Yancey, Richard
Summary: After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the fifth wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see.
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA-CD FIC YANHannah, Kristin
Summary: "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not...
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hannah 2015Pearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Summary: "London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird....
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION PEABrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "This WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness"--
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION BRODoig, Ivan.
Summary: Two years after their university football team enjoys a record-breaking season, the players become caught up in the drama of World War II, including Ben Reinking, who chronicles the wartime adventures of his teammates for newspapers across the country.
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2009Sorry, no copies available
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Summary: Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIRuss, Ted.
Summary: "To honor bonds forged twenty-five-years ago at West Point, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery leads an illegal mission deep into ISIS-held territory. Flying across Iraq in a stolen helicopter, Army Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery knows that tonight will be his last mission. He and his crew will either be shot down by ISIS, or court martialed when they return. Sam doesn't care. He can't care. There is...
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCampbell, Rick
Summary: "Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet. After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng...
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC CAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Campbell 2015Cornwell, Bernard.
Summary: Two stories featuring Richard Sharpe and set during Christmas.
Publisher / Publication Date: Sharpe Appreciation Society 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORDalglish, David.
Summary: The war between the thief guilds and the powerful allegiance known as the Trifect has slowly dwindled. Now only the mysterious Haern is left to wage his private battle against the guilds in the guise of the Watcher - a vicious killer who knows no limits. But when the son of Alyssa Gemcroft, one of the three leaders of the Trifect, is believed murdered, the slaughter begins anew. Mercenaries...
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION DALDeutermann, Peter T.
Summary: "A Navy destroyer commander navigates hostile seas and ferocious battles in this dramatic World War II thriller set in the South Pacific"--
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DEUHurley, Kameron.
Summary: "On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past--while a world goes to war with itself. In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. At the heart of this war lie the pacifistic Dhai...
Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HURKennedy, Emma
Summary: "This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds a close relationship with Anthony. Later, the villagers discover one of the Germans on the plane has...
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017Sorry, no copies available
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Summary: "The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley ... pitted a remarkable cast of heroes in blue and gray against each other: ... Phillip Sheridan, a Union general with an uncanny gift for inspiring soldiers, and Jubal Early, his Confederate counterpart; ... the dashing Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the brilliant, courageous John Brown Gordon, a charismatic...
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION ROSPacat, C. S.
Summary: "His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill ... Forced into an uneasy alliance the two princes journey deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile trust they have built survives the revelation of Damen's identity can it stand against the Regent's final, deadly...
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016Sorry, no copies available
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Summary: "A powerful retelling of the biblical story of Esther set during WWII: Blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin must save her people--even if she cannot save herself"--
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group 2014Sorry, no copies available
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Summary: Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P COUHiggins, Jack
Summary: Two brothers--one American, the other German-- fight World War II on opposite sides as pilots. They are twins who were separated when their American father died and the German mother returned home with only one. The German is ordered to impersonate the American in a plot to assassinate an American general.
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HIGWeber, David
Summary: As the first hradani wind rider in history, Bahzell stirs resentment over his elevation to the War God's elite champion, a situation that is further complicated by the romantic advances of Baron Tellian's heiress daughter.
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: "It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a lightning raid across the River Tormes, and they reckon the obscure Spanish fort,...
Publisher / Publication Date: Sharpe Appreciation Society 2002Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hannah, Kristin.
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah's next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden"--
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit FIC HannahSavage, Michael
Summary: When a helicopter carrying Navy Seals crashes in Afghanistan, a car driven by FBI agents vanishes in San Francisco, and the body of a Chinese agent surfaces in the waters near the Golden Gate Bridge, popular TV show host Jack Hatfield suspects a terrorist conspiracy. With the help of Dover Griffith, a young woman from the Office of Naval Intelligence, Jack discovers a plan to attack the...
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SAVGrant, Richard
Summary: A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences.
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017