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Pub. Date
2016.
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Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam War protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert's own...
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Jack Reacher novel volume 22
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Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny; it's for a woman. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring, which has her initials engraved on the inside. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey...
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On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
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"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...
25) Angel's peak
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Four years ago, Air Force sweethearts Franci Duncan and Sean Riordan had reached an impasse: she wanted marriage and a family; he didn't. But now a chance meeting proves that their bitter breakup hasn't cooled their sizzling chemistry.
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Beacons of hope volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"In 1865, Caroline has tended the Windmill Point Lighthouse in Michigan since her father's death, but her home and livelihood are threatened when a wounded Civil War veteran arrives to take her place"--
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Whicher volume 1
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[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2013.
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Gilman James comes home from Iraq -- the last of three childhood friends to return. His brothers-in-arms are mere shadows of their former selves--Gil, unmarked, determines to take care of them. But how far should a man go for the people he loves?
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling Terminal List series continues as James Reece embarks on a global journey of vengeance. A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso having just completed a targeted assassination for the state of Israel. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky. Over 6,000 miles away, former Navy SEAL James Reece watches the names and pictures of the victims on cable news. One face triggers a distant...
30) In the fall
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Jeffrey Lent's astonishing debut novel, In the Fall, is already creating a sensation. It has been chosen as a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, preempted for paperback for six figures, and acquired by leading publishers around the world. In the Fall is the extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the forbidden, transcendent love affairs that fuel its members over the...
31) The stampeders
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Pinnacle Books
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
A Yankee and an outlaw have become unlikely partners in a tough Texas town. In the blockbuster new series by USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, Sam Heller and Johnny Cross face a stampede of danger--ignited by one pretty little woman...
Angel Of Death
When a lovely lady steps off a dusty stagecoach in Hangtree, the hardest heart skips a beat--and...
32) Crosshairs
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Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
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"A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.
Detective Michael Bennett teams up with a shooting expert -- a former Army Ranger and sniper with the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people.
When this new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin."
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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
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"A young woman learns how to confront the lingering consequences of war when she rides along with her distant father and his fellow vets on a cross-country motorcycle trip that will take them away from her new, Iraq-scarred husband and toward a mysterious military cult in the Utah desert"--
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
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Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits.
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He...
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Men of valor volume 3
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After a disastrous Middle East mission ends his six-year Army Ranger career, Finn McGregor needs some downtime. A peaceful month in the woods sounds like the perfect way to decompress. But peace isn't on the agenda once he crosses paths with publishing executive Dana Lewis, a neighbor who is nursing wounds of her own. Someone seems bent on disrupting her stay in the lakeside cabin she inherited from her grandfather. As Finn and Dana work together...
36) Burning bright
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A Peter Ash novel volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
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War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods in Northern California, but the trip isn't quite the balm he hoped for. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a hungry grizzly bear. Peter doesn't favor his odds in a fight of man against bear, so he makes a strategic retreat up a nearly sapling. There, he finds something strange: a climbing rope, affixed to a distant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
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Regnery History
Pub. Date
2021.
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Don Malarkey grew up in Oregon and fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Europe. He was scarred by his long tour of duty in WWII and his experiences as a paratrooper behind enemy lines. Fritz Engelbert grew up in Germany and became indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth. After the war, he was wracked with guilt over his participation in the Nazi regime. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the two men met and ended up saving each other's...
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Blue sky cowboys volume 2
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After Griff is discharged from the army, he comes back to his family's ranch, where he finds Riley, who is renovating the ranch while his family is away, and romance sparks between them despite the scars of their pasts.
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