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Coven ; Underworld
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#1 Bestselling Commission Writer & International Award-Winning Graphic Designer presents: a paranormal action romance.
"An ancient race in modern time
Dying in the midst of a waging war.
One girl must unite all clans to survive.
Separated, they shall perish.
Together, they will thrive."
Amira is a young girl determined to save her people from an inevitable war against a race of beasts. Everything seems to fall into place, until she loses someone...
2) Trajectory
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
3) Lifeboat
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When a ship of Americans and Britons is sunk by a German U-Boat missile during WWII, the survivors must cope with the elements -- and each other. They know nothing about navigation or survival at sea. So when they rescue the Nazi U-Boat Captain, they have no choice but to trust his survival skills, even though he is steering them back to his boat.
5) Gung Ho!
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7 weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. Men selected come from varied walks of life but have toughness in common. Under command of Randolph Scott, they're trained in all imaginable forms of combat. There first mission: annihilate the much larger Japanese garrison on Makin Island, in a lengthy battle sequence.
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Dieppe Uncovered brings to life the events of August 19, 1942 by re-enacting key moments leading up to and during the Allies' attack on the small French port of Dieppe. At the heart of Dieppe Uncovered is a revelation that has never been written in history books. Surprisingly, centered around one soldier who went on to become a world famous writer.
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What would you do if you were convinced you were going to die? Swept up in the frenzy of patriotism, Albert volunteers to serve his king and country. He is shipped off to the trenches of France along with almost every able-bodied man that he knows, leaving his estranged wife and his child behind. Convinced he will die a horrible death, he seeks comfort in the arms of Marie, a local French woman who gives him hope his last days might become bearable....
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Lieutenant Gene Sinclair never imagined the war would be like this.The training is over, and Gene begins the Pacific island hopping that will mature and harden him, and all the other GIs. Attached to the 24th Infantry Division, Gene's anti-aircraft unit stays close to the front lines of the war. He soon meets all that World War II can throw at him: accidents, injury, typhoons, supply shortages, hallucination-filled malaria, and the death of his friends....
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December 7, 1941
"A day that will live in infamy," is how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. With a devastating stroke, World War II was no longer a strictly European war; it was now our war, too. In this powerful, exciting sequel to Battle Lines, James Reasoner shows us the fight through four friends cast into the chaos of the war that reshaped the twentieth century.
As the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor,...
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Long Remember is the first realistic novel about the Civil War. Originally published in 1934, this book received rave reviews from the NY Times Book Review, and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It is the account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as viewed by a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat. Kantor has also interwoven love and lust into this remarkable tale of passion, heroes, and a bloody battle.
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A young American farm boy and a Japanese student are swept away from their lives by war and end up playing a deadly game of cat and mouse on a Pacific Island.
It is a world war between with the lives and cultures of empires at stake, the largest and most vicious war to sweep across the globe. In spite of the sweep of the war around the world, in August 1942 many were focused on a rugged and brutal South Pacific island called Guadalcanal. Here,...
15) Mr Two Bomb
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One man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki.He arrives just 90 minutes before the world's second atomic bomb explodes into his life.As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive.Compellingly vivid, the most...
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It is 1917. Janet Defoe never planned for the day German biplanes would appear and blow her world away. With her French home in shambles and only a derringer for protection, she finds her way across the war-torn town. She meets a band of tattered French survivors and together they form a plan for escape. Before they can reach their rendezvous point, they are overtaken by German guards. With blood on her hands, Janet sets out on her own. She doesn't...
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"Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to include well written novels using wartime settings." – WWII History MagazineFollows the story of two US Marines sent to learn from the British Commando training regime in Scotland, 1942.
Summer 1942. Defeatism hangs in the air. Britain stands alone. Winston Churchill is determined to strike back and has ordered...
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Mortars were used throughout the Second World War by all armies and in all theatres. Although a very simple weapon they could greatly enhance the firepower of infantry formations, giving them their own mobile artillery arm. They repeatedly proved their worth in both offensive and defensive situations, breaking up or supporting infantry attacks and laying smoke or illumination rounds. Despite their ubiquity and effectiveness, there have been relatively...
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In June 1941, Estonia is under the iron rule of the Soviet Union.Fifteen-year-old Madli hopes that the occupation is temporary, but when the neighbours, along with thousands of others, are deported, she knows that their lives are in danger. She longs for the safety of her grandfather's farm on Hiiumaa Island.But in the midst of Midsummer celebrations, the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, and are on a path that will take them through Estonia.Friends...
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In WW2 information leaflets and posters proliferated. Soldiers were bombarded with Field Regulations, airmen with the latest updates about airborne early warning, bomb sights and radio navigation and sailors with material that helped them identify enemy aircraft and submarines and told them how to operate the new ship board weapons to destroy them. An abundance of familiar slogans exhorted the population to do the utmost: 'Go To IT!', 'Come Into The...
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