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Apprentices Juvenile fiction Australia Fiction Austria History, Naval 20th century Fiction California California Social life and customs Fiction Human-alien encounters Fiction Space warfare Fiction Time travel Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations, Austrian Fiction World War, 1939-1945 FictionDeutermann, Peter T.
Summary: A novice naval aviator grows into a hero in this gripping and authentic WWII adventure by a master storyteller. Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a 'Nugget,' who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction DeuLondon, Joan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONShields, Jody
Summary: In 1915 England, a young widow, grieving over the loss of her husband in battle, finds her peace shattered when her estate is transformed into a military hospital, but she finds solace in the person of a soldier whose face is concealed by bandages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIIggulden, Conn
Summary: In an ancient Persian empire torn by civil war, the young soldier Xenophon leads his decimated Spartan army in a confrontation against the legendary warriors of Artaxerxes II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGMoyes, Jojo
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOYFlanagan, John (John Anthony)
Summary: On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLAFlanagan, John (John Anthony)
Summary: Collects the lost stories of the Rangers who risked their lives to defend the kingdom, including the tales of the young warrior Horace, the courageous princess Evanlyn, the diplomat Alyss, and Will and his mentor, Halt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLAVinge, Joan D.
Summary: When a stranger who cannot remember his past arrives in the desert town of Absolution, Arizona, in 1873, shortly before the city is attacked by aliens, he marshalls resistance to the invaders as his memories return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINBirmingham, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRJakes, John
Summary: Recounts the adventures of two unforgettable families--the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina--in a land ripped apart by the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWRingo, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINRingo, John
Summary: With the alien Posleen invaders advancing on the strategically important Panama Canal, the United States sends a handful of advanced Armored Combat Suits, rejuvenated combat veterans, and three antiquated warships to assist the Panamanians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. Enterprises 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINSteinbeck, John
Summary: This seems a simple -- almost an obvious book -- until its overtones and undertones begin to do their deadly work. Then one realizes that, compact in less than 200 pages, is the story of what is happening to the conquerors and the conquered the world over, today. The yeast of freedom, of democracy, the soul of unconquerable man, is working to destroy those who deny freedom. No country is named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBiggins, John
Summary: "In the spring of 1915, a young Austro-Czech naval lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself posted to the minuscule Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Submarine Service in the Adriatic port of Pola. In some trepidation at first, because he has no experience whatever of submarines, his fears are soon set at rest when he discovers that nobody else has either: least of all his superiors. There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BIGBirmingham, John
Summary: The Axis and Allied forces race to build an atom bomb while a revitalized Soviet Union threatens to unleash a new wave of destruction, and Admiral Kolhammer and his team confront the consequences of disturbing the historical timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKScalzi, John
Summary: When humanity is threatened by an alliance of three adversarial races who would halt the world's expansion into space, Jared Dirac, a super-power clone, tries to discover why the scientist who gave him his DNA has revealed key military secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCARingo, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINRingo, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINSteinbeck, John
Summary: Collects six short novels from one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBiggins, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIGBiggins, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIGBirmingham, John
Summary: In a first installment of a three-part alternate history epic, America's World War II fleet is decimated by a multi-national task force sent back in time from the year 2021, forcing Admiral Nimitz and Rear Admiral Spruance to make the potentially consequential decision to fight their own possible descendants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004