Summary: Selected war time short stories read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Woolard, Jim R.
Summary: "Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops' blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby's Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOCooper, James Fenimore
Summary: Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1965
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A must have, one of a kind, definitive space opera anthology with 15 new stories by top contemporary authors in top franchises as well as classic genre defining tales dating back over 60 plus years. With an introductory essay on space opera by Grand Master Robert Silverberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INFHemingway, Ernest
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Publisher / Publication Date: RC Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.52 HEMSpencer, James
Summary: A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEContents: Al-Jihad / Stephen Coonts / Leadership material / Dale Brown -- Lash-up / Larry Bond -- Cav / James Cobb -- Cyberknights / Harry W. Coyle -- Flight of Endeavour / R.J. Pineiro -- Breaking point / David Hagberg -- Inside job / Dean Ing -- Skyhawks forever / Barrett Tillman -- There is no war in Melnica / Ralph Peters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOMichener, James A (James Albert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICFast, Howard
Contents: The unvanquished -- Conceived in liberty -- The proud and the free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASContents: The sea witch / Stephen Coonts -- Breakthrough on Bloody Ridge / Harold W. Coyle -- Wolf flight / Jim DeFelice -- Blood bond / Harold Robbins -- Hangar Rat / Dean Ing -- Flame on Tarawa / Barrett Tillman -- Eyes of the cat / James Cobb -- V5 / David Hagberg -- The eagle and the cross / R.J. Pineiro -- Honor / Ralph Peters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VICMailer, Norman.
Summary: Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIDrake, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADrake, David.
Contents: Introduction -- The sharp end -- Paying the piper -- The darkness -- Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRASummary: "Civilization has fallen. Everyone who survived the plague had life as they know it end in blood and chaos. Now nuclear submarines are facing sudden and unimaginable crises. Paid hunters on a remote island suddenly cut off from any support. Elite assassins. Never made it retirees. Bong-toting former soldiers. These are their stories. These are the Voices of the Fall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOISeuss
Summary: Engaged in a long-running battle, the Yooks and the Zooks develop more and more sophisticated weaponry as they attempt to outdo each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SEUShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHESmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Baker, Brynn.
Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Tuskegee Airmen and the impact they made during times of war or conflict"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 BAKAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTDeAngelis, Gina.
Summary: Explains the events leading up to the formation of the Massachusetts 54th, a regiment of free blacks, and its participation in the Civil War. Sidebars include quotations from leaders of the time and facts about African American soldiers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.7 DEADavis, Jim
Summary: A collection of comic strips follows the adventures of the lazy, food-loving, wise-cracking feline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997