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1) Dear John
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An angry rebel, John drops out of school and enlists in the Army. He meets Savannah and she is the girl of his dreams. Savannah can't wait for John to finish his tour of duty so they can be together. But 9/11 changes everything when John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. The long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. 'Dear John,' the letter read . . . and with those two words, a heart is broken and two lives are changed forever....
2) One of ours
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Claude Wheeler, a sensitive Nebraska youth, lives in the midst of plenty on his family's prosperous farm hungering for a purpose. When America enters the Great War he goes to France to find meaning.
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Polly Perks, fearing that the national deity's decree against female ownership of a business is going to cause her to lose the family's inn, disguises herself as a man in order to join the military and find her brother who she fears has been killed in Borogravia's latest war.
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A coup on her planet forces Security Guard Tedra to flee, and landing on a strange planet, she encounters and challenges an unbearable barbarian. No man has beaten her before, so when Tedra loses, she must become his slave--and soon becomes a slave to desire as well!
6) Unravel me
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Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight.
7) March
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In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.
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Lord John has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor.
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Kieli, the only survivor of the massacre of Midkemia, is raised by his rescuers for the express purpose of seeking revenge against the armies of the Duke of Olasko, not knowing that his friends--Robert de Lyis, a man of wealth and power, the sorcerer Magnus, and Caleb, an accomplished hunter and warrior--have a secret agenda.
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"At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloquent novel recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of war, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by...
11) A study in honor
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From debut author Claire O'Dell comes a fresh, clever, and timely reimagination of Sherlock Holmes, featuring Watson and Holmes as you've never seen them before
Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While she was treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper's bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semifunctional mechanical arm that...
12) Forest mage
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As the Speck plague ravages the King's Cavalla of Gernia, his troops are forced to relinquish their military ambitions and face lives of dependency and disappointment, except for cadet Nevare Burvelle, who survived the plague and made an astonishing recovery and returns to his ancestral home, where he is haunted by his memories.
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Stationed in Khandar, a remote desert outpost of the Vordanai empire, Captain Marcus d'Ivoire and his men find themselves on the front lines when the region's inhabitants stage a bloody uprising. As Marcus struggles to fashion his raw recruits into a functioning army, he promotes the most promising soldier, Winter Ihernglass, to a command post (complicating matters for Winter, who's secretly a woman in disguise). Meanwhile, the arrival of a brilliant...
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Orbit
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2013.
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Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
16) Once a soldier
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Rogues Redeemed
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her.
Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham...
17) Defy the stars
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Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
18) Steelstriker
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2021.
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"With her friends scattered by combat and her mother held captive by the Premier, Talin is forced to betray her fellow Strikers and her adopted homeland. She has no choice but to become the Federation's most deadly war machine as their newest Skyhunter."--
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As civil war engulfs his West African country, Agu, a school-age child whose father had been killed by militants, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. As the war rages on, he becomes more and more separated from the life he had known before that had been filled with friends, church services, and time with his family. Now, his relationship with his commander deepens and darkens, and his friendship with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense...
20) Papa's backpack
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Illustrations and rhyming text portray a bear cub who understands that because Papa is a soldier, he sometimes must go, but imagines what it would be like to stay near by riding in Papa's backpack.
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