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1980. Sixty-year-old Marshall Stone, a widower and retired pilot, journeys to France to retrace the trail he took after his…
B-17 bomber crashed in 1944. Marshall searches for the woman--who was only a schoolgirl then--who led him to safety, and comes to terms with his past. Some strong language. 2011
In Abbottabad, Pakistan, army ranger-turned-CIA agent Charlie Becker poses as a beggar to obtain information on the whereabouts of Osama…
bin Laden. But he fears exposure after spotting a former prisoner he interrogated in Guantánamo. Meanwhile, SEAL Team Six prepares to take down bin Laden. Violence and strong language. 2011
When Ben delays college to enlist in the army reserve, his family, girlfriend, and best friend are shocked. After deployment…
to Iraq Ben returns home with a traumatic brain injury and finds nothing is the same. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2012
During World War II, a British spy plane crashes with best friends Maddie and Verity on board. The Gestapo arrests…
and tortures Verity for information about her mission. She slowly confesses--but it isn't what her tormenters expect. Violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2012
Bennosuke grows up in the court of Lord Shinmen, for whom his samurai father is a commander. As Bennosuke comes…
of age he struggles to accept death as the way of the warrior and takes on a different identity. Violence and some strong language. 2013
1945. Thirteen-year-old Levi searches for his father, whom he has not seen in three years. He leaves Chicago for segregated…
North Carolina and finally ends up in Pendleton, Oregon. There Levi learns that his father's unit, the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, finally has a mission. For grades 6-9. 2012
Billy and the other soldiers of Bravo squad are home in the states for a victory tour after an Iraqi…
firefight they were in was taped and televised. As they experience a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving Day, Billy reflects on fame, life, and war. Violence and strong language. 2012
Siblings Elinor and Toby Brooke, from Life Class (DB 66238), have a close relationship--some say too close. When Toby goes…
missing in war-torn France, Elinor must sort out her relationships with him and his friends Kit Neville and Paul Tarrant. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2012
David and the remaining Reckoners, from Firefight (DB 80669), must face the most powerful High Epic of all to find…
redemption for his closest friend, Prof. Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2016
Venue d'Occident, la narratrice enquête au Kurdistan sur le destin de deux combattantes, Tékochine et Gulistan, membres d'un bataillon de…
femmes. Liées l'une à l'autre comme deux soeurs, elles luttent pour leur liberté quel que soit le prix à payer avant de choisir une mort qui frappe les mémoires, dans les ruines de leur ville assiégée.
William, a young rabbit, listens to the stories his grandmother, Old Lavender, tells of the battle fought at the estate…
where they live as part of the larger conflict of Waterloo in 1815. He learns to navigate the world around himself through these tales. Some violence. 2015
After years living on the road, Hayley Kincain and her father move back to their hometown to try to lead…
a normal life. But the horrors her father saw in the war threaten to destroy them. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2014
Magda, a writer, describes her post-war rise to prominence. When she and her academic husband hire peasant Emerence to be…
their housekeeper, Magda becomes transfixed by Emerence's life. Revelation of a secret shocks Magda from her complacency. Translated from the 1987 Hungarian edition. Some violence. 1987
David and the Reckoners, from Steelheart (DB 77602), continue their fight against the Epics, humans turned supervillains. But they may…
have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic from Babilar, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan. Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2015
Cyprus,1972. The Papacosta family runs the exclusive Sunrise hotel in the resort town of Famagusta. They flee when the Turkish…
army invades. The Turkish Özkan family moves into the Sunrise with their Greek neighbors, the Georgious. Some violence. 2014
While on the run from the SYLO team, Tucker, Tori, and Kent are driven directly into another base of the…
enemy, where they become prisoners and await their fate. Sequel to Storm (DB 78436). Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2014
After the aliens' four waves of destruction nearly exterminate humanity, Cassie Sullivan and a few others brace for winter and…
set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in. Sequel to The 5th Wave (DB 76631). Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2014
1918. Twenty-three-year-old Stanley Woolley, the disillusioned commander of a British flight squadron on the Western Front during World War I,…
trains his younger, inexperienced pilots to fly biplanes in combat--knowing they will all soon be dead. Some violence and some strong language. 1971
Twelve stories about soldiers at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the personal wars they fight reintegrating into society at…
home. In the title story, a soldier who had to shoot dogs on the battlefield must readjust to life in suburban America. Violence. 2014
Tucker and his surviving friends, from SYLO (DB 77104), escape the quarantine on Pemberwick Island only to find the mainland…
caught in the middle of a battle between the air force and the navy. The teens search for answers. Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2014