Sanderson, Brandon.
Summary: At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANSummary: Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WEESanderson, Brandon
Summary: "When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. David knew Prof's secret, and kept it even when the Reckoners' leader struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "David and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics, humans with superhuman powers, except they may have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic who resides in Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SANReedy, Trent
Summary: Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REEKeith, Thomas H.
Summary: During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severly wounded. Thomas H. Keith, Master Chief, SEAL Team 2, is living proof. He carries a piece of shrapnel behind one lung, a reminder of the day he called in 40 mm mortar fire on the enemy that was trying to catch up to his crew as the crew hauled ass out of the bush. Not only did he never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 KEITH, THOMAS H KEISacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
Summary: "--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. --¡Más bien que a vencer o morir! --¿Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? ¿Estás seguro de que preferís morir? --¡No, porque vamos a vencer! --¿Y si no? --¡Si no, nada, porque vamos a vencer, te digo! Corre 1975 y dos jóvenes integrantes de distintas organizaciones...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SACReedy, Trent
Summary: Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REEBrown, Dale
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2003
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Summary: David and the Reckoners must find the weakness of Mitosis, an epic who can mutate himself, to defeat him and keep Newcago safe, once again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: After three years of bloodshed in the jungles of the Philippines, guerrilla leader, Matthew Doyle, finds himself on the brink of freedom. The Americans are coming, bringing with them the promise of an end to the terror inflicted by the Japanese army on his mind, body, and soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WesElliott, Laura.
Summary: After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLMilton, Giles
Summary: "Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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Summary: "Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways and whose stories, taken together, provide a lens on the intensity of life in Colombia during the violent years of guerrilla insurgencies and corruption. A teenager hides alone in her family's mansion until she hears a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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Summary: Gage, Colfax, and Nordstrand smuggle arms into the Horn of Africa to train a rebellious Moslem tribe. In this harsh land Colfax abandons the others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPSanderson, Brandon.
Summary: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary people extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. Epics are no friends of man. An astonishingly powerful Epic named Steelheart has installed himself as emperor. When Steelheart came to Chicago, he killed David's father. David has been studying, and planning, and he has something they need. Not an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SANHerzog, Werner
Summary: "Werner Herzog, one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, in his first book in many years, tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued to defend a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War Two In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts there asked, whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSanderson, Brandon
Summary: David prepares for a confrontation against the High Epic to help his friend, Prof, achieve redemption and embrace his destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANKleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller)
Summary: "The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.04 KLEDavis, Wade
Summary: "The award winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer--a longtime Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society--recounts an enthralling journey down Colombia's Magdalena River that illuminates the country's rebirth after decadesof political violence, drug cartels, and guerrilla warfare"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.1 DAVO'Connor, Jim
Summary: "Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT US Hist What O'ConnorBanks, Russell
Summary: "Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Cloudsplitter vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in a powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANMurray, Stuart
Summary: The story of the war in Vietnam, told in text and pictures. Vietnam War complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by touring the major battles of the Vietnam conflict. Traces the history of the unpopular war that killed over 58,000 Americans, discussing the causes and effects, leaders, major battles, guerrilla warfare, aerial bombing, weaponry, peace negotiations, and lessons learned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2005
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