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Scott Brodie volume Book 1
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When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas,...
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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"A ... history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, [this book] offers a ... new perspective on the Second World War ... [delving] deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this ... portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history"--Dust jacket flap.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In Spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company. It was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed, or maimed for little or no provocation. After seven months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada after fourteen...
5) Eastbound
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Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"--
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"Deserting to escape the horrors of the Indian Wars, two Irish brothers seek peace with the woman they love. For fans of Cormac McCarthy. Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter....
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
During the years following the Civil War, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana territories seethed with unrest as the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, resenting the white man's invasion of their sacred hunting grounds, ruthlessly attacked wagon trains and settlements. Knowing the dangers, Lieutenant Zane Travis was surprised to find Mary Gunnison - whom he had loved and lost to a fellow officer - in Cheyenne. Against regulations she joined Travis' mail detail...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Like many a veteran of the Civil War, Cap McKenna went west to build a new life. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting with J. Stuart Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds Overland Transportation Company, McKenna's homestead in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was selected as a change station for the horse teams on the run between Denver and Cheyenne. Out riding one day, McKenna comes across an abandoned infant, whom he takes in and cares for until the baby's...
10) Saga: volume 3
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets"--Publisher's website.
11) Saga: volume 6
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Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
12) Saga: volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- p. [4] of cover
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Series
Saga volume 11
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this latest "season," single mother Alana and her children fight for scraps to survive, while the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Five documentaries, employing re-enactments and historical photographs, and two feature films explore the life and times of Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War.
Lincoln, trial by fire: Lincoln, facing the crisis of a divided nation, was forced to turn for help to General George McClellan, who supported Southern positions on slavery and states' rights. The conflict between Lincoln and McClellan was intense from the start and before their uneasy partnership...
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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The...
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Series
Saga volume 10
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new... friends?
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