their love story is sensual, filled with pleasure, longing, fear, moments of deep connection, failures of communication, and ultimately, a quiet and devastating betrayal. Their romance has a rhythm...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the often-contradictory role played by Black soldiers throughout American history. Established by Congress, the 14th Amendment of 1886 promised citizenship in exchange for enlistment, prompting many African American men to serve.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, an educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.
592) Foreign and domestic
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"One year ago, Captain Jake Mahegan led a Delta Force team into Afghanistan to capture an American traitor working for the Taliban. The mission ended in tragedy. The team was infiltrated and decimated by a bomb. An enemy prisoner was killed. Mahegan was dismissed from service--dishonored forever. Now, haunted by the incident, Mahegan is determined to clear his name. The military wants him to stand down. But when the American Taliban returns to domestic...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
594) On Basilisk Station
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999], c1993
Physical Desc
342 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The Basilisk Station was a place to sweep incompetents, fools, and failures under the rug, or to punish officers with enemies in high places. Commander Honor Harrington has enemies, and she's about to make more of them, because the people out to get her have made her mad. Instead of remaining out of sight during her assignment to the forlorn outpost, Commander Harrington, along with her vessel, the Fearless, performs incredible flying maneuvers to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
755 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle when she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner. Through an agreement with the Havenites and her government, she was given a command far away from the war's battle lines. What she didn't realize was that she would find herself on a collision course with the interstellar syndicate of criminals known as Manpower.
597) The ringed castle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 631 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Still reeling from the traumatic events of Pawn in Frankincense, Lymond decides to flee from them, moving to Muscovy, where he becomes adviser and general to the half-mad tsar. He swiftly finds himself battling a Cossack prince and Crimean Tartars. Yet even as Lymond tries to navigate the machinations of a dangerous and unfamiliar royal court, unseen forces conspire to enlist this infinitly useful man in their own schemes. Lymond's past is catching...
598) Gundog
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the near future, Earth has been conquered by a race of brutal alien machines known as the Mek, and an entire generation has grown up under their oppressive rule. When Dakota Bregman, a rebellious young woman imprisoned in a Mek labor camp stumbles across a mysterious map that may hold the secret to humanity's liberation, she escapes and embarks on a dangerous odyssey across an alien-occupied America that leads her to an amazing discovery -- a...
599) Once an eagle
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 520 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The epic story of America in the 20th century, told through the lives of two career soldiers, spanning both World Wars. Sam Damon is a courageous and compassionate man who finds his calling leading his men in war and in peacetime. Courtney Massengale, on the other hand, is a ruthless achiever who will let nothing stand in his way to the top. In the late days of World War I, Damon and Massengale become friends, but as events unfold, the vast difference...
600) Bloodshot
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray Garrison is a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as a superhero by the RST Corporation, which now controls Ray's body, mind, and memories. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he's an unstoppable force, stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. Faced with the reality that he can't believe anything -- even his own thoughts -- he's on a mission to discover his true reality.
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