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Keenan, Sheila

Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013

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Morris, Heather

Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Parker, Robert B.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAR

Frost, Helen

Summary: In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009

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Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: A corrupt political plot threatens to put an end to the South Essex regiment and the life of Major Richard Sharpe when he investigates and discovers an illegal recruiting ring selling soldiers like cattle to other divisions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Castellani, Christopher

Summary: One of the few remaining men in the village of Santa Cecilia during the Second World War, Vito Leone falls in love with the daughter of the town's most powerful family despite their disapproval and seeks to prove himself when Germany seizes control.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

Smith, Wilbur A.

Summary: "Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, strikes a solitary path through life. Haunted by the spirits of lovers and family members, he is determined to atone for his mistakes. He seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2019

Mailer, Norman.

Summary: Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAI

Turtledove, Harry.

Summary: An epic battle pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians--and Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, against Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

Dickens, Charles

Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIC

Graham, Cliff.

Summary: In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start and joins a band of soliders led by a warlord named David. Some are loyal to David, but others are only with him for the promise of captured wealth. Over the course of ten days, from snowy mountain passes to sword-wracked battlefields, Benaiah and his fellow mercenaries must...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Gabaldon, Diana.

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Summary: Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to 1743 Scotland, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for a young soldier, James Fraser.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gabaldon

Ross, Ian

Summary: "The epic first installment in a new series set at the end of empire in the reign of the Emperor Constantine, The War at the Edge of the World follows newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus into the tumultuous battle for the future of Rome. Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, now stuck in Britain's provincial backwater, Castus believes his glory days are over. But fate is about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ross 2015

Kent, Alexander.

Summary: In 1796, in the sequel to Form Line of Battle! Captain Richard Bolitho uses his 74-gun ship to chase the French during blockade duty off France.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

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